Oklahoma, Where the Woke Comes Screeching To A Halt!

Oklahoma bans first 13 companies from state business for ESG policies

As the federal government becomes more and more authoritarian while simultaneously becoming even less competent (hard to believe!), the last great hope of a return to American Exceptionalism, or even just a return to a more sane country, seems to be in the statehouses of red America.

The only pushback against the Leviathan and its incestuous relationship with corporate and NGO America is happening in Oklahoma City and Tallahassee and Austin and Helena and Charleston and Nashville, not in the United States Congress! And that's because congress has ceded its power to the executive and to the regulatory state. All the hearings in the world, complete with blustering and thundering congressman carefully sculpting their anger for the soundbites they crave, will do nothing to stop the advance of progressive evil. But a bunch of part-timer legislators in Oklahoma have managed to stick their collective thumb in the eyes of woke corporations whose most fervent desire is to have a high "ESG" score and get social credit from the progressive cabal. Never mind that those policies will gravely injure America...it's the cocktail parties in Kalorama that count!

Oklahoma's battle with financial companies that boycott energy companies entered a new round this week as Treasurer Todd Russ listed 13 companies banned from doing business with the state.
But don't look for any action soon. Those 13 companies have 90 days to tell the state it has stopped boycotting energy companies. And if they haven't stopped their boycott, the law grants the state six months to divest itself of 50% of investments with the financial company and a full year to divest 100%.
The restrictions are based on a law passed by the Legislature in 2022 that requires the state treasurer to divest Oklahoma from any financial institutions that boycott the energy industry.

That's how it is done. Take away their business with the state, and all the social credit in the world isn't going to pay for those corporate jets and full-page ads in the Washington Post extolling the virtues of a diverse workforce and the millions of dollars paid to progressive NGOs hellbent on the destruction of the greatest market economy in history.

And while the bloodthirsty part of me wants Oklahoma to use Eminent Domain to evict these companies from their Oklahoma offices and demolish them to make way for coal-burning power plants, the less satisfying but politically astute plan is to give them a chance to moderate their behavior. Will that work? Eh...maybe...maybe not. But it is smart. And if it doesn't work and Oklahoma stops using national banks and other vendors and starts using regional or Oklahoma-based companies, that will be good for the people of Oklahoma. And isn't THAT a novel concept!

And what can we do? Exactly the same thing, writ small. Take your business away from InBev (Anheuser-Busch), Disney, Marvel, and all the other woke corporations whose business plans very carefully exclude the bedrock of America. You know...real Americans who buy their products.

If InBev and Marvel want to cater to trannies, let them! I am sure that the vast and growing (groomers!) population of transsexuals will pick up the slack buying Bud Light and all will be well. And Marvel's ticket sales will soon explode! Really! Those folks are itching to spend their money where it will do the most good for woke corporations that support their lifestyle. Besides, how many frat-boy types are there in America who have stopped drinking Bud Light. It can't be more than 10,000,000! And based on the ads produced by corporate America there at least that many trannies and their enablers!

So all is well with Woke corporate America!

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM

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1 So all is well with Woke corporate America!

Posted by: CBD at 12:00 PM
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It's OK!

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:02 PM (pTb/Z)

2 Howdy, CBD!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 12:02 PM (u73oe)

3 A mear step stone

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 12:03 PM (xhxe8)

4 Well, I thought it was funny anyway.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:03 PM (pTb/Z)

5 Even small red states can make a big difference because companies want 50 state compliance.

See CA for all sorts of (bad) examples. They basically dictate car emissions for the entire nation (and you can argue, the world)

Posted by: Blago at May 07, 2023 12:04 PM (cOFom)

6 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 07, 2023 12:04 PM (T4tVD)

7 Works for me.

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2023 12:05 PM (AwYPR)

8 Well, I thought it was funny anyway.
Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:03 PM (pTb/Z)

I thought it was.well played Bluebell. I'd sooner read your comments than any other.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:07 PM (anj39)

9 I've been thinking about the national divorce (which cannot come too soon for me) and I figure it will take Texas or Florida to start, probably both. Oklahoma can't stand alone but if Texas were to start we'd be a quick domino to fall. Oklahoma is not the Midwest or the south. It's Texas. Same culture, same people.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 07, 2023 12:07 PM (20SKS)

10 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 07, 2023 12:07 PM (DhOHl)

11 Like watching the end of the universe from the restaurant at the end of the galaxy, it's going to get you sooner or later.

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 12:09 PM (xhxe8)

12 We don't make a party out of lovin'
But we like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA…

Posted by: Zombie Merle Haggard, commie pinko at May 07, 2023 12:09 PM (R/m4+)

13 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Da Boids are thirsty today !

Posted by: JT at May 07, 2023 12:09 PM (T4tVD)

14 It's OK!

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:02 PM (pTb/Z)

Where were you when I was writing this?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2023 12:10 PM (ZCCyW)

15 Howdy, CBD!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 12:02 PM (u73oe)

Good afternoon!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2023 12:11 PM (ZCCyW)

16 MarkWayne Mullin for President !!

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 12:11 PM (us2H3)

17 I thought it was.well played Bluebell. I'd sooner read your comments than any other.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:07 PM (anj39)
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Aw. You just want to be invited to next year's NoVaMoMe.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:11 PM (pTb/Z)

18 Yes, I need to put my birdbath up

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 12:11 PM (xhxe8)

19 Well, I thought it was funny anyway.

Postal code puns are tight.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2023 12:11 PM (nfrXX)

20 I'd sooner read your comments than any other.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:07 PM (anj39)

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I see what you did there.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 12:12 PM (u73oe)

21 Still no ID for Tx shooter?

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2023 12:13 PM (AwYPR)

22 Guess I should’ve said OK, boomer.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 12:13 PM (u73oe)

23 Still no ID for Tx shooter?

You can call him AL. (*sorry*)

Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2023 12:14 PM (nfrXX)

24 Ooh, Duke, I missed that! Score one for you.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:14 PM (pTb/Z)

25 Woke Go Home-a!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 07, 2023 12:14 PM (Zxut6)

26 Oklahomx.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 12:15 PM (9UlRk)

27 MarkWayne Mullin for President !!
Posted by: REDACTED

Mullin is a successful small business man, a wrestler (look at his cauliflower ear) and MMA fighter. Plus he is a WHOLE lot more Native American than Pocahontas Warren of the Dry Basket people.

Our other senator is bit weak kneed.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 07, 2023 12:15 PM (20SKS)

28 You can call him AL. (*sorry*)
Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2023 12:14 PM (nfrXX)
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I NV you.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 07, 2023 12:15 PM (Zxut6)

29 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 07, 2023 12:04 PM (T4tVD)

Bird bath still frozen?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (ZCCyW)

30 "...is happening in Oklahoma City and Tallahassee and Austin and Helena and Charleston and Nashville..."

It's almost like it's some sort of state's rights issue...

Posted by: The Confederate States of America at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (DhOHl)

31 Yay, Oklahoma!

Meanwhile in California-
California reparations panel approves payments of up to $1.2 million to every Black resident

https://tinyurl.com/mua8fjhf

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (NpAcC)

32 9 Arkansas is a curious state that can't make up it's mind between southern and cowboy (western Arkansas) and pure magnolia growing in the SE part. For the most part, with isolated pockets of resistance, like around Universities (to be expected) it is one of the most right wing states, having had it's fill of the Clintons and like.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (lz5hY)

33 You can call him AL. (*sorry*)

Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2023 12:14 PM (nfrXX)

or DOA.

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (AwYPR)

34 Aw. You just want to be invited to next year's NoVaMoMe.
Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:11 PM (pTb/Z)

The mailman threatened to call the feds if I didn't stop chaining myself to the post office box waiting for my invite. And Nurse threatened to shoot me if I missed another PNWMoMe.
Sigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (anj39)

35 In some ways I think it's a simple matter of how connected legislators are to their constituents, meaning state houses are more likely to respond to the needs of the people. Even if they represent different factions, they still remain answerable to them.

Unlike Congress, where the people and their so called representatives never meet, really, so they become tools of the corporate industrial complex.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 07, 2023 12:17 PM (0j64U)

36 Ms G turned on Netflix and the lead page advertised a new Tom Hanks movie, the remake of A Man Called Ove, this one is about Otto played by Hanks.

While Ove was good, this one is just woke sap, hitting all woke left's notes: diversity, equity, inclusion. Trans kids.

I was half-watching, learning a new blues lick on guitar, when the trans thing entered the story. Ms G likes watching "feelgood" crap like this and would not turn it off, so I left the room.

Every fucking thing Netflix throws at us today is like this, except for most of what they produce in countries like Spain where the population is homogenized white.

Affirm and embrace trans, affirm and embrace gay, affirm and embrace women heroes (but what is a woman!)

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 07, 2023 12:17 PM (KiBMU)

37 or DOA.
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (AwYPR)
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Yup. He's DCeased.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 07, 2023 12:17 PM (Zxut6)

38 The mailman threatened to call the feds if I didn't stop chaining myself to the post office box waiting for my invite. And Nurse threatened to shoot me if I missed another PNWMoMe.
Sigh.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (anj39)
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WA, WA, WA. Being popular is such a burden.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:17 PM (pTb/Z)

39 Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 07, 2023 12:17 PM (KiBMU)
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Ask Lady Gaga if you can cut the cable.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 07, 2023 12:18 PM (Zxut6)

40 California reparations panel approves payments of up to $1.2 million to every Black resident

https://tinyurl.com/mua8fjhf
Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2023 12:16 PM (NpAcC)

Lol.

"Oh, you thought we meant EACH? Ha. No."

Wouldn't be the first time racist Democrats shafted a minority group.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 12:18 PM (9UlRk)

41 Just wanna say HI.

Posted by: Waikiki at May 07, 2023 12:18 PM (DhOHl)

42 Oklahoma, the largest County in Texas.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2023 12:19 PM (ncXxy)

43 I'm curious as to what pushback is taking place in Austin, where wokeism thrives.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2023 12:19 PM (Xrfse)

44 My birdbath is open for business

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 12:19 PM (xhxe8)

45 WA, WA, WA. Being popular is such a burden.

OH MI GAd. What have I done?

Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2023 12:20 PM (nfrXX)

46 "Up to $1.2 million".

Three bucks is "up to $1.2 million", isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 12:21 PM (9UlRk)

47 I'm curious as to what pushback is taking place in Austin, where wokeism thrives.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2023 12:19 PM (Xrfse)

It's the state capital. The city doesn't drive Texas politics.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2023 12:21 PM (ZCCyW)

48 It's OK!
Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open!

ISWYDT

Posted by: JT at May 07, 2023 12:22 PM (T4tVD)

49 I'm curious as to what pushback is taking place in Austin, where wokeism thrives.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2023 12:19 PM (Xrfse)

I used to watch Austin City Limits pretty regularly...looks like they can't get any national acts anymore.

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2023 12:22 PM (AwYPR)

50 You would think a couple of Marxist run cities in a state can't run the state, but you would be wrong.

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 12:22 PM (xhxe8)

51 It's the state capital. The city doesn't drive Texas politics.

I'm about a sharp as a bowling ball here this morning. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2023 12:23 PM (Xrfse)

52 The sinister explanation is this is all a gigantic farce designed to promise wealth to a group, then aggressively pull the rug out from under them so they turn violent, necessitating a crackdown on everyone because It's An Emergency.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 12:23 PM (9UlRk)

53 OH MI GAd. What have I done?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2023 12:20 PM (nfrXX)
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You? I thought it was ME!

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:23 PM (pTb/Z)

54 WA, WA, WA. Being popular is such a burden.
Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at May 07, 2023 12:17 PM (pTb/Z)

*looks in mirror*
*slicks down hair*

It's a cross I must bear.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:23 PM (anj39)

55 I used to watch Austin City Limits pretty regularly...looks like they can't get any national acts anymore.
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2023 12:22 PM (AwYPR)

Can't, or won't?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 12:23 PM (9UlRk)

56 MN is lost to the loons.

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at May 07, 2023 12:24 PM (lRgTq)

57 *I'm about a sharp as a bowling ball here this morning.*

Ah say, boy.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at May 07, 2023 12:24 PM (DhOHl)

58 Something just as effective as eminent domain: a no contract database shared by the anti ESG states. That' 10s of billions lost and the shareholders just might revolt.. or not. But the go woke go broke will finally have some teeth

Posted by: Xavier Basora at May 07, 2023 12:24 PM (LAauN)

59 Can't, or won't?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 12:23 PM (9UlRk)

Yes.

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2023 12:24 PM (AwYPR)

60 I'm about a sharp as a bowling ball here this morning. Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2023 12:23 PM (Xrfse)

Well, I missed the obvious joke at the end of the post...even Bluebell was quicker than I. So I wouldn't worry too much about sharpness today!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 07, 2023 12:26 PM (ZCCyW)

61 WA, WA, WA. Being popular is such a burden.

OH MI GAd. What have I done?
Posted by: Oddbob at May 07, 2023 12:20 PM

HI Oddbob.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:27 PM (anj39)

62 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 07, 2023 12:04 PM (T4tVD)

Bird bath still frozen?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Not even after I put my snowshovels away ?

Posted by: JT at May 07, 2023 12:27 PM (T4tVD)

63 Texas Rangers baseball game recently-- no one in the bud Light line. Pissing in your own Wheaties is not a sound business plan.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 07, 2023 12:31 PM (T487b)

64 IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE OK IS THE ABBREVIATION FOR OKLAHOMA AND SOONER IS PART OF OU’S BATTLE CRY SO OK, BOOMER IS NOT AN INSULT IN THIS PARTICULAR CONTEXT!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLESBERGER at May 07, 2023 12:31 PM (u73oe)

65 No, OK is not TX. Both my cousins still in OK hate TX. However, KS could use some help.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 12:32 PM (u7leW)

66 I was really glad that Governor Kevin Stitt was reelected. He was suppose to lose to the Democrat, Joy Hofmeister, because he was considered to be too far-right.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2023 12:33 PM (NpAcC)

67 Texas Rangers baseball game recently-- no one in the bud Light line. Pissing in your own Wheaties is not a sound business plan.
Posted by: Ben Had

I must confess....I visited my neighbor yesterday and we did our best to reduce the nation's supply.

Posted by: JT at May 07, 2023 12:34 PM (T4tVD)

68 Boomers and Sooners cheated on the OK land rush. Ron Howard did a pretty good movie depiction of that. (Don't rememer the title but think Tom Cruise was in it)

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 12:35 PM (u7leW)

69 The thing about marketing to trannies is they are not actually marketing to trannies. The actual target demo is AWFLs. Im-Bev seriously thought that white women would switch from box wine to Bud if they virtue signaled hard enough.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 07, 2023 12:36 PM (UMrOl)

70 About that reparations offer of 1.2 mill, it was rejected. 200 mil per is what they want.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 07, 2023 12:36 PM (Hyhpr)

71 >Boomers and Sooners cheated on the OK land rush.

ACKshually, that's where 'sooners' comes from

people jumped the gun to claim the best parcels 'sooner'

Posted by: DB - inoffensive words at May 07, 2023 12:37 PM (geLO8)

72 Anyone hear about the Chicago cop that got murdered?

Me neither.

https://tinyurl.com/yc7vwavv

(Twitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 07, 2023 12:37 PM (Zxut6)

73 Far And Away

Posted by: DB - inoffensive words at May 07, 2023 12:37 PM (geLO8)

74 AK!

Posted by: Bill The Cat at May 07, 2023 12:39 PM (u73oe)

75 ACKshually, that's where 'sooners' comes from

people jumped the gun to claim the best parcels 'sooner'
Posted by: DB - inoffensive words at May 07, 2023 12:37 PM (geLO

***

We had a sooner dog when I was a kid.
Mom said it would sooner in the house as outside.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:40 PM (anj39)

76 Traeger just sent me an email stating that Mesquite pellets are the pellet of the month. Good to know.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2023 12:40 PM (ncXxy)

77 I assumed I'd find something on DU about this, but nothing. Remarkably, about half the "general discussion" forum is about gun control...and it's unusual to see that much focus on one topic over there, considering how fractured they are into millions of little interest/grievance groups.

Might be the sign of an upcoming legislative or propaganda push.

Posted by: War Reports from DU Forums, by you Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 07, 2023 12:40 PM (lcIdn)

78 Also in the Sooner state--

On Monday, Gov. Stitt signed a law banning so-called "gender affirming" medical treatment for minors.

Oklahoma - the only state where every county went for Trump. Twice.

And just for good measure, Oklahoma, where last month every county rejected full marijuana recreational law. ("Medical" has been around for a while, and anybody who wanted to recreate can get some "medicine.")

It's not perfect, but it's better than, say, Wisconsin. ?

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at May 07, 2023 12:40 PM (lreiF)

79 Boomers and Sooners cheated on the OK land rush. Ron Howard did a pretty good movie depiction of that. (Don't rememer the title but think Tom Cruise was in it)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 12:35 PM (u7leW)

In true Hollywood fashion, much of Far and Away was filmed in Montana. Billings was all giddy about Kidman and Cruise being there.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trailer Trash Adjacent at May 07, 2023 12:41 PM (T/Lqj)

80 Might be the sign of an upcoming legislative or propaganda push.

Posted by: War Reports from DU Forums, by you Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 07, 2023 12:40 PM (lcIdn)

Oh, I'd say that's a given.

Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2023 12:42 PM (AwYPR)

81 23 Still no ID for Tx shooter?

some guy named ace, I heard

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 12:44 PM (us2H3)

82 Why doesn’t CA just make it a billion per? They’re never gonna live up to it anyway.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 12:44 PM (u73oe)

83 My opinion is they are not marketing to Trannies, they are running up their flag they are with the Cultural Marxists, they don't care if a few Trannies buy their products or not.

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 12:44 PM (xhxe8)

84 This doesn't seem to be a problem here. The nice Chinese family that runs my local restaurant told me their food has no ESG. Which is very good, as I am allergic.

Posted by: Emily Litella at May 07, 2023 12:44 PM (Nn3xT)

85 Still no ID for Tx shooter?

some guy named ace, I heard

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 12:44 PM

Nope, and they had to get a translator to talk to his family. I think they are going to try and bury this one because it does not fit the narrative.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2023 12:45 PM (ncXxy)

86 Texas shooter was not MAGA and the victims were Texans so local story.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 12:45 PM (u73oe)

87 bluebell: It's OK!

For a long time, our license plates said,
"Oklahoma is OK."

Not too bad, not too good, just okay.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at May 07, 2023 12:46 PM (lreiF)

88 "Still no ID for Tx shooter? "
A news clip I read about him says law enforcement went to his home, where he lived with his parents. No ID yet, may have even been a "special needs" type.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 07, 2023 12:46 PM (jTmQV)

89 Edna Ferber has a great land rush story at the start of her book Cimmaron. It must have been something to see

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 12:47 PM (u7leW)

90 The Pellet Of The Month club?

Posted by: Clark Griswold at May 07, 2023 12:47 PM (DhOHl)

91 It's been mentioned but the sales figures haven't been reported since it was revealed that Bud Light is also facing a boycott from the transgender/gay/lesbian/weirdo faction for NOT standing up to the bigots trashing said weirdo faction for being weirdos.

Anheuser-Busch is getting it good and hard in both holes... as the saying goes.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2023 12:48 PM (Q4IgG)

92 So I wouldn't worry too much about sharpness today!

I am most grateful for the reprieve.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2023 12:48 PM (Xrfse)

93 Duke they won't live up to it but will drop the dime on you and me.
If they do pay up, and it's not vote for us and you might see it, the people getting the claim will get pennies for the dollars, lawyers will grab the bulk of it, bureaucracy will get quite a chunk as well.

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 12:48 PM (xhxe8)

94 For a long time, our license plates said,
"Oklahoma is OK."

Not too bad, not too good, just okay.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at May 07, 2023 12:46 PM (lreiF)

I spent a lifetime one summer in Lawton. Dang it was horrible. The only place worse for heat and humidity was in the jungle.
That said, it's a beautiful state and great people.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 12:49 PM (anj39)

95 Meanwhile in California-
California reparations panel approves payments of up to $1.2 million to every Black resident

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California Defaults on $18.6 Billion Debt, Now Businesses Have to Pay

But they've got $800 billion laying around for reparations.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 12:49 PM (FVME7)

96 86 Texas shooter was not MAGA and the victims were Texans so local story.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 12:45 PM

The REAL victims would be the members of the shooter's communities that are impacted by White people's backlash, so the shooter's identity must be hidden at all costs.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 07, 2023 12:50 PM (lcIdn)

97 "Why doesn’t CA just make it a billion per? They’re never gonna live up to it anyway."

It's a non-binding committee comprised exclusively of a certain demographic, with a list of grievances a mile wide. Mockery is recommended.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 07, 2023 12:50 PM (jTmQV)

98 @amuse
@amuse
BREAKING: The mass shooter in Allen today was a Hispanic male with what appears to be a gang tattoo on his hand.
pic-

https://tinyurl.com/4dzaax87

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2023 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

99 turning his life around

stories to begin in ....

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 12:50 PM (us2H3)

100 It's the pellet that keeps on givin', Clark!

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at May 07, 2023 12:50 PM (Xrfse)

101 California reparations panel approves payments of up to $1.2 million to every Black resident

And some people are demanding $200 million.

Easy to do - of course, you'll need to cart your cash in a wheelbarrow to buy a loaf of bread.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 07, 2023 12:51 PM (2tUFv)

102 Virginia Dem Candidate Voices Opposition to Parental Rights in Education, Claims They “Indoctrinate” Children

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Damn parents always indoctrinating us away from utopia!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 12:52 PM (FVME7)

103 *For a long time, our license plates said,
"Oklahoma is OK."

Not too bad, not too good, just okay.*

The Washington DC Metro system had a major renovation effort a few years ago and the advertising tag line was "Back to good."

Posted by: So, yeah... at May 07, 2023 12:52 PM (DhOHl)

104 @amuse
@amuse
BREAKING: The mass shooter in Allen today was a Hispanic male with what appears to be a gang tattoo on his hand.
pic-

https://tinyurl.com/4dzaax87

Posted by: redridinghood a
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So a MAGA republican White Hispanic supremacist.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 07, 2023 12:52 PM (17s+e)

105 Anheuser-Busch is getting it good and hard in both holes... as the saying goes.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2023 12:48 PM

A spit-roasting?! How exciting! I need to pick up a 24 pack of Bud Light and wait for the magic!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at May 07, 2023 12:53 PM (lcIdn)

106 Okay. So I cannot get flavored ON! (nicotine pouches) here in Cali. But I can get flavored nicotine gum. I figured that Nicorette might have gotten themselves a carve-out. Sure enough. It's considered "Smoking Cessation."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 07, 2023 12:53 PM (JVCkA)

107 Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Richard Dreyfuss on Hollywood’s new "inclusivity standards":
"They make me vomit.”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 12:54 PM (FVME7)

108 But they've got $800 billion laying around for reparations.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 12:49 PM (FVME7)
********
Tax the middle class, the rich and businesses
Remember this is our future President Gavin Newsom who might just win in 2028.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2023 12:55 PM (NpAcC)

109 "Easy to do - of course, you'll need to cart your cash in a wheelbarrow to buy a loaf of bread."

And your wheelbarrow will be stolen while you are in the store.

That actually happened in Weimar Germany.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 07, 2023 12:55 PM (JVCkA)

110 107 Citizen Free Press
@CitizenFreePres
Richard Dreyfuss on Hollywood’s new "inclusivity standards":
"They make me vomit.”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 12:54 PM

Sounds like a cis het white man of privilege that needs to be reminded of his place...

Posted by: Twitter SJW mob at May 07, 2023 12:56 PM (lcIdn)

111 Oklahoma is not the Midwest or the south. It's Texas. Same culture, same people.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 07, 2023 12:07 PM (20SKS)

The hell you say...

No Oklahoman or true Texan would agree with that.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2023 12:56 PM (BdMk6)

112 All the hearings in the world, complete with blustering and thundering congressman carefully sculpting their anger for the soundbites they crave, will do nothing to stop the advance of progressive evil.

I know that many here dislike the hearings by Senators and Congressmen, in which they roast the lying members of the Biden admin (okay, that's redundant). They think those hearings do nothing.

I disagree. They are not enough in and of themselves to achieve our goals, but they serve an important function; they let people know that there are others who disagree with the corrupt fascists. And at some point, there will be a chance for them to do something concrete in the way of legislation, but for now, letting you know that you're not alone is a very valuable contribution.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2023 12:56 PM (eOEVl)

113 Oklahoma, the largest County in Texas.

Or

Texas, the 78th county of Oklahoma!

Posted by: LRob in Ok at May 07, 2023 12:57 PM (vWBWf)

114 But they've got $800 billion laying around for reparations.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 12:49 PM (FVME7)

It's the Wastrel's Avalanche.

Once you're in hock, a little more debt doesn't really matter.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 12:58 PM (9UlRk)

115 to an anthropologist

mexicans are white

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 12:58 PM (us2H3)

116 I'm gonna need a bigger barf bag.

Posted by: Richard Dreyfuss at May 07, 2023 12:59 PM (DhOHl)

117 Oh, yeah: also…

CINO Joe’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has backed off on punishing a Catholic hospital system in Oklahoma if it didn’t remove the sanctuary candles from its hospital chapels.

Now if we could get rid of "Saving Time" and property taxes…

Posted by: mindful webworker - Okie by birth and choice at May 07, 2023 12:59 PM (lreiF)

118 As my cousin likes to say, "If it weren't for Oklahoma cowboys and Mexican whores, there'd be no Texans".

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 12:59 PM (u7leW)

119 , but for now, letting you know that you're not alone is a very valuable contribution.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2023 12:56 PM (eOEVl)

"You're not alone! We can't do anything about this either!"

(All in all, you are right, but it is still absurd and depressing all the same.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:00 PM (9UlRk)

120 Blutarski: It's Texas. Same culture, same people.

Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons: The hell you say...
No Oklahoman or true Texan would agree with that.

Shhh. He's on a roll.

Posted by: mindful webworker - fourth-generation Okie at May 07, 2023 01:00 PM (lreiF)

121 I disagree. They are not enough in and of themselves to achieve our goals, but they serve an important function; they let people know that there are others who disagree with the corrupt fascists. And at some point, there will be a chance for them to do something concrete in the way of legislation, but for now, letting you know that you're not alone is a very valuable contribution.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2023 12:56 PM (eOEVl)
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Concur.
Even the speechifying, when it's a junior congress critter and he is speaking to an empty chamber because that is when junior congress critters get microphone time. It is checking a box on doing their part. playing the game and taking a stand.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 01:01 PM (anj39)

122 Super genius Montel Williams.

Montel Williams
@Montel_Williams
Watching the video from the #allenoutletmall shooting reminds me why I am no longer a gun owner. I choose to be the change I want to see in the world.
Obviously, Tara and my 🙏🏾 go out to all, and we’re again in awe of the heroism of our first responders. #AllenTexas.

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I guess he was thinking of shooting up an outlet mall because that's the only was his statement makes any kind of sense.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:01 PM (FVME7)

123 Parents are SUPPOSED to "indoctrinate" their children. That's what parenting is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:02 PM (9UlRk)

124 ...hearings by Senators and Congressmen...serve an important function; they let people know that there are others who disagree with the corrupt fascists.

The small handful of people that are ever aware of what is said at these hearings are already aware of others that share their feelings. What is needed is messaging through normal media channels (controlled by the Left) that reaches normies...which doesn't happen.

Otherwise, we need legislation and law/bureaucracy changed that impact lives to make an actual difference. Hearings that don't accomplish either are theater.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 07, 2023 01:02 PM (lcIdn)

125 And I can't begin to tell you how strongly Democrat OK was when I was growing up. It was like the Repubs were non existant, much like the Dem party there now. The Dems moved too far to the left.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 01:03 PM (u7leW)

126 I guess he was thinking of shooting up an outlet mall because that's the only was his statement makes any kind of sense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:01 PM (FVME7)

Well he is handing out high-fives over it. The monster.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:03 PM (9UlRk)

127 The small handful of people that are ever aware of what is said at these hearings are already aware of others that share their feelings. What is needed is messaging through normal media channels (controlled by the Left) that reaches normies...which doesn't happen.

We shall see.

Posted by: Tucker at May 07, 2023 01:04 PM (eOEVl)

128 123 Parents are SUPPOSED to "indoctrinate" their children. That's what parenting is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:02 PM

It takes a village. And government is good, because it's all of us working together!

Posted by: Hillary "Hic" Clinton at May 07, 2023 01:04 PM (lcIdn)

129 I guess he was thinking of shooting up an outlet mall because that's the only was his statement makes any kind of sense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:01 PM (FVME7)

Sometimes the guns break through the pasture fence and just take off a-runnin.

Posted by: Sometimes they're stubborn and hard to train at May 07, 2023 01:04 PM (FEapg)

130 And I haven't seenit mentioned, but JD Vance is turning out to be a good guy.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 01:04 PM (u7leW)

131 Won't you adopt one of these poor, hard done-by firearms, and save them from a life of violence?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:05 PM (9UlRk)

132 122 Super genius Montel Williams.

he is my brother

in fact, on one wonderous night

we engaged in a creamy frot

safe sex

Posted by: Jerry Rivers at May 07, 2023 01:05 PM (us2H3)

133 As my cousin likes to say, "If it weren't for Oklahoma cowboys and Mexican whores, there'd be no Texans".
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 12:59 PM (u7leW)

LOL!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2023 01:05 PM (BdMk6)

134 I'm gonna need a bigger barf bag.
Posted by: Richard Dreyfuss at May 07, 2023 12:59 PM (DhOHl)

You have city hands, Mr. Hooper. You been countin' money all your life.

Posted by: Quint at May 07, 2023 01:06 PM (R/m4+)

135 130 And I haven't seenit mentioned, but JD Vance is turning out to be a good guy.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 01:04 PM (u7leW)

he'll run for prezzy, real soon

why Meatball is so anxious

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 01:07 PM (us2H3)

136 123 Parents are SUPPOSED to "indoctrinate" their children. That's what parenting is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:02 PM (9UlRk)

What's a kid supposed to do when your home indoctrination is you're a worthless disappointment who can't do anything right, and school indoctrination is you should chop your balls or tits off. No wonder teen suicide rates have gone up.

Posted by: Life is a bleak proposition for many at May 07, 2023 01:07 PM (FEapg)

137 "...we've always had kind of a private notion of children: your kid is yours and totally your responsibility."

Posted by: Melissa somebody somebody at May 07, 2023 01:09 PM (DhOHl)

138 Actually, I was a little unfair to Williams at least to the extent that he acknowledges that his stand is merely a personal choice devoid of any practical effect.

https://bit.ly/3NIQtgb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:09 PM (FVME7)

139 breaking news

shooter pissed cuz he couldn't get an abortion

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 01:10 PM (us2H3)

140 137 "...we've always had kind of a private notion of children: your kid is yours and totally your responsibility."
Posted by: Melissa somebody somebody at May 07, 2023 01:09 PM

That's the kind of dangerous European cultural thinking that we're looking to change!

Posted by: Modern American Leftists at May 07, 2023 01:10 PM (lcIdn)

141 And I can't begin to tell you how strongly Democrat OK was when I was growing up. It was like the Repubs were non existant, much like the Dem party there now. The Dems moved too far to the left.
Posted by: Notsothoreau

Whooo, I remember that. Back in 1973 or 1974, the OK Demon governor was jailed for corruption. Also, all but three of the 77 x 3 county commissioners were busted in a sting operation. They were good Demons back then; they didn't hate America and Americans, they were just in it for that good, good graft.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at May 07, 2023 01:12 PM (66jxp)

142 ...I'm not oppressing you, Stan! You haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?

Posted by: Life of Brian at May 07, 2023 01:12 PM (DhOHl)

143 I don't carry or even own a firearm because i know I'm a lousy shot and i have a horrible temper and i might make a terrible decision in a stressful situation, or otherwise just make a situation worse instead of better. Also because most of the time I'm not at home, I'm in places where you're not allowed to carry anyway (schools, govt buildings, etc.) Not because I'm afraid i might take a notion to murder a building full of people on a whim.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:13 PM (9UlRk)

144 WaPo-ABC News poll: 4 in 10 Americans say Biden and Trump are too old to serve new terms
KAREN TOWNSEND 1:01 PM on May 07, 2023

this woman is nothing but a sack of shit NT warhumper

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 01:13 PM (us2H3)

145 And I can't begin to tell you how strongly Democrat OK was when I was growing up. It was like the Repubs were non existant, much like the Dem party there now. The Dems moved too far to the left.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 07, 2023 01:03 PM (u7leW)

Gov. Walters (D) broke Oklahoma's heart. Took the dems for a boat ride.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2023 01:13 PM (BdMk6)

146 139 breaking news

shooter pissed cuz he couldn't get an abortion
Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 01:10 PM

No! I was so angry about evil Republican restrictions on abortion, I wanted to do my part to fight back by giving our free 53rd trimester abortions!

Posted by: Asshole shooter at May 07, 2023 01:13 PM (lcIdn)

147 Notsothoreau: And I can't begin to tell you how strongly Democrat OK was when I was growing up.…

The transformation has been amazing. My dad had a big hand in getting our first Republican governor elected, and big GOTV campaigns in the state. He told me they had young people canvassing door-to-door, saying, we want you to vote Republican, but we want you to get out and vote in any case. It worked.

In his biography, Gov. Bellmon bemoaned his time as a US Senator. He said, he was used to Okla. gov't, where things got done, and business and government worked together, vs. D.C., where nothing gets done and everything is grift. (Paraphrased.) He was a good guy.

My now long-dead neighbor across the road lived his life in this Republican community and was a genuine life-long "yeller dawg" Democrat. A good man, who actually helped fight against real racism. I often wonder what he would think of the Dems today.

Posted by: mindful webworker - third-generation Republican at May 07, 2023 01:15 PM (lreiF)

148 The only purpose of reporting on a supposed poll is to generate page views.

Posted by: Change My Mind at May 07, 2023 01:15 PM (DhOHl)

149 I'm watching Serbia.
One of the shooting sites is on a routine bus route I take and I know at least one of my people know the second incidents shooters dad, a retired JNA officer with some illegal shit he took from work.
Like, two rifles and a box of grenades.
Then his retard Bluto son got dissed at a party and blasted a bunch of kids. Vucic is saying he's going to essentially ban guns, and News Creatures are flicking their beans to that but One it's impossible in the Balkans and Two, his security guys aren't going to back that.
Very curious. See where it lands.

Posted by: LenNeal at May 07, 2023 01:16 PM (43xH1)

150 85- Nope, and they had to get a translator to talk to his family. I think they are going to try and bury this one because it does not fit the narrative.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 07, 2023 12:45 PM

I put a note about that at the bottom of the EMT to keep it out of the book thread. He's in his 30s. Neighbors say he wore clothing that looked like he might have been a security guard. The also said he was "the quiet type". As you mention, the police needed a translator.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 07, 2023 01:16 PM (rbKZ6)

151 At least in the old days when there was a huge public project and dizzying amounts of graft to go along with it, We The People still actually got a working bridge or highway or skyscraper or whatever at the end of it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:16 PM (9UlRk)

152 my dad had a big hand in keeping several liquor stores in business

not mentionig a couple of whorehouses

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 01:18 PM (us2H3)

153 Actually, I was a little unfair to Williams at least to the extent that he acknowledges that his stand is merely a personal choice devoid of any practical effect.

https://bit.ly/3NIQtgb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:09 PM (FVME7)
***

He is welcome to his personal choice, although he was a career Marine intelligence officer so I find it a bit peculiar. Given the increasing frequency of shootings he might want to review his threat awareness analysis and reconsider. Perhaps he was just virtue signaling, although he doesn't seem the type. But as you say, his choice.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 01:18 PM (anj39)

154 BREAKING: The mass shooter in Allen today was a Hispanic male with what appears to be a gang tattoo on his hand.
pic-

https://tinyurl.com/4dzaax87
Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2023 12:50 PM (NpAcC)

Looks more Aztec than Hispanic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2023 01:20 PM (tkR6S)

155 Turn off the news.

Posted by: Just Sayin' at May 07, 2023 01:22 PM (DhOHl)

156 While you're watching the quiet one, I'll be watching the loud, noisy one banging a machete on the bar yelling "I'm gonna kill the next motherf***er who comes in here!

- Carlin

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:23 PM (9UlRk)

157 154 Looks more Aztec than Hispanic.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2023 01:20 PM

So...you're saying the real tragedy is the mistreatment of Native Peoples that drove him to this? Or protecting BIPOC people from a racist whitelash?

Posted by: Desperate MSM at May 07, 2023 01:23 PM (lcIdn)

158 156 While you're watching the quiet one, I'll be watching the loud, noisy one banging a machete on the bar yelling "I'm gonna kill the next motherf***er who comes in here!

- Carlin
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:23 PM

The bartender should give that poor man a free drink and $20 from the register!

Posted by: San Francisco at May 07, 2023 01:24 PM (lcIdn)

159 n his biography, Gov. Bellmon bemoaned his time as a US Senator. He said, he was used to Okla. gov't, where things got done, and business and government worked together, vs. D.C., where nothing gets done and everything is grift. (Paraphrased.) He was a good guy.

My now long-dead neighbor across the road lived his life in this Republican community and was a genuine life-long "yeller dawg" Democrat. A good man, who actually helped fight against real racism. I often wonder what he would think of the Dems today.
Posted by: mindful webworker - third-generation Republican at May 07, 2023 01:15 PM (lreiF)

Gov. Nigh was another decent governor. I worked across the hall from the governor's office. Loved to tell jokes and laugh. He loved his state.

Walters was the "new" democrat. No one liked him.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2023 01:26 PM (BdMk6)

160 Who the hell is hiring a security guard who can't speak English anyway?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:27 PM (9UlRk)

161 "Bring in a translator" sounds to me like the shooter's family speaks and Aztec or Mayan language, and not Spanish.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2023 01:29 PM (tkR6S)

162 Like Oklahoma, Texas was also almost completely Democrat when I was growing up. Sen. John Tower was an anomaly. In many state races there was not even a Republican candidate. Apart from the Reconstruction era, we didn't have a Republican governor until 1979.

However, that isn't as big a change as it might appear. The Democrat party had liberal and conservative wings. People who today would be Republicans were then conservative Democrats and the battle was fought in the Dem primary.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at May 07, 2023 01:29 PM (fTtFy)

163 Totally. The focus needs to be on states and counties. This country has grown to a size/diversity at which a pluralistic society is unworkable. It's not a matter of whether it explodes into flinders, but when, and how.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2023 01:29 PM (oINRc)

164 And while the bloodthirsty part of me wants Oklahoma to use Eminent Domain to evict these companies from their Oklahoma offices and demolish them to make way for coal-burning power plants...
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I have always liked you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2023 01:29 PM (EZebt)

165 Who the hell is hiring a security guard who can't speak English anyway?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:27 PM (9UlRk)

——————

Lots of places around Dallas where English is not spoken.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:29 PM (u73oe)

166 Glad to hear some states are fighting ESG crap. Problem is big state pension funds like here in NY, Cali and Illinois are all in. Got a chuckle noting that various nyc public employees pension funds lost at least $30m to Bankman - Fried. Drop in bucket but it should wake up some people

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 07, 2023 01:30 PM (eFaiq)

167 Holy Jesus the GOPe is going to use the debt ceiling fiasco to screw the next election.

It is a perfect fig leaf for fraud just like Lindsey's abortion bill.

DJT better succeed at convincing his people to not be stupid.

It's an absolute pyrrhic victory.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 07, 2023 01:30 PM (C0fuK)

168 OT
Please say a prayer for Carol. My mom would have been 78 today. She's been gone for 32 years and I still miss her.

Thank you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2023 01:31 PM (U2p+3)

169 Who the hell is hiring a security guard who can't speak English anyway?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:27 PM (9UlRk)

Maybe no one.
One can buy security looking clothes anywhere.
And they are like white lab coats. Put it on and you suddenly have standing. You can go anywhere. People don't question it.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 01:31 PM (anj39)

170 Buckle up, people. This could be explosive.

@Breaking911 7m
BREAKING: At Least 7 Dead After Driver Intentionally Runs Over Victims Outside Migrant Shelter In Brownsville, Texas: Police

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 07, 2023 01:32 PM (jzzG8)

171 >>> 168 OT
Please say a prayer for Carol. My mom would have been 78 today. She's been gone for 32 years and I still miss her.

Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2023 01:31 PM (U2p+3)

{{{nurse}}}

Done.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 07, 2023 01:33 PM (llON8)

172 33 seconds of expert socio /political analysis.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8tXIhUA33A

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:33 PM (FVME7)

173 Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2023 01:31 PM (U2p+3)

Done.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 01:33 PM (anj39)

174 *Put it on and you suddenly have standing. You can go anywhere. People don't question it.*

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Reflective vest, hard hat and clipboard at May 07, 2023 01:34 PM (DhOHl)

175 I've said it before and I'll say it again, it's not hard to take down Woke Inc it just takes a few interested people with a modicum of organization. People typically don't do that sort of thing when times are good, but times are not so good right now so maybe we'll see more of this.

Personally, I've been eagerly blackballing companies that pander to leftists since about 2015.

Posted by: CppThis at May 07, 2023 01:34 PM (PZvjL)

176 Of course, Nurse, and my condolences.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:34 PM (u73oe)

177 Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 8 minutes
BREAKING: At Least 7 Dead After Driver Intentionally Runs Over Victims Outside Migrant Shelter In Brownsville, Texas: Police

sock link

Griff Jenkins @GriffJenkins
BREAKING: Fatal car incident in Brownsville, TX - 7 dead, multiple injured. A vehicle struck a group of individuals outside of a migrant shelter around 0830a local. Officials working to confirm how many of the victims are migrants. Bystanders helped detain the driver…

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 07, 2023 01:35 PM (Vwz3I)

178 This is about us, isn't it?
Posted by: Reflective vest, hard hat and clipboard at May 07, 2023 01:34 PM (DhOHl)

Not even a joke. Except instead of the clipboard, just scowl and furiously mash at your phone like you just found out your wife wrecked the Maserati. People will jump to get out of your way.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:36 PM (9UlRk)

179 Denver put together a recruiting/training program for illegals to become cops. I don't know if it went anywhere, or if any illegals got hired on the force, but they were trying.

For contrast: think about what would happen if an illegal American drifter walked into a Tokyo precinct and asked for a job application.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2023 01:37 PM (oINRc)

180 Migrants my ass, war fighting age male illegal alien invaders.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at May 07, 2023 01:37 PM (7dS7s)

181 161 "Bring in a translator" sounds to me like the shooter's family speaks and Aztec or Mayan language, and not Spanish.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2023 01:29 PM

My first thought was also that it probably wasn't Spanish since so many are bilingual in Texas but maybe they wanted one anyway. Also, regarding the tattoo, some are saying that it's the 50-year old logo for the City of Dallas while others have compared it to the logo for an auto body shop call Triple D Customs and Collision. Just shows that the first assumptions usually prove wrong.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 07, 2023 01:37 PM (rbKZ6)

182 if an illegal American drifter walked into a Tokyo precinct and asked for a job application.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2023 01:37 PM (oINRc)

In English.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:38 PM (9UlRk)

183 Personally, I've been eagerly blackballing companies that pander to leftists since about 2015.
Posted by: CppThis

Yep.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 07, 2023 01:38 PM (vrkB7)

184 At Least 7 Dead After Driver Intentionally Runs Over Victims Outside Migrant Shelter In Brownsville, Texas: Police

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Say what you will about Mayor Eric Adams, he's doing something about illegal immigration.

New York Mayor Eric Adams to bus asylum seekers upstate, much like Texas Gov. Greg Abbott bussed asylum seekers to New York City

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:38 PM (FVME7)

185 Buckle up, people. This could be explosive.

@Breaking911 7m
BREAKING: At Least 7 Dead After Driver Intentionally Runs Over Victims Outside Migrant Shelter In Brownsville, Texas: Police
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 07, 2023 01:32 PM (jzzG

When people have had enough of the government horseshit, things like this are going to start happening. Civility becomes brutality.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2023 01:38 PM (BdMk6)

186 Bill Melugin
@BillFOXLA

BREAKING: Almost 55,000 Border Patrol apprehensions and 18,600+ known gotaways in a *single week* at the border. These are some of the highest weekly totals I have ever seen - and Title 42 hasn’t even dropped yet. Stunning numbers - especially that many gotaways in a single week.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 07, 2023 01:38 PM (NpAcC)

187 And now the MSM has their distraction from the Allen shooting. Well played, IC, well played.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:39 PM (u73oe)

188 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 12h
Texas shooting: Who was the Allen outlet mall shooter?

- Multiple FBI agents inside a home in the Northeast patrol division of Dallas (suspect's home)

- Agents have asked for translator

- Neighbors say suspected shooter is in his 30s and has lived here for as long as anyone can recall

- Suspect drives a gray Charger

- The suspect's name is not being released - because his identity and connection to the shooting in Allen has not yet been officially confirmed

- Suspect always wore security guard uniform, neighbors say

- Neighbors say suspect was very quiet, but they say they did notice certain unusual behavior

Source: WFAA

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 07, 2023 01:39 PM (Vwz3I)

189 Once again, my state leads the way!

Colorado Teachers Union Adopts Resolution Opposing Capitalism

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:39 PM (FVME7)

190 BREAKING: At Least 7 Dead After Driver Intentionally Runs Over Victims Outside Migrant Shelter In Brownsville, Texas: Police
Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 07, 2023 01:32 PM (jzzG

we are literally coming apart

hey wait

that would be a good title for a book, huh

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 01:39 PM (us2H3)

191 Known wolves.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 07, 2023 01:40 PM (vrkB7)

192 > BREAKING: Fatal car incident in Brownsville, TX
_____________

It allegedly happened at 8:30AM... how is it "breaking" now? Something stinks about all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2023 01:40 PM (Q4IgG)

193 Migrants my ass, war fighting age male illegal alien invaders.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at May 07, 2023 01:37 PM (7dS7s)

There is a lot to this.
Some even speak Spanish. Others speak arabic, chinese, ete...

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 01:43 PM (anj39)

194 breaking news

attack on Pearl Harbor

Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 01:43 PM (us2H3)

195 The suspect's name is not being released - because his identity and connection to the shooting in Allen has not yet been officially confirmed

—————-

They identified the shooter’s parents but not the shooter? Makes sense.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:43 PM (u73oe)

196 The driver in Brownsville was on his way to Subway shouting this is MAGA country!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:44 PM (u73oe)

197 They identified the shooter’s parents but not the shooter? Makes sense.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:43 PM (u73oe)

i'm all for not Richard Jewelling a guy just because he's a weirdo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:44 PM (9UlRk)

198 193 Migrants my ass, war fighting age male illegal alien invaders.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at May 07, 2023 01:37 PM (7dS7s)

the border is closed

Posted by: my dork ass at May 07, 2023 01:45 PM (us2H3)

199
attack on Pearl Harbor
Posted by: REDACTED at May 07, 2023 01:43 PM (us2H3)

___________

This Is No Drill

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2023 01:46 PM (MoZTd)

200 We need a two week waiting period before you can buy a car!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:46 PM (FVME7)

201 My first thought was also that it probably wasn't Spanish since so many are bilingual in Texas but maybe they wanted one anyway. Also, regarding the tattoo, some are saying that it's the 50-year old logo for the City of Dallas while others have compared it to the logo for an auto body shop call Triple D Customs and Collision. Just shows that the first assumptions usually prove wrong.
Posted by: Moonbeam at May 07, 2023 01:37 PM (rbKZ6)
***

There is an old saying in the army intelligence community that probably has it's origins back in the time of the Hittites. It goes: "The first report is always wrong." In my experience, that has been true.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 01:46 PM (anj39)

202 - Neighbors say suspected shooter is in his 30s and has lived here for as long as anyone can recall

- Suspect drives a gray Charger

- The suspect's name is not being released - because his identity and connection to the shooting in Allen has not yet been officially confirmed

- Suspect always wore security guard uniform, neighbors say

- Neighbors say suspect was very quiet, but they say they did notice certain unusual behavior

All the earmarks of a Russian agent.

Posted by: The "Intelligence Community" at May 07, 2023 01:47 PM (DhOHl)

203 Snap a pic of the dead shooter’s face and ask the parent if this is their son. That’d be some next level police work right there.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:47 PM (u73oe)

204 the border is closed
Posted by: my dork ass

Armadillo out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:47 PM (FVME7)

205 We also need a ban on high capacity assault minivans. They're easy to spot because they're painted black.

Posted by: CppThis at May 07, 2023 01:47 PM (PZvjL)

206
@Breaking911 7m
BREAKING: At Least 7 Dead After Driver Intentionally Runs Over Victims Outside Migrant Shelter In Brownsville, Texas: Police

___________

Just so long as it was an EV.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2023 01:48 PM (MoZTd)

207 They identified the shooter’s parents but not the shooter? Makes sense.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:43 PM (u73oe)

i'm all for not Richard Jewelling a guy just because he's a weirdo.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:44 PM (9UlRk)

I blame global warming. Oh,.....and Trump.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2023 01:49 PM (BdMk6)

208 "The first report is always wrong."

And the follow-up is usually not much better.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2023 01:49 PM (Xrfse)

209 If some crazy person just ran over some illegals the Marxists will rejoice with the gold mine they lucked into.

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 01:49 PM (xhxe8)

210 What are the driver's pronouns?

Posted by: AWFL down the street at May 07, 2023 01:50 PM (DhOHl)

211 Finally, Biden says something I agree with!

Biden: “We Can’t Let Obama” Win Again

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 07, 2023 01:51 PM (FVME7)

212 California reparations panel approves payments of up to $1.2 million to every Black resident
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I can't find it now but there was some idiot at a public hearing demanding $200-million each. That's alot of mules and 40-acre plots!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 07, 2023 01:51 PM (Vwz3I)

213 What are the driver's pronouns?
Posted by: AWFL down the street at May 07, 2023 01:50 PM (DhOHl)

—————-

Vroom/Splat

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 01:52 PM (u73oe)

214 Posted by: Ben Had at May 07, 2023 12:36 PM

Ben Had, if you're still around, I had to head out for churcj earlier and missed your question about my sister.

She's doing very well, apart from the cold they all had this week. Thank you for asking. I'll tell her you asked after her. Later this month the little weasel who broke in comes up for trial. Hopefully he gets more than a slap on the wrist, but it is Canaduh, and he's part "first nations", so...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2023 01:52 PM (Wnv9h)

215
I can't find it now but there was some idiot at a public hearing demanding $200-million each. That's alot of mules and 40-acre plots!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 07, 2023 01:51 PM (Vwz3I)

_________

$200 million is an 1100-sq. ft. starter plot in CA.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2023 01:53 PM (MoZTd)

216 Just so long as it was an EV.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Weirdly enough the articles are showing a older Range Rover, like a 2008ish model.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 07, 2023 01:53 PM (jzzG8)

217 nurse, may Carol's memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 07, 2023 01:53 PM (EZebt)

218 There are thousands of illegals in every state in the union. If just 1,000 of these are armed and even moderately organized, they could bring America to a standstill.
But I'm not worried because Mayorkas says the border is secure!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 01:54 PM (anj39)

219 The list of companies, from the OK Treasury website:

BLACKROCK, INC
• WELLS FARGO & CO.
• JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.
• BANK OF AMERICA N.A.
• STATE STREET CORP.
• GCM
GROSVENOR
• LEXINGTON PARTNERS
• FIRSTMARK FUND PARTNERS
• STEPSTONE VC GLOBAL
PARTNERS
• WCM INVESTMENT
MANAGEMENT
• WILLIAM BLAIR
• ACTIS
• CLIMATE FIRST BANK

Posted by: CppThis at May 07, 2023 01:54 PM (PZvjL)

220 209 If some crazy person just ran over some illegals the Marxists will rejoice with the gold mine they lucked into.
Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 01:49 PM

"Luck" doesn't exist in a vacuum...you can greatly influence the odds in your favor. And we've been working HARD to increase the "crazies" population to have more of these "fortuitous" events. "Stray energy/voltage", I think Obama and Holder called it.

Posted by: Leftists in Power at May 07, 2023 01:55 PM (vkXsv)

221 But I'm not worried because Mayorkas says the border is secure!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2023 01:54 PM (anj39)

Thank goodness DC is looking out for us.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 07, 2023 01:56 PM (BdMk6)

222 My uncle drove a Mayorka in the 80s. Had an ahh-oo-gah horn from JC Whitney and a set of bumper nuts.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 07, 2023 01:57 PM (DhOHl)

223 California reparations panel approves payments of up to $1.2 million to every Black resident
--------------
I can't find it now but there was some idiot at a public hearing demanding $200-million each. That's alot of mules and 40-acre plots!

If they can get you arguing about how much money is too much, they've won, because you've accepted the idea in principle. The correct answer is F*** You!

Posted by: Archimedes at May 07, 2023 01:57 PM (eOEVl)

224 Who the hell is hiring a security guard who can't speak English anyway?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 07, 2023 01:27 PM (9UlRk)

Many years ago in Jackson, Mississippi, a car dealer hired a known felon as a security guard, who raped and killed a couple of teens who had parked on the car lot to make out.

Security guards tend be to scraped from the bottom of the barrel.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 07, 2023 01:58 PM (R/m4+)

225 One of those companies actually surprises me a bit as they'd been fairly low-key in the Woke Wars. Probably going to be a significant shift in the House Plus financial sphere in the not too distant future.

Posted by: CppThis at May 07, 2023 01:58 PM (PZvjL)

226 Climate First Bank is woke? Huh.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 02:00 PM (u73oe)

227 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee · 22h
With Vice News Closing, White House Will Have To Lie To Public Directly
https://buff.ly/40WzOsK

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 07, 2023 02:00 PM (Vwz3I)

228 Jackson, MS is a fucked up place, period.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2023 02:01 PM (oINRc)

229 {11} Like watching the end of the universe from the restaurant at the end of the galaxy, it's going to get you sooner or later.

Posted by: Skip at May 07, 2023 12:09 PM (xhxe

Er, hello, everybody. I'm sorry I'm a bit late. Had a terrible time. All sorts of things cropping up at the last moment.

How are we for time?

(And then the threadiverse NOODed with First World Problems...)

Posted by: The Great Prophet Zarquon at May 07, 2023 02:01 PM (nRMeC)

230 We've been talkin' 'bout Jackson
Ever since the fire went out.

Posted by: Johnny and June at May 07, 2023 02:06 PM (DhOHl)

231 Please say a prayer for Carol. My mom would have been 78 today. She's been gone for 32 years and I still miss her.

Thank you.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Okay

Posted by: JT at May 07, 2023 02:09 PM (T4tVD)

232 @186

>>BREAKING: Almost 55,000 Border Patrol apprehensions and 18,600+ known gotaways in a *single week* at the border.

That's more "gotaways" than the population of my town.

Extrapolated over an entire year, that's nearly a million more people.

At this point it's all just noise, it's not like those 55k people that were apprehended are ever being sent back.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 07, 2023 02:09 PM (up/3i)

233 I haven't seen it written that if woke companies like Blackrock and Vanguard own similar fractions of boycott targets and their alternatives, then they are relatively unaffected and can continue their woke influence.
The Anheuser-Busch decline will be offset by the increases seen by Coors/Miller.

Posted by: Trans Ams Matter at May 07, 2023 02:55 PM (+b+nq)

234 >>>Oklahoma, Where the Woke Comes Screeching To A Halt!

LOL

Posted by: m at May 07, 2023 03:01 PM (qZtr0)

235 Boxer Collie "Kaboom" is up at the Westminster dog agility run!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 07, 2023 03:01 PM (48V7z)

236 Lol Border Collie, ya dumb A/C!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at May 07, 2023 03:04 PM (48V7z)

237 Blackrock manages bout. 8.500,000,000,000
Oklahoma threatens to remove 10,000,000,000

Oklahoma where people can't do math and neither do morons
Big difference between billions and trillions

Posted by: Paul at May 07, 2023 03:14 PM (N2KtC)

238 Oklahoma !!!!!where zeros mean nothing ????

Posted by: Paul at May 07, 2023 03:15 PM (N2KtC)

239 Paul, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 07, 2023 03:31 PM (u73oe)

240 In-Bev is buying Miller, so that won't be an option.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 07, 2023 05:33 PM (Mzdiz)

241 Did anyone else get hit with a popup of a fake infection alert from McAfee? Spoiler Alert - I don't use McAfee as my antimalware solution, so someone embedded something in that page to try and either steal user information or to try and drive traffic to McAfee. Well - F.U.

Posted by: TimInVirginia at May 07, 2023 07:27 PM (w4slC)

242 Hey Paul - you are aware that Oklahoma isn't the only state starting to take money away from them - and when you start making it illegal for them to do business in the state - which is coming and will probably make them illegal to be used in retirement and 401k plans for businesses chartered in these states - the drain will become a big problem.

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