The Morning Report — 6/21/23

Good morning kids. Happy first day of summer. The descent into banana republic status is so in your face that you'd literally have to be Helen Keller with John Fetterman's brain function to not recognize it. To call what Hunter Biden got a "slap on the wrist" is up there with Hirohito telling the Japanese people that "The war has not necessarily gone to our advantage" after most of Japan had been vaporized, insofar as understatements of the century go. And that's not just in light of what is being done to Donald Trump, regardless of what you feel about him as quite probably the nominee. There are so many sickening examples of corruption and abuse of power coming from virtually all quarters of the junta that it's almost impossible to catalog all of them. Lest we forget how that junta obtained power in the first place. A stolen election in the wake of a Chi-Com combination biological weapon that was in fact funded by Anthony Fauci and the follow-on psy-op that locked down the country and allowed the election theft to occur in the first place. But I digress.

I saw this story and just about blew a fuse:

An accounting error led to the Pentagon valuing weapons based on replacement costs instead of the book price for systems during fiscal years 2022 and 2023, leading to an over-accounting of $6.2 billion — twice as high as previous estimates, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters at a briefing Tuesday. The surplus money will be devoted toward additional aid packages before the current fiscal year ends, she added.

“It’s just going to go back into the pot of money that we have allocated for the future Pentagon stock drawdowns,” Singh said. . .

. . . The revelations come as specifics on funds remaining for further security packages are unclear and the 2023 Congressional budget cycle is coming to a close, according to the AP.

The Biden [junta] reported $40.7 billion in total security aid to Ukraine since 2021 after the latest tranche of weapons and equipment was announced on June 13, according to a fact sheet. But, the actual number may be just under $34 billion.

If only Al Capone's lawyer told the IRS this story, maybe Geraldo Rivera would've actually found something in that safe instead of stale air, rust and a cobwebs (i.e. the contents of Rivera's brain case). The cushions on Vanilli Milley's E-Ring office casting couch must be yuuuuge. Anyway, it's all good. Ukraine is saved! Can I get a "praise the Lord!" from the crowd on that one.

"Accounting error" my ass. They're raiding the Treasury plain and simple without any oversight from Congress (assuming Congress actually wants to engage in their core responsibility in the first place). There isn't a spit roast in hell hot enough for these shameless fucking crooks. And make room on that giant kebab skewer for those in Congress who will do absolutely nothing to stop this, either out of cowardice, sloth or likely because they're about as corrupt as the criminals they'r supposed to stop. And with that, I give you this item that broke late yesterday:

Independent journalist James O’Keefe dropped a bombshell video on BlackRock Inc. — a prominent investment management and financial services firm — revealing just how broad the company’s impact might be.

A journalist working for the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) spoke with BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay — who told her that because of the vast sums of money the company controls in the global market, they can essentially “run the world.” He began with a caveat, noting that BlackRock did not necessarily want people to notice what they were doing.

“They don’t want to be in the news. They don’t want people to talk about them. They don’t want to be anywhere on the radar,” he said, and when the journalist asked him why, he paused. “I don’t know, but I suspect it’s because it’s easier to do things when people aren’t thinking about it.”

Varlay went on to explain that while BlackRock might be one of the biggest players, the asset management firm was not the only game in town.

“All of these financial institutions, they buy politicians,” he said. “You can take this big f*** ton of money and buy people … It’s not who is the president, it’s who is controlling the wallet of the president. You could buy your candidates. First, there is the senators, these guys are f***ing cheap. Got 10 grand? You can buy a senator. I’ll give you 500k right now … It doesn’t matter who wins, they’re in my pocket.”

. . . “Ukraine is good for business, you know that right? Russia blows up Ukraine’s grain silos and the price of wheat is going to go mad up. The Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to the wheat market. The price of bread, literally everything goes up and down, this is fantastic if you’re trading,” Varlay continued, adding, “Volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is real f***ing good for business. It’s exciting when s*** goes wrong, right?”

Varlay said several times that there were other financial institutions taking similar steps to “buy politicians” and influence the global markets, but that the sheer volume of capital that BlackRock was controlling made the company even more formidable.

“BlackRock manages $20 trillion. It’s incomprehensible numbers,” he said.

Ten lousy G's to buy out Lindsay Lightloafers? Even my couch probably has $10 grand in change between the cushions. Not as much as Vanilli Milley's and obviously for sure Larry Fink's. Pardon my not using "woke" math but at that rate $20 trillion buys you 2 billion senators . . . and a mule. Suddenly the mule reference coupled with all this talk of buying senators puts me in mind of going to Havana with Fredo, Johnny Ola and Senator Pat Geary from Nevada.

And like Pat Geary, once these people are bought they stay bought, regardless of what line of horseshit they sold the rubes in flyover country about how they were going to ride in and drain the swamp. No, that's not a dig at Trump. He meant it. He just didn't realize how deep, dark and wide the swamp is. Like Pacific Ocean-sized. Virtually all the others who glommed onto that message, whether they actually had those intentions or not, eventually got swamped themselves.

Meanwhile in another part of the forest, this item raised the BP along with the contents of my stomach:

Apparently as a counterpart to the ongoing lavish media attention paid to “Pride Month,” a media black hole has opened up and swallowed a horrifying story of 4 children, ages 5 to 10, rescued from a transsexual sex party in a Boston housing project that turned deadly. Nary a word about it from monarchs of mainstream media, including the hometown Boston Globe. But the always lively Boston Herald either didn’t get the memo or didn’t care.

Matthew Medsger and Joe Dwinell write:

Four children living in squalid conditions while being hidden from first responders were found in an apartment filled with “alcohol, drugs, sex toys” and a dead man, according to an incident report and outraged officials.

“This is sickening,” said At-Large City Councilor Michael Flaherty. “I was informed by people at the scene that there were drugs, alcohol, sex toys all around the apartment as well as a dead body on the floor.”

That fire department report, obtained by the Herald and confirmed by police response, states that a BFD crew was sent to Old Colony Avenue Saturday morning for a call that a man had gone into cardiac arrest and required medical attention. That address is the Mary Ellen McCormack Housing complex run by the city.

However, according to the incident report, firefighters found more than just a routine medical emergency.

“The apartment was in extremely unsanitary conditions. Approximately 6 adults, who appeared to be males, were seen in the apartment,” they wrote, saying they subsequently found “four children in the back bedroom being hidden by an adult male from first responders.”

. . . The sexualization of young children is a heinous crime that until very recently was regarded as meriting the severest of punishment. And yet now, we have a full court press from schools, NGOs, government agencies (even the US military with its Drag Queen Story Hours) and corporations pushing us in this direction. The result found in that disgusting Boston apartment is one of many inevitable consequences of this institutionalized madness.

Much of that "institutionalized madness" is bought and paid for by not only Larry Fink's $20 trillion but our tax dollars. And woe betide anyone who protests or objects lest they face the Trump treatment and be branded as "terrorists," "insurrectionists," and/or "bigots" who pose an "existential threat to our precious democracy" that Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants railed against. That would be the same Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants who's the sick, old, venal bastard who actually showered with his daughter and takes every opportunity to abuse and creep on little girls in front of public audiences, while raping staffers like Tara Reade in private. And now raping the country to death. Well, him and his Kontrollers at Kalorama Klown Kontrol.

And Hunter Biden is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

But Trump said "pussy!"

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• "Apparently as a counterpart to the ongoing lavish media attention paid to “Pride Month,” a media black hole has opened up and swallowed a horrifying story of 4 children, ages 5 to 10, rescued from a transsexual sex party in a Boston housing project that turned deadly."
  News the Major Media Don't Want You to See: " A Dead Man in Drag, Drugs, Dildos and 4 Kids" Discovered in a Housing Project Apartment
  
• "We’ve moved way past the 'few bad apples,' excuse. The FBI is a tool of leftist power." (moved past it ages ago - jjs)
  If You Work for the FBI, Quit Your Job
  
• "The LGBTQ+ training warned that using preferred pronouns is compulsory and threatened investigations for those deemed noncompliant, according to audio recordings obtained by the Sentinel."
  Report: Biden Junta Forced Social Security Employees to Complete ‘Mandatory’ Homo/Tranny Pervert Training
  
• A journalist working for the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) spoke with BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay — who told her that because of the vast sums of money the company controls in the global market, they can essentially “run the world.” He began with a caveat, noting that BlackRock did not necessarily want people to notice what they were doing.
  James O’Keefe Drops Bombshell Video On BlackRock: "You Got $10k? You Can Buy a Senator"

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
• “Wow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere ‘traffic ticket.’ Our system is BROKEN!” [Trump] wrote in a Truth Social post.
  Conservatives Slam DOJ’s ‘Sweetheart Plea Deal’ for Hunter Biden: ‘Two-Tiered Justice System’
  
• Robert Spencer: "Welcome to the Left's surreal and twisted world of equal justice."
  Hunter’s Sweet Plea Deal
  
• "Tuesday’s plea deal is the equivalent of taking a watering can to a house fire and calling yourself a firefighter."
  Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal is a Coverup Disguised as Justice
  
• “Above all, there was no felony. Hunter Biden, who broke federal gun laws, can still carry a gun. It’s like it all never happened.”
  Tucker Carlson Weighs In On Hunter Biden’s ‘Sweetheart Deal’
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "The law is different when you’re the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] son."
  The Corrupt Hunter Biden Plea Deal is a Cover-Up
  
• "Let’s be clear: the Department of Justice’s charges against [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s son Hunter reveals a two-tiered system of justice. Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery. These charges against Hunter Biden and sweetheart plea deal have no impact on the Oversight Committee’s investigation. We will not rest until the full extent of [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s involvement in the family’s schemes are revealed."
  Comer: Oversight Committee Will Continue Investigation into the Bidens Despite ‘Sweetheart Deal’ for Hunter
  
• ". . . I think that all in all, this seems like a very fair resolution.”
  Scumbag Treasonous Cancer Andrew Weissmann Defends Hunter Biden Getting Off Without Any Jail Time
  
• "Derek Hines, a special assistant U.S. attorney on the Hunter Biden case, was special counsel to former FBI director Louis Freeh at Freeh's private consulting firm from August 2013 to February 2015, according to Hines's LinkedIn profile. Freeh has extensive ties to the Biden family. He was recruited by Hunter Biden in 2016 to help a Romanian businessman fight bribery charges in Europe. That same year, Freeh gave $100,000 to a college trust for two of Joe Biden's grandchildren, according to emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop."
  Federal Prosecutor on Hunter Biden Case Served as Right-Hand Man to Longtime Biden Family Crony
  
• Margot Cleveland: "Sen. Chuck Grassley implied the FBI may have defined the scope of its Hunter Biden investigation so narrowly, bribery allegations couldn’t be probed."
  Did the FBI Prevent Delaware Agents From Investigating Biden Bribery Allegations?
  
• David Harsanyi: "Considering Biden’s passionate advocacy for prosecuting those who evade existing gun laws, why does he believe there was 'justice' in Hunter’s case?. . . Curious to hear his thoughts.
  Joe Biden Once Recommended More Prosecutions for Those Who Lie on Background Checks. Has He Changed His Mind?
  
• "This is a DOJ–FBI coverup of the Biden family’s crimes."
  To Serve and Protect the Bidens — Continued
  
• Whichever GOP candidate has the stones to make a campaign ad (a good one) out of this can make some serious inroads in the black community.
  Famous Rapper’s Attorney Rips DOJ For Letting Hunter Biden Walk On Same Crime His Client Spent Years In Jail For

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• Julie Kelly: "Unfortunately, the country has no choice but to sit as idle spectators in the Justice Department’s reckless game to put the 45th president in prison."
  The ‘Get Trump’ Games Continue
  
• "U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has tentatively scheduled the trial of former President Donald Trump for August 14th."
  A New Chapter in Trump’s Legal Drama, Trial Date is Set
  
• "It’s conceivable somebody launched a post-Presidential spying operation on Trump, to go with the pre-Presidential Trump spying-Crossfire Hurricane." (spying is one thing and that's bad enough unless there was probable cause [and there wasn't]; planting and/or falsifying evidence is another - jjs)
  Were They Spying on Trump All Along?
  
• Lloyd Billingsley: "A deep state production, guaranteed to fail."
  Durham Drama

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

• "It’s the latest example of the Biden administration aligning with groups that have pressured social media companies to regulate views it deems to be extremist or disinformation. Republicans, who assert that anti-disinformation groups disproportionately target conservatives, last month called on the State Department to turn over all documents related to funding for several organizations, including the Institute for Strategic Dialogue."
  Biden Awards Anti-Extremism Grants to British Think Tank Under Congressional Scrutiny for Targeting Conservatives 
  
• Jeffrey Lord: "They uphold the grandson of slavery while ignoring the Democrats’ own history."
  The Juneteenth Hypocrisy of Biden and Obama

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

• Robert Spencer: And so Michael Hiltzik and the Los Angeles Times should be put on notice: the elites they want us to trust blindly have forfeited that trust. And thus they have also forfeited the right to anoint the next president. The American people demand a say in the matter. That’s what really deserves to be called “our democracy,” or more precisely, our republic.
  RFK Jr. Is Really Scaring Them Now: LA Times Says He’s a Threat to ‘Our Democracy’
  
• Tech billionaire Elon Musk has confirmed Twitter will submit to the European Union’s online censorship regime, telling French media: “If a law is enacted, Twitter commits to comply with it.”
  Twitter Submits to EU Censorship, Musk Concedes
  
• "CNN senior presidential fact checker Daniel Dale rose to media fame for his obsessive focus on the statements of former president Donald Trump. Now that Joe Biden is in the White House, though, Dale seems to have lost interest in his main job."
  CNN's Presidential Fact Checker Hasn't Fact-Checked Biden in Months
  
• "The RFK Jr. vaccine debate is an invitation for Americans to do their own research and a reminder that we should be wary of those who wish to silence discourse."
  RFK Jr.’s Critics Think They’re Too Good To Debate Vaccines

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "The trigger for Tuesday’s stock slide was China announcing a much smaller interest rate reduction than anticipated. Reuters quoted economists who found Beijing’s policy moves profoundly disappointing, although some held out hope for strong action after the next Politburo meeting in July."
  China’s Floundering Economy Triggers Plunge in Global Stocks and Oil Prices
  
• “If we are to be successful, CBDCs [Central Bank Digital Currencies] could not be fragmented national propositions.”
  Video: IMF Managing Director Says “We are Working Hard on a Global CBDC”
  
• “Anti-monopolism, at bottom, is merely dogmatic laissez-faire.” (what's so bad about laissez-faire? - jjs)
  Teddy or Wilson—Which Way Populists?
  
• Solution is easy: shakedown and tax the shit out of every single Leftist in the state.
  Deep Blue Illinois Ranks Dead Last on Economic Racial Equality

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

• “Lithium mines and this whole push for renewable energy — the agenda of the Green New Deal — is what I like to call green colonialism,” said Daranda Hinkey, a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe, according to the AP. “It’s going to directly affect my people, my culture, my religion, my tradition.” (where's Lone Waddie to declare war on DC? - jjs)
  ‘Green Colonialism’: Biden Junta Clashes With Native American Activists Over Lithium Mine
  
• "An energy crisis by design is going to send us into darkness."
  Time To Buy Stock in Candle Companies
  
• "If everything the Tesla founder says is true, the path to a net-zero electric age would not require one bit of government coercion or subsidies."
  Elon Musk’s Vision of Abundance
  
• “A preliminary review indicates too much current within the unit can damage transistors, resulting in the inability to recharge the 12V battery.”
  Watchdog Group Investigating Claims Hyundai Electric Vehicle Losing Acceleration While Driving
  
• "Up until now, there has never been such a treaty that would govern the high seas. The new development intends to be a turning point in the way conservation efforts around the planet are approached. These include deep-sea mining, exploration, oil exploration and overfishing, per the report." (yeah, the ChiComs are sure to respect this - jjs)
  UN adopts 'high seas' treaty against deep-sea mining, exploration, oil exploration and overfishing

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Liberal [?!] Brandon Johnson wants rental assistance, expedited work permits for Chicago's illegal population." (he's liberal like Jeremiah Wright is Hassidic - jjs)
  Chicago Mayor Eyes $25 Million Plan To Cover Rent for Illegal Immigrants
  
• "Getting rich off the poor."
  U.S. Catholic Bishops Supporting Illegal Immigration?

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "Gambling liberalization—especially in the digital age—is a race to the bottom."
  Runaway Horses

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• Rasmussen also asked the 1,051 likely U.S. voters: “How likely is it that some U.S. officials were involved in a cover-up of China’s role in the [Chinese] COVID-19 pandemic?” The vast majority – 66 percent – responded that a cover-up was likely, with 45 percent believing it was “very likely” and another 21 percent “somewhat likely.” Moreover, 54 percent of Democrat voters believe that a cover-up was likely, with a whopping 77 percent of Republicans concurring. Only 25 percent of the American electorate answered that a cover-up was either “not very likely” or “not at all likely.”
  POLL: Most Believe ‘Fauci Lied, People Died’
  
• "Newly available government cables add to the pile of suggestive evidence."
  Lab Leak: Likely

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Numerous university law professors are aiding and abetting the government’s case against President Trump. This transgresses their academic responsibilities."
  The Lawlessness of Yale and Other Law Schools
  
• "A new university showcases its academic ethos to high schoolers."
  Intellectual Community in the Heart of Texas
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "My heart be still. This is another example of utter failure by a state government entirely controlled by Republicans. Rather than use their power to force change, they make believe that’s what they are doing, and hope their supporters won’t notice."
  Fake pushback: Texas passes law banning DEI at the state universities

  ABORTION

• “Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America has been working very hard and very long to open up democracy in this country to allow the people to speak through their elected representatives and pass legislation that will protect the children of this country in the greatest human rights calls of our time,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America (SBA), said.
  Pro-Life Activists Celebrate One Year Anniversary Without Roe v. Wade

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Worms in the Big Apple." (rusty razor blades - jjs)
  Student Jew-Hatred at the City College of New York

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "If the allegations are true, this would not be the first time Thompson has been involved in a hit and run incident."
  Son of Former Minnesota DFL State Representative Arrested in Connection with Hit-and-Run Incident Which Killed Five Women
  
• "An obvious case for recusal."
  When the Wife is On the Jury . . .

  POLITICS

• "During investigations into potential wrongdoing by Joe Biden for allegedly accepting a $5 million bribe from a Ukrainian oligarch, the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] approval rating slumped from 40 points in January to 35 points in May to 32 points in June."
  CNN Poll: Joe Biden’s Favorability Drops to Lowest of Spurious Presidency
  
• "The nation has no commander."
  Joe Biden, "President" Non Compos Mentis
  
• David Harsanyi: "There is nothing unique about being a scatterbrained 80-year-old. But a scatterbrained 80-year-old should not be president." (even an illegitimate one - jjs)
  Joe Biden Is Not OK
  
• "The DeSantis fundraiser was held at Hamilton’s own home on Monday afternoon. Earlier in the day, the Florida Governor held another fundraiser at the Del Paso Country Club, for which he struggled to find more than one sponsor. Tickets for the event cost upwards of $3,300."
  McCain, Romney Donor Leads DeSantis Fundraiser in Silicon Valley
  
• "Recent conversations in southwestern Ohio put the 2024 race into perspective."
  Put Working Class Americans at the Center of Presidential Politics 

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• They must have found it between the cushions of Vanilli Milley's casting couch, right. Hurray! Ukraine is saved!
  Pentagon Says It Discovered Extra $6.2 Billion For Ukraine Weapons Aid Thanks To Accounting Error
  
• "The news comes as international agencies warn over Russia’s intent to 'go nuclear' in the stagnating conflict between the two countries, suggesting Putin is using the 'dirty bomb' claim as a pretext for escalation against Ukraine."
  Ukraine Preps Dirty Bomb, Claims Russia
  
• "How long will Biden be able to perpetuate a proxy war of choice that could have easily been avoided?"
  The Truth About Ukraine’s Failing Counteroffensive and the Peace That Could Have Been
  
• "Ukraine has confounded Russia as a nation, and has turned its history upside down with its election of a Jewish president."
  Russia's War and Ukraine's History of Anti-Semitism

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The report cites current and former U.S officials, who expressed concerns that the prospective military training facility, which would allegedly be built on Cuba’s northern coast, could lead to the stationing of Chinese troops and other security and intelligence operations just 100 miles off Florida’s coast and on the same island as a critical U.S. military facility."
  Wall Street Journal Claims China Plans to Build a Military Training Facility in Cuba
  
• "Blinken’s statement on Taiwan, while consistent with longstanding U.S. policy, rankled China hawks in Congress who see the Biden administration kowtowing to a ruthless regime that continues to spy on America, create economic havoc, and position its military for a siege on Taiwan. For these lawmakers, Blinken’s trip did little to assuage concerns that the United States is being bullied by Beijing."
  Blinken's Weak Taiwan Remark Paves the Way for Chinese Invasion, Critics Say
  
• "By helping China spy on the United States, Cuba replays its Cold War strategy."
  Cuba Facilitates China’s Anti-America Aggression — But What Else Is New?
  
• "Despite its status as the economic and industrial powerhouse of the European Union, Germany has not been able to ramp up production enough to supply Ukraine with shells while holding on to enough to meet its own defense needs."
  German Ammo Now Below NATO Required Levels
  
• In the past even years, our society has gone from “this poor transgender sob just wants to live in peace and urinate in the ladies’ room” to “you will call that girl a cat, and you will allow your son to have his willy Ginsued into a fauxgina or you will be punished.” That is how much we lost in the last seven years. Imagine what we can lose in the next seven.
  If You Think the Globalists Can't Succeed by 2030, Read This and Think Again
  
• "A history of grandstanding and comical claims."
  The Iranian Military’s Rich Fantasy Life
  
• "Israel is committed to protect its people." (we hope - jjs)
  Can Israel Eliminate the Iranian Nuclear Threat?
  
• "And those weapons are intended for one purpose only."
  In the Sinai, Israeli Experts Say Weapons Smuggling is the Biggest Threat
  
• "A horrific episode in a university city points to the sobering truth—nobody wishes to take up the iron rod of justice."
  A Murder in Nottingham

  BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH

• "Millions of Afghans survive on U.S. and Western aid."
  Afghanistan: Taliban Selling Tickets to Ruins of Bamiyan Buddhas They Destroyed in 2001

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• Michael McMahon, 55, a retired New York Police Department sergeant turned private eye, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit interstate stalking and interstate stalking and faces up to 20 years in prison, according to the DOJ press release. Between approximately 2016 and 2019, McMahon “knowingly acted at the direction” of the Chinese government to surveil, harass, stalk and coerce individuals in the U.S. to return to China, the DOJ said.
  Ex-NYPD Cop Convicted Of Acting As Illegal Chinese Government Agent In Transnational Stalking Scheme

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "American private enterprise still leads China in successful launches 46 to 24 in the national rankings, and the entire world combined 46 to 40, with SpaceX by itself still leading the rest of the world, excluding other American companies, 41 to 40."
  China launches classified experimental satellite
  
• "But most of all, though in their research papers the scientists will never admit it, it provides us a glimpse at the spectacular view you would see while hiking up this mountain on Mars."
  Looking down a canyon on Mars

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

• "Gallup found that Republicans are the main driver of the decrease in acceptance of same-sex relations, with 41 percent of Republicans finding it 'morally acceptable' down from 56 percent last year. This year’s figure is the lowest Gallup has measured for GOP voters since 2014 (39 percent)."
  Poll: Fewer Republican, Democrat Voters View Same-Sex Relations as ‘Morally Acceptable’
  
• "Chris Christie (R-N.J.) has never been a viable contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. He certainly knows this and seems far more motivated to appear on stage with Donald Trump so he can really show him how angry he is that he never gave him a cabinet position. But if you thought Christie’s irrelevancy in the 2024 GOP primary couldn’t get any worse, well, he just proved you wrong."
  Chris "Krispy Kreosote"Christie Endorses Child Mutilation
  
• "In the U.K., government officials finally discuss openly the problems with gender ideology."
  Sanity Across the Pond

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• When even the homos think you sound gay and your shit's all retarded . . .
  Gay Bar Ditches All Anheuser-Busch Products Over Dylan Mulvaney Fiasco
  
• Dennis Prager: "Destroying everything it touches is not a byproduct of leftism. It is its aim."
  Can You Define Leftism?
  
• "Supporting the 'Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.'"
  Dodgers Celebrate Hate
  
• "Those who tell the truth."
  The Antidote to Communism

  HITHER & YON

• "The emails, obtained by Rolling Stone, did not specify when the Canadian maritime surveillance and patrol aircraft picked up on the banging."
  Searchers detect ‘banging’ every 30 minutes near area where Titanic submarine vanished, DHS emails confirm in potential signs of life (sounds like they discovered Van Nuys, CA - jjs)
  
• "Game immerses young people in Jesus' virtual world, biblical lessons."
  Gate Zero – A Revolutionary Journey Through Biblical History

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1 Its hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 07:51 AM (BRHaw)

2 Howdy hump daze!

Posted by: Marooned at June 21, 2023 07:51 AM (kt8QE)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 21, 2023 07:51 AM (T4tVD)

4
Here, queer, and it's stuck in my ear!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot Egg-Fried: Proud Member of Clan Fried for ... oh, 'bout Two Weeks Now at June 21, 2023 07:51 AM (pNxlR)

5 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2023 07:51 AM (F6McX)

6 Quite the Pentagon "rainy day fund."

Morning peeps.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2023 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

7 Anyway, it's all good. Ukraine is saved! Can I get a "praise the Lord!" from the crowd on that one.

I didnt get a harrumph from that guy!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 07:53 AM (BRHaw)

8
*low whistle of amazement*

So this a Morning Report. Nice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2023 07:53 AM (MoZTd)

9 That's a lot of links.

I had an accounting error one time and my bank account was off by 6 billion dollars. Took months to discover it.

Posted by: fd at June 21, 2023 07:54 AM (iayUP)

10 ||Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises in the search area for the missing Titan submersible, the US Coast Guard said early on Wednesday, amid US media reports that regular banging sounds had been picked up.

The discovery on Tuesday led search teams to relocate their underwater robotic search operations “in an attempt to explore the origin of the noises”, the Coast Guard said in a series of tweets. The searches by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) came up empty-handed but would continue, the Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard did not state the nature or extent of the sounds, or how they were picked up.||

Aurora maritime patrol aircraft I assume. [sock link]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 07:54 AM (Vwz3I)

11 >>a media black hole has opened up and swallowed a horrifying story of 4 children, ages 5 to 10, rescued from a transsexual sex party in a Boston housing project that turned deadly."


THEY'RE NOT GROOMERS
THEY'RE NOT GROOMERS
THEY'RE NOT GROOMERS
LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU TALKING ABOUT AN INCIDENT THAT TOTALLY VALIDATES WHAT THE "NAZIS" SAY IS HAPPENING

Posted by: MSM at June 21, 2023 07:55 AM (nTi7J)

12 Four children living in squalid conditions while being hidden from first responders were found in an apartment filled with “alcohol, drugs, sex toys” and a dead man, according to an incident report and outraged officials.

Sounds like a up to date, woke version of
Threes Company.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 07:55 AM (BRHaw)

13
Look, you can't expect big organizations to account for every nickel and dime. And what's $6 billion? A mere rounding error.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2023 07:55 AM (MoZTd)

14
Bullseye the Target Dog would like to have a talk with your kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3tGD_f8YMw&t=133s

It's from the Bee.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2023 07:56 AM (fb7jX)

15 BTW, an RCAF Chinook crashed in the Ottawa River on a training exercise yesterday with two crewmen injured and recovered [in hospital] and two still missing.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 07:57 AM (Vwz3I)

16 6.2 billion dollar mistake. No one fired, no one drawn and quartered, no on frog marched into Leavenworth. Pentagon "spokesperson" Babu Singh, typical federal asshat, probably laughed before telling the "reporters".

The Pentagon and all of it's tentacles are nothing more than a uniformed welfare state.

Another reason to abolish the federales.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 21, 2023 07:57 AM (HiuPw)

17 “I was informed by people at the scene that there were drugs, alcohol, sex toys all around the apartment as well as a dead body on the floor.”

Who are we to criticize their culture?

Posted by: fd at June 21, 2023 07:58 AM (iayUP)

18 As if using 'militants' instead if 'terrorists' wasn't bad enough...

Uganda's military says it has rescued three of six students who were kidnapped by Islamist "fighters" last week.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 07:59 AM (Vwz3I)

19 >>"If the allegations are true, this would not be the first time Thompson has been involved in a hit and run incident."

NOPE. Don't care - he's a black Democrat's son who killed 5 black muslim teen girls.
Can't blame "Nazis" so it didn't happen. . .

Posted by: MSM at June 21, 2023 08:00 AM (nTi7J)

20 ...instead OF...

moar coffee!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:00 AM (Vwz3I)

21 Used to be two or three guys could put together $10K and buy a real nice boat or even a Cessna to share. Now they can get a Senator.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 21, 2023 08:00 AM (rLD7a)

22 Good morning JJ and horde
Hump day

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2023 08:00 AM (yZLuv)

23 12 Four children living in squalid conditions while being hidden from first responders were found in an apartment filled with “alcohol, drugs, sex toys” and a dead man, according to an incident report and outraged officials.

Sounds like a up to date, woke version of
Threes Company.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 07:55 AM (BRHaw)


Come on knock on our door,
Please don't step on the goo,
We need to lube a dildo or two
And ram it up a kid's hoo-hoo . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 08:00 AM (x0n13)

24 Children imprisoned in tranny sex prison? I'm sure the law enforcement people will charge everyone and the press will crawl all over this story, for years. Not.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:01 AM (Z7kXD)

25 Trump probably knew how deep and stench-filled the swamp is. He also probably knew it was too deep and stench-filled to be drained. iirc, He once said something about the world being run by, "People you've never heard of."

Posted by: davidt at June 21, 2023 08:01 AM (SYTee)

26 JEEPERS JJ !

Thank you !

AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at June 21, 2023 08:01 AM (T4tVD)

27
Tourist sub still missing.

At this point, it's probably unlikely they'll be found.

Hopefully, it was a catastrophic hull or window failure, so that they died more or less instantly, instead of slowly suffocating to death.

BONUS! Apparently, the sub company fired a whistle-blower who said the sub at its initial build had flaws in its carbon fiber hull!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2023 08:01 AM (fb7jX)

28 I think there should be more outrage about the pollution caused by tourism in the deep ocean.

Posted by: fd at June 21, 2023 08:02 AM (iayUP)

29 Armie Hammer reaches divorce agreement with Elizabeth Chambers, nearly three years after she filed for divorce.

It takes a long time to redistribute wealth, comrade.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:02 AM (Vwz3I)

30 Bribes are how things get done these days. Everything from buying a Senator to getting a good table at an eatery.

This is known.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2023 08:02 AM (Q4IgG)

31 'Ello.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:02 AM (DU+/6)

32 If you Google:

US GDP

then you will find that Blacktesticle controls about one year of U.S. goods and services.

Posted by: Marooned at June 21, 2023 08:02 AM (kt8QE)

33
If You Work for the FBI, Quit Your Job

If you can't afford to quit, then become a whistleblower. Expose the agency as what it is, a wing of the DNC.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 21, 2023 08:03 AM (enJYY)

34 Huh, Alex Marlow is stepping aside his radio presence and has named Mike Slater as his morning show replacement. Alex is going to be doing more producing and content creation and is in the middle of writing that book about The Biden family out in October. Plus he had moved to California 2 years ago, apparently his wife got a job there. I don't know what would possess anyone to move to California for work at this point and he has to get up at 2:00 a.m. to do this show on XM. I like Marlow so it will be a loss for me.

Posted by: Jaimo at June 21, 2023 08:03 AM (DBrN4)

35 Come on knock on our door,
Please don't step on the goo,
We need to lube a dildo or two
And ram it up a kid's hoo-hoo . . .
-----------
We're a bit shy on the rent this month, Mr Raper. Maybe we can you pay you some other way?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:03 AM (Vwz3I)

36 When a billionaire pays for a "Titanic Experience", we do our best to accommodate!

Posted by: OceanGate Entertainment at June 21, 2023 08:04 AM (ptElO)

37 Come on knock on our door,
Please don't step on the goo,
We need to lube a dildo or two
And ram it up a kid's hoo-hoo . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 08:00 AM (x0n13)
---
Wow. Just wow...

As soon as I saw that this was a parody of the theme song to "Three's Company" that melody started playing in my head as I read through your "new and improved" lyrics for the "modern lifestyle."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 08:04 AM (YIVH2)

38 "Accounting error" my ass. They're raiding the Treasury plain and simple without any oversight from Congress (assuming Congress actually wants to engage in their core responsibility in the first place).
++++
All part of the Great American Shell Game.

We live in scamland, JJ.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:05 AM (DU+/6)

39 "If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent."

Psalm 91:9-10

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2023 08:05 AM (MJIed)

40 It is truly weird that the press is so intent on pushing the Krispy Kreme load on America. In their desperation to beat Trump, they've lost sight of the fact that the more candidates run, the easier time Trump has winning nomination. That's how he won in 2016, when he won the GOP nod with a plurality and not a majority.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:05 AM (Z7kXD)

41
Mr. Raper replaces Mr. Roper.

Golf clap on that one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 08:06 AM (x0n13)

42 “Ukraine is good for business, you know that right? Russia blows up Ukraine’s grain silos and the price of wheat is going to go mad up. The Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to the wheat market. The price of bread, literally everything goes up and down, this is fantastic if you’re trading,” Varlay continued, adding, “Volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is real f***ing good for business. It’s exciting when s*** goes wrong, right?”
++++
Oy. It's like a Hollywood screenwriter from the Vietnam era - and not a particularly creative one - wrote that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:06 AM (DU+/6)

43 Four dead after e-bike shop fire in NYC spread to apartments, likely caused by exploding lithium-ion batteries.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:07 AM (Vwz3I)

44 The eff bee eye will be around for a loooong time. Its morphing into the federal police force Obama had wet dreams over. I wouldn't be surprised to see the junta re-brand it as such and put the JEF in charge with Holder as 2nd in command.

If for no other reason than another big F-U to the huddled masses.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2023 08:07 AM (Q4IgG)

45 “BlackRock manages $20 trillion. It’s incomprehensible numbers,” he said.
++++
Manages. BlackRock doesn't own those dollars, it merely manages them. And spends them like they're their own and does whatever the hell it wants.

Great gig if you can get it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:07 AM (DU+/6)

46 Oy. It's like a Hollywood screenwriter from the Vietnam era - and not a particularly creative one - wrote that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:06 AM (DU+/6)
---
Or ChatGPT...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 08:07 AM (YIVH2)

47 Golf clap on that one.
----------
[bows head for the compliment]
[hits head on kitchen table]
Doh!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:08 AM (Vwz3I)

48 “A preliminary review indicates too much current within the unit can damage transistors, resulting in the inability to recharge the 12V battery.”"

People say "EVs are more reliable and require less maintenance then ICE vehicles". There is a buttload of electronics in EVs, and transistors, capacitors, and computers fail all the time. One burnt transistor can take down the whole car.
As the cars get some age on them, people will find out that EVs are like appliances. One stupid circuit board will cause you to chuck the whole thing because who knows what will break next.

Posted by: fd at June 21, 2023 08:08 AM (iayUP)

49 The only other area in the country worse than Illinois was ultra-left District of Columbia, which came in in the 51st spot and is also failing its minority population.

Voting for misery, failure, destroyed cities, and dysfunctional societies works,
just not in they way people expect.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 08:08 AM (BRHaw)

50 Happy Wednesday, everyone. HVAC inspection at the house so I took a day off. Life ain't bad.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 21, 2023 08:09 AM (EjSAD)

51 “BlackRock manages $20 trillion. It’s incomprehensible numbers,” he said.
++++
Manages. BlackRock doesn't own those dollars, it merely manages them. And spends them like they're their own and does whatever the hell it wants.

Great gig if you can get it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:07 AM (DU+/6)
---
Isn't that how the game is played? You get to fuck around with other peoples' money, pocketing a chunk of change on your own, but you are ultimately NOT responsible for what you do with that huge wad of cash.

And if it just so happens that your decisions increase the value of your holdings, that's just gravy lining your own pockets. It's completely amoral behavior.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 08:09 AM (YIVH2)

52 "Four dead after e-bike shop fire in NYC spread to apartments, likely caused by exploding lithium-ion batteries.
Posted by: andycanuck "

But think of all the lives that have been saved by e-bikes.

Posted by: fd at June 21, 2023 08:10 AM (iayUP)

53 Ten lousy G's to buy out Lindsay Lightloafers? Even my couch probably has $10 grand in change between the cushions.
++++
This is what really pissed me off about the John Bolton revelations. I wasn't shocked or even upset to learn that he was for sale. Everyone in Washington is a whore. I was shocked to learn how cheaply he could be bought. When I learned that *I* - just a somewhat well-to-do W2 worker - could easily afford to buy a politician (assuming I had the connections, which I don't), *that* made me mad.

In relative terms, these people can be bought for the price of a ham sandwich. Pisses me off to no end. If you're going to become a traitor and sell out your country, at least get a decent payout.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

54 Come on knock on our door,
Please don't step on the goo,
We need to lube a dildo or two
And ram it up a kid's hoo-hoo . . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 08:00 AM (x0n13)

tff

Mr Roper is a 6'9" former NBA star dressed like Ava Gabor from Green Acres.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 08:10 AM (BRHaw)

55 The trick likely is not to bribe MoC's and senators too much at one time so they don't get too big for their britches. Dribbling the slop to the pigs likely is a fine art. It was pretty obvious from the start of the Ukraine bloodbath it was a grift and provoked and prolonged to replace and enhance the Afghan revenue stream.

The United States military is just like its public education system: the recipient of excessive money that produces consistent failure. The military budget easily could be cut 70 to 80 percent and the performance would remain the same, i.e., failure writ large as far as losses and surrenders. The primary goal of today's military, revenue streams, would be the only thing impacted. Therefore, the massive looting will continue until the checks bounce.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 21, 2023 08:12 AM (KSNKu)

56 "Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away."

Psalm 37:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2023 08:13 AM (MJIed)

57 Four children living in squalid conditions while being hidden from first responders were found in an apartment filled with “alcohol, drugs, sex toys” and a dead man, according to an incident report and outraged officials.
++++
:: lays down $20 ::
The cops, the housing authority and social services all knew this (or at least something bad) was going on. There have been reports about that apartment before.

:: lays down $20 ::
At least one of those children is an illegal alien who was taken as a slave.

:: lays down $10 ::
At least one city employee was directly involved in the monstrousness going on in that apartment

Ace's full post about this yesterday was horrifying and today's recap is equally horrifying.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:14 AM (DU+/6)

58 For the USCCB and various Catholic agencies, illegal immigration means wealth. The Catholic Church in the United States exploits Latin American migrants entering illegally to enrich itself with money from taxpayers.

The amount of federal immigration funding Catholic agencies received during the past 15 years grew exponentially. For Fiscal Year 2008, those organizations received $85 million. In Fiscal Year 2022, the total exploded to $618 million. During those 15 years, Catholic groups received $3.053 billion, among the highest totals for all charitable agencies.

EVIL

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 08:14 AM (BRHaw)

59 Four pedestrians injured, two critically, after a hit & run outside of Chicago White Sox stadium.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:14 AM (Vwz3I)

60 It's like a butt jungle sometimes,
It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under.

Posted by: Grandmaster Flash at June 21, 2023 08:14 AM (6wkV+)

61 When you convinced yourself you are saving the planet, ridding the world of "Nazis" or whatever other phony religion you have bought into, of course you are going to FORCE (BlackRock CEO's favorite word) people to do things.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 08:14 AM (i7Q7S)

62 It's in State and local gubbmint. I was in a diner in Kingman, AZ, and was BSing with some old desert rat at the counter. I said something about some stuff going on in the AZ state house, and they must all be on the pad. He just said "Hell, you could buy any one of them with a day trip to the nearest Nevada whore house".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 21, 2023 08:14 AM (rLD7a)

63
Undeterred by the ominous news at the Titanic wreck site, OceanGate announced plans to continue to pursue "inspirational" designs for deep sea submersibles. "Our all Lego blocks' Mark II sub design will inspire kiddos everywhere to take up deep sea exploration as an after school activity," said the firm's spokesdolt.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot Egg-Fried: Proud Member of Clan Fried for ... oh, 'bout Two Weeks Now at June 21, 2023 08:14 AM (pNxlR)

64 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:10 AM (DU+/6)

You can't pay whores too much at one time, Joe, lest they think they can stop putting out on demand.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 21, 2023 08:15 AM (KSNKu)

65 Mr. BlackRock's assertion that $10k is the going rate to buy any given politician for any given thing you want supported (I doubt that $10k buys a senator, but it probably does buy a vote) does provide some context, though, to the $10 million that Biden pulled out of Burisma. That was a very high price indeed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:15 AM (DU+/6)

66 Happy Summer Solstice! 😎

Posted by: redridinghood at June 21, 2023 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

67 "At least one city employee was directly involved in the monstrousness going on in that apartment"

-----------------

Maybe if the miner in Idaho gets out on bail, we can send him to Boston....

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 08:15 AM (i7Q7S)

68 I wonder if Chiefs of Staff for Senators and Representatives are bought separately or if they get a cut of what their boss gets. I vote for Option 1. Always good to have an insurance policy and multiple irons in the fire.

The purchase price of Fetterman's Chief of Staff must be pretty high. Feinstein's Chief of Staff, too.

Posted by: Gref at June 21, 2023 08:15 AM (AMIL/)

69 With financial reporting like this, it makes me supremely confident in the inflation reporting.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 21, 2023 08:15 AM (lTGtQ)

70 I think it was President Eisenhower who warned us of the Military Industrial Project

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2023 08:17 AM (yZLuv)

71 G'morning, all.

Seems that Baltimore is a contender again.

https://tinyurl.com/547ku6zv

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 08:19 AM (1n+EO)

72 BNO News @BNONews · 14h
Former CNN producer John Griffin sentenced to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing 9-year-old girl
||Former CNN producer John Griffin has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl with the help of her mother, prosecutors say.

Griffin, formerly of Stamford, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in December to using interstate commerce to entice and coerce a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. In return for his plea, the government dropped two other counts.

On Tuesday, Griffin was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison followed by 15 years of supervised release. [...]

In return for Griffin’s guilty plea, prosecutors dropped two counts relating to allegations that he also tried to entice two other children to engage in sexual activity. One of those allegations referred to a mother and her 14-year-old daughter, whom he offered a “virtual training session.”

Griffin worked at CNN for about 8 years and was fired after his arrest in December 2021. ||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:19 AM (Vwz3I)

73 >>:: lays down $20 ::
The cops, the housing authority and social services all knew this (or at least something bad) was going on. There have been reports about that apartment before.

:: lays down $20 ::
At least one of those children is an illegal alien who was taken as a slave.

:: lays down $10 ::
At least one city employee was directly involved in the monstrousness going on in that apartment



This is likely another Dr. Gosnell's abortion house of horrors situation. If you catch him you give the wrong side a big win; it validates what they've been warning about.

NO ONE who knew what was going on did or said anything because they didn't want their life destroyed with public smears of being "transphobic" (during pride month, no less!!) -- or worse, they decided a few kids lives weren't worth saving vs. the damage this story does to the LGBTQ community.

Posted by: MSM at June 21, 2023 08:19 AM (nTi7J)

74 Praying for those trapped in the submersible. That is a very tough situation for people who are not trained and prepared to deal with the psychological effects. There is also a significant lack of recovery options and the company running that venture has put very little money or thought into vehicle failure plans.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2023 08:19 AM (MJIed)

75 >>Griffin worked at CNN for about 8 years and was fired after his arrest in December 2021. ||




Produced JAKE TAPPER"S show

Posted by: MSM at June 21, 2023 08:20 AM (nTi7J)

76 Nobody prosecuted Joe Biden for keeping classified documents in offices all over Washington, not to mention his corvette, and these were documents he had no legal right to possess. Nobody prosecuted Hillary Clinton for possessing classified documents, even after she destroyed over 30,000 documents that were under freaking subpoena.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:20 AM (Z7kXD)

77 #72 And a gratuitous shot at Elon Musk in #72...

“The mother and child flew to Boston in July of 2020, where Griffin picked them up in his Tesla and drove them to his Ludlow house,” prosecutors said at the time of his arrest. “At the house, the daughter was directed to engage in, and did engage in, unlawful sexual activity.”

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:20 AM (Vwz3I)

78 It's also,
National Cookie Dough Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 21, 2023 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

79 69 With financial reporting like this, it makes me supremely confident in the inflation reporting.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 21, 2023 08:15 AM (lTGtQ)

Agree 230 percent!

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 21, 2023 08:22 AM (KSNKu)

80 NO ONE who knew what was going on did or said anything because they didn't want their life destroyed with public smears of being "transphobic" (during pride month, no less!!) -- or worse, they decided a few kids lives weren't worth saving vs. the damage this story does to the LGBTQ community.
Posted by: MSM at June 21, 2023 08:19 AM (nTi7J)
++++
It may not have been gamed out that way at all. I even kind of doubt it was. That's pretty strategic-level thinking, and not the kind of thing that is common in the ranks of city government.

It is probably much simpler than that: these were deviant pervert criminals and the city supported them (or at least decided not to interfere with them) on general principles. That's my guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:22 AM (DU+/6)

81 Seems that Blackrock wants to keep Ukraine war going on for another 10 years.

Run by L.A scumbag Larry Fink

Posted by: Jonah at June 21, 2023 08:22 AM (33nmr)

82 Nobody prosecuted Hillary Clinton for possessing classified documents, even after she destroyed over 30,000 documents that were under freaking subpoena.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:20 AM (Z7kXD)

You mean "wiped", like with a cloth?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton, Murderess at June 21, 2023 08:22 AM (HiuPw)

83 I notice you don't hear to much about the Uke's vaunted counter offensive. Must not be going too well.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 08:23 AM (Angsy)

84 Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street are the big three in index funds, which have gained huge share as an efficient way for investors to buy a diversified pool of stocks.

The Big Three own the stocks of record, and have the voting rights. This is a huge issue as the Big Three will typically own 30% of a public company's shares.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 21, 2023 08:23 AM (RqMSv)

85 It is truly weird that the press is so intent on pushing the Krispy Kreme load on America. In their desperation to beat Trump, they've lost sight of the fact that the more candidates run, the easier time Trump has winning nomination. That's how he won in 2016, when he won the GOP nod with a plurality and not a majority.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:05 AM (Z7kXD)

Sometime in the last week or two Sundance at Conservative Treehouse did a piece on the growing number of GOPe candidates. Essentially each candidate(with a couple of exceptions) has a specific purpose and GOPe mission--on a State by State basis and the timing of the primaries in those States. . In its own perverse way the strategy the GOPe is using to damage/destroy Trump FAR exceeds any thought or effort that same GOPe ever puts into opposing the DemCommies.
Trump brings out heretofore unknown abilities of the GOPe that demonstrate perfectly that the GOPe is committed to losing the 2024 general election as long as they defeat Trump in the primaries.

Posted by: Voter theater. at June 21, 2023 08:24 AM (/5Who)

86 ... Former CNN producer John Griffin has been sentenced to more than 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl with the help of her mother, prosecutors say. ...
... One of those allegations referred to a mother and her 14-year-old daughter, whom he offered a “virtual training session.” ...
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:19 AM (Vwz3I)
++++
Is mom going to prison, too? Either mom? Any mom? If not, why not?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:24 AM (DU+/6)

87 Update, as reported at the HQ yesterday in several threads...

BNO News @BNONews · 16h
At least 41 people killed - 25 by fire, 16 by gunshots - in riot at women's prison in Honduras

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:24 AM (Vwz3I)

88 God is the only one who will punish the Clintons, Obama, Pelosi, and Biden.

They are Demonic Forms

Posted by: Jonah at June 21, 2023 08:24 AM (33nmr)

89 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

90 wait are those poor millionaires in the sunken can still alive?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:25 AM (w0NJk)

91 87. Sounds like a Chicago weekend Andy

Posted by: Jonah at June 21, 2023 08:25 AM (33nmr)

92 That one guy had it right.

#F*ckYou

#WAR

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

93 Happy Pride Month!

======
"The diary entry referred back to an incident in October 2021, when her daughter Ray, a 6th grader at ASK Academy charter school in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, was allegedly raped inside the girls’ bathroom by an older biological male student.

When the male student first entered the girls’ restroom, Ray said she was washing her hands and didn’t take particular notice of the student’s sex, nor was she aware of his “gender identity.”

But before she knew it, the male student walked over to her, pinned her against the counter, and wrestled her to the floor. After hitting her head, he allegedly held her down, ripped her pants, and raped her.

Maggie now believes the main reason a male student was alone with her daughter that day, and had the opportunity to rape her, is because the school had fully embraced gender ideology. "


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If you think the solution here is to vote out the school board, call the Sheriff, or have a "dialogue" with these people, you are delusional.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 08:26 AM (i7Q7S)

94 Has anyone ever done a study of pedophiles, because aside from the fact that some might have been abused as a kid and so are Nauseatingly repeating the pattern, why would grown men and women want to have sex with kids and I talking about little kids, 10-12, not some man in his 20's having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 21, 2023 08:26 AM (Keyt1)

95 Christie is financed by Soros, Blackrock etc...

Posted by: Jonah at June 21, 2023 08:26 AM (33nmr)

96 wait are those poor millionaires in the sunken can still alive?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:25 AM (w0NJk)


Reaping the whirlwind of their millions.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

97 Is mom going to prison, too? Either mom? Any mom? If not, why not?
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"The victim’s mother, Heather Carriker from Henderson, Nevada, was arrested and charged in August 2020. The status of her case is unknown."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:26 AM (Vwz3I)

98 Christie is financed by Soros, Blackrock etc...
Posted by: Jonah at June 21, 2023 08:26 AM (33nmr)


And his blood type is frosting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

99 I love the kid of one of the sunken wealthy dudes going to a concert and partying

clearly he was super concerned about his dad

nice family

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:28 AM (w0NJk)

100 "The victim’s mother, Heather Carriker from Henderson, Nevada, was arrested and charged in August 2020. The status of her case is unknown."
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:26 AM (Vwz3I)
++++
:: lays down $20 ::
She'll plea out to probation and community service and will not have to register as a sex offender.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:28 AM (DU+/6)

101 Is Rio Rancho NM that large? Sure seems to be a lot of news coming from there. None good either.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 08:28 AM (Angsy)

102 There was a similar story about young kids being "discovered" in abhorrent conditions. Maybe last year. Two brothers I think. Lots of homo stuff going on at the place. Boys obviously traumatized.

And, yea, people have been conditioned not to interfere as they will be harassed by the government, media, the alphabet people and their supporters. To death, if possible.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2023 08:28 AM (Q4IgG)

103 "And his blood type is frosting."


----And his belt size is "Equator"

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 08:28 AM (i7Q7S)

104 "The victim’s mother, Heather Carriker from Henderson, Nevada, was arrested and charged in August 2020. The status of her case is unknown."
Posted by: andycanuck

Could not any marginally competent cub report discover the status of Mom's case?

Wait. I know the answer to this. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 21, 2023 08:29 AM (F6McX)

105 Happy Summer Solstice! 😎
Posted by: redridinghood at June 21, 2023 08:15 AM (NpAcC)

Summer Solstice! and I still don't have my sacrificial goat.

On the upside, I've stolen all the garbage cans in my neighborhood and created TrashHenge, a circular, sacred solar influenced thingy, and-

have an iconic sacred horse thingy created with silly string inside the sacred circular TrashHenge, which I will dance around while nude and painted blue.

Still don't have the sacrificial goat though....

I wonder if a sacrificial can of Wolf's Brand Chili would work?....

Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2023 08:29 AM (fb7jX)

106 >>It is probably much simpler than that: these were deviant pervert criminals and the city supported them (or at least decided not to interfere with them) on general principles. That's my guess.


I'm thinking of the UK rape gangs that operated for years and years while the local police and government officials protected them. The parents who tried to stop it were vilified as racists and prosecuted for any action they took (see: Tommy Robinson). They were branded "racists" and "islamaphobes."

When your police chief and city leaders all fly the pride flag, promote the local pride leaders, etc.. you know that doing anything that would embarrass them and their friends is *not* in your best interests. People are not that stupid -- they respond to incentives, particularly in an age where one viral video or careless quote can provoke the mob /get you targeted for destruction.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2023 08:29 AM (nTi7J)

107 This Blackrock story could not possibly be sillier. The guy being quoted is a recruiter, about at the level of a clerk. I get that Larry Fink is disgusting and that Blackrock uses its vast economic power to push ESG policies on corporate America, but building a story around this recruiter is dumb.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:29 AM (/csRr)

108 Morning Horde, thx JJ. I note andycanuck pointed out the story about the fire at the ebike store. That brings the death toll to about 10 in the last 2 years in NYC related to ebike fires. The environmentalist solutions to "climate change" sure does reduce a lot of people's carbon footprint

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 21, 2023 08:30 AM (W1/AW)

109 I love the kid of one of the sunken wealthy dudes going to a concert and partying
clearly he was super concerned about his dad
nice family
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:28 AM (w0NJk)

I wonder if he went to the Big Pokey show?

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 21, 2023 08:30 AM (HiuPw)

110 ...---...---...---...---...---

Posted by: Mysterious Ocean Noise at June 21, 2023 08:30 AM (SYTee)

111 104 Great Caesar's Ghost, somebody send the Olsen kid out to Henderson.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 21, 2023 08:30 AM (rLD7a)

112 Massive white flight in Chicago has begun. surburban housing prices are thru the roof, as yuppies are bailing the city

Posted by: Jonah at June 21, 2023 08:30 AM (33nmr)

113 O’Keefe Media Group @OKeefeMedia · 14h
OOPS: BlackRock Recruiter Serge Varlay has DELETED his LinkedIn!

https://twitter.com/JonJovonovich/status/
1671272052106338304

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:31 AM (Vwz3I)

114 ...---...---...---...---...---
Posted by: Mysterious Ocean Noise at June 21, 2023 08:30 AM (SYTee)


"Sir....it sounds like Morse Code."

"I agree. What does SOSOSOSOSOSOS mean?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

115 I love the kid of one of the sunken wealthy dudes going to a concert and partying

clearly he was super concerned about his dad

nice family
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:28 AM (w0NJk)
++++
Look, I can't go get him, okay? There's nothing to be gained from strolling the widow's walk, ya know what I'm sayin'? Besides, dad would want me to keep on living my life.

Posted by: Maybe something like that at June 21, 2023 08:31 AM (DU+/6)

116 Congress could never find $5 billion to fund the border wall, due in part to all those “conservative” “budget hawks” in the GOP caucus. Yet $6 billion for a foreign proxy war doesn’t even need to be allocated, since it was just a loose change rounding error found behind a Pentagon seat cushion.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 21, 2023 08:32 AM (9E3tX)

117 O’Keefe Media Group @OKeefeMedia · 14h
OOPS: BlackRock Recruiter Serge Varlay has DELETED his LinkedIn!


Next, he'll be found suicided in a park somewhere with 4 bullet holes in his head and chest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

118 "The Catholic Church in the United States exploits Latin American migrants entering illegally to enrich itself with money from taxpayers."

Yes, let's have another poorly sourced, deceptively written, outright conflation with the Catholic Church. Catholic Charities USA is not an official organization or the Catholic Church. And while I won't defend a lot of their views, they are the largest provider of (non denominational) social services outside the federal government.

You want to have an honest debate? Let's have it. You want to attack the church and Christian's using a pathetic bunch of facts and editorializing conflated into a mush mash as your fig leaf, Deus Vult.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2023 08:32 AM (MJIed)

119 71 G'morning, all.

Seems that Baltimore is a contender again.

https://tinyurl.com/547ku6zv
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 08:19 AM (1n+EO)

I bullshit you not: Years ago (Early 2000s) there was an ad campaign in the Metro stations encouraging people to move to Baltimore. I guess the wrong types moved in.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 21, 2023 08:32 AM (EjSAD)

120 Rio Rancho? Think I drove thru there one time. New Mexico use to be a nice state, good people. Not it has gone full marxist. sad

Posted by: Jonah at June 21, 2023 08:32 AM (33nmr)

121 Congress could never find $5 billion to fund the border wall, due in part to all those “conservative” “budget hawks” in the GOP caucus. Yet $6 billion for a foreign proxy war doesn’t even need to be allocated, since it was just a loose change rounding error found behind a Pentagon seat cushion.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at June 21, 2023 08:32 AM


It was laying next to the $600 hammer.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 21, 2023 08:33 AM (ncXxy)

122 "How long will Biden be able to perpetuate a proxy war of choice that could have easily been avoided?"

For a long time. If he wants to. I can't see Joe agreeing to a cease-fire leaving Russia in control of a big chunk of Ukraine and running on that in 2024. But anything's possible in Junta-World.

The Lapdog Media will disappear the war if told to, to get it out of circulation for the 2024 POTUS Campaign. YouTube and TikTok will continue putting-up Ukrainian propaganda videos showing the Ukes always marching forward, from victory to victory! So the Yutes will continue to support a war they don't have to fight. Before long, anyone who mentions a failure in Ukraine will be branded a traitor in the pay of Pooootin!

Standard Democrat Playbook stuff.

What a gawd-awful mess.

Posted by: Gref at June 21, 2023 08:33 AM (AMIL/)

123 Tech billionaire Elon Musk has confirmed Twitter will submit to the European Union’s online censorship regime, telling French media: “If a law is enacted, Twitter commits to comply with it.”
++++
Of course he will. If they pass a law, he will comply with it. He is not complying with the fake "voluntary" phase of it.

I hope he pisses in their punch bowl when they enact this, by complying with it maliciously. I'd love to see Twitter put up a censorship message when this happens. If the EU makes him delete a tweet, just delete it for EU users. Replace with it a message like, "You cannot view this Tweet due to EU censorship laws. If you don't like living under the boot of a censorship regime, click here to look up contact information for your MEP and other EU officials."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:34 AM (DU+/6)

124 It’s not who is the president, it’s who is controlling the wallet of the president. You could buy your candidates. First, there is the senators, these guys are f***ing cheap. Got 10 grand? You can buy a senator. I’ll give you 500k right now … It doesn’t matter who wins, they’re in my pocket

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Straight from the horse's mouth. This is the real reason elections don't matter. Vote fraud is a problem, no doubt, but the big fraud is the lie about this being be a representative government instead of a corrupt, authoritarian one-party superstate where the elected offices are just window dressing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2023 08:34 AM (oINRc)

125
I bullshit you not: Years ago (Early 2000s) there was an ad campaign in the Metro stations encouraging people to move to Baltimore. I guess the wrong types moved in.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 21, 2023 08:32 AM (EjSAD)


North TX is getting hit with advertisements on TV from the Illinois Tourism Board.

Yeah, no.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

126 Why would anybody in the Biden Admin, or Deep State be afraid of any congressional republican?

They are worthless. Cannot even censure Schiff or Impeach Biden. Mrgins are narrow, true, but at least 50 of them are bought off by soros and Blackrock

Posted by: Jonah at June 21, 2023 08:35 AM (33nmr)

127 I recall NYC's '77 blackout fondly, and today's looting of the Treasury reminds of the looting back then. If you didn't get a new TV out of it, you were the fool. I got bubpkis. My future BiL and his friends stole a few cases of beer. Priorities.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 21, 2023 08:35 AM (RqMSv)

128 118 "The Catholic Church in the United States exploits Latin American migrants entering illegally to enrich itself with money from taxpayers."

Yes, let's have another poorly sourced, deceptively written, outright conflation with the Catholic Church. Catholic Charities USA is not an official organization or the Catholic Church. And while I won't defend a lot of their views, they are the largest provider of (non denominational) social services outside the federal government.

You want to have an honest debate? Let's have it. You want to attack the church and Christian's using a pathetic bunch of facts and editorializing conflated into a mush mash as your fig leaf, Deus Vult.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2023 08:32 AM


I read an article (possibly on here) sometime last year that said the Catholic charities and NGO's were netting $1,600 from the federal government for each illegal after everything had been paid for. Pretty good money and a huge driver of illegal immigration.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 21, 2023 08:35 AM (ncXxy)

129 Marcus I get what you're saying but effectively Catholic Charities has an IMMENSE amount of power here in the US RCC

they support local parishes and schools and demand "preschools" and other support features that the actual (legal) parishioners don't need, but who cares b/c CC is buying amiright? that's a toe in the door to effective control of the rest of the parish school and the parish itself.

the more wealthy parish locations know the drill and keep them out (usually just blaming zoning) but this is affecting parishes around me and not in a good way.

Catholic Charities has far more influence than the US Archidioceses' have

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:35 AM (w0NJk)

130 Anyone remember "No One is Above the Law"?

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 08:36 AM (8oxb7)

131 I read an article (possibly on here) sometime last year that said the Catholic charities and NGO's were netting $1,600 from the federal government for each illegal after everything had been paid for. Pretty good money and a huge driver of illegal immigration.


that's just the Step One money. then they get money to build shelters and housing and schooling etc etc. it grows into an entire well-financed (by you!) ecosystem with plenty of extra for the "helpers."

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:37 AM (w0NJk)

132 Anyone remember "No One is Above the Law"?
Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 08:36 AM (8oxb7)



"That's right, Jack!"


-- - - - Joe Biden Wiping His Ass With the Constitution

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

133 >>I love the kid of one of the sunken wealthy dudes going to a concert and partying
clearly he was super concerned about his dad
nice family

Son: Dad, can you come see me in the school play/soccer game/band concert etc.?

Dad: Sorry, son, I have a big meeting/business conference/really important business negotiation, maybe next time!

Posted by: one possibility at June 21, 2023 08:37 AM (nTi7J)

134 Breitbart reminds us Greta Thunberg predicted the world would end today, so get your errands done early.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:37 AM (/csRr)

135 Why is Boebert trying to impeach Slow Joe if we don't have the votes? It just makes us look weak if we don't do it.

Posted by: Gunner at June 21, 2023 08:37 AM (Uz7su)

136 Breitbart reminds us Greta Thunberg predicted the world would end today, so get your errands done early.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:37 AM (/csRr)


Shit. And I'm out of beer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

137 Why is Boebert trying to impeach Slow Joe if we don't have the votes? It just makes us look weak if we don't do it.
Posted by: Gunner at June 21, 2023 08:37 AM (Uz7su)


Exactly.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

138 Son: Dad, can you come see me in the school play/soccer game/band concert etc.?

Dad: Sorry, son, I have a big meeting/business conference/really important business negotiation, maybe next time!


yeah, or he's on his third family and that kid was from a previous one

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:38 AM (w0NJk)

139 Trump announced June 16, 2015.
July 1st, the polls had Jeb! at 19% and Trump at 12%, up from 3% prior to the announcement.

By September, Trump was only at 21% and Ben Carson was 2nd at 20%. Jerb was at 7%. Of note, Trump's unfavorablity was underwater 25-58.
Every poll had Clinton beating any Republican.

Neither DeSantis or Trump can or will win against Biden under their current strategy/platform.
Trump can't win because he continues to make the campaign about him.
DeSantis can't win because he's running a 1998 Republican campaign; no bold actions.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 21, 2023 08:38 AM (kzRvr)

140 Thank you, JJ.
"I Wanna Be Sedated"

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Don't Kill at June 21, 2023 08:38 AM (0q+t6)

141 Martini Farmer
Married gay couple who adopted the 2 boys.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at June 21, 2023 08:39 AM (2NHgQ)

142 Shit. And I'm out of beer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Buy some Bud Light. It's end-of-the-world beer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:39 AM (DU+/6)

143 By September, Trump was only at 21% and Ben Carson was 2nd at 20%. Jerb was at 7%. Of note, Trump's unfavorablity was underwater 25-58.
Every poll had Clinton beating any Republican.


Jerb. I like it.

"Please Crap!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

144 did you guys see Elon announce that "cis" and "cisgender" are considered slurs on Twitter?

I like ! I really like. I hate that term SO MUCH

Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 21, 2023 08:39 AM (w0NJk)

145 ++++
Buy some Bud Light. It's end-of-the-world beer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:39 AM (DU+/6)


If you're going to go out, you might as well go out force feeding yourself a few cans of piss.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

146 Breitbart reminds us Greta Thunberg predicted the world would end today, so get your errands done early.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:37 AM (/csRr)

Do I have to pay my electric bill??

Posted by: dantesed at June 21, 2023 08:40 AM (88xKn)

147 Shit. And I'm out of beer.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Buy some Bud Light. It's end-of-the-world beer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:39 AM (DU+/6)
---
I found out yesterday that every single redneck between my town and another community a hundred miles away has sworn off Bud Lite for life.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 08:40 AM (YIVH2)

148 >> Anyone remember "No One is Above the Law"?


Oh . . ., we all know that that new favorite Democrat catchphrase is on par with Obama always preceding a huge lie with "Let me be clear."

"No one is above the law" = this is a political prosecution

Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2023 08:41 AM (nTi7J)

149
Do I have to pay my electric bill??
Posted by: dantesed at June 21, 2023 08:40 AM (88xKn)


Mine went up $120 from last month.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

150 Only 25 percent of the American electorate answered that a cover-up was either “not very likely” or “not at all likely.”
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It's always the same Marxist "25-30%"

Always.

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 08:41 AM (8oxb7)

151 Wear are the men?

12 YO girls raped in HS bathrooms. Where is the coach, or teacher, or principal DEMANDING that police do their jobs? Where are the Dads, and Brothers, and Cousins that should have the balls to wait for mister rapist?

Then finally, where are the Feminists in this entire sorted bullshit world of boys in the girls rooms?
I call BULLSHIT on you most of all!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 08:42 AM (BRHaw)

152 127 I recall NYC's '77 blackout fondly, and today's looting of the Treasury reminds of the looting back then. If you didn't get a new TV out of it, you were the fool. I got bubpkis. My future BiL and his friends stole a few cases of beer. Priorities.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 21, 2023 08:35 AM (RqMSv)


Aside from your appropriate snark, I distinctly remember a local WNBC TV reporter, Carol Jenkins, on the scene and agreeing with/sympathizing with the looters.

Remember: this was not white cops killing a black male or anything like that. It was a non-political, force majeure, act of God power outage that affected everyone.

Guess Jenkins' melanin content.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 08:43 AM (x0n13)

153 The German Nazis were into grooming big-time.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 21, 2023 08:43 AM (vg8N1)

154 "No one is above the law" = this is a political prosecution
Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2023 08:41 AM (nTi7J)

Also - nobody who the laws apply to believes that even a little. If you say "no one is above the law," then you are definitely above the law. It's the same as all those mafiosi who said "there is no such thing as the mafia."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 21, 2023 08:43 AM (oINRc)

155 Gay Bar Ditches All Anheuser-Busch Products Over Dylan Mulvaney Fiasco

And that's why you don't hire marketing managers that hate your product.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 21, 2023 08:43 AM (EjSAD)

156 "DeSantis Will Reverse Trump’s First Step Act"
https://tinyurl.com/384nztr8

Good.

Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at June 21, 2023 08:44 AM (MvF+J)

157 Yes, Republicans should open impeachment hearings if only to show they have the balls to do so, and to expose all the dirt and corruption of this president for the public to see assuming the hearings would be made public. VDH or Roger Kimball or someone I don't recall who wrote a convincing article on this topic a while back.

Posted by: Ziba at June 21, 2023 08:44 AM (4h9M3)

158 "DeSantis Will Reverse Trump’s First Step Act"
https://tinyurl.com/384nztr8

Good.
Posted by: gp In The Center Of A Stool Boom at June 21, 2023 08:44 AM (MvF+J)


Rumor has him not a fan of the Trump Tariffs on China either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

159
More Bullwhip. Less Phil.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 08:46 AM (x0n13)

160 Straight from the horse's mouth. This is the real reason elections don't matter. Vote fraud is a problem, no doubt, but the big fraud is the lie about this being be a representative government instead of a corrupt, authoritarian one-party superstate where the elected offices are just window dressing.

When the FUSA was started, the ratio was 1:5000 of representatives to voters, now it is 1:800,000. Five thousand men could keep a representative in line, ten times that and the Party stewards, lobbyists and top donors are the only ones "represented".

I think the Blackrock video is pure bullshit, no doubt that Blackrock does have influence; it isn't the $10k, its the $20 trillion. It isn't the one time bribe, its the insider information trading, the sinecures and the board positions available to senators that play along.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 21, 2023 08:46 AM (3hSHB)

161 An unprecedented global canvassing of Catholics has called for the church to take concrete steps to promote women to decision-making roles, for a “radical inclusion” of the LGBTQ+ community and for new accountability measures to check how bishops exercise authority.

He's not perfect but I love how this pope is making the conservatives catholics heads explode. Soon there will be another Nazi in the Vatican. But I'm loving this pope's exposure of the hypocrisy and sexism in their past policies.

The american catholic church is a rogue one, RW conservative leaning & tolerant of priests abusing children. It is more of a cult than a church.

Meanwhile, Southern Baptists have decided to go backward to the 1700s by denying women any role in their churches except perhaps cleaning the church after services or volunteering to clean their male pastor’s home.

Left the Roman Catholic Church long long ago but am in admiration and respect for this Pope. He had me at the treatise on the Environment.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 21, 2023 08:47 AM (ireR6)

162 Someone a bit higher up at BlackRock next it seems:

James O'Keefe @JamesOKeefeIII · 8h
I spoke today to Ed Sweeney, Managing Director Corporate Communications, @BlackRock

Another video dropping later tomorrow.

Nothing stops…
https://tinyurl.com/2p8ufect

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:48 AM (Vwz3I)

163 Great post as always, JJ!
It does my heart good to know that there's still thinkers who are both conservative and moral, who see so clearly what is happening and know whence the lies come and who tells them.
The sad part is that there are so very FEW of you left. Even Congressional reps and senators I used to have a thread of faith in have completely snapped that thread. And when I read your words in the morning over coffee, I am reminded (and I mean this sincerely, not as any flattery) of the late, confident and always precise Rush Limbaugh. He told it like it was and spoke for the real America.
One wonders what his situation would be right now, were he still in this world. I imagine the regime's Stasi, the FBI would have jailed him over a cooked-up, January 6 charge or some tax gotcha scheme of the politicized IRS.
More and more, we are slouching towards 1984. At least voices in the wilderness like you, James O'Keffe, Tucker Carlson, Tim Poole and others are out there and that makes me at least calm in the storm. I am not alone.
God Bless.

Posted by: Tracy at June 21, 2023 08:48 AM (Cjtw/)

164 A history of the tawdry, anti Catholic, "nuns"-the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Article from "Church Militant":

https://tinyurl.com/bdcvs9c2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 21, 2023 08:48 AM (Keyt1)

165 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday Eve Eve.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 21, 2023 08:49 AM (Ukf/F)

166 The CEO of OceanGate, which is operating the missing Titanic tourist submarine, explains that the company didn’t want to hire any experienced “50 year old white guys” because they weren’t “inspirational.”

ha fucking haha

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 08:49 AM (BRHaw)

167 Found Yuengling Lager bottles at our local Lowes grocery store yesterday for $16.88 per case.

Bought their last two cases, just in case the world ended today.

And a 10 pound Boston Butt Shoulder.

I put that in the smoker at 4:00am today.

Just in case the world doesn't end today.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 08:50 AM (1n+EO)

168 What else is in that "pot of money" the illiterate Singh mentioned?

Posted by: Ziba at June 21, 2023 08:51 AM (4h9M3)

169
Bought their last two cases, just in case the world ended today.

And a 10 pound Boston Butt Shoulder.

I put that in the smoker at 4:00am today.

Just in case the world doesn't end today.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 08:50 AM (1n+EO)


THIS man knows how to PLAN.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

170 "DeSantis Will Reverse Trump’s First Step Act"
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What's the Bulwark's take??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:53 AM (Vwz3I)

171 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

We're just warming up dumping $ at/in (something) Ukraine.

Early 6/16, Laurence Tribe Twitter had, I’m writing a comprehensive report for the @kaplanrobbie firm on behalf of @Renew_Democracy to help launch this effort to save Ukraine by examining the legal authority President Biden already has to transfer the Russian assets frozen here to Ukraine —now! His tweet also referenced an article, "The Other Offensive to Save Ukraine. A new European recovery program," in Foreign Affairs, by Larry Summers, etc.

FYI - Kaplan Robbie won Charlottesville. Renew Democracy > Founder, Garry Kasparov, Founded 2017, President, Senator Heidi Heitkamp. Heitkamp named Dir. of UChicago's Institute of Politics, effective Jan. 3, 2023, succeeding D. Axelrod.

And 6/15/23, Financial Times wrote, US senators launch bill to seize and transfer Russian assets to Ukraine. Bipartisan push comes amid debate over how to help Kyiv pay for reconstruction from the war. "...it calls on Biden to push for the establishment of a “common international compensation mechanism” with foreign partners as an additional way to funnel the seized Russian money to Kyiv.

WTF

Posted by: L - very tired at June 21, 2023 08:53 AM (GshMh)

172 there is something fishy about the sub story

Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 08:54 AM (us2H3)

173 112 Massive white flight in Chicago has begun. surburban housing prices are thru the roof, as yuppies are bailing the city
____

Why are Dems destroying our cities? Their policies are so profoundly stupid that it appears they are doing it on purpose.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 21, 2023 08:54 AM (fs1hN)

174 "How long will Biden be able to perpetuate a proxy war of choice that could have easily been avoided?"

For a long time. If he wants to. I can't see Joe agreeing to a cease-fire leaving Russia in control of a big chunk of Ukraine and running on that in 2024. But anything's possible in Junta-World.

The junta found its perfect Forever War. All of the spoils, corruption, grift, plunder and bloodshed without having to deal with US flag draped coffins spoiling the mood.

Russia has moved up in the world, in standing, economics and influence. There is no one who wants this to end.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at June 21, 2023 08:54 AM (3hSHB)

175 So what does the Dodgers organization do to honor Islam?

Posted by: Hmmm? at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (DhOHl)

176 A little anecdote… over the weekend I was in nearby liquor store… beer sales were very brisk. Nobody, and I mean nobody was bringing Bud products to the counter. Asked a clerk about it, he said they couldn’t give it away right now…

Posted by: tubal at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (PCK5/)

177 Breaking911 @Breaking911
VP HARRIS: “The majority of women who receive abortion care are mothers.”

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (Vwz3I)

178 The feral gubmint is the largest criminal syndicate on the planet. The main goal of its bureaucrats and selected officials is to manage the various grifting, money laundering, and enforcement programs. It doesn't matter that they know nothing of these programs, we can clearly see that.

The whole idea is to take money from the public, or print it, and funnel it through various "programs" to line their own pockets. The war in Ukraine, covid, all the Bureau's, Departments and Offices are just there to funnel money back into the politico's pockets.

Outfits like Blackrock make that work. It's called "wealth management." Their wealth, not yours.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (Q4IgG)

179 I am pretty familiar with Catholic Charities USA and their games. Can't say I agree with some of that nor whether I believe all positions are in line with Catholic Doctrine. Debate for another day. But they are serving people who are already here by the will of this Administration, and if they didn't serve them the government would. Also debate for another day. What I will say is that article was poorly written and either deliberately or through ignorant conflation lacked a lot of fact and context. Par for the course on that site, and whether intentional or not, it represents either a thinly veiled attack on Catholics and the church, or just an ignorant author. IMVHO.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (MJIed)

180 Good times:

The CEO of OceanGate, which is operating the missing Titanic tourist submarine, explains that the company didn’t want to hire any experienced “50 year old white guys” because they weren’t “inspirational.”


Nothing like being so woke that you kill your customers.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (i7Q7S)

181 The FBI is a tool of leftist power.

= =

Wait till you get a load of us.

Posted by: The IRS at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (ZC8hN)

182 There are NO good FBI agents or public school teachers, period. The rot has infected all.

Posted by: An un-sharpened pencil at June 21, 2023 08:56 AM (FjlUt)

183 Why are Dems destroying our cities? Their policies are so profoundly stupid that it appears they are doing it on purpose.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 21, 2023 08:54 AM (fs1hN)
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They would rather rule the ashes of a ruined world than admit that they could be wrong.

That is how much they love power.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 08:56 AM (YIVH2)

184 and I'll look down and whisper 'No.”

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 21, 2023 08:56 AM (aD39U)

185 172 there is something fishy about the sub story.

It's deep.

Posted by: Let's go there at June 21, 2023 08:56 AM (DhOHl)

186 "Why are Dems destroying our cities? Their policies are so profoundly stupid that it appears they are doing it on purpose.
Posted by: Chuck Martel"

==========

They plan to do the same thing to suburbs, states, and the entirety of the country.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 08:56 AM (i7Q7S)

187
Found Yuengling Lager bottles at our local Lowes grocery store yesterday for $16.88 per case.


Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 08:50 AM

Where are you located - generally? I live maybe 25 miles from the Yuengling brewery in PA and pay about $26.00 bucks a case.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 21, 2023 08:57 AM (enJYY)

188 What's the Bulwark's take??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:53 AM (Vwz3I)

Nothing, they suck leftist cock for the fun of it....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 08:57 AM (Angsy)

189 there is something fishy about the sub story
Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 08:54 AM (us2H3)


Seems pretty crappie to me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

190 ||A US federal judge on Tuesday struck down a law prohibiting minors from gender transition treatment in Arkansas, the first time such a restriction has been overturned as similar laws are enacted in Republican-led states.

Judge Jay Moody ruled the law was unconstitutional because it violated the rights of doctors to provide medical care and discriminates against transgender people.

“The evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients and that, by prohibiting it, the state undermined the interests it claims to be advancing,” the judge said.

Arkansas, a conservative-leaning southern state, in 2021 became the first to ban minors from accessing hormonal or surgical gender transition treatments.

Since then, around 20 other US states have followed suit, including Florida and Texas.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:57 AM (Vwz3I)

191 But I identify as a LaShonda.

Posted by: 50 year old white guy at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (DhOHl)

192 Yuengling in my area is 21 bucks per case.

Posted by: tubal at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (PCK5/)

193
Where are you located - generally? I live maybe 25 miles from the Yuengling brewery in PA and pay about $26.00 bucks a case.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 21, 2023 08:57 AM (enJYY)


I paid $19 at Buc-ees last week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

194 Buy some Bud Light. It's end-of-the-world beer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:39 AM (DU+/6)
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Do you have to pay good money for it? Aren't they giving it away? It's probably one of those coupon deals, buy beer now but mail in this coupon and get your money back, which is silly because the world will end before Transhueser has to make good, and no one will fall for that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (Z7kXD)

195 "The evidence showed that the prohibited medical care improves the mental health and well-being of patients"

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Note: There is no evidence, anywhere at all, showing this.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (i7Q7S)

196 there is something fishy about the sub story
Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 08:54 AM (us2H3)

As in a distraction? Perhaps, the coincidence of that sub disappearing is too big.

Posted by: Ziba at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (4h9M3)

197 Desantis is tainted by his working with Romney and McLame people, and it won't wash off.

Posted by: An un-sharpened pencil at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (FjlUt)

198 183 They would rather rule the ashes of a ruined world than admit that they could be wrong.

That is how much they love power.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 08:56 AM (YIVH2)

========

Or, destroying the cities has increased their power. It's easier to destroy, and by casting out those who object, they cling to power ever tighter with every passing year.

If the objective is simply to wield political power, then destroying the city you live in as fast as possible is one of the best, most effective ways to accumulating that power.

It's called the Curley Effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

199 He's not perfect but I love how this pope is making the conservatives catholics heads explode.
_____

Conservative Catholics are better described as Faithful Catholics

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (fs1hN)

200 197 Desantis is tainted by his working with Romney and McLame people, and it won't wash off.
Posted by: An un-sharpened pencil at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (FjlUt)

=========

Is Trump tainted by hiring Bill Barr?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

201 ... And 6/15/23, Financial Times wrote, US senators launch bill to seize and transfer Russian assets to Ukraine. Bipartisan push comes amid debate over how to help Kyiv pay for reconstruction from the war. "...it calls on Biden to push for the establishment of a “common international compensation mechanism” with foreign partners as an additional way to funnel the seized Russian money to Kyiv.

WTF
Posted by: L - very tired at June 21, 2023 08:53 AM (GshMh)
++++
Sure. They can't just steal it all for themselves. They have to *move* the money in order to steal it. The government often operates as a gigantic cash-in-transit heist scheme. Small-time crooks hit armored cars. Big-time government crooks hit entire banks and asset classes.

By moving the seized (and stationary) assets to Ukraine, they can skim to their hearts' content while it's in motion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (DU+/6)

202 175 So what does the Dodgers organization do to honor Islam?
Posted by: Hmmm? at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (DhOHl)

Do the Naughty Child Brides of Mohmmed and it would make Escape from LA look like a documentary.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (BRHaw)

203 and I'll look down and whisper 'No.”

Posted by: G'rump928(c)

= =

You're go**amned right.

Posted by: Rorschach at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (ZC8hN)

204 Breaking911 @Breaking911
VP HARRIS: “The majority of women who receive abortion care are mothers.”
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (Vwz3I)


Funny thing is, both Harris and Biden need to be wearing "I'm with Stupid" shirts........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

205
Breaking911 @Breaking911
VP HARRIS: “The majority of women who receive abortion care are were mothers.”

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 08:55 AM (Vwz3I)

The totality of babies who receive abortion care are murdered.

Fixed for truth and context.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (fb7jX)

206 WP Opinion piece ostensibly on "why is Biden unpopular?", but actually making excuses for him and gaslighting the paper's already lefty readers.

Biden shouldn’t be as unpopular as Trump — but he is. Trump was one of the most unpopular presidents in recent history. That made sense — Trump was bad at governing...Joe Biden has been just as unpopular as Trump was, and at times even more so. That’s not necessarily bad for the Democrats. But it’s bad for democracy.

What’s harder to understand is why Biden is so unpopular...Inflation is unusually high...The president’s centrist, bipartisan approach likely ensures a bloc of younger and more progressive Democrats won’t be thrilled with him. Voters in Britain, Canada, France and numerous other countries are also dissatisfied with their leaders, according to polls, so perhaps it’s almost impossible to be a popular politician in 2023.

But Biden hired competent advisers, successfully managed crises such as the potential debt default, enacted legislation that polls well with the public, reached deals with the opposite party, made smart decisions on foreign policy, and acted with dignity and grace....

Posted by: Intercepted Washington Post Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (ireR6)

207 If it hasn't been mentioned yet, look up

Kodak Black

He's a black rapper that got sentenced to 3+ years for exactly what Hunter Biden did.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (JjzRr)

208 161 The american catholic church is a rogue one, RW conservative leaning & tolerant of priests abusing children. It is more of a cult than a church.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 21, 2023 08:47 AM (ireR6)

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Wait...they're AGAINST minor attracted persons?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

209 I recall NYC's '77 blackout fondly, and today's looting of the Treasury reminds of the looting back then. If you didn't get a new TV out of it, you were the fool. I got bubpkis. My future BiL and his friends stole a few cases of beer. Priorities.
Posted by: Ignoramus at June 21, 2023 08:35 AM (RqMSv)

Amazing difference between the '77 blackout and the '65 blackout. Society went down the dumper very quickly in that 12 year period. And it hasn't yet hit bottom.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (Zvtjl)

210 The global central bank digital currency thing horrifies me.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 21, 2023 09:00 AM (Ukf/F)

211 Do you have to pay good money for it? Aren't they giving it away? It's probably one of those coupon deals, buy beer now but mail in this coupon and get your money back, which is silly because the world will end before Transhueser has to make good, and no one will fall for that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (Z7kXD)
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LOL.

Now *that* is crossing the streams!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 09:00 AM (DU+/6)

212 It's called the Curley Effect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

Better to Rule in Hell than Serve in Heaven.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 09:00 AM (BRHaw)

213 The CEO of OceanGate, which is operating the missing Titanic tourist submarine, explains that the company didn’t want to hire any experienced “50 year old white guys” because they weren’t “inspirational.”
---------

Imma file that under "too good to check".

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:00 AM (8oxb7)

214 >>did you guys see Elon announce that "cis" and "cisgender" are considered slurs on Twitter?

I like ! I really like. I hate that term SO MUCH



Yes

Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2023 09:01 AM (nTi7J)

215 The local Kroger's has plenty of Bud products. None are on sale or discounted. They've been there for months. Nobody has come to reclaim the "stale" stuff.

So they take up space in the coolers and aisles.

Kroger's is woke, so...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2023 09:01 AM (Q4IgG)

216 "Where are you located - generally? "

Summerville, S.C.

Bedroom community for Charleston.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:01 AM (1n+EO)

217 I think Ashes of a Ruined World was the working title of a Motley Crue album back in the day.

Posted by: IIRC at June 21, 2023 09:02 AM (DhOHl)

218
9AM EDT, or 13:00 Zulu time. This is the window of Solstice = Sol - stice = Sun still. At this moment, centered on 14:58 Zulu the sun stands still for 4 hours, declination wise. Astronomical Summer begins.

The Window of the Turning has begun.

Posted by: publius, betting you saw that coming a mile at June 21, 2023 09:02 AM (Mzdiz)

219 Is Trump tainted by hiring Bill Barr?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (LvTSG)


We'll see who he surrounds himself with this go round. Any establishment types will be poison.

Posted by: An un-sharpened pencil at June 21, 2023 09:02 AM (FjlUt)

220
Is Trump tainted by hiring Bill Barr?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (LvTSG)

Trump is tainted by the performance of 80% of his hires.

But if people can't see that he's still the best available option to fight our corner what can you do. DePlantis is going to DeSapoint people Noem style. It's just a matter of when.

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:02 AM (8oxb7)

221 video proof OceanGate

https://tinyurl.com/537ebz28

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 09:02 AM (BRHaw)

222 But Biden hired competent advisers, successfully managed crises such as the potential debt default, enacted legislation that polls well with the public, reached deals with the opposite party, made smart decisions on foreign policy, and acted with dignity and grace....
Posted by: Intercepted Washington Post Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (ireR6)
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It's amazing that someone could be so deluded as to write that with a straight face. Every single word in that statement is demonstrably false. Even words like "and" and "the."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 09:03 AM (YIVH2)

223 The Window of the Turning has begun.


and so it begins?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 21, 2023 09:03 AM (aD39U)

224 , made smart decisions on foreign policy, and acted with dignity and grace....
Posted by: Intercepted Washington Post Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (ireR6)

Dignity and grace ? Hahahahahahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2023 09:03 AM (bs+z0)

225 Everyone knows it isn't a true sex party without a Dead Body.

Posted by: XTC at June 21, 2023 09:03 AM (sm6Pk)

226 Better to Rule in Hell than Serve in Heaven.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 09:00 AM (BRHaw)

Soitanly!

Posted by: Curly at June 21, 2023 09:04 AM (Angsy)

227 220 Trump is tainted by the performance of 80% of his hires.

But if people can't see that he's still the best available option to fight our corner what can you do. DePlantis is going to DeSapoint people Noem style. It's just a matter of when.

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:02 AM (8oxb7)

=========

I see both Trump and DeSantis as rule followers in a game where the other side has decided that rules don't apply to them.

I'd vote for an Oliver Cromwell, but neither of these men are Oliver Cromwells. You also don't generally vote for an Oliver Cromwell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 09:04 AM (LvTSG)

228 "I paid $19 at Buc-ees last week."

We stopped at the Buc-ee's on I-95 at Florence S.C. on Saturday.

Traffic to the place was backed up for over a mile. I have never seen it so packed with people, even on opening week.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:04 AM (1n+EO)

229 Where are you located - generally? I live maybe 25 miles from the Yuengling brewery in PA and pay about $26.00 bucks a case.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
++++
Yuengling lager is about $19 per case at sam's clubs in Florida.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 21, 2023 09:04 AM (dr4Q1)

230 They would rather rule the ashes of a ruined world than admit that they could be wrong.

That is how much they love power.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 08:56 AM (YIVH2)

Or they just want to rule the ashes of a ruined world.

They lie about everything. Why would anyone believe them when they talk about their "intentions"?

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:05 AM (8oxb7)

231 there is something fishy about the sub story
Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 08:54 AM (us2H3)

I can't fathom the whole story.

Posted by: dantesed at June 21, 2023 09:05 AM (88xKn)

232 Kroger's owns the Harris Teeter brand, which is big down here.

Woke as a mo-fo.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:05 AM (1n+EO)

233 Girthy MR. Thanks, JJ.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 21, 2023 09:06 AM (4I/2K)

234 Dignity and grace ? Hahahahahahahaha
Posted by: It's me donna
____

I know, right?

Posted by: Stairways and Sandbags Local Union #452 at June 21, 2023 09:06 AM (fs1hN)

235 Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 09:02 AM (BRHaw)

Thank you. Wow!

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:06 AM (8oxb7)

236 I can't fathom the whole story.
Posted by: dantesed at June 21, 2023 09:05 AM (88xKn)

We will get to the bottom of this!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 09:06 AM (BRHaw)

237 Jim Jordan looks like he's loaded for bare

Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 09:07 AM (us2H3)

238 >>Why are Dems destroying our cities? Their policies are so profoundly stupid that it appears they are doing it on purpose.


In addition to the Curley effect, I'm wondering if this is part of an income/land transfer scheme, as Covid was?

If they destroy these cities, all of those office buildings and retail sites are abandoned and can be bought on the cheap. How much cheaper is it to build your "15 minute City" in San Fracisco today than it would have been 10 years ago?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2023 09:07 AM (nTi7J)

239 232 Kroger's owns the Harris Teeter brand, which is big down here.

Woke as a mo-fo.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:05 AM

I've known a few women with hairy teeters. The really militant lefty ones don't shave.

Posted by: Perv Moron at June 21, 2023 09:07 AM (ireR6)

240 Jim Jordan looks like he's loaded for bare

Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 09:07 AM (us2H3)


He's going to the Playboy Mansion?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 21, 2023 09:08 AM (fb7jX)

241 there is something fishy about the sub story
Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 08:54 AM (us2H3)

I can't fathom the whole story.

Posted by: dantesed

==

Whoa, that's deep, bro.

Posted by: Spicoli at June 21, 2023 09:08 AM (ZC8hN)

242 And for whatever the reason, Zillow just jumped their estimate on our house overnight by $15,00.00.

Seriously, I checked it last night while showing my MiL how Zillow works.
And this morning....boom!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:08 AM (1n+EO)

243 237 Jim Jordan looks like he's loaded for bare

Bare what?

Posted by: Zing at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (DhOHl)

244 >>Everyone knows it isn't a true sex party without a Dead Body.


Heh, did you miss the part about this being discovered by EMTs?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (nTi7J)

245 and acted with dignity and grace....

That in itself was worth a huge guffaw.

Does someone pay people at DU to write propaganda?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (Keyt1)

246 I guess Wyatt Earp will be busy today...

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts · 11h
🚨#BREAKING: Police are investigating after several teens attempted to light sticks of dynamite inside a grocery store
📌#Philadelphia | #PA
Currently Multiple Law enforcements are at scene at the fresh grocery store located in Philadelphia after police say a security called to report that three teens aged around roughly around 16 to 19 years old wearing all black clothing, tried to light up the sticks of dynamite inside the store. The bomb squad did recover the sticks of dynamite at the scene, but police say the suspects were able to get away

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (Vwz3I)

247 227 I see both Trump and DeSantis as rule followers in a game where the other side has decided that rules don't apply to them.

I'd vote for an Oliver Cromwell, but neither of these men are Oliver Cromwells. You also don't generally vote for an Oliver Cromwell.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 09:04 AM (LvTSG)

It sucks, but nothing will ever get done as long as Congress Creatures don't fear for their own well-being.

The only things they fear are things no normal person would dare do. And they know that.

Posted by: XTC at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (sm6Pk)

248 Neither DeSantis or Trump can or will win against Biden under their current strategy/platform.
Trump can't win because he continues to make the campaign about him.
DeSantis can't win because he's running a 1998 Republican campaign; no bold actions.

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We need more cowbell!

Posted by: runner at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (z4pMa)

249 242 And for whatever the reason, Zillow just jumped their estimate on our house overnight by $15,000.00.

Seriously, I checked it last night while showing my MiL how Zillow works.
And this morning....boom!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:08 AM (1n+EO)

========

Something in your neighborhood must have registered a sale, raising the comp part of the calculation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

250 Jim Jordan looks like he's loaded for bare

Bare what?
Posted by: Zing at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (DhOHl)


The bare wench project.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

251 Whoa.. The Mother of Bidens un- mentioned Grand daughter agreed to 5000 dollars from Hunter ? Wonder what threats she got..

Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (bs+z0)

252 248 Neither DeSantis or Trump can or will win against Biden under their current strategy/platform.
Trump can't win because he continues to make the campaign about him.
DeSantis can't win because he's running a 1998 Republican campaign; no bold actions.

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We need more cowbell!
Posted by: runner at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (z4pMa)

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There is one candidate taking voter fraud seriously, and that's Joe Biden. Joe Biden will win because of that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

253 "We will get to the bottom of this!
Posted by: rhennigantx "

Wanna race?

Posted by: OceanGate at June 21, 2023 09:10 AM (1n+EO)

254 The Harris Teeter near me (NoVa) used to have the most polite checkout people.

But the folks at Wegmans are pretty nice, too. And I haven’t seen much woke there.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 21, 2023 09:10 AM (Ukf/F)

255 But Biden hired competent advisers, successfully managed crises such as the potential debt default, enacted legislation that polls well with the public, reached deals with the opposite party, made smart decisions on foreign policy, and acted with dignity and grace....
Posted by: Intercepted Washington Post Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 21, 2023 08:59 AM (ireR6)
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That blows my mind. It reads like science fiction describing a doppelganger world.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 09:10 AM (Z7kXD)

256 If you consider that Fake Biden and Trump have the "same" popularity, that demonstrates the remaining power of the media.

Biden should be at 25 while Trump should be at 60 or more.

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:10 AM (8oxb7)

257 Loaded for bare?

Will Joe Mannix please pick up the tan courtesy phone?

Posted by: Voice on the PA at June 21, 2023 09:11 AM (DhOHl)

258 Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree · 17h
Wesley Snipes - 3 years in prison for tax evasion.
Mike Sorrentino, Jersey Shore - 8 months in prison for tax evasion.
Ja Rule - 28 months in prison for tax evasion.
Darry Strawberry - 3 months in prison 3 months of house arrest for tax evasion.
Fat Joe - 4 months in prison for tax evasion.
Joe and Teresa Guidice - 4 years and 1 year in federal prison for tax evasion.
Heidi Fleiss - 37 months in prison for tax evasion.
Chuck Berry - 3 months in prison for tax evasion.
Richard Hatch - 51 months in prison for tax evasion.
Leona Helmsley - 4 years in prison for tax evasion.

Hunter Biden - No JAIL TIME

So no liberals, tax evasion crimes absolutely result jail time.

Unless you are the crackhead son of the most corrupt administration in the history of this country.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:11 AM (Vwz3I)

259 Red state governors ought to be looking into what they can do to prevent the worst of the policies of their blue governed cities. Writing them off, even though the blue residents of the blue cities should get what they deserve good and hard, doesn't help the the people in the purple areas surrounding the cities, or the rest of the state.
My 2c, or inflation adjusted 0.5c.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 21, 2023 09:11 AM (fs1hN)

260 Something in your neighborhood must have registered a sale, raising the comp part of the calculation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

Where did you learn that? The Money Pit?

Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:11 AM (8oxb7)

261 "Ride the tiger."
-Jules Evola

Posted by: rechill at June 21, 2023 09:11 AM (Q1LXu)

262 "Something in your neighborhood must have registered a sale, raising the comp part of the calculation."

I thought that might be it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:12 AM (1n+EO)

263 256 If you consider that Fake Biden and Trump have the "same" popularity, that demonstrates the remaining power of the media.

Biden should be at 25 while Trump should be at 60 or more.
Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:10 AM (8oxb7)

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None of it matters until the people take extralegal means to regain their suffrage in places like PA, AZ, MI, and GA. Sure, in reality Trump is probably more popular than Biden, but in terms of how things will actually play out, Biden is definitely more popular than Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

264 Traffic to the place was backed up for over a mile. I have never seen it so packed with people, even on opening week.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:04 AM (1n+EO)

None of those in my area, but the question is, why go into the place if it's that crowded? I shake my head every time I see a line at a gas station that's only three cents cheaper than its competition across the corner. I'd rather pay the three cents than wait a half hour to pump the gas.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 09:12 AM (Angsy)

265 260 Something in your neighborhood must have registered a sale, raising the comp part of the calculation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (LvTSG)

Where did you learn that? The Money Pit?
Posted by: ... at June 21, 2023 09:11 AM (8oxb7)

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Endless HGTV when visiting my mother-in-law?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at June 21, 2023 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

266 Loaded for bare?

Posted by: Coppertone at June 21, 2023 09:12 AM (4I/2K)

267 245
Does someone pay people at DU to write propaganda?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke-the Mikey candidate for public office at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM

No, no...I changed my nic and even added the helpful intro...those are excerpts from an opinion piece published in the Washington Post. Does that make it better...or worse?

Posted by: Intrepid Aos Liaison at June 21, 2023 09:13 AM (ireR6)

268 North TX is getting hit with advertisements on TV from the Illinois Tourism Board.
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It is to laugh.

Nebraska has a really good Napoleon Dynamite-type ad that absolutely charmed me. Second place to Tennessee.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 21, 2023 09:13 AM (MIKMs)

269 #258 Replies:

FreedomWins @BhoJband · 17h
Al Sharpton and BLM also got away with tax evasion

Jim Ironhorse @JimIronhorse · 14h
Add AOC to that list... SMFH 🤬 🤬 🤬 🏴‍☠️ 🐊

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:14 AM (Vwz3I)

270 Whoa.. The Mother of Bidens un- mentioned Grand daughter agreed to 5000 dollars from Hunter ? Wonder what threats she got..
Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (bs+z0)
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per month, I think.

Which is $60k per year, or $900k over 15 years 'til the kid turns 18.

It's a middle-class income for the rest of the kid's childhood. Is it fair, given how much Hunter is worth (all stolen, but nonetheless, he's got it) and how he's behaved? No, not if child support is supposed to be punitive (it isn't supposed to be, but it often/usually is). If it's not supposed to be punitive, then yeah - it probably is.

Not that I care. I don't want "fair" for the Bidens. In anything. I want retribution.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 09:14 AM (DU+/6)

271 243 237 Jim Jordan looks like he's loaded for bare

Bare what?
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Bare forearms, from rolling up his sleeves and getting to work in vicious oversight meetings that look impressive on video but don't accomplish anything real.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 21, 2023 09:14 AM (fs1hN)

272 Jim Jordan looks like he's loaded for bare
Bare what
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Bear arms, silly wabbit.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 21, 2023 09:15 AM (MIKMs)

273 "None of those in my area, but the question is, why go into the place if it's that crowded? "

Umm....because it's Bucc-ee's.

A cult, not a gas station.

For example, this particular location has 120 gas pumps.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:15 AM (1n+EO)

274 Ernie Kovacs would probably have been prosecuted for not paying his taxes, but he died in a car crash first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 21, 2023 09:15 AM (Ukf/F)

275 "4:58 Zulu the sun stands still for 4 hours, declination wise."

And then the world ends.

Posted by: And I feel fine at June 21, 2023 09:15 AM (iayUP)

276
To everything (turn, turn) there is a season (turn, turn) and a time to every purpose under heaven. A time to reap, a time to sow. A time to be born, a time to die. A time to kill, a time to heal. A time to laugh, a time to weep. A time to gather stones together, a time to scatter stones apart. Etc, etc:

https://tinyurl.com/y4hsuh5b

The time of Turning is upon us. Sol Invictus reaches maximum declination at 23 degree, 25', and 18.4 seconds. For the next four hours Sol stands still. Sol-stice = Sun still.

Astronomical summer begins. The Turning, with a Clockwork of Astronomical precision spanning millions of years has, on time, ephemeris time, begun again.

The best laid plans of mice and men are but a trifle to the seasons of astronomical clockwork.

Posted by: publius, betting you saw that coming a mile at June 21, 2023 09:15 AM (Mzdiz)

277 Nobody goes to Buc-ee's anymore. It's too crowded.

Posted by: Ghost of Yogi at June 21, 2023 09:16 AM (DhOHl)

278 Napoleon Dynamite-type ad
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Just like in Philly at Fresh grocery stores?!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:16 AM (Vwz3I)

279 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts · 11h
🚨#BREAKING: Police are investigating after several teens attempted to light sticks of dynamite inside a grocery store
📌#Philadelphia | #PA
Currently Multiple Law enforcements are at scene at the fresh grocery store located in Philadelphia after police say a security called to report that three teens aged around roughly around 16 to 19 years old wearing all black clothing, tried to light up the sticks of dynamite inside the store. The bomb squad did recover the sticks of dynamite at the scene, but police say the suspects were able to get away
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (Vwz3I)

I would have expected the store to keep the dynamite behind the counter.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 21, 2023 09:16 AM (aD39U)

280 That blows my mind. It reads like science fiction describing a doppelganger world.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

= =

The Multiverse is real... and (nobody knows this, so don't say anything) we move between them.

Posted by: Stan Lee at June 21, 2023 09:16 AM (ZC8hN)

281 Heh.

Nice meme, JJ.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

282 272 Jim Jordan looks like he's loaded for bare
Bare what
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Bear arms, silly wabbit.
Posted by: mustbequantum at June 21, 2023 09:15 AM

It is the longest day of the year, as I understand, so "sun's out, guns out" must be in effect.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 21, 2023 09:17 AM (ireR6)

283 Gangster Clown Town.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:17 AM (KY22T)

284 "three teens aged around roughly around 16 to 19 years old wearing all black clothing, tried to light up the sticks of dynamite inside the store."

Who are we to criticize their culture?

Posted by: And I feel fine at June 21, 2023 09:17 AM (iayUP)

285 With consecutive 104 degree days forecast starting this weekend, yes the sun is standing still it seems.

Posted by: Count de Monet, down around Houston Texas where the sun shines most of the time at June 21, 2023 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

286 Some enterprising youths do a little STEM experiment to broaden their horizons, and The Man gotta stomp all over them for it.

Poor dears.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 21, 2023 09:18 AM (9UlRk)

287 🚨#BREAKING: Police are investigating after several teens attempted to light sticks of dynamite inside a grocery store
📌#Philadelphia | #PA
Currently Multiple Law enforcements are at scene at the fresh grocery store located in Philadelphia after police say a security called to report that three teens aged around roughly around 16 to 19 years old wearing all black clothing, tried to light up the sticks of dynamite inside the store. The bomb squad did recover the sticks of dynamite at the scene, but police say the suspects were able to get away
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (Vwz3I)


Seems a bad plan, lighting the sticks while you're still in the store......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

288 284 "three teens aged around roughly around 16 to 19 years old wearing all black clothing, tried to light up the sticks of dynamite inside the store."

Who are we to criticize their culture?
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Were they wearing hoodies?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:19 AM (KY22T)

289
Unless you are the crackhead son of the most corrupt administration in the history of this country.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:11 AM

In years past - America 1.0a - you could count on the IRS to come up with a high profile tax evader in the weeks before April 15th and stick them in jail. Apparently it was good PR to increase 'voluntary compliance'.

Letting Hunter skate is going to do just the opposite.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 21, 2023 09:19 AM (enJYY)

290 "three teens aged around roughly around 16 to 19 years old wearing all black clothing, tried to light up the sticks of dynamite inside the store"

They were just turning their lives around and on the way to bible study.

Posted by: Obligatory at June 21, 2023 09:19 AM (DhOHl)

291 "three teens aged around roughly around 16 to 19 years old wearing all black clothing, tried to light up the sticks of dynamite inside the store."

Who are we to criticize their culture?
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Were they wearing hoodies?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:19 AM (KY22T)


Whyz it gotta be black?

Posted by: John Wylie Price at June 21, 2023 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

292 “ Trying” to light sticks of dynamite… snort…

Posted by: tubal at June 21, 2023 09:20 AM (PCK5/)

293 Ernie Kovacs would probably have been prosecuted for not paying his taxes, but he died in a car crash first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 21, 2023 09:15 AM (Ukf/F)

I wonder if that's a day of mourning in the Miklos family?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 09:20 AM (Angsy)

294 "Were they wearing hoodies?
Posted by: Pudinhead"

Black clothing. No other distinguishing characteristics.

Posted by: fd at June 21, 2023 09:20 AM (iayUP)

295 Loaded for bare?
Posted by: Coppertone at J

***

This is about me isn't it...

Posted by: Timothy Treadwell at June 21, 2023 09:20 AM (flINI)

296 Letting Hunter skate is going to do just the opposite.
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Hunter's daddy just printed 87K new IRS agents and has armed them.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:20 AM (KY22T)

297 Whoa.. The Mother of Bidens un- mentioned Grand daughter agreed to 5000 dollars from Hunter ? Wonder what threats she got..
Posted by: It's me donna at June 21, 2023 09:09 AM (bs+z0)
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Carrot and stick, I assume: I bet she is getting a lump sum equal to the present value of the future cash she is due to receive, plus her legal costs, and a payment for silence, plus I assume she is under all sorts of threats.
Maybe the IRS, or child welfare, but more probably the threat of endless litigation.

Where do the tens of millions come from to pay all these past due taxes, private jets, legal fees, and payouts to the Mom/toddler?

I know some lawyer in Hollywood is supposedly the source but this is big time money and I don't believe any one person short of a billionaire is paying these bills. So, whi is it? What are they getting in return?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 09:20 AM (/csRr)

298 Jordan's wifebeater must be at the cleaners

Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 09:20 AM (us2H3)

299 >>It's a middle-class income for the rest of the kid's childhood. Is it fair, given how much Hunter is worth (all stolen, but nonetheless, he's got it)


The dirty little secret is that Hunter's income is really the Biden family income, with pops taking half of it (per his laptop texts); he is the Biden family bank writing checks and making withdrawals for not just dad and his siblings, but for his uncle and others.

She's lucky if she gets the $5k per month.
She's already very lucky that the Bidens have no interest in the kid. Imagine if she had to drop her off at the Biden mansion for one weekend a month

Posted by: Lizzy at June 21, 2023 09:21 AM (nTi7J)

300 288 284 "three teens aged around roughly around 16 to 19 years old wearing all black clothing, tried to light up the sticks of dynamite inside the store."

Who are we to criticize their culture?
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Were they wearing hoodies?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:19 AM

They looked just like our son...and probably have the same name, too. So stunning and brave.

Posted by: Barack Obama and Mayor Eric Adams at June 21, 2023 09:21 AM (ireR6)

301 293 Ernie Kovacs would probably have been prosecuted for not paying his taxes, but he died in a car crash first.
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Wasn't he killed while driving a Covair Station Wagon?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:21 AM (KY22T)

302 The Multiverse is real... and (nobody knows this, so don't say anything) we move between them.
Posted by: Stan Lee at June 21, 2023 09:16 AM (ZC8hN)
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Why does it seem like we are permanently stuck in Clown World?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (YIVH2)

303 Umm....because it's Bucc-ee's.

A cult, not a gas station.

For example, this particular location has 120 gas pumps.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:15 AM (1n+EO)

Sounds like a cult. But, I don't like crowds so I probably would never go there.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (Angsy)

304 "Is Trump tainted by hiring Bill Barr?"

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He also put the current FBI Director and current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs into their roles.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (i7Q7S)

305
Great news everybody! Dig this from Puffington AOL

Georgia election board dismisses 'unsubstantiated' 2020 fraud claim

Justice has been served. On a silver platter. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (x0n13)

306 An accounting error led to the Pentagon valuing weapons based on replacement costs instead of the book price for systems during fiscal years 2022 and 2023, leading to an over-accounting of $6.2 billion — twice as high as previous estimates, Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters at a briefing Tuesday.

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She was great in "The Wire" as Kima Greggs.

Posted by: ShainS -- Opression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (+z+6a)

307 ----------------
Wasn't he killed while driving a Covair Station Wagon?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:21 AM (KY22T)


Unsafe at ANY speed.

Posted by: Ralph Nader at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

308 76 Nobody prosecuted Joe Biden for keeping classified documents in offices all over Washington, not to mention his corvette, and these were documents he had no legal right to possess. Nobody prosecuted Hillary Clinton for possessing classified documents, even after she destroyed over 30,000 documents that were under freaking subpoena.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 08:20 AM (Z7kXD)


When Robert Hur, Special Counsel for Biden's documents theft, presents his investigation's findings, I wonder what BS words Garland will give him to use instead of "no reasonable prosecutor?"

Posted by: Gref at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (AMIL/)

309 If Jim Jordan has rolled up his sleeves it means he's going to "do something."

🤡

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (Q4IgG)

310 Genius leftists just like at DU!

Bohemio of the Reeeeing Twenties @El__Bohemio · 2h
"...we do not know how much Starlink is responsible for the loss of contact with the submersible, nor the reasons behind that loss of contact."

Allow me to help. They are under 2 miles of water. Light can't reach. Let alone radio waves. You're welcome.

snopes.com
Was the Missing Titanic Submersible Using Satellites from Elon Musk’s Company?

Kaya Masters @sisterinferior · 10h
I hope somebody sues you into oblivion for defamation someday.

Quote Tweet: Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats · 20h
BREAKING: Republican billionaire Elon Musk is thrust into another nightmare PR disaster as it's revealed that the missing Titanic submersible company previously praised his satellite communication company Starlink — and said that it would be "relying on" the service to "provide...
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The submersible was not using Starlink for internet access it was for the surface vessel. High frequency radio waves are not capable of operating underwater.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)

311 $5K a month? That's pathetic. Hunter is a chip off the 'ol turd.

Posted by: fd at June 21, 2023 09:23 AM (iayUP)

312 With consecutive 104 degree days forecast starting this weekend, yes the sun is standing still it seems.

Posted by: Count de Monet, down around Houston Texas where the sun shines most of the time at June 21, 2023 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

And boy, are my arms tired. A little help here, please.

Posted by: Moses at June 21, 2023 09:23 AM (Angsy)

313
Philadelphia is going to get a reputation like Florida Man. 🏴

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 21, 2023 09:24 AM (enJYY)

314 "But if people can't see that he's still the best available option to fight our corner what can you do"


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Trump is sympathetic to Bud Light and Disney.

You are just kidding yourself.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 21, 2023 09:24 AM (i7Q7S)

315 Sounds like a cult. But, I don't like crowds so I probably would never go there.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (Angsy)
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The only time I've been was around 6 a.m. I was traveling home from the TXMOME and it's a good stopping point for gas. At that time of day, it's a very quiet place.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 09:24 AM (YIVH2)

316 309 If Jim Jordan has rolled up his sleeves it means he's going to "do something."

🤡
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (Q4IgG)


Fist fuck Lindsay Graham up to the elbow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 09:24 AM (x0n13)

317 the 5K settlement must have excluded hair sniffin

Posted by: REDACTED at June 21, 2023 09:24 AM (us2H3)

318 Seems a bad plan, lighting the sticks while you're still in the store...
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It doesn't hurt Bugs Bunny, although occasionally does Daffy Duck.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (Vwz3I)

319 "Georgia election board dismisses 'unsubstantiated' 2020 fraud claim
Justice has been served. On a silver platter. . .
Posted by: J.J. Sefton"

They thoroughly investigated themselves and have instituted corrective procedures.

Posted by: Also, wanna buy a bridge? at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (iayUP)

320 Great news everybody! Dig this from Puffington AOL

Georgia election board dismisses 'unsubstantiated' 2020 fraud claim

Justice has been served. On a silver platter. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (x0n13)

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Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia Brad Raffensperger!

Posted by: ShainS -- Opression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (+z+6a)

321 Went into a Bucc-ee’s once… once. The place freaked me out. So. Many. People. Never again. The Wall of Jerky was disturbing. People,were standing in front of it like it was a Shrine.

Posted by: tubal at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (PCK5/)

322 "Amazing difference between the '77 blackout and the '65 blackout."

But then we got Rudy. Note that no one looted during 9/11 in NYC, although they could have easily.

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (RqMSv)

323 The submersible was not using Starlink for internet access it was for the surface vessel. High frequency radio waves are not capable of operating underwater.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)


The stupid. It burns.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

324 ... Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The submersible was not using Starlink for internet access it was for the surface vessel. High frequency radio waves are not capable of operating underwater.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)
++++
I remember when they used to talk about stuff like that in high school. I guess they don't anymore. Or maybe I'm imagining and I just learned it from books while I was in high school. Whatever. This shit at least used to be pretty common knowledge

I wonder, though, if they're actually trying to pin something on Musk or if they're just running with a sensational high-tech story involving a famous person's famous company. It could be either. It's the press, though, so I'll assume it's both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (DU+/6)

325 ---
The only time I've been was around 6 a.m. I was traveling home from the TXMOME and it's a good stopping point for gas. At that time of day, it's a very quiet place.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 09:24 AM (YIVH2)


No Games. Plenty of Thrones.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

326 307 ----------------
Wasn't he killed while driving a Covair Station Wagon?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:21 AM (KY22T)


Unsafe at ANY speed.
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My dad had a Covair. I didn't know they made a station wagon until I stumbled in to Kovacs death photographs a few years ago. I would have loved to have had a 69 Corvair Monza GT. They were hot.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (KY22T)

327 BlackRock manages the stock funds for the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). As the manager they also control the votes for every one of those individual stocks within the funds. +- $827.2 billion in assets. They can then use those votes to also force the individual companies to implement things such as DEI, MAP and Gender requirements on those companies. In effect: BlackRock can, and it appears does, takes the voice of every single Federal Employee and forces the companies to work against the very same Federal Employees.

Posted by: OldSarg at June 21, 2023 09:26 AM (j0etA)

328 Fist fuck Lindsay Graham up to the elbow.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 09:24 AM (x0n13)

***

Only the elbow? Come. On.

Posted by: Miss Lindsay Graham at June 21, 2023 09:26 AM (flINI)

329 Do you ever go out to a Buc-ee's and when you get there say to yourself this is why I don't go out to Buc-ee's?

Posted by: Obligatory at June 21, 2023 09:26 AM (DhOHl)

330 Have you noticed that the people saying the 2016 election was illegitimate are the same people saying that questioning the 2020 election is a threat to democracy? #TotallyLegit

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at June 21, 2023 09:26 AM (ZC8hN)

331
Readers added context they thought people might want to

Is this a new feature that Elon added? I like it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at June 21, 2023 09:27 AM (enJYY)

332 Fist fuck Lindsay Graham up to the elbow.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 09:24 AM (x0n13)

25 bucks same as downtown

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 21, 2023 09:27 AM (BRHaw)

333 Went into a Bucc-ee’s once… once. The place freaked me out. So. Many. People. Never again. The Wall of Jerky was disturbing. People,were standing in front of it like it was a Shrine.
Posted by: tubal at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (PCK5/)


A shame. Their jerky is good. Really good. So's the brisket tacos. They have a grilled club sandwich, I think, that my wife says is to die for.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

334 292 “ Trying” to light sticks of dynamite… snort…
Posted by: tubal at June 21, 2023 09:20 AM

These are obviously right wing extremist terrorists trying to destroy our economy and democracy with an early attack on the government in recognition of July 4th, an antiquated "Independence" day celebrated by traitors and insurrectionists, recently replaced by the more modern, appropriate and inclusive Juneteenth.

Posted by: The FBI at June 21, 2023 09:27 AM (ireR6)

335 "High frequency radio waves are not capable of operating underwater."

802.11 C

Posted by: fd at June 21, 2023 09:28 AM (iayUP)

336 When Robert Hur, Special Counsel for Biden's documents theft, presents his investigation's findings, I wonder what BS words Garland will give him to use instead of "no reasonable prosecutor?"

Posted by: Gref at June 21, 2023 09:22 AM (AMIL/)

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First we have Ben Hu, and now Robert Hur? Further proof we're living in a simulation ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Opression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 21, 2023 09:28 AM (+z+6a)

337 Interesting if true.

Putin produced a peace treaty signed by Ukrainian delegation from March of 2022 which he claims facilitated his withdraw of troops from outside Kiev in a show of good faith.

Apparently the west counseled Ukraine to agree but then back out of as a strategic move.

I doubt Russia will ever sign a peace treaty on this issue going forward.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 21, 2023 09:28 AM (qL3Hj)

338 The Wall of Jerky was disturbing. People,were standing in front of it like it was a Shrine.
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Jerky Heaven?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:29 AM (KY22T)

339 The submersible was not using Starlink for internet access it was for the surface vessel. High frequency radio waves are not capable of operating underwater.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:23 AM (Vwz3I)


The stupid. It burns.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)
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Apparently DARPA is experimenting with blue laser technology as an alternate communication system underwater. *If* they can get it to work, it's a huge game-changer.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (YIVH2)

340 Francis is a Lutheran, at best.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (vg8N1)

341 Is this a new feature that Elon added? I like it.
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I've forgotten. Either yes entirely; or it was an old feature but conservatives and libertarians have been added to the committees that judge whether to allow the reader-suggested Community Note.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (Vwz3I)

342 I doubt Russia will ever sign a peace treaty on this issue going forward.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 21, 2023 09:28 AM (qL3Hj)

But if Russia succeeds, the Uke supporters will demand he be held to that treaty.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (Angsy)

343 The Beer Wars are getting ugly (beautiful?), competitors are smelling blood and pulling out ALL the stops to put AB Inbev in the ground.
Local to me Keystone (Molson-Coors) has a luxurious ATV out front on a trailer: giveaway promo. Miller not far behind. They are seeing their chance, and they are most certainly taking it.
The local AB distributors have basically been abandoned: 'Trannys rock, H8r! Sell beer!'
Retail floor allocation is upcoming, and that is going to be... interesting. I'm personally curious to see if this 'government' steps in, somehow. That sounds paranoid delusional but honestly, it would not surprise me at this point.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (/BBNv)

344 312 With consecutive 104 degree days forecast starting this weekend, yes the sun is standing still it seems.

Posted by: Count de Monet, down around Houston Texas where the sun shines most of the time at June 21, 2023 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

And boy, are my arms tired. A little help here, please.

Posted by: Moses at June 21, 2023 09:23 AM (Angsy)


Count, if you look-up sunset time in H-Town for the next couple weeks, you'll find it actually gets a few minutes later for a while then remains the same for a time before finally getting earlier. Sunrise slooooowly gets later in that period. It's the opposite at the Winter solstice. Must because the Earth is not perfectly spherical. All I know is, it's gonna remain HOT in the early evening for quite a while.

Posted by: Gref at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

345 802.11 under C

Posted by: pawn at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (wsHtO)

346 Went into a Bucc-ee’s once… once. The place freaked me out. So. Many. People. Never again. The Wall of Jerky was disturbing. People,were standing in front of it like it was a Shrine.
Posted by: tubal at June 21, 2023 09:25 AM (PCK5/)

There have never been any deaths by trampling during the Hajj to Bucc-ees.

Posted by: Roy at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (Pj9mr)

347 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

348 A journalist working for the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) spoke with BlackRock recruiter Serge Varlay — who told her that because of the vast sums of money the company controls in the global market, they can essentially “run the world.” He began with a caveat, noting that BlackRock did not necessarily want people to notice what they were doing.

“They don’t want to be in the news. They don’t want people to talk about them. They don’t want to be anywhere on the radar,” he said, and when the journalist asked him why, he paused. “I don’t know, but I suspect it’s because it’s easier to do things when people aren’t thinking about it.”

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They just can't help themselves, they have to brag how they are the masters of the universe. This guy has blown all their covers, whenever anything goes wrong now we will blame them.

I think these big arrogant conglomerates may need some anti-trust action.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at June 21, 2023 09:31 AM (3JfbU)

349 Francis is a Lutheran, at best.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 21, 2023 09:30 AM (vg8N1)

You mean ELCA, of course.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 21, 2023 09:31 AM (Angsy)

350 I thought all subs have a buoy they can deploy to send a distress message. Did the Lego Submarine not have this?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:32 AM (KY22T)

351 CNN says they count support for the Junta at 32 points positive. This, from the organization that dreamed up a "59% positive" count right after Ashli Babbitt was murdered. Oops, sorry, I mean Biden was inaugurated.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 21, 2023 09:34 AM (/csRr)

352 Conecuh sausage has a store in Evergreen, Alabama. It's affectionately known as The Conecuh Mecca.

Posted by: Get the Hickory Smoke flavor at June 21, 2023 09:34 AM (DhOHl)

353 "I thought all subs have a buoy they can deploy to send a distress message. "

'Should' have....

Not 'Must' have.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2023 09:34 AM (1n+EO)

354 #341 Addendum: I literally just saw this just now...

Dr Whom @chapel3929
Community Notes: Best new feature

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 21, 2023 09:35 AM (Vwz3I)

355 You all make excellent points

Posted by: DB - at June 21, 2023 09:35 AM (geLO8)

356 He began with a caveat, noting that BlackRock did not necessarily want people to notice what they were doing.
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You guys really need to read Buchan's 'The Power House' to discover why Blackrock chose Blackrock as their name. Buchan also wrote 'The Thirty-nine Steps.' He was a spy-suspense novelist in the early 1900s. Basically, Ian Fleming before Ian Fleming.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:36 AM (KY22T)

357 TMZ, 40 minutes ago, Missing Submarine Search Crews Hear 'Banging' Noises On Their Sonars (Their a little late on their pickup of the story, but...) IDK, something seems off. I know technology has changed greatly over decades but how could it possibly get that (Titanic sunk depth) deep in the 1st place? I'm thinking about the USS Thresher SSN-593 mishap, slightly more than 60 years ago.

Press & Guide: On April 9, 1963, the Thresher was 220 miles east of Cape Cod conducting diving tests. It was the first submarine to use the new HY-80 steel alloy, and the Navy was eager to determine how deep the new design could safely dive. At 9:13 a.m., while at a depth of 1,300 feet, the submarine radioed the rescue ship U.S.S.

At what depth did the USS Thresher implode?
U.S. Naval Institute: 2,400 feet. Multiple lines of evidence confirm that the Thresher did not experience major flooding before the collapse of her pressure hull at a depth of 2,400 feet.

Good article - U.S. Naval Institute (usni dot org), "What Killed the Thresher?"

Posted by: L - very tired at June 21, 2023 09:36 AM (GshMh)

358 Deduct 6B from next year's appropriation. Problem semi-solved.

O'Keefe: dies this come as a surprise to any one?

These are some of the reasons why Trump scares them.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 21, 2023 09:36 AM (JkCto)

359 "What Killed the Thresher? This is a Kansas song, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023 09:38 AM (KY22T)

360 359 "What Killed the Thresher? This is a Kansas song, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 21, 2023


Behave

Posted by: L - very tired at June 21, 2023 09:45 AM (GshMh)

361 171

Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

We're just warming up dumping $ at/in (something) Ukraine.



WTF
Posted by: L -

Reparations here we come

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 21, 2023 09:45 AM (JkCto)

362 “First, there is the senators, these guys are f***ing cheap. Got 10 grand? You can buy a senator. I’ll give you 500k right now … It doesn’t matter who wins, they’re in my pocket.”...BlackRock manages $20 trillion. It’s incomprehensible numbers,” he said.

And who are the big investors that control Blackrock? Who's on their board? https://is.gd/oB9Xf3
CEO Larry Fink. Wikipedia:" BlackRock's contract allowed Fink to cultivate relationships with Obama's first Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and additional members of the Obama economic recovery team. In 2016 Fink hoped to become part of the federal government himself as Hillary Clinton's Treasury Secretary."
I'm sure the bulk, if not all, of the others are of the same cloth.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 21, 2023 10:56 AM (ynpvh)

363 "Approximately 6 adults, WHO APPEARED TO BE MALES, were seen in the apartment ...”

That says it all. The only reason we heard about this is because one of the ersatz-males died. Stuff like this is probably going on all around the country.

Posted by: gallchobhair at June 21, 2023 11:05 AM (6thaT)

364
I saw the Ersatz Males open for the Violent Femmes at the Kat Klub in '85.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 12:05 PM (x0n13)

365 "I saw this story and just about blew a fuse:"

Why? This is a stupid take.

The dollar price tag assigned to the old stock we'd been unloading was criticized by anyone in the know and paying attention as being wildly inflated. And that's not even counting the common situation where simply shipping it overseas was significantly cheaper than the cost of the demil operations the stuff was originally slated for.

Posted by: somedood at June 21, 2023 12:17 PM (wK4hU)

366 When you sell the partially depreciated, used, or simply previously owned equipment it will usually have to be replaced. The money you spend to replace it is called "replacement cost".
So, you see, there is no extra money to give to Ukraine unless your plan is to deplete US weapons stockpiles. Is that President Biden's plan?

Posted by: william ferrin at June 21, 2023 01:40 PM (9NArE)

367 365 Posted by: somedood at June 21, 2023 12:17 PM (wK4hU)


You completely missed the point.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 21, 2023 01:41 PM (x0n13)

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