The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 5/11/23

Good morning, kids. With the continued dissolution of what's left of what was the United States, you'd be forgiven for not knowing that there was a town hall Q&A in New Hampshire last night with President Trump that was broadcast on CNN. That CNN's ratings are the equivalent of a 5,000 watt college radio station somewhere in the Aleutians also might have something to do with it but I digress.

My prediction that it would either be a disaster or a brilliant move for Trump was partially accurate. With all the crap swirling around him, the fact that he decided to go on that whorehouse of a junta owned-and-operated house organ made me cringe. Yet he not only acquitted himself well he wiped the floor with this Kaitlin Collins floozy. Whatever you think of Trump as the potential standard-bearer for 2024 he made great points on a number of issues, but for me, the key takeaway of the evening was that it was a big unforced error for CNN.

Not, as the Marxists shriek, that they gave the big bad orangeman bad "a platform to spread his lies," but that they gave a man who they and every other Leftist in America has smeared as the second coming of Hitler a platform in the first place. They spent every second of every day of the past eight years shrieking that at a volume that makes a 1973 Deep Purple concert sound like an amoeba farting on the dark side of Pluto. Yet in one night, whatever their calculus was, they legitimized a man they spent all that time and effort trying to delegitimize. Or, short of that, they did serious damage to that meme. And remember, Trump represents half of a nation that Biden and his ilk want chucked in a gulag, or a mass grave.

Oh sure, the usual gang of assholes, miscreants, freaks, geeks and Maoists from Van Jones to Fake Jake Tapper were ripping him to shreds afterwards, but the damage was done. Obviously, they thought they were giving him the noose to hang himself with and just the opposite happened. Frankly, from what I could tell, they didn't seed the audience with Media Matters-approved stooges, and if they did, Trump came out swinging. Again, like him or not for 2024, he did no damage to himself and there were indeed a number of key points on a range of issues that he brought up which will resonate with the public. Kudos to CNN at least for accidentally being "fair and balanced" (suck on it, Murdochs). This assumes CNN has an audience or that Trump had the ability to make it must-see TV the same as if he were holding a rally.

And with that longer-than-I-wanted-it-to-be lead-in, of course, one of those key issues is the border. As of today, we have none. Officially anyway since this ludicrous-level madness has been going on for the past two years on top of what's happened since 1965.

This is not a natural crisis. This is a premeditated invasion at the behest of Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' handlers to both bolster the Leftist-Democrat base as well as continue the destruction of our culture, heritage and society by supplanting what was American with something that is not. The ¡Bienvenidos! mat is out. And it's an American flag that millions of third world peasants will now wipe their feet and dystentery/cholera/typhus/rubella-laden rectums on, con gusto. Your tax dollars at work, amigos.

Without fully comprehending the terrific forces it is unleashing, the Biden [junta] has set in motion the scramble of literally millions of economic migrants around the planet: first, by refusing to keep in place President Trump’s measures that effectively blocked unlawful entry at U.S. borders (particularly at the Mexican frontier); and second, by loudly proclaiming the need to offer all migrants “safe, orderly, and humane pathways” to enter the United States. In their ideological fever to accommodate the millions who yearn to live in the U.S. if given the chance, Biden officials simply ignored the fact that our country already has a generous and functioning lawful immigration system in place. The system is not “broken”; it is simply not enforced and does not give Biden the flexibility to admit the millions he wants to accommodate.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has pivoted from claiming the border is secure to asserting that the administration was desperately confronted by an unprecedented “migration crisis” across the Western Hemisphere. Events have finally forced him to concede that migration chaos reigns, but Mayorkas continues to fundamentally obfuscate any honest analysis of push-and-pull or cause-and-effect, refusing to acknowledge that the administration’s policies of trying to accommodate millions of economic migrants spawned the creation of millions more . . .
. . . Another unintended consequence of Biden’s immigration policies has been to make the Department of Homeland Security, nominally tasked with U.S. border and internal security, into Washington’s leading foreign affairs agency, at least in the Western Hemisphere. Nothing offered by State Department diplomacy, USAID foreign assistance, or U.S. Southern Command military cooperation can come close to matching DHS open-border policies in having the influence on millions of people across the Americas. Other U.S. foreign policy objectives in this region—e.g., support for democratic reform—simply cannot keep up with what DHS is offering . . .
. . . The crowning achievement, at least so far, is Mayorkas' decision to wave his magic immigration wand and offer 30,000 monthly admissions into the United States for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans. Open-border advocates say little about how this exodus indirectly props up hostile and despotic governments. Few young and ambitious people remain to sacrifice themselves in building these countries when the gringos are offering jobs and financial subsidies with practically no cultural or linguistic assimilation required.
Three of these countries—Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela—are run by broken-down Marxist tyrants who constantly seek to drive away their political opponents and no doubt see the Mayorkas policy as pennies from heaven. They thrive in exiling the “enemies of the revolution,” while also plotting schemes to siphon off millions in cash remittances that expatriates send home. Disappointingly but predictably, the State Department made no demands on strongmen Diaz-Canal in Cuba, Ortega in Nicaragua, or Maduro in Venezuela before announcing the Mayorkas plan. In return for accepting what is likely to turn out to be millions of migrants from these countries, the Biden [junta] demanded no reciprocal concessions on human rights, free elections, or economic liberalization . . .
. . . In interjecting immigration into American foreign policy, Trump was a piker in comparison to Biden. Putting aside the Ukraine conflict, the Biden [junta's] foreign policy will certainly be remembered for this above all. If the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] gets a second term, this [junta] will completely remake how foreigners come to America. One senior State Department diplomat recently told me that the United States still needs to “attract” immigrants. That statement is so detached from what is actually happening in the world that it is little wonder that DHS, and not the State Department, has stumbled into the job of running U.S. foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere.

Yup. If you can't turn Americans into good little obedient Communists who have the formerly innate American sense of wariness of government brainwashed out of them from pre-K to post-grad fast enough to transform society (and dear Lord all things considered they've been wildly successful so far) then just import millions of people who do not have such misgivings about Communist juntas to "fortify" – is THAT ever an appropriate word, n'est pas? – your hold on "our precious democracy" (*vomits*). As if Title 42 were really holding back these hordes. The Junta has been directing DHS to bring these people in way ahead of today's expiration probably for weeks if not months already and transport them not only to the blue shit-holes but more crucially, to red states in order to help Guam-tip them over to blue.

Population replacement. Remember: it's not a conspiracy theory when you have the conspiracy and the conspirators actively conspiring right in front of you.

So, Mayorkas is completely ignoring federal laws both with Title 42 and the volumes of extant immigration laws, and Biden is threatening to invoke a Constitution he despises to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling either ignorant of or not caring that he has ZERO authority to do so. Meanwhile in another part of the forest, here's further evidence that we are being stomped on by jackbooted fascist thugs with essentially zero opposition by the alleged opposition party:

Christopher Wray may be quickly earning the title of king of coverups. He is now aggressively using his agency to shield [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden from congressional oversight. It is bad enough that his politicized agency sat on the information in Hunter Biden’s laptop for almost four years with their Elmer Fudd investigation of its contents. Wray is now moving beyond the passive-aggressive phase. By defying a legitimate Oversight Committee subpoena, he seems to be actively participating in an FBI coverup. But all the slow-walking and slow-talking won’t prevent the facts from getting out. There are still honorable men and women in the FBI. You can shut them down and hide what they have uncovered, but the truth will find a way out. And the sooner, the better.

Stop the presses. Emphasis mine. Exhibits facts not in evidence. Roll tape . . .

For a long time, the FBI has been earning a reputation as an arrogant, unaccountable government operation. Defying congressional investigators only confirms the suspicion that the agency sees itself above the ordinary legal process. Christopher Wray serves subpoenas on other people and forces them to comply. His FBI defies subpoenas and expects Congress to back off.
There is an old axiom about leadership. No one is fit to lead who has shown himself incapable of obeying. By refusing to comply with the congressional subpoenas issued by Rep. Comer and Sen. Grassley, Wray is setting the stage for a constitutional crisis. Will he obey the law or spit in its eye? How much disrespect will the American people put up with from unelected political hacks?

"Setting the stage for a constitutional crisis." Don't make me fucking laugh. I hate to be the bearer of bad news here but the Constitution is dead. If the Constitution is indeed "living and breathing" as the leftists constantly claim, then it only has the breath of life in it when it is strictly and absolutely obeyed and defended to the hilt – by any means necessary should it rise to that level and sure as the sun rises in the east it did on Election Night 2020 – by everyone who swore an oath to do so.

It is painfully obvious that precious few are among that group. And even if there are stalwarts and patriots remaining in DC and other political halls of power around the country, they are effectively outnumbered by scum, traitors and tyrants in Congress, the courts and most crucially the Administrative state, i.e. the Deep State.

As we often conclude the Podcast, the latest episode dropping a bit later this morning (check the sidebar) "on that cheery note . . . "

Sheesh.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The ‘Mayorkas Doctrine’ has completely remade migration patterns in the Americas and changed the internal politics of migrants’ countries of origin—and not for the better."
Mayorkas Runs U.S. Foreign Policy in the Western Hemisphere
Victor Davis Hanson: "Death is traumatic enough, without searching for ways to gain political traction from it."
Weaponizing Death
“In their rhetoric and style, trans activists bear a close resemblance to ACT UP.”
How Leftists Became Big Pharma’s Shock Troops
The organization’s executive director, David Becker, is not a household political name. But he has been extremely influential for years behind the scenes in rigging voting rules to ensure maximum benefit for the Democrat Party, such as making mail-in voting as easy as possible. Becker is, to put it lightly, a controversial figure. . . He has also been the subject of an ethics complaint while working for the Department of Justice. “He’s a hard-core leftist,” his colleague at the DOJ, Brad Schlozman, remarked at the time. “Couldn’t stand conservatives.”
Deep State Technocrats Convene in D.C. Spy Museum, Collude to Rig 2024 Election
"Raymond Ibrahim: "There can be only one answer to this question, but it's the unpopular answer."
Is Any "One Culture Superior to Others?"

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

"This is not your father’s illegal immigration."
I Witnessed Biden Officials Helping People Come Into the Country Illegally
"Tomorrow is going to be a day of infamy." (and it's here - jjs)
Trump Predicts 15 Million Illegal Immigrants From End of Title 42
"In 2020, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, former President Donald Trump invoked Title 42 at the United States-Mexico border to ensure that federal immigration officials could quickly return illegal aliens to their native countries for the sake of public health."
Report: Biden’s DHS Prepares to Free Border Crossers Directly into U.S. Communities Once Title 42 Ends
"Drone footage from Fox News on Tuesday evening showed a massive group of migrants crossing illegally into Brownsville." (shoot to kill - jjs)
WATCH: Texas National Guard Repels Line Of Migrants Illegally Crossing Into U.S.
"Mayorkas’ 'Nation of Immigrants' claim refers to the Cold War lobbyist narrative that the United States is a homeland for migrants, not for Americans. The narrative was created by Democratic-linked advocacy groups and business interests, despite enduring Americans’ primary concerns for their fellow citizens."
(we're a nation of citizens, you bald-headed scumbag - jjs)
Mayorkas: Americans’ Priorities Are Subordinate to ‘Nation of Immigrants’
"It is the supreme arrogance of the current [junta] that they can enact such irresponsible border policies and expect no social dysfunction to result."
Strain of Border Crisis Is Fueling a Spike in Violence
“The Biden Border Crisis has wreaked havoc across the United States and has put Americans in danger. In Florida, we will not stand idly by while the federal government abandons its lawful duties to protect our country.”
DeSantis Signs Strongest Anti-Illegal Immigration Bills Into Law As Biden Border Crisis Worsens
"George Soros is behind the Biden [junta's] enablement of millions of so-called "asylum seekers" to flow across the U.S.-Mexico border."
Biden Applies Nazi Collaborator Soros’ Open-Border Policy
"The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits."
America’s Founders Didn’t Support Open Borders, And Neither Should We
"The American government is in the illegal immigration business."
Build Back Borderless, Bankrupt, and Broken
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"US money-laundering regulations are practically designed to shroud crimes by American politicians."
How the Biden Corruption Radar Ran Under the Radar for So Long
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden is at the center of a political favor-selling scheme and subsequent coverup, Republicans say."
Bidens Made Millions Exchanging Political Favors For Foreign Money, Then Tried To Cover It Up: Oversight Report
"It’s clear from the FBI’s response that the unclassified record the Oversight Committee subpoenaed exists, but they are refusing to provide it to the Committee," Comer said. (pull out Wray's fingernails with pliers, rhetorically speaking - jjs)
FBI Misses Deadline to Turn Over Document About Alleged Joe Biden ‘Bribery Scheme’
"By defying a legitimate Oversight Committee subpoena, he seems to be actively participating in an FBI coverup. But all the slow-walking and slow-talking won’t prevent the facts from getting out. There are still honorable men and women in the FBI. You can shut them down and hide what they have uncovered, but the truth will find a way out. And the sooner, the better." (My ass! I'll believe that when I see it - jjs
Christopher Wray Needs to Comply With House Oversight Committee Subpoena; He's Not Above the Law
". . . the American people are going to see just exactly what the Biden family has been engaged in. We all heard Joe Biden say during the presidential debate that his family never received any money from China. We’re going to learn today whether or not that was a truthful statement. We’ve heard Joe Biden say he didn’t have any knowledge of his family’s shady business dealings. We’re going to learn today whether or not that’s true."
GOP Rep. Comer: "We’re Following the Money — All Roads Lead to Joe"
"James Comer (R-Ky.) promised he was going to release evidence of financial misconduct by the Biden family. What we got instead of bank records is a memo written by the House Oversight Committee summarizing what’s in the records. This is not how winning works. Not releasing the actual records allows the White House to claim that Republicans have nothing and this is all a publicity stunt. Republicans made sure to give an incredibly boring press conference about it that will put everyone who watches it immediately to sleep. Do not listen to this while driving or operating heavy machinery."
Hey Republicans! Release the Records of the Biden Payments, Dummies!
"The reports also confirm that the U.S. national intelligence apparatus aided and abetted the Bidens in covering up their links to Chinese Communist-linked entities that were paying massive amounts in exchange for political favors, as well as attempting to delegitimize the release of Hunter Biden’s laptop and its contents."
CIA Operatives Aided in Hunter Biden Laptop Cover-Up, Congress Reveals Massive, China-Linked Influence Peddling Scheme
"David Cariens, a retired CIA analyst, told congressional investigators in a written statement that an active CIA employee involved in reviewing his memoir 'asked' if he would sign the letter in October 2020, which he agreed to do after hearing the letter’s contents, a new report shows."
Active CIA Employee ‘Asked’ Intel Veteran If He Would Sign Hunter Biden Letter: Report
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The bloodbath of left-wing media outlets continues with the news that Paramount will shut down MTV News. This is part of Paramount’s 25 percent staff reduction “across the Showtime, MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks groups in the U.S.”
MTV News Is Latest Left-Wing ‘News’ Outlet to Shut Down
This is either a genius move on Trump's part or colossally stupid. Why not do one with TuCa on Twitter?
CNN Railed Against Platforming Donald Trump. Now It's Hosting a Trump Town Hall.
"Oh no, how awful."
NBC Host Worries No One Will Be Able to “Police” What Tucker Carlson Says if He Moves Show to Twitter
"So, two years too late, the Times fesses up. Will anyone else in the news media?"
Shock: The New York Times Admits Biden’s Border Policies Encourage Illegal Immigration
"If your child has Snapchat, this is your sign to get rid of it."
Snapchat’s ‘My AI’ is a Dumpster Fire
"The senior justice is the sort of man who can tell what a woman is. In Wokeville, such men are dangerous. That is what the whole ethics 'scandal' is really about."
The Media Assault on Clarence Thomas
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“They’re living in hell, and they’re policemen, and they’re firemen, and they’re soldiers, and they’re carpenters and electricians, and they’re great people. Many of them are just great people.”
Trump: "I’m Inclined to Pardon Many" J6 Prisoners if Elected, "Two Standards of Justice in This Country"

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“Someone gonna get hurt on their side and I hope I get to do it,” Derek Summers wrote. “I’m sooo ready to show up with guns lol,” added Summers, a rapper who offered firearms training to the group. On Facebook, he repeatedly posted pictures of himself with guns, with one adding the quote “all this love is waiting for you.” (funny if he wound up with his throat slit and his house burned to the ground - jjs)
Soros Prosecutor’s Staffer, Dem Candidate In Violence-Tinged Group That Plotted Against Conservative Parents
"Theron’s video represented one of many celebrities’ appearances at the 'Drag is Not Dangerous' fundraiser, a live telethon event over the weekend put on by Hollywood organization Producer Entertainment Group and major LGBTQ organizations."
Over-the-Hill Soiled Dishrag Charlize Theron Threatens to "Fuck Up" Conservatives Worried About Drag Queens Sexualizing Children
"The mostly black group just voted to give its members millions of dollars."
Does No-Whites-Allowed Reparations Task Force Represent a Conflict of Interest?
On Tuesday, the DOJ filed charges against Santos in the Eastern District of New York. While originally under seal, the 13-count indictment unveiled Wednesday morning shows the DOJ charging Santos with “seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.”
DOJ Strategically Timed Political Arrest to Coincide With Press Conference Detailing Evidence of Biden Corruption
"The responsibility for leaving conservative justices with hostile groups planted outside their doors rests with Merrick Garland."
Merrick Garland’s Refusal to Protect Supreme Court Justices Endangers the Country
"Progressive blue cities risk entering a spiral of decline as productive residents leave for safer, more economically dynamic red states."
The "Crime Rush" Is Deepening the Nation’s Divisions
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Leave us alone."
11 State Attorney Generals, Including D.C., Want Federal Action on Gas Stoves
"'DOE's proposal is an attack on gas cooking appliances,' trade group says."
Pasta Lovers Beware: You Could Spend an Extra 23 Hours a Year Boiling Water Due to Biden's Gas Stove Rules
Manchin has sparred with the [junta] recently over the implementation of the IRA, alleging the Biden [junta] is undercutting Congress’ goal of boosting U.S. manufacturing by allowing certain allies to qualify for tax breaks meant for American manufacturers. In an April Senate hearing, Manchin got into a heated exchange with Biden’s Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, over her agency’s support of the administration’s interpretation of the IRA, frustratedly calling for her office to “[f]ollow the law!”
Biden’s Permitting Wishlist Completely Omits American Oil and Gas
"Manchin’s threat to act as a roadblock to EPA picks could really throw a monkey wrench into Biden’s climate plans. But the West Virginia senator would only need one more moderate Democrat to join him in blocking Biden’s nominees. Given the radicalism of Biden’s emissions plans, it probably won’t be that difficult." (he's a showboating whore; not holding my breath - jjs)
Joe Manchin Says He Will Block All Biden EPA Nominees Over New Power Plant Regs
"When will they tell us the crisis is over? Best guess: never."
Why Does Anyone Believe These People?
"There are geopolitical and energy realities that nuclear can solve."
The Dawn of a U.S. Nuclear Renaissance
"Bringing economic ruin to America – while benefiting China and its ruling class."
The Green New Deal and ‘Chinafication’ of the United States
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
". . . legal experts and Republican lawmakers who spoke to the Daily Caller News Foundation disagreed. They have said that should Biden do so, it would bring about Congressional challenges and protracted legal battles that may eventually lead to a default." (presidents, legitimate or not as in this case, do NOT have the power of the purse, period - jjs)
‘Impeachable’: Legal Experts, GOP Lawmakers Warn Biden Against Invoking 14th Amendment on Debt Ceiling
David Harsanyi: "If you want to spend without any limit in perpetuity, just say so."
The Democrats’ Debt Ceiling Position Makes Zero Sense
"During Trump’s 48 months in the White House, monthly consumer price increases averaged 1.9%, year-over-year. During the 28 months that Joe Biden has been in office, prices have averaged 6.4% higher than they were 12 months earlier."
Consumer Prices Up 4.9% from Year-Ago, as Increases Under Biden Remain More than Three Times Higher than Under Trump
"Under Dimon, JPMorgan has pursued Environmental, Social and Governance investing and the 'debanking' of conservatives all while pledging greater investment in America’s greatest adversary, China."
JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon is No "Savior": He’s a Bond Villain
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“Human life is more important than property. We need to change our local law so that security guards cannot unholster their weapons just to protect property.”
San Francisco Supervisor Calls For Prohibiting Security from Using Guns to Protect Property
“I will not raise my son here.”
Chicago Prosecutor Quits After 20 Years, Slams Leaders for Putting City ‘On a Course to Disaster’
"What does sitting idly by do to our character?"
Clever Cowards
"The Left's penchant for making martyrs and heroes out of scumbags."
If Jordan Neely Had Been in a Workhouse, He’d Still Be Alive
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"The Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-collaborating nonprofit, EcoHealth, has been granted an annual $576,290 for the next four years by the taxpayer-funded and formerly Fauci-led National Institutes of Health (NIH)."
Trump Froze Taxpayer Funds for a Key Wuhan Lab Collaborator. Biden Just Brought it Back.
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Lee immediately pulled her daughter from the school, which resulted in a well-child check by the school. Lee responded to the well-check by stating her daughter was “doing much better” now that she was attending a Christian school."
Colorado Mom Sues School After Secret Trans Group Recruits Her Daughter and Does 'Unthinkable Things'
The full clip can be viewed below, and contains details of Chang’s absurd promises at the Catholic university, as well as her explanation that the university is attempting to be quietly more deviant, without being “too public.” (I read that as "pubic" - jjs)
OMG: Hidden Camera Catches Catholic College Prioritizing Transgender Student, Promising Shared Accommodation With Biological Girls
"Children have been taught to read through a 'fundamentally flawed' and scientifically unsound system."
Progressives Just Admitted They Were Wrong on Phonics
"NASA should draw on the efforts of SpaceX’s experimental schools."
The Next Frontier in STEM Education
"Compelled speech runs afoul of courts."
Mandatory DEI Statements at Universities: They’re Distasteful, But are They Legal
"From Howard Zinn to Nikole Hannah-Jones."
The Demise of Spelman College
Christopher F. Rufo: "The university has adopted radical politics in order to 'dismantle systemic racism.'”
DEI Swallows Texas A&M
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
J. Christian Adams: "One reason Warner has been a leader on clean elections is because he is engaged on a national level with election integrity issues. Maybe that’s a bad thing at The Dominion Post. It certainly is a bad thing among leftist academics who prefer to cancel and shun lively debate. The Dominion Post was upset that Warner attended an event that Dominion Postt reporters weren’t invited to."
Cancel Culture Comes for Mac Warner, One of the Best Secretaries of State in the Nation
"Hamadeh blasted Democrats for their hypocrisy when it comes to their mantra of ‘count every vote.’"
What You Need To Know About Next Week’s Court Hearing On Arizona’s 2022 AG Race
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Details such as the year are trivial, according to this deliberative body."
In Trump Decision, Jury Finds Itself Guilty
"Carroll alleged in 2019 that Trump raped her in either 1995 or 1996 in a dressing room at Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman. She sued the former president after he denied even knowing her. Trump labeled Carroll’s accusations a 'hoax and a lie' during his deposition."
E. Jean Carroll Admits She Helped New York Dems Change Law So She Could Sue Trump
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"A judge ruled in favor of forcing a middle school to host an After School Satan Club, in the latest example of a disturbing trend."
Get Behind Me, After School Satan Club!
"Tlaib’s event was held in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Hearing Room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a panel chaired by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). During the event, Tlaib confirmed that Sanders allowed her to use his committee’s room."
Rancida Taliban Tlaib Hosts Jew-Hate Anti-Israel Naqba-berg Rally at the Capitol Despite Kevin McCarthy’s Move to Block It
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"A federal grand jury indicted him on 13 total federal charges."
Rep. George Santos in Custody, Faces Federal Charges Including Theft of Public Funds
"If lying your way to office were illegal, then Joe Biden would be in jail."
George Santos’ Real Crime Was Making Democrats Look Stupid
"Reid Hoffman also met with sex trafficker on at least two other occasions."
Billionaire Who Funded E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuit Against Trump Visited Epstein’s Island
POLITICS
"You are a nasty person."
Trump Hijacks CNN, Steamrolls Kaitlan Collins in New Hampshire Townhall
"It was clear from the outset that Collins was outmatched. Even AOC saw that it was trainwreck."
A Few Thoughts About the CNN Townhall with Trump
"Trump repeatedly sparred with CNN host Kaitlan Collins throughout the event on a wide range of subjects, including his stolen election claims, the January 6 riot, a civil court ruling that he battered and defamed author E. Jean Carroll, the economy, energy independence, the debt ceiling, the Second Amendment, the border, abortion, the war in Ukraine, and more."
Notable Moments From First Part Of Trump’s CNN Town Hall In New Hampshire
No, I want 400 more years of exactly that, times a million.
Joe Biden After Trump Town Hall: "Do You Want Four More Years of That?"
"Most voters are kinda tired of y'all."
Rep. Byron Donalds Spars With CNN Panel Over Town Hall With Trump

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John McCain was spotted reaching out from his coffin in the Rotunda to welcome her back . . .
Feinstein Returns To Senate In Wheelchair, Needs ‘Lighter Schedule’
"Be very fucking worried." (this could be a phony psy-op story - jjs)
Dems Quietly Fret That Biden Could Lose To Trump In 2024 Rematch
"The degradation has reached levels of absurdity not found in even the best satires."
We Are Living in a World Made for Satire
"The formula for Biden’s entire term has been for him to stick to the script, read from the teleprompter and say as little off the cuff as possible. But now it’s clear he can barely even do that."
Don’t Be Surprised if Joe Biden is Not the Democrats’ 2024 Nominee
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Recipients include state-run Xinjiang manufacturer linked to abuses against Uyghurs."
World Bank Sent Funds to Sanctioned Chinese Companies Linked to Military, Human Rights Abuse
"All bark but no bite?"
Iran’s Attempted Intimidation of Israel
"The dismal reality of what this immigration has meant to France."
Nearly Two-Thirds of French Want to End Non-European Immigration
"Are the Zionists really so wicked?"
Israel Tries to Make Haj Trip Less Burdensome for Israeli Arabs and Palestinians
"The prime minister has decided to make this move after an eight-year-old was abused by his stepfather and subsequently died a few days later due to the injuries inflicted, per TVP Info."
Polish PM Calls for Reinstating Death Penalty After Killing of 8-Year-Old Boy
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Daniel Greenfield: "Milley was bad, Brown will be much worse."
Next Joint Chiefs Chair Wants White Male Officers to be a Minority
“For the past two years, we have been working to address urgent challenges at the USMMA, and to provide its cadets with the resources and support they need and deserve,” Buttigieg said after announcing the advisory council appointments.
Peter Puffer Buttplug Buttigeig Doubles Down on Woke Advisers at Merchant Marine Academy Despite Congressional Scrutiny
"LeoLabs has suggested that whatever Object J is, it appears to have significant abilities to maneuver within close proximity and interact with other objects in orbit, which could raise interantional concerns, as it relates to space missions."
China Testing Spaceplane That May be Able to Attack Other Satellites: Report
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
It’s unclear whether Delaney’s failure to disclose his role violates federal law, which requires judicial nominees to disclose their "significant legal activities," even those that did not go to trial, and bars them from intentionally omitting or misrepresenting information on their Senate questionnaires.
Biden Judicial Pick Ignored 'Serious Criminal Allegations' Relating to Largest Ponzi Scheme in New Hampshire History
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"It needs to buck up some courage and do the right thing."
FDA Should Fast-Track New Muscular Dystrophy Drug
"What the critical shortage of baby formula is really about."
The War on America’s Babies
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"In its lust to destroy every taboo about sexual behavior, the left is never satiated. Next up? Acceptance of pedophilia."
The Next Frontier For The Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia
"I do hope that the American LGBTQIA+ community rises up to demand this."
Will Biden Boycott the Olympics?
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Robert Spencer: "This is great to see. It demonstrates that corporations that continue to appease the hard Left and feel free to outrage the sensibilities of patriots in doing so can be made to suffer for it. . . The crowning irony in all this is that these people are unlikely to be big beer drinkers at all. But if our good luck holds, they’ll be the last drinkers of Bud Light."
Wokeness Kills: Bud Light Sales Nosedive Continues, and Now Other Anheuser-Busch Brands Are Suffering, Too
"Actress Marcia Gay Harden’s proud proclamation at a drag telethon reveals the rot at the root of our culture."
"My Children Are All Queer"
"The Chosen is crushing the Hollywood model of wokesterly correctness, demon-glorification, and social degeneration as fare the audience somehow wants to pay money for."
The Runaway Success of The Chosen is Starting to Make Heads Spin in Hollywood (the power of Christ compels them! - jjs)
Christian Toto: "Oscar winner says mistakes were made, allowed extreme pro-Democrat bias."
Natalie Portman Ignores Her Part in Time’s Up’s Collapse
Robert Zimmerman: "What matters is that we are all human beings struggling hard to do right for ourselves and for others. That one group finds their way to moral action through their religion should not matter to the secular, ever. What should matter is that both are working to do right, together."
Hiking in a Most Unusual Way, for Ohers
HITHER & YON
"[Dolph] Lundgren was first diagnosed in 2015 and underwent successful treatment. His lung cancer returned in 2020 and at that point, he was told it was terminal. The actor said his lungs, kidneys, and spine all had tumors." (Godspeed - jjs)
Famous Actor Reveals Devastating Lung Cancer Diagnosis

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 07:39 AM (BRHaw)

2 Yonder Horde.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2023 07:40 AM (Q4IgG)

3 I called the others

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 07:40 AM (BRHaw)

4 Good morning, Horde! Happy Thursday.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 11, 2023 07:41 AM (4olE8)

5 Thank you

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 11, 2023 07:41 AM (1n+EO)

6 Joe Biden has said he travelled to the island of Ireland to make "sure the Brits didn't screw around" and "walk away" from their commitments in the Good Friday Agreement.

His latest criticism of Britain was made during a fund-raising speech in New York at a Democratic National Committee reception on Wednesday night.
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Can you believe this fucking guy? Maybe he should visit Brownsville and think a little bit more of how he's "screwing around" with America. Or maybe he should stop provoking war in Ukraine. Or maybe...

What a douchbag.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 07:41 AM (OX2CO)

7 Good morning, JJ. Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 11, 2023 07:41 AM (53oGX)

8 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2023 07:41 AM (stS4v)

9 morning horde. happy friday eve...

and i survived the 5 boro bike ride in NYC over the weekend. was interesting but i'm still sore. but sunday was nice, so it was different.

now it's time to catch up on work and covfefe, but mostly content.

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 11, 2023 07:43 AM (nXhwP)

10 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2023 07:43 AM (T4tVD)

11 From CNN:

"8 takeaways from Trump's CNN town hall in New Hampshire"

1. Trump is a meanie
2. Trump is a liar
3. Trump is a racist
4. Trump is a Russian stooge
5. Trump is a rapist
6. Trump is an insurrectionist
7. Trump is a climate denier
8. Trump is worse than Hitler

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2023 07:44 AM (iayUP)

12 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2023 07:44 AM (T4tVD)

13 Boker Tov Patriots

Have the participants at the so called southern border started their engines yet?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2023 07:44 AM (pVWRI)

14 The impending stampede at the border pretty well destroys what’s left of the idea of a United States of America.

On the other hand, this is an enormous opportunity for the states to reassert their sovereignty and to begin to pull away from the corpse of the $30 trillion beast.

Posted by: ExGOP 100% Faux Nooz free at May 11, 2023 07:44 AM (289ZB)

15 9. Trump is great for ratings.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 11, 2023 07:46 AM (DhOHl)

16 MFM spin for the day:

Former U.S. President Donald Trump digs in on election lies during tense CNN town hall.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 07:46 AM (Vwz3I)

17 Dolph Lundgren has been fighting lung cancer? News to me, but then I just learned he has a graduate degree in Chemical Engineering. Best of luck fighting the horrible disease, Dolph.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 07:47 AM (1UEDr)

18 What a douchbag.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 07:41 AM (OX2CO)

Ireland: (silence)

Great Britain: (silence)

Biden: "Hey, you limey bastards looking for a fight? I bet these drunk asshole Micks would oblige!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 07:48 AM (9UlRk)

19 "Setting the stage for a constitutional crisis." Don't make me fucking laugh. I hate to be the bearer of bad news here but the Constitution is dead.

Like the news the MSM covers

with a pillow

until DEAD

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 07:48 AM (BRHaw)

20
This massive cowardice and simple unfairness of ending Trump's Town Hall early is kind of astonishing.

It flushes any credibility they could've gained straight down the toilet.

I think Tucker Carlson wins here. With his plan to host a fair, wide open candidate debate.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 11, 2023 07:49 AM (RJQ8g)

21 Don't forget chagas and tuberculosis.

Now, where's my boarding pike and cutlass?

Posted by: Boarders Without Borders at May 11, 2023 07:50 AM (aBc/f)

22 I've been so purposely checked out that I had no idea about the coronation and the invasion in the South. Lmao
Now it's looking like the End Times... and I'm here for it all. No brakes on this train.

Posted by: Out of the Loop at May 11, 2023 07:50 AM (ilM1x)

23 Can't believe CNN thought it would be a good idea to puss out.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 07:50 AM (9UlRk)

24 the $30 trillion beast.
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Guess what TV show theme music is running through my head, including a voiceover?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)

25 G'morning, y'all

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 07:51 AM (O4oKn)

26 Guess what TV show theme music is running through my head, including a voiceover?
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 07:51 AM (Vwz3I)

Manimal?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 07:52 AM (9UlRk)

27 This is the day America's fate is sealed. The invasion destroys even the pretence of Constitutional order.

You will eat the bugs.

Tu come insectas.

Posted by: Minuteman at May 11, 2023 07:52 AM (LaNzR)

28 Collins, an argumentative twat.

Posted by: Redenzo at May 11, 2023 07:53 AM (V/pbu)

29 I watched CNN last night for the first time since Bernie Shaw reported from Baghdad. Trump was great; as JJ noted, he made a lot of good points. To me it was obvious that the audience there has real affection for him. Of course, Kaitlin Collins was nasty… another thing Trump got right. She constantly interrupted and asserted (without evidence) that he’d just made an incorrect statement (annoying). IMO, Trump’s weakest moment was when asked about Dobbs… he talked about negotiating now from a position of strength while I think he should’ve emphasized it’s now a state issue and use the democratic process. Trump is still Trump…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 11, 2023 07:53 AM (lRx88)

30 Our law and order ham and riggers really are about to play failure theatre on the border and escort them all in, aren't they?

Posted by: Out of the Loop at May 11, 2023 07:53 AM (ilM1x)

31 I watched a few clips of Trump's CNN appearance. This is what struck me; Kaitlan Collins is a little bitch.

More to the point, some (mostly media types) have become increasingly belligerent towards people (conservatives) they disagree with. It's also becoming more prevalent in society in general. Belligerent enough to warrant a good smack down with a tire iron.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2023 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

32 Frankly, from what I could tell, they didn't seed the audience with Media Matters-approved stooges
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Why not? Incompetence, or there is something else afoot - like whatever faction supports CNN wants Trump on the ballot?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 07:53 AM (O4oKn)

33 Now, where's my boarding pike and cutlass?
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It's just good for one use, basically, but let me get my duck's foot pistol!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 07:54 AM (Vwz3I)

34 Why not? Incompetence, or there is something else afoot - like whatever faction supports CNN wants Trump on the ballot?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 07:53 AM (O4oKn)

They're basically 1-1 in stealing elections from him. Not a bad average.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 07:54 AM (9UlRk)

35 Fox News is following the path blazed by Transhueser Busch, into the toilet. Disney is cutting prices in Orlando, hoping for more visitors. I hope one of these woke corporations (or all of them!) end up failing, because the money grubbers who run them might finally take notice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 07:54 AM (aPAoo)

36 I couldn't bring myself to watch the debate, because 1- I have blocked CNN from my guide, and 2- I assumed it would be a Taliban-esque ambush that would have me kicking in my screen. But after seeing a bunch of clips, I wish I'd watched the whole thing. It looked like a masterclass performance. I'm not an all-in-on-Trump guy, but have to give credit where it's due.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at May 11, 2023 07:55 AM (Gu48G)

37 Manimal?
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Correct!

Why ever did they cancel it so quickly?!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085051/

Now I'm LMAO -- I seem to recall a ton of jokes about it on Carson!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 07:56 AM (Vwz3I)

38 Without fully comprehending the terrific forces it is unleashing, the Biden [junta] has set in motion the scramble of literally millions of economic migrants around the planet
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I think this is true. I strongly suspect that the junta expected the orderly, moderate-volume flow of slaves to resume, controlled by the same forces that have controlled it for decades: the cartels to the south and the NGOs to the north, with the government agencies expediting paperwork and greasing the wheels at the transition.

What they appear to be getting is a disorderly, high-volume flow with vast numbers of people who are not controlled by the trafficking structures that have developed on both sides of the transaction. More than being unable to control the flow, the trafficking complex is likely being overwhelmed.

I don't think they expected - or wanted - that. I think this is why the administration rushed through a renewal of the first-country amnesty rules they've spent a couple of years decrying, and why the Mexican army is being dragged into it. This isn't the slave trade they expected, it's a chaotic invasion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 07:57 AM (O4oKn)

39 I guess I'm having trouble reconciling these two seemingly contradictory notions.

1) Biden's DHS is ignoring and not enforcing Title 42

2) the expiration of Tittle 42 will result in a larger flood of immigrants than we already have.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 07:57 AM (ykeLU)

40 Only a sad, sad person would get their news from MTV.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 07:57 AM (S6gqv)

41 People still have cable?

Posted by: Wait, wut? at May 11, 2023 07:58 AM (DhOHl)

42 Today is National Twilight Zone Day! 😵‍💫

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 07:59 AM (NpAcC)

43 I wonder if there wasn't some dude going around to high end stores in New Yawk City back in the 80's and 90's pretending to be Donald Trump and having his way with the uptight and frigid rich wimmens he would run into in the fitting rooms during his adventures and giving them the orgasms they needed and craved.

Sounds like Hollyweird needs to do a movie.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 11, 2023 07:59 AM (MZjWj)

44 Meme:
https://patriots.win/p/16b6DbAsrf/just-do-it-already/c/

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 07:59 AM (3byMq)

45 @31

>>I watched a few clips of Trump's CNN appearance. This is what struck me; Kaitlan Collins is a little bitch.

If you want to see little bitches, read the National Review article about last nights Town Hall, better yet read the comments, they're so overwrought and stupid, it beggars the imagination.

If Buckley were alive today, he'd sock the people running the joint and they'd stay plastered.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2023 07:59 AM (up/3i)

46 Only a sad, sad person would get their news from MTV.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 07:57 AM (S6gqv)

MTV is still alive?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 11, 2023 08:00 AM (45fpk)

47 I watched the town hall via Tim Pool's stream. My opinion is that Trump acquitted himself well, and that his 'host' was actually debating him and trying to cut him off at every turn.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 11, 2023 08:00 AM (lTGtQ)

48 Few young and ambitious people remain to sacrifice themselves in building these countries when the gringos are offering jobs and financial subsidies with practically no cultural or linguistic assimilation required.
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Oh, that's the least of it now. Latin America's best and brightest are already here. Not to mention, the high-quality people who jumped the border *did* learn the language and tried to go through the process to achieve legitimacy. This is yesterday's argument.

Why aren't the source countries objecting to this and interrupting it themselves? If it was truly their best and brightest fleeing en masse, they would make *some* attempt to interrupt it even if unsuccessfully. They are not. To the contrary, they are greasing the wheels for the exodus. That doesn't fit.

It does fit, though, if the people going el norte are *not* the best and brightest, but the dregs - the violent criminals, the drug runners, the incompetent, etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:01 AM (O4oKn)

49 31 I watched a few clips of Trump's CNN appearance. This is what struck me; Kaitlan Collins is a little bitch.

too kind

cunt comes to mind

a nasty cunt

Posted by: REDACTED at May 11, 2023 08:01 AM (us2H3)

50 Population replacement. Remember: it's not a conspiracy theory when you have the conspiracy and the conspirators actively conspiring right in front of you.
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Not to mention bluntly admitting it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:01 AM (O4oKn)

51 @40

>> the expiration of Tittle 42 will result in a larger flood of immigrants than we already have.

At this point, the only way to focus peoples minds and anger at the situation is for the river of immigrants we are getting to become a deluge, like a million a month deluge.

Which we may be getting very shortly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2023 08:01 AM (up/3i)

52 Sounds like Hollyweird needs to do a movie.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 11, 2023 07:59 AM (MZjWj)

This summer... for one man... everything is coming up Trumps...

In....

"Pinochle"

(Rated R.... for Arrrrr-ange)

Posted by: Voice Over Guy at May 11, 2023 08:01 AM (9UlRk)

53 It's also,
Eat What You Want Day. 🍕🍩

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:02 AM (NpAcC)

54 Benj Steinman of Beer Marketer's Insights said, "Anecdotally we are hearing that sales of Bud Light are declining more rapidly at bars and restaurants where some consumers don't want to be seen drinking it or they are getting into arguments over the brand." Of course. Ordering a Bud Light today involves making a political statement. It's tantamount to saying, "I'm a far-Left lunatic who believes that men can become women," or at very least, "I'm a passive bot who allows the Leftist establishment to form my opinions and tell me what I can and cannot think."
======================
This puts the argument in exactly the right context, which is that supporting Bidweiser brands is now a political act. No one wanted this, except AB InBev and now they are reaping the whirlwind.

Wallet voting against the WEF and woke bullshit is a delight to see. Keep it going!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:02 AM (q5Sxq)

55 "Raymond Ibrahim: "There can be only one answer to this question, but it's the unpopular answer."
Is Any "One Culture Superior to Others?"

The answer is also profoundly unpopular:

Yes, The Christianity that came out of the Reformation. There are all kinds of variants of Christianity, but the original model, based on the Doctrines of Grace is the one culture that literally transcends all others as being "superior".

Not out of arrogance, but of humility, because the ONLY way one can even participate materially in that culture is to be of the Elect - where the Paraclete miraculously renews the carnal mind and spirit and regenerates it into one that is no longer in enmity with God.

There is no culture that has a system of redemption, sanctification and perfection empowered by righteous spiritual means. Its either Imago Dei, or Life Unworthy of Life. From that basic distinction flows all of the manifestations of a functional vs dysfunctional culture.

Sadly the Pope is not of the Elect, he is estranged from God and has no ability or language to comprehend that which he feels a need to make an opinion.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:03 AM (YXHzG)

56 Maybe I should get my imagination beggared. *Checks sock drawer.*

Posted by: Not really at May 11, 2023 08:03 AM (DhOHl)

57 "Today is National Twilight Zone Day!
Posted by: redridinghood"

*looks out window to see if there is something on the wing*

Posted by: fd at May 11, 2023 08:03 AM (iayUP)

58 The crowning irony in all this is that these people are unlikely to be big beer drinkers at all. But if our good luck holds, they’ll be the last drinkers of Bud Light."

I'm happy to hear this, but I'm still in a 'wait and see' mindset. I'm still waiting for the inevitable fold.

And I don't know where Bud Light is being boycotted, but I can tell you it's doing fine here in my little corner of northeast MA.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 11, 2023 08:03 AM (AW0uW)

59 Biden is the worst President we have had since FDR.

Posted by: vic at May 11, 2023 08:03 AM (mMi2k)

60 Wray is now moving beyond the passive-aggressive phase. By defying a legitimate Oversight Committee subpoena, he seems to be actively participating in an FBI coverup. But all the slow-walking and slow-talking won’t prevent the facts from getting out. There are still honorable men and women in the FBI.
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Wray - and his boss - know that there is nothing Congress will do in retribution. They *could* zero the DoJ budget and go fishing (as TJM puts it), but they won't. Wray and Garland know it. They *could* impeach Garland, but they won't and Garland knows it. They can act with impunity and so are doing so. They're confident in their own security and in their own power to enforce their will even without a patina of legitimacy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:04 AM (O4oKn)

61 Good morning Vietnam

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 11, 2023 08:05 AM (CecP5)

62 As J.J. will tell you, just like the Geneva man, pinochle's a rough game.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:05 AM (Vwz3I)

63 35 Fox News is following the path blazed by Transhueser Busch, into the toilet. Disney is cutting prices in Orlando, hoping for more visitors. I hope one of these woke corporations (or all of them!) end up failing, because the money grubbers who run them might finally take notice.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 07:54 AM (aPAoo)

Disney had a terrible earnings call yesterday with the parks the only bright spot. Keep up the heat on Disney. Don't buy their movie tickets. Don't buy their merchandise crap. Both will destroy them without ever having to lift a finger on your part...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2023 08:05 AM (exHjb)

64 And even if there are stalwarts and patriots remaining in DC and other political halls of power around the country, they are effectively outnumbered by scum, traitors and tyrants in Congress, the courts and most crucially the Administrative state, i.e. the Deep State.
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I don't think there are. Is there even a single good man in the employ of the federal government? Maybe. The numbers are so vast that it strikes me as unlikely that the number is zero. But that tiny rounding error of good men ain't in Washington. Maybe in a field office somewhere in South Dakota. Maybe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:05 AM (O4oKn)

65 FBI Misses Deadline to Turn Over Document About Alleged Joe Biden ‘Bribery Scheme’

IGNORES

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

66 Wray - and his boss - know that there is nothing Congress will do in retribution. They *could* zero the DoJ budget and go fishing (as TJM puts it), but they won't. Wray and Garland know it. They *could* impeach Garland, but they won't and Garland knows it. They can act with impunity and so are doing so. They're confident in their own security and in their own power to enforce their will even without a patina of legitimacy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:04 AM (O4oKn)

Rules don't apply to democrats or Comrade Stalin

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2023 08:05 AM (pVWRI)

67 Rules don't apply to democrats or Comrade Stalin
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2023 08:05 AM (pVWRI)
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Right. The only rules are those they create on the spot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:06 AM (O4oKn)

68 She was raised in Alabama, wikipedia tells us, which surprises me. I wonder if Kaitlin Collins parents are proud of her, being such a witless, nasty piece of work.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:06 AM (q5Sxq)

69 MTV is still alive?
Posted by: grammie winger

Most interesting show is Ridiculousness. The current ow, my balls show.

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:06 AM (3byMq)

70 Support the Constitution or abandon it.

Posted by: Clear-eyed Killer at May 11, 2023 08:06 AM (5mIZs)

71 59 The crowning irony in all this is that these people are unlikely to be big beer drinkers at all. But if our good luck holds, they’ll be the last drinkers of Bud Light."

I'm happy to hear this, but I'm still in a 'wait and see' mindset. I'm still waiting for the inevitable fold.

And I don't know where Bud Light is being boycotted, but I can tell you it's doing fine here in my little corner of northeast MA.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 11, 2023 08:03 AM (AW0uW)

The entire rest of the country probably has the boycott going looking at the numbers...and I guess we know the one place still holding the sales up - deep blue New England...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2023 08:07 AM (exHjb)

72 This puts the argument in exactly the right context, which is that supporting Bidweiser brands is now a political act. No one wanted this, except AB InBev and now they are reaping the whirlwind.

For some it may be. I suspect that there is a cohort that has taken particular offense by the company leadership and spokesperps who trash their customers by speaking down to them and considering them "too fratty".

But the vast majority are probably leaving Bud Light because of peer pressure. One guy in the group tells his version of what Bud Light means today, and since there is a myriad of other similar brands, the group around him falls into line so he isn't outgrouped.

Social Media 101

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:08 AM (YXHzG)

73 It does fit, though, if the people going el norte are *not* the best and brightest, but the dregs - the violent criminals, the drug runners, the incompetent, etc.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:01 AM (O4oKn)
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Or it's politically expedient to exile the undesirable elements instead of executing them. Execute too many people and they start getting ideas of revolution. Exile them and people shrug their shoulders and say, "Good riddance to bad rubbish." Keeps the dictators in power and a steady flow of grift from remittances.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 11, 2023 08:08 AM (YIVH2)

74 It does fit, though, if the people going el norte are *not* the best and brightest, but the dregs - the violent criminals, the drug runners, the incompetent, etc.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:01 AM (O4oKn)

It also fits when you consider that the places they are coming from are almost all Failed States, especially Mexico. The respective "governments" in those places are simply clerking operations for the Cartels - with the exception of Venezuela, which is now openly and proudly owned by a massive crime syndicate, lock stock and barrel. Of course that's why Biden enjoys "working" with them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:08 AM (S6gqv)

75 31 I watched a few clips of Trump's CNN appearance. This is what struck me; Kaitlan Collins is a little bitch.

Quintessential AWFL. of which there are a great many.

Posted by: ExGOP 100% Faux Nooz free at May 11, 2023 08:08 AM (289ZB)

76
For some it may be. I suspect that there is a cohort that has taken particular offense by the company leadership and spokesperps who trash their customers by speaking down to them and considering them "too fratty".

But the vast majority are probably leaving Bud Light because of peer pressure. One guy in the group tells his version of what Bud Light means today, and since there is a myriad of other similar brands, the group around him falls into line so he isn't outgrouped.

Social Media 101
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:08 AM (YXHzG)

Aka, guys acting like they claim only women do. Peer pressure works for both sides of the gender spectrum

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2023 08:08 AM (exHjb)

77 MSNBC has the sadz this MorningJoe. Big mad on the Big Lie.

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:09 AM (3byMq)

78 Byron Donalds would make a great president some day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

79 She was raised in Alabama, wikipedia tells us, which surprises me. I wonder if Kaitlin Collins parents are proud of her, being such a witless, nasty piece of work.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:06 AM (q5Sxq)

At the Univ Of Alabama she tweeted she did not want to room with a Fag. LOL
So I guess, at least, she likes the old Sausegech and not pussy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 11, 2023 08:09 AM (pVWRI)

80 A large majority of Bud Lite drinkers will be lost forever. Bud Lite wasn't a beer, but a promotion. Once somebody makes the switch to another brand, they'll find it as good if not better, and in a lot of instances, cheaper. My neighbor, a big fan of Busch Light, tried some Keystone (Coors B team) and he said it's good enough and $5 a case cheaper.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 11, 2023 08:09 AM (lz5hY)

81 This puts the argument in exactly the right context, which is that supporting Bidweiser brands is now a political act. No one wanted this, except AB InBev and now they are reaping the whirlwind.

Wallet voting against the WEF and woke bullshit is a delight to see. Keep it going!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:02 AM (q5Sxq)

This is exactly correct.

AB InBev wanted drinking Bud Light to become de facto political support of Trannie madness.

Every time you hoisted a can of their weak, dead-cat squeezings with Doofus Muleshoe on the can you'd be advertising support for insane genital mutilation whether you believed in it or not.

They thought your love for their cans of cold, frothy, PortaPotty effluent would overwhelm your personal beliefs.

They were wrong.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 11, 2023 08:09 AM (RJQ8g)

82 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

83 Trump ought to be looking at the entire Federal prison system.

Posted by: torabora at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (OUiUM)

84
But after seeing a bunch of clips, I wish I'd watched the whole thing. It looked like a masterclass performance. I'm not an all-in-on-Trump guy, but have to give credit where it's due.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at May 11, 2023 07:55 AM

I just watched a few clips myself, and was glad to see Trump stay far away from the abortion question. He did well on the other stuff, too.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (enJYY)

85 The entire rest of the country probably has the boycott going looking at the numbers...and I guess we know the one place still holding the sales up - deep blue New England...
Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2023 08:07 AM (exHjb)
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I think it's entertaining that the New Englanders are basically forcing themselves to drink bad beer just to show up the red staters...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (YIVH2)

86 The only thing I want to see about the Trump Town Hall on CNN is how bad CNN clobbered Fox in the ratings.

That will be funny to see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

87 Huntsville. With an H.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (9UlRk)

88 Saw a map the other day... apparently the boycott on Bud Light sales' impact is at its lowest in New England and California, where it's only around a 14% drop. Everywhere else it ranges from serious to Biblical.

Posted by: American Hawkman at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (skAOD)

89 MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS all did not cover the Republican press conference yesterday.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

90 And even if there are stalwarts and patriots remaining in DC and other political halls of power around the country, they are effectively outnumbered by scum, traitors and tyrants in Congress, the courts and most crucially the Administrative state, i.e. the Deep State.

That is like saying there is a chaste prostitute in a whorehouse.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:11 AM (YXHzG)

91 Outtake:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 10h
COLLINS: "Why did it take you 3 hours to tell [Jan. 6 rioters] to go home?"

TRUMP: "I don't believe it did. *checks notes* On January 5th, the day before, I said 'Please support our Capitol police and law enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful.'"

https://tinyurl.com/34u25huc
1:50 minutes

"Let me pull it out..." Blazing Saddles fan!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:12 AM (Vwz3I)

92 Scarborough is so distraught he's only managed to get together a collared shirt and fleece sweater not his usual debonaire beavis.

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:13 AM (3byMq)

93 OH, and in other news, we're screwed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

94
TRUMP: "I don't believe it did. *checks notes* On January 5th, the day before, I said 'Please support our Capitol police and law enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful.'"

ARE YOU CALLING LIZ CHENEY A LIAR!!???

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

95
"Let me pull it out..." Blazing Saddles fan!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:12 AM (Vwz3I)

The correct phrase is "'scuse me while I whip this out'."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:14 AM (Zz0t1)

96 I wasn't a bit surprised that Trump did great last night and easily handled the lightweight Kaitlan Collins. People have been underestimating him for years forgetting he has been in the public eye since he was in his 20s in the toughest media market in the world.

The funniest thing I heard was that Jean Carroll has a cat named Vagina. I thought Trump was joking, he wasn't. These people continue to clown themselves.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 08:14 AM (ZLI7S)

97 I think it's entertaining that the New Englanders are basically forcing themselves to drink bad beer just to show up the red staters...

So in the collectable six pack, they can have the tranny's image, the Trump's severed head can, the aborted fetus can, the Palestinian solidarity can, BLM can and the "Caution immigrant crossing" sign can.

Why not? Its already politically tribal now.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:14 AM (YXHzG)

98 @89

>>MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS all did not cover the Republican press conference yesterday.

Well that's because there were bigger stories than the current President of the United States running a racketeering operation and selling out America for going on 5 decades, some junior level level congressman misappropriated 600 dollars and said he graduated from college when in fact he did not graduate from college.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2023 08:15 AM (up/3i)

99 89 MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS all did not cover the Republican press conference yesterday.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

I doubt the farcical House repubs will realize this, but that is why Twitter is becoming so important; it is why Tucker is moving all of his operations there. All of the traditional media gatekeepers are now firmly in Leftist hands, and they are using that power to openly censor any information they don't like.

Any person or group who wishes to be effective needs to plot a course which acknowledges that those outlets have to not only be ignored, but completely bypassed. This is what Tucker is now doing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:15 AM (S6gqv)

100 Is instructive to notice how both Biden and Trump know exactly what they are going to be asked, but by two very different mechanisms.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:15 AM (9UlRk)

101 "Today is National Twilight Zone Day!
Posted by: redridinghood"

One of my favorites is the one with the mountain woman (Agnes Moorehead ) is her shack and and a little spaceship shows up. The ending is brilliant.

Posted by: dantesed at May 11, 2023 08:15 AM (88xKn)

102 Another set of brief outtakes on a variety of subjects [Ukraine; J6; nasty person]:

https://tinyurl.com/45nmcbzw

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:16 AM (Vwz3I)

103 "Let me pull it out..." Blazing Saddles fan!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:12 AM (Vwz3I)

The correct phrase is "'scuse me while I whip this out'."

The punishment for misquoting must be a Bud Light while in the Barrel

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:16 AM (YXHzG)

104 88 Saw a map the other day... apparently the boycott on Bud Light sales' impact is at its lowest in New England and California, where it's only around a 14% drop. Everywhere else it ranges from serious to Biblical.
Posted by: American Hawkman at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (skAOD)

For many reasons, I no longer have any wish to be part of any country which has those two regions as a part of it. I'll happily be in a successor state which has jettisoned them for good.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:18 AM (S6gqv)

105 If they had FBI agents posing as staffers for George Santos, how man other Republicans in Congress unknowingly have FBI agents on their staff?

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

106 > The funniest thing I heard was that Jean Carroll has a cat named Vagina. I thought Trump was joking, he wasn't. These people continue to clown themselves.
Posted by: JackStraw
___________

I call our male cat "Dickhead" Cuz he is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2023 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

107 I might vote for Trump, if he promises to pardon all the Jan6 victims and send them home with the thanks of a grateful nation. Not for following the glowies commands and rioting (that was stupid), but for being victims of persecution by the fascist left and demonstrating for America the terrible dangers of the combining the powers of Propaganda Press with the Garlandite left.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:19 AM (MXCid)

108 My three favs (to be confused with those I remember)

1) pig doctors and nurses helping the disfigured
2) old man and his doggo choose the right gateway
3) Kirk loses his mind with the Americanized fortune cookie machine in the diner

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:19 AM (3byMq)

109 how man other Republicans in Congress unknowingly have FBI agents on their staff?
Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

That orr Santos himself is a three letter and it's all a stupid farce to keep the rabble roused.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:19 AM (9UlRk)

110 Is instructive to notice how both Biden and Trump know exactly what they are going to be asked, but by two very different mechanisms.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:15 AM (9UlRk)

Biden, helpful. Trump, hostile.

Posted by: JmT at May 11, 2023 08:20 AM (M1RIk)

111 Saw a map the other day... apparently the boycott on Bud Light sales' impact is at its lowest in New England and California, where it's only around a 14% drop. Everywhere else it ranges from serious to Biblical.
Posted by: American Hawkman at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (skAOD)

I'm not surprised.

**sighs** Someday I would like to move to America.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 11, 2023 08:20 AM (AW0uW)

112 Progressives Just Admitted They Were Wrong on Phonics
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Took them long enough. This is a fight that began when I was in diapers, and England had just gotten a new queen.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 11, 2023 08:20 AM (TgBWG)

113 90 And even if there are stalwarts and patriots remaining in DC and other political halls of power around the country, they are effectively outnumbered by scum, traitors and tyrants in Congress, the courts and most crucially the Administrative state, i.e. the Deep State.

That is like saying there is a chaste prostitute in a whorehouse.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:11 AM (YXHzG)

Seriously, it's a handful of people who I truly think are indeed honest. Or look at it this way; at least as honest as Donald Trump was.

And he was arguably, for all his faults and prior baggage, probably if not most honest then least corrupt person by far to hold elected national office.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:20 AM (x0n13)

114
And he was arguably, for all his faults and prior baggage, probably if not most honest then least corrupt person by far to hold elected national office.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:20 AM (x0n13)

And who'd a thunk it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

115 @105

>>If they had FBI agents posing as staffers for George Santos, how man other Republicans in Congress unknowingly have FBI agents on their staff?

Pretty much all of them.

When you get to congress, unless you have your own staff that you insist on using, your "people" are assigned to you.

Even then, there are staffers that are assigned to you to "work" with your staffers.

That's pretty much how the Deep State/Uniparty maintain control.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2023 08:21 AM (up/3i)

116 I will lay this bet:

The border invasion will flip Hispanics from D to R.

Why?

Because these that are coming, this flood? They are not going to settle in the English-speaking communities. They're going where their language is spoken.
Competing with them for housing, jobs, schools, food..
Blacks are 41 million. Hispanics are 62 million.
Without 70-80% of the Hispanic vote, Democrats don't have a big enough pool to hide the fraud.

The loudest voices for sending them back will be shouting "Envíalos de vuelta!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 11, 2023 08:21 AM (nR2PK)

117 Tucker claimed (some time back) a Republican House Intel Committee member told him all his communications were compromised by NSA, which I believe. The Deep State haz skillz.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:21 AM (MXCid)

118 Good morning all. JJ Thanks for a robust morning report!

Posted by: Moki at May 11, 2023 08:22 AM (JrN/x)

119 PJMedia and Instapundit are jokes. I gave up on them over a year ago and have not been back since. The all in on the Ukraine Russian War preferred narrative was the last straw.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 11, 2023 08:22 AM (GNPj+)

120 If they had FBI agents posing as staffers for George Santos, how man other Republicans in Congress unknowingly have FBI agents on their staff?
Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:18 AM (NpAcC)
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ALL OF THEM.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 11, 2023 08:22 AM (YIVH2)

121 One of my favorites is the one with the mountain woman (Agnes Moorehead ) is her shack and and a little spaceship shows up. The ending is brilliant.
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Sorry. Ain't no dogs allowed in Heaven.

[Another favourite; and Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery; the U.S. Civil War dead going home etc.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:22 AM (Vwz3I)

122 ARE YOU CALLING LIZ CHENEY A LIAR!!???
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)
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Usually, yeah.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:23 AM (O4oKn)

123 @117

>>Tucker claimed (some time back) a Republican House Intel Committee member told him all his communications were compromised by NSA, which I believe. The Deep State haz skillz.

The NSA hoovers up all communications, and the LE/IC community has been spying on the house and senate since their inception.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2023 08:23 AM (up/3i)

124 The correct phrase is "'scuse me while I whip this out'."
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It was a homage!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:23 AM (Vwz3I)

125 109 I like that. Just call them three letters. They're all armed up with arrest authority. Door bursts open, men in tactical gear with MP5s rush in. "Bureau of Engraving, up against the wall".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 11, 2023 08:23 AM (lz5hY)

126 I checked the NYT home page again today. Santos is there. They fact-checked Trump's lies from last night. Nothing on Biden family corruption. Not even at the bottom of virtual page 22.

All the news that fits, indeed.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 08:24 AM (RqMSv)

127 Why aren't the source countries objecting to this and interrupting it themselves? If it was truly their best and brightest fleeing en masse, they would make *some* attempt to interrupt it even if unsuccessfully.

Remittances.

Why have the most brilliant scientists, most skilled craftsmen and the most honest administrators when there is no capital investment or opportunity? Allow them to go to where the work is and voluntarily send money home to the family.

I know a number of guys who work in the US, send it home, return to their own country to build their homes, repeat as often as necessary.

Cost of living is cheap there, they can afford to retire long before the gringos even get vested in a company's retirement plan.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:24 AM (YXHzG)

128 Sorry. Ain't no dogs allowed in Heaven.

[Another favourite; and Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery; the U.S. Civil War dead going home etc.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:22 AM (Vwz3I)

But we know where goats go.......

https://youtu.be/eYxs4esLI_E

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

129 The loudest voices for sending them back will be shouting "Envíalos de vuelta!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 11, 2023 08:21 AM (nR2PK)

So your theory is that the existing invaders will resist the new invaders. Yeah, that will work out well for us either way. Really, this fascination on the Right for someone else to fight their battles is telling.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 11, 2023 08:24 AM (GNPj+)

130 And who'd a thunk it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)
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It surprised the hell out of me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:24 AM (O4oKn)

131 88 Saw a map the other day... apparently the boycott on Bud Light sales' impact is at its lowest in New England and California, where it's only around a 14% drop. Everywhere else it ranges from serious to Biblical.
Posted by: American Hawkman at May 11, 2023 08:10 AM (skAOD

On the flip side I can't imagine Bud Light sales were all that great in New England to start with. These parts people are pretty much all into local craft beers, the more local the better. Must be a few dive bars here and there where it is sold, but I don't believe there are all that many.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at May 11, 2023 08:24 AM (NxOLn)

132 -----------
It was a homage!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:23 AM (Vwz3I)

I will allow you being Canadian as an excuse....for now.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

133 MSNBC is thinking that THE Big Lie talking points need to be dusted off and repeatedly repeated until forever as the people shant be hearing what Drumpf clings to...

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:25 AM (3byMq)

134 Leprosy. You forgot Leprosy.

Not to worry, I'm sure Pfizer has another mRNA experimental gene therapy injection designed specifically to stop Leprosy from infecting or spreading among Americans.

If it doesn't work, like the Covid jabs didn't work, well, we simply *must* "Follow The Science."

Posted by: Ju at May 11, 2023 08:25 AM (aTmM/)

135 There's at least one person on every congress person's staff, SCOTUS, and on every cabinet member's staff that is on the FBI, CIA or NSA's payroll.

They're called "minders."

It's not a new concept.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2023 08:25 AM (Q4IgG)

136 2024 is a choice:

Rapid decline
Slightly less rapid decline.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (pFsle)

137 "Three letter" certainly isn't my coinage, but it does work perfectly. It doesn't matter which agency, they're all the same, they all operate the same, they all have the same goals and the same toolkits. Who cares which three letters are on your flak jacket when you're killing the bad guys, right?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (9UlRk)

138 Thank you, JJ. And Happy Birthday.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (4I/2K)

139 The Runaway Success of The Chosen is Starting to Make Heads Spin in Hollywood
_______

Naive. The evidence was already out there (e.g., Gibson's Passion). Hollywood is too far gone to take it in.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (TgBWG)

140 Remittances.

Why have the most brilliant scientists, most skilled craftsmen and the most honest administrators when there is no capital investment or opportunity? Allow them to go to where the work is and voluntarily send money home to the family.

I know a number of guys who work in the US, send it home, return to their own country to build their homes, repeat as often as necessary.

Cost of living is cheap there, they can afford to retire long before the gringos even get vested in a company's retirement plan.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:24 AM (YXHzG)
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Those guys are relatively rare given the numbers flooding over. Most of the flood are much lower-quality people. And those remittances - and yeah, they're the grease that keeps the wheel turning - ain't going "back home to the family." It's going back home to the cartel, to pay off the transportation to this country. After that, most of it probably does go to the family. Until the indenture is paid off, though, the family is a hostage.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (O4oKn)

141 **sighs** Someday I would like to move to America.
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I like to be in America
Okay by me in America
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America
Buying on credit is so nice
One look at us and they charge twice
I have my own washing machine
What will you have not to keep clean
Skyscrapers bloom in America
Cadillacs zoom in America
Industry boom in America
Twelve in a room in America
Lots of new housing with more space
Lots of doors slamming in our face

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:27 AM (Vwz3I)

142 One of my favorites is the one with the mountain woman (Agnes Moorehead ) is her shack and and a little spaceship shows up. The ending is brilliant.
Posted by: dantesed at May 11, 2023 08:15 AM (88xKn)
*******
Yeah, that was a good one.
Another couple favorites- Eye of the Beholder and To Serve Man

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

143 2024 is a choice:

Rapid decline
Slightly less rapid decline.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (pFsle)

Nah, it is the Uniparty dictating the decline. No one unapproved will win except a few outliers.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 11, 2023 08:27 AM (GNPj+)

144 Three letter" certainly isn't my coinage, but it does work perfectly. It doesn't matter which agency, they're all the same, they all operate the same, they all have the same goals and the same toolkits. Who cares which three letters are on your flak jacket when you're killing the bad guys, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (9UlRk)
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It wouldn't surprise me if this is why the ATF rebranded to BATFE. Five letters. It ain't a "TLA" (Three Letter Agency) anymore!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:27 AM (O4oKn)

145 ++++
Those guys are relatively rare given the numbers flooding over. Most of the flood are much lower-quality people. And those remittances - and yeah, they're the grease that keeps the wheel turning - ain't going "back home to the family." It's going back home to the cartel, to pay off the transportation to this country. After that, most of it probably does go to the family. Until the indenture is paid off, though, the family is a hostage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (O4oKn)

Mexico gets billions from it's "former residents" every year. It's a significant portion of it's economy. The other countries now demand their 'fair share.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

146 The San Fran Supervisor who doesn't want security guards to be allowed to protect property - San Fran and the other deep blue cities are finding out the hard way that if you don't protect property, soon you'll have no property worth protecting left.

closely related - why San Fran is now in a Doom Loop that cannot be broken: major businesses are leaving, but the number of criminals who steal goods daily is steadily rising (because Free Stuff, No Consequences) Meaning that the remaining businesses are going to face constantly increasing levels of crime until they in turn are forced to leave. Not to mention that as the chaos accelerates, paying customers vanish and go elsewhere. Once the tipping point is reached, it all falls apart very quickly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:29 AM (S6gqv)

147 Those guys are relatively rare given the numbers flooding over.

This flood is an enemy invasion. No other way to state it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:29 AM (YXHzG)

148 Soros NGOs are in south america promising milk and honey with a free ride.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2023 08:29 AM (pFsle)

149 [Another favourite; and Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery; the U.S. Civil War dead going home etc.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:22 AM (Vwz3I)

That the one where the Union soldier is getting hanged off the bridge? And he's running, sees his lovely misses, and running...

That was part of the Catholic film thingy hosted by Martin Sheen, too, I think.

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:30 AM (3byMq)

150 "Three letter" certainly isn't my coinage, but it does work perfectly. It doesn't matter which agency, they're all the same, they all operate the same, they all have the same goals and the same toolkits. Who cares which three letters are on your flak jacket when you're killing the bad guys, right?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (9UlRk)

Oh, we're extra special then.

Posted by: BATF (sometimes plus E) at May 11, 2023 08:30 AM (4I/2K)

151 With the millions of illegals ready to storm the gates....

.... how's that repatriations thing coming along?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2023 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

152 Mexico gets billions from it's "former residents" every year. It's a significant portion of it's economy. The other countries now demand their 'fair share.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
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Oh yes. Once the cartels are paid off, the money can flow through to the wider economy. It's why, in my opinion, the first step of fixing the southern border is to cut that off. Tax small-money (sub-$20k) remittances at 75% or more. This will require a law change, probably. It might even be unconstitutional. Do it anyway and enforce it while it grinds through the courts. Take a page out of the leftists' book for once.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:30 AM (O4oKn)

153 closely related - why San Fran is now in a Doom Loop that cannot be broken: major businesses are leaving, but the number of criminals who steal goods daily is steadily rising (because Free Stuff, No Consequences) Meaning that the remaining businesses are going to face constantly increasing levels of crime until they in turn are forced to leave. Not to mention that as the chaos accelerates, paying customers vanish and go elsewhere. Once the tipping point is reached, it all falls apart very quickly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:29 AM (S6gqv)

Yet 1/2 of American will crawl through broken glass to vote for Newsom.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

154 145 ++++
Those guys are relatively rare given the numbers flooding over. Most of the flood are much lower-quality people. And those remittances - and yeah, they're the grease that keeps the wheel turning - ain't going "back home to the family." It's going back home to the cartel, to pay off the transportation to this country. After that, most of it probably does go to the family. Until the indenture is paid off, though, the family is a hostage.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:26 AM (O4oKn)

Mexico gets billions from it's "former residents" every year. It's a significant portion of it's economy. The other countries now demand their 'fair share.'
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Remember, Barry Soetero posited 57 states in the United States. Maybe this are them?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 11, 2023 08:30 AM (g/54t)

155 "The Chosen is crushing the Hollywood model of wokesterly correctness, demon-glorification, and social degeneration as fare the audience somehow wants to pay money for."

Also the movie, "The Jesus Revolution."

Posted by: grammie winger at May 11, 2023 08:31 AM (45fpk)

156 135 There's at least one person on every congress person's staff, SCOTUS, and on every cabinet member's staff that is on the FBI, CIA or NSA's payroll.

They're called "minders."

It's not a new concept.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2023 08:25 AM (Q4IgG)

I think Stalin called them Commissars. Same thing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:31 AM (S6gqv)

157 I don't think there are. Is there even a single good man in the employ of the federal government? Maybe. The numbers are so vast that it strikes me as unlikely that the number is zero. But that tiny rounding error of good men ain't in Washington. Maybe in a field office somewhere in South Dakota. Maybe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:05 AM

You are correct. The system selects for compliance, and rejects the others.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 11, 2023 08:32 AM (a3Q+t)

158
I think Stalin called them Commissars. Same thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:31 AM (S6gqv)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/8-bgiiTxhzM

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

159 Morning Horde and thx JJ. The story about Buttplug continuing to mes with the Merchant Marine Academy leads me to believe he's doing it because "it's full of seamen". Too easy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 11, 2023 08:32 AM (eFaiq)

160 That the one where the Union soldier is getting hanged off the bridge? And he's running, sees his lovely misses, and running...

That was part of the Catholic film thingy hosted by Martin Sheen, too, I think.
Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:30 AM (3byMq)

No, the one you are thinking about is a Confederate spy being hung. He dreams the rope breaks and he escapes. Then in reality, the rope pulls tight.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 11, 2023 08:32 AM (GNPj+)

161 and To Serve Man
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Don't go! It's a sous-vide book!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:32 AM (Vwz3I)

162 I think Stalin called them Commissars. Same thing.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Like a climate envoy to the staffers?

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:32 AM (3byMq)

163 Remember, Barry Soetero posited 57 states in the United States. Maybe this are them?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 11, 2023 08:30 AM (g/54t)

With two to go, I believe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

164 "As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. "

Ephesians 4:1-3

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:33 AM (pIKd9)

165 The correct phrase is "'scuse me while I whip this out'."
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It was a homage!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:23 AM (Vwz3I)

And they was right!

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at May 11, 2023 08:33 AM (4I/2K)

166 Remember: it's not a conspiracy theory when you have the conspiracy and the conspirators actively conspiring right in front of you.

This is just more of an extreme version of "merited impossibility"

The former is: That's not happening and you totally deserve it to happen to you.

This is: If you believe this thing is happening to you you are a conspiracy theory nut and oh man are you screwed because we are doing this thing to you.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:33 AM (lc5cP)

167 Tom Bevan
@TomBevanRCP
1h
Holy shit. This is the New York Times' takeaway from Comer's press conference revealing that bank records show 9 members of the Biden family received millions of dollars from foreign nationals while he was Vice President.

New York Times-

House Republican Report Finds No
Evidence of Wrongdoing by President
Biden After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

168 closely related - why San Fran is now in a Doom Loop that cannot be broken: major businesses are leaving, but the number of criminals who steal goods daily is steadily rising (because Free Stuff, No Consequences) Meaning that the remaining businesses are going to face constantly increasing levels of crime until they in turn are forced to leave. Not to mention that as the chaos accelerates, paying customers vanish and go elsewhere. Once the tipping point is reached, it all falls apart very quickly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:29 AM (S6gqv)
++++
The doom loop *can* be interrupted, but it takes a lot of work and at least some amount of violence to do it. It needn't be chaotic violence - in fact, it shouldn't be - but there will be some. The cops have to go in, in force, and crack down hard. Pick an area - a block or a neighborhood - and crack down. Curfews. Two cops on every corner. Lots of arrests - for everything from jaywalking to vandalism to petty theft and beyond. No sweetheart deals. Fill the prisons. Erect temporary prisons if needed. Sweep out from your beachhead.

Giuliani essentially did this in NYC, though NYC wasn't as bad yet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:34 AM (O4oKn)

169 "be patient, bearing with one another in love."

I need to quit griping at people.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 11, 2023 08:34 AM (45fpk)

170 The problem I see is that there aren't enough trans Hispanics. I think the Dems should make Brandon do an EO, where we invade Thailand for the next 25 years in a quixotic, ultimately doomed war effort we can use as cover to import their millions of ladyboys. Because America's soul is trans.

#DownWithBangkok #StartThaiGenocide #SlavaButtpussy

Posted by: CNN Viewer at May 11, 2023 08:35 AM (oINRc)

171 I don't think there are. Is there even a single good man in the employ of the federal government?

People tend to try to advance their perceived self interest.

So many people in the feral government are leftwing authoritarians. For the rest it is in their self interest to not only allow it to happen, but to help advance those goals even if they aren't theirs.

This is what you get after 30 years of the GOP not in any measurable way opposing the left.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:35 AM (lc5cP)

172
I need to quit griping at people.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 11, 2023 08:34 AM (45fpk)

Better grow a thick skin......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

173 New York Times-

House Republican Report Finds No
Evidence of Wrongdoing by President
Biden After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct

Why are people surprised the FNM will lie? And I can tell you any number of leftwingers will now repeat the lie...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

174 "As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. "

Ephesians 4:1-3
Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:33 AM (pIKd9)

Them other rush hour drivers make it quite difficult to bear with their boneheaded maneuvers and ill-timing in patience and love. An occasional instant smiting would be humbly received as a blessing. But all in all, yes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 11, 2023 08:37 AM (4I/2K)

175 So many people in the feral government are leftwing authoritarians. For the rest it is in their self interest to not only allow it to happen, but to help advance those goals even if they aren't theirs.

This is what you get after 30 years of the GOP not in any measurable way opposing the left.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:35 AM (lc5cP)
++++
YD has compared it to Gresham's Law, as applied to institutional workforce. "Bad money chases out good" for institutions - "Bad people chase out the good." Once you have too many bad people polluting the system - especially if those bad people are in executive ranks - it cascades thanks to hiring preferences. Good people are forced out or quit in disgust, but bad people thrive. Then the entire institution is nothing but bad people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:37 AM (O4oKn)

176 That the one where the Union soldier is getting hanged off the bridge? And he's running, sees his lovely misses, and running...
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No. It's the one with apparently wounded soldiers from both sides walking down a road being given water and comfort by a woman from her roadside house and you see the last one walking down the road is Lincoln so you realize they're all the war dead moving on.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734671/

Check out the actors' list.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:38 AM (Vwz3I)

177
New York Times-

House Republican Report Finds No
Evidence of Wrongdoing by President
Biden After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct
Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

And Swalwell is spewing on the twatters that "Trump was convicted of rape."

When the lies don't come with consequences......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

178 No, the one you are thinking about is a Confederate spy being hung. He dreams the rope breaks and he escapes. Then in reality, the rope pulls tight.
Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 11, 2023 08:32 AM (GNPj+)

And it was written in 1890 by Ambrose Bierce, the "Old Gringo". Fascinating man. "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:38 AM (S6gqv)

179 OMG, why are people so helpless?

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (roPuI)

180 Yesterday and today through town next to mine passed a parking lot bench seeing at least half dozen Hispanics males couldn't be past their 20s. Not sure but suspect it's a junction to be picked up to a job.

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (stS4v)

181 Saw a map the other day... apparently the boycott on Bud Light sales' impact is at its lowest in New England and California, where it's only around a 14% drop. Everywhere else it ranges from serious to Biblical.

They don't call MA "The Gay State" for nothing.

New England is one of the few areas where even the people outside of the Blue Shithole will vote for the Dem-NAZIs

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (lc5cP)

182 If Trump is going to continue to prattle on about the "stolen election" he had better develop some material, irrefutable points which prove it. Because CNN and in particular, Jake Fapper The DM Queen, immediately followed his town hall with an attack on that statement. As did their panel of buffoons and harlequins.

That is not to say there isn't evidence to show a lot of irregularities. It is simply to say that Trump does a terrible job of backing up his hyperbole. Which leads a fair amount of people to question his veracity.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (pIKd9)

183 Good tolerates bad. Bad never tolerates good.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (9UlRk)

184 t cascades thanks to hiring preferences. Good people are forced out or quit in disgust, but bad people thrive. Then the entire institution is nothing but bad people.

One of the many positive things the GOPe could have done is set a limit for how long someone could work for the government - force turn over.

But..."that's not who we are!"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:40 AM (lc5cP)

185 Do it anyway and enforce it while it grinds through the courts. Take a page out of the leftists' book for once.

The Left wouldn't allow to grind through the courts, they would call up Hawaiian Judge™ and have it nationally sustained until the McGOP capitulates and writes a law enshrining what the Left wants.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 08:41 AM (YXHzG)

186 And it was written in 1890 by Ambrose Bierce, the "Old Gringo". Fascinating man. "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:38 AM (S6gqv)

There's actually a mystery series featuring Bierce. I've seen a couple, but never read them.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 11, 2023 08:41 AM (AW0uW)

187 And Swalwell is spewing on the twatters that "Trump was convicted of rape."

When the lies don't come with consequences......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Pretty sure that is actionable, black-letter libel.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:41 AM (9UlRk)

188 Christian movies can make money. The Left Behind series is an example. Hollywood will never back those.

Posted by: JmT at May 11, 2023 08:41 AM (M1RIk)

189 "Them other rush hour drivers make it quite difficult to bear with their boneheaded maneuvers and ill-timing in patience and love. An occasional instant smiting would be humbly received as a blessing. But all in all, yes.
Posted by: Count de Monet at May 11, 2023 08:37 AM (4I/2K)"

I was taught a trick years ago. Instead of anger or cursing respond with God Bless You. It works. Most of the time. 😐

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:41 AM (pIKd9)

190 Yesterday and today through town next to mine passed a parking lot bench seeing at least half dozen Hispanics males couldn't be past their 20s. Not sure but suspect it's a junction to be picked up to a job.
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (stS4v)

Instead of enforcing immigration law, many towns built awnings and pole barns to house the "day laborers" so they could stay dry while begging for work.

Real deterrent there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

191 Good tolerates bad. Bad never tolerates good.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (9UlRk)

So, Warai-otoka, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

Posted by: Dark Helmet at May 11, 2023 08:42 AM (4I/2K)

192
Pretty sure that is actionable, black-letter libel.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:41 AM (9UlRk)

We'll see if Trump's lawyers are paying attention. I doubt it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

193 New York Times-

House Republican Report Finds No
Evidence of Wrongdoing by President
======================
Only a blindly partisan New York Times (or fellow-traveler) could possibly read a report of malign foreign payments to the unemployed Bidens and conclude "no evidence" of wrong-doing.

Amazing.

Posted by: Elephant In The Room at May 11, 2023 08:42 AM (SBi1w)

194 And Swalwell is spewing on the twatters that "Trump was convicted of rape."

When the lies don't come with consequences......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
******
Goebbels is his muse.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:43 AM (NpAcC)

195 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 11, 2023 08:43 AM (Y4DQf)

196
That is not to say there isn't evidence to show a lot of irregularities. It is simply to say that Trump does a terrible job of backing up his hyperbole. Which leads a fair amount of people to question his veracity.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM

Read the Navarro Report Volume 1,2,3 then try to explain it in a single soundbite. The word 'Volume' is an understatement.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2023 08:44 AM (enJYY)

197 Goodness! Is that Feinstein photo unretouched? I've seen healthier-looking corpses. Go home woman.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:44 AM (SBi1w)

198 Hollywood will never back those.
Posted by: JmT at May 11, 2023 08:41 AM (M1RIk)

Thank goodness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:44 AM (9UlRk)

199 Nice meme.

Is that ACTUALLY what Dianne Feinstein looks like now?

Another f*cking cryptkeeper in offices?

Lord.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

200 Not sure but suspect it's a junction to be picked up to a job.

Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (stS4v)

Home Depot parking lot. Dozens.

Posted by: JmT at May 11, 2023 08:44 AM (M1RIk)

201 Could be fake (probably is) but I had a good laugh anyway:
https://is.gd/TIMg71

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:44 AM (O4oKn)

202
Re: Photoshop at top

Who dug up Michael Jackson and re-animated him?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2023 08:45 AM (enJYY)

203 The doom loop *can* be interrupted, but it takes a lot of work and at least some amount of violence to do it. It needn't be chaotic violence - in fact, it shouldn't be - but there will be some. The cops have to go in, in force, and crack down hard. Pick an area - a block or a neighborhood - and crack down. Curfews. Two cops on every corner. Lots of arrests - for everything from jaywalking to vandalism to petty theft and beyond. No sweetheart deals. Fill the prisons. Erect temporary prisons if needed. Sweep out from your beachhead.

Giuliani essentially did this in NYC, though NYC wasn't as bad yet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:34 AM (O4oKn)

The San Fran police are not only understaffed, but compromised from the top down. It would take a militia and a lot of summary executions to turn things around now, and I don't see any such thing arising. Which means it's simply going to die. There will be no one left there except the insane, the feeble, the elderly poor, and the criminal class.

Watching a city fail is similar to watching a bank like SVB fail. Slowly and bit by bit for years - and then suddenly, and all at once.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:45 AM (S6gqv)

204 Could be fake (probably is) but I had a good laugh anyway:
https://is.gd/TIMg71
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:44 AM (O4oKn)

Kids today are so lazy they can't even be bothered to spell out actual words.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

205 Uh....what happened?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

206 Re: fast-tracking Muscular Dystrophy gene therapy product
Per the article this is a drug that perhaps 5,000 individuals (0.0015 % of the US population) would be candidates for. This is an issue with most progressively degenerative genetic diseases such as DMD, Pompe's disease and others. The number of patients is very small, the development costs for exotic gene therapies are sky-high, and the time course of disease and gauging the efficacy of treatment is usually decades. Many patients can get access to these drugs through either clinical studies or compassionate use approval by FDA. And sadly, while cheerleaders tout the magical therapeutic benefits, the actual measurable improvements are usually marginal at best.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (ykeLU)

207 "I need to quit griping at people.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 11, 2023 08:34 AM (45fpk)"

It's human nature, grammie. We are all flawed in that way.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (pIKd9)

208 Oh nos! Weeze been hacked!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (Vwz3I)

209 Attention citizens:

The Constitution has been aborted.

Shut up, be happy
Obey all orders without question
The comfort you demanded is now mandatory
Be happy
At last, everything is done for you

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (Vu7A1)

210 Is that ACTUALLY what Dianne Feinstein looks like now?

Another f*cking cryptkeeper in offices?

There must be some kind of off-the-charts level of power-hunger that drives these people to stay in office.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (45fpk)

211 Comments disappeared. Now they're back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

212 That was weird...I refreshed the page to view new comments and they all disappeared...Then did it again and now they're back...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (YIVH2)

213 205 Uh....what happened?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

An object lesson on how easy it would be…

Posted by: tubal at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (PCK5/)

214 Uh....what happened?
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We've crossed over into the... Twilight Zone.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:48 AM (Vwz3I)

215
Watching a city fail is similar to watching a bank like SVB fail. Slowly and bit by bit for years - and then suddenly, and all at once.

One of the fascinating parts of this is that in general our leftwing urbanites don't care about other leftwing urbanites being victimized. It is easy to call the cops racist and decry arresting people for "property crime" when you aren't being robbed, raped, murdered, etc.

These people really seem to think THEY are invincible. Though I suppose as crime rates continue to explode they are more and more likely to find out that is not true.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:48 AM (lc5cP)

216 [Another favourite; and Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery; the U.S. Civil War dead going home etc.]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:22 AM (Vwz3I)
++++
The former is called "Two" and is one of my favorites. It's in season 3 of the show and Elizabeth Montgomery is incandescently hot. Bronson is unsettling as he always is.

The latter is called "The Passersby" and is good but not in my top 5. It's also in season 3.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:48 AM (O4oKn)

217 And sadly, while cheerleaders tout the magical therapeutic benefits, the actual measurable improvements are usually marginal at best.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (ykeLU)

And let me guess...they cause cancer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

218
Sorry about the winking out. I had to replace the image and Pixy farted for a moment.

All normal now. I hope.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:48 AM (x0n13)

219
There must be some kind of off-the-charts level of power-hunger that drives these people to stay in office.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (45fpk)

If she has a granddaughter named Rey, we're all boned.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:48 AM (9UlRk)

220 That 'news' whore Kaitlin Collins thought she could act like an ass because, after all, Deplorables and the Deplorables Leader are lesser humans from the view of the chosen media elite.

Funny but the more that Collins acted like an ass the more one could imagine the 1930's and being Jewish in Nazi Germany .

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (nDepX)

221 There was a glitch in the Matrix?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (4I/2K)

222 Oof. Feinstein looks like they dragged her out of the box. What compels people to spend their dying days in pursuit of their own vanity, instead of the people they love. What a lonely unfulfilled existence.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (pIKd9)

223 218
Sorry about the winking out. I had to replace the image and Pixy farted for a moment.

All normal now. I hope.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:48 AM (x0n13)

Wizard behind the curtain pulled the wrong lever..

Posted by: tubal at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (PCK5/)

224
There must be some kind of off-the-charts level of power-hunger that drives these people to stay in office.

Normal people have normal hobbies - reading, golf, video games, whatever.

The elites seem to only enjoy dominating others.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (lc5cP)

225 > Is that ACTUALLY what Dianne Feinstein looks like now?
___________

Pretty close.

There was an "official" photo of her return she looked dead.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

226 There's always a market for slave labor.

Posted by: It's true at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (DhOHl)

227 Oof. Feinstein looks like they dragged her out of the box. What compels people to spend their dying days in pursuit of their own vanity, instead of the people they love. What a lonely unfulfilled existence.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (pIKd9)

It appears she's just biding her time as to allow for the finish of John McCain's funeral.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

228 Watching a city fail is similar to watching a bank like SVB fail. Slowly and bit by bit for years - and then suddenly, and all at once.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:45 AM (S6gqv)
++++
Yup. Like Detroit. Detroit - or some variation - is the future for most of America's major cities. Will someone manage to rebuild the rubble into a proper city again after the fact? I dunno. History indicates "probably not" but we're also in uncharted territory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (O4oKn)

229 Remember when fetal stem cells were gonna cure everything?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (qhbCT)

230 222 Oof. Feinstein looks like they dragged her out of the box. What compels people to spend their dying days in pursuit of their own vanity, instead of the people they love. What a lonely unfulfilled existence.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (pIKd9)

You assume that there is love in that dying heart.

Posted by: tubal at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (PCK5/)

231 (cont,). I suspect the reason pharmaceutical companies are willing to take the big financial risk to pursue these small scopee genetic therapies is not to cure Muscular Dystrophy, but to get the inside track on a magic cure for Alzheimer's or in the broader sense, the chronic disease known as aging. Proof of concept. Patentable processes. Big bucks.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (ykeLU)

232 instead of the people they love. What a lonely unfulfilled existence.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:49 AM (pIKd9)

They only love themselves. Vanity is all they have.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (9UlRk)

233 I know a few NYPD who started their own Get Tough campaign before Giuliani, and then ramped it up when he said he'd back them. And enough voters had had enough that they backed Rudy.

Police everywhere now know that if they're proactive they put themselves at tisk. Better to sit in the squad car.

And Rudy -- the man who saved NYC -- has been made inot a laughingstock.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (RqMSv)

234 Kaitlin Collins simply showed the bias that everyone knows the media already possesses. She's also not very smart or interesting. Her questions and responses were rote and predictable. She's the reason channels like CNN have less viewers then Maury Povich reruns.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (pIKd9)

235 Ode to DiFi:

Ooh-ooh that smell
Can't ya smell that smell
Ooh-ooh that smell
The smell of death's around you

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (4I/2K)

236 JJ, thank you - seriously - for using a low-res copy of the Feinstein picture. It is like something out of a horror movie and the pixellation makes it less stomach-churning.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (O4oKn)

237 Illegals getting their information from TikTok as Biden's app doesn't work.

96 million views telling people to "come here as soon Title 42 expires as no one will be deported."

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

238 All this film teaching going on. Thank you.

My lazy subsided. The film series I was thinking of re: Martin Sheen was called 'Insight'. The nuns were big on showing those during the 1-8th grades.

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (3byMq)

239 That DiFi lady? Rank amateur.

Posted by: Strom Thurmond at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (DhOHl)

240 I suspect the reason pharmaceutical companies are willing to take the big financial risk to pursue these small scopee genetic therapies is not to cure Muscular Dystrophy, but to get the inside track on a magic cure for Alzheimer's or in the broader sense, the chronic disease known as aging. Proof of concept. Patentable processes. Big bucks.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (ykeLU)

I have no faith that the pharmaceutical industry wants to cure anything anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

241 Remember when fetal stem cells were gonna cure everything?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (qhbCT)

Yeah, and then the Jesus People made it illegal and now everyone is going to die.

I have it on good authority.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (9UlRk)

242 180 Yesterday and today through town next to mine passed a parking lot bench seeing at least half dozen Hispanics males couldn't be past their 20s. Not sure but suspect it's a junction to be picked up to a job.
Posted by: Skip at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (stS4v)

was talking to my mother in Phoenix about this recently. Getting very common everywhere - if they're in jeans and work clothes, they're laborers waiting for a pickup. But if they're well dressed and look very aware of their surroundings, then they are Cartel enforcers. Getting very common to see them strutting about openly in most southwestern cities. People need to be aware of them, because these are very dangerous people, they are soldiers who know they're fighting a war (and winning).

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:52 AM (S6gqv)

243 Sorry about the winking out.
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Lost. Like ValuRite in the rain.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:52 AM (Vwz3I)

244 Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:39 AM (pIKd9)

Have you volunteered your opinion to that bad orange man or do you just make suggestions here? Your expertise could be the tipping point!

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 One day closer to nowhere at May 11, 2023 08:52 AM (89Sog)

245 A central issue in the budget fight is over continued Covid relief spending. Without it many Blue cities fail.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 08:52 AM (RqMSv)

246 Dianne Feinstein is probably pretty pissed and will have some nasty words for Satan when she meets him. Like the other American politicians, the deal she signed guaranteed that she'd remain in power at least until her centenary, and she ain't gonna make it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:53 AM (O4oKn)

247 Tucker Carlson pointed out in a podcast interview a few weeks ago that the country he grew up in is gone. I agree, and it is depressing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 11, 2023 08:53 AM (lTGtQ)

248 "0.0015 % of the US population"
Muldoon.

The US population at the time of the Revolution.

Posted by: JmT at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (M1RIk)

249 236 JJ, thank you - seriously - for using a low-res copy of the Feinstein picture. It is like something out of a horror movie and the pixellation makes it less stomach-churning.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:51 AM (O4oKn)

The only one I could grab, evidently.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (x0n13)

250 Police everywhere now know that if they're proactive they put themselves at tisk. Better to sit in the squad car.

Punish virtue and reward vice...and then Soviet America is surprised at how that works out...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (lc5cP)

251 A central issue in the budget fight is over continued Covid relief spending. Without it many Blue cities fail.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 08:52 AM (RqMSv)
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They're gonna fail with or without COVID relieve spending.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (YIVH2)

252 She was raised in Alabama, wikipedia tells us, which surprises me. I wonder if Kaitlin Collins parents are proud of her, being such a witless, nasty piece of work.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:06 AM (q5Sxq)

She's 31 years old? Pfft. I have pocket lint older than that. AND, more intelligent.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (Zvtjl)

253 Everyone has the heart and Holy Spirit that God put in them. It's what you do with that life He's given you that makes the difference.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (pIKd9)

254 Selma Diamond>Richard Diamond>Jamie Dimon

Posted by: TV Guide at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (Nn3xT)

255 A central issue in the budget fight is over continued Covid relief spending. Without it many Blue cities fail.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 08:52 AM (RqMSv)
++++
Don't worry, they'll make an agreement in which nobody but the ruling class is happy. In solidarity, the ruling class will pretend to be unhappy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (O4oKn)

256 Actually most older people want to be in charge of themselves for as long as possible. They hate the idea of caregivers looking after and particularly in their own homes Everybody hates feeling useless. When you add on top of that politicians who are used to being in charge and schemers behind the schemes such as political operatives I'm not surprised that Feinstein came back. They need her manipulated vote as they need Fettermans. And if she had a stroke as well as Shingles it's no wonder she looks as bad as she does.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (Keyt1)

257 This invasion is actually an invasion. The left has Red-Dawned us. Their firearms and other material will be shipped in chinese conex boxes. When the signal is gived this million + army will take key sites and you know what? Our trans/gay military will be helpless. 'Stop that or I will report you! I meanit. What's your name?'

Posted by: Eromero at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (Uv0D2)

258 if they're well dressed and look very aware of their surroundings, then they are Cartel enforcers.
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Especially if they're wearing very-pointy cowboy boots with death-skull decorations.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (Vwz3I)

259 Tucker Carlson pointed out in a podcast interview a few weeks ago that the country he grew up in is gone. I agree, and it is depressing.

We've morphed into something very similiar to the Soviet Union or as someone else pointed out the GDR.

I stopped flying a flag after 2020 - because the country I am in is not one I am proud of any more.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (lc5cP)

260 Meant " schemers behind the scenes."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (Keyt1)

261 245 A central issue in the budget fight is over continued Covid relief spending. Without it many Blue cities fail.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 08:52 AM (RqMSv)

Biden declared it over as did the WHO, who actually now run our country or to be more exact are the shell corporation by which the filthy Mongoloid Chi-Coms run it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (x0n13)

262 scopee = scope

Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (ykeLU)

263 CNN had a panel of voters after the debate, and it was a debate between Collins and Trump not a town hall, and one of the first questions asked to a voter was do you think Trump should talk more about 2024 instead of 2020?

The voter responded that the first question CNN asked him was about the 2020 election.

CNN responded, well yes, that's true. Let's move along.

Poll after poll shows that at least half the country thinks the 2020 election was not on the level. Trump is walking away with the nomination and beating Biden handily in the polls. Not sure it is hurting him all that much.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

264 256 Actually most older people want to be in charge of themselves for as long as possible. They hate the idea of caregivers looking after and particularly in their own homes Everybody hates feeling useless. When you add on top of that politicians who are used to being in charge and schemers behind the schemes such as political operatives I'm not surprised that Feinstein came back. They need her manipulated vote as they need Fettermans. And if she had a stroke as well as Shingles it's no wonder she looks as bad as she does.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (Keyt1)

Have personally dealt with that mindset… it was ugly, disturbing, and basically sad.

Posted by: tubal at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (PCK5/)

265 One month til MoMe!!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 11, 2023 08:56 AM (DhOHl)

266 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott

@JoeNBC: If Republicans successfully reduce the rate of spending growth, "It would make getting on a plane far more dangerous. Getting in a car w/ your family, going on vacations, far more dangerous ... It'd make the food that you feed your children at night far less safe."

https://tinyurl.com/x4k6kefv

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

267 Trump was so effective last night it made this stupid Never Back Down PAC for Desantis show their true TDS colors and makes me more wary than before about who is in that group.

They put out a bitchy little tweet well after Trump was the clear winner acting like Trump didn't do anything at the town hall, and then said he would Pardon Jan 6th political prisoners.

Or as they said in the tweet, "whether he will pardon people who harmed police officers."

If that is the Desantis stance he's fucking done, that is retarded tier swamp logic.

Posted by: UwU_Power at May 11, 2023 08:56 AM (MXW3K)

268 I stopped flying a flag after 2020 - because the country I am in is not one I am proud of any more.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (lc5cP)

It's hard for me to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 11, 2023 08:56 AM (45fpk)

269 Bubble-headed bleach blonde telling you about the disaster with a gleam in her eye >>> Kaitlin Collins.

Posted by: Archer at May 11, 2023 08:56 AM (gmo/4)

270
@JoeNBC: If Republicans successfully reduce the rate of spending growth, "It would make getting on a plane far more dangerous. Getting in a car w/ your family, going on vacations, far more dangerous ... It'd make the food that you feed your children at night far less safe."

https://tinyurl.com/x4k6kefv
Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

Holy shit.......

WE MUST SPEND TRILLIONS OR YOUR FAMILY WILL DIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

271 I just looked at some of Hunter Biden’s paintings and they’re not what I expected. They’re at least equivalent to most modern art I have seen and better than I expected.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (1huWu)

272 252 She was raised in Alabama, wikipedia tells us, which surprises me. I wonder if Kaitlin Collins parents are proud of her, being such a witless, nasty piece of work.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:06 AM (q5Sxq)

She's 31 years old? Pfft. I have pocket lint older than that. AND, more intelligent.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 11, 2023 08:54 AM (Zvtjl)

That hag we make fun of who pretends to be a twenty-something is younger looking.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (x0n13)

273 I stopped flying a flag after 2020 - because the country I am in is not one I am proud of any more.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (lc5cP)

I stopped flying the flag in 2008.

Posted by: JmT at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (M1RIk)

274 Last night's town hall was mission accomplished for the Left.
1. Trump did well, firing up the base and pushing him toward the GOP nomination.
2. Trump was tied to re-litigating 2020, defending Jan 6th, and sexual assault, pushing him to general election defeat against - pretty much anyone.
3. CNN got bitch-slapped - fall in with the Party line or get destroyed.

Posted by: Candidus at May 11, 2023 08:58 AM (886E0)

275 If Republicans successfully reduce the rate of spending growth, "It would make getting on a plane far more dangerous

It is darkly amusing that the government was better at all this stuff when it was spending a quarter of what it is now on these very same "safety efforts"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:58 AM (lc5cP)

276 Bubble-headed bleach blonde telling you about the disaster with a gleam in her eye >>> Kaitlin Collins.

Posted by: Archer at May 11, 2023 08:56 AM (gmo/4)

The song has staying power.......

https://youtu.be/D1xmXn7gLVg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

277 Holy shit.......

WE MUST SPEND TRILLIONS OR YOUR FAMILY WILL DIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
That's pretty typical, really. The standard play.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:58 AM (O4oKn)

278 I suspect the reason pharmaceutical companies are willing to take the big financial risk to pursue these small scopee genetic therapies is not to cure Muscular Dystrophy, but to get the inside track on a magic cure for Alzheimer's or in the broader sense, the chronic disease known as aging. Proof of concept. Patentable processes. Big bucks.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (ykeLU)

They get funding from the Feds. I believe in the 80's, they passed a bill to fund pharma to find cures for low incidence diseases. Like all things, good intentions have resulted in ridiculous incentives.

Many therapeutics for rare diseases and cancer only buy you time. Often that time is a few extra months or a year or two (in extra ordinary circumstances.) Meanwhile the costs run into the tens of thousands of dollars.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 11, 2023 08:58 AM (GNPj+)

279 A central issue in the budget fight is over continued Covid relief spending. Without it many Blue cities fail.

Posted by: Ignoramus

That is it in a nutshell. The high wage workers, who can work from anywhere, have left the cities, and due to the socialistic nature of the dems who run the cities, a very small percentage of them pay the bulk of the taxes that pay for the subsidization of the rest of the city. Now that these wealthy have left the cities, they cannot continue without federal subsidies. The attempt to continue Wuhan flu dollars is a last ditch attempt to keep the big cities alive, and it runs up against the fact that the federal government cannot continue to print money to throw it at them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 11, 2023 08:58 AM (lTGtQ)

280
Trump hedged on a pardon for all J6 individuals. He seemed to indicate it would be on a case by case basis.

Which is the correct answer.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 11, 2023 08:58 AM (enJYY)

281 "Setting the stage for a constitutional crisis." Don't make me fucking laugh. I hate to be the bearer of bad news here but the Constitution is dead. If the Constitution is indeed "living and breathing" as the leftists constantly claim, then it only has the breath of life in it when it is strictly and absolutely obeyed and defended to the hilt – by any means necessary should it rise to that level and sure as the sun rises in the east it did on Election Night 2020 – by everyone who swore an oath to do so.

It is painfully obvious that precious few are among that group.
==========================
A "return to Constitutional norms" may not cut it any more. It isn't enough to let the DOJ/FBI cabal say "Oh, sorry, my bad" and everyone goes back to minding their own business.

These Soviet institutions are a clear and present danger to America, and must be destroyed before their functions can be trusted in some rebuilt version.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 08:59 AM (VRA7i)

282 ++++
Yup. Like Detroit. Detroit - or some variation - is the future for most of America's major cities. Will someone manage to rebuild the rubble into a proper city again after the fact? I dunno. History indicates "probably not" but we're also in uncharted territory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 08:50 AM (O4oKn)

It took about 1200 years or so to get Rome back up to speed after the fall. (depending on how you measure it) But Alas, Babylon.

only loosely related - Jerusalem has probably been burnt completely to the ground and had all of its residents killed more times then any other city that has ever existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 08:59 AM (S6gqv)

283 WE MUST SPEND TRILLIONS OR YOUR FAMILY WILL DIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

Give us your wallet or we'll shoot this dog

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 08:59 AM (9UlRk)

284
That hag we make fun of who pretends to be a twenty-something is younger looking.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (x0n13)

Retirement home Taylor Lorenz

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

285 I stopped flying the flag in 2008.

2008 was hard - I voted for McCain and hated myself for it.

By 2012 I was on to the game though and on this very smart military blog told people to not vote for Romney...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:59 AM (lc5cP)

286 245 A central issue in the budget fight is over continued Covid relief spending. Without it many Blue cities fail.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 08:52 AM (RqMSv)

Speaking of - if you are in VA and have a kid 5-18, there are 1st come, 1st served grants for $1500 (or $3000 if you wanna verify income) for "catch up" learning for 2023 (from Covid money). You will be able to pick providers from who applies.

You only need to verify your address. I'd encourage the horde to take the money and use it for those who should get it vs who the liberals would want to get it.

Homeschoolers and private schoolers are allowed to get this money.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 11, 2023 08:59 AM (exHjb)

287 Everyone has the heart and Holy Spirit that God put in them. It's what you do with that life He's given you that makes the difference.
Posted by: Marcus T

Beautiful. Exactly what my former RC upbringing to my meh agnostic simple understanding has been since teen years.

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 09:00 AM (3byMq)

288
Why-uh was that-uh, that-uh Mulvany guy on-uh-on-uh CNN with T-T-Trump?

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at May 11, 2023 09:00 AM (vwCZJ)

289 Haven't read a lot about Trump's gig last night, but two things come to mind.

Tapper, Jones etc going after Trump following townhall.

And I don't see any clips or article links of Kaitlin is Stronk vs. Trimp.

That really says how things went for Trump and CNN.

Again, first eay pass this a.m. on SoCal.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 11, 2023 09:01 AM (C3G19)

290 That hag we make fun of who pretends to be a twenty-something is younger looking.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (x0n13)

I'll take your word for it. I have no idea what ace actually looks like.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 09:01 AM (9UlRk)

291 @267

>>If that is the Desantis stance he's fucking done, that is retarded tier swamp logic.

As said previously, DeSantis appears to be a competent Governor, there is no rationale for a Presidential run in 2024, after last nights CNN town hall, there is even less of a rationale for him to run in 2024.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2023 09:01 AM (up/3i)

292 >>She was raised in Alabama, wikipedia tells us, which surprises me. I wonder if Kaitlin Collins parents are proud of her, being such a witless, nasty piece of work.

Her first job in DC was working for The Daily Caller. And there is a video of her circulating on Twitter from that time going after Soros as a foreign born liberal trying to change America.

She's a mouth for hire. She will say anything for money.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

293 A Man for All Seasons...damn fine stuff there. Haven't seen it in far too long.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:02 AM (LvTSG)

294 From 2015 through 2017, Biden family members and their companies received over $1.3 million in payments from Rob Walker related accounts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 09:02 AM (BRHaw)

295 Just curious. For what race will I see this Collins lady's name on the ballot?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 11, 2023 09:04 AM (DhOHl)

296 Why do these foreign dopes pay retail to get a crooked Democrat in their pockets?

We all know that any old republican will do it for a tenth the price.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 09:04 AM (9UlRk)

297 After assuming the vice presidency in 2009, records reveal Hunter Biden and his business
associates formed at least 15 companies.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 09:04 AM (BRHaw)

298 I loved Trump in the townhall, but doesn't change that he got railroaded in the swamp and is still toxic to too many stupid general election voters.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at May 11, 2023 09:04 AM (V6W16)

299 > "There can be only one answer to this question, but it's the unpopular answer."
Is Any "One Culture Superior to Others?"

I believe at one time, there was
but that culture is now in decline

Posted by: DB - not feeling it at May 11, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO8)

300 271 I just looked at some of Hunter Biden’s paintings and they’re not what I expected. They’re at least equivalent to most modern art I have seen and better than I expected.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 11, 2023 08:57 AM (1huWu)

I just took a dump. (I know, TMI) It was at least equivalent to most modern art I have seen and better than I expected.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 09:05 AM (S6gqv)

301 Uh....what happened?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

An object lesson on how easy it would be…
Posted by: tubal at May 11, 2023 08:47 AM (PCK5/)

"All comments are now being routed through official NSA servers. The glitch many witnessed was a slight flaw in the switching process. We apologize".

Bob From NSA

Posted by: NSA Bob Your Government Servant at May 11, 2023 09:06 AM (Zvtjl)

302 Her first job in DC was working for The Daily Caller. And there is a video of her circulating on Twitter from that time going after Soros as a foreign born liberal trying to change America.

She's a mouth for hire. She will say anything for money.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)
==================
Really? So I guess we have Tucker Carlson to thank for inflicting her on us. Ah well, she's small potatoes.

But can you imagine her treating Biden the way she tried to have it on with PDJT last night? What a spectacle that would be.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 11, 2023 09:06 AM (VRA7i)

303 Meanwhile the costs run into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Posted by: Crom Laughs

******

I knew a family whose child had Pompe's disease, usually fatal within the first couple years of life. She got IV infusions of replacement enzyme therapy every two weeks at a cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $3000 per treatment. Medicaid picked up the tab. She lived at least 5 years, but was declining last I knew.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 09:06 AM (ykeLU)

304 I have no idea what ace actually looks like.

Well, one human year equals 7 Ewok years…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 11, 2023 09:06 AM (Y4DQf)

305 2008 was hard - I voted for McCain and hated myself for it.

By 2012 I was on to the game though and on this very smart military blog told people to not vote for Romney...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 08:59 AM (lc5cP)

18, hated every vote for Republicans except Trump. Missed Reagan by a year.

Posted by: JmT at May 11, 2023 09:07 AM (M1RIk)

306 Mark Dice has a good summary video of the Trump Townhall...he's a Trump super fan, so know that going in: https://youtu.be/cSB3qmTnrQg

He has a clip of Rick Wilson, who posted a video tantrum during a break in the townhall:
"Whatever the fuck they (CNN) thought they would get out of this, they instead have set a match to democracy once again, by letting an insane person make people giggle and laugh when he jokes about rape."

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 11, 2023 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

307 I believe at one time, there was
but that culture is now in decline

At one point there was a minor "scandal".

A soldier in 'Stan saw one of our allies molest a boy and assaulted the ally.

Looking back on this it was something of a watershed moment. Heritage America would have said "good on you!"

Soviet America though? He was court martialed and the country apologized to the ally. And now of course molesting kids is one of the top priorities of the American government.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 09:07 AM (lc5cP)

308 >>I loved Trump in the townhall, but doesn't change that he got railroaded in the swamp and is still toxic to too many stupid general election voters.

You know who else is pretty damned toxic to general election voters? Joe Biden.

Despite having 99% of the media covering for him he has some of the worst approval numbers of any president at this point in his presidency in the modern era.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

309
Border Patrol Union - NBPC
@BPUnion

Field reports from agents across the southern border verify the enormity of this tidal wave of illegal aliens coming now. Huge groups are overwhelming stations and it is completely out of control. Massive releases beginning and it's going to get much worse.

Thanks Biden.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

310 308 >>I loved Trump in the townhall, but doesn't change that he got railroaded in the swamp and is still toxic to too many stupid general election voters.

You know who else is pretty damned toxic to general election voters? Joe Biden.

Despite having 99% of the media covering for him he has some of the worst approval numbers of any president at this point in his presidency in the modern era.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

========

Trump is so unpopular that they shut down counting ballots in six states at the same time to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall and Biden barely won.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:08 AM (LvTSG)

311 Posted by: tubal at May 11, 2023 08:55 AM (PCK5/)

Yes; It's a very, very hard thing for families. It's even worse if the Senior has the dementia which makes them angry, combative and violent.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2023 09:09 AM (0Tgaa)

312 @BPUnion
Field reports from agents across the southern border verify the enormity of this tidal wave of illegal aliens coming now. Huge groups are overwhelming stations and it is completely out of control. Massive releases beginning and it's going to get much worse.

Thanks Biden.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 11, 2023 09:08 AM (NpAcC)
+++++
I'm glad they sent the army to help with all the paperwork so the invasion could be orderly. Working out well by the sound of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:09 AM (O4oKn)

313 Yes. Lunatics making patently false allegations of rape for fame and profit are not a laughing matter.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 11, 2023 09:09 AM (9UlRk)

314
She's a mouth for hire.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

*Bill Clinton shows significant interest*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

315 >I have no idea what ace actually looks like.

an aging George Lucas after a three day bender

I kid, of course
don't ban me

Posted by: DB - not feeling it at May 11, 2023 09:09 AM (geLO8)

316 In many ways the question of Trump v DeSantis or whoever doesn't matter.

If there isn't a plan to stop The Steal 2024 in the 6 stolen states then it doesn't matter who runs to oppose Biden or The Democrat to be Named Later

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 09:09 AM (lc5cP)

317 The Committee’s First Bank Records Memorandum discussed a $3 million payment from
State Energy HK to Robinson Walker, LLC, which was then disbursed to different Biden
related bank accounts. Below is a further explanation of those financial transactions.
 State Energy HK appears to be Ye’s vehicle, at least in part, to launder money and purchase lucrative “gifts.” Despite the company’s name, many of the financial transactions are inconsistent with a company engaging in an energy business. The significant purchases of
expensive jewelry, for example, are more consistent with a Chinese company laundering money and facilitating payments through luxury items that are difficult to trace.

Bllood Diamonds

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 09:10 AM (BRHaw)

318 We shouldn't assume Hunter did the painting. Like how JFK didn't write Profiles in Courage.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 09:10 AM (RqMSv)

319 The United States is just an idea!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 11, 2023 09:10 AM (4HsoB)

320 4 million new arrivals will be accidentally handed voter registration forms in their preferred language.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2023 09:10 AM (/6ckN)

321 Mark Dice has a good summary video of the Trump Townhall...he's a Trump super fan, so know that going in: https://youtu.be/cSB3qmTnrQg

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 11, 2023 09:07 AM (JCZqz)

Watched one where NBC interviewed Stelter Sex Machine and Dice did the Stelter voice. As it always should be.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

322 Yes. Lunatics making patently false allegations of rape for fame and profit are not a laughing matter.

When Paula Jones came forward with her accusations almost every single leftwing commentator made fun of her.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 09:10 AM (lc5cP)

323 >>*Bill Clinton shows significant interest*

I knew as soon as I hit the post button that was a poor choice of words to use around here.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (ZLI7S)

324 Ahh, Twitter.

@PleaseThink1776
Blame Republicans. They keep telling the world that the border is open and they believed them. Biden is NOT ACCEPTING any asylum claims and anyone who enters illegally is immediately sent back.

He has his talking points down pat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (O4oKn)

325 so, in this court judgment that went against Trump- what evidence was presented? eyewitness? photo? or was it just the 'victim' saying it happened?

Posted by: DB - not feeling it at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (geLO8)

326 Obama advisor Dem Axelrod said trump did ok on CNN Town Hall. Because... he didn't take a shit on the stage?
The bar is SO fucking low for that piece of shit (TFG, not Axelrod).

Trump was positively scorched by the CNN panels!!

From the point of view of the Trump campaign he did well. he steamrolled the moderator, had a friendly audience applauding and laughing at his jokes. He got a free prime time slot to basically have a Trump rally.

Truth is what we need. tRump will give us lies if we want them. From what I saw, tRump did just fine, and the audience's appreciation, clapping at his most despicable lies, and even cheering, told people what to think. Told them treason was fine. Giving him another try to pull it off is not just respectable but a good thing. This is what CNN did for him and to the nation.

he cannot win by only appealing to his "base" He has to appeal enough to the more centrist Republicans and Independents in order to win. His support is dwindling. When someone like John Cornyn says he's unelectable, it means something.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (JCZqz)

327 Yup. Like Detroit. Detroit - or some variation - is the future for most of America's major cities.

I watched Detroit fall. The Motor City was artificially large because it was a single industry city that became dominant because the European and Japanese competition were smoldering ruins. Japan came first with relatively efficient cars and cooperative labor/management. Labor characterized with a very high esteem of itself; drugs, alcohol, entitlement and poor work ethic and adverse relationship to management.

Then OPEC and the embargoes. Then the race riots. Then White Flight. This with a background of highly corrupt city, county and state government.

Unemployment skyrocketed, before the massive welfare safety-net, those who could retire did so with the elevated disability pension, others fled the state so productivity dropped dramatically and took the money with it. Cleveland, Windsor, Gary, Indianapolis and other auto-dominated cities also withered and became the Rust Belt while the talent fled to the Sun Belt.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (YXHzG)

328 314
She's a mouth for hire.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 11, 2023 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

*Bill Clinton shows significant interest*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

329 Something something jared kushner something $1 billion something Saudi Arabia!! Rah!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2023 09:12 AM (/6ckN)

330 I need to quit griping at people.
Posted by: grammie winger

You ?

Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2023 09:12 AM (T4tVD)

331
I knew a family whose child had Pompe's disease, usually fatal within the first couple years of life. She got IV infusions of replacement enzyme therapy every two weeks at a cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $3000 per treatment. Medicaid picked up the tab. She lived at least 5 years, but was declining last I knew.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 09:06 AM (ykeLU)

and in all seriousness, what was the point of that - was that a "good thing"??? It simply prolonged the agony of that child and her family while pumping massive amounts of profit to the pharma company who developed it. They intentionally prolonged her suffering so that they could profit by it.

Death is not the worst outcome in situations like this, in fact it is often the best.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 09:12 AM (S6gqv)

332 I thought it was a ballsy move by Trump. It's not going to get any easier and he went right into the belly of the beast. He needs to refine some of his answers on various things and develop his positions into better sound bites. That will help bring in some of the Independents. His relentless style will do the rest, as long as he stays always from Trumpism's.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 09:12 AM (pIKd9)

333
*She's a mouth for hire.*

Stay in your lane.

Posted by: Comma Lah at May 11, 2023 09:12 AM (DhOHl)

334 332 I thought it was a ballsy move by Trump. It's not going to get any easier and he went right into the belly of the beast. He needs to refine some of his answers on various things and develop his positions into better sound bites. That will help bring in some of the Independents. His relentless style will do the rest, as long as he stays always from Trumpism's.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 09:12 AM (pIKd9)

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False.

He only talks about the steal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

335 "Mayorkas' 'Nation of Immigrants' claim refers to the Cold War lobbyist narrative that the United States is a homeland for migrants, not for Americans."

If that ever had a grain of truth (an escape for some migrants, who would become American in heart), it was for competent working people that are vetted.

The wide open door now accepts/welcomes/funds all criminals and crime syndicates, and they will come as gangs and take over small towns, and big towns. This is planned destruction of our Liberty by murderous globalists that hate our freedom.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 11, 2023 09:13 AM (Cus5s)

336 Preponderance of the evidence!
There is no evidence.
So a preponderance of nothing proves it is true!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 11, 2023 09:13 AM (/6ckN)

337
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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (LvTSG)

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE BILL CLINTON HAS A PENSION FOR ORAL GRATIFICATION AS PROVEN BY THE STARR REPORT AND BILL'S RELATIONSHIP WITH MONICA LEWINSKI.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at May 11, 2023 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

338 337 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE BILL CLINTON HAS A PENSION FOR ORAL GRATIFICATION AS PROVEN BY THE STARR REPORT AND BILL'S RELATIONSHIP WITH MONICA LEWINSKI.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at May 11, 2023 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

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You're a national treasure, Ben.

I'd never get anything without you.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM (LvTSG)

339 The Complicated Web of Biden Family and Associates’ Companies: Biden family members and business associates created a web of over 20 companies—most were limited liability companies formed after Joe Biden became Vice President.
The Biden Family Received Millions of Dollars from Foreign Sources: Bank records show the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals’ and their related companies. The Committee has identified payments to Biden family members from foreign companies while he served as Vice President and after he left public office.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM (BRHaw)

340 Perfect DieFi meme JJ. LOL

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM (N5C4b)

341 It looks like trading in PacWest bank will have to be halted again; down 28% in pre-market.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM (lTGtQ)

342 ... Truth is what we need. tRump will give us lies if we want them. From what I saw, tRump did just fine, and the audience's appreciation, clapping at his most despicable lies, and even cheering, told people what to think. Told them treason was fine. Giving him another try to pull it off is not just respectable but a good thing. This is what CNN did for him and to the nation. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (JCZqz)
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I didn't watch it (no cable), but what were the most despicable lies of the evening?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM (O4oKn)

343 Fienstein.

Her husband is dead

She is limp and frail and can't play with grandkids.

Why not cling to power and play Ironside and have an aid push you around in a wheelchair.

What does she have to "go to" if she leaves the Senate? An empty house waiting to die?

We bitch about the choice. But is it really a choice?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM (C3G19)

344 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE BILL CLINTON HAS A PENSION FOR ORAL GRATIFICATION AS PROVEN BY THE STARR REPORT AND BILL'S RELATIONSHIP WITH MONICA LEWINSKI.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at May 11, 2023 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)
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Whoa! The feds give out oral sex pensions now? What, the money wasn't enough? I say let these federal pensioners pay for oral sex out of their existing pensions!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:16 AM (O4oKn)

345 AOC also thought it was a clear loss:

Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 11h
LIBERAL METLDOWN: @AOC furious over @CNN Town Hall with former President Trump tonight.

https://tinyurl.com/bdek5v2m

[Two AOC twatt screencaps]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

346 344 Whoa! The feds give out oral sex pensions now? What, the money wasn't enough? I say let these federal pensioners pay for oral sex out of their existing pensions!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:16 AM (O4oKn)

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We've found the issue of our times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (LvTSG)

347 325 so, in this court judgment that went against Trump- what evidence was presented? eyewitness? photo? or was it just the 'victim' saying it happened?
Posted by: DB - not feeling it at May 11, 2023 09:11 AM (geLO

It shows the incredible legal malpractice of sweeping away Statutes of Limitations - they don't exist as "get out of jail free" cards, they exist because after a certain amount of time has passed, memories fade, evidence is lost, and any accusation becomes nothing more than a "he said, she said" story. And in that kind of setup, it is impossible for the accused to "prove" the claims are untrue.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (S6gqv)

348 Pension > penchant.

Posted by: Oops at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (DhOHl)

349 Anyone brought up the Kavanaugh pic of DiFi mugging Murkowski in the hallway?

That was kind of scary. DiFi was spring-chicken-y then.

Posted by: micky at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (3byMq)

350 JJ- serious question:

Why is John McCain sticking his right arm out of the left side of his casket?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (ykeLU)

351 "False.

He only talks about the steal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:13 AM (LvTSG)"

Which he still does a horrible job of articulating. There is enough post election analysis to develop some very cogent talking points (that have provable materiality) on fraud, subversion and illegal activity. Also ballot harvesting, mail-in and the subversion of state laws by the governors mansions. But Trump never gets around to that and as a result takes it in the neck every time.

BTW Democrats plan on doing it again because the RNC is doing zero to prevent it or change strategy.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (pIKd9)

352 From the sidebar, the vid of Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway doing "White Rabbit" dressed as Alice characters . . . dynamite stuff. I really liked the bass playing lady!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (J2vNu)

353 I have no idea what ace actually looks like.

He's a shapeshifter. He looks like whatever you imagine him to be.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 11, 2023 09:18 AM (AW0uW)

354 I really don't care about DiFi. That Senate seat is owned and operated by the Deep State, and will continue to be no matter what face happens to be sitting the chair on any given day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 09:18 AM (S6gqv)

355 353 I have no idea what ace actually looks like.

He's a shapeshifter. He looks like whatever you imagine him to be.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 11, 2023 09:18 AM (AW0uW)

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He is a timelord. This regeneration is human shaped jello.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 11, 2023 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

356 @325

>> so, in this court judgment that went against Trump- what evidence was presented? eyewitness? photo? or was it just the 'victim' saying it happened?

No evidence or eyewitness testimony was given as to the day, date or how Trump came to be a bergforf goodman dressing room with this lunatic.

It was a sad joke.

The trial was on brand for our Clown World reality.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 11, 2023 09:19 AM (up/3i)

357 I didn't watch it (no cable), but what were the most despicable lies of the evening?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM

I didn't watch it either, but I'd assume: said the sexual assault conviction was BS, said he didn't encourage a violent coup/overthrow of the government.

I saw a clip where he quipped about putting out a video from the Rose Garden telling people to peacefully disperse on Jan 6th, and he didn't use notes, because he doesn't need them, unlike some other guy.

That's probably considered a lie, too.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 11, 2023 09:19 AM (JCZqz)

358 No, Willie Brown did NOT get an oral pension!

Posted by: Comma Lah's lawyers at May 11, 2023 09:19 AM (DhOHl)

359 14th Amendment: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.

This was included so that Greenbacks issued in the Civil War wouldn't be repudiated. A more expansive reading would support that the US can't repudiate its already outstanding debt. It doesn't mean that Congress has to keep funding things that prior Congress's approved.

Now it gets real if Biden invokes this clause to blow through the debt ceiling. There'll be a question that new debt wasn't authorized and hence can be repudiated. This will roil the markets. Worse than a trillion dollar coin.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 09:19 AM (RqMSv)

360 350 JJ- serious question:

Why is John McCain sticking his right arm out of the left side of his casket?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (ykeLU)

Shape-shifting . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 09:20 AM (x0n13)

361 Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM (C3G19)

I'm not really bitching about. I understand it. Why would anyone expect people who have been in power for decades to give it up?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2023 09:20 AM (gACKv)

362 Post got eaten so: In a civil case the burden of proof is a feeling that one party is 51% at fault. That's the floor, it's not like a criminal case with beyond a shadow of a doubt so this was an easy hill to scale. That messaging doesn't seem to be out there.

Posted by: Autumnplayschess at May 11, 2023 09:20 AM (RnoAn)

363 ++++
Whoa! The feds give out oral sex pensions now? What, the money wasn't enough? I say let these federal pensioners pay for oral sex out of their existing pensions!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:16 AM (O4oKn)

You know how many concussions Ben's had? You can't fault him for spelling issues......Plus, it's still early.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

364 drill baby drill

https://tinyurl.com/34vxbc2v

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

365 BTW Democrats plan on doing it again because the RNC is doing zero to prevent it or change strategy.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM

Try to stop it?! When it worked so well last time?!

Posted by: GOPe at May 11, 2023 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

366 He looks like whatever you imagine him to be.

A young, naked Ann-Margaret…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 11, 2023 09:22 AM (Y4DQf)

367 Breaking911 @Breaking911 · 11h
LIBERAL METLDOWN: @AOC furious over @CNN Town Hall with former President Trump tonight.

https://tinyurl.com/bdek5v2m

[Two AOC twatt screencaps]
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:17 AM (Vwz3I)

IN HARMS WAY as it's leftist lunatics that keep shooting up everything and burning down cities.

One of these days, the conservatives in this country will rise up and you will KNOW when harm is on the way.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

368 A man opened fire in a production hall at a Mercedes factory in Germany on Thursday, killing two people, police said, adding the suspect had been arrested.

“A 53-year-old man entered the hall at around 7:45 am (0545 GMT) and shot at two people,” police in the city of Ludwigsburg said in a statement.

Security staff detained the suspect in the hall at the Sindelfingen plant and handed him over to police, who arrested him without resistance, the police said.

Mercedes-Benz confirmed in a statement that two people had died and said they and the suspect were employees of an external service provider.

Bild daily reported that the suspect is an employee of a logistics company.

Around 35,000 people are employed at the Mercedes plant in Solingen, which produces the German car giant’s S-Class and premium Maybach models.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:22 AM (Vwz3I)

369 mattgaetz
·
Follow
Did CNN cut it short because Trump was doing SO WELL?

I’ve never seen a Town Hall get called like a “Mercy Rule” before.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 09:22 AM (BRHaw)

370 I have no idea what ace actually looks like.

He's a shapeshifter. He looks like whatever you imagine him to be.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I have heard rumors that he has appeared in more than a few of the baby elephant videos that show up frequently during the evening animal café segment.

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 11, 2023 09:22 AM (iGfKR)

371 "NBC News NOW" guest host Tom Costello continued with a jaw-dropping question: “Will anybody be able to police what Carlson says? Or is this the point? It's just a free-for-all?”

.. these aren't journalists .. they are fascists

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2023 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

372 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 4h
BREAKING: A shooting in Spain's Seville injured several people, according to police, negotiations with the suspect, who has barricaded himself, are still ongoing.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)

373 BTW Democrats plan on doing it again because the RNC is doing zero to prevent it or change strategy.

As far as I can tell the official RNC take on The Steal is...it didn't happen - 100% of the blue shithole voters (but only in the 6 stolen states) voted. They all voted for Biden. And their votes were all coincidentally counted after the Republican observers were told to go home because of the water leak in Atlanta.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 11, 2023 09:23 AM (lc5cP)

374 362 Post got eaten so: In a civil case the burden of proof is a feeling that one party is 51% at fault. That's the floor, it's not like a criminal case with beyond a shadow of a doubt so this was an easy hill to scale. That messaging doesn't seem to be out there.
Posted by: Autumnplayschess at May 11, 2023 09:20 AM

It's cute you still think law and the justice system had anything to do with the verdict.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 11, 2023 09:24 AM (JCZqz)

375 No one needs more than one Mercedes a month.

Posted by: Karen down the street at May 11, 2023 09:24 AM (DhOHl)

376 362 Post got eaten so: In a civil case the burden of proof is a feeling that one party is 51% at fault. That's the floor, it's not like a criminal case with beyond a shadow of a doubt so this was an easy hill to scale. That messaging doesn't seem to be out there.
Posted by: Autumnplayschess at May 11, 2023 09:20 AM (RnoAn)

The problem is that this turns the courts into vehicles of extortion againt anyone who a) has money and b) is unpopular in that jurisdiction. But there are many avenues of appeal; for one thing, it is required that the defendant demonstrate actual harm that requires compensation, but I see nothing that indicates that the accuser even tried doing such a thing to this court. That's far from the only legal travesty committed here, but that's a big one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 09:24 AM (S6gqv)

377 Moron is right. Reading comprehension not so much.

Posted by: Autumnplayschess at May 11, 2023 09:25 AM (RnoAn)

378 372 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 4h
BREAKING: A shooting in Spain's Seville injured several people, according to police, negotiations with the suspect, who has barricaded himself, are still ongoing.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)

Ugh. Beautiful city.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 09:25 AM (x0n13)

379 Now that these wealthy have left the cities, they cannot continue without federal subsidies.

Actually they can. First World people can have First World things. What cannot continue is providing First World lifestyle to a Third World people/culture.

When you have savages running in the streets, voters and juries that give approval to this decay, people who are always looking for a short-cut, hand-out, an opportunity to cheat their neighbor, mired in sloth and drugs. These people are not First World, they are Third World.

A Constitutional Republic requires a moral and self regulating people. Despotism is more appropriate for those who are not. The cities can continue, but they must mirror the population, not provide golden palaces to gutter rats.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 11, 2023 09:26 AM (YXHzG)

380 ... A more expansive reading would support that the US can't repudiate its already outstanding debt. It doesn't mean that Congress has to keep funding things that prior Congress's approved.

Now it gets real if Biden invokes this clause to blow through the debt ceiling. There'll be a question that new debt wasn't authorized and hence can be repudiated. This will roil the markets. Worse than a trillion dollar coin.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 09:19 AM (RqMSv)
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Yup. I made this exact point when this crap started coming up *again.* We can't repudiate the debt (declare it null and void). That doesn't mean we have to maintain spending levels. Default is a choice. We could *choose* to cut spending and still pay the debt. The debt ceiling has no bearing on our ability to refinance existing debt like we do today, we just can't issue net-new debt that increases the total. With rising interest, some revenue will actually have to go to principal, too.

But if the debt limit is not raised and Treasury issues paper anyway, that potentially *could* be repudiated because it was not legally authorized. Things get exciting if that happens.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:26 AM (O4oKn)

381 379 Actually they can. First World people can have First World things. What cannot continue is providing First World lifestyle to a Third World people/culture...

When you have savages running in the streets,

That's racist!!!!!!!

Posted by: Leftists stop listening at this exact point at May 11, 2023 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

382 The Rio Grande is running real high and swift here in ABQ. Don't know what it's like once it gets to TX. I'm guessing that a lot of the illegals won't have to bother with a water crossing now.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 11, 2023 09:28 AM (qhbCT)

383 372 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 4h
BREAKING: A shooting in Spain's Seville injured several people, according to police, negotiations with the suspect, who has barricaded himself, are still ongoing.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)

Ugh. Beautiful city.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Until the barber left....

Posted by: JT at May 11, 2023 09:28 AM (T4tVD)

384 What was the story about 55 miles of wall?

Even CNN claimed between new, replaced, and updated it was over 400 miles!

Today the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) celebrated the construction of nearly 400 miles of new border wall system, in high priority locations across the Southwest border under the Trump Administration.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 09:28 AM (BRHaw)

385 So they wheeled her out of the wax museum before the fire really spread?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 11, 2023 09:29 AM (lz5hY)

386 I didn't watch it (no cable), but what were the most despicable lies of the evening? Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Here is a link to the full townhall. Apparently it was supposed to run 90 minutes but CNN terminated it at 70 minutes for reasons.

https://tinyurl.com/55rw42pe

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 11, 2023 09:29 AM (iGfKR)

387 The Rio Grande is running real high and swift here in ABQ. Don't know what it's like once it gets to TX. I'm guessing that a lot of the illegals won't have to bother with a water crossing now.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 11, 2023 09:28 AM (qhbCT)

The slur will be changed to 'wetlung' you're saying.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 11, 2023 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

388 Bring out yer Art… Bring out yer Art!!

Posted by: tubal at May 11, 2023 09:29 AM (PCK5/)

389 383 372 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 4h
BREAKING: A shooting in Spain's Seville injured several people, according to police, negotiations with the suspect, who has barricaded himself, are still ongoing.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)

Ugh. Beautiful city.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Until the barber left....
Posted by: JT at May 11, 2023 09:28 AM (T4tVD)

"Fan goul!"

- - Gioacchino Rossini

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 11, 2023 09:29 AM (x0n13)

390
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Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 09:30 AM (BRHaw)

391 and in all seriousness, what was the point of that - was that a "good thing"??? It simply prolonged the agony of that child and her family while pumping massive amounts of profit to the pharma company who developed it. They intentionally prolonged her suffering so that they could profit by it.

Death is not the worst outcome in situations like this, in fact it is often the best.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 11, 2023 09:12 AM (S6gqv)

It is a hard choice, especially when kids are involved. Part of the problem is the doctors will talk up any treatment and usually downplay side-effects. They have no idea of the cost. Went through it with the wife. Doctor sounded like they had wonder drugs. A little research showed it extended life on average of six months. And what he wanted to use was not covered by insurance. Just the genetic test was $8K.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 11, 2023 09:30 AM (GNPj+)

392 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 11, 2023 09:30 AM (Y4DQf)

393 . The Committee has identified payments to Biden family members from foreign companies while he served as Vice President and after he left public office.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 11, 2023 09:14 AM (BRHaw)

———

The “it’s just family members and not Joe” is the dodge but it doesn’t work (for other people) because laws take that into account.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 11, 2023 09:31 AM (4HsoB)

394 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 11, 2023 09:20 AM (gACKv)

We're on the same page Fen.

Like I said, is it really a choice?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 11, 2023 09:32 AM (C3G19)

395 Pacific Ocean President Trump explained that you can’t get a fair trial in Washington, D.C. or New York City. The New Hampshire crowd went wild.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2023 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

396 "that potentially *could* be repudiated because it was not legally authorized."

When a company does a big debt deal it has its law firm provide an opinion that the debt was duly authorized and is a legally biding obligation. The deal would never close if the lawyers for the buyers thought there was doubt about this, because of the risk of repudiation.

If Biden foists a debt sale the market will want a huge risk premium and it won't be limited to just the new debt.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 11, 2023 09:34 AM (RqMSv)

397 zerohedge @zerohedge · 11h
Clearly Putin hand picked the audience

Quote Tweet: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC · 13h
CNN should be ashamed of themselves.

They have lost total control of this “town hall” to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim.

The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host.

This falls squarely on CNN. Everyone here saw exactly what was going to happen. Instead they put a sexual abuse victim in harm’s way for views. This was a choice to platform lies about the election & Jan 6th w/ no plan but to have their moderator interrupted without consequence.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:35 AM (Vwz3I)

398 The Rio Grande is running real high and swift here in ABQ. Don't know what it's like once it gets to TX. I'm guessing that a lot of the illegals won't have to bother with a water crossing now.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby

The Rio Grande becomes a Elephant Butte near Truth or Consequences during the winter and into the Spring. At that time the Rio Grande is a dry river bed from there all the way to west Texas. During farming season the water is released and used under by NM, TX, and MX under an international agreement. My understanding is tributaries east of El Paso reconstitute the Rio Grande and it runs year round.

Posted by: Lost In Space at May 11, 2023 09:36 AM (iGfKR)

399 Boy, that's a hell of a note concerning Dolph Lundgren.

Time to rewatch "Dark Angel" in his honor.

Talec : I come in peace.
Jack Caine : And you go in pieces, asshole.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 11, 2023 09:39 AM (ZSK0i)

400 On San Fransico seeking to prevent lawfully drawing guns during a property crime: Is an armed robbery a "property crime?" Should we just submit to being robbed and hope for the best, or do we have to lean into the knife as it cuts our throat?

Posted by: Brian H at May 11, 2023 09:40 AM (I96QV)

401 They have lost total control of this “town hall” to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 11, 2023 09:35 AM (Vwz3I)
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Yup. The worst thing in the world is for an unperson to be uncensored.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 11, 2023 09:45 AM (DU+/6)

402 " I have no idea what ace actually looks like. "

Wouldn't it be a hoot to discover Ace is actually a Fed, smoking a cigar and cleaning a revolver whilst chatting with Ray Epps over how best to lure us into revealing our thoughts re: Bush, Barry, and Biden, then declare us all dangerous subversives and round us up for the boxcars...?

And then again, Ace might be living in the parental basement, sleeping on a mattress with no sheet, next to a stack of dirty laundry, wearing ripped pajama bottoms and surrounded by cats, candy wrappers, empty pizza boxes and beer cans.

So, is there a reason for the secrecy? Running from the law? A paternity lawsuit? A crazy ex? Men in white coats and carrying a net?

Posted by: Ju at May 11, 2023 09:47 AM (aTmM/)

403 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Remember when the CIA spied on Senate intelligence committee staffers? Yes, in the days of a lively Dianne Feinstein. The Intercept, May 5, 2014, The Inverse of Oversight: CIA spies on Congress. In part, "In a letter to President Obama on Tuesday, Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) referred to what he called “unprecedented action against the Committee in relation to the internal CIA review,” and described it as “incredibly troubling for the Committee’s oversight responsibilities and for our democracy.”

CONGRESS has the responsibility to address immigration challenges but, in failing to act, leaves policy questions up to the judicial & executive branches.

Biden family corruption uncovered so far by the House Oversight Committee is alarming, a complicated web of companies seemingly created for financial benefit, largely during the O&Joe admin. Surely, that did not go noticed.

Did Obama fundamentally begin the transformation of the US, now continuing as a full steam transformation of North America under the Biden administration? Absolutely.

Now more than ever, BAMN.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 11, 2023 09:48 AM (GshMh)

404 I'm making $90 an hour working from home. I never imagined that it was honest to goodness yet my closest companion is earning sixteen thousand US dollars a month by working on the connection, that was truly astounding for me, she prescribed for me to attempt it simply. Everybody must try this job now by just using this website... www.Payathome7.com

Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at May 11, 2023 09:52 AM (XVS4H)

405 So, has the border human-tsunami crested yet?

Looking for "migrant" lawn campers to be he norm in suburbia.

Sigh.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 11, 2023 09:57 AM (lZVy/)

406 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@AOC

CNN should be ashamed of themselves.

They have lost total control of this “town hall” to again be manipulated into platforming election disinformation, defenses of Jan 6th, and a public attack on a sexual abuse victim.

The audience is cheering him on and laughing at the host.
8:23 PM · May 10, 2023

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2023 09:58 AM (RHGPo)

407 She looks like something out of the Stephen King movie Creepshow. Or perhaps the new Cryptkeeper.

Posted by: Grape Ape at May 11, 2023 10:09 AM (IUb/E)

408 Trump on CNN:

It is really this simple and all of you wonderful morons and ettes squabble over inane details:

"Drill baby drill"

You know exactly what you are getting with Trump(cheap energy which is the essence of your lives) and be happy with it. Unite.

Posted by: Danimal28 at May 11, 2023 10:20 AM (klw0w)

409 6. Joe Biden has said he travelled to the island of Ireland to make "sure the Brits didn't screw around" and "walk away" from their commitments in the Good Friday Agreement.

His latest criticism of Britain was made during a fund-raising speech in New York at a Democratic National Committee reception on Wednesday night.
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FJB's a child, always playing the tough kid against some real or imagined competitor.

When Joe's lil sister, Valerie, was redecorating the Oval Office, the bust of Winston Churchill PDT had there was replaced with the bust of Latino civil rights leader Cesar Chavez and also Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt. The UK was less than delighted then.

Recently, Biden hauled not only Hunt but also lil sis to Ireland with him & Blinken. FJB's wiseass comments certainly don't help with peacekeeping in Northern Ireland.
But the fact is former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was appointed chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2020, after Bill's peace process in Northern Ireland being been touted as one of his greatest successes during his presidency.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 11, 2023 10:34 AM (GshMh)

410 The New York Times covered Wednesday’s revelations by the House Oversight Committee of a broad scheme of influence-peddling by Joe Biden by declaring Republicans found “no evidence of wrongdoing” by the president. Holy shit. This is the New York Times' takeaway from Comer's press conference revealing that bank records show 9 members of the Biden family received millions of dollars from foreign nationals while he was Vice President.

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2023 10:49 AM (RHGPo)

411 Latino civil rights leader Cesar Chavez ?

Latino union leader Cesar Chavez, who hated illegal immigrantion

Posted by: SMOD at May 11, 2023 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

412 Christopher Wray Needs to Comply With House Oversight Committee Subpoena; He's Not Above the Law

Who's gonna make him comply? As Andrew Jackson said, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 11, 2023 11:17 AM (ynpvh)

413 . www.F-U-pay-me.com

Posted by: Molly Shaffer at May 11, 2023 11:55 AM (9V1lP)

414 Michael Malice interview with James O'Keefe yesterday - "The pension is the treason."

Same as it always was. Doesn't matter which government job you're talking about, MOST people will just follow orders if it means the gibzmedats continue to flow.

FBI, NSA, CIA, or US MIL. Doesn't matter. Wrap yourself in a flag. Tell me how your good intentions outweigh my rights.

And go fuck yourself.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at May 11, 2023 01:26 PM (b306O)

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