The Morning Report — 5/31/23

Good morning, kids. Not that I really care, insofar as thinking it's going to solve or at least make the beginnings of a dent in getting our fiscal house in order, but the vote on the debt ceiling "deal" is today. I assume it has the votes to pass but along with the stalwarts on our side who are standing firm and voting no, Titty-Caca Ocasio Cortez will be joining them, albeit for very different reasons as you can well imagine.

That said, will she be able to drag a significant number of her fellow travelers to help torpedo this bullshit? We shall see. Some have postulated that should we default on the debt and suspend to a greater or lesser extent the activity of this corrupt, amoral bureaucracy, there will be some initial pain to the ordinary citizen but long term, the effect would be negligible if not salutary. Meh, they observe the Constitution only when it advances their anti-Constitutional agenda. When it doesn't, they breach it altogether, their amorality only exceeded by those allegedly on our side who do nothing to stop them. Pleas from National Review to go on a cruise and the RNC to donate so we can have a majority in Congress to stop them notwithstanding. If the junta wants/needs money, they'll get it one way or another, the law be damned.

And speaking of the lawless near-totalitarian junta hell bent on absolute power, supposedly Rep James Comer is going to hold jet-setting Gestapo chief Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over the evidence that implicates the Biden Crime Family in its generational scheme to sell off America's national policy interests to the highest bidder. What that means in terms of actual punishment – for Wray, since there will be nothing even remotely resembling punishment for Joey and his bastard of a bastard-making son – is anyone's guess. But, like those he's protecting, it's safe to assume that Wray is also untouchable. Pun intended.

Here’s a novel concept: The FBI is not above the law. In theory, of course, it’s true, as in no American is above the law. But is it really true in the sense that its leaders can be brought to justice if they break the law?  That’ll be the day. 

Ever hear of Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok? They were J. Edgar Hoover without the charm, spied on a presidential campaign without sufficient evidence, lied to the courts and never paid a price.  In fact, each got a lot richer thanks to the big shots who monetize the Hate Donald Trump fan clubs in cable TV and publishing houses. 

The unmistakable lesson is that crime, or something very much like crime, paid handsomely in their cases. If they weren’t above the law, they were certainly beyond its reach. So we must believe that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was speaking hopefully, not literally, when he told Fox Tuesday morning that unless FBI Director Christopher Wray turns over a document alleging Joe Biden sold his office as part of a $5 million bribery scheme when he was vice president, Congress will move to hold him in contempt. 

“I personally called Director Wray and told him he needs to send that document,” McCarthy said. “We have jurisdiction over this . . . And if he does not follow through with the law, we will move contempt charges against Christopher Wray and the FBI. They are not above the law.”  To which Wray effectively replied, go ahead, make my day, with the FBI later refusing to give up the document. Republicans can pass their contempt citation, but it’s up to the Justice Department to turn contempt into a prosecution. And anybody who thinks Attorney General Merrick Garland is going to prosecute Wray for shielding the Biden family hasn’t been paying attention.

Garland is the ringleader of the protect Biden club. If Wray is held in contempt, Biden would probably give him a merit raise. 

The document demand grows out of a whistleblower’s testimony before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, where GOP chairman James Comer has been banging the drum loudly about the Bidens’ decades-long grift. He used subpoena power to get bank records showing as many as nine members of the Biden gang got a cut of a big Chinese deal and recently revealed a complex web of bank accounts that Hunter Biden set up to receive and disburse huge sums from foreign paymasters. 

As Comer and others have noted, no legitimate business moves money around that way through shell company accounts. And what, they ask, was the actual product the Bidens were selling? In response to Comer’s demands and McCarthy’ threat, the FBI initially issued a boilerplate statement that sounded as if Wray might play ball: 

“The FBI remains committed to cooperating with Congress’s oversight requests on this matter and others as we always have, and we continue to be in touch with members of Congress regarding this request.”  That was a head fake, for late Tuesday, Comer said the answer he got was a hard no, adding the “FBI’s decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructionist and unacceptable.”  He added that although he and Wray would talk Wednesday, the panel “will now be taking steps to hold the FBI Director in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena.”  Perhaps, but Comer has to know he can’t count on any Democratic votes. This will require Republican focus and unity — and thick skins to put up with the media abuse as it, too, protects the Bidens. 

The conflict comes at an important moment in the many House investigations. Other whistleblowers have also come forward, including more than 20 who told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI is deeply politicized in favor of Democrats and the far-left.  They said it singles out pro-life groups, Catholics and parents attending school board meetings as a way of intimidating those groups. The whistleblowers also charged there is a pattern of top officials inflating cases beyond the evidence so they can be classified as domestic violence extremism, satisfying a favorite talking point of Democrats.  Three of the whistleblowers had their security clearances revoked as they prepared to testify, Fox reported.  Perhaps the most intriguing of those who came forward was Gary Shapley, the whistleblower who alleges the IRS has slow-walked the Hunter Biden case to avoid filing charges. . .

. . . The lesson so far is that, no matter what McCarthy and Comer say, the White House and executive agencies believe they are above the law, and will protect the president and his family for as long as they can. Although it’s obvious that Joe Biden profited from and participated in the influence-peddling schemes, if justice comes, it will come despite the current leaders of federal law enforcement, not because of them.  That’s why the showdown over the document must result in either Congress getting the document or Wray being held in contempt. Only when the obstructionists pay a personal price will they begin to calculate whether they want to risk their careers and reputations defending a corrupt president.

"Risk their careers and reputations defending a corrupt president?" What Michael Goodwin and so many others fail to recognize is that their central responsibility in their careers IS defending a corrupt so-called "president." That is, one who is firmly "down for the struggle" to destroy America as founded and supplant it with a regime firmly in the camp of the DC-Davos-Brussels-Beijing Axis. Meaning Democrats and RINO stooges who don't stray far from the plantation. Naturally, lorded and over by the "elites" as they fancy themselves.

And if the power of their office won't do the trick, they have government-approved (if not directed) street thugs to get your mind right, i.e., beat your brains in. (Warning: the photo is disturbing)

“The attack happened just before 10:30 a.m. at the clinic along North Howard Street, according to police. The two victims are both men, 73 and 80 years old,” KATV reported Tuesday. 

LifeSiteNews first reported on the incident Saturday. Local pro-lifer John Roswell told the outlet via email that Dick Schafer and Mark Crosby are the men who were allegedly attacked and seriously injured.  The pro-life outlet obtained photographs of what appear to be facial injuries. Roswell said that Schafer is “recovering at home” and Crosby was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.

“Detailing the extent of the injuries, Roswell wrote that Crosby’s ‘plate bone in his upper right cheek is completely fractured,’ and that he ‘is bleeding from some unidentified area behind his eye and the bone eye orbit is completely shattered and will have to be replaced with metal,”‘ according to the report. Dr. Jay Walton, the president of Baltimore County Right to Life, started a GoFundMe for Crosby’s medical expenses. Walton said Crosby was “brutally beaten…while he was praying in front of the Planned Parenthood in Baltimore City.”

. . . Police said the suspect was allegedly seen passing the men before turning around to engage with them, CBS News reported.  The suspect was allegedly seen “having a visibly aggressive conversation” with one of the pro-lifers before he became physical. “The suspect is then observed about to turn away but rushes [at Crosby] and tackles him over a large flowerpot,” police said. Schafer reportedly tried to help Crosby, but was shoved to the ground and cut his hand, according to local news reports. “Officers said the suspect then continued to punch and kick Crosby,” KATV reported.  Police are still searching for the attacker, according to the report.

Remember that the FBI and DOJ will send SWAT teams to your door to terrorize you and your family as they drag you away for thought crimes, like they did to Mark Houck,

But pregnancy crisis centers and churches?

Or Supreme Court justices who don't vote like they're supposed to?

Leave us alone. We're far too busy concocting entrapment schemes, peon!

Hot on the heels of the news that the Feds have downgraded terrorism charges against Sai Varshith Kandula from threatening the president and vice president to what amounts to a fender bender, comes a new warning from the Department of Homeland Security. As you may recall, Kandula, who had a Nazi flag with him, crashed a U-Haul into the barriers of Lafayette Square.

And as you know, the fact that the same government that has told us there is nothing to see in the Kandula incident has also been very adept at targeting pro-lifers, and Catholics, making sure that the J6ers serve as a warning to us all, and harvesting bank information. Oh, and it also gave us the “Pyramid of Far Right Radicalization,” not to mention the PREVENTS-OH seminar at the University of Dayton.

Now the DOJ is warning the country about a potential increase in domestic terrorism. Why? Because election season is ramping up. And of course, that means that we need to heighten our awareness. See something, say something. The caveat may be that doing so depends on who you see and what they are doing. Just the News has obtained a DOJ bulletin titled “Summary of Terrorism Threat to the United States.”

The United States remains in a heightened threat environment. Lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and personal grievances continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat to the Homeland. Both domestic violent extremists (DVEs) and those associated with foreign terrorist organizations continue to attempt to motivate supporters to conduct attacks in the Homeland, including through violent extremist messaging and online calls for violence. In the coming months, factors that could mobilize individuals to commit violence include their perceptions of the 2024 general election cycle and legislative or judicial decisions pertaining to sociopolitical issues. Likely targets of potential violence include US critical infrastructure, faith-based institutions, individuals or events associated with the LGBTQIA+ community, schools, racial and ethnic minorities, and government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement.

The above-mentioned triangle and seminars address things such as PragerU, Quillette, Turning Point USA, The Heritage Foundation, and Republicans in general. And the bulletin cited examples such as the Covenant School shootings, and the recent shootings at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, done by a person who “held views consistent with racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist (RMVE) and involuntary celibate violent extremist ideologies.” It also mentions a white supremacist who tried to burn down an Ohio church that was planning a drag event and the white supremacists who attacked electrical substations in Maryland. . .

. . . No civilized person wants to see mass shootings, arson, or attacks on electrical substations. But I’d have more confidence in this bulletin if there had also been a “Pyramid of Far Left Radicalization.” But I’m not going to hold my breath. And neither should you.

Meanwhile the Homo-Tranny brigades just made Target their target for backing down on selling pervert gear to toddlers. Kind of puts Wray and Garland in a bit of a pickle. Target is ultra-pro-Lefty and regime approved, yet so are the mostly peaceful (and fabulous!) terrorists. Maybe if they add glitter and Astro-Glide to their Molotov cocktails, everyone will be ameliorated.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "The project is potentially so massive in scope, it’s not an overstatement to say it threatens to regulate our freedom of association in shocking ways."
  To Address the Loneliness Epidemic, the Feds Want to Control Your Town and Friends
  
• "The FBI can arrest Americans, the intelligence communities can spy on us, but it’s the IRS that can, and does, terrify and ruin."
  Defund the IRS

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• "How in any way is it within a prosecutor’s purview — whose job is to prosecute particular, defined crimes based on legitimate suspicion guilt — to wade into the private financial donations collected by private citizens, which are fully legal? If there were a plaintiff who donated to one of these defendants who claims he or she was misled about the use of the money, that would be a different story. But that’s not what’s going on here."
  U.S. Government Now Confiscating Private Legal Fund Donations to Jan. 6 Defendants
  
• "Another hit to the disgraced Bureau."
  FBI Further Exposed
  
• "The prosecution of Kevin Mackie is the latest in a string of cases where people in blue areas face charges for defending themselves from violent leftists."
  Massachusetts Man Faces Prosecution For Defending Himself From Violent, Anti-Republican Attacker
  
• "The bomb threats were allegedly made against several Target stores in at least three states: Utah, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. An email to one Cleveland store that Cleveland 19 News reviewed indicated that radical LGBTQ activists may have been behind the threats."
  Pro-Homo/Tranny Radicals Send Target Bomb Threats After Pride Month Merchandise Pullback
  
• "The two victims are both men, 73 and 80 years old. When police arrived, several witnesses told officers that two people had been assaulted, and the more severely injured man was inside a local business." (hat tip to commenter Village Idiot's Apprentice - jjs)
  Two Pro-Life Supporters Beaten Outside Planned Parenthood in Baltimore, Police Say
  
• “Get that fucker! Get that fucker! Fuck that fucker up!”
  Video Shows as Many as 40 Teenagers Beating Up Marines in California
  
• No civilized person wants to see mass shootings, arson, or attacks on electrical substations. But I’d have more confidence in this bulletin if there had also been a “Pyramid of Far Left Radicalization.” But I’m not going to hold my breath. And neither should you.
  DHS Issues Domestic Terror Warnings as Election Season Shapes Up
  
• "For [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden, the annual marking of the Minneapolis man’s death is an opportunity to gesture in support of anti-police advocates."
  George Floyd Memorial Weekend
  
• "In America today, everything is viewed through the eye of race and gender, ignoring experience and skills, in favor of fulfilling some arbitrarily defined quotas, all in the name of diversity."
  The Quota States of America
  
• Kurt Schlichter: "The Left figured out that racial hatred gives it a huge advantage."
  Reject the Race Hustlers

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• The broadside follows Musk’s move to withdraw Twitter from a supposedly voluntary code of practice on disinformation backed by the European Commission, the unelected body which serves as the EU’s executive as well as the major initiator of EU-level legislation.
  Lé CCP: France Will Ban Twitter Unless It Censors ‘Disinformation’
  
• Sohrab Ahmari: "Mismanagement in the new Twitter regime is starting to show."
  Has Musk Ruined Twitter
  
• "The authors also chose to ignore and misrepresent private communications with sources used in their articles, which is where this whole situation starts to get strange."
  Media Matters Launches Misinformation Campaign Against Joe Rogan, His Guests

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• Michael Goodwin: "The lesson so far is that, no matter what McCarthy and Comer say, the White House and executive agencies believe they are above the law, and will protect the president and his family for as long as they can. Although it’s obvious that Joe Biden profited from and participated in the influence-peddling schemes, if justice comes, it will come despite the current leaders of federal law enforcement, not because of them."
  The Biden Family is Under the Protection of the Nation's Top Lawmen
  
• “The FBI’s decision to stiff-arm Congress and hide this information from the American people is obstructionist and unacceptable. While I have a call scheduled with FBI Director Wray tomorrow to discuss his response further, the Committee has been clear in its intent to protect Congressional oversight authorities and will now be taking steps to hold the FBI Director in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a lawful subpoena,” Comer said in a statement.
  House Oversight Committee Will Hold FBI Director In Contempt Of Congress, Rep. Comer Says
  
• “I’m still kind of in a daze a bit but I feel very good,” Reade said. “I feel very surrounded by protection and safety.”
  Former Biden Accuser Tara Reade Defects to Russia

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Let me know when the EPA and IRS are abolished. Until then, go give Frank Luntz a Brazilian, cabana boy.
  McCarthy Says Debt Ceiling Deal Offers ‘Biggest Cut in History’
  
• Supporters of the bill have “outright lied” about what’s in it, Bishop told reporters.
  Every GOP ‘Get’ in Biden-McCarthy Debt Ceiling Deal Is ‘a Token, Artificial, Fake, Nothing Benefit,’ Rep. Bishop Warns
  
• "[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have a deal, but will House Republicans go for it?
  Deal or No Deal: Debt Ceiling Edition
  
• "Their opposition, if it holds, means a bipartisan vote will be necessary for passage as Republicans hold a narrow majority in the lower chamber."
  Band of House Republicans Stand Against Debt Ceiling Deal
  
• "In a letter to Rep. McCarthy (R-CA), CBO director Phillip Schwagel said the agency projected the deal’s caps on discretionary spending in 2024 and 2025 would reduce outlays by $1.3 trillion over the next 1o years. Mandatory spending would fall by $10 billion. Revenues are projected to fall by $2 billion due to cuts to funding for enforcement by the Internal Revenue Service. Interest on the public debt would decline by $188 billion."
  CBO Estimates Debt Ceiling Deal Will Cut Debt By $1.5 Trillion
  
• "The Mountain Valley Pipeline continues to work as a lifesaver for Democrats."
  McCarthy, Debt Ceiling Deal Is Not a Win
  
• "The majority comprised more than a third of Democrats – 36 percent – and almost two-thirds of Republicans – 74 percent."
  DATA: Voters Support Gov't Shutdown Until Spending is Cut
  
• "Even if Congress breached a constitutional obligation to lift the debt ceiling and so let a default occur, only Congress itself — not [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden — could repair the breach."
  Democrats are Demanding a Dictatorship in the Debt Debate
  
• "Our elected politicians have the country on an extended glide path to sovereign debt default."
  The True Threat of Debt Default

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

• “These comments are a blatant slap in the face to the hardworking individuals that spend their lives sustainably producing our world’s food, fuel, and fiber.”
  Two Dozen Republicans Want Biden to Disavow John Kerry’s Statements Targeting Farms
  
• "Germany primes its subjects for another step towards authoritarianism and the inevitable climate lockdowns."
  Fourth Reich Disseminates Ominous New Report on "Environmental Policy"
  
• "Proponents of the green movement are pouring millions into grants to sneak news content supportive of their agenda."
  The Leftist Green Agenda is Buying Its Way Into the News
  
• "The beaches are still here, as is the climate hysteria."
  Remembering When The New York Times Reported East Coast Beaches Would Be Gone by 2020
  
• "Power has driven him mad" is right. All French presidents seem to model themselves on Napoleon, but Macron seems to have his eye on the Nappy of British caricature. Short and vain, autocratic and ridiculous, he's only in his current position because of the incompetence of his opponents.
  Allons Enfants, et Prendre le Train
  
• "There is a growing backlash against the ESG movement in the U.S., as Americans continue to learn more about how it threatens their retirement accounts and access to affordable energy. ESG-activist insurer and asset manager coalitions are now facing state bans and accusations of potential legal violations."
  Insurers Abandon Net-Zero Insurance Alliance – But, Vow to Continue Discriminating Against Traditional Energy Sources
  
• "African nation's 'patriarchal' society means women aren't involved in fight against climate change, USAID argues." (Samantha "em"-Powers, feh - jjs)
  Biden Junta Unveils $1.5 Million Effort to 'Empower' Female Climate Activists in Northern Kenya

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Visa abuse, which begins as legal entry, doesn’t get nearly as much attention as illegal border crossings."
  The Other Half of Our Immigration Crisis
  
• "They told me immigration was a net benefit and diversity was a strength. Now they tell me it’s a punishment for colonialism."
  They Just Admitted It

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, was arrested and charged in the murder of 30-year-old Eunice Dwumfour, who was shot and killed on the evening of February 1. Dwumfour and Bynum knew each other from working together at Champions Royal Assembly, a Nigeria-based prosperity gospel church in Newark, police said, according to ABC 7."
  Arrest Made After Months Of Silence In NJ GOP Councilwoman’s Murder
  
• "The Minnesota Freedom Fund used donations to free alleged murderers and pedophiles."
  Kamala-Backed Bail Fund Sees Revenues Plummet By 98 Percent

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "I predicted when the GOP took over the House, despite candidates’ campaign pledges to earnestly pursue [Chinese] COVID-19 justice, that very little would actually get done on this front because both parties — particularly at the leadership level — are beholden to the special interests that perpetrated the fraud in the first place. That prediction has largely been borne out, with a few notable exceptions like MTG seeming to make a good-faith effort to right the wrongs."
  Peer-Reviewed Study: "The Higher the Number of Vaccines Previously Received, the Higher the Risk of Contracting [Chinese] COVID-19"
  
• "According to newly revealed Israeli Ministry of Health data, during the entire epidemic there were zero deaths (that’s 0, nil, none, naught, zilch, null) from [Chinese] COVID to anyone under fifty who was of average and reasonable health."
  New Data Gives the Same Result as Old Data: Like the Flu, Chinese COVID Hurt NO ONE Who Was Young and Healthy

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Under Biden, FBI has investigated dozens of U.S. parents who criticized school boards."
  Biden Junta Wants Teachers to 'Partner Directly With Parents'—But Only In Puerto Rico
  
• "Power-hungry university 'scholars' spawned the toxic revolution obsessed with radical change that dominates our society today."
  The Birthplace of Woke: Identity Studies in Academia
  
• "The apparent impending demise of The King’s College is instructive about the pitfalls lying in wait for even the best-intentioned institutions of higher education."
  Dethroned
  
• "The rise of AI . . . and human extinction."
  The Death of the Professor in the Age of Chat GPT

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "A vast network of liberal dark money is using ballot initiatives to buy substantial electoral reforms that would otherwise be impossible."
  Meet The ‘Nonpartisan’ Dark-Money Group Rigging Michigan Elections So Democrats Can’t Lose

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• Arrogant piece of shit Dan Goldman.
  House Dem Who Ran as 'Anti-Corruption' Crusader Makes Perfectly Timed Stock Trades
  
• "The new cache of e-mails, which was obtained by The Daily Mail as well as the Daily Beast, show Jeffrey Epstein met or planned to socialize with a wide spectrum of rich and powerful people in the worlds of politics, finance, and show business."
  Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Documents Show Connections to More Celebrities — Irina Shayk, David Blaine, Tommy Mottola

  POLITICS

• "Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute, said DeSantis has yet to make a case why GOP voters should vote for him over Trump." (for what it's worth - jjs)
  Poll: Majority of Republicans Say Donald Trump Is Best Chance to Defeat Joe Biden
  
• "The race remains Ron DeSantis’ to win."
  It Won’t Be Biden vs. Trump
  
• "Spending deal is one of the first live issues on which the candidates will offer contrasting visions."
  Debt Ceiling Emerges as Potential Trump-DeSantis Battle Ground
  
• “Why listen to a racist, imperialist, transphobic, war monger?? Your hate is loud.”
  Colorado College Students Boo and Turn Their Backs on Commencement Speaker Liz-ard Cheney
  
• "The party’s failure to appeal to younger voters is not an unsolvable problem." (the party doesn't appeal to me, and I'm 63! - jjs)
  Toward a Youthful Republican Party

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "On the surface, the personal decision not to receive an experimental vaccine would seem to have no correlation with 80% or more opposition to escalation of the conflict by their home country. But dig a millimeter deeper, and I think the common factor is pretty obvious."
  Stunning Poll on Chinese COVID Vaccine-Refusers and Ukraine War

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The rejection comes despite a 'weekslong effort' by the U.S. to secure a meeting with Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu at the annual conference, which included a letter from Austin to Li, according to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday." (weekslong = weak schlong - jjs)
  Chinese Defense Minister Rejects Meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
  
• "This is bizarre behavior, and a reckless threat to American national security."
  Russia Pulled Out of Its Nuclear Transparency Pact With the United States. The Biden Junta Still Shares Sensitive Data.
  
• The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo soon issued the following statement: “The Japanese government is warning that North Korea may have launched a missile. The government is urging people in #Okinawa to take shelter immediately. Watch local news for current information.”
  Japan Issues Shelter Order Amidst North Korea Launch
  
• "And the shameful – and shameless – United Nations."
  Iran’s Mullahs on Killing Spree
  
• In a wooden response to the revelations, His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) – the British equivalent of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – insisted that it “exchanges data with around 100 countries to help tackle tax evasion and non-compliance in-line with international treaties,” and that this data “can only be used for tax purposes and all countries must pass a rigorous assessment by independent experts to ensure the data is used appropriately.”
  Britain Is Sharing Chinese Dissident Info With the CCP
  
• “The most moral army in the world.”
  Colonel Richard Kemp on the IDF’s Achievements
  
• "The Truman administration’s refusal to renew aid to Chiang Kai-shek’s forces — as Bullitt had repeatedly urged — assured the Chinese communist victory in the civil war."
  The World Would Be Much Different Had Our Leaders Listened to William Bullitt
  
• "On this date in 1988, Ronald Reagan told Soviet college students about freedom – and the future."
  Stranger in Moscow

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "With a boss like Joe Biden, it’s unlikely his new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs will serve as anything more than a yes-man." (another anti-American clown unworthy to wear the uniform of a whorehouse janitor - jjs)
  Charlie Brown’s Pentagon
  
• “DOD began development of the F-35 aircraft in 2001 without adequate knowledge of its critical technologies or a solid design,” GAO continued. “The misalignment of requirements with the engine and PTMS illustrates why it is important to fully understand the proposed designs at the beginning of an acquisition, prior to committing to development.“
  Cost Of Pentagon’s Most Expensive Weapons Program Is Spiraling Out Of Control, Watchdog Finds

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Carlson faced stiff opposition from Republicans on the Senate Commerce Committee, who earlier this month criticized her role in the development of fuel-economy standards in 2021, arguing they were “consistent with your long career as an environmentalist without traffic safety experience.”
  Biden Withdraws Enviro-Commie Ann Carlson as Nominee to Lead US Auto Safety Agency After GOP Pushes Back

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The shortage is being most acutely felt in the generic drug market, which accounts for nearly 90% of U.S. prescriptions. The exact number of drugs being affected depends on who you ask — according to a Senate report at the end of last year, the U.S. reached a peak level of 295 active drug shortages, although as of March, the FDA claims there are 130. The American Society of Health reports 301 drug shortages as of the first quarter of 2023. (thank you, Chamber of Commerce, Big Pharma and Obamacare! - jjs)
  U.S. Faces Massive Shortage Of Prescription Drugs
  
• “Most health gains in recent centuries haven’t been due to pills and devices.”
  The Soft Tyranny of Modern Medicine
  
• "As de facto drug legalization expands, substance abuse is driving a child-welfare crisis."
  Parenting While High

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

• “PTA president in @MurraySchoolsUT, Jennifer Auwerda, has relentlessly bullied me and my family just because we don’t want Gender/Queer ideology in Murray School District, Utah,” Despain wrote in the tweet containing the video. “Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.” (beat her to pulp with it and shove it up her nose - jjs)
  Utah School PTA President Allegedly Orders LGBT Flags To Be Staked In Yard Of Mom Who Opposed Gender Ideology
  
• The lawsuit asks the court to declare the law “unconstitutional and void in its entirety” under the Nebraska Constitution. LB 574 includes its 12-week abortion ban, the Preborn Child Protection Act, in sections 1-6 of the bill, while banning “gender-altering surgeries” and restricting puberty blockers for minors in sections 14-20, the Let Them Grow Act.
  ACLU Sues Red State Over Law Banning Sex Changes For Kids
  
• "Sen. Hawley's call to empower men triggers man-hating leftists."
  Unleashing American Masculinity

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• Disney must die. Period. Sad that there are many hundreds of decent people who still work there, but this is war and sometimes innocent people have to suffer for a greater good.
  Watch: Disneyland Video Shows Male Employee Dressed in Drag and Greeting Children
  
• "Transheuser-Busch literally cannot give this beer away for pennies a can."
  The CNN of Beers — Bud Light Sales Crash 30% Week of May 20
  
• A clip from 2 years ago shows CEO Dan Cathy saying whites should shine a black person’s shoes with “a sense of shame, a sense of embarrassment.” (the Billy Batts gambit - jjs)
  Chick-fil-A Hires a VP of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  
• Christian Toto: "Conservative protest song latest track to defy the odds, crush sales charts."
  "Boycott Target" Hits No. 1 on iTunes
  
• "Hey, does anyone know if they sell Bud Light at Target? I need to make a beer run. But seriously, folks, consumers who are not particularly rainbow-minded will run out of places to shop if this keeps up."
  Stores, Stores Everywhere, and Not a Place to Shop
  
• Jeffrey Lord: "The obvious question undiscussed in the woke world of Target."
  Would Target Sell ‘Hetero Pride’ Shirts?
  
• "Is a ‘dignity’ month too much to ask for?"
  Forget "Pride"
  * * * * *

• Kershaw had previously announced the relaunch of “Christian Faith and Family Day” at Dodgers stadium on Twitter, May 26, saying he hoped it would be “bigger and better” than before the multi-year [Chinese] COVID hiatus.
  CHEERS: Superstar Pitcher Clayton Kershaw Comes Out Against His Team Honoring Group That Mocks Christianity, Nuns
  
• "Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass apologized on Tuesday for sharing a post on social media encouraging Christians to boycott companies and brands such as Target and Bud Light for how they have embraced the LGBTQ community."
  JEERS: Ballplayer Caves and Apologizes for Sharing Video on Bud Light, Target Boycotts
  
• "Though it may sound like a gross trend, the idea of 'rotting' merely refers to laying in bed for long periods of time, doing nothing meaningful or productive. In fact, it does not matter what you do while you are in bed; all that matters is that you are cuddled up in a comfortable place outside of bedtime hours."
  'Bed Rotting' is Gen Z's Latest, Entitled Self-Care Trend
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "John Cleese smacks down trans censorship."
  Life of Python
  
• "The conservative movement is incapable of fighting, much less winning, an unprecedented revolution against Western civilization."
  To Win the ‘Culture War,’ We Need Fewer Conservatives and More Counter-Revolutionists
  
• "Country music presents an interesting metaphor for modern America: traditionally family and faith-oriented, now shallow and self-interested."
  A Tale of Two Countries
  
• "The Right needs new magic words to break the spell of woke."
  Sorcery or Nihilism, Part III

  HITHER & YON

• "She was fearless and passionate, especially when reporting about repressive regimes around the world. Claudia was the only print journalist who witnessed the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989, dodging bullets to get the story out to the world (you can read her first-hand account here). She was also a fierce critic of the United Nations and is widely credited with exposing corruption in the international body. She received several awards for her reporting on the UN’s Oil-for-Food program in Iraq. In recent years she had traveled to Hong Kong to cover protests over the encroachment of China. She was also a foreign policy fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum."
  Claudia Rosett, 1955-2023: One of the Most Courageous Journalists of Our Time

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 07:42 AM (BRHaw)

2 Good morning one and all.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2023 07:43 AM (4olE8)

3 Yonder Horde.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 07:44 AM (Q4IgG)

4 Regarding the debt negotiations, I am in the "LET IT ALL BURN!" camp. Yes, normal people will feel pain for a while but the can has been kicked for far too long.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2023 07:44 AM (4olE8)

5 well, it's wednesday, so LOTS of fresh hell, and more than enough stale hell, await at work.

eventually the concussions from banging my head against the desk will make me not care, right?

anyway, time to prep for 3 hours of meetings this morning...
-_-

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 31, 2023 07:45 AM (nXhwP)

6 If AOC votes no, it's part of a deal.

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2023 07:46 AM (SYTee)

7 Girthy. Bigly done.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 07:46 AM (of9Mm)

8 > Former Biden Accuser Tara Reade Defects to Russia
____________

I did not have this on my WTF bingo card.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 07:46 AM (Q4IgG)

9 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 07:47 AM (T4tVD)

10 One does not have to “ defect” to Russia… what a stupid statement.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 07:47 AM (PCK5/)

11 Chrissy Wray should be force to resign so he can take a high paying sinecure with one of the democrat controlled networks and really enjoy life.

Never Give Up Your Guns!

Rootin For Putin!

Abolish The democrat Deep State!

Free President Trump, Buffalo Guy and Danny Penny!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 31, 2023 07:48 AM (7tCXb)

12 "What that means in terms of actual punishment – for Wray, since there will be nothing even remotely resembling punishment for Joey and his bastard of a bastard-making son – is anyone's guess."

If the GOP had any balls, they would give each other a reach around.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 07:49 AM (iayUP)

13 Disney must die. Period.
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You have my vote, sir.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 07:49 AM (of9Mm)

14 And this was Bass's Instagram share, nothing about killing all the queers...

||Various Twitter users published screenshots of the alleged video that Bass shared, depicting a man named Ryan Miller behind the Instagram account “dudewithgoodnews,” instructing the audience to consider boycotting Target on behalf of Christianity and the bible.

“For those who don’t know, Target has begun pushing the message of transitioning to young people and teamed up with a Satanist to push pro-Satan clothing and pins to children,” Miller wrote in the video’s caption. “The enemy isn’t even hiding anymore.”

The video remains shared on Bass’ Instagram story, published around 7:30 p.m. on Monday.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 07:49 AM (Vwz3I)

15 “I personally called Director Wray and told him he needs to send that document,” McCarthy said. “We have jurisdiction over this . . . And if he does not follow through with the law, we will move contempt charges against Christopher Wray and the FBI. They are not above the law.” To which Wray effectively replied,
FUCK YOU

I fixed it

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 07:50 AM (BRHaw)

16 I did not have this on my WTF bingo card.

Neither did I. Seriously, what the hell??

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at May 31, 2023 07:51 AM (wagHN)

17 Those two men that were beaten? The families of those men need to "take care" of the situation. Shit like that makes my blood boil. As the first commenter stated, "it's time folks......."

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 31, 2023 07:51 AM (Zvtjl)

18 10 One does not have to “ defect” to Russia… what a stupid statement.
Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 07:47 AM (PCK5/)

And that's Breitbart. Sheesh, how stupid. Or intentionally misleading as a way to smear Russia.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 07:51 AM (x0n13)

19 G'morning. Read the content.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at May 31, 2023 07:51 AM (8C7+r)

20 There needs to be a lot more bed rotting going on. A LOT more. I encourage at least half the country to actively pursue bed rotting.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 07:51 AM (iayUP)

21 Bass’s statement was clinically factual… so he had to recant because of the truth angle.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 07:52 AM (PCK5/)

22 NYT French's fascination with Sen. Hawley is way past normal, just like his weird obsession with Christians.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 07:52 AM (of9Mm)

23 Mornin' Horde!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 31, 2023 07:53 AM (gB5n6)

24 A busy two weeks in the region...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 33m
ICYMI - Magnitude 6.2 earthquake detected off N. Zealand’s south coast

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 07:53 AM (Vwz3I)

25 Willowed but important. Can't find *anything* in searches about this.

I just heard a radio interview with a journalist in Uma, Arizona.

The reason you're not seeing anything from the border is because the U.S. border is being enforced from far *inside* the border (miles, it sounds like), and any journalists or similar trying to record or take photos of what's happening at the border is seized and pushed into Mexico.

This is not a joke. Apparently there are notifications that it's their method of enforcing the border, and they pretend it applies to everyone, but somehow only the Americans with cameras are being seized, transported, and dumped into Mexico without passports for re-entry.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 07:53 AM (5/7b/)

26 Happy World Otter Day! 🦦🦦

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2023 07:54 AM (NpAcC)

27 LGBTQ radicals reportedly deluged Target with bomb threats in retaliation to the retail giant pulling back on some of its Pride Month merchandise after significant backlash.

The left always responds with violence!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 07:54 AM (BRHaw)

28 “I personally called Director Wray and told him he needs to send that document,” McCarthy said. “We have jurisdiction over this . . . And if he does not follow through with the law, we will move contempt charges against Christopher Wray and the FBI. They are not above the law.” To which Wray effectively replied,
FUCK YOU

I fixed it
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 07:50 AM (BRHaw)
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Wray also told Luntz-McCarthy to stop calling or writing, and interrupting his vacations.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 07:54 AM (of9Mm)

29 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
🚨 North Korea spy satellite crashes into sea, Seoul salvages wreckage

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 07:55 AM (Vwz3I)

30 “Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.”

A bit of fire is in order.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 07:55 AM (iayUP)

31 29 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
🚨 North Korea spy satellite crashes into sea, Seoul salvages wreckage
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 07:55 AM (Vwz3I)

There will be a sudden shortage of rocket scientists in North Korea.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 07:57 AM (PCK5/)

32 "Happy World Otter Day!
Posted by: redridinghood"

Did those gayass sea otters come up with that?

Posted by: a river otter at May 31, 2023 07:57 AM (iayUP)

33 G'morning

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 07:57 AM (DU+/6)

34 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 2h
🚨 North Korea spy satellite crashes into sea, Seoul salvages wreckage
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 07:55 AM (Vwz3I)
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Heh. Something tells me that the wreckage won't show anything interesting. Unless the Norks got the Chicoms to give them whatever their best is. I doubt that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

35 Apparently Ted Cruz has come out (ha) and said that it's unacceptable that Uganda put men to death who Gay-rape little children or Gay-rape disabled people.

Cruz said the law criminalizing homosexuality is grotesque and an abomination.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 07:58 AM (5/7b/)

36 “Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.”


By what authority does she have the right to deface someone's private property?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2023 07:58 AM (45fpk)

37 That said, will she be able to drag a significant number of her fellow travelers to help torpedo this bullshit?
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My money - what's left of it - is on "no."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 07:58 AM (DU+/6)

38
Short and vain, autocratic and ridiculous, he's only in his current position because of the incompetence of his opponents.

Now just wait a cotton-pickin' minute, De Gaulle was tall and vain.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 07:59 AM (MoZTd)

39 Trump is calling for the end of birthright citizenship. Doing so was once thought unthinkable, but it can be done and it's now an existential necessity.

If we don't do so, then all those illegals pouring over our borders will be bringing all their relatives in due course. It will break the country.

Congress can pass a law, POTUS can sign it, and SCOTUS can uphold it. There's an old SCOTUS precedent that dealt with the child of legal residents. Easily distinguishable.

And the Overton Window will shift, as Blue cities get crushed under the weight.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 07:59 AM (RqMSv)

40 What that means in terms of actual punishment – for Wray, since there will be nothing even remotely resembling punishment for Joey and his bastard of a bastard-making son – is anyone's guess. But, like those he's protecting, it's safe to assume that Wray is also untouchable. Pun intended.
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We have precedent for what happens when a high-ranking executive official is hit with Contempt of Congress: he says, "yeah, I hold Congress in contempt, too" and then nothing happens.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 07:59 AM (DU+/6)

41 “Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.”


By what authority does she have the right to deface someone's private property?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2023 07:58 AM


Iffn it was my yard I would burn those flags. Toss them into a pile, pour some gas on them and light them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 31, 2023 08:00 AM (ncXxy)

42 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 16h
BREAKING 🚨 Chinese J-16 fighter jet intercepted a US Air Force RC-135 aircraft on May 26 over South China Sea

"The PRC pilot flew directly in front of the nose of the RC-135, forcing the U.S. aircraft to fly through its wake turbulence.“

BREAKING VIDEO 🚨 Chinese fighter jet performing "an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver" in front of U.S. Air Force aircraft over the South China Sea

https://tinyurl.com/45fppr83
17-second video

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 08:00 AM (Vwz3I)

43 Cruz picked a strange topic to color outside the lines on.. he might think a little before hitting the “ send” button next time..

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:00 AM (PCK5/)

44 Garland is the ringleader of the protect Biden club. If Wray is held in contempt, Biden would probably give him a merit raise.
++++
He is, dare we say it, Biden's "wingman?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:00 AM (DU+/6)

45
Yo, dog, the homos get a 30-day Month and we only get a 28-day Month? Racist crackers!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 08:00 AM (MoZTd)

46 "I don't agree with making fun of other people's religion," Kershaw told the Times. "It has nothing to do with anything other than that. I just don't think that no matter what religion you are, you should make fun of somebody else's religion."

Kershaw noted that he "did the best I could to try and understand with they stood for," but it was "tough" to see videos of the group mocking Christianity.
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The Dodgers screwed the pooch on this. The marketing team needs to be replaced, obviously, and you can bet the Dodgers are begging the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to back off voluntarily. Won't happen; Satan thrives on controversy like this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 08:00 AM (YB/WK)

47 Here's Ted Cruz article.

https://tinyurl.com/3xav3xpu

The other quotes from politicians acknowledging Gay-rape of little children is gays "true selves" are hilarious, too:

"Uganda’s shameful anti-LGBTQ law is unjust & simply cruel,'' Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., said in a Tuesday tweet. ''Regardless of where you live, every person deserves the freedom to live their true authentic self, free from discrimination. I stand with Uganda’s LGBTQ+ community & call for an immediate repeal."

Again, the law is against Gay-raping of children.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:01 AM (5/7b/)

48 There will be a sudden shortage of rocket scientists in North Korea.
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And a run on antiaircraft shells.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 08:01 AM (Vwz3I)

49 I see Chicago had an interesting Memorial weekend. I guess MSM doesn't care about what happens to Windy City.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2023 08:01 AM (88xKn)

50
Iffn it was my yard I would burn those flags. Toss them into a pile, pour some gas on them and light them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 31, 2023 08:00 AM (ncXxy)

Burning American flag: Free speech

Burning Pride flag: Hate crime

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 08:01 AM (MoZTd)

51 "Risk their careers and reputations defending a corrupt president?" What Michael Goodwin and so many others fail to recognize is that their central responsibility in their careers IS defending a corrupt so-called "president."
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Right. Their careers, pensions, reputations (among those who matter - and no, it ain't you and me), dachas, etc. all depend on doing their jobs. Their jobs - in fact, their sole job - is carrying water for the Party.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:01 AM (DU+/6)

52 What if I went around putting flags in peoples yards saying one man and one woman equals marriage? How would that fly?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2023 08:01 AM (45fpk)

53 It's also,
National Macaroon Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2023 08:01 AM (NpAcC)

54 "Some have postulated that should we default on the debt and suspend to a greater or lesser extent the activity of this corrupt, amoral bureaucracy, there will be some initial pain to the ordinary citizen but long term, the effect would be negligible if not salutary."

Those "some" are idiots. The long term effect would probably be negligible, and even very slightly beneficial.

The "initial pain" would be massive. And it would not impact all ordinary citizens equally. Social media strategists in SF and finance types in NYC would see very little impact. People in manufacturing, construction, transportation and extractive industries would be devastated.

These "some" are talking about crushing our people to stick it, in an extremely minor way, to the other people.

Even thinking about defaulting is the worst sort of clueless, middle-class, country club Republicanism. "Gop-E" if you will.

Americans are what America is for. Those who want to hurt real Americans to score political points can eff right off.

Posted by: RichieC at May 31, 2023 08:02 AM (DxBF0)

55 “Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.”

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(lays $100 on table)

And it's a hate crime if you remove them.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:02 AM (5/7b/)

56 Gay-Rape isn't Rape-Rape.

Posted by: Whoopie at May 31, 2023 08:03 AM (SYTee)

57 National Macaroon Day.

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Is that what the Democrats called 1/32nd black?

Weird that they'd get their own day, but whatever.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:03 AM (5/7b/)

58 No pain, no gain.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 08:03 AM (iayUP)

59 With all the things he could get worked up about at home, why does Cruz care about executions of gay pedophiles in mostly Christian Uganda. Gays get executed throughout the Muslim world.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 08:03 AM (RqMSv)

60 So, Chris Christie is suppose to announce next Tuesday that he is running for POTUS.

What a fool.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2023 08:03 AM (NpAcC)

61 I must have missed the "gay exception" clause in the Treaty of Westphalia.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 08:03 AM (Vwz3I)

62 “Officers said the suspect then continued to punch and kick Crosby,” KATV reported. Police are still searching for the attacker, according to the report.
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I'm sure they are. They can't give him a sweetheart deal without jail time if they can't find him. This is pretty small potatoes. A guy just got exactly such a deal after shooting an elderly female pro-life canvasser in the back. Beating up a younger guy is literally nothing by comparison. The perp probably won't even get community service.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:04 AM (DU+/6)

63 I just don't understand why we're supposed to applaud how people have sex.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2023 08:04 AM (45fpk)

64 The FBI used security camera footage from the Northern Virginia Metro stop to identify the license plate of a car that the individual entered. Still, the FBI has not identified the subject.

Who will watch the Watchers?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 08:04 AM (BRHaw)

65 With all the things he could get worked up about at home, why does Cruz care about executions of gay pedophiles in mostly Christian Uganda.

--

I'm guessing it's pandering because Texas is becoming more and more purple.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:04 AM (5/7b/)

66 At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 31, 2023 08:05 AM (MvF+J)

67 The above-mentioned triangle and seminars address things such as PragerU, Quillette, Turning Point USA, The Heritage Foundation, and Republicans in general.
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The so-called "intellectual dark web." That was always a stupid (not to mention inaccurate) name and they don't use it anymore, but that's what they're talking about.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:05 AM (DU+/6)

68 60 So, Chris Christie is suppose to announce next Tuesday that he is running for POTUS.

What a fool.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2023 08:03 AM (NpAcC)

I said this yesterday.. but, I am nothing if not redundant, so.. Chris Creosote is in it for the grift, the attention, and the all you can eat upscale buffets he will be invited to.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:06 AM (PCK5/)

69 There were a number of German companies that provided the German government with data on customers purchasing habits in the late 1930's, so Bank of America's Jan 6th activity is not unprecedented behav... oh wait

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 31, 2023 08:06 AM (CecP5)

70 "Americans are what America is for."

Is this a joke?

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 08:07 AM (iayUP)

71 > “Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.”
__________

ordered

Uh huh. There's a lot more than pride flags going on here. Broad needs to be beat about the head and neck with a 2 x 4.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 08:07 AM (Q4IgG)

72 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

73 If whoever planted the J6 bombs the night before is identified as another Ray Epps, then Nancy's whole edifice of lies collapses.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 08:08 AM (RqMSv)

74 I just don't understand why we're supposed to applaud how people have sex.

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It's not the sex, it's the sin. They want the celebration of it because they know it's wrong, and they think that if they can get enough people to pretend it's okay then it's not *really* a sin any longer. Same as adultery and porn. Wait, don't churches celebrate that and allow active practitioners to be preachers?

It's also power, but I think the two are related. Pride and what-not.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:08 AM (5/7b/)

75 It's also,
National Macaroon Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Elbow Macaroon ?

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:08 AM (T4tVD)

76 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:08 AM (T4tVD)

77 60 So, Chris Christie is suppose to announce next Tuesday that he is running for POTUS.
What a fool.

He will make a big ol pile of cash from GOPe donors, his sole mission being to attack Trump on the stump and in debates. He will laugh all the way to the bank

Posted by: Ex GOP and Faux Nooz Free at May 31, 2023 08:08 AM (ovpcG)

78 I'm guessing it's also an attempt to ease their conscience when they groom kids, too, because they know that's terrible as well.

EVERYONE SAYS GAY IS OKAY!!!

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:09 AM (5/7b/)

79 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2023 08:09 AM (45fpk)

80 >>"How in any way is it within a prosecutor’s purview — whose job is to prosecute particular, defined crimes based on legitimate suspicion guilt

Well, thank the Bush/Cheney/NeoCon/NeoLiberal GWOT for that.

Nothing good comes from a Bush.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 08:09 AM (up/3i)

81 >At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."

Posted by: Dig gp


it's accordions and trumpets all the way down

Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 08:10 AM (geLO8)

82 At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."


I love a good Mariachi band.

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

83 Elbow Macaroon?
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Yankee Doodle candy.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 08:11 AM (Vwz3I)

84 A mariachi version of Dolly Parton’s “ Jolene” was highlighted on the ONT a few nights ago.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:11 AM (PCK5/)

85 PTA president in @MurraySchoolsUT, Jennifer Auwerda, has relentlessly bullied me and my family just because we don’t want Gender/Queer ideology in Murray School District, Utah,” Despain wrote in the tweet containing the video. “Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.”
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Call the cops and press charges for trespassing and vandalism. Nothing will come of it, but do it anyway.

Then camp out in the front yard. Have a nice summer holiday of it. And ruthlessly defend your property rights if they come back.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:11 AM (DU+/6)

86 > So, Chris Christie is suppose to announce next Tuesday that he is running for POTUS.
What a fool.



Crisco For President

Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 08:11 AM (geLO8)

87 Elbow Macaroon ?
Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:08 AM (T4tVD)
*****
Elbow Macaroni day is July 7th.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2023 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

88 Former Biden Accuser Tara Reade Defects to Russia
_________

That is ominous. Canary in the coal mine. I remember back in the 60s someone (Goldwater?) suggested the two countries would switch positions.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 31, 2023 08:12 AM (TgBWG)

89 "The race remains Ron DeSantis’ to win."

I don't even need to read the linked article to know it's nothing but masturbatory pissing in the wind. Neither Trump nor DeSantis can win or will win, and people need to get that through their heads.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 31, 2023 08:12 AM (AW0uW)

90 A mariachi version of Dolly Parton’s “ Jolene” was highlighted on the ONT a few nights ago.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:11 AM (PCK5/)


That's just wrong.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2023 08:12 AM (45fpk)

91 @77

>>He will make a big ol pile of cash from GOPe donors, his sole mission being to attack Trump on the stump and in debates. He will laugh all the way to the bank

Not sure what his attack line will be but it's more than likely going to be pointless and stupid.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 08:12 AM (up/3i)

92 It's honestly incredible how corrupt this government has gotten.

Every level. Every seat. Corruption everywhere.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

93 >>>At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."



How or why they have adopted Polka will never make sense to me.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2023 08:13 AM (GzxiE)

94 Going back to Hamilton, the commitment of the USA to honor its debts has made us an economic powerhouse. Governments are tempted to default and many do, because they think they can get away with it, but it raises the cost of capital for the whole country.

We're on a path to a kind of default through high inflation.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 08:13 AM (RqMSv)

95 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:13 AM (T4tVD)

96 81 Juan Delgado y Los Vaqueros Mariachi Band, knocking out "Who Stole the Kiska" at a Polish wedding reception.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2023 08:13 AM (lz5hY)

97
At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."

Tejano music is a mash-up of Mexican and German, a mariachi band playing a polka.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 08:13 AM (MoZTd)

98 Debt ceiling theater is in the final act, and the bill is starting to smell like a skunk sprayed all over it. Now, uniparty desperation is starting to emerge.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 08:14 AM (XP28L)

99 >>>At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."


"You're gonna need a bigger sombrero..."

Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 08:14 AM (geLO8)

100 Not sure what his attack line will be but it's more than likely going to be pointless and stupid.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 08:12 AM (up/3i)

His attack line will be a Krispy Kreme drive thru.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2023 08:15 AM (88xKn)

101 Iffn it was my yard I would burn those flags. Toss them into a pile, pour some gas on them and light them.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 31, 2023 08:00 AM (ncXxy)

Burning American flag: Free speech

Burning Pride flag: Hate crime

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 08:01 AM


Abandoned property, just cleaning up my yard.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 31, 2023 08:16 AM (ncXxy)

102 Michael Goodwin thinks contempt of Congress is some kind of punishment with bite for Wray? What a joke… you can just hear him thinking: How many legions does McCarthy command? Comer’s whole thing is more failure theater…. I can’t take anything they do even slightly seriously until they defund

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 31, 2023 08:16 AM (xT8gx)

103 The GOP had a choice between having a literal police state and a democratic republic and opted for the former. They were given the Durham Report to pretend like they have a check on totalitarianism. Wray is saying "no, brah, you work for me" and is flexing with impunity.

It's not a matter of they won't do anything.

They can't do anything.

The world sees it and we see it.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 31, 2023 08:16 AM (dybcd)

104 "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."

If it means the end of Rap, I welcome our new Mariachi overlords.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 08:17 AM (iayUP)

105
Her Majesty and Delilah are in Topeka for shows starting tomorrow. She sent a text at 3:15 this morning saying she was getting pounded by hail. Just talked to her and it's still raining there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 08:17 AM (MoZTd)

106 At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."

Beats most of the music on the radio these days. I'd listen to that over the crap they play now.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at May 31, 2023 08:17 AM (wagHN)

107 At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."

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That would be hilarious if that's an article by some millennial that grew up in California and is visiting Germany for the first time.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:17 AM (5/7b/)

108 Leave us alone. We're far too busy concocting entrapment schemes, peon!


This. This is what they're doing.

It's an active attack against The United States from within and all involved should be hanged by the neck until dead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

109 IIRC Tara Reade was recently in the news with renewed allegations against *biden. She's looking pretty haggard these days. The whole "I fear for my life" bit might or might not be overwrought but in either case it's a PR coup for Russia.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 08:18 AM (Q4IgG)

110 "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."

If it means the end of Rap, I welcome our new Mariachi overlords.
Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 08:17 AM (iayUP)


The fastest growing music department in Texas State Universities programs is Mariachi music.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

111 The Bad Bunny DLMT Remix of Titi Me Pregunto has a nice mariachi horn included.

Kinda like El Deguello but more upbeat.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 31, 2023 08:18 AM (7tCXb)

112 Anderson Cooper just gave Comey a platform to declare Trump an existential threat to the country. Just when I thought Jimmy Drama was gone for good.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 08:18 AM (RqMSv)

113 Going back to Hamilton, the commitment of the USA to honor its debts has made us an economic powerhouse. Governments are tempted to default and many do, because they think they can get away with it, but it raises the cost of capital for the whole country.

We're on a path to a kind of default through high inflation.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 08:13 AM


Interest payments on the debt nearly equal the entire budget for the Department of Defense. If the Fed raise the rates another time or two, annual interest payments on the debt will exceed the entire DOD budget.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 31, 2023 08:18 AM (ncXxy)

114 There are alternative activities in addition to bed rotting.

Posted by: Amber Heard at May 31, 2023 08:19 AM (a3Q+t)

115 The GOP had a choice between having a literal police state and a democratic republic and opted for the former. They were given the Durham Report to pretend like they have a check on totalitarianism. Wray is saying "no, brah, you work for me" and is flexing with impunity.

It's not a matter of they won't do anything.

They can't do anything.

The world sees it and we see it.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 31, 2023 08:16 AM (dybcd)
++++
When presented with the opportunity to fight, the GOP chose to surrender. As it always does. As it must do. After all, the GOP is but a part of the Unipartyu.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:19 AM (DU+/6)

116
Beats most of the music on the radio these days. I'd listen to that over the crap they play now.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at May 31, 2023 08:17 AM (wagHN)


I find most all music produced today for mainstream is horrible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

117 That said, will she be able to drag a significant number of her fellow travelers to help torpedo this bullshit?
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LOL what do *you* think?

If the Democrats want this to drag on, or want more, then "AOC" will torpedo it. If this deal fucks us hard enough then "AOC" won't do shit and it's all for show.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:19 AM (uDitw)

118
Beats most of the music on the radio these days. I'd listen to that over the crap they play now.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at May 31, 2023 08:17 AM (wagHN)

Not my taste, but hell yes. It still has a mysterious ingredient that's missing nowadays: melody.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 08:19 AM (MoZTd)

119 >>Her Majesty and Delilah are in Topeka for shows starting tomorrow. She sent a text at 3:15 this morning saying she was getting pounded by hail.


Hail to you too, good sir!

Posted by: Paolo at May 31, 2023 08:19 AM (GzxiE)

120 Do the people who celebrate PRIDE month not understand or care that PRIDE was the sin of Satan?
Do they not fear the Lake of Fire, or has The Almighty already turned them over, and they're bound for Hell anyway?

Posted by: jmel at May 31, 2023 08:20 AM (bVhJi)

121 Amoral means neither moral nor immoral.

Their actions are immoral.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 08:20 AM (vg8N1)

122 I believe the overarching plan has been to concentrate all political power in the Executive office in the US… that is why Trump was so dangerous to have in office.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:20 AM (PCK5/)

123 Contempt citation?

Like the one Issa wrote up for Eric Holder during the F&F investigation? The one the DoJ ignored and laughed in Congress's face about?

The GOP did nothing to the DoJ for that then, and they'll do nothing when they repeat the performance. They know it, the DoJ know it, and Wray knows it. This is more cynical pretending, as usual.

Why even bother with this? Oh, right - the shame is part of the kink.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2023 08:21 AM (oINRc)

124 Apparently Ted Cruz has come out (ha) and said that it's unacceptable that Uganda put men to death who Gay-rape little children or Gay-rape disabled people.

What's the matter, Ted? Giving medals of bravery to the scum who murdered Ashli Babbit not getting you that sweet leftist love? Now you have to pander to NAMBLA?

Cruz is a fucking joke, a turncoat and a traitor. He is the pluperfect DC man.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 31, 2023 08:21 AM (AW0uW)

125 I always liked the Bakersfield sound Buck Owens popularized. Kinda Mariachi.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2023 08:21 AM (lz5hY)

126 "The race remains Ron DeSantis’ to win."

--

His platform of securing the border, improving the economy, and tackling the administrative state is certainly appealing.

Hopefully he can come up with some way to encapsulate it in a slogan.

Improve America Once More? Something like that?

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:22 AM (5/7b/)

127 @109

>>The whole "I fear for my life" bit might or might not be overwrought but in either case it's a PR coup for Russia.

Unfortunately, it puts here squarely in kook land now and allows her claims to be hand-waved away the MSM.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 08:23 AM (up/3i)

128
At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."

My wife and I used to visit a local state park on weekends but have now abandoned that idea and only go midweek. How is it that people can sit next to a pristine lake, sailboats sailing silently, with birds chirping everywhere, eagles flying overhead, herons landing nearby... and think the experience is improved by loudly playing a Mexican radio station?

Posted by: Wall of Voodoo at May 31, 2023 08:23 AM (enJYY)

129 At Bloomberg, a sign of the End Times: "Mexican Music Is Taking Over the World."
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Chihuahua out front should've told you.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 08:23 AM (Vwz3I)

130 Biden is being tougher on both Russia and China than Trump was

If he accepted btibes from them they certainly aren't getting much in return.
Kinda hard to square that circle JJ

Posted by: Paul at May 31, 2023 08:24 AM (bI+k3)

131 The Dodgers are the Target of Bud Lights.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 08:24 AM (vg8N1)

132 >> I always liked the Bakersfield sound Buck Owens popularized. Kinda Mariachi.


Her Love Rubbed Off - Carl Perkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MqjnCFXRuc

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2023 08:24 AM (GzxiE)

133 Biden is being tougher on both Russia and China than Trump was


--

Yeah, Biden sure showed them. Our sanctions made both nations stronger than ever while wrecking our own economy and financial well being.

Way to go, Joe!

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:25 AM (5/7b/)

134 The Reconquista is turning out to be more surreal than I thought it would be.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:26 AM (PCK5/)

135 Unfortunately, it puts here squarely in kook land now and allows her claims to be hand-waved away the MSM.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 08:23 AM (up/3i)

To be fair, they would have done that anyway. It literally does not matter. They hand wave away any sign of dem corruption (Hunter's laptop, etc etc.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 08:26 AM (OOZ/f)

136 Democrats got a very narrow majority in the House, and used it to impeach PDJT twice and foghorn-leghorn the Russia! Russia! Russia! conspiracy theory, completely retarding the Trump domestic policy enactment.

Republicans, when given the same narrow majority, wrote an angry letter to Praetorian Christopher Wray.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 08:26 AM (pfOyM)

137 Zero healthy individuals under the age of 50 have died of COVID-19 in Israel, according to newly released data. “Zero deceased of 18–49 years of age with no underlying morbidities,” the Israel Ministry of Health (MOH) said in response to a formal request from an attorney.

Same as it has always been. In the winter as people are shut in as nursing home and assisted living the flus, colds, and viruses are going to take a few. There is the same amount at college and the workplace, they just do not die.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 08:26 AM (BRHaw)

138 @126

>>Improve America Once More? Something like that?

How about..

Improve America Once More Again Using The Eisenhower Method, Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen and other Buzzwords, Which I used effectively as Governor of The Free State of Florida, Where Woke Goes to Die.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 08:26 AM (up/3i)

139 'Her love rubbed off'

Phrasing?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 08:26 AM (OOZ/f)

140 When presented with the opportunity to fight, the GOP chose to surrender. As it always does. As it must do. After all, the GOP is but a part of the Unipartyu.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:19 AM

We can't win this fight without adequate resources. Won't you rush us a $50 donation today, so we can go toe-to-toe with the Democrats?

Posted by: GOPe at May 31, 2023 08:27 AM (a3Q+t)

141 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday Eve Eve.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 08:27 AM (mw8fy)

142 Sweden is close to declaring itself a smoke-free country as smoking rates drop to less than 5%.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 08:27 AM (Vwz3I)

143 I loved the scene in "The Simpsons" where Marge goes to Protestant heaven and it's boring, She gets to see Homer and Bart over in Catholic Heaven and there is a Mariachi band playing and the people are eating and drinking wine and getting into fist-fights.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 08:27 AM (vg8N1)

144 'Lean six sigma'

*PTSD twitch*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 08:27 AM (OOZ/f)

145 The Almighty already turned them over, and they're bound for Hell anyway?

Posted by: jmel at May 31, 2023 08:20 AM (bVhJi)

No one is ever completely lost to God.

But they can choose to continue to separate themselves forever.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:28 AM (uDitw)

146 Quality Circles.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 08:29 AM (vg8N1)

147 Talking about people getting beat up, how about those two marines who got beaten by about 40 teens? Revenge would be sweet.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Budget: A method for going broke methodically at May 31, 2023 08:29 AM (qfLjt)

148
I loved the scene in "The Simpsons" where Marge goes to Protestant heaven and it's boring, She gets to see Homer and Bart over in Catholic Heaven and there is a Mariachi band playing and the people are eating and drinking wine and getting into fist-fights.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 08:27 AM (vg8N1)

“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”

- Hilaire Belloc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 08:30 AM (MoZTd)

149 Biden is being tougher on both Russia and China than Trump was

If he accepted btibes from them they certainly aren't getting much in return.
Kinda hard to square that circle JJ
Posted by: Cocksucker at May 31, 2023 08:24 AM (C0ck$)
++++
Not at all. It's very easy to square the circle. Red China isn't getting much for its money. You see, Red China thought that by buying Biden, they were buying American policy. They failed to understand - as you seem to fail to understand - that Biden was not and would never be in charge. In fact, nobody is in charge and that is why the US's China policy is so ... inconsistent. We freed the "Princess of Huawei" but kept the chip embargo running (and in fact accelerated it). We relaxed some tariffs while increasing export duties on vital goods. It makes no sense because nobody - that is, no single somebody - is control of United States policy.

The CCP thought it was buying American foreign policy. It has learned - much to its chagrin and rage - that what it bought was a senile turd floating in a rancid punch bowl.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:30 AM (DU+/6)

150 I heard a story about Adm Boorda. Some sailors got beat up by some marines in a bar in Alameda. He sent some Seals in.

Nobody messed with the sailors after that.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 08:31 AM (vg8N1)

151 We can't win this fight without adequate resources. Won't you rush us a $50 donation today, so we can go toe-to-toe with the Democrats?
Posted by: GOPe at May 31, 2023 08:27 AM (a3Q+t)
++++
No. I cannot donate any money to the GOP without some kind of fund-matching. 5x is a good start.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

152 The House needs to rebuild it’s jail, and put Wray, and others, in it.

Posted by: Cowboy Wally at May 31, 2023 08:31 AM (IokFX)

153 I loved the scene in "The Simpsons" where Marge goes to Protestant heaven and it's boring


Grape juice, jello salads and no dancing.

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

154 I like MAGAA

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:32 AM (uDitw)

155 The embryonic stage of Alissa Heinerscheid:
youtube.com/watch?v=zfp-EQvv4_w

Posted by: Dig gp Must at May 31, 2023 08:32 AM (MvF+J)

156 Do the people who celebrate PRIDE month not understand or care that PRIDE was the sin of Satan?
Do they not fear the Lake of Fire, or has The Almighty already turned them over, and they're bound for Hell anyway?
Posted by: jmel at May 31, 2023 08:20 AM (bVhJi)
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I believe most of them are militant atheists or Universalists. They would scoff at anyone asking them this because fhey believe the Holy Scripture is entirely fiction.

I've previously tried to believe that the majority of them are simply twisted by sinful addiction to their own will, but with the amount of support recently shown for tranny ideology, pedo ideology, and whatever group the Dodgers now #StandWith, I now think that most of them are well and truly lost. They do not fear Hell because they reject it's existence.

I've watched the slow consistent descent ofnmy own stepdaughter over the years. She started off "gay but don't worry I still love Jesus," but 15 years later now openly rejects God and embraces a sad mashup of Norse mythology and Eastern Mysticism.

Posted by: reason at May 31, 2023 08:32 AM (TkV8C)

157 >> Biden is being tougher on both Russia and China than Trump was

>>If he accepted btibes from them they certainly aren't getting much in return.


China has received way more than they invested.

Now Do Ukraine, dummy.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2023 08:32 AM (GzxiE)

158 I always liked the Bakersfield sound Buck Owens popularized. Kinda Mariachi.
=====

Fiddles are fun. I like Mariachi.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 31, 2023 08:32 AM (MIKMs)

159 Oh yes you can see Biden's toughness on Russia in their decision to invade whatever the fuck they want when they want.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:34 AM (uDitw)

160 @149. I partly disagree. The CCP has more than just Biden bought and paid for. And they've been taking advantage for decades.

We should have sent China a bill for $3 trillion over Covid. But once again our government was complicit.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 08:34 AM (RqMSv)

161 Talking about people getting beat up, how about those two marines who got beaten by about 40 teens? Revenge would be sweet.

--

Hate crime, on video, on Memorial Day.

Crickets.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:35 AM (5/7b/)

162 All right, it's too lovely a day for me to hang here and be angry and depressed. I think I will sit in the garden with a nice hot cup of tea.

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 31, 2023 08:35 AM (AW0uW)

163 162 All right, it's too lovely a day for me to hang here and be angry and depressed. I think I will sit in the garden with a nice hot cup of tea.

Hope you all have a wonderful day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 31, 2023 08:35 AM (AW0uW)

Have a good one MP4…

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:36 AM (PCK5/)

164 Some outfit called Americans For Prosperity sent me a "Colorado Constituent Concerns Survey"

should I respond today to 'make my voice heard'?

Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 08:36 AM (geLO8)

165 This is not a joke. Apparently there are notifications that it's their method of enforcing the border, and they pretend it applies to everyone, but somehow only the Americans with cameras are being seized, transported, and dumped into Mexico without passports for re-entry.

"While the pen may be mightier than the sword, it is not mightier than thugs with fully auto weapons."

Something Mexican journalists learned years ago.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at May 31, 2023 08:36 AM (CecP5)

166 I always liked the Bakersfield sound Buck Owens popularized.


Whenever I hear Bakersfield, I think of Dwight Yoakum.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 31, 2023 08:36 AM (45fpk)

167 143 I loved the scene in "The Simpsons" where Marge goes to Protestant heaven and it's boring, She gets to see Homer and Bart over in Catholic Heaven and there is a Mariachi band playing and the people are eating and drinking wine and getting into fist-fights.


ha ha I already live in Protestant Heaven I think

that's what Chadds Ford is

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:37 AM (w0NJk)

168 I would love to see Miss Lindsey get arrested by the Russians during Pride Month. Warm the cockles of my heart, it would.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 08:37 AM (mw8fy)

169 Improve America Once More Again Using The Eisenhower Method, Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen and other Buzzwords, Which I used effectively as Governor of The Free State of Florida, Where Woke Goes to Die.
=====

Is that !JEB! or the new one?

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 31, 2023 08:37 AM (MIKMs)

170 Improve America Once More Again Using The Eisenhower Method, Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen and other Buzzwords, Which I used effectively as Governor of The Free State of Florida, Where Woke Goes to Die.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 08:26 AM (up/3i)
---

The Biden Junta is using Agile, and proving why it sucks.

Fight me.

Posted by: reason at May 31, 2023 08:38 AM (TkV8C)

171 167


ha ha I already live in Protestant Heaven I think

that's what Chadds Ford is
Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:37 AM (w0NJk)

Yes. I live in a stable predictable community where the rule of law still applies. Would not have it any other way.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:39 AM (PCK5/)

172 good morning! that dude at the Bibbity Bobbity Boutique chaps me

been there with the kids when tiny many times. the girl - total tomboy - loved it so much the boys would sit and have a nice stylist (yes a Gay man dressed as a Prince tho) give them some kind of pompadour or something. still fun! and btw - INCLUSIVE

but having that guy cross dress is creepy

how can this not be obvious?!!? dude dressing like Prince Charming isn't girly enough for you??!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:39 AM (w0NJk)

173 @155 Alissa Heinerscheid video is a great reveal. AWFL's like her have had a huge role in getting us in the hole we're in.

AWFLs have taken over many US companies. They use the far fewer number of Blacks at these companies as a progressive lever to get what they want,

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 08:39 AM (RqMSv)

174 Yes. I live in a stable predictable community where the rule of law still applies. Would not have it any other way.


oh I didn't mean that. I meant Quakers and gardening and horse events.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:40 AM (w0NJk)

175
So 'Paul' thinks that bribing a public official is no big deal? Fine, let's dox him and bribe some official to have him evicted from his home. Couldn't cost more then a couple hundred.

One more homeless person, who would notice, who would care?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 31, 2023 08:41 AM (enJYY)

176 Today is World Otter Day.


...apparently.


Watch your six, people.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2023 08:41 AM (GzxiE)

177 should I respond today to 'make my voice heard'?
Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 08:36 AM (

"I'm concerned that the governor will give me monkeypox if I'm not killed first by one of his machete-wielding Aztec shock troops or his mob of dead-eyed fentanyl zombies. I'm also concerned that the CO GOP will watch it happen from a darkened closet while they furiously beat off to the whole spectacle."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2023 08:41 AM (oINRc)

178 174 Yes. I live in a stable predictable community where the rule of law still applies. Would not have it any other way.


oh I didn't mean that. I meant Quakers and gardening and horse events.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:40 AM (w0NJk)

Ah. Sounds pretty good.

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:41 AM (PCK5/)

179 btw I love gardening and horse events. the Quaker part is cute I guess.

anyway! Tara Reade! how about that

interesting

I'd go to Hungary I have a few co-workers who have moved there and they highly highly recommend. then I saw The Watcher and I kind of soured on the idea

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:42 AM (w0NJk)

180 So, Chris Christie is suppose to announce next Tuesday that he is running for POTUS.

What a fool.
Posted by: redridinghood

The only running he'll do is to the nearest buffet table.

And it will be more of a waddle.

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:43 AM (T4tVD)

181 'Morning, all.

When the local news covered the Target scandal, they mentioned that stuff was pulled and then there were bomb threats -- intentionally giving the impression it was those upset w/the LGBTQ merch making the threats.
Not surprising, but disgusting to see it in action. When one of these freaks does attack Target they will be sure to mislabel the perp as a "white nationalist."

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2023 08:43 AM (mo/0F)

182 To Address the Loneliness Epidemic, the Feds Want to Control Your Town and Friends

One thing I've noticed - I've completely cut left leaning people out of my life for a while now, because they will not stop ranting about politics no matter the setting.

Ten years ago you or more you could be in a bowling league, or a hiking group, or whatever and just avoid politics. But not any more.

Then COVID killed the rest of random social interactions. Maybe that will come back now, but I'm not sure.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 08:44 AM (lc5cP)

183 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:44 AM (T4tVD)

184 I-uh, uhhmmmmm,, uh-I, w-w-what's a-uh,, a-uh c-china?

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at May 31, 2023 08:44 AM (vwCZJ)

185 Alissa Heinerscheid video is a great reveal. AWFL's like her have had a huge role in getting us in the hole we're in.
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Gossip Girls.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 31, 2023 08:44 AM (MIKMs)

186 China has received way more than they invested.

Now Do Ukraine, dummy.

Though that's come at the expense of a lot of dead Ukes. But at least lil 'Z has his hookers and blow budget fully funded.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 08:45 AM (lc5cP)

187 Townhall reporter Julio Rosas said in a hearing that Dan Goldman has "an impossibly good stock portfolio." Now, I know what he meant by that.

Posted by: huerfano at May 31, 2023 08:46 AM (7zEAH)

188 I don't think Chris Christie is running for anything. More like waddling.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 08:47 AM (5Xiuc)

189 I'm reading This Perfect Day by Ira Levin at the moment. (two thirds thru so don't spoil me!)

feels very The Current Year. good book. slightly less depressing than We, but more depressing than City (which was I thought incredibly optimistic).

anyway! lovely day! getting ready for some graduation stuff! been a terrific spring other than the amount of watering I'm having to do.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:48 AM (w0NJk)

190 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 31, 2023 08:48 AM (DhOHl)

191 189 I'm reading This Perfect Day by Ira Levin at the moment. (two thirds thru so don't spoil me!)

feels very The Current Year. good book. slightly less depressing than We, but more depressing than City (which was I thought incredibly optimistic).

anyway! lovely day! getting ready for some graduation stuff! been a terrific spring other than the amount of watering I'm having to do.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:48 AM (w0NJk)

Spoiler… Dumbledore dies!!!

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:48 AM (PCK5/)

192 The Eisenhower Method? Is that a birth-control technique?

Wait, don’t answer that…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 08:48 AM (mw8fy)

193 188 I don't think Chris Christie is running for anything. More like waddling.

oh I hope he runs, he'd be out of the race in no time getting a triple bypass

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:49 AM (w0NJk)

194 I'd go to Hungary I have a few co-workers who have moved there and they highly highly recommend. then I saw The Watcher and I kind of soured on the idea
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Mowimy po polsku. Lotsa Polish in Northern Illinois. I heard Chicago has largest Polish population outside of Warsaw.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 31, 2023 08:49 AM (MIKMs)

195 "Two Pro-Life Supporters Beaten Outside Planned Parenthood in Baltimore, Police Say"

This link seems to be broken.

Posted by: Half Dozen at May 31, 2023 08:49 AM (bQ8L8)

196 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

In use.

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:49 AM (T4tVD)

197 I think Christie spiked any prospect of national office when he danced on the beach with Obama to "Islands in the Stream."

At least, that's how I recall it happening.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2023 08:50 AM (oINRc)

198 Morning Horde , thx JJ. The stories this morning show the erosion of our constitutional rights on like cal levels. The Massachusetts man prosecuted for self defense at the protest, the Utah woman harassed by the school board lunatic and several other like stories shows the fight we are in even at local levels.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 08:50 AM (AxN/S)

199 I suspect Hungarian would be a hard language to learn.

All the western European languages are somewhat related to English (which is basically half German, half French) but Hungarian is completely separate

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 08:50 AM (lc5cP)

200 The embryonic stage of Alissa Heinerscheid:
youtube.com/watch?v=zfp-EQvv4_w

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Holy cow.

If anyone doesn't recognize the name, it's the single employee who took down Budweiser.

I tried to watch but struggled to understand what she was saying. I know all the words, and she pronounces everything correctly, but it's all meaningless business-speak.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:50 AM (5/7b/)

201 'Hungarian! Do you speak it?'

Posted by: Eromero at May 31, 2023 08:51 AM (Uv0D2)

202 "When presented with the opportunity to fight, the GOP chose to surrender. As it always does. As it must do. After all, the GOP is but a part of the Unipartyu.
Posted by: Joe Mannix "


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You sound skeptical Jim Jordan isn't going to hold Director Wray accountable!

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2023 08:51 AM (i7Q7S)

203 Then COVID killed the rest of random social interactions. Maybe that will come back now, but I'm not sure.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 08:44 AM (lc5cP)

It will only come back for people like us. The Left can't let go of politics because of their own mind weakness combined with what was done to them under Trump and then covid.

If you can imagine the anger you had under Obama multiplied, then combined with living out your worst fear(s) every day, you have an idea of what was done to these mongoloids. They can't be fixed because they have no desire to be.

They think they are living out their solution. But even that's only temporary because eventually (after another round or two of cult brainwashing) they will *only* be satisfied by our literal torture and demise.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:51 AM (uDitw)

204 199 I suspect Hungarian would be a hard language to learn.

All the western European languages are somewhat related to English (which is basically half German, half French) but Hungarian is completely separate
Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 08:50 AM (lc5cP)


Hungarian is probably the hardest language to learn, at least among those that use the Roman alphabet. It has only one related language in its group, Finnish, and that is a distant cousin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (x0n13)

205 'Hungarian! Do you speak it?'
Posted by: Eromero

Ixnay !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (T4tVD)

206 Jennifer Auwerda, has relentlessly bullied me and my family just because we don’t want Gender/Queer ideology in Murray School District, Utah. Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.

Sick you HOA president on her. There is nothing moar fearful than an HOA tyrant.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (BRHaw)

207 JJ, is that photo up top from 'The Twilight Zone'? I forget the name of the episode but it's a good one.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (88xKn)

208 Dutch is an interesting language… when I see it or hear it, I “ almost” grasp it…

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 08:53 AM (PCK5/)

209 If anyone doesn't recognize the name, it's the single employee who took down Budweiser.
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I think she was doing what she was told.

If her "fratty" comment was not being pushed by the organization she wouldn't have lasted.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:53 AM (uDitw)

210 @202

>>You sound skeptical Jim Jordan isn't going to hold Director Wray accountable!

Shirtless Jim Jordan: I want answers Wray, I want the truth.

Christopher Wray Half Standing: I hear ya brother, but I, like, got a plane to catch chief, BAEYEEE.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 08:53 AM (up/3i)

211 146 Quality Circles.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 08:29 AM (vg8N1)

KPI

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 08:53 AM (AKHO7)

212 Hungarian belongs to the Uralic language family, along with Finnish, Estonian, and the Lapp languages, among others.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 08:53 AM (mw8fy)

213 I remember when Christie was a fan favorite. Conservative governor who knows how to pwn the libs.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:54 AM (uDitw)

214 partly disagree. The CCP has more than just Biden bought and paid for. And they've been taking advantage for decades. ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 08:34 AM (RqMSv)
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The CCP owns - or thought it owned - large swathes of our government. It still owns a big chunk of it. But winds change, and they are blowing away from the CCP recently. Some people they bought are no longer bought. Some actually aren't as powerful as they'd hope. Some are still bought and still carrying water for them.

But it is nowhere near as total as they thought or as it appeared to be. Trump fouled up the playing field and upset too many complex balances. Add into it COVID, the Chinese energy and internal problems, their failure to subdue Australia, etc. and the math has changed. China is by no means a dead letter and they are by no means powerless in the United States or without assets in our government, but they are not calling the shots whenever they want, nor do they get whatever they want. Our China policy has been schizophrenic for years because, I think, those internal conflicts are playing out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:54 AM (DU+/6)

215 213 I remember when Christie was a fan favorite. Conservative governor who knows how to pwn the libs.


yeah he's really good at being snarky to women

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:54 AM (w0NJk)

216 195 "Two Pro-Life Supporters Beaten Outside Planned Parenthood in Baltimore, Police Say"

This link seems to be broken.
Posted by: Half Dozen at May 31, 2023 08:49 AM (bQ8L


It's fixed. The link in the editorial works and it goes to Breitbart.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 08:54 AM (x0n13)

217 Here is a link for the article on Catholic Pro Life Prtesters beaten outside a PP clinic. From Church Militant conservative RC site:

https://tinyurl.com/azzsbjfn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2023 08:55 AM (Keyt1)

218 "The embryonic stage of Alissa Heinerscheid:"

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Key takeaway: If you decide to hire and young, single, white Jewish woman from an Ivy, you are out of your mind.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2023 08:55 AM (i7Q7S)

219 204 In the fifties, our town took in some Hungarian refugees. My Dad, born in Finland, could converse with them, just a little, but enough for the simple stuff like directions and things.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2023 08:55 AM (lz5hY)

220 217 Here is a link for the article on Catholic Pro Life Prtesters beaten outside a PP clinic. From Church Militant conservative RC site:


they are very brave

I mean just to stand outside in Baltimore is incredibly brave

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:55 AM (w0NJk)

221 JJ, is that photo up top from 'The Twilight Zone'? I forget the name of the episode but it's a good one.
Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (88xKn)
++++
From "The Obsolete Man," the final episode in Season 2. Burgess Meredith starred. Top-tier episode, and a full-throated condemnation of totalitarianism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 08:55 AM (DU+/6)

222 Trump is calling for the end of birthright citizenship. Doing so was once thought unthinkable, but it can be done and it's now an existential necessity.
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Which is impressive.
Trump won the nomination easily in 2016 because he staked out a few key positions on the right and the 16 other losers stood on the stage and ... attacked him from his left, from the "moderate" center.

And look, it's happening all over again ...

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 31, 2023 08:56 AM (mt8I3)

223 213 I remember when Christie was a fan favorite. Conservative governor who knows how to pwn the libs.
Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:54 AM (uDitw)

He always struck me as a bit of an arrogant doofus. Like all them New Jersey types.*

*waits*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 08:56 AM (AKHO7)

224 Biden is being tougher on both Russia and China than Trump was
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Amazing self-delusion. Biden, paid millions by both Russia and China, is blatantly surrendering American interests at every single turn of the screw.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 08:56 AM (M9ChT)

225 Contempt of Congress. Heh. Wray could GAF.

Posted by: Ziba at May 31, 2023 08:56 AM (4h9M3)

226 Trump is calling for the end of birthright citizenship. Doing so was once thought unthinkable, but it can be done and it's now an existential necessity.
--
Which is impressive.
Trump won the nomination easily in 2016 because he staked out a few key positions on the right and the 16 other losers stood on the stage and ... attacked him from his left, from the "moderate" center.

And look, it's happening all over again ...


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BUT DESANTIS HASN'T SAID PUSSY!!!
Posted by: People's Hippo Voic

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:56 AM (5/7b/)

227 Jennifer Auwerda, has relentlessly bullied me and my family just because we don’t want Gender/Queer ideology in Murray School District, Utah.

Name schould be Aweirdo.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2023 08:57 AM (Keyt1)

228 Well, messed that quote up. Probably won't be the last time, though.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 08:57 AM (5/7b/)

229 [i207 JJ, is that photo up top from 'The Twilight Zone'? I forget the name of the episode but it's a good one.
Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (88xKn)

"The Obsolete Man"

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at May 31, 2023 08:57 AM (8C7+r)

230 I have contempt of Congress.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:57 AM (uDitw)

231 "Trump is calling for the end of birthright citizenship. Doing so was once thought unthinkable, but it can be done and it's now an existential necessity."

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He is laughably claiming he would do this by EO.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2023 08:57 AM (i7Q7S)

232 All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Posted by: E. Rigby at May 31, 2023 08:58 AM (4I/2K)

233 I remember when Christie was a fan favorite. Conservative governor who knows how to pwn the libs.
Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 08:54 AM (uDitw)
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and then came the literal hug to Obama's policies

We didn't leave Christie, he left us

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 08:58 AM (M9ChT)

234 A guy beat a woman to death after they smoked crack in Chicago. Why is that unusual? It occurred directly across the street from the new mayor's house.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 08:58 AM (AxN/S)

235 He is laughably claiming he would do this by EO.


I'd laugh yes but it's not funny. It's just blather.

and we are being overrun and he is playing golf in Florida, a state protected by a Governor actually doing shit, not just yammering

anyway! not to stir the pot

but I don't respond well to pandering, even from PDJT

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 08:59 AM (w0NJk)

236 JJ, is that photo up top from 'The Twilight Zone'? I forget the name of the episode but it's a good one.
Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (88xKn)
++++
From "The Obsolete Man," the final episode in Season 2. Burgess Meredith starred. Top-tier episode, and a full-throated condemnation of totalitarianism.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Full throated ?

Yoko ?

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 08:59 AM (T4tVD)

237 Key takeaway: If you decide to hire and young, single, white Jewish woman from an Ivy, you are out of your mind.
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It depends on what you are hiring her to do.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:00 AM (DmtxH)

238 He is laughably claiming he would do this by EO.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2023 08:57 AM (i7Q7S)
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Laughably? What, is there a problem with decrees by EO?

Posted by: Joe Biden, confused and demented, but happy! at May 31, 2023 09:00 AM (M9ChT)

239 доброе утро товарищи! and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 31, 2023 09:00 AM (RIvkX)

240 It depends on what you are hiring her to do.

Yes, yes it does.

Also, get some ear plugs.

Posted by: The guy from The Nanny at May 31, 2023 09:00 AM (lc5cP)

241 The SpaceX capsule carrying the Saudi astronauts splashed down off Florida this morning after spending 8 days at the Space Station. So routine that it barely makes news anymore. Maybe one day Bezos and his penis rocket can get it's capsule to orbit and justify all that big money NASA gave them.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 31, 2023 09:00 AM (hh7Ed)

242 He is laughably claiming he would do this by EO.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2023 08:57 AM (i7Q7S)

Not joking here and this comment isn't aimed directly at you. Isn't this what we are supposed to be doing?

We keep calling for someone to Take No Prisoners with the Left.

Then we get all breathless and flushed when our guy says Doody or says he's gonna use the system the way the Left do. We have to follow the rules!!!

It's maddening. I think we want a furniture breaker but we're not ready for even a small hint of what that entails.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 09:00 AM (uDitw)

243 Wasn’t Burgess Meredith in every Twilight Zone episode?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (mw8fy)

244
Full throated ?

Yoko ?
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Methinks Yoko will die this summer. She has packed up here life in NYC and retreated to her Adirondack farm. My guess is she is preparing to die.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (fWTJL)

245 He is laughably claiming he would do this by EO.

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Maybe Congress would help him this time. The House passed the border wall bill now that they know they can rely on a Democrat president to veto it, so we know it can be done.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (5/7b/)

246 Methinks Yoko will die this summer. She has packed up here life in NYC and retreated to her Adirondack farm. My guess is she is preparing to die.


awww

I kind of like her

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (w0NJk)

247 We didn't leave Christie, he left us

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 08:58 AM (M9ChT)

Sensing a pattern.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (uDitw)

248 Key takeaway: If you decide to hire and young, single, white Jewish woman from an Ivy, you are out of your mind.
---------------
It depends on what you are hiring her to do.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:00 AM (DmtxH)

'Zactly.

Posted by: San Fernando Valley Independent Film Producers at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (4I/2K)

249 The SpaceX capsule carrying the Saudi astronauts splashed down off Florida this morning after spending 8 days at the Space Station. So routine that it barely makes news anymore. Maybe one day Bezos and his penis rocket can get it's capsule to orbit and justify all that big money NASA gave them.
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 31, 2023 09:00 AM (hh7Ed)
++++
Flying cocks are their own reward!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (DU+/6)

250 Wasn’t Burgess Meredith in every Twilight Zone episode?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (mw8fy)

I thought it was Fritz Weaver.

Posted by: dantesed at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (88xKn)

251 240 It depends on what you are hiring her to do.

Yes, yes it does.

Also, get some ear plugs.
---------------
Maybe she has big ears and a flat head?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (fWTJL)

252 Doomberg has a great Substack on the power grid (paid site). There is a shortage of transformers. Of course, the government is making things worse with new restrictions on production. And..transformers need down time for recovery but charging electric cars means no recovery time. They talk about a 1998 storm that took down power in a region of Canada for a month and suggest that will be coming here soon.

Good time to stock up on generators for home use.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (ouTlx)

253 Rest in peace, Claudia Rossett.
She was a great journalist.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (mo/0F)

254 "Burning American flag: Free speech
Burning Pride flag: Hate crime"

same with defacing the Bible (or other Christian symbols)
versus defacing a Koran, or drawing Mohammad.

Or protesting a Democrat stolen election, versus protesting a Trump win that overcame the margin of cheat.

It is worse than a two-tiered justice system. It is attacking the innocent for the political beliefs, and allowing treason/sedition for those that are anti-America grifters. There is little justice, except around the edges.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 31, 2023 09:02 AM (Cus5s)

255 I'm actually surprised that "GoFundMe" hasn't taken down the fundraiser for the Prolife man who was beaten and possibly blinded by some violent creep in Baltimore.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2023 09:03 AM (Keyt1)

256 Wasn’t Burgess Meredith in every Twilight Zone episode?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (mw8fy)
++++
LOL. He is in several, including some of the iconic ones ("Time Enough at Last" and "The Obsolete Man" spring immediately to mind).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:03 AM (DU+/6)

257 237 And, of course "A guy in a package store asks what are some popular Jewish wines. I want a fur coat. I want a Cadillac. I want to go to Miami".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 31, 2023 09:03 AM (lz5hY)

258 Rod Serling, yes. Burgess Meredith, no. Showed up on Batman a lot, though.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 09:03 AM (S6gqv)

259 Yoko Ono is 90. Amazing that everyone else is getting so old…

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 09:03 AM (PCK5/)

260 Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (5/7b/)

Back to the blood and feces thing, are we? Hardly seems something to spend an entire month of being proud of.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at May 31, 2023 09:03 AM (aGGj6)

261 Flying cocks are their own reward!
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Bezos is busy building his Dr. Evil Volcano Lair.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:03 AM (fWTJL)

262 "I tried to watch but struggled to understand what she was saying. I know all the words, and she pronounces everything correctly, but it's all meaningless business-speak.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers"


The only thing that she seems to be saying is the company/job is great because they are focused on her success and career. Which is what great companies should always be doing because their interns are what make them great.

Posted by: Ripley at May 31, 2023 09:04 AM (cUYo/)

263 243 Wasn’t Burgess Meredith in every Twilight Zone episode?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (mw8fy)

Him or William Shatner. They switched off.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:04 AM (AKHO7)

264 Doomberg has a great Substack on the power grid (paid site). There is a shortage of transformers. Of course, the government is making things worse with new restrictions on production. And..transformers need down time for recovery but charging electric cars means no recovery time.

--

Oh, that reminds me.

Think Tanks, academia, MSM, etc. are already beginning to tell people that their EVs - that don't even make up a margin of error of total vehicles in the U.S. - shouldn't be plugged in to charge at night.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 09:04 AM (5/7b/)

265 257 237 And, of course "A guy in a package store asks what are some popular Jewish wines. I want a fur coat. I want a Cadillac. I want to go to Miami".
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I have a colonial but I want a ranch.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:04 AM (fWTJL)

266 Why not end Birthright Citzenship by EO. Obama created Dreamers by EO, no?

It resets the Overton Window.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 09:04 AM (RqMSv)

267 "Methinks Yoko will die this summer."

Be still my beating heart.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 09:05 AM (S6gqv)

268 Dog shit > Thomas Massie

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:06 AM (to8pj)

269 Clint Eastwood turned 93 today.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 09:06 AM (vg8N1)

270 > The SpaceX capsule carrying the Saudi astronauts splashed down off Florida this morning after spending 8 days at the Space Station



man I bet it stinks in there

Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 09:06 AM (geLO8)

271 The beatings of average citizens are growing more frequent. To the west of me in Sullivan county a guy asked his neighbors to turn down music. There is an allegation he used racial epithets. He was promptly beaten to death . No arrests yet

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:06 AM (AxN/S)

272 And Ed Wynn.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 09:06 AM (vg8N1)

273 266 Why not end Birthright Citzenship by EO. Obama created Dreamers by EO, no?

It resets the Overton Window.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 09:04 AM (RqMSv)

'If' it could be done, it would actually move things a couple notches the other way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (AKHO7)

274 Back to the blood and feces thing, are we? Hardly seems something to spend an entire month of being proud of.

--

I'm not sure about the blood, but I suspect there's probably a subset of their population that's into that, too.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (5/7b/)

275 >>269 Clint Eastwood turned 93 today.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse

Eastwood is anti-2A. Another Hollyweird hypocrite.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (to8pj)

276 267 "Methinks Yoko will die this summer."

Be still my beating heart.
----------------
Honestly, I don't hate Yoko. She is just what she is. She was remarkably loyal to John. A bit vapid but loyal.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (fWTJL)

277 271 The beatings of average citizens are growing more frequent. To the west of me in Sullivan county a guy asked his neighbors to turn down music. There is an allegation he used racial epithets. He was promptly beaten to death . No arrests yet
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:06 AM (AxN/S)

Jeez.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (AKHO7)

278 Yes, Bulgaroctonus. Jus like Morgan Freeman is in every movie.

Posted by: Eromero at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (Uv0D2)

279 Methinks Yoko will die this summer. She has packed up here life in NYC and retreated to her Adirondack farm. My guess is she is preparing to die.
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (fWTJL)
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The ONT Memorial Thread when she finally passes will be EPIC!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (YIVH2)

280 Key takeaway: If you decide to hire a person from an Ivy, you are out of your mind.
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FIFY.

Posted by: mustbequantum at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (MIKMs)

281 How come A1 can't do "work at home" spam posts that are in proper English?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2023 09:07 AM (Keyt1)

282 Why not end Birthright Citzenship by EO. Obama created Dreamers by EO, no?

Birthright Citizenship is *obviously* unconstitutional. But it will be a fight to get rid of it because the government wants more invaders.

So, the president issuing an EO? Sounds good. But you better have a plan outside of "then we'll fight it for 4 years in left leaning courts"

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 09:08 AM (lc5cP)

283 @269 the sidebar has a link with an interview with Saul Rubinek about the making of Unforgiven. Real interesting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:08 AM (AxN/S)

284 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

The democrats aren't losing the debt ceiling agreement.
Period. They're the optimists! At the very worse, they recall when Obama(/Biden) agreed to $2.1 trillion in spending cuts to end the 2011 debt ceiling 'crisis.' There were spending caps, known as sequestration, but as time went on the bill unwound by degrees. In the end, there were cuts to discretionary spending over a decade that affected federal agencies & programs including a cut to Medicare providers' payments. It was needed & what they wanted and, in the bargain, they got to point accusatory fingers at the Republicans once again.

McCarthy stinks. He's Nan's through & through.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 31, 2023 09:08 AM (GshMh)

285 277 271 The beatings of average citizens are growing more frequent. To the west of me in Sullivan county a guy asked his neighbors to turn down music. There is an allegation he used racial epithets. He was promptly beaten to death . No arrests yet
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:06 AM (AxN/S)

Jeez.
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I smell vibrancy and minorities.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:08 AM (fWTJL)

286 >>Why not end Birthright Citzenship by EO


Because it was codified by the Congress.

Ted Kennedy is the asshole responsible for it, iirc.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2023 09:08 AM (GzxiE)

287 >Clint Eastwood turned 93 today.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at


he must look like sun-bleached leather stretched across a bony frame

Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (geLO8)

288 282 Why not end Birthright Citzenship by EO. Obama created Dreamers by EO, no?

Birthright Citizenship is *obviously* unconstitutional. But it will be a fight to get rid of it because the government wants more invaders.

So, the president issuing an EO? Sounds good. But you better have a plan outside of "then we'll fight it for 4 years in left leaning courts"
Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 09:08 AM (lc5cP)

Common law laws. Have to love them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (AKHO7)

289 >>Jennifer Auwerda, has relentlessly bullied me and my family just because we don’t want Gender/Queer ideology in Murray School District, Utah. Today she ordered 7 Pride flags to be staked into our front yard without our permission.


Translation: You WILL celebrate our deviancy, d@mnit!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (mo/0F)

290 he must look like sun-bleached leather stretched across a bony frame
Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (geLO

So you saw the trailers for Mule?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (AKHO7)

291 The beatings of average citizens are growing more frequent.

One of the things that caused the Spanish Civil War is the leftwing government gave carte blanche to its supporters to beat people to death.

Not surprisingly this hardened the view of non-leftists on the need to remove that government by any means necessary

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (lc5cP)

292 Now I remember that there was a Twilight Zone ep that had Telly Savalas in it. Involved an evil doll.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (mw8fy)

293 The current huge wave of illegals is getting media attention in NYC because of the enormous adverse effects from the relatively few who make it here (getting put up in hotels at $500 per night). I can only imagine what's going on in border states, but that's not reported. This will cost the Left in political support.

Using an EO gets things going,

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 09:11 AM (RqMSv)

294 There is an allegation he used racial epithets. He was promptly beaten to death . No arrests yet

Posted by: Smell the Glove

--

Well, you said it yourself. He possibly used racial epithets. As we recently learned, that trumps everything up to and including letting a nuclear bomb explode in a major city, killing millions of the people who might've gotten their feelings hurt:

HAHAHA

Sorry, I was looking for the link to the twitter feed to post there, but this came up instead and I can't help but post it. WEF:

How Can We Tackle Racism in Artificial Intelligence?

https://tinyurl.com/5fmhusah

Even them computers be keeping 'em down, yo.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 09:11 AM (5/7b/)

295 Just to be technical for a moment, the "Dreamers" situation involves enforcement by the executive branch, not legal status. (Which is why they keep trying to codify it) although that stretches the limits of what an EO can do, it was arguably allowable.
Changing birthright citizenship, however, requires directly overturning not only SCOTUS precedent but also more than one section of current Federsl Code. An EO is NOT allowed to go into those areas, it is strictly unconstitutional.

With both houses of Congress, I believe there's a path to doing it, although amending the Constitution is the only sure way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 09:11 AM (S6gqv)

296 The beatings of average citizens are growing more frequent. To the west of me in Sullivan county a guy asked his neighbors to turn down music. There is an allegation he used racial epithets. He was promptly beaten to death . No arrests yet
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:06 AM (AxN/S)

Did they turn the music down then ?

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 09:12 AM (T4tVD)

297
Ed Wynn was the voice of Ogg the Caveman, in the stop motion Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies commercials back in the late 60s early 70s.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 09:12 AM (x0n13)

298 And on the birthright citizenship thing, I am reminded on Trump's fight with the census.

He wanted to re-add information on citizenship status (which was there years ago) and the courts just told him no and he went along.

HAVE A PLAN

For example, print all the forms you need with the question. Mail them out ahead of time while the court is still considering it and claim "oopsie!" we had a deadline...didn't realize the court wanted us to violate it...SORRY!

Then let some low level person take the blame, fire him, and then hire him to some no-show job at a non-profit so he is taken care of.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 09:12 AM (lc5cP)

299 292 Now I remember that there was a Twilight Zone ep that had Telly Savalas in it. Involved an evil doll.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (mw8fy)

The Living Doll

https://is.gd/OmU4zQ

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:12 AM (AKHO7)

300 Now I remember that there was a Twilight Zone ep that had Telly Savalas in it. Involved an evil doll.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (mw8fy)
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Probably "The Living Doll," which was (IIRC), in the final season. The "creepy" factor on that episode was high, and was a pretty sad tale.

The creepiest "Twilight Zone" episode involving a doll (or something like a doll), though, is "The Dummy" in Season 3. That one creeped me out big time, and still does.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:12 AM (DU+/6)

301 @244 Puddinhead

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:13 AM (AxN/S)

302 Wow. That Alissa H. video. Ranks right up there with the beauty pageant contest "I personally believe..."

Posted by: Make it stop at May 31, 2023 09:13 AM (DhOHl)

303 Doesn’t the Constitution (I know, I know) sole authority to determine the criteria for citizenship?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:13 AM (mw8fy)

304 Wasn’t Burgess Meredith in every Twilight Zone episode?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:01 AM (mw8fy)

He was good as Satan in that one where he took over a local newspaper.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 31, 2023 09:13 AM (7tCXb)

305 One of the things that caused the Spanish Civil War is the leftwing government gave carte blanche to its supporters to beat people to death.

Not surprisingly this hardened the view of non-leftists on the need to remove that government by any means necessary
Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 09:09 AM (lc5cP)

Eh, not unlike the Freikorps and the Commies going at it in the Weimar Republic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:13 AM (AKHO7)

306 297
Ed Wynn was the voice of Ogg the Caveman, in the stop motion Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies commercials back in the late 60s early 70s.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 09:12 AM (x0n13)

That was… random?? JJ, Keeper of Odd Knowledge!!!

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 09:13 AM (PCK5/)

307 Yoko is an old Asian woman in NYC. I'd leave too. She's a target there.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 31, 2023 09:13 AM (ouTlx)

308 I'd... like ta get sum... ice cream! Choccat Chip?

That's... that's my executive order.

Jill's my boss!

*loos around expectantly for laughter*

Posted by: SpongeBrain ShitsPants at May 31, 2023 09:14 AM (TkV8C)

309 Trump calls Kayleigh McEnany 'milk toast.' LOL

I can't argue with that as she is now sipping Murdoch penis.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:14 AM (to8pj)

310 @301 continued , I think you're correct about Yoko. One correction, her home is in Delaware county which is the western foothills of the Catskills

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:14 AM (AxN/S)

311 303 Naturalized citizenship, I mean.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:15 AM (mw8fy)

312 Hungarian is probably the hardest language to learn, at least among those that use the Roman alphabet. It has only one related language in its group, Finnish, and that is a distant cousin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (x0n13)

Paging Miklos...
Miklos to the white courtesy phone, please.

Posted by: Doof at May 31, 2023 09:15 AM (8R5Il)

313 Creepiest dummy movie I ever saw was “ Magic” with Anthony Hopkins and Ann Margret…

Posted by: tubal at May 31, 2023 09:15 AM (PCK5/)

314 'The best deal is no deal': Freedom caucus members threaten to burn down US credit over debt limit. It scares me when I read shit like this. I knew how the putin caucus would rage.

The freedumb caucus doesn't want to stop the bill! They want to be seen as trying to stop it (and failing), so they can run for re-election in their districts about their selfless, gallant attempt to stop China and the Biden administration. Their nitwit supporters will buy whatever excuse the Freedumb Caucus sells them.

They never wanted any kind of deal. All they want is to destroy. They can scream all they want. A combination of Dems and Republicans will pass it. We should call them by a more accurate name: The Treason Caucus.

Their sole function is the production of soundbytes for the likes of Putin. These empty vessels are hired actors spouting lines in character. Their soul purpose is the destruction of our democracy. There are some in America that think that burning it all down is the only way to save democracy.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 31, 2023 09:15 AM (JCZqz)

315 The creepiest "Twilight Zone" episode involving a doll (or something like a doll), though, is "The Dummy" in Season 3. That one creeped me out big time, and still does.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:12 AM (DU+/6)

The Concentration Camp one was pretty bad on creep factor.

I had resolved a couple years ago to watch the series (had only ever seen an episode here and there.) Started in on the first season (Amazon for free) and quickly realize that while it was good, it was not something for the video wallpaper approach I usually use.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:15 AM (AKHO7)

316 The best deal is NO deal.

We need to stop the out of control spending.

No deal does that, and will help bring the Bideninflation under control - whether he chooses to default or not.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 09:16 AM (lc5cP)

317 What SCOTUS precedent on Birthright Citizenship. I know of an old case involving the child of legal residents. And some dicta (from Brennan IIRC)

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 09:16 AM (RqMSv)

318 "Not joking here and this comment isn't aimed directly at you. Isn't this what we are supposed to be doing?

We keep calling for someone to Take No Prisoners with the Left."

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The problem, is this is the equivalent to banning handguns by EO.

It looks and sounds stupid.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2023 09:16 AM (i7Q7S)

319 >> I just don't understand why we're supposed to applaud how people have sex.

I don't demand applause but the laughing seems unnecessary.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2023 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

320 Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 09:12 AM (lc5cP)

Yes this sort of thing is the way. The problem is the agencies are stacked to the brim with people loyal to the shadow gov, but hell yeah go for it.

I would start by firing every fireable worker. Clear out every agency then do a corporate takeover in each where anyone with any power who cannot be fired is "reassigned" to Alaskan outback. So dress warm.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 09:17 AM (uDitw)

321 He was good as Satan in that one where he took over a local newspaper.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 31, 2023 09:13 AM (7tCXb)
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Ah, yes. "The Printer's Devil." I forgot that one, which is a pity because that's a great episode.

As an aside on the history of printing, there is a phantom that is said to haunt all print shops: Titivillus, also called the "Patron Demon of Scribes." Titivillus works on behalf of Satan to introduce errors into the work of scribes. With the advent of printing, the Titivillus myth continued, and he is the one who causes problems in lines of type or machinery.

Titivillus has never been more powerful, though nobody remembers his name. He now goes by a modern appellation: "autocucumber."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:17 AM (DU+/6)

322 303 I meant to write, “Doesn’t the Constitution give Congress sole authority to determine the criteria for naturalized citizenship?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:17 AM (mw8fy)

323 Our problem with birthright citizenship is that by the clear wording of the 14th Amendment, it is explicitly constitutional. The only way around that is to try to change what the phrase "under the jurisdiction of" is taken yo mean. And those who want to change that need to understand that this phrase is currently clearly defined by both SCOTUS precedent and Federal Code. Currently, "under the jurisdiction of" legally means that if the local police are allowed to arrest you for anything at all, then you are under the jurisdiction of.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 09:17 AM (S6gqv)

324 >>'The best deal is no deal': Freedom caucus members ...

Thomas Massie was the deciding vote to move this out of committee. Very disappointed in Massie.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:17 AM (to8pj)

325 319 >> I just don't understand why we're supposed to applaud how people have sex.

I don't demand applause but the laughing seems unnecessary.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 31, 2023 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:17 AM (AKHO7)

326 I had resolved a couple years ago to watch the series (had only ever seen an episode here and there.) Started in on the first season (Amazon for free) and quickly realize that while it was good, it was not something for the video wallpaper approach I usually use.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:15 AM (AKHO7)
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What is the "video wallpaper approach?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

327 What is the "video wallpaper approach?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:18 AM (DU+/6)

Where you throw an episode or podcast up on the big screen tv and do other things on the computer and watch out of the corner of your eye.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:19 AM (AKHO7)

328 "under the jurisdiction of"

If you are here illegally you are by definition not under the jurisdiction of...because if you were under the jurisdiction you wouldn't be here.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 09:19 AM (lc5cP)

329 Elizabeth Holmes spent her first night in prison last night.

Posted by: How'd she sleep? at May 31, 2023 09:19 AM (DhOHl)

330 "Another hit to the disgraced Bureau."
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Since every such blow fails to take down this evil institution, the FBI gets stronger and not weaker.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 09:19 AM (+35lw)

331 Where you throw an episode or podcast up on the big screen tv and do other things on the computer and watch out of the corner of your eye.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 09:19 AM (AKHO7)
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Ah, okay. Yeah, The Twilight Zone isn't a great choice for that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:19 AM (DU+/6)

332 Charlie Brown’s Pentagon


Five-sided dildoes?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:20 AM (mw8fy)

333 "The only way around that is to try to change what the phrase "under the jurisdiction of" is taken yo mean"

Congress can change it, POTUS can sign it, and SCOTUS can uphold it. Fixing this is now existential. Am I wrong?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 09:20 AM (RqMSv)

334 Douglas K Murray-Conservative Englishman and social &, political writer who is gay:

Oh no - it’s pride month…. So, as I find myself pointing out every year, if there’s something you shouldn’t feel shame for then you shouldn’t feel pride for it either. Being gay is a morally neutral fact. Neither pride nor shame. Just being. Like everybody else.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2023 09:20 AM (Keyt1)

335 Bulgaroctonus - no, it doesn't. It should, but it doesn't- another thing that requires an amendment.

We have this myth that our constitution doesn't have any flaws - in fact it has several huge ones, and the area of citizenship is one of the biggest.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 09:20 AM (S6gqv)

336 Seems there's a rumor that Tara Reade (the woman who dared accuse Joey "magic fingers" Bidet of putting his putrid digits up her sniff) has moved to Russia in order to find safety. If she thinks she's safe from being "snuffed" by the corrupt weaponized intel institutions of the US who want to protect the Traitor Joey, even in that hell hole, well, good luck.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & Country Club GOP at May 31, 2023 09:20 AM (5uy7A)

337 >> I just don't understand why we're supposed to applaud how people have sex.


I don't need more clap.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at May 31, 2023 09:20 AM (GzxiE)

338 The problem, is this is the equivalent to banning handguns by EO.

It looks and sounds stupid.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2023 09:16 AM (i7Q7S)

It's similar to the Muslim Ban that Trump threw out there in 2015. It sets the parameters for the conversation. And what's more it sets it to a default that WE would like, and one where Trump can't really be trumped by a swinging righty dick. Saying you'll "work with Congress" sounds weak. Trump doesn't like to sound weak.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 09:21 AM (uDitw)

339 >Five-sided dildoes?

Twenty bucks. Same as at the PX.

Posted by: Obligatory at May 31, 2023 09:21 AM (DhOHl)

340 310 @301 continued , I think you're correct about Yoko. One correction, her home is in Delaware county which is the western foothills of the Catskills
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Thanks. The report I heard placed it in Upstate.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:22 AM (fWTJL)

341 I *think* Congress can change the definition, that will depend on whether the SCOTUS will play along or get pissy about it. It's not a sure thing, but it should be tried.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 09:22 AM (S6gqv)

342 >>> I just don't understand why we're supposed to applaud how people have sex.


narcissism is a big part of the queer lifestyle

Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 09:22 AM (geLO8)

343 I found this DU take moderately interesting. Someone at least understands the concept of "failure theater"...I wonder if and when they'll recognize it within their own ranks? I know the FAR Lefties and Socialists see the Dem party as sellouts.

The freedumb caucus doesn't want to stop the bill! They want to be seen as trying to stop it (and failing), so they can run for re-election in their districts about their selfless, gallant attempt to stop China and the Biden administration. Their nitwit supporters will buy whatever excuse the Freedumb Caucus sells them.

Unfortunately, the performances are getting more convincing, so I'm not sure how legitimate the Freedom Caucus's antics are, or how much is controlled opposition. Are they the right-wing equivalent of "The Squad"?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 31, 2023 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

344 Virginia Man Arrested – Charged with First Degree Murder in Shooting Death of Republican Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour

Wasn't there a male NJ R congress critter murdered as well? What's the story on that killing?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:23 AM (to8pj)

345 Thomas Massie was the deciding vote to move this out of committee. Very disappointed in Massie.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:17 AM (to8pj)
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Why? He's made his position clear on debt limit theater from the very get-go, and even before. He thinks its all ineffectual and completely fake. Which, of course, is correct.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 09:23 AM (+35lw)

346 >>, I think you're correct about Yoko. One correction, her home is in Delaware county which is the western foothills of the Catskills


Most of those aged hippies have property in/around Woodstock area.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2023 09:23 AM (GzxiE)

347 329 Elizabeth Holmes spent her first night in prison last night.
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Yeah. She was very chipper going to jail. Weird.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:23 AM (fWTJL)

348 So we must believe that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was speaking hopefully, not literally, when he told Fox Tuesday morning that unless FBI Director Christopher Wray turns over a document alleging Joe Biden sold his office as part of a $5 million bribery scheme when he was vice president, Congress will move to hold him in contempt.

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McCarthy could have at least made caving on the Perennial Great Debt Ceiling #FailureTheater contingent on Fay Wray turning over that document, amirite?

/It's spineless cowardice all the way down ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 09:23 AM (sJSOG)

349 Hungarian is probably the hardest language to learn, at least among those that use the Roman alphabet. It has only one related language in its group, Finnish, and that is a distant cousin.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 08:52 AM (x0n13)

Paging Miklos...
Miklos to the white courtesy phone, please.
Posted by: Doof at May 31, 2023 09:15 AM (8R5Il)

Growing up in the 50's in a Hungarian household, a Hungarian neighborhood and a Hungarian church, I was able to speak the language in my early youth. However, once the older folks passed, the language was spoken less frequently, and I eventually lost most of my ability to speak it. I do, however, remember some of the more colorful curses! Oh, for those in the New Brunswick NJ area, the annual Hungarian Festival is being held this Saturday, June 3rd (Hey, my birthday, as well!) in the city. Great food and music every year. I will be there for sure!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 31, 2023 09:23 AM (Zvtjl)

350
Yoko died a long time ago, but the corpse is still rattling around.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 09:24 AM (MoZTd)

351 @319 laughter is better than weeping

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:24 AM (AxN/S)

352 Is the horde softening on Yoko Ono? Cuz that's what I'm hearing

tell me if I'm wrong
which is not without precedent

Posted by: DB - at May 31, 2023 09:24 AM (geLO8)

353 335 Thanks, Tom Servo, agreed. I wish we would amend it to more precisely define the “natural-born citizen” requirement for the Presidency, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:24 AM (mw8fy)

354 Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig’s administration has approved $4,000 for Manchester High School West’s June 2 Pride Event, which will come from American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding, according to a report from NH Journal.

“That includes $500 to pay drag performers to appear at the public school,” the report states. “The funding was approved through the city’s Community Event and Activation Grant, or CEAG, program, according to documents obtained by NHJournal.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 09:24 AM (BRHaw)

355 > The beatings of average citizens are growing more frequent.
___________

I noted several months ago how the public at large seemed have gotten a lot more belligerent towards each other. Fights of parking spaces, property lines, everything really, are on the rise.

It's not going to end peacefully.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

356 I have always though Chick-Filet was just OK, nothing special but the kid like it so we go there some. Like Bud Light, they can easily be replaced by other fast foods. Or just left out of the spending altogether.

Posted by: Ripley at May 31, 2023 09:25 AM (cUYo/)

357 @346 as I live in/around the Woodstock area I rate your comment as correct

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2023 09:26 AM (AxN/S)

358 >>I have always though Chick-Filet was just OK


Only had it once and it was not good enough to go back.

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2023 09:26 AM (GzxiE)

359 Replying to 18-1: that's a good argument as to what it *should* mean, unfortunately current Federal Code and standing precedent define it differently. Meaning that anyone who takes that argument into any court gets booted out in the first 30 minutes with an automatic summary judgment against.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 09:26 AM (S6gqv)

360 “When Target caves into this, then it says that the moment you threaten the employees of even a very large corporation you get to control its policies. This is economic terrorism. Literally terrorism,” Wolfers said.

now do media matters

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

361 333 Congress can change it, POTUS can sign it, and SCOTUS can uphold it. Fixing this is now existential. Am I wrong?
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 31, 2023 09:20 AM

Yes. Unlimited illegal immigration is the solution, not the problem.

Posted by: GOPe, Chamber of Commerce, and other conservative sellouts at May 31, 2023 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

362 “I can tell that she was born…HUNGARIAN!”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:27 AM (mw8fy)

363
Yoko - OK
Yoko's "music" - NOT OK

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 09:27 AM (iayUP)

364 Trump calls Kayleigh McEnany 'milk toast.' LOL

I can't argue with that as she is now sipping Murdoch penis.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:14 AM (to8pj)
******
I like Kayleigh a lot. She is a staunch conservative and I agree with her on almost everything.

This was a jerky move on Trump's part.
She defends him all the time.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 31, 2023 09:28 AM (NpAcC)

365 323 Our problem with birthright citizenship is that by the clear wording of the 14th Amendment, it is explicitly constitutional. The only way around that is to try to change what the phrase "under the jurisdiction of" is taken yo mean. And those who want to change that need to understand that this phrase is currently clearly defined by both SCOTUS precedent and Federal Code. Currently, "under the jurisdiction of" legally means that if the local police are allowed to arrest you for anything at all, then you are under the jurisdiction of.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 31, 2023 09:17 AM (S6gqv)

The phrase becomes meaningless unless it excludes some category of people who happen to be present in US territory. Which historically it did in regard to Indians at least(and was likely meant to avoid including ambassadors as well).

"Subject to the jurisdiction of" seems to relate more to the now largely forgotten concept of subjecthood. A US citizen overseas is still subject to certain US laws, even though they aren't in the ordinary physical jurisdiction of the US.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 09:28 AM (eYoxG)

366 356 I have always though Chick-Filet was just OK, nothing special but the kid like it so we go there some. Like Bud Light, they can easily be replaced by other fast foods. Or just left out of the spending altogether.
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Making schnitzel is not hard. Fuck, every fast food franchise offers a schnitzel sandwich these days.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:29 AM (fWTJL)

367 One of the South Africa Twitterers I follow posted this. It's funny. He means it in the ZA context, but it is likely generally applicable:
https://is.gd/cLSKL8

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 09:29 AM (DU+/6)

368 350
Yoko died a long time ago, but the corpse is still rattling around.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 31, 2023 09:24 AM

The shrill voice died out long before,
The terror ever did....

Posted by: Elton John at May 31, 2023 09:29 AM (JCZqz)

369 >>I like Kayleigh a lot. She is a staunch conservative


I like to slap her on the ass and tell her "You're a Great American!"

Posted by: Sean Hannity at May 31, 2023 09:30 AM (GzxiE)

370 “When Target caves into this, then it says that the moment you threaten the employees of even a very large corporation you get to control its policies. This is economic terrorism. Literally terrorism,” Wolfers said.

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+1
- White people over the last 40 or so years

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 09:30 AM (5/7b/)

371
A
R
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Posted by: rhennigantx at May 31, 2023 09:30 AM (BRHaw)

372 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 09:30 AM (mw8fy)

373 " I just don't understand why we're supposed to applaud how people have sex."

=======

Their entire identity is wrapped up in being gay.

That is why they need constant validation and praise.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 31, 2023 09:31 AM (i7Q7S)

374 @323

>>Our problem with birthright citizenship is that by the clear wording of the 14th Amendment, it is explicitly constitutional.

Except that the framers of the 14th amendment explained pretty clearly the purpose and intent of the amendment was to deal with the question of freed slaves and was not to be construed as a pathway for Juanita to cross the border, drop a kid and go on the dole.

That understanding was a concoction of SCOTUS and a concoction in dicta no less.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 09:31 AM (luZ9s)

375 I noted several months ago how the public at large seemed have gotten a lot more belligerent towards each other. Fights of parking spaces, property lines, everything really, are on the rise.

It's not going to end peacefully.


so yes

again was just in Philly over the weekend and the tone there is just different. even in the burbs - there is a menacing aspect to certain demos - they truly believe they deserve deference in all things, including if they want your stuff, they should just have whatever they want. and if you look at them wrong, they need to address that with verbal and maybe physical assault.

this is new. it's among the young primarily. the city is THEIRS now.

one evening a bunch of kids got rowdy by the seaport (Penns Landing) which was full of touristy types enjoying the night air. it must have been a social media fueled gathering bc it was HUNDREDS of kids. when I was a teen I never thought "huh let's get together in a mob for fun" - anyway they rampaged thru Penns Landing then Old City then Center City then Bridesburg. The cops didn't stop them until they finally circled the remnants in the middle of the night up in Bridesburg (a neighborhood).

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 31, 2023 09:31 AM (w0NJk)

376 Romans 1:18-28

Homosexuality is shameful.

Sin is nothing to be proud of.

Pride is the worst of the 7 deadly sins.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 09:31 AM (vg8N1)

377 C'mon guys, Yoko screaming behind John singing Cold Turkey was classic.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 09:31 AM (fWTJL)

378 363
Yoko - OK
Yoko's "music" - NOT OK
Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 09:27 AM

We wanted Yoko for the voice of Scuttle in the new Little Mermaid, but had to settle for the more normie-friendly Awkwafina.

Posted by: Disney at May 31, 2023 09:31 AM (JCZqz)

379 374 @323

>>Our problem with birthright citizenship is that by the clear wording of the 14th Amendment, it is explicitly constitutional.

Except that the framers of the 14th amendment explained pretty clearly the purpose and intent of the amendment was to deal with the question of freed slaves and was not to be construed as a pathway for Juanita to cross the border, drop a kid and go on the dole.

That understanding was a concoction of SCOTUS and a concoction in dicta no less.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 31, 2023 09:31 AM (luZ9s)

And we have around 60 years after the 14th amendment passed where Indians born in the US still did not receive US citizenship. On account that it wasn't understood to work the way it is used in modern times.

Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 is what gave the Indians birthright citizenship, not the 14th.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 09:32 AM (eYoxG)

380 349 Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 31, 2023 09:23 AM (Zvtjl)

Momma had the "basz-mags" wre flying around my house liberally. Also the blending of English and Hungarian with "Get the 'pitchaya' out of here!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 09:33 AM (x0n13)

381 Haven't they realized everyone wouldn't be so lonely if they just introduced themselves to each other as they lined up behind David French's "wife"?

Posted by: Rbastid at May 31, 2023 09:33 AM (l0YDK)

382 CNN: Women Marrying Themselves as ‘Symbolic Expression of Self-Love’ Sologamy.

Well, I guess it's better than marrying a train station or a shovel.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:33 AM (to8pj)

383
this is new. it's among the young primarily. the city is THEIRS now.

one evening a bunch of kids got rowdy by the seaport (Penns Landing) which was full of touristy types enjoying the night air. it must have been a social media fueled gathering bc it was HUNDREDS of kids. when I was a teen I never thought "huh let's get together in a mob for fun" - anyway they rampaged thru Penns Landing then Old City then Center City then Bridesburg. The cops didn't stop them until they finally circled the remnants in the middle of the night up in Bridesburg (a neighborhood).

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John Derbyshire, you have a call holding on line two, please. John Derbyshire, line two.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 09:34 AM (5/7b/)

384 If Birthright Citizenship could be ended, what would be the cut off? After all, Kamala Harris and several in Congress - not to mention their "mates" - are under that "umbrella," mostly when their mothers came to the US & stayed without permission.

What of the millions who've married US citizens long ago? I recall decades ago when young people were volunteering left & right to marry those who wanted into the country & then they got cheap divorces through divorce mills?

How much power does the UN - and WEB - have concerning migration to the US?

This has all the makings of a very lively, but necessary, debate. The US needs a line.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 31, 2023 09:34 AM (GshMh)

385 I really like the Spicy Deluxe (spicy breast, pepper jack, lettuce, tomato, pickle). But their recent support for ESG and DIE made me thinking that I can make it myself at home cheaper.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 09:34 AM (vg8N1)

386 "Uganda’s shameful anti-LGBTQ law is unjust & simply cruel,'' Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc


Wait!. Why is it not their culture and traditions which we must respect and who are we to judge?

Posted by: Ripley at May 31, 2023 09:34 AM (cUYo/)

387 Mandatory: "You are. ... Obsolete!"

Posted by: Fox2! at May 31, 2023 09:35 AM (ncNTU)

388

Personal hot button-- burning our flag.

Flag burning is in no way an expression of free speech. rather it is wilful and malicious desecration of our national symbol, and by extension, a denial of the country and it's values.

I do not tolerate such incidents in my presence and they will engender an appropriate response.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 31, 2023 09:35 AM (KATBx)

389 "Uganda’s shameful anti-LGBTQ law is unjust & simply cruel,'' Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc


Uganda banning child f*cking = "unjust & simply cruel"

Al Qaeda literally burning people alive for not wanting to follow their version of Islam - "that's just their culture, no better or worse then ours"

Posted by: The left at May 31, 2023 09:38 AM (lc5cP)

390 "Uganda’s shameful anti-LGBTQ law is unjust & simply cruel,'' Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc

Uganda banning child f*cking = "unjust & simply cruel"

--

Not just her.

Ted Cruz, too.

Posted by: You had your day for dead soldiers, now here's a month for men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 09:40 AM (5/7b/)

391 KOHL's (KSS) already down 1.5 percent at open.

It moved.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 31, 2023 09:40 AM (to8pj)

392 I do not tolerate such incidents in my presence and they will engender an appropriate response.
Posted by: irongrampa at May 31, 2023 09:35 AM (KATBx)

One of my favorite vintage videos is the one where protesters trespass on a baseball field during a game to burn a flag and one of the ball players swoops in and rescues the flag before they can light it. I'm sure you know the one. It's awesome to see the player use his athletic skill to do a good deed.

Posted by: Emmie -- MoMe-curious AR morons and Farmer, please email me at May 31, 2023 09:50 AM (Emce2)

393 That's nothing new in Philly. The "flash mobs" come and go unless it's Rittenhouse Square or another posh area where civility is always maintained.

However, there's problems in towns at the Jersey shore that have very rarely, or never, seen such carrying on before C19. The parents are not being particularly cooperative with the police, either.

And there was this in Delaware County over the weekend: 1 critical, 8 teens hurt in shooting in parking lot outside Subaru Stadium, home of the Philadelphia Union soccer league. It has nothing to do with a soccer game which ended well before this event which involved more than 100 kids who were 'celebrating' the end of the school. The parking lot was found littered with shell casings & medical gloves.

Let's see how things are by the end of summer as government keeps "directing" more people into already crowded, competitive areas.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 31, 2023 09:52 AM (GshMh)

394 Yoko Ono first lived in New York in 1940. She spent WWII in Tokyo, and was there for the fire bombing and subsequent starvation.

If you see her leaving NYC, try to keep up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 31, 2023 09:55 AM (jYCXf)

395 Under Macron, France Brings Back 'Preventive Censorship' After More Than 140 Years

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin asked the prefects throughout France to ban all events and protests organized by "the far right or the ultra-right"

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 10:05 AM (RHGPo)

396 Looks like this Brittany Sheehan is the new NeverTrump attack yorkie for RedState.com. Did Mike Miller and Joe Cunningham run out of their immature vitriol? Maybe but I wouldn't hold my breath. RedState is in the tank for Desantis and their very personal war against President Trump is on display for all to see.

Suck it, RedState!

Posted by: Tracy at May 31, 2023 10:19 AM (I/6xK)

397 385 I really like the Spicy Deluxe (spicy breast, pepper jack, lettuce, tomato, pickle). But their recent support for ESG and DIE made me thinking that I can make it myself at home cheaper.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at May 31, 2023 09:34 AM (vg8N1)

I saw Spicy Deluxe open for Be Bop Deluxe at the Entermedia Theater during the '78 farewell tour.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 10:34 AM (x0n13)

398 Momma had the "basz-mags" wre flying around my house liberally. Also the blending of English and Hungarian with "Get the 'pitchaya' out of here!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 09:33 AM (x0n13)

LOL!! Many of my neighbors came from "the old country" and would let loose with a tirade of Hungarian "phrases" if we kids annoyed them. Of course, my mom would ask, "where did you hear THAT?!?" when I repeated those colorful phrases. HA! Quite an education back then.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 31, 2023 11:03 AM (Zvtjl)

399 “The FBI remains committed to cooperating with Congress’s oversight requests on this matter and others as we always have..."

Which means they never have if this is the way they've always done it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2023 11:04 AM (ynpvh)

400 I made this point the other day; the executive is the most powerful branch in that no matter what Congress or the Courts determine, if the executive branch won't act on it, it won't get done. It's time for the house to play chicken with the Executive branch and find judges that will hold them in contempt so that the entire world can finally see this bukake theatre of so-called Constitutional behavior for what it really is: dictatorial rule by the executive with disregard for everything and everyone else. Let's stop pretending.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 31, 2023 11:10 AM (ynpvh)

401 It is time for the House to discover that it has some balls. The House has always had a direct power of contempt. Apparently this has not been done for over 140 years, but the House can have the Sergeant at Arms arrest and confine a person that the House finds is in contempt.
It might come as a wake-up to Wray, to be thrown in a cell in the basement of the Capitol, to remain there until he has purged his contempt, by having the document delivered, and by apologising to the House. There is apparently no limits on the term of imprisonment that the House can determine to impose. How about.... 2 years 6 months in solitary confinement, which is the going rate for 'insurrection'?

Posted by: Dyspeptic Curmudgeon at May 31, 2023 11:19 AM (glUj6)

402 I'm far less concerned with Wray, Garland, etc., being traitors (it's who Ds are nowadays) than I am stupefied by Rs unwilling to leak... ANYTHING. If Daniel Ellsberg could leak The Pentagon Papers in the middle of a war, why the Rs in congress can't leak any one of (doubtless) hundreds of docs that would harm the D long march... is just beyond me.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (NX5U7)

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