Grand Jury Report: Environmental Extremists Who Defaced a Priceless Painting at the Smithsonian Arranged Press Coverage With the Washington Post Before Committing Their Crime

What is the definition of a conspiracy...? The agreement that one or more persons making the agreement will commit a crime.

The Washington Post "journalist" and videographer who showed up to document this extremist Art Insurrection are co-conspirators.

The Post credited this to "John Farrell, Jackson Barton/The Washington Post" when it published the video as part of its report. Jackson Barton has been the Post's "breaking news video editor" for nine months, according to a press release from WaPo's PR department last August. Quite a scoop -- and a coincidence, no?
Er ... probably not. A grand jury returned an indictment against Smith and Martin yesterday, charging the pair with felonies for an injury to a National Gallery of Art property (40 US 6303, 6307) and conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States (18 USC 371). Both could cost the two defendants up to five years in prison and $250,000 per count, although they're likely to get shorter sentences than that if they have no prior convictions.
But let's get back to the WaPo's good fortune in having a reporting team on scene when the attack occurred. Was that just a coincidence? Not according to the grand jury:

Below, a cameraman in Sweden has a very different opinion on whether one should conspire with environmental extremists.

JUST IN: Camera man takes out Climate activists who stormed the stage during live broadcast at Sweden’s “Dancing with the Stars” finale..

pic.twitter.com/HpKQWadHVL
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) May 28, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 02:23 PM

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1 t54ww4twft

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (lCaJd)

2 Conspiracies are okay unless they are theories, then they are bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (LvTSG)

3 I'M BAAAAACCCKKKK

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (lCaJd)

4 st?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (DU+/6)

5 Again, just want to note that the painting was fine. They just got the case and pedestal. I think this is important to note.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (Vq2Tz)

6 Shouldn;'t have read the content. Amateur move.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (DU+/6)

7 that video is so damn feel good. brings a tear to my eye and a tightness to my pants when that camera takes that tool out

Posted by: bored383 at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (4Kzkx)

8 Below, a cameraman in Sweden has a very different opinion on whether one should conspire with environmental extremists.

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I think that was all staged, too, except the cameraman wasn't in on it and was probably fired.

Those folks had backstage passes.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (5/7b/)

9 Both could cost the two defendants up to five years in prison and $250,000 per count, although they're likely to get shorter sentences than that if they have no prior convictions.
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HAHAHA. They will get *very* light sentences indeed. They're left-wing activists, after all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (DU+/6)

10 They should’ve gone out for burgers instead.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (u73oe)

11

If they only flung poo at a Jackson Pollack painting, they'd be home free. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (x0n13)

12 Just Stopped! Anti-oil protesters get more than they bargain for when they try to halt Twickenham rugby final as they are lifted up and bundled off the pitch by burly players in front of a delighted crowd
https://tinyurl.com/27jyvjts

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (MFZ8i)

13 The camera man should get Sweden's highest medal.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (d2bW3)

14 HE HIT HIM WITH A CAMERA, BY GAWD!

Posted by: The_Hoser at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (N66D6)

15 That video with the camera taking out the soy noodle is the feel good movie of the summer.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (ZGrMX)

16 LOl... Kudos to that camera man

Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (bs+z0)

17 >>>5 Again, just want to note that the painting was fine. They just got the case and pedestal. I think this is important to note.

It's the thought that counts.

Posted by: ace at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (KRtlO)

18 But let's get back to the WaPo's good fortune in having a reporting team on scene when the attack occurred. Was that just a coincidence? Not according to the grand jury:
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And yet Barton *isn't* under indictment. Being a press whore must be *awesome.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (DU+/6)

19 Arrest Bezos for conspiracy!

Posted by: henry at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (JMDly)

20 It's not conspiracy, it's teamwork.

Posted by: t-bird at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (Sv58p)

21 Just keep dancin'
Just keep dancin'

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (e4fEA)

22 Willowed:
Wait, they do that?! Well, I know what I'm doing for lunch tomorrow.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (DRSnL)

Happy Birthday, Jordan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (Vq2Tz)

23 I imagine similar circumstances surround a lot of what the media pretends to report on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (Q4IgG)

24 I know I'm just a Moron around here, so help me out...

How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (YIVH2)

25 I'M BAAAAACCCKKKK
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (lCaJd)

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Ha! I missed your gibberish firsts.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (DRSnL)

26 13 The camera man should get Sweden's highest medal.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (d2bW3)

The Order of Seka & Johnny Holmes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (x0n13)

27 JUST IN: Camera man takes out Climate activists who stormed the stage during live broadcast at Sweden's 'Dancing with the Stars' finale..

pic.twitter.com/HpKQWadHVL

- Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) May 28, 2023

LOL

(even if the word 'stormed' is overdramatic... asshoes deserved it)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (llON8)

28 It's the thought that counts.
Posted by: ace at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (KRtlO)

I know. It is infuriating either way, but this is not a case of the gal smearing the face of a Da Vinci.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (Vq2Tz)

29 Cameraman's face shot is a classic all by itself.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (W7O9K)

30 That jib operator is the real winner of Sweden's "Dancing with the Stars."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (DU+/6)

31 Failed to call nood prior thread?

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (GshMh)

32 oh and I'm suuuuure the good little commies took the bus or rode their bikes or *walked* to get there, right???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (llON8)

33 26 13 The camera man should get Sweden's highest medal.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (d2bW3)

The Order of Seka & Johnny Holmes.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (x0n13)

Here is your gold plated syringe of Heroin.

And a hearty handshake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (Vq2Tz)

34 They should’ve gone out for burgers instead.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (u73oe)

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Or a chicken sammich.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:29 PM (DRSnL)

35 This is a DC grand jury, right?

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 31, 2023 01:29 PM (bNf8H)

36 It would be way worse if some [fed] guy you never met emailed you something you never opened.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 31, 2023 01:29 PM (Q/S4c)

37 I've read that the Trevi Fountain is beyond repair after a similar attack.
I hope not.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 31, 2023 01:29 PM (MeG8a)

38 24 I know I'm just a Moron around here, so help me out...

How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (YIVH2)

I think the plan is to try to 'wake people up!' and allow them no peace unless they submit to these terrorists demands.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:29 PM (Vq2Tz)

39 oh and I'm suuuuure the good little commies took the bus or rode their bikes or *walked* to get there, right???
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (llON

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Even if they did, both modes of transportation are heavily reliant on the petroleum industry...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:29 PM (YIVH2)

40 Tactical Use of a Camera Boom.

Epic.

Better bring your A Game, American Media. Y'all are losing.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 01:30 PM (lf83v)

41 Just Stopped! Anti-oil protesters get more than they bargain for when they try to halt Twickenham rugby final as they are lifted up and bundled off the pitch by burly players in front of a delighted crowd
https://tinyurl.com/27jyvjts
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (MFZ8i)
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They were casually walked off the field. There was no real altercation. Pity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:30 PM (DU+/6)

42 31 Failed to call nood prior thread?
Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 31, 2023 01:28 PM (GshMh)

Madame! I protest!

545 Nood. Outrage.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:24 PM (Vq2Tz)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:30 PM (Vq2Tz)

43 Dancing With The *DUCK*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 01:30 PM (guGkK)

44 Sigh. No one ever wants to throw paint on me. And I’ve got the perfect body for it.

Posted by: Nekkid Lardass on an Ottoman at May 31, 2023 01:30 PM (mw8fy)

45 It is extremely obvious that the docents and security at the museum are in on the crime as well, if not the museum staff in general.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (0hOvj)

46 Happy Birthday, Jordan.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (Vq2Tz)

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Thank you. Not till tomorrow, though. Along with the launch of Let's Celebrate Being a Deviant month. I hate those nickelfuckers .

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (DRSnL)

47 Just replace it with a "Hunter Biden", they're worth hundreds of thousands...

Posted by: pahound at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (C9Ej7)

48 That cameraman literally lowered the boom on those creeps. I love it!

Posted by: Ralph at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (wnTj5)

49 *RAISES 10 PADDLE*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (guGkK)

50 13 The camera man should get Sweden's highest medal.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (d2bW3)
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Medal for Commendable Deeds sounds about right.

Posted by: scampydog at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (2bFN5)

51 Afghanistan is now using the abandoned American weapons to attack Iran

Posted by: Paul at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (+aysO)

52 >This feels like a conspiracy to me.

just kids having fun, got a little out of hand
$20 fine, pay the cashier
next case!

Posted by: DB - reluctant balloonist at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (geLO8)

53
You'd think rugby players would've kicked the crap out of the little insects. Oh well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (x0n13)

54 I know I'm just a Moron around here, so help me out...

How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (YIVH2)
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It's called "terrorism." The act (destruction of cultural artifacts) and the demands ("climate action") are not related to each other. This is very simple. The terrorists are doing what terrorists do: "Do as I say or I will destroy things or people that you treasure."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (DU+/6)

55 They were casually walked off the field. There was no real altercation. Pity.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:30 PM (DU+/6)
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Maybe they were escorted to a more private location where they could be "educated" on proper behavior at a rugby match...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (YIVH2)

56 None dare call it COLLUSION!

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (3PZ4j)

57 This happens all the time - of course Left-wing activists conspire with their friends in the media to ensure sympathetic news coverage.

During the riots of 2020, there was one reporter for a Portland alt-weekly who I called "Portland Antifa's favorite stenographer" who obviously was working directly with Antifa to generate maximum favorable news coverage.

And she got rewarded, too - she got a job with the Washington Post.

Sadly, she has not been laid off yet.

Posted by: ONE DAY Until Pride Month! at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (2tUFv)

58 WTF is the deal with tossing paint or colored powder or whatever it is? Isn't that rayciss against Indians (dot) somehow for mocking (I think) Holi?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (llON8)

59 Posted by: Paul at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (+aysO)

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And to oppress little girls who want to learn in schools.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (LvTSG)

60 Listen to the accents of the brits doing this petroleum protest crap. They're all SUPER POSH, like the richest of the rich, went to the best schools etc.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (0hOvj)

61 53
You'd think rugby players would've kicked the crap out of the little insects. Oh well.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (x0n13)

rugby players are gentlemen

Posted by: henry at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (JMDly)

62 It is extremely obvious that the docents and security at the museum are in on the crime as well, if not the museum staff in general.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (0hOvj)
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This has certainly been the case when this crap happens in Europe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (DU+/6)

63 During Tranny Art Revenge Kill Die Genocide Hubris Month???

Really???

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (j1PBG)

64 51 Afghanistan is now using the abandoned American weapons to attack Iran
Posted by: Paul at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (+aysO)

Kurt, if you think that that was preplanned by Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, get your head out of that subway glory hole and get some oxygen, pal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (x0n13)

65 60 Listen to the accents of the brits doing this petroleum protest crap. They're all SUPER POSH, like the richest of the rich, went to the best schools etc.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (0hOvj)

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Poor people have to go to work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (LvTSG)

66 "1 t54ww4twft
Posted by: Blonde Morticia "

That's deep.

Posted by: fd at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (iayUP)

67 Again, just want to note that the painting was fine. They just got the case and pedestal. I think this is important to note.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (Vq2Tz)

Also, it's a sculpture, not a painting.

Posted by: spindrift at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (ivvNA)

68 The Karl Gustav of camera booms.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (OgrpQ)

69 64 51 Afghanistan is now using the abandoned American weapons to attack Iran
Posted by: Paul at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (+aysO)

Kurt, if you think that that was preplanned by Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, get your head out of that subway glory hole and get some oxygen, pal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (x0n13)

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I thought Iran was a hero of the left for being the new hegemon of the Middle East.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (LvTSG)

70 Dancers just keep on dancing throughout the fiasco.

Posted by: scampydog at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (2bFN5)

71 It's called "terrorism." The act (destruction of cultural artifacts) and the demands ("climate action") are not related to each other. This is very simple. The terrorists are doing what terrorists do: "Do as I say or I will destroy things or people that you treasure."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (DU+/6)

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Next you'll be telling me that they're coming after our children.

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (82bDC)

72 Afghanistan is now using the abandoned American weapons to attack Iran

Thank your choice for president, Joey "fingers" Biden for that. They rejected Trump's plan for a pullout and got thousands killed for it. And to put a cherry on top, gunned down a refugee family.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (0hOvj)

73 Journalists are above the law, because journalist.

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (SYTee)

74 I-uh, I-I,, uh-I, uhhmmmmm t-t-think that-uh,, that-uh, uh-uh...

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (hSb7+)

75 Also, it's a sculpture, not a painting.
________

Tomato, potato, pal.

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (lf83v)

76 Boom!

Posted by: garrett at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (GzxiE)

77 The museums need to encase artwork within plexiglass enclosures to guard against these douchebags.

Posted by: Halfhand at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (Ud/Am)

78 So, Jordan’s finally going to be of legal drinking age.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (mw8fy)

79 Below, a cameraman in Sweden has a very different opinion on whether one should conspire with environmental extremists.

A good start...let me know when they start doing the same to Muslim immigrants that rape their kids.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (Fr0zU)

80 67 Again, just want to note that the painting was fine. They just got the case and pedestal. I think this is important to note.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:25 PM (Vq2Tz)

Also, it's a sculpture, not a painting.
Posted by: spindrift at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (ivvNA)

Dammit! Lol. Touche. For some reason I keep doing that and thinking it is a painting. No idea why.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (Vq2Tz)

81 Afghanistan is now using the abandoned American weapons to attack Iran
Posted by: Cocksucker at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (C0ck$)
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Given the source of this, I kind of doubt it.

If it is true, then meh. Afghanistan using up American weapons that we stupidly left there and getting themselves killed in the process of killing some Iranians isn't the end of the world.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (DU+/6)

82 Oh wait, Paul thinks its a good thing that two nations are attacking each other with the weapons our corrupt and incompetent president gave them?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (0hOvj)

83 Afghanistan is now using the abandoned American weapons to attack Iran
Posted by: Paul

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As opposed to the peace through strength under Trump.

Yeah, awesome. Lots of women, kids, and gays are probably super happy.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (5/7b/)

84 But they're not white supremacists.

Paxton Sues Biden Administration to Prevent it from Blocking Texas’s Management of its Own Environment, February 14, 2023.

May 28th, USA Today: The Texas House of Representatives voted to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton after allegations he misused his office and retaliated against others.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (GshMh)

85 1 t54ww4twft
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Only if she's 5'3"
~Sir Mix-A-Lot

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (OgrpQ)

86 National Gallery of Art... In Washington D.C.
and
Washington Post employees.

Hold the trial in Florida otherwise everyone walks.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (Q4IgG)

87 >>> 69

[not quoting the retard]

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I thought Iran was a hero of the left for being the new hegemon of the Middle East.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (LvTSG)

Aren't they buddies with OMG Russia Russia Russia now (again?), therefore double-plus ungood?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (llON8)

88 82 Oh wait, Paul thinks its a good thing that two nations are attacking each other with the weapons our corrupt and incompetent president gave them?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (0hOvj)

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Paul is bloodthirsty for brown blood because he's a racist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (LvTSG)

89 78 So, Jordan’s finally going to be of legal drinking age.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (mw8fy)

Some day, she will be able to buy tobacco in California.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (Vq2Tz)

90 That camera in the face had to hurt. Like, sustained injuries kind of hurt.

Yet, I laughed. Actually, I guffawed.
Then I watched it again. And again. And again.
And laughed every time.
I guess that makes me a bad guy, huh?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (FCbAQ)

91 69 64 51 Afghanistan is now using the abandoned American weapons to attack Iran
Posted by: Paul at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (+aysO)

Kurt, if you think that that was preplanned by Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, get your head out of that subway glory hole and get some oxygen, pal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (x0n13)

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I thought Iran was a hero of the left for being the new hegemon of the Middle East.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (LvTSG)

And it was going to be the hegemon even if they had to finance it themselves!

Didn't work out so well as Iran failed to really secure and stabilize the regions the Ds gave them. .

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (eYoxG)

92 Dancers just keep on dancing throughout the fiasco.
_______

Well, it is Sweden.

You can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
Digging the dancing queen
Digging the dancing queen

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 01:36 PM (lf83v)

93 I thought Iran was a hero of the left for being the new hegemon of the Middle East.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (LvTSG)
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It is. That's probably why Cocksucker is upset about it.

What's particularly amusing is that he seems to think that I will be upset about it. I'm not. Go ahead, Afghanistan. Use up the weapons and get yourselves killed taking a bunch of Persians. Win/win.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:36 PM (DU+/6)

94 87 I thought Iran was a hero of the left for being the new hegemon of the Middle East.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (LvTSG)

Aren't they buddies with OMG Russia Russia Russia now (again?), therefore double-plus ungood?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (llON

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Double plus ungood and we must help them have nuclear weapons because racism.

The swirl of insanity that is leftism is so interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:36 PM (LvTSG)

95 88 82 Oh wait, Paul thinks its a good thing that two nations are attacking each other with the weapons our corrupt and incompetent president gave them?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (0hOvj)

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Paul is bloodthirsty for brown blood because he's a racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (LvTSG)

You have to admit, Paul's chatGPT delivered a muddled message there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:36 PM (Vq2Tz)

96 #37
No
Trevii is doing ok
You are spreading false rumors
You can watch live on the Tevi live cam

Posted by: Paul at May 31, 2023 01:36 PM (dDqJR)

97 Saw the BOOM camera vid yesterday. Where TF is Steve Inman?

Posted by: McLurkerson at May 31, 2023 01:36 PM (wNDOJ)

98 That camera in the face had to hurt. Like, sustained injuries kind of hurt.

Yet, I laughed. Actually, I guffawed.
Then I watched it again. And again. And again.
And laughed every time.
I guess that makes me a bad guy, huh?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (FCbAQ)
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The WWE commentary really sells it!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (YIVH2)

99 Perhaps it is a sculpture that identifies as a painting. Did you ask for it's pronouns?

Posted by: henry at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (JMDly)

100 > How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?

Real answer: It doesn't.

Their answer: It raises awareness and starts a conversation.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (R38qh)

101 I don't quite understand why climate extremists are despoiling great art--unless it's a demonstration of hatred of western civilization.

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (eGTCV)

102 It would be The Taliban attacking Iran.

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (SYTee)

103 Come closer to the camera, Paul.

Posted by: Swedish boom operator at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (ivvNA)

104 During Tranny Art Revenge Kill Die Genocide Hubris Month???

Really???

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (j1PBG)

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Heh.

;-)

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (82bDC)

105 93 It is. That's probably why Cocksucker is upset about it.

What's particularly amusing is that he seems to think that I will be upset about it. I'm not. Go ahead, Afghanistan. Use up the weapons and get yourselves killed taking a bunch of Persians. Win/win.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:36 PM (DU+/6)

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Engulf the Middle East in war. Just without our boots on the ground.

I've ceased to care about any border but our own. If the King of Spain decides to invade France and Portugal in a double-fronted war, I say good luck to him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

106 90 That camera in the face had to hurt. Like, sustained injuries kind of hurt.

Yet, I laughed. Actually, I guffawed.
Then I watched it again. And again. And again.
And laughed every time.
I guess that makes me a bad guy, huh?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (FCbAQ)

Seems we share the same moral dilemma.

Posted by: Inogame at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (53oGX)

107 I wonder if that cameraman was named Clancy?

Posted by: Ralph at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (wnTj5)

108 So, Jordan’s finally going to be of legal drinking age.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 01:34 PM (mw8fy)

Some day, she will be able to buy tobacco in California.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:35 PM (Vq2Tz)

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I don't even want to know how much cigarettes in California go for these days.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (DRSnL)

109 Listen to the accents of the brits doing this petroleum protest crap. They're all SUPER POSH, like the richest of the rich, went to the best schools etc.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (0hOvj)

This is the evidence of the truism 'good times make weak men'.

The good times have allowed idiots the luxury of being stupid. These people will not survive the hard times that inevitably follow.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (l7Kbv)

110 Listen to the accents of the brits doing this petroleum protest crap. They're all SUPER POSH, like the richest of the rich, went to the best schools etc.

Laurie Penny, obnoxious Brit leftist, wrote a whiny article in the Guardian after Labour got their asses kicked in the last election, about all the sacrifices that she and her friends had made on behalf of Labour, including taking trains to the North of England to explain to the peasantry why they should vote Labour.

I'm sure their high-class London accents went over real well with working-class people in the North.

Posted by: ONE DAY Until Pride Month! at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (2tUFv)

111 65 60 Listen to the accents of the brits doing this petroleum protest crap. They're all SUPER POSH, like the richest of the rich, went to the best schools etc.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (0hOvj)

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Poor people have to go to work.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:33 PM (LvTSG)

I bet some of them studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College.

(No one will get this reference)

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (KbCG3)

112 37 I've read that the Trevi Fountain is beyond repair after a similar attack.
I hope not.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at May 31, 2023 01:29 PM (MeG8a)

They stained the basin of the fountain, but the statuary was untouched. The basin is lined, so they believe they can clean it up without too much trouble, from what I read.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (Vq2Tz)

113 US Kicks Kosovo Out Of Military Drills For Anti-Serb Escalation

NATO is sending 700 more peacekeeping troops to Kosovo...

.. don't take it out on the women and children

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (RHGPo)

114 100 Their answer: It raises awareness and starts a conversation.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (R38qh)

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Because no one is talking about ending fossil fuels and replacing them with solar panels made in China.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (LvTSG)

115 Engulf the Middle East in war. Just without our boots on the ground.

--

We'll end up giving $500B to the Taliban so that they can Fight for Democracy.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (5/7b/)

116 I don't even want to know how much cigarettes in California go for these days.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (DRSnL)

If you have to ask, you can't afford it I think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (Vq2Tz)

117 103 Come closer to the camera, Paul.
Posted by: Swedish boom operator at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (ivvNA)
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That one got me. LOL.

Posted by: scampydog at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (2bFN5)

118 Engulf the Middle East in war. Just without our boots on the ground.

I've ceased to care about any border but our own. If the King of Spain decides to invade France and Portugal in a double-fronted war, I say good luck to him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

Well high oil prices would still be painful. But Spain going to war against its neighbors wouldn't be much of a concern to us.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:39 PM (eYoxG)

119 I bet some of them studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College.

--

Oh, lots of morons get that reference.

And have heard the William Shatner version, too.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:39 PM (5/7b/)

120 HAHAHA. They will get *very* light sentences indeed. They're left-wing activists, after all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM

They should be pardoned by Precident Bidun and given a metal insted. They're fightning to save Democrasy and the world!!!!

Posted by: DU Echo Chanber at May 31, 2023 01:39 PM (Fr0zU)

121 Posted by: Paul

Finally noticed Dementia Joe helped the Tallybans are you.
You really are slow Paul.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 01:39 PM (W7O9K)

122 I bet some of them studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College.

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Oh, lots of morons get that reference.

And have heard the William Shatner version, too.
Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:39 PM (5/7b/)

Sound like a bunch of Pulp to me

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (xcxpd)

123 I bet some of them studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College.

(No one will get this reference)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (KbCG3)

Damn, I had to look it up and I still can't hear it.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (Vq2Tz)

124 118 Well high oil prices would still be painful. But Spain going to war against its neighbors wouldn't be much of a concern to us.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:39 PM (eYoxG)

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High energy prices (well, higher) is the kind of pain America needs at this point.

If America is not okay with its elections being stolen, it needs pain to actually do something about it. If America is actually voting for leftism, then it needs pain to wake it up.

Bring on the Sri Lankan reaction to higher energy prices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (LvTSG)

125 Democracy Dies in Darkness

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (nJPwy)

126 Aren't they buddies with OMG Russia Russia Russia now (again?), therefore double-plus ungood?

Russian factories are now mass-producing Iranian killer drones.

In retaliation, Ukraine put sanctions on Iran for the next fifty years, which obviously will destroy the Iranian economy.

Posted by: ONE DAY Until Pride Month! at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (2tUFv)

127 If GOP political theater actors wanted to throw us a meaningful bone in this whole disgusting "debt limit" battle, they could attach a new rule that all federal cases originating in the DC, NoVa, and southern MD circuits have to be tried in Arkansas or some other appropriately red spot.

The Jan6 political prisoners would finally have a chance, and these art vandals would be summarily dealt with.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (B5suJ)

128 The Penal Code for Democrat organizations is essentially: anything is permissible in service to The Party to destabilize and destroy Western Civilization and the Judeo- Christian principles and people who support traditional values.
The corollary: Democrats are encouraged to use existing laws to harass, bankrupt and destroy Judeo- Christian bigots.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (h7eG+)

129 I only wish that camera slam inflicted more pain and injury. Does that make me a bad person?

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (iFTx/)

130 In that Twitter thread, there's a reply with a meme I had forgotten about but still love:
https://is.gd/YmlYhi

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (DU+/6)

131 Afghanistan = Taliban in the reported cross border attack(s) on Iran.

At least that's the story I'm seeing. Hope the KIA's on both sides are high.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (Q4IgG)

132 Everyone's an art critic.

Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (QUOUT)

133 Well high oil prices would still be painful. But Spain going to war against its neighbors wouldn't be much of a concern to us.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:39 PM (eYoxG)
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It might if Spain tried to close the Straits of Gibraltar.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (YIVH2)

134 >>Their answer: It raises awareness and starts a conversation.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (R38qh)

So, for different reasons than ISIL destroying ancient cultural artifacts. But, still birds of a feather.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (bNf8H)

135 I bet some of them studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College.

(No one will get this reference)

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (KbCG3)

Danae Stratou?

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (OgrpQ)

136 Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer to Joe Biden who accused him of sexual assault during the 2020 presidential election, has now defected to Russia.

Tara Reade would be joining former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as one of the most prominent Americans to defect to Russia.

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (RHGPo)

137 37 -- Gourmand-- The Trevi is fine. The vandals used ground up charcoal, not paint. The officials had to clean out miles of pipes, but the Trevi itself is once more beautiful.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (B7rlW)

138 How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?

Real answer: It doesn't.

Their answer: It raises awareness and starts a conversation.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (R38qh)

Hopefully that conversation goes something like this:

Which bunk is mine?

What do you mean, bend over?

I don't understand: if you're my "wife," why do you have a big ol D?

Posted by: LASue at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (Ed8Zd)

139 How New Jersey Just Executed the Biggest Gun Grab in American History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiYpc_W9NwM

Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses the recent amendments to NJS 2C:39-3, which was New Jersey's attempt to ban un-serialized firearms. However, the language of the statute AND the fact that there are no exceptions or grandfathering clause has many now realizing that hundreds of thousands of firearm are now illegally possessed by lawful and responsible New Jersey resident everywhere. Was this always the intention of those that pushed this legislation or is this the product of what happens when gun laws are written by people who don't know anything about guns? Perhaps its a little bit of both. Learn what all of this means to you and arm yourself with education.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (MFZ8i)

140 Come closer to the camera, Paul.
Posted by: Swedish boom operator at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (ivvNA)
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LOL. Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (DU+/6)

141 133 Well high oil prices would still be painful. But Spain going to war against its neighbors wouldn't be much of a concern to us.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:39 PM (eYoxG)
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It might if Spain tried to close the Straits of Gibraltar.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (YIVH2)

What passes to the US from the Med? Italian handbags?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (eYoxG)

142 I love good art like the Degas sculpture. I hate self-important c*nts like the twats sitting in front with painty hands talking like they are Mr. Rogers.

Posted by: huerfano at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (7zEAH)

143 134 >>Their answer: It raises awareness and starts a conversation.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 01:37 PM (R38qh)

So, for different reasons than ISIL destroying ancient cultural artifacts. But, still birds of a feather.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (bNf8H)

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ISIL just wanted to start a conversation about Allah and his prophet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (LvTSG)

144 Okay, today really is World No Tobacco Day.

I'll make sure to light a pipe before dinner to observe this solemn occasion.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (J2vNu)

145 You know who else started a conversation?

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (nJPwy)

146 132 Everyone's an art critic.
Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (QUOUT)

Every weekday at 9:30am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (Vq2Tz)

147 I saw Swedish Boom Operator open for Björk at Tech Noir in Stockholm around '98.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (6/wuM)

148 I only wish that camera slam inflicted more pain and injury. Does that make me a bad person?
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (iFTx/)
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No, not at all. This is the reasonable reaction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (DU+/6)

149 No one goes down in D.C. unless they are a conservative.

Conservatives get overcharged and are imprisoned for years. All others skate.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (KiBMU)

150 I think that was all staged, too, except the cameraman wasn't in on it and was probably fired.

Those folks had backstage passes.
Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (5/7b/)

The shot was already planned and the camera was pulling in. The actual live feed was posted on another site. The director was on another camera, cut to the crane/jib camera and the asshoe demonstrator wound up in the wrong place at the wrong time. After working in TV for over 35 years, both in production and engineering, nothing shocks me anymore. LOL!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (Zvtjl)

151 145 You know who else started a conversation?
Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (nJPwy)

The Bee Gees ?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

152 Okay, today really is World No Tobacco Day.

I'll make sure to light a pipe before dinner to observe this solemn occasion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (J2vNu)
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I haven't smoked a real cigarette in years. Maybe I should go get a pack this evening.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (DU+/6)

153 131 Afghanistan = Taliban in the reported cross border attack(s) on Iran.

At least that's the story I'm seeing. Hope the KIA's on both sides are high.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (Q4IgG)

Scuffle over water, Iran has been having droughts. River that flows from Afghanistan into Iran that the Afghanis may be diverting more of than they agreed.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (eYoxG)

154 rits doing this petroleum protest crap. They're all SUPER POSH, like the richest of the rich, went to the best schools etc.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (0hOvj)

This is the evidence of the truism 'good times make weak men'.

The good times have allowed idiots the luxury of being stupid. These people will not survive the hard times that inevitably follow.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (l7Kbv)

No. No. No. These are GCHQ/MI5 agent provacateurs.

Emergent processes are just inrellectual laziness.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (N5Ax4)

155 Make sure to carry a chain saw in your vehicle in case any of these a-holes glue themselves to the road in front of you.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (3vCGB)

156 I've read that the Trevi Fountain is beyond repair after a similar attack.
I hope not.

Remember when the Taliban blew up the Buddhist statues in 'Stan.

This is the same thing.

Our enemies are enemies of civilization, well civilization as anyone would have thought of it before 20 years ago.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (lc5cP)

157 Everyone's an art critic.
Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM

Hae ye been on the Art Thread, lad? CBD and Kris try, but there are a finite quantity of silk purses in the Universe.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (a3Q+t)

158 However, the language of the statute AND the fact that there are no exceptions or grandfathering clause has many now realizing that hundreds of thousands of firearm are now illegally possessed by lawful and responsible New Jersey resident everywhere.

-

Speaking of, today is the last day that you're not a federal felon if you've got a SBR. Sorry, legally sold pistol with a brace on it. And if you registered, you signed a document admitting you possessed an SBR illegally.

Yay.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (5/7b/)

159 Make sure to carry a chain saw in your vehicle in case any of these a-holes glue themselves to the road in front of you.
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (3vCGB)
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Unless you have a very low-slung car, it isn't really a problem at all. Just carry on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (DU+/6)

160 139 How New Jersey Just Executed the Biggest Gun Grab in American History

That means your Daisy BB gun — which under the state’s expansive and idiotic gun control laws is actually considered a firearm — may have a serial number on it, but Daisy isn’t a federally licensed gun maker. As a result that Red Ryder in your kid’s closet now makes you a felon.

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

161 If you have to ask, you can't afford it I think.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (Vq2Tz)

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On my cruise, they were selling cartons of cigarettes for $47, buy three get one free. I really wish I still smoked.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (DRSnL)

162 I saw The Boom Operators open for Sly Stone in '69.

Boom-chuckle-uckle Boom-chuckle-uckle...

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (SYTee)

163 Tara Reade would be joining former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as one of the most prominent Americans to defect to Russia.
Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (RHGPo)

Ahem.

Posted by: Steven Seagal at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (3vCGB)

164 154 rits doing this petroleum protest crap. They're all SUPER POSH, like the richest of the rich, went to the best schools etc.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 01:32 PM (0hOvj)

This is the evidence of the truism 'good times make weak men'.

The good times have allowed idiots the luxury of being stupid. These people will not survive the hard times that inevitably follow.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM (l7Kbv)

No. No. No. These are GCHQ/MI5 agent provacateurs.

Emergent processes are just inrellectual laziness.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (N5Ax4)

Entropy is a real thing. Competition filtering out weaker competitors is also a real thing. Elite overproduction(in the absence of war) is also a real thing.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (eYoxG)

165 152 Okay, today really is World No Tobacco Day.

I'll make sure to light a pipe before dinner to observe this solemn occasion.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (J2vNu)
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I haven't smoked a real cigarette in years. Maybe I should go get a pack this evening.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (DU+/6)
____________

Cigar and Lagavulin on the roof deck for me tonight. All these impotent slogans and "Days" can suck my dick.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

166
So, this was a Grand Jury in DC. Is this something?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (lCaJd)

167 Everyone's an art critic.
Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2023 01:40 PM (QUOUT)

Every weekday at 9:30am.

Come for the tasteful nude lesbians, stay for the not so tasteful fat man on an Ottoman

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (lc5cP)

168 Okay, today really is World No Tobacco Day.

I'll make sure to light a pipe before dinner to observe this solemn occasion.

--

Amen brother.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (5/7b/)

169
t54ww4twft
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at May 31, 2023 01:46 PM (vwCZJ)

170 Scuffle over water, Iran has been having droughts. River that flows from Afghanistan into Iran that the Afghanis may be diverting more of than they agreed.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:43 PM (eYoxG)

No. These are US directed actions against Iran. We didn't leave that stuff behind just because... what?.... laziness?

Iran just launched a technological wonder of a missile.

And OPEC gave the greennlight for Iran to come back in gokd graces post US sanctions.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 01:46 PM (N5Ax4)

171 No one goes down in D.C. unless they are a conservative.

* smiles *

Posted by: Kamala at May 31, 2023 01:46 PM (a3Q+t)

172 Not guilty!!!
- DC judge

Posted by: Montec at May 31, 2023 01:46 PM (WtQB8)

173 Off topic; but, butt, has anyone explained why the total Tejas population is a bit over fifty percent registered to vote whilst the total New York State population is about SIXTY-fucking-FIVE percent registered to vote. C'mon shit kickers, git out there and register yer dead ancestors like the damn yankees do.

Posted by: Marooned at May 31, 2023 01:46 PM (kt8QE)

174 On my cruise, they were selling cartons of cigarettes for $47, buy three get one free. I really wish I still smoked.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (DRSnL)

That is still insane. When I started smoking, one Carton=

$13.60

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:46 PM (Vq2Tz)

175 t54ww4twft
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Just great! Another thread about unhackable PIN numbers!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (Vwz3I)

176 I get asked "So why do you keep saying the media is the enemy?"

Posted by: NR Pax at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (4olE8)

177 >>> 160 139 How New Jersey Just Executed the Biggest Gun Grab in American History

That means your Daisy BB gun - which under the state's expansive and idiotic gun control laws is actually considered a firearm - may have a serial number on it, but Daisy isn't a federally licensed gun maker. As a result that Red Ryder in your kid's closet now makes you a felon.
Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (RHGPo)

Motherfcking commie bastards!

Posted by: Ralphie Parker at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (llON8)

178 I haven't smoked a real cigarette in years. Maybe I should go get a pack this evening.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023

***
Just buy it and display it in front of the Karens.

Be aware that you'll have to take out a bank loan to buy even one pack. My pipe tobacco pouches (1.75 oz. or so) are anywhere from $5 to $8 online. No idea where you can find them, the classic codger or "drugstore" blends I mean, in actual stores now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (J2vNu)

179 113 US Kicks Kosovo Out Of Military Drills For Anti-Serb Escalation

NATO is sending 700 more peacekeeping troops to Kosovo...

.. don't take it out on the women and children
Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 01:38 PM

This...is probably the right call. As much as love the Kosovars, and as tight as out alliance is, the entire NATO mission there is a peacekeeping one, supporting a UN resolution to stop the bloodshed until a political solution can be reached...and I believe one of those two specifically says the goal is not to create an independent state of Kosovo (although we basically have).

The Europeans and Americans meddle so much in the negotiations, no settlement will ever be reached. The Serbs and Kosovars probably could, with a few land swaps, but the international community has squashed that idea, as it sets a BAD precedent for the region (and the US wants to make Kosovo a model of a functioning, multi-cultural nation instead of swapping out non-Kovovar inhabited areas). A real cluster.

Posted by: Military Moron at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (Fr0zU)

180 Hae ye been on the Art Thread, lad? CBD and Kris try, but there are a finite quantity of silk purses in the Universe.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 31, 2023 01:44 PM (a3Q+t)
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CBD's "art" is violence!!!

Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (QUOUT)

181 That is still insane. When I started smoking, one Carton=

$13.60

Posted by: Aetius451AD

--

Under ten bucks per carton for name brands for me, but I lived in NC.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (5/7b/)

182 Cigar and Lagavulin on the roof deck for me tonight. All these impotent slogans and "Days" can suck my dick.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

This is how it is done.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (KbCG3)

183 *waits for people saying they used to pay $.05 a pack*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:48 PM (Vq2Tz)

184 171 No one goes down in D.C. unless they are a conservative.

* smiles *
Posted by: Kamala at May 31, 2023 01:46 PM (a3Q+t)

I was slowly heading in that direction--too slowly.

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 01:48 PM (eGTCV)

185 Posted by: Ace at 02:23 PM

Ace is time traveling again!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 31, 2023 01:48 PM (xT8gx)

186 Damn! That was a good smite!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 31, 2023 01:48 PM (pohLc)

187 On the night of Oct 31,1864, to strengthen the hand of Abraham Lincoln in the coming election, Nevada transmitted their new constitution over the telegraph to Washington DC, so that they could be entered into the Union in time for the General Election in the coming weeks. This set a record for the longest telegram ever sent.

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 01:48 PM (RHGPo)

188 My pipe tobacco pouches (1.75 oz. or so) are anywhere from $5 to $8 online. No idea where you can find them, the classic codger or "drugstore" blends I mean, in actual stores now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

-

Ha. Yeah, I stopped by a pipe shop on a vacation recently. It was not at all what I thought it was.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:48 PM (5/7b/)

189 >>> 163 Tara Reade would be joining former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as one of the most prominent Americans to defect to Russia.
Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 01:41 PM (RHGPo)

Ahem.
Posted by: Steven Seagal at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (3vCGB)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE I HAVE NO IDEA WHO THIS GUY IS.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at May 31, 2023 01:49 PM (llON8)

190 Supposedly, tobacco has a lot of good nutrients in it that could make it a very healthy food.

Unfortunately, the nicotine would kill you if you tried to eat it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 01:49 PM (mw8fy)

191 177 >>> 160 139 How New Jersey Just Executed the Biggest Gun Grab in American History
--------------
Isn't taking guns from blacks rayciss and unConstitutional?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 01:49 PM (DmtxH)

192 The Republicans could have said all along they're not negotiating with Joe because he's in bed with China. They can say they want a Special Prosecutor and then they will wait for the results of the investigation.

That's just one thing they COULD do. If they meant even a remote amount of business.

Instead they do nothing but capitulate and talk and fight us and insult us. Cunts.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 01:49 PM (wlDSS)

193 I really would love to buy a pack. But even after 12 years, I know I'd find some reason to smoke them.

*scene*

Hey, let's hoist a glass!

*drunk, sees pack of cigarettes*

Oh. Look. Hello, good looking...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:49 PM (Vq2Tz)

194 >>>Off topic; but, butt, has anyone explained why the total Tejas population is a bit over fifty percent registered to vote whilst the total New York State population is about SIXTY-fucking-FIVE percent registered to vote. C'mon shit kickers, git out there and register yer dead ancestors like the damn yankees do.

Posted by: Marooned at May 31, 2023 01:46 PM

In Texas, the county clerks actually purge the voter rolls.

Posted by: huerfano at May 31, 2023 01:49 PM (7zEAH)

195 Cigar and Lagavulin on the roof deck for me tonight. All these impotent slogans and "Days" can suck my dick.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2023

**
I've thought of picking up some of those mini-cigarillos, the Clint Eastwood "Man with No Name" type or smaller, for a quick no-inhale smoke now and then.

Part of the fun in smoking them today would be to do it in front of anti-tobacco nuts.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 01:49 PM (J2vNu)

196 Anyone else remember when smokers weren't dying from COVID (maybe catching it, either)?

That sure disappeared from the news quickly.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:50 PM (5/7b/)

197 Who got the hammer? Paul?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:50 PM (Vq2Tz)

198 World No Smoking Day?

Looks like I'll be headed home to find the biggest and dead-dog smelling-est cigar I have in the humidor!

Posted by: Weasel at May 31, 2023 01:50 PM (QUOUT)

199 Make sure to carry a chain saw in your vehicle in case any of these a-holes glue themselves to the road in front of you.
Posted by: Emmett

Large containers of super glue and a lb or 2 of baking soda will ruin the peep's day.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 01:51 PM (W7O9K)

200 Addendum: Almost as quickly as the vape-pen flu or whatever it was. Poof! Like it never happened. They figured out another George Floyd for the COVID.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:51 PM (5/7b/)

201
I know I'm just a Moron around here, so help me out...

How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

========

From the WaPo article, an expert weighs in:

"This is purely performative protest. It's disruption as shock. Nobody's going to like these guys for throwing paint at Little Dancer … but that's okay. That's not their point. If the goal here is to get general attention and to shift the conversation to focus more on climate change, there's a lot of evidence that this is more effective."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 31, 2023 01:52 PM (lCaJd)

202 Well, hello Weasel! Did you know this was the last day for people to register for the NoVaMoMe?

Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 01:52 PM (pTb/Z)

203 Entropy is a real thing. Competition filtering out weaker competitors is also a real thing. Elite overproduction(in the absence of war) is also a real thing.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (eYoxG)

Black boxes one has decided not to look into are real things yes: "real".

And "entropy" applied to human activity is absolutely intellectual laziness.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 01:52 PM (N5Ax4)

204 Wait, today is no smoking day? I don't smoke tobacco in any form so I guess I'll have to light my burn barrel, and maybe the burn pile too.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:52 PM (llON8)

205 @185: "Ace is time traveling again!"

Ace is so powerful that he can sit motionless and make time travel around him.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 31, 2023 01:52 PM (k1Qly)

206 >>> 202 Well, hello Weasel! Did you know this was the last day for people to register for the NoVaMoMe?
Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 01:52 PM (pTb/Z)

*I* knew this, even though I have a conflict of sorts...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:53 PM (llON8)

207 Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:50 PM (5/7b/)

You and wifey noticed. You had better not be her.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 01:53 PM (wlDSS)

208 "This is purely performative protest. It's disruption as shock. Nobody's going to like these guys for throwing paint at Little Dancer … but that's okay. That's not their point. If the goal here is to get general attention and to shift the conversation to focus more on climate change, there's a lot of evidence that this is more effective."

They didn't start a conversation about climate change. They started a conversation about themselves, as they wanted.

Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2023 01:53 PM (SYTee)

209 >Okay, today really is World No Tobacco Day.

I made it just under the wire- bought 2 cartons of Luckies yesterday

Posted by: DB - reluctant balloonist at May 31, 2023 01:53 PM (geLO8)

210 Borkin da bork bork!

https://genius.com/William-shatner-
common-people-lyrics

Posted by: swedish chef at May 31, 2023 01:54 PM (Vwz3I)

211 208 "This is purely performative protest. It's disruption as shock. Nobody's going to like these guys for throwing paint at Little Dancer … but that's okay. That's not their point. If the goal here is to get general attention and to shift the conversation to focus more on climate change, there's a lot of evidence that this is more effective."

They didn't start a conversation about climate change. They started a conversation about themselves, as they wanted.
Posted by: davidt at May 31, 2023 01:53 PM (SYTee)

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The idea that there isn't enough talk in the culture about climate change is pretty funny, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:54 PM (LvTSG)

212 I guess I'll have to light my burn barrel, and maybe the burn pile too.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 01:52 PM (llON

---------

You and your burn barrel privilege. All I've got is a candle.

Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 01:54 PM (pTb/Z)

213 Performative Violent Protest

I think we have a new one for the moroxicon

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 01:54 PM (wlDSS)

214 205 @185: "Ace is time traveling again!"

Ace is so powerful that he can sit motionless and make time travel around him.

it's not the size of the tool, it's the motion of the ~~ocean~~ space-time.

Posted by: anachronda at May 31, 2023 01:55 PM (v3pYe)

215 This brunette in her underwear hates press whores just as much as she hates climate activists:
https://is.gd/WOe9qG

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:55 PM (DU+/6)

216 BOOM, out da way bitch! Talk into the microphone pal.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 31, 2023 01:55 PM (Llgys)

217
That philthy Scandi camera operator timed it perfectly. The climate Taliban asshole had just put his banner up in front of his face so he couldn't see it coming.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 31, 2023 01:55 PM (n+4am)

218 Notice how many of the tobacco haters fire up one joint after another? Fucking idiots.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 31, 2023 01:55 PM (pohLc)

219 Swedish camera boom operator did it with some finesse. Hit the dude with the side of the camera probably on purpose to avoid damaging the optics and stuff. Then he went after the second asshole.

Deserves a raise but socialism. Probably got a bunch of free drinks from the crew.

Posted by: pawn at May 31, 2023 01:55 PM (kYVzH)

220 This brunette in her underwear hates press whores just as much as she hates climate activists:
https://is.gd/WOe9qG
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:55 PM (DU+/6)

I'd like to start a conversation with her.

Posted by: spindrift at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (ivvNA)

221 215 This brunette in her underwear hates press whores just as much as she hates climate activists:
https://is.gd/WOe9qG
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:55 PM (DU+/6)

=======

Dumb look on her face.

3/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

222 *waits for people saying they used to pay $.05 a pack*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023

***
Well, when my mother would send me down to the corner bar and grill to get Pall Malls out of the vending machine, I'm pretty sure she gave me coins. This was the early to mid-'60s and I don't think the white sticks were a dollar a pack yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (J2vNu)

223 Funniest t-shirt, seen at a gun show:

“Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms.
Whose bringing the chips?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (mw8fy)

224 I see we're doing the Time Warp again.

My most popular recent comment on PowerLine is "I'm heading to Ace of Spades, where I can use the language I want to use about this."

Posted by: Eeyore at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (TgBWG)

225 I recently decided I needed to carry pepper spray as part of my EDC. I bought a Sabre with the little swivel top safety. The safety swivels very easily and barely engages a little detent when it's in the safe position. I just know I'm going to spray myself accidentally with this stupid thing.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (R38qh)

226 203 Entropy is a real thing. Competition filtering out weaker competitors is also a real thing. Elite overproduction(in the absence of war) is also a real thing.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:45 PM (eYoxG)

Black boxes one has decided not to look into are real things yes: "real".

And "entropy" applied to human activity is absolutely intellectual laziness.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 01:52 PM (N5Ax4)

If you do not continually reinforce or reform an institution, it will inevitably collapse.

The notion of powerful and brilliant controllers of everything is only possible far from the action(there are brilliant people, good and evil, but few can rise to the top in stable times). Most of the ruling class is born into it(which is not as true during times of high competition) and there isn't much pressure to work hard or develop skills. This isn't an unusual pattern. It's why the marches have more formidable nobility than the court. It is human nature to coast if we can, also human nature to rig things in favor of our offspring. Easier to cheat than to work hard.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (eYoxG)

227 O/T, but funny. Nitwit SJW learns that electric cars just might suck.

https://tinyurl.com/bdhnud55

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2023 01:57 PM (6+RMs)

228 Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

I feel compelled to call bullshit on that bullshit.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 31, 2023 01:57 PM (pohLc)

229 Being out of communication all day is hard

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2023 01:57 PM (bzSMv)

230 Dumb look on her face.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

"Weird flex but go off King!"

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 01:57 PM (N5Ax4)

231 >This brunette in her underwear hates press whores just as much as she hates climate activists:

DUDE THAT'S MY SI-
nope
looks like her though

Posted by: DB - reluctant balloonist at May 31, 2023 01:57 PM (geLO8)

232
At least we can celebrate the left's protest and mocking of Islamic traditions and symbols, amirite?

Posted by: Auspex at May 31, 2023 01:58 PM (j4U/Z)

233 @201: "'... there's a lot of evidence that this is more effective.'"

You know what else is effective? Puff piece publicity in the world's major newspapers rather than hard time in real jails. Effective in encouraging more cultural vandalism with no impact on the issues for which they pretend to sacrifice themselves.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 31, 2023 01:58 PM (k1Qly)

234 225 I recently decided I needed to carry pepper spray as part of my EDC.

What is an EDC?

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 01:58 PM (eGTCV)

235 Wilco lyrics

I smashed a camera, I wanna know why
To my eye, deciding
Which lies have I been hiding
Which echoes belong

I'm counting on
A heart I know by heart
To walk me through this war
With memories distort
Phone my family, tell them I'm lost on the sidewalk
No, it's not okay

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 31, 2023 01:58 PM (NtVYv)

236 Dumb look on her face.

==
She's not supposed to have that until AFTER you bang her. BA BOOOM!

Posted by: Andrew Dice Clay at May 31, 2023 01:58 PM (sh1GZ)

237 225 I recently decided I needed to carry pepper spray as part of my EDC. I bought a Sabre with the little swivel top safety. The safety swivels very easily and barely engages a little detent when it's in the safe position. I just know I'm going to spray myself accidentally with this stupid thing.
-----------------
Wasp Spray is more powerful and its flammable.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 01:58 PM (2uOKS)

238 Few nepots are as degraded as Hunter Biden, but in more competitive times he wouldn't be a major player.

Using an economic analogy, it's like how ESG stuff tends to be cut first when a business underperforms (unless leadership is truly mad themselves).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:59 PM (eYoxG)

239 O/T, but funny. Nitwit SJW learns that electric cars just might suck.
https://tinyurl.com/bdhnud55
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2023 01:57 PM (6+RMs)
++++
I love my electric car but I didn't realize my life would revolve around charging it

I was motivated by the climate crisis facing our world

LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:59 PM (DU+/6)

240 239 I love my electric car but I didn't realize my life would revolve around charging it

I was motivated by the climate crisis facing our world

LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:59 PM (DU+/6)

========

Her car is probably powered by coal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:59 PM (LvTSG)

241 Common / People - a William Shatner, Kirk & Spock slashup

5:03 minutes
https://tinyurl.com/bnw83n9r

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 02:00 PM (Vwz3I)

242 ff topic; but, butt, has anyone explained why the total Tejas population is a bit over fifty percent registered to vote whilst the total New York State population is about SIXTY-fucking-FIVE percent registered to vote.

How many of the registered voters in NY are alive?

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2023 02:00 PM (ZGrMX)

243
Waiting for Joe Mannix to start posting the steamy Stacy Abrams lingerie pix.

Posted by: Auspex at May 31, 2023 02:00 PM (j4U/Z)

244 “Alcohol. Tobacco. Firearms.
Whose bringing the chips?”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023

***
"I hesitate to recommend alcohol, strong drugs, and firearms to anyone . . . but they've always worked for me."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:00 PM (J2vNu)

245 What is an EDC?

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 01:58 PM (eGTCV)

Every Day Carry

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at May 31, 2023 02:01 PM (OgrpQ)

246 Being out of communication all day is hard
Posted by: Skip

'all day'?
Asserting facts not in evidence again!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:01 PM (W7O9K)

247 How many of the registered voters in NY are alive?
==
Not as many as vote.

Posted by: Concision at May 31, 2023 02:01 PM (sh1GZ)

248 I would bet the criminals thought they would get away with it

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2023 02:01 PM (bzSMv)

249 @173: "... New York State population is about SIXTY-fucking-FIVE percent registered to vote."

Sounds like Texas needs some of those public service kiosks in their convenience stores.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 31, 2023 02:02 PM (k1Qly)

250 Yep. It has all the earmarks.

Posted by: Somebody on cable "news" at May 31, 2023 02:02 PM (tUk48)

251 I love my electric car but I didn't realize my life would revolve around charging it

I was motivated by the climate crisis facing our world

LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:59 PM (DU+/6)

I wonder where he thinks the electricity comes from.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:02 PM (guGkK)

252 Dumb look on her face.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

TJM, we need to talk.

You know man, we're all here for you. It's ok to be gay. We don't give a fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:02 PM (Vq2Tz)

253 Dumb look on her face.
3/10
Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

ENJOY PRIDE MONTH, YOU HOMO!

Posted by: Justin Sayin at May 31, 2023 02:03 PM (k3Kdf)

254 252 TJM, we need to talk.

You know man, we're all here for you. It's ok to be gay. We don't give a fuck.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:02 PM (Vq2Tz)

========

I'm still trying to find a woman nearly as hot as Dolley. It's a difficult search.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:03 PM (LvTSG)

255 Waiting for Joe Mannix to start posting the steamy Stacy Abrams lingerie pix.
Posted by: Auspex

DO NOT POKE the BEAR!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:03 PM (W7O9K)

256
The idea that there isn't enough talk in the culture about climate change is pretty funny, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman

=========

We got radical new firsts and boundary-breaking conversations every day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 31, 2023 02:03 PM (lCaJd)

257 What is an EDC
==
Exceptionally dense c

Its a category on "friend finder"

Posted by: Mrs. French at May 31, 2023 02:03 PM (sh1GZ)

258 > Nitwit SJW learns that electric cars just might suck.

She bought an EV knowing she didn't have exclusive access to a charger. That's hilarious.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 02:03 PM (R38qh)

259
I wonder where he thinks the electricity comes from.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:02 PM (guGkK)

From the wall. Duh.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 31, 2023 02:04 PM (n+4am)

260 Under ten bucks per carton for name brands for me, but I lived in NC.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:47 PM (5/7b/)

I bought cartons of generic smokes for less than 6 bucks in NC, back in the late 80s. Also bough packs in Canada for more than 6 bucks in the early 90s.

Posted by: javems at May 31, 2023 02:04 PM (AmoqO)

261 252 Does Dolly know?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:04 PM (mw8fy)

262 Electric car chick is proof that all Asians ain't smart.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 31, 2023 02:04 PM (pohLc)

263 252 Dumb look on her face.

3/10

Would not bang.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (LvTSG)

Just being faithful to the lovely Mrs TJM, i'm sure.

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 02:04 PM (eGTCV)

264 Yes out all dat since the Tech thread

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2023 02:04 PM (bzSMv)

265 I wonder where he thinks the electricity comes from.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:02 PM (guGkK)
----------

This is going to surprise you but the quote is from a "she."

Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (pTb/Z)

266 I'm still trying to find a woman nearly as hot as Dolley. It's a difficult search.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

She's reading over your shoulder, isn't she?
Good save!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (W7O9K)

267 I'm still trying to find a woman nearly as hot as Dolley. It's a difficult search.
------------------
Imma guessing Dolley reads AOS. Amirite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (2uOKS)

268
*waits for people saying they used to pay $.05 a pack*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

$1.50 a carton when we got past the 12 mile limit. 1973.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (63Dwl)

269 She bought an EV knowing she didn't have exclusive access to a charger. That's hilarious.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 02:03 PM (R38qh)

She just needs to get a portable electric generator to tow behind the car. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (guGkK)

270 The notion of powerful and brilliant controllers of everything is only possible far from the action(there are brilliant people, good and evil, but few can rise to the top in stable times). Most of the ruling class is born into it(which is not as true during times of high competition) and there isn't much pressure to work hard or develop skills. This isn't an unusual pattern. It's why the marches have more formidable nobility than the court. It is human nature to coast if we can, also human nature to rig things in favor of our offspring. Easier to cheat than to work hard.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 01:56 PM (eYoxG)

Conningsby

The purchase of commissions system was as workable as the later meritocratic one.

March Lords being better at anything other than tactical conflict compared to the Court is ahistorical.

The For Pol and military exploits of the Monarchies were incredibly complex and far beyond some March Lord's competence.

When one really looks at an "emergent process" one sees intent every time. Every time.

Take the US Rust Belt. That was by men like Kodorovsky. Intentional.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (N5Ax4)

271 > What is an EDC?

Every day carry. Fancy way of saying all the crap I carry on my person throughout the day. Wallet, keys, pocket knife, pen, notepad, flashlight, gun, pepper spray, etc.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (R38qh)

272 How about a close-up, asshole?

Posted by: The Cameraman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (VG0cN)

273 Hi bluebell!

Shivved anyone interesting lately?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (guGkK)

274 I'm still trying to find a woman nearly as hot as Dolley. It's a difficult search.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:03 PM (LvTSG)

Awwwwwwwww.

'I can appreciate a beautiful painting, that doesn't mean I take it off the wall.'
-name that ref

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (Vq2Tz)

275 267 I'm still trying to find a woman nearly as hot as Dolley. It's a difficult search.
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Imma guessing Dolley reads AOS. Amirite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (2uOKS)

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She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

276 46 Happy Birthday, Jordan.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (Vq2Tz)

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Thank you. Not till tomorrow, though.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM (DRSnL)

DURING PRIDE MONTH?!?

Posted by: Robert running great memes into the ground at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (1Yy3c)

277 $1.50 a carton when we got past the 12 mile limit. 1973.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (63Dwl)

I kinda wish I'd smoked two years before I was born now. Thanks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (Vq2Tz)

278 t54ww4twft
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (T4tVD)

279 So, State Propaganda Organ apparatchiks get a pass? Not surprised. The fact that the enviro-lunatics were indicted is a surprise. I will also be surprised if they receive anything more than a wrist-slap.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (jOKV/)

280
Every day carry. Fancy way of saying all the crap I carry on my person throughout the day. Wallet, keys, pocket knife, pen, notepad, flashlight, gun, pepper spray, etc.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (R38qh)

I've been educated, I have.

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (eGTCV)

281 She just needs to get a portable electric generator to tow behind the car. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (guGkK)

There are actually people that dumb. I've heard them suggest this. Yeah, a 5 hp generator to charge a 150 hp electric motor battery. Prolly take a month.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (pohLc)

282 Shivved anyone interesting lately?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (guGkK)
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No, but the NoVaMoMe is ten days away! You never know what could happen!

Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (pTb/Z)

283 She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

Hey, we're not weird.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (guGkK)

284 Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at May 31, 2023 01:50 PM

Can't wait to start getting VA emails at work all of June telling us all of all of the brave gay/trans/bi/whatever veterans who wore our nation's uniforms and fought for democracy.

I fondly remember hearing about Chad and Bruce's harrowing day storming Normandy Beach and drinking Cosmo's out of their helmets later.

There have always been gays in the military who just did their job and lived their lives. Percentage? Less than 1% but we'll be hearing about it all month.

Posted by: Cheri at May 31, 2023 02:07 PM (oiNtH)

285 @271: "Wallet, keys, pocket knife, pen, notepad, flashlight, gun, pepper spray, etc."

You forgot garrote.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at May 31, 2023 02:08 PM (k1Qly)

286 I'm still trying to find a woman nearly as hot as Dolley. It's a difficult search.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023

***
When I was married to Mrs. Wolfus No. 2, who was volcanic-hot, I still looked. It too was a difficult search; but I persevered. (Looking, I mean. Nothing more.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:08 PM (J2vNu)

287 Just got an Amber alert on my phone.
The way it comes in so loud and urgent...
So of course I read it and a 1 yr. old girl is missing with a 29 year old male, same last name.
Is it wrong to think amber alerts should be used for abductions and not custody disputes?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at May 31, 2023 02:08 PM (FCbAQ)

288 281 She just needs to get a portable electric generator to tow behind the car. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (guGkK)

Alfa Romeo repair kit is a truck full of money following you around.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:08 PM (N5Ax4)

289 She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (LvTSG)
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Well, she has a point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:08 PM (DU+/6)

290
She bought an EV knowing she didn't have exclusive access to a charger. That's hilarious.
Posted by: bonhomme

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Having to drive in the pouring rain to a charging station that her app says has only a 5-minute wait, then actually having to wait 30-40 minutes to charge her car for the next day's drive to her office.

"Still, I adore my earth-friendly, bug-eyed, coulis-red Leaf and have never regretted my decision to switch to an EV. "

I COMPLAINED BECAUSE I HAD NO COSTCO CARD, AND THEN I MET A WOMAN WHO HAD NO BRAIN.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 31, 2023 02:08 PM (lCaJd)

291 275 Well, in my case, she’s not wrong…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (mw8fy)

292 She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

That's just cause she does not know us. Bring her on when we have our next Trump V Desantis flambé and she will be dazzled by our witty and cutting repartee.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (Vq2Tz)

293 She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (LvTSG)
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Tell her to get off our lawns before we come stumbling at her brandishing our canes.

Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (pTb/Z)

294 She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

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I mean, she's not wrong.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (DRSnL)

295 289 She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (LvTSG)
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Well, she has a point.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:08 PM (DU+/6)

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It is a point I don't argue with, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (LvTSG)

296 A close-up you jerk! A CLOSE-UP!

Posted by: Daffy Duck at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (ss9Y+)

297 Awwwwwwwww.

'I can appreciate a beautiful painting, that doesn't mean I take it off the wall.'
-name that ref
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023

***
Or, as Paul Newman said about Joanne Woodward: "Why would I go out for hamburger when I have steak at home?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (J2vNu)

298 She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
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I may weird but I'm not old. When a man thinks of himself as old he begins to die. Ask Keith Richards or Clint Eastwood how this works.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 02:10 PM (DmtxH)

299 Thank you. Not till tomorrow, though.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 01:31 PM

Happy early B-Day Jordan! My daughter's is tomorrow also and you both share one with Marilyn Monroe

Posted by: Cheri at May 31, 2023 02:10 PM (oiNtH)

300 I'm still trying to find a woman nearly as hot as Dolley. It's a difficult search.
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Imma guessing Dolley reads AOS. Amirite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (2uOKS)

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She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

I'm not that old. :B

Posted by: Robert at May 31, 2023 02:10 PM (1Yy3c)

301 No one goes down in D.C. unless they are a conservative.

Conservatives get overcharged and are imprisoned for years. All others skate.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 31, 2023 01:42 PM (KiBMU)

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

-- Noted White Supremacist MLK, Jr.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 02:10 PM (TlLhj)

302 She bought an EV knowing she didn't have exclusive access to a charger. That's hilarious.
Posted by: bonhomme
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No problem.
JUNE 09, 2022
FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Proposes New Standards for National Electric Vehicle Charging Network
HOME
BRIEFING ROOM
STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investments to Enable Families to Plug-In, Charge Up, and Drive Across America

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new steps to meet President Biden’s goal to build out the first-ever national network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers along America’s highways and in communities, a key piece of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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7 BILLION dollars spending. for that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:11 PM (SbsCg)

303 Old, weird, vulgar, and horny.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 31, 2023 02:11 PM (pohLc)

304 Or, as Paul Newman said about Joanne Woodward: "Why would I go out for hamburger when I have steak at home?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (J2vNu)

Ppl say a lot of things dude.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:11 PM (N5Ax4)

305 Tell her to get off our lawns before we come stumbling at her brandishing our canes.
Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (pTb/Z)

You haven't really been clocked until you've been clocked by a flying walker.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:12 PM (guGkK)

306
I'm not that old. :B
Posted by: Robert
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I'm not that weird...pretty sure.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:12 PM (SbsCg)

307 ... Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new steps to meet President Biden’s goal to build out the first-ever national network of 500,000 electric vehicle chargers along America’s highways and in communities, a key piece of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. ...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:11 PM (SbsCg)
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It's like a copy-and-paste from Red China's EV charging network buildout scam. I suspect ours will work equally as well: lots of units get installed, but most don't work and many are in bizarre places like rarely-traveled mountain roadways.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:12 PM (DU+/6)

308 7 BILLION dollars spending. for that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:11 PM (SbsCg)
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Why not, Mr. Hammer. It's all Monopoly money.

Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 02:12 PM (pTb/Z)

309 Yeah, I'm old but more boring than weird.

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 02:12 PM (eGTCV)

310
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:05 PM (N5Ax4)

Purchase of commissions isn't anti-meritocratic. Hereditary(or quasi-hereditary) systems are anti-meritocratic, and also the ones that humans try to pursue when in power.

Frontier generals overthrowing and reforming the central government is a historical norm in Rome and China. The ascendance of the Franks is a similar such example.

The institutions implemented frequently resemble prior ones, just before they decayed.

It is human nature to divert an organization to serve personal interests. It's not that some special genius is needed to re-establish systems long since invented, it's that the system is inevitably corrupted and must be restored or replaced. The king who rules at the time of collapse is rarely at personal fault.

Systems claiming to be meritocratic devolve into ones that aren't, such as the Chinese Imperial examinations.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 02:13 PM (eYoxG)

311 You haven't really been clocked until you've been clocked by a flying walker.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:12 PM (guGkK)
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That has a ring of authenticity to it. Is there something you'd like to tell us?

Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 02:13 PM (pTb/Z)

312 When I hear the words "Environmental Extremist", I release the safety on my Browning.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (7tCXb)

313 I'm not that old. :B
Posted by: Robert
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I'm not that weird...pretty sure.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:12 PM (SbsCg)
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Robert wasn't that old.
Mike wasn't that weird.

But together, this Odd Couple is both.

Tune in to "Old and Weird with Bob and Mike," Thursdays on NBC!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (DU+/6)

314 I said it before in a previous thread: Stupid really needs to be painful and expensive. Play stupid shit, win and pay for really expensive and painful prizes.

Posted by: Ligma Balzak from Fuggencrass, Vulgaria at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (JNTt1)

315 I quit.
So I'm out washing the truck.
I trip over the soap bucket.
Back is screaming at me.
I take a couple tylenol.
I finish the truck. Wiping it down a bird shits on the hood.
I clean that up.
I come in, sit down, and look at Joe Mannix's picture. My first thought is she could rub BenGay on my back.
Sigh...
Day drinking is now a thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (e4fEA)

316 Hiya Skip !

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (T4tVD)

317 When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to be old so that I could do whatever the hell I wanted and no one would say anything about it (or so I thought).

Now that I’m…uh, slightly past 29, I don’t find it nearly as enjoyable as I thought I would when I was young.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (mw8fy)

318 Tell her to get off our lawns before we come stumbling at her brandishing our canes.

Posted by: bluebell - last day! at May 31, 2023 02:09 PM (pTb/Z)

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You just know blueberry ell has a switchblade cane with a button-activated shiv concealed in the tip.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (TlLhj)

319 I read the essay by Akiko Hara about her Nissan Leaf and the difficulties she's having charging the thing. To which I reply:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (J2vNu)

320 I say we push to get it officially called the Biden-Harris Charging Network, and fund it in perpetuity.

It's all funny-money anyway, and it will be worth it in a few decades when the EV fad has crashed to a halt and the nation is littered with thousands of busted little reminders of how stupid shit got one upon a time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (9UlRk)

321 "I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille,"

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 02:15 PM (lf83v)

322 LOL , bluebell, damn auto-cucumber;

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 02:15 PM (TlLhj)

323 I may weird but I'm not old. When a man thinks of himself as old he begins to die. Ask Keith Richards or Clint Eastwood how this works.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Al Pacino enters the chat.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:15 PM (7f6JG)

324 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

325 Now that I’m…uh, slightly past 29, I don’t find it nearly as enjoyable as I thought I would when I was young.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (mw8fy)
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"Youth is wasted on the young."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:15 PM (DU+/6)

326 Just Stopped! Anti-oil protesters get more than they bargain for when they try to halt Twickenham rugby final as they are lifted up and bundled off the pitch by burly players in front of a delighted crowd
https://tinyurl.com/27jyvjts
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at May 31, 2023 01:26 PM (MFZ8i)

They should've been beaten. Mercilessly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

327
There have always been gays in the military who just did their job and lived their lives. Percentage? Less than 1% but we'll be hearing about it all month.
Posted by: Cheri
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And, all of the great advances in civilization, and U.S. society were because there was a ghey that made critical contributions!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:16 PM (oo0rP)

328 Now that I’m…uh, slightly past 29, I don’t find it nearly as enjoyable as I thought I would when I was young.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (mw8fy)

When you're young you don't realize that nobody says anything because nobody gives a crap.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2023 02:16 PM (9UlRk)

329 I come in, sit down, and look at Joe Mannix's picture. My first thought is she could rub BenGay on my back.
Sigh...
Day drinking is now a thing.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2023

***
Wha ---?

Oh. Wait. You mean the pic of the redhead he just posted, not his own pic or the chimp from the Morning Rant! Whew.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:16 PM (J2vNu)

330 Robert wasn't that old.
Mike wasn't that weird.

But together, this Odd Couple is both.

Tune in to "Old and Weird with Bob and Mike," Thursdays on NBC!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (DU+/6)

Needs more gay.

Posted by: Modern TV Executive at May 31, 2023 02:16 PM (1Yy3c)

331 How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 31, 2023 01:27 PM (YIVH2)

^^Because they need to raise "awareness." As if ever other freakin' thing isn't blamed on climate change.

Remember back in the day when we didn't know about diseases or issues. It really was a service. But now I think people should know not to be an ignorant clod. At least about real issues.

Posted by: Iris at May 31, 2023 02:16 PM (foa6+)

332 Joanne Woodward? Seriously? I mean, a good enough actress, but, I mean…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:17 PM (mw8fy)

333 I'm old but not weird.

Posted by: Tuna at May 31, 2023 02:17 PM (0TKle)

334 I'd kind of like one of those steel-lined bowlers like John Steed used to wear. I think that would be effective for clobbering purposes.

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 02:17 PM (eGTCV)

335 When my old Hyundai Elantra received a death sentence at the repair shop in 2019, I decided that my new vehicle was going to be electric. Up until then, I had cared for the Earth by doing small things, such as using reusable grocery bags and recycling plastic and paper products. I wanted to do more. The demise of my gas-powered vehicle presented a perfect opportunity. I looked forward to driving a car that did not emit pollution or run on fossil fuel.
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This person is so sadly typical. "I love the Earth and want to do my part, so I engage in theatrics that are useless at best and counterproductive at worst, but at least they *feel* good and let me show off how much I care!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:17 PM (DU+/6)

336 There have always been gays in the military who just did their job and lived their lives. Percentage? Less than 1% but we'll be hearing about it all month.
Posted by: Cheri

Over my career I knew three. One was my boss, the other two worked for me.
Excellent soldiers and I'd go to war with them anytime. Kept their private lives private, just like everyone else and focused on the mission.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2023 02:17 PM (e4fEA)

337 How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?
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Because chaos is their goal, not environmentalism. It's just an excuse.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 02:18 PM (lf83v)

338 Happy early B-Day Jordan! My daughter's is tomorrow also and you both share one with Marilyn Monroe
Posted by: Cheri at May 31, 2023 02:10 PM (oiNtH)

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And Amy Schumer, yuck. Happy Birthday to your daughter!

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 02:18 PM (DRSnL)

339 Oh. Wait. You mean the pic of the redhead he just posted, not his own pic or the chimp from the Morning Rant! Whew.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:16 PM (J2vNu)
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Yeah, of course. Everyone knows that only the Guest Post Gorilla should be asked to smear BenGay all over you...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:18 PM (DU+/6)

340 Joanne Woodward? Seriously? I mean, a good enough actress, but, I mean…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023

***
A lovely creature, she aged well, and if you like Southern women, well . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:18 PM (J2vNu)

341 I wonder where he thinks the electricity comes from.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:02 PM

I'm not sure, but wherever it is, it's probably racist and run by heteronormative cisgendered colonizing white men who support the patriarchy and are full of intolerance and hate. GODDESS I HATE THEM AND HOPE THEY ALL DIE!!!

Posted by: Average Leftist at May 31, 2023 02:19 PM (JCZqz)

342 239 O/T, but funny. Nitwit SJW learns that electric cars just might suck.
https://tinyurl.com/bdhnud55
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2023 01:57 PM (6+RMs)
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I love my electric car but I didn't realize my life would revolve around charging it

I was motivated by the climate crisis facing our world

LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 01:59 PM (DU+/6)
____________

"Two years later, our condo remains unequipped with an EV charger. Getting access to the public chargers in Vancouver seems to get harder every month. Still, I adore my earth-friendly, bug-eyed, coulis-red Leaf and have never regretted my decision to switch to an EV."

I really love my girlfriend too, even though she's totally toxic, keeps stealing my money, and is out banging every guy and girl in the bars every night!

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2023 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

343 This person is so sadly typical. "I love the Earth and want to do my part, so I engage in theatrics that are useless at best and counterproductive at worst, but at least they *feel* good and let me show off how much I care!"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:17 PM (DU+/6)

Concur. Idiots.

Posted by: Al Gore, Hopping A Jet To Bang Whores in Thailand at May 31, 2023 02:19 PM (7tCXb)

344

They should've been beaten. Mercilessly.
Posted by: Sponge

The players beating them would have been charged.
They should have dragged them off the pitch by their feet...
The fans would have cheered.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:19 PM (7f6JG)

345 How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?

You never heard of the classical rhetorical device known as "do what I say or I'll break all your shit"?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:19 PM (guGkK)

346 Now that I’m…uh, slightly past 29, I don’t find it nearly as enjoyable as I thought I would when I was young.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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As a friend of mine says, 'The Golden Years aren't all they are cracked up to be.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:19 PM (oo0rP)

347 I'd kind of like one of those steel-lined bowlers like John Steed used to wear. I think that would be effective for clobbering purposes.
Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023

***
And just what do you have against cetaceans???

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:20 PM (J2vNu)

348 Wait till they find out all of those vehicle charging stations put out massive magnetic fields that cause brain cancer and tinnitus.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 02:20 PM (lf83v)

349 I may weird but I'm not old. When a man thinks of himself as old he begins to die. Ask Keith Richards or Clint Eastwood how this works.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Al Pacino enters the chat.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:15 PM (7f6JG)

Trivia, they have all had the same girlfriend at different times, she has a strange kink or she is a goddigger

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 31, 2023 02:20 PM (NtVYv)

350 Her car is probably powered by coal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:59 PM (LvTSG)
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Nah, not in Vancouver. Most of BC's power comes from gas, hydro and "refined petroleum products."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:20 PM (DU+/6)

351 And, all of the great advances in civilization, and U.S. society were because there was a ghey that made critical contributions!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:16 PM (oo0rP)

Just think of all the advances in AIDS that wouldn't have occurred without the critical contributions of gays.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2023 02:20 PM (nO2JE)

352 Oh. Wait. You mean the pic of the redhead he just posted, not his own pic or the chimp from the Morning Rant! Whew.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:16 PM (J2vNu)

Ahhh...
Well... yeah.
I'm hurt, but not that bad.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2023 02:21 PM (e4fEA)

353 I wonder where he thinks the electricity comes from.
______

Duh. Ben Franklin's kite.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 02:21 PM (lf83v)

354 And just what do you have against cetaceans
==
They tend to get a bit rapey.

Posted by: So, there's that at May 31, 2023 02:21 PM (sh1GZ)

355 345 How does smearing art on a painting help with climate change?

You never heard of the classical rhetorical device known as "do what I say or I'll break all your shit"?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 31, 2023 02:19 PM (guGkK)

This guy obviously never dated any of my ex-girlfriends.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:21 PM (Vq2Tz)

356
"Two years later, our condo remains unequipped with an EV charger. Getting access to the public chargers in Vancouver seems to get harder every month. Still, I adore my earth-friendly, bug-eyed, coulis-red Leaf and have never regretted my decision to switch to an EV."

***
What does she mean by "coulis-red"? The car looks to be the exact same color as my Buick, and GM calls that Garnet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:22 PM (J2vNu)

357 348 Wait till they find out all of those vehicle charging stations put out massive magnetic fields that cause brain cancer and tinnitus.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 02:20 PM (lf83v)

Inductive Impotence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:22 PM (Vq2Tz)

358 I quit.
So I'm out washing the truck.
I trip over the soap bucket.
Back is screaming at me.
I take a couple tylenol.
I finish the truck. Wiping it down a bird shits on the hood.
I clean that up.
I come in, sit down, and look at Joe Mannix's picture. My first thought is she could rub BenGay on my back.
Sigh...
Day drinking is now a thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2023 02:14 PM (e4fEA)

---------

Kiplingesque.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at May 31, 2023 02:22 PM (TlLhj)

359 Joanne never did it for me at all. Maybe I just never saw her in the right thing.

Good on Paul, though, for staying married to her for so long.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:22 PM (mw8fy)

360 You know another American who defected to Russia?

Posted by: Lee Harvey Oswald at May 31, 2023 02:22 PM (gmo/4)

361 Trivia, they have all had the same girlfriend at different times, she has a strange kink or she is a goddigger
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 31, 2023 02:20 PM (NtVYv)

ehhh, I think I screwed that up.

it was Jagger, Eastwood, and Pacino. Pacino managed to get her pregger at 84

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 31, 2023 02:23 PM (NtVYv)

362 **
What does she mean by "coulis-red"? The car looks to be the exact same color as my Buick, and GM calls that Garnet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:22 PM (J2vNu)

It's the exact shade of a chinaman after a long day laying track. She just can't spell.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2023 02:23 PM (9UlRk)

363 If we stopped pumping oil today, 3/4 of the world population would be dead within 6 months. Simple reality.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 31, 2023 02:23 PM (pohLc)

364 Day drinking is now a thing.

Posted by: Diogenes
---------
Kiplingesque.
__________

Yuenglingesque.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 02:23 PM (lf83v)

365 Notice how many of the tobacco haters fire up one joint after another?

Yes, yes I have noticed. And smoking a joint is WAY worse for you than smoking a cigarette. If you gotta take weed, get edibles. I have noticed most young people partaking of the devil's salad use edibles or vape.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 02:23 PM (0hOvj)

366 JT need to waters the garden as soon as I get home

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2023 02:23 PM (bzSMv)

367 This article is amazing. About the debate in her condo association over paying a few grand for a consultant to do a feasibility study for installing EV chargers (the proposal was voted down) :
I let her opinion sink in. Was I arrogant to assume that everyone would be supportive of having EV chargers in our building?

Yeah, toots, you were.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (DU+/6)

368 What does she mean by "coulis-red"? The car looks to be the exact same color as my Buick, and GM calls that Garnet.

Automakers each have a different name for the same color. It keeps the marketing people off the streets, and body shop guys cursing.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (ZGrMX)

369 Joanna Woodward

Classy Pretty:

https://is.gd/95DEek

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (Vq2Tz)

370 Trivia, they have all had the same girlfriend at different times, she has a strange kink or she is a goddigger
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 31, 2023 02:20 PM (NtVYv)

=====

Is she the one who's about to have Pacino's baby?

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (DRSnL)

371 I'd kind of like one of those steel-lined bowlers like John Steed used to wear. I think that would be effective for clobbering purposes.
Posted by: NL
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Yancey Derringer's hat, with, of course, a derringer clipped up in the crown.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (vNC/Y)

372 Still, I adore my earth-friendly...EV.

Erf friendly. That's a laugh

Posted by: Archer at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (gmo/4)

373
Inductive Impotence.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

That would be the best meme and/or conspiracy theory.
The EV charging stations cause ED!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (7f6JG)

374 She does not. She thinks y'all are old and weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:06 PM

Narrator: She's not wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 31, 2023 02:25 PM (KkFZv)

375 That night, I couldn't sleep. Not because of my neighbour's bitter comment, but because I suddenly remembered my intention for buying an EV in the first place. I should have spoken up. Greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide, climate crisis ... These words jumbled in my head. Nobody had even mentioned this life-or-death issue we all are facing.
+++++
HAHAHAHAHAH

You didn't think of it because it ain't life-or-death, honey. If it were, you wouldn't have forgotten all about that the moment you felt pointless class guilt in front of your neighbors. You don't forget a life-or-death problem in the heat of the moment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:25 PM (DU+/6)

376 241 Common / People - a William Shatner, Kirk & Spock slashup

5:03 minutes
https://tinyurl.com/bnw83n9r
---------------------------------

Thats the toon version. You need the one from the tv series ... it has all the Star Trek babes from the first series .... mmm mmm mmm

Posted by: Haywood at May 31, 2023 02:25 PM (dfNoh)

377 Joanne Woodward

Classy Pretty:

https://is.gd/95DEek
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023

***
Nice hind paws, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:25 PM (J2vNu)

378 let her opinion sink in. Was I arrogant to assume that everyone would be supportive of having EV chargers in our building?

Yeah, toots, you were.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (DU+/6)

... love the framing. Not "was i arrogant to assume these mouthbreathers would just shut the hell up and foot the bill for my vanity project". Heavens, no.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2023 02:25 PM (9UlRk)

379 That would be the best meme and/or conspiracy theory.
The EV charging stations cause ED!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:24 PM (7f6JG)

Not that their owners notice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:25 PM (Vq2Tz)

380 Day drinking is now a thing.

Posted by: Diogenes
---------
Kiplingesque.
__________

Yuenglingesque.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 02:23 PM (lf83v)
***

Glenmorangiesque.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 31, 2023 02:26 PM (e4fEA)

381 So does Ming ling or whatever her name is know where the electricity for the charging stations comes from ? Is it some magic ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2023 02:26 PM (bs+z0)

382 359 Joanne never did it for me at all. Maybe I just never saw her in the right thing.

Good on Paul, though, for staying married to her for so long.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:22 PM (mw8fy)

at one time, she was engaged to Gore Vidal

Posted by: REDACTED at May 31, 2023 02:26 PM (us2H3)

383
I looked forward to driving a car that did not emit pollution or run on fossil fuel.

So she bought one that runs on coal.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 31, 2023 02:26 PM (63Dwl)

384 So does Ming ling or whatever her name is know where the electricity for the charging stations comes from ? Is it some magic ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2023 02:26 PM (bs+z0)
++++
She probably pays some extra fee to build windmills while ignoring that in Vancouver, most energy comes from petroleum products and gas, with hydro in third place.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 31, 2023 02:27 PM (DU+/6)

385 If we stopped pumping oil today, 3/4 of the world population would be dead within 6 months. Simple reality.
Posted by: Xipe Totec
-----

In conversations with Greenies, I ask them to look around, and point to something, anything , that did not have oil associated with its presence.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 31, 2023 02:27 PM (vNC/Y)

386 Still, I adore my earth-friendly...EV.

Erf friendly. That's a laugh
==
yes, that's the real joke. She's got no idea what was done to the urth to produce that car. If she did, she'd wear sackcloth and ashes and sit in the park wailing while beating herself bloody with a flail.

Posted by: which, come to think of it, would make the whole exercise a net gain at May 31, 2023 02:27 PM (sh1GZ)

387 at one time, she was engaged to Gore Vidal
-----------------
Vidal was not gay?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 02:27 PM (XHZzR)

388 Everyone knows that women can see approx. 1,000,000 more colors than men can.

At least half of which they make up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:27 PM (mw8fy)

389 Anyone tried avocado mayo? I am trying to find salad dressings without soybean oil (although a lot of the store brand stuff is full of canola oil instead.)

Thinking of just making my own.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (Vq2Tz)

390 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 02:13 PM (eYoxG)

The purchase system was 100% anti-meritocratic and functionally hereditary. It just was.

Man's sinful nature is not something I dispute obviously.

Or the historical fact that social organizations collapse and new ones arise.

The issue is if some abstract process of unknown origin is responsible.

I say no, and that human intent is reaponsible every time. Civilizations are destroyed by individuals not abstract forces.

The Imperial Exams were the result of intentional activity by individuals.

As were the installation of Roman commanders from Britain as Emperors.

As was the removal of blood as a requirement for command.

The level of abstraction on which emergent processes exist has no causal connection to reality.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (fHPx5)

391 I like avocado mayo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (9UlRk)

392 387 at one time, she was engaged to Gore Vidal
-----------------
Vidal was not gay?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 02:27 PM (XHZzR)

no gayer than Tony Perkins

Posted by: REDACTED at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (us2H3)

393 387 at one time, she was engaged to Gore Vidal
-----------------
Vidal was not gay?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 02:27 PM (XHZzR)

'At one time, she was Gore Vidal's Beard...'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (Vq2Tz)

394 Odds that Idiot EV Girl either (1) munches rug or (2) has 50 cats she adores but they are just waiting for her to die so they can eat her?

Better than 70%, I'd say.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 31, 2023 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

395
The players beating them would have been charged.
They should have dragged them off the pitch by their feet...
The fans would have cheered.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:19 PM (7f6JG)

Fine. Drag them off the field. Throw them into the stands. Let the people speak......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

396 So does Ming ling or whatever her name is know where the electricity for the charging stations comes from ? Is it some magic ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 31, 2023

***
One of the most recent comments on her essay: "It has all the earmarks of a disorder, all right."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:29 PM (J2vNu)

397 386 yes, that's the real joke. She's got no idea what was done to the urth to produce that car. If she did, she'd wear sackcloth and ashes and sit in the park wailing while beating herself bloody with a flail.
Posted by: which, come to think of it, would make the whole exercise a net gain at May 31, 2023 02:27 PM (sh1GZ)

=======

Strip mining for lithium is fine because it happens far away from her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

398 Coulis is defined as a thin puree of fruit or vegetables. Raspberry coulis is apparently common so her car is red red.

Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023 02:29 PM (eGTCV)

399 Strip mining for lithium is fine because it happens far away from her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

In another country, by brown people who have to breathe the air of the pollutants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:30 PM (Vq2Tz)

400 That is one Booooom Operator!

Posted by: Sade at May 31, 2023 02:30 PM (w9Wax)

401 Blood Batteries

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2023 02:30 PM (9UlRk)

402 no gayer than Tony Perkins
=
Now that's funny!

Posted by: Zombie Liberace at May 31, 2023 02:30 PM (sh1GZ)

403 Anyone tried avocado mayo? I am trying to find salad dressings without soybean oil (although a lot of the store brand stuff is full of canola oil instead.)

Thinking of just making my own.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

One minute Mayo: https://is.gd/aExOw9 recipe lists avocado oil as option.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:30 PM (7f6JG)

404 Avocado mayo is wonderful. Yes, make it. If you have an immersion blender it's super easy, barely an inconvenience. Tons of videos on utube.

Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at May 31, 2023 02:30 PM (PWI4f)

405 JT need to waters the garden as soon as I get home
Posted by: Skip

I wait til after 6 PM.

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 02:31 PM (T4tVD)

406 >>>The camera man should get Sweden's highest medal.

A bronze Allen wrench?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 31, 2023 02:31 PM (CwhoI)

407 JT need to waters the garden as soon as I get home
Posted by: Skip

Are we ever gonna get some rain ?

Posted by: JT at May 31, 2023 02:31 PM (T4tVD)

408 'At one time, she was Gore Vidal's Beard...'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (Vq2Tz)

And rhen became Paul Newman's.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:31 PM (fHPx5)

409 Thats the toon version. You need the one from the tv series ... it has all the Star Trek babes from the first series
-----------
You don't like cat-headed babes??

Freak.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 02:32 PM (Vwz3I)

410 Coulis is defined as a thin puree of fruit or vegetables. Raspberry coulis is apparently common so her car is red red.
Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023

***
It sounds like an infection of some kind

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 02:32 PM (J2vNu)

411 409 Thats the toon version. You need the one from the tv series ... it has all the Star Trek babes from the first series
-----------
You don't like cat-headed babes??

Freak.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 02:32 PM (Vwz3I)

No one tell anna.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:32 PM (Vq2Tz)

412 Strip mining for lithium is fine because it happens far away from her.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

And all those machines used in that mining, refining, and transport are all as green as a seasick A-rab.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 31, 2023 02:32 PM (pohLc)

413 Richard Hanania @RichardHanania · 3h
California law threatened to fine corporations up to $300,000 if they didn't have minorities or LGBT on their boards.

A federal judge doesn't even need a trial to know it's illegal. He throws out the law by granting a summary judgment for the plaintiffs.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 02:32 PM (Vwz3I)

414 Thinking of just making my own.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
==
I bought some at Costco - godawful.

Posted by: I had to pitch it at May 31, 2023 02:32 PM (sh1GZ)

415 Fire engine red?

Cherry Red?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:33 PM (Vq2Tz)

416 406 >>>The camera man should get Sweden's highest medal.

A bronze Allen wrench?
---------------
I think its a Gift Certificate from IKEA. The Allen wrench is free to every Swede cuz socialism.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 31, 2023 02:33 PM (XHZzR)

417 Accessory BEFORE the fact = conspirator.

Posted by: Raspy at May 31, 2023 02:33 PM (Men5k)

418
'At one time, she was Gore Vidal's Beard...'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (Vq2Tz)

Kelly Preston, God rest her soul, was married to John Revolta for decades, even bore him children, I believe.

I'm sure the number of men he had sex with is exponentially greater than hers.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2023 02:33 PM (nO2JE)

419 413 Richard Hanania @RichardHanania · 3h
California law threatened to fine corporations up to $300,000 if they didn't have minorities or LGBT on their boards.

A federal judge doesn't even need a trial to know it's illegal. He throws out the law by granting a summary judgment for the plaintiffs.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 02:32 PM (Vwz3I)

========

They'll all just do it "voluntarily" because they won't be able to secure short term loans otherwise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 02:33 PM (LvTSG)

420 Only goes to show that when the crime isn't overtly political, DC juries can actually do the right thing.

Posted by: SMOD at May 31, 2023 02:33 PM (RHGPo)

421 When I went to pick up the current car (deep blue) there was another mustang in this gorgeous deep red.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:34 PM (Vq2Tz)

422 I say no, and that human intent is reaponsible every time. Civilizations are destroyed by individuals not abstract forces.

The Imperial Exams were the result of intentional activity by individuals.

As were the installation of Roman commanders from Britain as Emperors.

As was the removal of blood as a requirement for command.

The level of abstraction on which emergent processes exist has no causal connection to reality.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (fHPx5)

That seems at most a pedantic quibble. Good times create weak men is a perfectly fine summary of how abundant resources allow for self-indulgence. Sure, everyone is individually making their own choices, but just as surely these are broad tendencies that no one has yet devised a system around.

Someone may come around and buy a government a new lease on life for 100 or 200 years, or he may not. But the decay part happens naturally due to common human preferences.

The US at such a young age is now the oldest living government.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 02:34 PM (eYoxG)

423 If congress doesn't pass appropriations bills in time, the funding is automatically renewed with a 1% cut. One. Fucking. Percent.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 31, 2023 02:34 PM (4XgHa)

424 Like those shyster gringo lawyers say on the late-night ads on Telemundo: “Yo soy un avocado bueno.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:34 PM (mw8fy)

425 I love my electric car but I didn't realize my life would revolve around charging it

I was motivated by the climate crisis facing our world
LOL
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
========
Her car is probably powered by coal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

From the looks of her in her by line photo, someone fucked her mother's brains out so hard she didn't get any at all. Stupid lefty cunt. Deserves to be late for work and subsequently fired. Learn to whore.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 31, 2023 02:34 PM (3CCua)

426 Coulis is defined as a thin puree of fruit or vegetables. Raspberry coulis is apparently common so her car is red red.
Posted by: NL at May 31, 2023

***
It sounds like an infection of some kind
==
Well, I'm old and weird, but when I first read that, I thought it was a hip new euphemism for the vajayjay.

Posted by: I had to pitch it at May 31, 2023 02:35 PM (sh1GZ)

427 Ace-
you might want to make a post of this.

Trump has now decided to attack Kayleigh McEnany because she talked about poll numbers he didn't like.

https://tinyurl.com/mwnasffe

Posted by: Archimedes at May 31, 2023 02:35 PM (eOEVl)

428 >>>I like avocado mayo.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 31, 2023 02:28 PM (9UlRk)

=====

My wife's BIL made coleslaw using avocado mayo. It was darn good. And I don't like avocados.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 31, 2023 02:35 PM (fH/9W)

429 Ace- Diablo 4 playable tomorrow at 4pm PDT.

Can we get diablo 3 cake girl post ??

Posted by: Luigi'sIndexFinger at May 31, 2023 02:35 PM (UoyFD)

430 Fire engine red?

Cherry Red?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:33 PM (Vq2Tz)

======

Crack whore red.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 02:35 PM (DRSnL)

431 Bjorn beyeden schmutzen am tetsen.

Yooda makkes BOOOM!!!!!

Hahahahahahaaaa!!!!

Posted by: Swedish Chef at May 31, 2023 02:36 PM (lf83v)

432 If congress doesn't pass appropriations bills in time, the funding is automatically renewed with a 1% cut. One. Fucking. Percent.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

1% cut is better than the *savings* which will accrue to the debt if the bill is passed as written.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 31, 2023 02:36 PM (7f6JG)

433 Scarlet Red?

Posted by: Hester Prynne at May 31, 2023 02:37 PM (vrkNi)

434 FYI, bluebell the hen just now devoured a squishy, yummy tomato cutworm after chasing down the other hen who grabbed it first and stealing it.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 31, 2023 02:37 PM (llON8)

435 Crack whore red.

Posted by: Jordan61 at May 31, 2023 02:35 PM (DRSnL)

I don't think I want to know

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 02:37 PM (Wgd+q)

436 Get lace collars and white shoes ready~~!

@Breaking911 1m
BREAKING: Mike Pence to launch presidential campaign next week in Des Moines, Iowa - NBC News

Posted by: weft cut loop at May 31, 2023 02:38 PM (jzzG8)

437 >>>Trump has now decided to attack Kayleigh McEnany because she talked about poll numbers he didn't like.

https://tinyurl.com/mwnasffe
Posted by: Archimedes at May 31, 2023 02:35 PM (eOEVl)

======

I've said it before. Trump broke the leftist in 2016. But the 2020 election broke Trump.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 31, 2023 02:38 PM (fH/9W)

438
Richard Hanania @RichardHanania · 3h
California law threatened to fine corporations up to $300,000 if they didn't have minorities or LGBT on their boards.

A federal judge doesn't even need a trial to know it's illegal. He throws out the law by granting a summary judgment for the plaintiffs.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I)

=============

"or LGBT"

Then you have to ask candidates about their sexual proclivities. I think the interview questions should come in a specific sequence.

1 - Do you believe in climate change?
2 - If you answered "Yes" to question 1, go to question 3.
3 - ARE YOU GAY?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 31, 2023 02:38 PM (lCaJd)

439 Scarlet Red?
Posted by: Hester Prynne at May 31, 2023

***
"Saturn rings around my head,
Down a road that's Martian red --"

Posted by: Spock, Under Duress at May 31, 2023 02:38 PM (J2vNu)

440 434 Did she shiv it first?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:38 PM (mw8fy)

441 I love my electric car but I didn't realize my life would revolve around charging it

This is just...

I mean, she has a cell phone right? Her smart phone has to be charged every day, sometimes more often?

How did she not know this was going to be a thing? This is like women who claim they refuse to clean and cook for her man just because he pays the bills.

What did you do before you met him, was your house just hip deep in Door Dash wrappers?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 02:39 PM (0hOvj)

442 I've said it before. Trump broke the leftist in 2016. But the 2020 election broke Trump.

It does look that way.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 31, 2023 02:40 PM (eOEVl)

443 If congress doesn't pass appropriations bills in time, the funding is automatically renewed with a 1% cut. One. Fucking. Percent.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

1% cut is better than the *savings* which will accrue to the debt if the bill is passed as written.
==
Hey that's great! Any chance we can get a rolling increase of another 1 % every month and just let it roll til next 2030 before they do anything?

Posted by: Now that would be something at May 31, 2023 02:40 PM (sh1GZ)

444 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 02:34 PM (eYoxG)

Ok dude. Satan is King of this World is not short hand for an emergent process. Satan is physically real and not an abstraction.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:40 PM (fHPx5)

445 The US at such a young age is now the oldest living government.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 02:34 PM (eYoxG)

Hmmm. Interesting argument. I cannot find a good counter.

Roman republic: 409ish to 2nd punic war 218 (changed to more of an oligarchy than it had been.)
That to Augustus: 218 to 27BC
Principate to Dominate: 27 to 284
Dominate to End of Western 284 to 476?

One might be able to argue Byzantium, but I am not familiar enough with that history to say whether the governmental organization had such clear delineations.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:40 PM (Vq2Tz)

446 Smithsonian is in DC, so unless the supposed meeting took place with the Journalist inadvertently located in Texas so they could charge them there, nothing will come of an indictment.

Posted by: mikethemoose at May 31, 2023 02:40 PM (UyECW)

447 In other justice news, Manson slasher chick Leslie Van Houten may soon be free.

https://tinyurl.com/559ztvev

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 31, 2023 02:41 PM (FVME7)

448 WE ARE SAVED!!! MIKE PENCE IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT BABY BOOO YAHHHH!!!

Posted by: Says noone ever, anywhere, event those paid to enthuse for him at May 31, 2023 02:42 PM (sh1GZ)

449 The US at such a young age is now the oldest living government.

Right. I like to point this out when some Eurotwerp sneers at how "young" the US is.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 31, 2023 02:42 PM (0hOvj)

450 >>>I mean, she has a cell phone right? Her smart phone has to be charged every day, sometimes more often?

======

I'd prefer an Apple Watch. But my Fitbit only needs charged once per week. My wife's Apple Watch? Daily.

Posted by: Turn 2 at May 31, 2023 02:42 PM (fH/9W)

451 Kayleigh of Fox News thinks the McCarthy deal is the only realistic alternative. Wagon. Hitch. Some assembly required.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 02:43 PM (Vwz3I)

452 I'd prefer an Apple Watch. But my Fitbit only needs charged once per week. My wife's Apple Watch? Daily.
Posted by: Turn 2 at May 31, 2023 02:42 PM (fH/9W)

All those internal mics and cameras need juice, baby!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 31, 2023 02:43 PM (Vq2Tz)

453 444 Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 02:34 PM (eYoxG)

Ok dude. Satan is King of this World is not short hand for an emergent process. Satan is physically real and not an abstraction.
Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:40 PM (fHPx5)

'good times make weak men' is what you criticized as an emergent process. Well Satan is there in both good and bad times, it's just bad times(meaning poverty and scarcity) tend to kill off a lot of sinful practices as sin is self-destructive.

I don't see what is objectionable in the original phrasing, nor is it particularly mysterious in how it functions.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 02:43 PM (eYoxG)

454 Her car is probably powered by coal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 31, 2023 01:59 PM (LvTSG)

She's in BC, so probably hydro. Her virtue is powered by dams which wouldn't be allowed to be built today.

Posted by: spindrift at May 31, 2023 02:44 PM (ivvNA)

455 I love Kayleigh and have since before most of you knew who she was, but she works for Fox and so either knows where her bread is buttered or she's gonna pull a Tucker.

Assuming a Tucker is not rational. Trump attacking someone is not a big deal at this point unless he got very personal with her.

Posted by: ... at May 31, 2023 02:44 PM (Wgd+q)

456 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 31, 2023 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

457 Then you have to ask candidates about their sexual proclivities.

All corporate boards must have a coprophiliac, someone sexually attracted to feather boas, and a foot fetishist.

Posted by: California Law, 2030! at May 31, 2023 02:45 PM (2tUFv)

458 She's in BC, so probably hydro. Her virtue is powered by dams which wouldn't be allowed to be built today.
==
Fish genocider she is

Posted by: sickening at May 31, 2023 02:45 PM (sh1GZ)

459 she's gonna pull a Tucker.
________

Interesting choice of words.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 31, 2023 02:45 PM (lf83v)

460 Fight the real enemy!!!

Joe has problems with using the non-acronym version of NOAA...

https://tinyurl.com/2p9c3s29
8 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 31, 2023 02:46 PM (Vwz3I)

461 453 Wow, this history discussion is way too abstract for me.

Did I ever tell you about the time I blinded the Bulgarian troops after the Battle of Belasitsa?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 31, 2023 02:46 PM (mw8fy)

462 > In other justice news, Manson slasher chick Leslie Van Houten may soon be free.

The parole board keeps recommending she be released, but the CA governors keep blocking it.

She was 19 when she murdered the LaBiancas. She's 73 now.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 31, 2023 02:48 PM (R38qh)

463 Last night, I was standing in the yard, watching the cardinals eat their dinner, when the fireflies lit up.

My stepdaughter turned to me and said "I love this place. It's like a fairytale."

That moment was really the only thing I ever wanted. I can die happy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2023 02:49 PM (oINRc)

464 447 In other justice news, Manson slasher chick Leslie Van Houten may soon be free.

https://tinyurl.com/559ztvev
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 31, 2023 02:41 PM (FVME7)

I forget which one she is, what her role was in the slayings, but I believe she's the one who has been a model prisoner, completely rejecting her past actions.

Either way, 50 years plus.... I love how euro cases, where people get convicted of the most heinous crimes, when they talk about sentences, they'll say "he was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole... for 13 years."

Posted by: BurtTC at May 31, 2023 02:50 PM (nO2JE)

465 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2023 02:49 PM (oINRc)

That's very nice. In the midst of craziness, it's good to enjoy lovely,, simple pleasures.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2023 02:51 PM (Keyt1)

466 1619 Project on ABC and Hulu tonight, 8 - 11 pm. FFS

In the fall, Reparations Math may be coming to a school near you.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 31, 2023 02:55 PM (GshMh)

467 I don't see what is objectionable in the original phrasing, nor is it particularly mysterious in how it functions.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 31, 2023 02:43 PM (eYoxG)

Emergent processes are a way to avoid the discussion of evil intent. That is their purpose.

It is easier to cite some process than confront the intentional evil.

Rome succumbed to a physical enemy bent on its destruction. It did not die from an abstraction.

Posted by: Thesokorus at May 31, 2023 02:56 PM (fHPx5)

468 The right wing press needs to stop entertaining the idea that this is "environmental activism" it is iconoclasm directed at western civilization prior to modernism. Communists and Fascists have always held a deconstructivist philosophy. Mostly because these philosophies are so empty and fundamentally self contradictory (relying on enlightenment thinking while rejecting it at the same time) one has to forget everything that came before to make them make sense.

Attacking the past, which the left does across the board, is always an extension of separating popular thought away from the idea that man is an image of The Creator, with a history of being pulled toward said Creator despite our faults, instead of a pure will that in it's rare high elite form is itself the only relevant god, and in its common low form only a smart monkey, that needs animal husbandry to take care of it.

We need to treat these attacks as what they are attempts to debase humanity.

Posted by: mikethemoose at May 31, 2023 02:58 PM (UyECW)

469 Boom goes the dynamite/cameraman!

Posted by: Traitor democrats, Raping, Trafficking and Mutilating the Children They Cannot Kill at May 31, 2023 02:59 PM (0q+t6)

470 Noodus caucusiana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2023 03:01 PM (J2vNu)

471 That's very nice. In the midst of craziness, it's good to enjoy lovely,, simple pleasures.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2023 02:51 PM (Keyt1)

Yup.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 31, 2023 03:09 PM (oINRc)

472 "priceless painting at the Smithsonian"

What makes a painting "priceless"?

Unique? Wonderful design? Will never exist in the known universe again?

Wow...sounds like the description of a human fetus.

Posted by: Ju at May 31, 2023 03:14 PM (aTmM/)

473 Ok the Taylor Swift thing got me to read about who Matty Healy is.

Apparently he's a soi boi who the FNM is trying to get to admit he's gay.

They harassed him so much he claimed he was open to kissing a guy but not having sex with one...which got the FNM in a bigger uproar claiming that's a clear sign of anti-gay hate.

Its almost comical.

That being said Swift should be forced to date Lena Dunham. She's earned it.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 31, 2023 03:17 PM (lc5cP)

474 I would make them pay triple the costs for their Crimes and the Washington Compost to lose more readers

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 31, 2023 05:17 PM (wGqjj)

475 First of all I want to say fantastic blog!
I had a quick question that I'd like to ask if you do not
mind. I was curious to know how you center yourself and clear your thoughts prior
to writing. I've had a hard time clearing my thoughts in getting
my ideas out there. I truly do enjoy writing but
it just seems like the first 10 to 15 minutes are usually lost simply just trying to figure out how to begin. Any ideas or
hints? Cheers!

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