Okay, so the "far right" is paranoid, eh?

Who's afraid of a movie about trafficking children?

Ace was not the only person who noticed how the Guardian quickly switched from being QAnon-adjascent in its concern about child trafficking to joining the media pile-on connecting Sound of Freedom with QAnon. But they themselves reported on child trafficking in Colombia, the main storyline of the movie!

I have seen some attacks on the movie from both right and left because the story in the movie is not "totally true". Well, of course. It is a Hollywood movie. This is what Tim Ballard's organization says is true and what isn't in the movie plot. Based on a true story (except for the parts that aren't.

The movie remains under attack, so it's handy to know that a summary of how much is "Hollywood" is available.

The movie seems to be having an impact in California, of all places:

California Democrats resisted a child trafficking bill - - until they couldn't

It was a perfunctory committee hearing on a day full of them in the Legislature. The measure in question on Tuesday wasn't novel, just another in a long list of attempts to reclassify a misdemeanor as a felony. Like most attempts before it, it met a quiet and undignified end.
The bill was new, but what it sought to do was not. Lawmakers from both parties had made numerous previous attempts to reclassify human trafficking of a minor for purposes of a commercial sex act as a "serious felony," which would be treated as a strike under California's Three Strikes law.
In 2007, twice in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017 and three times in 2021, legislators tried and failed to reclassify child sex trafficking. But then something strange happened after the latest effort went down.
A backlash swiftly took shape on social media. Comments ranged from "What on earth were these Democrats thinking?" to accusations that they were siding with pedophiles -- and at least one Democratic member of the Assembly Public Safety Committee that quashed the bill reported receiving death threats.

Soon the bill, which had already passed the Senate unanimously, began collecting new, high-profile allies. Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference expressed dismay at its failure, telling reporters that he'd reach out to the bill's Republican author, Sen. Shannon Grove of Bakersfield. Newly seated Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Salinas Democrat, also said he was "very much engaged" in trying to move the bill forward.

Heh.

What about those outlandish QAnon conspiracy theories about children being sacrificed in blood rituals? The media is attacking the star of the movie for talking about these. Okay, so attack the BBC, too.

On October 12, 2011, BBC exposed how thousands African children were being kidnapped and trafficked to the United Kingdom for blood rituals through occult societies and reverse aging searchers. Thank goodness the mainstream media calls this a QAnon conspiracy and nothing more. pic.twitter.com/O2ICyebLkH
— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) July 9, 2023

The Guardian joined in, back in 2005:

An unknown number of children are being trafficked from Africa and then used in ritualistic abuse and sacrifice offerings in the UK, according to a leaked report from the Metropolitan police.
The confidential report, leaked to the BBC, means police have discovered what has been known for years, African community activists say.
Many trafficked children suffer abuse at the hands of their relatives and guardians, such as the 10-year-old girl known only as Child B, whose aunt and two other adults were convicted this month for torturing her after the girl was branded a witch by church leaders.
Others, such as Victoria Climbie and the unidentified boy "Adam", whose torso was found floating in the Thames, end up dead.
The BBC reported that the latest investigation by the Met into child trafficking from Africa alleges that these children are being beaten and murdered because they are believed to be possessed by evil spirits. Other alleged uses for the children include domestic slaves and for sexual purposes, including being forced to have sex with men with HIV who believe that sex with a virgin will cure their disease.

Sections from the study included: "People who are desperate will seek out witchcraft experts to cast spells for them. Members of the workshop stated that for a spell to be powerful it required a sacrifice involving a male child unblemished by circumcision.

I'm sure that little detail came from QAnon. Don't you think?

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The NEA and Gavin Newsom are coming for your kids

I'm sorry about including this clip. You may need to turn the sound down. If you click over to Twitter, you may find some interesting commentary in the thread.

The leader of a major teachers union in the US. If you can't concede something is seriously awry with the educational system at this point I just don't know what to say to you. pic.twitter.com/nTDcrpfLJ2
— Michael Nayna (@MikeNayna) July 14, 2023

Can you discern a point in her stemwinder? There are subtitles in case you can't understand the yelling.

Here's one thing that it's about:

The NEA's Recommended Summer Reading is All About Social Justice - - The classics are out, "Gender Queer" is in.

When I was a college student - a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away - the so-called Western canon still carried cultural and intellectual weight among educators. Humanities departments still seemed populated mostly by professors who believed our civilization was a triumph worth preserving. Higher education was certainly in the process of being subverted by Marxist radicals back then, but it hadn't yet completely succumbed to the deconstructive madness reflected in Jesse Jackson's 1987 rallying cry at Stanford University, "Hey ho, hey ho, Western civ has got to go!"
Those halcyon days of my youthful naivete about academia's subversion of the West are long gone. The ranks of today's educators are overwhelmingly dominated by race-and-gender ideologues who are passionate not about passing down to the next generation the West's glorious legacy of "the best that has been thought and said," but about churning out a generation of students completely disconnected from that legacy and indoctrinated into social justice activism. (And not just in university classrooms; the rot has filtered all the way down now to pre-kindergarten.)
Toward that end, educators aren't spending their summer vacation refamiliarizing themselves with the ideas of Isaac Newton or the poetry of Chaucer or the dramatic storytelling of the ancient Greeks. Instead, they're wading in the shallows of contemporary pop culture, soaking up the distorted worldview of critical theory, and immersing themselves in radical pedagogy that will not open young minds but shut them tight.

Christopher Rufo:

Abolish teachers unions.

Deb Fillman

She's scary. They're not your babies ma'am. They're ours, and just so you know? "Education professionals" don't have special rights. Y'all just don't. You are HIRED Speech.
But as we are on the topic of never bending and being committed to a mission, we moms, including @Moms4Liberty, will not bend the knee to the NEA.

Wait! Those are the Moms on the SPLC's hate map! Should the NEA be on the SPLC's hate map instead?

Meanwhile in California: Gov. Gavin Newsom says state will provide social studies textbooks to Temecula if school board won't

The Temecula district could be fined about $1.5 million under Jackson's bill, AB 1078, Izzy Gardon, a spokesperson for the governor, said via email.
In an emailed statement, school board President Joseph Komrosky said it is "unfortunate that Governor Newsom and others have seized upon an action by the Temecula Valley Unified School expressly authorized by the California Legislature and mischaracterized not only what has occurred, but why."
It's misleading, Komrosky said, to say the board banned a textbook.
Newsom "conveniently ignored" the board's concerns about how the social studies curriculum was crafted, including whether the community had enough input and whether the curriculum "adequately addressed the needs of English learners and special education students," Komrosky said.
A revised curriculum is set to be adopted at the school board's meeting Tuesday, July 18, Komrosky said, adding the board made arrangements for every K-5 student in the district to have a textbook from the existing curriculum when the new school year starts.
"That plan is in place and can be implemented should a new curriculum not be adopted by the Board of Education," Komrosky added.
The governor's announcement Thursday marks a new phase in a showdown over an elementary social studies curriculum rejected by district trustees in a 3-2 vote in June because its supplemental materials referenced LGBTQ civil rights leader Harvey Milk, whom Komrosky called a "pedophile."

Fourth graders MUST learn that Harvey Milk was a pioneer or we will fine your district millions of dollars. But they should NOT learn that he had sex with a 16 year old when he was 33 (according to a biography). Also, they should not learn about his close political relationship with Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones, who was a bisexual sadist. (link goes to lgbtqnation)

Newsom was thrilled to find a whole bookstore full of banned books during his "Red States Are Bad" tour. So, since they're in a bookstore, they're not banned, right?

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Children's Literature

A Woke Children's Literature Cabal Is Conditioning Your Kid To Be An Obedient Leftist

Having been a part of the children's book publishing industry for several decades, and as a passionate participant, I have watched in growing dismay as the children's literature, or "kidlit," world has shifted and changed, and most recently taken a drastic plummet. Parents need to understand the destructive path this industry has taken, or they will discover too late as the damage hits home.
Seeing the Shift
This shift in kidlit has been happening for a long time. About 25 years ago, novels that portrayed kids as environmental activists began to win awards. About 15 years ago, the award-winning books showed shocking, disturbing scenarios. Ten years ago, books that depicted sexualization and abuse at younger ages began to win awards. Then, five years ago, it shifted a bit more to where books focused on systemic racism and sexual identity won awards. Today, if books don't include any of the above depictions, they are rarely published by medium and large publishing houses.
And it's the medium and large publishing houses that supply schools, libraries, and bookstores.

Eight years ago, I organized a statewide writer's conference for children's book authors. We brought in several high-powered industry members from major publishing houses. One editor's words threw open the window to this shifting world.
She asked a writer at our conference, who was a leftist himself, about his story. He explained that in his manuscript, his main character learns that his hero is gay. The protagonist is troubled by this and works through his feelings to come to acceptance later in the book.
The respected editor stopped the writer mid-explanation and said, "No." She explained that in kids' books, we must present the ideal as if it already exists. There can be no "being troubled by" gayness. There can be no "coming to terms with" sexual identity. The characters in our stories must immediately accept with positive responses any representation of modern social constructs. This immediately laudatory reaction to woke ideology is now required in kidlit. If an author doesn't portray it as such, his book will not be published.
This pronouncement by the editor shocked me and many other writers there. The line had now been drawn. As writers, our hope of publication rested on our willingness to positively portray woke ideology.

Shortly after this conference, as a part of several online writers' groups, I started to see comments like this: "We have a duty to save children from conservative, Christian thought," and "It's our responsibility as writers to right the wrongs of past traditional thinking." In their minds, they were in a strategic position as writers of kids' books to influence young minds in the direction they wanted. These groups soon canceled me.

There's more at the link.

Do you see any evidence to the contrary? Where do you get books for kids?

It's a bad thing when you try to get kids away from social media and you have a hard time finding good books for them, too! Maybe it's time for them to play outdoors! Maybe you could join them, if the weather permits. Have fun!

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Music

So familiar

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, Thinking Like a Liberal Supreme Court Justice - Or Not

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:06 AM

Comments

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 11:09 AM (xhxe8)

2 It all began in the basement of a non-descript pizza parlor in Northwest Washington, DC. ...

Posted by: Ted Baxter at July 15, 2023 11:18 AM (DhOHl)

3 The left's only concern for live children is if they look sexy. Otherwise they want them dead in the womb.

Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2023 11:18 AM (z3WCn)

4 Work on the movie started in 2014 and filming etc. was completed in 2018 -- well before any Q-anon nonsense. So that's easy to refute bullshit.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 15, 2023 11:19 AM (krqg6)

5 Hi, everybody!

Posted by: KT at July 15, 2023 11:19 AM (rrtZS)

6 I still find it disturbing that slavery (of any color or race) is just papered over so thoroughly. Whether it is the Uighurs in China or young illegals- still wrong.

I'd be willing to bet that if you actually could get a straight answer from a modern woke idiot, they would have no problem with slavery as a concept, just who is in chains.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:19 AM (zZu0s)

7 That was some speech.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:19 AM (86W+h)

8 And yes, just to carry it on from the last thread, if you are a politician, a Republican, and you AREN'T running against Democrats who are mutilating children, and condoning trafficking them into sex slavery... if you aren't saying it LOUDLY in your campaign, you are at best a coward, and at worst, complicit.

Say it, you assholes. You're running for office against evil. Call it what it is.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:19 AM (Toz5N)

9 That was some speech....

********

...and yet my stem stubbornly remained unwound.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 15, 2023 11:21 AM (kXYt5)

10 Great stuff, KT! My first impulse is to laugh at lefties like that ridiculous NEA shouter (that’s all she’s doing) or the Guardian for their obvious hypocrisy. BUT… as tempting as it may be to laugh, they are dangerous because they have power, they’re not afraid to use it (unlike 99.9% of the GOP) and (perhaps most worrying) they’re completely disconnected from reality and driven purely by emotions (i.e. girls can become boys and vis versa). That combo produces only destruction… Temecula just happens to be one place in their crosshairs. Nice place… I once ran the “Avacado Half Marathon” near there… they don’t stage that race anymore

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 15, 2023 11:22 AM (xT8gx)

11 I still find it disturbing that slavery (of any color or race) is just papered over so thoroughly. Whether it is the Uighurs in China or young illegals- still wrong.

I'd be willing to bet that if you actually could get a straight answer from a modern woke idiot, they would have no problem with slavery as a concept, just who is in chains.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:19 AM (zZu0s)

It's one of those things you can say to any Woke you encounter: There is more slavery today than there has ever been in human history. You can look it up.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:22 AM (Toz5N)

12 The Left will soon call for the banning of Orwell’s 1984 when they finally realize it’s not their instruction manual but rather a warning against Leftist fascism.

I think every sensible teacher and school board should make it mandatory reading in grade 10 and then again in grade 12 where a discussion can be had on whether the student has experienced or seen what’s been described in the book since reading it in the 10th grade.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 11:23 AM (MNhXM)

13 >>> ...and yet my stem stubbornly remained unwound.

Did it stir your passion for der Fatherland?

I saw that comparison yesterday.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:23 AM (86W+h)

14 That wasn't a speech, it was a sermon. From something that's evil and brain damaged.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2023 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

15 Yesterday I brought books I'd picked out for my granddaughters to the pool where my son has a membership. It was late afternoon and after a brief swim we were forced out of the pool due to thunder. I had thought a lot about the books. For the 4 yr old not quite reading yet in love with gymnastics, found an early reader with only a few words on a page about a little girl at a gymnastics meet. For the 6 yr old, Mr Popper's Penguins which I had told her was the first book her daddy wrote a book report on.
Next thing I knew, both girls had their noses buried in the books.
Life is good. ❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2023 11:24 AM (t/2Uw)

16 I can't stand Steve Martin's style of humor. Just hate it.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:24 AM (Toz5N)

17 The Left project so much that they eventually believe their own lies.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 11:25 AM (MNhXM)

18 Well

I don't watch movies much, have never been to Disney anything.

I do not touch young girls, or attempt to lick them.

Or actually lick them in front of cameras.

There has never been cocaine in any place where I have lived.

I am also not President.

So probably OK

Posted by: Modestly Honest at July 15, 2023 11:25 AM (bqhaz)

19 The right should fully embrace climate change and higher taxes. Within a day, every leftist would become Milton Friedman and buy a Hummer. I don’t think your average leftist is a Pedo. But they defend pedos because the right is anti-Pedo. It’s reflexive for them. If someone on the right opposes it, they’re for it and ice versa. Doesn’t matter what “it” is.

Posted by: Montec at July 15, 2023 11:27 AM (rOObm)

20 Huked on fonicks werked for mi!

Posted by: The Weakly Reeder at July 15, 2023 11:28 AM (T0tUU)

21 ...and yet my stem stubbornly remained unwound.
Posted by: Muldoon

I can't stand Steve Martin's style of humor. Just hate it.
Posted by: BurtTC

Posted by: *Miklosbot is down for pre-planned overloand and maintenance* at July 15, 2023 11:28 AM (bqhaz)

22
As a result of the Priest scandal in the Catholic church, a program was initiated in Catholic schools after years of research and debate. Every year in every class children get an age-appropriate week long daily lesson of about an hour in length. The teachers hate giving it as it is not a comfortable topic and they feel the scapegoat for what some Priests had done. But it's probably the opposite of the public school groomers. Ways for children to protect themselves from predators, who is a 'trusted' individual and who is not. It's been two decades for me so I forget all the details.

But if you're a parent (or grandparent who can help out financially) Catholic school - perhaps for at least K-8 - might be the safest place until this little insurrection of child abuse by some public school teachers is put down. I'm damn sure that no one is going to be encouraging any 'gender affirmation' or LGBT+ worship or any of that crap in a Catholic school.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2023 11:30 AM (enJYY)

23 Q-Anon is the Reichstag fire of Climate Change.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:30 AM (s12c9)

24 Q-Anon is the Reichstag fire of Climate Change.
Posted by: Cicero

No

Posted by: highly flammable blue hair dye at July 15, 2023 11:31 AM (bqhaz)

25 QAnon-adjacent.
Cute how they came up with this term once it was pointed out the movie was made long before QAnon was a thing.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2023 11:32 AM (e4fEA)

26 How to become a millionaire.

First get yourself a million dollars.

How can you think that was not funny . It works on so many levels.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 11:33 AM (MNhXM)

27 Is QAnon still a thing? I thought it wasn't still a thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:34 AM (5I8XE)

28 The Left will soon call for the banning of Orwell’s 1984 when they finally realize it’s not their instruction manual but rather a warning against Leftist fascism.

I read a book about "1984" written in 1984 by British academics.

They were in unanimous agreement that "1984" did an amazing job of predicting the horrors of Thatcher's regime.

Posted by: Asa Hutchinson! at July 15, 2023 11:35 AM (2tUFv)

29 I can't stand Steve Martin's style of humor. Just hate it.

It was funny when it was new -- 45 years ago (geez, I'm old). I was enjoying the banjo piece until he started clowning and took me right out of the music. He's a good banjo player but he just can't stop himself from being Steve Martin.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2023 11:35 AM (nfrXX)

30 Is QAnon still a thing? I thought it wasn't still a thing.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:34 AM (5I8XE)

---------

The Left, the media and the Feds work day and night to keep its corpse animated.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:35 AM (s12c9)

31 That was some speech....

********

...and yet my stem stubbornly remained unwound.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 15, 2023 11:21 AM (kXYt5)
***

I've never understood the origin of that phrase.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2023 11:37 AM (e4fEA)

32 How to become a millionaire.

First get yourself a million dollars.

How can you think that was not funny . It works on so many levels.
Posted by: polynikes

Robert Morse as J. Pierpont Finch

Posted by: How to succeed in business without really trying at July 15, 2023 11:37 AM (bqhaz)

33 If someone on the right opposes it, they’re for it and ice versa. Doesn’t matter what “it” is.

Nah, they're flexible. Ice cream was bad when Trump had it and great when Joetato has it.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2023 11:37 AM (nfrXX)

34 and yet my stem stubbornly remained unwound.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 15, 2023 11:21 AM (kXYt5)
***

I've never understood the origin of that phrase.
Posted by: Diogenes

Forget it, he's rolling

Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos (tri-Delt is Tiffani) at July 15, 2023 11:38 AM (bqhaz)

35 I've never understood the origin of that phrase.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2023 11:37 AM (e4fEA)

Per the internet, it refers to winding a watch and making it go. Then that translated over to being a good speech, getting people 'wound up.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:38 AM (zZu0s)

36 Morning Horde, good post K.T. I've posted this before but in the movie Sleeper Woody Allen wakes up from a cryogenic sleep after a nuclear war. He is asked if he had any clue how it started and the questioner says "we think it started when a man named Albert Shanker got the bomb " . Albert Shanker was the founder of the NEA , Randi Weingartens predecessor. Given the behavior of the NEA and the education mob, Allen was pretty much right on target

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 15, 2023 11:38 AM (kJa+y)

37 the Guardian is a hysterical lefty print. they are just doing what is in their nature.

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2023 11:38 AM (V13WU)

38 They were in unanimous agreement that "1984" did an amazing job of predicting the horrors of Thatcher's regime.
Posted by: Asa Hutchinson! at July 15, 2023 11:35 AM (2tUFv)

Not realizing that their book existing proves otherwise. Or that their book was the one that followed the 1984 template.

Okay they did realize it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 11:39 AM (MNhXM)

39 he just can't stop himself from being Steve Martin.

A Wild and Crazy Guy

Posted by: Georg, Yortuk and Miklos Festrunk from Bratislava at July 15, 2023 11:39 AM (bqhaz)

40 If someone on the right opposes it, they’re for it and ice versa. Doesn’t matter what “it” is.

Nah, they're perfectly willing to accept victory when a "conservative" caves on something like global warming theology.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:39 AM (2tUFv)

41 I always thought a stemwinder was a speech so overly long that your watch died in the middle of it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:40 AM (s12c9)

42 What a nightmare of what the school syshas become.
All week there is a church private school next to where I am working with sign Non- Sectarian private education, but could almost be it is and is Cultural Marxism, would truly be shocked if it wasn't.

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 11:40 AM (xhxe8)

43
School choice is like fusion energy, always right around the corner. So tired of politicians who promise and never deliver. There is some sort of school choice in FL but I've never delved into the particulars.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2023 11:40 AM (enJYY)

44 >>> Per the internet, it refers to winding a watch and making it go. Then that translated over to being a good speech, getting people 'wound up.'

I always thought it meant a speech so long-winded that people had to wind their watch.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:40 AM (86W+h)

45 Forget it, he's rolling
Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos (tri-Delt is Tiffani) at July 15, 2023 11:38 AM (bqhaz)

HA!
Gawd I love this place!
I actually knew a Tri-Delt named Tiffany. Washington State U. Back in the 70's.
Nice gal.
Go Cougs!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 15, 2023 11:41 AM (e4fEA)

46 Fidel Castro was famous for his stemwinders. It doesn't mean they were good, just mandatory.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:43 AM (s12c9)

47 Of course, few Cubans could afford a watch to wind.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:43 AM (s12c9)

48 Miss Lindsey had a Tweet yesterday explaining why the Ukraine War is a Great Deal for the American taxpayer:

The bottom line on the “costs” supporting Ukraine:

1️⃣ Zero American service members in combat.

2️⃣ Zero American service members killed in Ukraine.

3️⃣ A very small percentage of the American defense budget has been spent to assist Ukraine’s military.

4️⃣ The Ukrainian military, in defense of their homeland, is systematically dismantling Putin’s Army.

Good deal for America and all who love freedom.

Good thing Ukrainian blood is free, eh?

He really is going to fight this war to the last Ukrainian.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:43 AM (2tUFv)

49 Stemwinder is a compliment description. Teddy Roosevelt gave a number of stemwinder speeches.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 11:43 AM (MNhXM)

50 Principles, we don't need no stinkin' principles.

- the left

For them their politics is their religion. And they're jihadi-like about it. Rabid even. With the advantage that unlike religion, politics can change as the wind blows to suit whatever they want.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2023 11:44 AM (Q4IgG)

51 >>> Fidel Castro was famous for his stemwinders.

Spanish people are verbose, in my limited experience.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:44 AM (86W+h)

52 41 I always thought a stemwinder was a speech so overly long that your watch died in the middle of it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:40 AM (s12c9)

That's a good one too. Makes a much sense as the internet's guesses.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:44 AM (zZu0s)

53 I can't stand Steve Martin's style of humor. Just hate it.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:24 AM (Toz5N)

I never liked his stand-up comedy, but he's been in some very good movies. And some bad ones.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 15, 2023 11:44 AM (T/Lqj)

54 Sound of Freedom producer Eduardo Verastagui is considering a run for President of Mexico.

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 11:44 AM (ZNVto)

55 Going to see MI this afternoon with 'Ette Iris.
Have a great day everybody.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2023 11:45 AM (t/2Uw)

56 Guy talked so long I had to re-wind my watch.

Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2023 11:45 AM (z3WCn)

57 Good thing Ukrainian blood is free, eh?

He really is going to fight this war to the last Ukrainian.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:43 AM (2tUFv)

Nah, he'd be fine with us being bled white too. You know those are lies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:45 AM (zZu0s)

58 55 Going to see MI this afternoon with 'Ette Iris.
Have a great day everybody.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 15, 2023 11:45 AM (t/2Uw)

Have fun sharon.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)

59 Dear 44, “Both, and” work well on that one.
Well said.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 15, 2023 11:46 AM (glGDV)

60 Of course, few Cubans could afford a watch to wind.
Posted by: Cicero

MUERTE A CAPITALISMO!

Y LOS TEN DOLLAR CASIO INDESTRUCTIBLES!

Posted by: Watches for all under the Five Year Plan of 1970 at July 15, 2023 11:46 AM (bqhaz)

61 I'm shocked, shocked! I say - that a 'neutral' news source would criticize an anti-trafficking film.

Who am I kidding! No I'm not.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2023 11:46 AM (63An5)

62 I never liked his stand-up comedy, but he's been in some very good movies. And some bad ones.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 15, 2023 11:44 AM (T/Lqj)

Roxanne and All of Me (with Lily Tomlin.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:46 AM (zZu0s)

63 Fidel Castro was famous for his stemwinders. It doesn't mean they were good, just mandatory.

Yeah, you got to stand in the Plaza de la Revolución for hours listening to Fidel blather on.

Lucky you.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:46 AM (2tUFv)

64
Spanish people are verbose, in my limited experience.
Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:44 AM (86W+h)

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S'right.

Posted by: Senor Wences at July 15, 2023 11:46 AM (s12c9)

65 I can't stand Steve Martin's style of humor. Just hate it.
Posted by: BurtTC

Not even the arrow through head headache bit?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2023 11:47 AM (63An5)

66 Media absolute dismissed of the danger of child sex trafficking is engaging and frightening.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 11:47 AM (aCNZ6)

67 Added to the shock of the magnitude of the child sex trafficking problem,, I'm profoundly disturbed that it is driven by its biggest consumer, the American sex tourist and CP afficionado.

What is it about the American psyche that has created these monsters?

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 11:48 AM (ZNVto)

68 I never liked his stand-up comedy, but he's been in some very good movies. And some bad ones.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,

Every time I see Steve Martin, I stick a fork in my eye.

Ergo the cork

Posted by: Rupprecht, a Dirty Rotten Miklos Type of Scoundrel at July 15, 2023 11:48 AM (bqhaz)

69 We're now at the point where, if a kids book is given some awards, it means avoid it like the plague. They're equivalent to having a third Reich seal of approval.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2023 11:49 AM (S6gqv)

70 You know who else talked a long time.

Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2023 11:49 AM (z3WCn)

71 Steve Martin was funny in his time. I'm not sure his straight-faced dopiness would hold up well if I listened to his bits now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:49 AM (s12c9)

72 Is this the thread where we discuss Pervert Joe Biden's lifetime sickness of molesting children and nobody gives a flying fuck?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 15, 2023 11:49 AM (KVGVf)

73 Cultural Marxists took over the schools and working on the military.
We are so screwed

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 11:49 AM (xhxe8)

74 S'right.
Posted by: Senor Wences

He...he's cute

Posted by: Lambchop at July 15, 2023 11:49 AM (bqhaz)

75

Albert Shanker was president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1985 and president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 15, 2023 11:50 AM (63Dwl)

76 Nah, he'd be fine with us being bled white too. You know those are lies.

Of course.

Miss Lindsey's arguments will change when American troops are committed to Ukraine.

I assume that Miss Lindsey's statements are censored in Ukraine, because one would think that his repeated "the Ukraine War is a great deal, because we're not doing the dying" statements would enrage the population.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:50 AM (2tUFv)

77 What is it about the American psyche that has created these monsters?
Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 11:48 AM (ZNVto)

I would say it has probably always been an abnormal psychology in humans- it is just in a small village or tribe they got clubbed to death really quickly. That probably encouraged anyone with those kinds of kink to not express themselves.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:50 AM (zZu0s)

78 Cultural Marxists took over the schools and working on the military.
We are so screwed
Posted by: Skip

NOT UNTIL I SAY SO YOUNG MAN

Posted by: Protective Aunt at July 15, 2023 11:51 AM (bqhaz)

79 Bowfinger is brilliant!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2023 11:51 AM (S6gqv)

80 Good thing Ukrainian blood is free, eh?

He really is going to fight this war to the last Ukrainian.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:43 AM (2tUFv)

And anyone who thinks there won't be American troops fighting there soon enough is delusional.

As are those who claim they're bleeding the Russians dry. The Russian military, and economy, are doing just fine. Don't believe the lie. It's as big a lie as the Covid plandemic, and everyone who says "Russia is losing, their military is in shambles" is in on the grift.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:51 AM (8u1Sv)

81 70 You know who else talked a long time.
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2023 11:49 AM (z3WCn)

William Henry Harrison.

And then he did not talk at all.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:52 AM (zZu0s)

82 Social media has exacerbated every human aberration.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:52 AM (s12c9)

83 Crumbl Cookie kid just dropped off three boxes assorted. What a beautiful day!

Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2023 11:52 AM (z3WCn)

84 I assume that Miss Lindsey's statements are censored in Ukraine, because one would think that his repeated "the Ukraine War is a great deal, because we're not doing the dying" statements would enrage the population.

Do you think they don't know who's doing the dying?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2023 11:53 AM (eOEVl)

85 Bowfinger is brilliant!
Posted by: Tom Servo

Sorry

Still gotta go with Mary Ann and the crossbow

Posted by: Friendly Neighborhood Troublemaker at July 15, 2023 11:53 AM (bqhaz)

86 And anyone who thinks there won't be American troops fighting there soon enough is delusional.

Calling up the reserves, even if it is only 3,000 initially, is a big, big, hint on how things are going to go.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:53 AM (2tUFv)

87 As are those who claim they're bleeding the Russians dry

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You know who else thought he could bleed the Russians dry?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:53 AM (s12c9)

88 Social media has exacerbated every human aberration.
Posted by: Cicero

Agreed, although I must admit, I didn't see it coming at the beginning of all of this.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2023 11:53 AM (63An5)

89 >>> everyone who says "Russia is losing, their military is in shambles"

The whole Wagner 'not a mutiny' still puzzles me.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:53 AM (86W+h)

90 82 Social media has exacerbated every human aberration.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 15, 2023 11:52 AM (s12c9)

Yes. Because you can go somewhere online and find other people who share your predilections.

Good if you are into collecting coins, or bird watching or busty redheads, bad for other things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:53 AM (zZu0s)

91 As are those who claim they're bleeding the Russians dry. The Russian military, and economy, are doing just fine. Don't believe the lie. It's as big a lie as the Covid plandemic, and everyone who says "Russia is losing, their military is in shambles" is in on the grift.

It seems that many of Russia's top generals disagree with you.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2023 11:54 AM (eOEVl)

92 The whole Wagner 'not a mutiny' still puzzles me.
Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:53 AM (86W+h)

My theory has not been disproved: it was an Erdogan style 'coup' that was intended to do a stress test to see if any other elements in the army or government would jump in. These elements could then be identified and eliminated.

I think it did exactly what it was supposed to do.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:55 AM (zZu0s)

93 Social media has exacerbated every human aberration.
Posted by: Cicero

Whole lotta exacerbatin' goin' on up theah

Posted by: Rush Limbaugh as Fritz Hollings as Kam Ho as Kim Fong at July 15, 2023 11:55 AM (bqhaz)

94 I assume that Miss Lindsey's statements are censored in Ukraine, because one would think that his repeated "the Ukraine War is a great deal, because we're not doing the dying" statements would enrage the population.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:50 AM (2tUFv)

I assume the Ukrainian people don't hear any of the arguments Americans are having over this thing. They are no doubt being told America and all the NATO nations are all in on "defending" them from the bad people. That any day now, their NATO membership card will come in the mail, and behind it a wave of American troops.

Because Ukraine is NOT a democracy, and there is no such thing as freedom for the Ukrainian people being fought for.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:55 AM (8u1Sv)

95 Still gotta go with Mary Ann and the crossbow
Posted by: Friendly Neighborhood Troublemaker

Kinky but this is the Horde after all.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2023 11:55 AM (63An5)

96 Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:50 AM (zZu0s)

so now the "village" is the WWW. And rather than getting clubed to death these monsters find a great community to share their perversions and lust for children. And it is beyond ugly.

An ethical hacker describes what he discovered on a child p3do forum:
https://tinyurl.com/ykyahf6h

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 11:56 AM (ZNVto)

97 Do you think they don't know who's doing the dying?

Ukrainians know who is doing the dying.

Having American politicians gleefully announcing what a Great, Great Deal the Ukraine War is for the United States, because Americans aren't doing the dying, would still be enraging, one would think.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:56 AM (2tUFv)

98 >>> My theory has not been disproved

Makes more sense than most Democrats.

Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:57 AM (86W+h)

99 I assume the Ukrainian people don't hear any of the arguments Americans are having over this thing.

One of the first things the Ukrainian government did when the war started was to take complete control of the media.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:57 AM (2tUFv)

100 95 Still gotta go with Mary Ann and the crossbow
Posted by: Friendly Neighborhood Troublemaker

Kinky but this is the Horde after all.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 15, 2023 11:55 AM (63An5)

No pics of Dawn Wells with a crossbow. All I got was Bow Hunting Barbie! and a picture of a nice older lady standing over the corpse of a deer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 11:57 AM (zZu0s)

101 It seems that many of Russia's top generals disagree with you.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2023 11:54 AM (eOEVl)

And American generals too!

I'm sure they all wear high heels because they think it makes them look pretty too. Just like you.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 11:57 AM (8u1Sv)

102 The hacker starts to describe his op about halfway through the above clip. One of the horrifying revelations: parents trafficking their own very young children.

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 11:58 AM (ZNVto)

103 DeSantis was hitting home runs with Tucker yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/yc3zpdbw

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2023 11:58 AM (eOEVl)

104 What has created these monsters?

A great surplus of wealth and an even greater deficit of Faith.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2023 11:58 AM (S6gqv)

105 With no apologies to the Nazi-simp who wrote the original...
"You! Yes, you! Come here to daddy!"

When kids grow up and go to school
There are certain groomers who are
Hurting children any way they can

By pouring their perversion
Upon everything they do
And exposing their genitals
However barely hidden to the kids

But out in the middle of their Uptown lofts
When they get home at night
Their fat, heterophobic "wives" will thrash them
Within inches of their lives

cont.

Posted by: goozer at July 15, 2023 11:59 AM (tfTmm)

106 cont.

We don't need your "education"
We don't need your thought control
No drag queen dancing in the classroom
Groomer, leave them kids alone!

Hey! Groomer! Leave those kids alone!

All in all they want to show you their dicks and their balls
All in all they want you to hold their dicks and their balls

We don't need your "education"
We don't need your thought control
No drag queen dancing in the classroom
Groomers, leave them kids alone

Hey! Groomers! Leave those kids alone!

All in all they want to show you their dicks and their balls
All in all they want you to hold their dicks and their balls

"Wrong - touch it again!"
"If you don't eat my meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat my meat?"

Posted by: goozer at July 15, 2023 11:59 AM (tfTmm)

107 Still gotta go with Mary Ann and the crossbow
Posted by: Friendly Neighborhood Troublemaker

Kinky but this is the Horde after all.
Posted by: Tonypete

She wants it.

I coulda got everybody off this island years ago.

Heh

Mary Ann, Ginger....even Mrs. Howell

Not so bad here

Posted by: The Professor, who can make ANYTHING from coconuts at July 15, 2023 11:59 AM (bqhaz)

108 I'm sure they all wear high heels because they think it makes them look pretty too. Just like you.

Good one. *rolls eyes*

Posted by: Archimedes at July 15, 2023 11:59 AM (eOEVl)

109 I just went and watched some of Martin’s 1976 Stand up. Some of it was lol and some of it doesn’t hold up as expected.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 11:59 AM (MNhXM)

110 102 The hacker starts to describe his op about halfway through the above clip. One of the horrifying revelations: parents trafficking their own very young children.
Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 11:58 AM (ZNVto)

Evil exists.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:00 PM (zZu0s)

111 One of the first things the Ukrainian government did when the war started was to take complete control of the media.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 11:57 AM (2tUFv)

They'll be restoring democracy and freedom, just as soon as it's safe to do so. They have a five year plan.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:00 PM (8u1Sv)

112 What has created these monsters?

A great surplus of wealth and an even greater deficit of Faith.
Posted by: Tom Servo

This

"Worse before Better"

Posted by: Lenin at July 15, 2023 12:01 PM (bqhaz)

113 My theory has not been disproved: it was an Erdogan style 'coup' that was intended to do a stress test to see if any other elements in the army or government would jump in. These elements could then be identified and eliminated.

It was very strange coup.

A couple of generals are rumored to be purged.

I still don't think that this was deliberate - one of the key factors underlying Putin's PR is the impression of strength, and having coup forces running around Russia largely unmolested undermines that.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 12:02 PM (2tUFv)

114 Lindsey of course didn’t list what was the significant American interest for us being involved.

There is nada.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 12:02 PM (MNhXM)

115 There was also speculation the Wagner 'coup' (not a coup) was to reposition themselves for future action. Basically they got to move without being under constant attack by Ukrainian forces that thought they were, in fact, opposing Putin.

The half hearted attempt to stop them with dump trucks was amusing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2023 12:02 PM (Q4IgG)

116 They'll be restoring democracy and freedom, just as soon as it's safe to do so. They have a five year plan.

Hey, Ukraine will have elections again, as soon as martial law is lifted.

Might take more than five years, though.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 12:03 PM (2tUFv)

117 Abolish government skools.

Ventilate sodomites when found sodomiting.

Turn off the main stream media.

Your welcome!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2023 12:04 PM (R/m4+)

118 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 15, 2023 12:04 PM (T4tVD)

119 The hacker starts to describe his op about halfway through the above clip. One of the horrifying revelations: parents trafficking their own very young children.
Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 11:58 AM (ZNVto)

There are dozens of arrests made in the USA in the past decade just for that.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 12:04 PM (MNhXM)

120 I can't even with the NEA pyrsyn. Couldn't get through it.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 15, 2023 12:04 PM (0FIl/)

121 >>> any day now, their NATO membership card will come in the mail, and behind it a wave of American troops.

There are the 3,000 reservists being and 250 IRR (specifically what used to be called NBC specialists) being called up in prep for the 80,000 regulars to mob'd to eastern europe.

But that is just a rumor.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 15, 2023 12:04 PM (ga8qR)

122 I still don't think that this was deliberate - one of the key factors underlying Putin's PR is the impression of strength, and having coup forces running around Russia largely unmolested undermines that.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 12:02 PM (2tUFv)

Yeah, but Putin has to know that any mercenaries he employs HAS to be being approached about turning coat by western... conglomerates. He is a paranoid dude. I could see this as an op a KGB guy would institute. Just on a massive scale.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:05 PM (zZu0s)

123 Russia may not have spent as much money as we have in Ukraine.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 12:06 PM (MNhXM)

124 So in pointing out on a daily basis even in the comments the fact that our culture and government is completely broken.......this is being an "eeyore". In spite of this stuff not only staring us in the face with words, acts.........reality. If you point this out and say we are not going to vote, legislate or pray our way out of this, you're an eeyore?
I'm told we have to be patient, "run for dog catcher, run for city council, run for school board!". "Be patient it may take ten, fifteen, twenty years!" People call our political opposition "evil" yet do not seem to fully understand what evil people are if you think you are going to just vote, legislate or pray your way out of this. The only way to defeat evil is to be meaner than evil. In the face of evil voting, legislating and praying is moderation and not a virtue. At some point the left will drag us into what we intend to avoid.
What is being done to kids right now is evil in its purest form. I am embarrassed as a man and a father that that I do nothing in the face of this. Being told to vote, run for office, legislate, pray is unacceptable in the face of evil like this.

Posted by: JROD at July 15, 2023 12:06 PM (IlL6s)

125 Might take more than five years, though.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 12:03 PM (2tUFv)

Of course. They learned that trick from the best.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:07 PM (8u1Sv)

126 "DeSantis was hitting home runs with Tucker yesterday."

Easy to hit home runs when the pitcher is throwing batting practice.

Am I right?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 15, 2023 12:07 PM (89Sog)

127 hiya
Posted by: JT

ayih

Posted by: In Hebrew it would look like this at July 15, 2023 12:08 PM (bqhaz)

128 Yeah, but Putin has to know that any mercenaries he employs HAS to be being approached about turning coat by western... conglomerates.

Yeah, there were rumors that Prigozhin was in contact with Ukrainian military intelligence, and was trying to negotiate basically an unofficial cease-fire with the Ukrainians.

As always, Russia is a mystery wrapped inside an enigma.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 12:08 PM (2tUFv)

129 Evil exists.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:00 PM (zZu0s)

Yes, evil exists all over the world. But the particular evil that manifests as child sex trafficking for purposes of actual physical engagement with babies, or feeding the insatiable appetite of CP addicts seems to be an American specialty, you know - like mom's apple pie.

It's not a product of the Anglosphere, the Mediterranean basin, Eastern Europe or even the Asian subcontinent. How and when did my fellow citizens lapse into such beastly depravity?

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 12:09 PM (ZNVto)

130 Interesting (but totally consistent with the AWFLs and Pervs' track record) that they used people like Jesse Jackson to kill off Western Civ, but instead of replacing it with African writers, brought in a bunch of lesbian and tranny porn.

But blacks keep aligning with the Dems, so at this point, they deserve no sympathy, but much blame.

Posted by: Wally at July 15, 2023 12:09 PM (qtpCP)

131 The hacker starts to describe his op about halfway through the above clip. One of the horrifying revelations: parents trafficking their own very young children.
Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 11:58 AM (ZNVto)

There are dozens of arrests made in the USA in the past decade just for that.
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 12:04 PM (MNhXM)

Perhaps the most disturbing case of memory-holing by the MSM was the Atlanta area gheigh couple that adopted several boys and did this.

Unbelievably sick stuff. Media quickly got busy ignoring that one.

This wasn't just a "gheigh" couple. I was told they are "activists".

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 15, 2023 12:09 PM (0FIl/)

132 Russia may not have spent as much money as we have in Ukraine.
Posted by: polynikes

Didn't give me none

Yet

Posted by: Miss Lidsey, spending time with the "family" at July 15, 2023 12:10 PM (bqhaz)

133 Perhaps the most disturbing case of memory-holing by the MSM was the Atlanta area gheigh couple that adopted several boys and did this.

Or the kids adopted by gay couples that were getting monkeypox.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 12:11 PM (2tUFv)

134 Russia may not have spent as much money as we have in Ukraine.
Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 12:06 PM (MNhXM)

at least we're getting our money's worth

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 15, 2023 12:11 PM (0FIl/)

135 55 Going to see MI this afternoon with 'Ette Iris.
Have a great day everybody.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Have fun and stay safe !

Posted by: JT at July 15, 2023 12:12 PM (T4tVD)

136 Who's afraid?

Joey Bidet, if he was compus mentus.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 15, 2023 12:12 PM (35YvA)

137 There are the 3,000 reservists being and 250 IRR (specifically what used to be called NBC specialists) being called up in prep for the 80,000 regulars to mob'd to eastern europe.

But that is just a rumor.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 15, 2023 12:04 PM (ga8qR)

I don't see how we're not going in. It's following the Vietnam template quite closely.

People in this country will be doing cartwheels all over their so-called principles. Watch as folks start becoming draft-curious.

Now, I'm not predicting, but putting out there, watch to see if the next plandemic isn't blamed on those bad Rooskies. "POOTIN RELEASED COVID 23!!!!"

Let's go nookim.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:12 PM (rFHti)

138 How and when did my fellow citizens lapse into such beastly depravity?
Posted by: kallisto

Ask her

Posted by: Adam at July 15, 2023 12:12 PM (bqhaz)

139 hiya
Posted by: JT

ayih
Posted by: In Hebrew it would look like this

Gesundheidt !

Posted by: JT at July 15, 2023 12:13 PM (T4tVD)

140 It's not a product of the Anglosphere, the Mediterranean basin, Eastern Europe or even the Asian subcontinent. How and when did my fellow citizens lapse into such beastly depravity?
Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 12:09 PM (ZNVto

It’s always existed. What brings people down is the instant communication we have today that makes it appear it’s so much worse than in the past. The fact is the fight against evil is and has always been a constant battle with ebbs and flows that won’t end until the earth ends. Some people give up and some continue the battle any way they can.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 12:14 PM (MNhXM)

141 Ghey activists who adopted two brothers and then proceeded to sexually abuse them. Went on for years.

Probably, likely, not an isolated incident.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2023 12:14 PM (Q4IgG)

142 One thing you don't have to give Putin credit for - several years ago, he created an anti-coup force (the "National Guard") that answers directly to him, not to the Defense Ministry or the Interior Ministry.

Thinking ahead.

These were the people confronting Wagner - not the Russian army.

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 12:14 PM (2tUFv)

143 3 things you can count on

Death
Taxes
An American war in a far off shithole

Posted by: Montec at July 15, 2023 12:15 PM (rOObm)

144 Kung Flu Boogaloo part2? Possibly. I think they're going for the Global Warming bullshit in '24.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 15, 2023 12:15 PM (TZ75n)

145 AOC issued a tweet saying the person who invents a ship powered by wind will be a billionaire. Okay

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:15 PM (aCNZ6)

146 Knowing what we now know about this country's role as primary consumer of child sex materials, why would the lyrics of America the Beautiful hold true:

"God shed His grace on thee"

No, I don't think it's grace that God is about to shed on this nation.

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 12:16 PM (ZNVto)

147 Yeah, there were rumors that Prigozhin was in contact with Ukrainian military intelligence, and was trying to negotiate basically an unofficial cease-fire with the Ukrainians.

As always, Russia is a mystery wrapped inside an enigma.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 12:08 PM (2tUFv)

Yeah, who knows. But the Russians have no incentive not to have a cease fire, negotiate a settlement that allows them to get at least some of their demands met, and presumably give up some too.

Why won't it happen? We won't let it. We're the bad guys. Full. Stop.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:18 PM (BaiDa)

148 Ghey activists who adopted two brothers and then proceeded to sexually abuse them. Went on for years.

Probably, likely, not an isolated incident.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

As there is a reason why gays were banned from the militray there is likely a reason why gays were banned from 'adoption'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 15, 2023 12:18 PM (ga8qR)

149 Knowing what we now know about this country's role as primary consumer of child sex materials, why would the lyrics of America the Beautiful hold true:

"God shed His grace on thee"

No, I don't think it's grace that God is about to shed on this nation.
Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 12:16 PM (ZNVto)

I believe God is going to give us a second chance if we ask him. I don’t think over turning Roe v Wade went unnoticed.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 12:19 PM (MNhXM)

150 Bomb bomb bomb
Bomb bomb Ukraine

Joe Biden’s Cluster Bombs Arrive In Ukraine

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 15, 2023 12:19 PM (FVME7)

151 AOC issued a tweet saying the person who invents a ship powered by wind will be a billionaire. Okay
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:15 PM (aCNZ6)

Well I don't know nothin about sailing, but having heard about that America's cup thing, isn't that basically true?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:20 PM (BaiDa)

152 Who is afraid to mention that Putin has kidnapped 1000s of children from Ukraine. Do the pro Putin/Trumpets
Think that this is none of our business?

Posted by: Paul at July 15, 2023 12:20 PM (2/XoG)

153 The whole Wagner 'not a mutiny' still puzzles me.

It happened days after the feds discovered $6 billion more to send to Ukraine, so I'm sticking with "the Deep State paid Wagner to coup. They immediately called up Putin, agreed to put on a show for MSNBC, and then split the money".

Posted by: Ian S. at July 15, 2023 12:20 PM (FD5dr)

154 And one of the code words on the p3do board that the hacker noticed was..."pizza".

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 12:21 PM (ZNVto)

155 I'm so old I can remember when "It's for the children!" was the leftwing rallying cry.

Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:21 PM (PZvjL)

156 Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:15 PM (aCNZ6)

Well I don't know nothin about sailing, but having heard about that America's cup thing, isn't that basically true?
Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:20 PM (BaiDa)

Kinda like, if all you know about horses is the Kentucky Derby, you'd think someone who came up with the idea of riding horses to get places must be a bazillionaire too.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:21 PM (BaiDa)

157
The invention of the cellphone - already configured for everything - that prior to that required some level of intelligence to connect with other smart people via computer is when things went to shit. It gave the dumb a voice. They then discovered more dumb people who then discovered more and like a snowball rolling downhill it got bigger and bigger. Then someone decided they could make a lot of money having a place for all the dummies to hang out. But they had to exclude the smart people from informing the dumb people about their dumbness. So the censors had to be at the ready 24/7. Then the government saw the opportunity to work with these platforms to control speech and the narrative, because the censors were now in place.

I don't know how to blow it all up but it needs to be done.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2023 12:21 PM (enJYY)

158 North Korea Says We Are On ‘Brink Of Nuclear War’
North Korea Ambassador Kim Song claimed that Washington’s action was bringing the Korean peninsula “to the brink of nuclear war,” at the emergency meeting requested by the U.S., France, Albania, Malta, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

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Well, you can't have a world war without the whole world.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 15, 2023 12:21 PM (FVME7)

159 @140 polynikes-Evil exists and ebbs flows........well yeah no shit but this is in your face promoted fucking of children. This isn't just some election issue or political debate to be won by the cool kids.

"Meh, no big deal its just instant communication that makes it seem worse than it was in the past"

Are you fucking kidding me!?!

Posted by: JROD at July 15, 2023 12:22 PM (IlL6s)

160 You should listen to that video, you can't experience a live Lenin speech but it has to be close

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 12:22 PM (xhxe8)

161 I'm so old I can remember when "It's for the children!" was the leftwing rallying cry.
Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:21 PM (PZvjL)

Still is, obviously.

To Serve Children is a cookbook.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:22 PM (BaiDa)

162 And one of the code words on the p3do board that the hacker noticed was..."pizza".

It's been known for decades that p3dos use "CP" because it's "child pron" but also the more innocent (and child-related) "cheese pizza".

Posted by: Ian S. at July 15, 2023 12:22 PM (FD5dr)

163 A solar powered ship, too top heavy?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 15, 2023 12:23 PM (35YvA)

164 155 I'm so old I can remember when "It's for the children!" was the leftwing rallying cry.
Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:21 PM (PZvjL)

Because it was useful. The love for one's children and a desire to protect them is nigh on universal. The Daisy Girl commercial worked for a reason.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:24 PM (zZu0s)

165 I'm cool with Comrade AOC's suggestion that we go back to wind powered ships, provided it comes along with the culture that's often associated with wind powered ships.

Yarr!

Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:24 PM (PZvjL)

166 Failing ESPN Forces Disney To Consider Selling Equity In Crumbling Sports Network

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Poor Disney.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 15, 2023 12:24 PM (FVME7)

167 As there is a reason why gays were banned from the militray there is likely a reason why gays were banned from 'adoption'.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 15, 2023 12:18 PM (ga8qR)

Back in the day, the gays in the military would take the new recruits out, get them drunk, then rape them.

So yeah, same thing.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:24 PM (BaiDa)

168 AOC could well be the stupidest person to have ever been elected to office.

Posted by: Montec at July 15, 2023 12:25 PM (rOObm)

169 Will ESPN go for a dollar?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 15, 2023 12:25 PM (35YvA)

170 I guess they took "be fruitful and multiply" seriously.

Former NFL Quarterback Philip Rivers And Wife Announce They’re Expecting Their 10th Child

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 15, 2023 12:26 PM (FVME7)

171 We're now at the point where, if a kids book is given some awards, it means avoid it like the plague. They're equivalent to having a third Reich seal of approval.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2023 11:49 AM

Any book, really. The whole publishing industry is converged.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 15, 2023 12:26 PM (kjOVp)

172 I just got a load of that NEA rant.
No shit about the Woody Allen quote.
Lenin and Hitler would blush.
Imagine the poor bastards paid to…

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 15, 2023 12:26 PM (glGDV)

173 In total fairness to gays in the military, the Sacred Band of Thebes was legit AF. Course, back then everyone was a little bit frisky.

Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:26 PM (PZvjL)

174 165 I'm cool with Comrade AOC's suggestion that we go back to wind powered ships, provided it comes along with the culture that's often associated with wind powered ships.

Yarr!
Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:24 PM (PZvjL)

With pure wind power (looks up internet knowledge):

1700 Trans Atlantic crossing: six weeks

2023 Trans atlantic crossing: 6-8 days

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:27 PM (zZu0s)

175 AOC as most stupid?

Maxine Waters has entered the chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 15, 2023 12:27 PM (35YvA)

176 Meanwhile, in the progressive, pedophile utopia of Gavin Newsom's California...

8-year-old wounded in rolling gun battle on Interstate 580 in Oakland
youtube.com/watch?v=tMA8xTI3YpY
KPIX | CBS NEWS BAY AREA
5.3K views 9 hours ago
Traffic on eastbound I-580 in Oakland was shut down Friday night after gunmen shooting at each other from two SUVs wounded an uninvolved 8-year-old boy. Team coverage from Betty Yu and Juliette Goodrich. (7-14-23)
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When are people going to have enough of the decline and fall of Western Civilization?

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2023 12:27 PM (MFZ8i)

177 It's been known for decades that p3dos use "CP" because it's "child pron" but also the more innocent (and child-related) "cheese pizza".
Posted by: Ian S. at July 15, 2023 12:22 PM (FD5dr)

One of the conspiracy theories around Comet Pizza is that Comet Pizza isn't necessarily a place where the kiddies would be abducted, and the left was able to ridicule the conspiracy people by claiming it was absurd.

What isn't absurd is that there ARE a whole network of tunnels under DC streets, and it's at least POSSIBLE for those trafficking children within the district to use those tunnels to move from location to location, including right to some buildings that are occupied by international entities.

But sure, pizza is just pizza.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:27 PM (BaiDa)

178 173 In total fairness to gays in the military, the Sacred Band of Thebes was legit AF. Course, back then everyone was a little bit frisky.
Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:26 PM (PZvjL)

You had to be to get out of childhood, let alone adolescence.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:27 PM (zZu0s)

179 AOC issued a tweet saying the person who invents a ship powered by wind will be a billionaire. Okay

That was a parody account. The fact that it's not obviously parody is what makes it great parody.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2023 12:28 PM (nfrXX)

180 150 Cluster bombs from a clusterfuck to another clusterfuck.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 15, 2023 12:29 PM (0EOe9)

181 L.A. first-grade teacher charged with sexually assaulting girls in the classroom
https://tinyurl.com/4bdw3jh8

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2023 12:29 PM (MFZ8i)

182 You cant even make a work of fiction that has some true elements because it doesn't help with the "narrative".

You should browse around places like Reddit, their calling the film "dangerous" because they say its making people look in the "wrong" places for child trafficking.

Qanon was a stupid trolling hoax, but damn, I guess the actual children involved in these types of cases cant even be talked about because it might help the Right in some way.

Posted by: Blago at July 15, 2023 12:29 PM (IOfeg)

183 Regarding the child trafficking, it's not paranoia the Left feels, it's guilt. "But what about the children!?!?" What about 'em, wine mom, they're being peddled like pizzas to the guys and gals you were told to vote for thee past couple of decades. The Left-owned Corporate Media now has to shout "Conspiracy!" because their patrons, owners, and influencers are the perverts who feed the need for this shady industry.

Posted by: exdem13 at July 15, 2023 12:30 PM (W+kMI)

184 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at July 15, 2023 12:30 PM (1Yy3c)

185 So what were the teacher's pronouns?

Besides pervert.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 15, 2023 12:30 PM (35YvA)

186 A solar powered ship, too top heavy?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 15, 2023 12:23 PM (35YvA)

Why not just use steam? The ocean is full of water, so I've been told.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:31 PM (BaiDa)

187 The Tuttle Twins chidren's book series to counter the Wokestapo:

https://tinyurl.com/3j2xkm38

Posted by: kallisto at July 15, 2023 12:31 PM (ZNVto)

188 This is one right winger who doesn't know what QAnon is. Are reporters the only people who follow them?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:32 PM (aCNZ6)

189 Why not just use steam? The ocean is full of water, so I've been told.
Posted by: BurtTC

If the water turns to steam, where does the salt go ?

Posted by: JT at July 15, 2023 12:33 PM (T4tVD)

190 That was a parody account. The fact that it's not obviously parody is what makes it great parody.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 15, 2023 12:28 PM (nfrXX)

Updated Andi Warhol quote: In the present, everyone will be fooled by a parody account for at least 15 minutes.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:33 PM (BaiDa)

191 AOC has a BU degree in International Economics and Mixology, I'll have you know.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 15, 2023 12:33 PM (RqMSv)

192 Why not just use steam? The ocean is full of water, so I've been told.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:31 PM (BaiDa)

COAL?!?! WHALE OIL!?! WOOD?!?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:34 PM (zZu0s)

193 Debbie Wsserman's Schultz's forehead grease?!!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:34 PM (zZu0s)

194 The funniest part about this movie thing is that nobody would care if Hollywood hadn't become so totally useless in recent years, with its neverending stream of franchise destroying non-hits. Jim Caviezel makes an Oscar bait, big yawn, whatever.

But people are watching this because they're not interested in Phoebiana Jones or Woke Wars Episode 341 or whatever, and it's pissing off all the right people.

Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:34 PM (PZvjL)

195 In 5 years, we'll have an interactive, near-hologram AI teacher that you can rent for $50 a month.

These dumb bitches have no idea how outdated they already are.

No one will send their kids to school when they can homeschool for that price, at a thousand times more educated and a million times less woke.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2023 12:34 PM (TzW+Y)

196 Re: ESPN - why would anyone buy "equity" in a business that's crumbling?

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2023 12:35 PM (S6gqv)

197 188 This is one right winger who doesn't know what QAnon is. Are reporters the only people who follow them?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:32 PM (aCNZ6)

I had never heard of them before Nov 2020. I heard them mentioned a few times here before Jan 6. Then nothing- except by the lefties.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:35 PM (zZu0s)

198 Re: ESPN - why would anyone buy "equity" in a business that's crumbling?
Posted by: Tom Servo

Well, masochists.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 15, 2023 12:36 PM (FVME7)

199 From my vast collection of Righteous Rock for the Rock — this guy called it 30 years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L87OsfBMIYY

Posted by: goozer at July 15, 2023 12:38 PM (tfTmm)

200 But people are watching this because they're not interested in Phoebiana Jones or Woke Wars Episode 341 or whatever, and it's pissing off all the right people.
Posted by: CppThis

David Strom: Disney's Problem Isn't Just That It Is Woke; It Is Creatively Dead

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I think the two go together.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 15, 2023 12:39 PM (FVME7)

201 We used to talk about QAnon here a bit. I think most of us thought it was(at best) political fan fic.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2023 12:39 PM (S6gqv)

202 Why not just use steam? The ocean is full of water, so I've been told.
Posted by: BurtTC

If the water turns to steam, where does the salt go ?
Posted by: JT at July 15, 2023 12:33 PM (T4tVD)

On your avocado salad?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:40 PM (X8DQ0)

203 170 I guess they took "be fruitful and multiply" seriously.

Former NFL Quarterback Philip Rivers And Wife Announce They’re Expecting Their 10th Child
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 15, 2023 12:26 PM (FVME7)
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Rivers is a devout Catholic.

Former NBA star Shawn Kemp has seven children with six different women & former NFL star Antonio Cromartie has 14 kids with 8 different women.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2023 12:40 PM (MFZ8i)

204 173 Back in the early 70s there was a kid caught up in some kind of homo round up down in Jacksonville. Local cops returned him to MCAS and even the First Sergeant, after the kid admitted to being a homo, said the civvie charges looked pretty bogus to him. Anyway, immediate processing for discharge. The first shirt had the kid billeted in his office in the hangar and used him as a gofer until the papers came down. When the discharge came down (about two weeks) even old salty first sergeant from Bumfuck GA said "Kinda gonna miss the little queer, made a good pot of coffee".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 15, 2023 12:40 PM (0EOe9)

205 I keep telling people, Shamanism and Alchemy, it's a real thing, these people believe this stuff, that they are Magicians, and nobody believe(s)(d) me.
Also that Black Lady, I've seen way more entertaining Black Preachers than that! She needs to step up her game. Ideally a rhyming cadence, wave a book, I mean, there are proven techniques.
She sucks. 1 star out of four.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 15, 2023 12:41 PM (43xH1)

206 AOC has a BU degree in International Economics and Mixology, I'll have you know.
Posted by: Ignoramus

I thought it was a DUH.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 15, 2023 12:41 PM (FVME7)

207 I bet an accurate analysis of who expends neural impulses on Qanon it would look something like this:

15% - 9/11 truther types
5% - hardcore actual Nazis
10% - the "I'll try anything once" crowd
70% - suburban wine moms and their media enablers

Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

208 These dumb bitches have no idea how outdated they already are.

They know that most "parents" desire their spawn to be kenneled during the day, provided with meals, basic medical observation, psychotropics, air-conditioned play space and some level of socializing (no matter how dysfunctional that is).

Teachers are fairly capable of keeping the kennel pacified.

Everyone knows that after K-12 those thirteen years of government observation has left them marginally literate and skilled for a career in OnlyFans

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 15, 2023 12:42 PM (p8A+W)

209 Why not just use steam? The ocean is full of water, so I've been told.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:31 PM (BaiDa)

COAL?!?! WHALE OIL!?! WOOD?!?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:34 PM (zZu0s)

Whale oil, sure, but IS the ocean full of coal and wood? I don't know, I don't like going near water. Even to bathe.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:42 PM (X8DQ0)

210 QAnon ? Never heard of it !

---efee 🐝👁️

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2023 12:44 PM (V13WU)

211 15% - 9/11 truther types
5% - hardcore actual Nazis
10% - the "I'll try anything once" crowd
70% - suburban wine moms and their media enablers
Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

Hell, the conspiracy theories about 9/11 are a hell of a lot less crazy sounding these days than they were 20 years ago. Just saying.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:44 PM (zZu0s)

212 197 188 This is one right winger who doesn't know what QAnon is. Are reporters the only people who follow them?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:32 PM (aCNZ6)

I had never heard of them before Nov 2020. I heard them mentioned a few times here before Jan 6. Then nothing- except by the lefties.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:35 PM (zZu0s)
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QAnon & Patriot Front. "You say potato, I say potato". "Separated at birth". Plus whatever any other saying you can think of.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2023 12:45 PM (MFZ8i)

213 Everyone knows that after K-12 those thirteen years of government observation has left them marginally literate and skilled for a career in OnlyFans
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 15, 2023 12:42 PM (p8A+W)

Someone should do a study, which Onlyfans accounts make the most money. I bet it ain't fat chix or chix with dix.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:45 PM (X8DQ0)

214 Two guys hitting on each other are not paying attention to the mission

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 12:45 PM (xhxe8)

215 Just because we are paranoid does not mean they are not coming for our kids.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at July 15, 2023 12:47 PM (tA1/w)

216 Ms. Lindsey has personal reasons not to like Putin....verry personal

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2023 12:47 PM (V13WU)

217 214 Two guys hitting on each other are not paying attention to the mission
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 12:45 PM (xhxe

This is also an argument about women in the work place: how many people have dealt with a meltdown because of an office/plant/work site romance?

This is something that can be dealt with and endured at a normal job. In the military, it can get you killed (work place shootings notwithstanding.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:48 PM (zZu0s)

218 Hell, the conspiracy theories about 9/11 are a hell of a lot less crazy sounding these days than they were 20 years ago. Just saying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:44 PM (zZu0s)

Yep. It is rather curious, the Pentagon that day had fewer working cameras than the Epstein jail, or the White House over this past 4th of July weekend.

I mean 2001 was a long long time ago, and we didn't have fancy things like cameras. Everyone knows Steve Jobs invented the camera with the iPhone 5.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:49 PM (X8DQ0)

219 The 4-chan autists really pushed the whole Qanon thing. Some of the posts were really good attempts at writing a political thriller.

All bullshit, but the way they'd wind a tale of "white hats" or "black hats" and some sort of secret military op that only Trump had control over was impressive. For a bunch of autists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2023 12:49 PM (Q4IgG)

220 About 25 years ago, novels that portrayed kids as environmental activists began to win awards. About 15 years ago, the award-winning books showed shocking, disturbing scenarios. Ten years ago, books that depicted sexualization and abuse at younger ages began to win awards.
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Conferring awards on communist agitprop and those who promulgate is a time-worn tactic of the communists. Whitaker Chambers in "Witness" talks about this. It's at the point where I suspect anyone or anything that wins an "award" is a commie symp.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 12:49 PM (YqDXo)

221 I guess slavery became human trafficking about the same time abortion became health care.

May God deal with these people.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at July 15, 2023 12:49 PM (9X60i)

222 214 Two guys hitting on each other are not paying attention to the mission
Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 12:45 PM (xhxe

See also: quarrelling Navy-ettes

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at July 15, 2023 12:50 PM (jRqes)

223 The Guardian guarding people from the truth!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 15, 2023 12:50 PM (17s+e)

224 That was some speech.
Posted by: fluffy at July 15, 2023 11:19 AM (86W+h)
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Where is Leni Riefenstahl when you really need her? The speaker even apes Hitler's rhetorical gestures.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 12:50 PM (YqDXo)

225 211 15% - 9/11 truther types
5% - hardcore actual Nazis
10% - the "I'll try anything once" crowd
70% - suburban wine moms and their media enablers
Posted by: CppThis at July 15, 2023 12:42 PM (PZvjL)

Hell, the conspiracy theories about 9/11 are a hell of a lot less crazy sounding these days than they were 20 years ago. Just saying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:44 PM (zZu0s)
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The only 9/11 conspiracy I buy is that the deep state allowed it to happen to fund the military industrial complex and to get America to accept the "1984" social credit system utopia they desire.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2023 12:50 PM (MFZ8i)

226 yeah, Qanon as I recall was heavy into "any minute now xyz will happen1!!1 i have a friend of a friend and he saw a secret memo, OMG 11!! " BS. I can totally see feeb guys laughing their arses off typing that crap up .

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2023 12:51 PM (V13WU)

227 The only 9/11 conspiracy I buy is that the deep state allowed it to happen to fund the military industrial complex and to get America to accept the "1984" social credit system utopia they desire.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2023 12:50 PM (MFZ8i)

I dunno that I even go that far, I just do not toss something out a conspiracy theory out of hand anymore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:52 PM (zZu0s)

228 I had never heard of them before Nov 2020. I heard them mentioned a few times here before Jan 6. Then nothing- except by the lefties.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:35 PM (zZu0s)

QAnon, Proud Boys, Foxnooz.

Only relevant because the left can't stop talking about them.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:53 PM (X8DQ0)

229 How do you find QAnon posts?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:53 PM (aCNZ6)

230 This is one right winger who doesn't know what QAnon is. Are reporters the only people who follow them?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:32 PM (aCNZ6)
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This. I'd heard the name, but had no idea to what it referred.

Leftists invoke it as a boogy man in a sort of "Protocols of the Elders of Conservatism" sense.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 12:53 PM (YqDXo)

231 yeah, Qanon as I recall was heavy into "any minute now xyz will happen1!!1 i have a friend of a friend and he saw a secret memo, OMG 11!! " BS. I can totally see feeb guys laughing their arses off typing that crap up .
Posted by: runner at July 15, 2023 12:51 PM (V13WU)
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In the spirit of using a laser pointer to distract a cat.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 12:54 PM (YqDXo)

232 This is one right winger who doesn't know what QAnon is. Are reporters the only people who follow them?

It really was a thing, albeit not huge, prior to the 2020 election. Afterwards it pretty much stopped, but the MFM took up the mantle so there'd be a scary boogieman to keep Democrat voters in line.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 15, 2023 12:55 PM (FD5dr)

233 I'm a card carrying YOLO

Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2023 12:55 PM (us2H3)

234 229 How do you find QAnon posts?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:53 PM (aCNZ6)

lamont.com

Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2023 12:56 PM (us2H3)

235 I guess slavery became human trafficking about the same time abortion became health care.

May God deal with these people.
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at July 15, 2023 12:49 PM (9X60i)

I remember hating the fact that years ago, they were essentially equating "human trafficking" with all prostitution.

Watering down the term was going to have consequences, including allowing the true evil to operate in relative anonymity due to the lessening of the meaning.

Andrew Tate is accused of "human trafficking." According to him, what he's accused of is encouraging gals to make Tik Tok videos, and then he profits from their view. Or something. That's it. So anyone who thinks he's prostituting women, or in any way coercing them to engage in sexual activity of any kind, that's a flat out lie.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:57 PM (X8DQ0)

236 Mission Impossible : find Qanon posts

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2023 12:57 PM (V13WU)

237 Wait. I thought it was the Trilateral Commission.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 15, 2023 12:57 PM (DhOHl)

238 Smart, dumb, crazy, stupid, brave, or whatever other adjective you can think of...

SF man patrols neighborhood with imitation gun, ski mask to scare off thieves - EXCLUSIVE
youtube.com/watch?v=4uqpHQFSj0A

ABC7 News Bay Area
31K views 1 day ago #sanfrancisco #patrol #abc7news
Armed with an imitation gun and a ski mask, one San Francisco business owner has taken it upon himself to protect his neighborhood from thieves breaking into cars. https://abc7ne.ws/3pNhPbz

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2023 12:57 PM (MFZ8i)

239 Did anyone catch Kamala yesterday? Among her goals, the usual, climate change, eat the bugs, eliminate gas stoves, blah, blah.
And then she let one slip out.
Reduction of the population.
Ok, then...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 15, 2023 12:58 PM (MeG8a)

240 For a while Sundance over at The Conservative Treehouse was a big Qanon fan. He pushed some of his own half-baked conspiracy theories over there. He got a lot of grief for it too.

4-chan and Reddit were two places where you could find all sorts of Q related bullshit.

It has mostly died out now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2023 12:59 PM (Q4IgG)

241 How do you find QAnon posts?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:53 PM (aCNZ6)

I find them quite soft on the backside, but only in two-ply form.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:00 PM (X8DQ0)

242 Then it was the Rothschilds.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 15, 2023 01:00 PM (DhOHl)

243 Wait. I thought it was the Trilateral Commission.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 15,

IIRC Bob Guccioni was a Trilateral Commission theorist. Not that I ever read Penthouse.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 01:00 PM (aCNZ6)

244 Reduction of the population.

I wonder where they can point in human evolution where they individually obtained the god-like status of having the wisdom and authority to cull their neighbors from the Earth.

And why, once they have told us they want us dead, should we not take them seriously and act according to the natural laws of self-preservation and self-defense.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 15, 2023 01:00 PM (p8A+W)

245 'QAnon was a CIA operation' is a good, plausible conspiracy theory.

Posted by: davidt at July 15, 2023 01:01 PM (SYTee)

246 the last FIB estimate of KKK members in the US

2K

40 per state

more people believe butterflies carry rabies

Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2023 01:01 PM (us2H3)

247 Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 15, 2023 12:57 PM (MFZ8i)

He will be arrested shortly.

Posted by: polynikes at July 15, 2023 01:01 PM (MNhXM)

248 Did anyone catch Kamala yesterday? Among her goals, the usual, climate change, eat the bugs, eliminate gas stoves, blah, blah.
And then she let one slip out.
Reduction of the population.
Ok, then...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 15, 2023 12:58 PM (MeG8a)

I'm curious, they sure did seem like they were trying to put the White House cocaine in her purse, but now that it's died down, I wonder what they had to get her to agree to.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:02 PM (X8DQ0)

249 Low knowledge, an inability to think for oneself, and low literacy and low ability to do basic arithmetic doesn't just happen by itself. That's what teachers unions are there for.

Public school is child abuse both mentally and physically. Fire 90% of current teachers and the kids would be smarter and less harmed. Even if they hung out in the street.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 15, 2023 01:03 PM (17s+e)

250 'QAnon was a CIA operation' is a good, plausible conspiracy theory.
Posted by: davidt at July 15, 2023 01:01 PM (SYTee)

Maybe, but I'm inclined these days to believe the CIA is a HIGHLY competent force working against the American people, and the more amateur operations are Eff Bee Eye.

Where the line is though, I surely don't know.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:04 PM (X8DQ0)

251 I’m still waiting for Barack Mugabe’s kollege transcripts, his birth certificate and a picture of Mike Mugabe buck nekkid.

Still waiting…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2023 01:05 PM (R/m4+)

252 I'm sure Kamala has benign plans for all of us, much like Pol Pot did when he rounded up all the people wearing eye glasses...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 15, 2023 01:05 PM (MeG8a)

253 Did anyone catch Kamala yesterday? Among her goals, the usual, climate change, eat the bugs, eliminate gas stoves, blah, blah.
_______________

I thought the Reds had backed off that one after their trial balloon got shot down, so they claimed that they intended nothing of the kind. But here we are.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:05 PM (YqDXo)

254 Time lapse photos from 1944 to 2023 on the French Riviera. Some of these are well done. Some, not so much.

https://tinyurl.com/5dszxm6f

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 01:06 PM (zZu0s)

255 and a picture of Mike Mugabe buck nekkid

Think I'll pass on that one.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 15, 2023 01:06 PM (Xrfse)

256 I’m still waiting for Barack Mugabe’s kollege transcripts, his birth certificate and a picture of Mike Mugabe buck nekkid.

Still waiting…
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2023 01:05 PM (R/m4+)
_________________

Good God, man, think of what you're saying!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:07 PM (YqDXo)

257 Public school is child abuse both mentally and physically. Fire 90% of current teachers and the kids would be smarter and less harmed. Even if they hung out in the street.

I am interested in how instruction can be accomplished through AI. Unfortunately, the Good LORD did not design man to be completely educated by sitting on his butt interacting with flakey computer software.

Throughout history (until recently) practical human learning has been accomplished through observation, apprenticeship and practice. When new eyes look at old problems, often what comes out are improved practices, methods, tools and techniques.

All schools do is enforce one worn out footpath.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 15, 2023 01:07 PM (p8A+W)

258 Andrew Tate is accused of "human trafficking." According to him, what he's accused of is encouraging gals to make Tik Tok videos, and then he profits from their view. Or something. That's it. So anyone who thinks he's prostituting women, or in any way coercing them to engage in sexual activity of any kind, that's a flat out lie.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 12:57 PM (X8DQ0)
===

Tate's interview with Tucker Carlson he quite eloquent. Long but good.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8ch4b8

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 15, 2023 01:07 PM (17s+e)

259 Mike Mugabe buck nekkid? Now gonna be sick.

Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (z3WCn)

260 Did anyone catch Kamala yesterday? Among her goals, the usual, climate change, eat the bugs, eliminate gas stoves, blah, blah.

Does she prefer her ancestors old and proven ways of cooking their food over cattle dung?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (p8A+W)

261 Speaking of contaminating the language, when did prostitution start becoming "sex work?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (YqDXo)

262 I spent 90 seconds 'za full 90 seconds--one day trying to track down QAnon. I got frustrated and gave up.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (aCNZ6)

263 I thought the Reds had backed off that one after their trial balloon got shot down, so they claimed that they intended nothing of the kind. But here we are.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:05 PM (YqDXo)

We heard recently that New Yak City was still pushing it, as well as telling Italian pizza makers they had to get rid of wood burning ovens.

The left is very skilled at trial balloons (which are sometimes literally balloons flying over the country), and then gauge the response. When they don't get the feedback they want, I don't think the ideas go away, they just get put on the back (non-gas) burner.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (X8DQ0)

264 I can't imagine making risotto on an electric stove

Posted by: REDACTED at July 15, 2023 01:10 PM (us2H3)

265 secret societies, secret handshakes, any child can see it's all BS and soooo last millennium. the best way to operate is do what professionals do, open up a 501c 3, get funding, and then push your stuff on the gullible [Lincoln Project and the like]. then you can afford an awesome website, a big 4 CPA and a white-shoe DC lawfirm. even a lobbyist ! [save Ukraine organizations]

Posted by: runner at July 15, 2023 01:10 PM (V13WU)

266 AOC issued a tweet saying the person who invents a ship powered by wind will be a billionaire. Okay
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:15 PM (aCNZ6)

She probably never heard of Anton Flettner. Or Christopher Columbus, for that matter.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2023 01:11 PM (6AGF4)

267 Tate's interview with Tucker Carlson he quite eloquent. Long but good.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8ch4b8

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 15, 2023 01:07 PM (17s+e)

Yes, highly recommended... although I could only get about halfway through. Life's short.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:12 PM (X8DQ0)

268 Did anyone catch Kamala yesterday? Among her goals, the usual, climate change, eat the bugs, eliminate gas stoves, blah, blah.

Granted, her audience likely lives in rental property or some other multi-family dwellings where landlords, or more appropriately, the landlord's insurers aren't keen out letting the turd world invaders and other primates from experimenting directly with fire.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 15, 2023 01:12 PM (p8A+W)

269 The left is very skilled at trial balloons (which are sometimes literally balloons flying over the country), and then gauge the response. When they don't get the feedback they want, I don't think the ideas go away, they just get put on the back (non-gas) burner.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (X8DQ0)
________________

They float a trial balloon, gauge the reaction, scoff at people who take it seriously (a la Sheryl Crow), but then, later, they revive it as its now within the Overton Window.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:12 PM (YqDXo)

270 I don't know who Alan Tate is; but, F him and the Tick Tock he rode in on.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at July 15, 2023 01:12 PM (9X60i)

271 Speaking of contaminating the language, when did prostitution start becoming "sex work?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (YqDXo)

I don't know, that seems rather accurate. There's sex for pleasure, sex for procreating (not necessarily separate from the former), and then there's sex work.

Makes sense to me.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:13 PM (X8DQ0)

272 As there is a reason why gays were banned from the militray there is likely a reason why gays were banned from 'adoption'.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 15, 2023 12:18 PM (ga8qR)

It's why Vladimir Putin banned gays from adopting Russian orphans, which earned him the everlasting hatred of Big Anus, including Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2023 01:13 PM (6AGF4)

273 Someone should do a study, which Onlyfans accounts make the most money. I bet it ain't fat chix or chix with dix.
--
Median income of OnlyFans?

$180 a month.

Isn't that great? Get these girls to ruin their prospects of a happy, stable, long term marriage, locked into a life of porn for less than a cup of coffee a day.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 15, 2023 01:14 PM (TzW+Y)

274 Since when do commies back off? Anything?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 15, 2023 01:14 PM (MeG8a)

275 Mike Mugabe buck nekkid? Now gonna be sick.
Posted by: Eromero at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (z3WCn)

It’s like that fella, who looks kinda like Mike, told Dirty Harry about how many rounds he had left.

I gots to know…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 15, 2023 01:14 PM (R/m4+)

276 Who is afraid to mention that Putin has kidnapped 1000s of children from Ukraine. Do the pro Putin/Trumpets
Think that this is none of our business?
Posted by: Paul at July 15, 2023 12:20 PM (2/XoG)

It is none of my business, Fool.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 15, 2023 01:15 PM (aD39U)

277 AOC issued a tweet saying the person who invents a ship powered by wind will be a billionaire. Okay
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 12:15 PM (aCNZ6)

===

This idiot is one of 435 that makes rule for the 330 million that are much smarter.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 15, 2023 01:15 PM (17s+e)

278 Harris also mentioned 'population reduction.'

That little slip did not go unnoticed. Some of her supporters are trying to spin that she actually meant 'pollution reduction' but hardly anyone's buying that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 15, 2023 01:15 PM (Q4IgG)

279 Periodically it strikes me how remarkable it is that the Reds are actually defending child sex trafficking. ("It's for the children!")

You'd think that if there were ONE issue on which we could agree, this would be it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:15 PM (YqDXo)

280 Dead thread, but somemoron might get a kick out of playing this right after the nea video:

https://youtu.be/hoNRZLOzR2s

Posted by: logprof at July 15, 2023 01:16 PM (KuGTp)

281 Big Anus

Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2023 01:13 PM (6AGF4)
===

So stolen!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 15, 2023 01:16 PM (17s+e)

282 I don't know who Alan Tate is; but, F him and the Tick Tock he rode in on.
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at July 15, 2023 01:12 PM (9X60i)

Hmmm, do you mean Alan Tate, retired English footballer and now coach, or Allen Tate, American poet, essayist, social commentator, who died in 1979?

Because Andrew Tate is basically a Moslem Jordan Peterson. Don't believe the left's narrative on the guy.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:16 PM (X8DQ0)

283 They were pushing the "It's Kamala's coke, not Hunter's " storyline until the realized the media wS going to run cover for them on this, too, and they could just stonewall everything and let the story die.

I think there are times when even they're surprised at how much they can get away with.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 15, 2023 01:17 PM (S6gqv)

284 Curious why teachers' unions are pushing homo crap? It turns out that Randi Weingarten is a sister of Sappho.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

285 Speaking of contaminating the language, when did prostitution start becoming "sex work?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM (YqDXo)

Clinton Whitehouse

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at July 15, 2023 01:18 PM (+Mjp8)

286 Kamala is merely parroting the WEF objectives for, oh, at least the last 20-30 years. This is a big reason they push gay-tranny agenda, which seems to have exploded recently.
Post op trannies don't reproduce.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 15, 2023 01:19 PM (MeG8a)

287 Is Andrew Tate the founder of OnlyFans?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 15, 2023 01:19 PM (aCNZ6)

288 Speaking of contaminating the language, when did prostitution start becoming "sex work?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:09 PM

It's our business to do pleasure with you.

Posted by: Same as in Town at July 15, 2023 01:20 PM (a3Q+t)

289 Old and busted
If you can read this thank a teacher.
New hotness
If you're a blue haired, nose ringed, non-binary, socialist psychopathic, gender queer tranny and you can barely read this, thank a teacher.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 15, 2023 01:21 PM (dr4Q1)

290 Hmmm, do you mean Alan Tate, retired English footballer and now coach, or Allen Tate, American poet, essayist, social commentator, who died in 1979?

I mean the Tate guy the Romanians arrested for slavery. He's either an evil scum bag of the first order or the Romanians have some agenda that's not all that obvious.

In any event, he admits to being a Tik Tok influencer. So F him. Hope he enjoys life in a Romanian prison.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at July 15, 2023 01:21 PM (9X60i)

291 the best way to operate is do what professionals do, open up a 501c 3, get funding, and then push your stuff on the gullible [Lincoln Project and the like]. then you can afford an awesome website, a big 4 CPA and a white-shoe DC lawfirm. even a lobbyist ! [save Ukraine organizations]
Posted by: runner

Yep. I don't think Ace has posted this article yet but worth reading:

WashFreeBeacon
"Documents Provide Rare Glimpse Into How Arabella Advisors Exerts Centralized Control Over a Vast Left-Wing Advocacy Network" https://tinyurl.com/3w37hhkr

TL

R = Arabella Advisors is a lawfirm that acts as a startup engine for lefty activist group like the ones that popped up during the Kavanaugh debacle.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 15, 2023 01:22 PM (jzzG8)

292 You'd think that if there were ONE issue on which we could agree, this would be it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 15, 2023 01:15 PM (YqDXo)

I did read the recent SC ruling on "reasonable accommodations" thing, which struck down the idea that an employer could use basically any excuse, call it an "adverse" effect, and make employees who seek religious exemptions from various things (like working on Sunday) either bend the knee or be fired.

The ruling was 9-0. Granted, the ruling was not telling employers that employees can get away with ANYTHING by calling it a religious exemption, just that employers couldn't get away with calling EVERYTHING an adverse action against their business.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:22 PM (BaiDa)

293 Hell, the conspiracy theories about 9/11 are a hell of a lot less crazy sounding these days than they were 20 years ago. Just saying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

James Woods story...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 15, 2023 01:23 PM (ga8qR)

294 The only reason that child-trafficking bill passed is because Gavin Newsom wants to be president.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2023 01:23 PM (RIvkX)

295 Two guys hitting on each other are not paying attention to the mission
Posted by: Skip

Gives "brown nosing", "suck up", "ass kisser" (etc), tops, fog of war...
Whole new meanings.

First Mate remains the same.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 15, 2023 01:26 PM (ga8qR)

296 I mean the Tate guy the Romanians arrested for slavery. He's either an evil scum bag of the first order or the Romanians have some agenda that's not all that obvious.

In any event, he admits to being a Tik Tok influencer. So F him. Hope he enjoys life in a Romanian prison.
Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at July 15, 2023 01:21 PM (9X60i)

Then you are getting your information from the left.

He's not that. He's not what you've heard, and yes, the Romanian government (doing our government's bidding), is holding a guy on trumped up charges that are total bullshit.

Tik Tok has almost nothing to do with his business, although I'm sure like virtually every other influential (in the real sense of the word) person who has come to the forefront these past several years, he uses Tik Tok.

Watch the video. Or condemn the guy based on bad information, because if they can throw him in prison, they can throw YOU or anyone/everyone you care about in prison, for merely offering a different opinion than the accepted narrative.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:26 PM (BaiDa)

297 The NEA is to the AFT what the National Lawyers' Guild is to the American Bar Association.

The second gives "respectable" cover to the communist scum in the first.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2023 01:26 PM (RIvkX)

298 I can't find it now up top but I'm totally making a fake book cover for The Protocols Of Qanon and 'reading' it at an airport.
There is a pretty good punk band called General Buck Naked.
And I only got on the Interwebs due to a mental curiosity at work about Canada's suicide deal-ey. Doesn't that cancel your life insurance?

Posted by: LenNeal at July 15, 2023 01:27 PM (43xH1)

299 Old and busted
If you can read this thank a teacher.

Posted by: Florida Peasant
-----

I've pondered a bumper sticker:

'If Your Child Can't Read This, Thank The NEA'

There are a plethora of alternatives, e.g.:

'If Your Child Is Abused, Thank A Democrat'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc., etc. at July 15, 2023 01:27 PM (4Nep/)

300 He's not that. He's not what you've heard, and yes, the Romanian government (doing our government's bidding), is holding a guy on trumped up charges that are total bullshit.

They claim to have evidence that he was pimping, but not underaged girls. That may be true? But it is hardly an international horrific crime like they are treating it and people claim he is guilty of.

The guy was HUGELY successful as a dating coach/lifestyle influencer telling men to stop simping, stop using porn, stop being weak with women, and stand up for themselves. He advises men to grow up, get strong, make a name for themselves, and get off the couch playing video games to move on to become an adult male.

He's got some messed up stuff in there too, because he's Muslim and screwy about some things, but is overall positive and good for young men. Which is why they hate him.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 01:31 PM (0hOvj)

301 Basically they busted Tate on international Mann act violation, the go-to government stunt for getting rid of people they didn't like in the early 20th century

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 01:33 PM (0hOvj)

302 Hell, the conspiracy theories about 9/11 are a hell of a lot less crazy sounding these days than they were 20 years ago. Just saying.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 12:44 PM (zZu0s)
------------
The only 9/11 conspiracy I buy is that the deep state allowed it to happen to fund the military industrial complex and to get America to accept the "1984" social credit system utopia they desire.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

My latest conspiracy theory about 9/11 is that indeed, crazy Islamists did it (as foretold and masterminded by Ramzi Yusef) but that the particular people who did the 9/11 attacks were "MK Ultra" controlled by the CIA to do what they did.
And the larger conspiracy is that voting, on a large scale, does not matter, because we have "been on rails" to reach this point in our lives where the government can grab control of everything. And ask yourself if the 2020 election was totally honest, and Joe Biden really got 81 million votes?

Posted by: Barnacle Bill the sailor at July 15, 2023 01:33 PM (tjZg/)

303 The only 9/11 conspiracy I buy is that the deep state allowed it to happen to fund the military industrial complex and to get America to accept the "1984" social credit system utopia they desire.

To the extent there was any conspiracy behind it, that's the most plausible and likely scenario. Yes, they knew it was coming and planned out how they could turn it to their advantage instead of trying to stop it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 01:36 PM (0hOvj)

304 Is Andrew Tate the founder of OnlyFans?
==

Mixed martial arts champion, multi-millionaire, most googled man in 2022, and champion for bring manhood back to the west's young men... and hated by the left like Jordan Peterson for being a men's right advocate.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 15, 2023 01:36 PM (17s+e)

305 No, Andrew Tate has nothing to do with Onlyfans, except to criticize and condemn it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 01:38 PM (0hOvj)

306 My theory is, to a large extent, the CIA is full of people going for the next promotion, they have no concern for mid or long term impact, it's all about career and money.
And those are the honest ones. The others are plain ole corrupt, and then there's the embedded globalist fanatics.
Same with all the other 3 letter agencies

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 15, 2023 01:38 PM (vHIgi)

307 It's why Vladimir Putin banned gays from adopting Russian orphans, which earned him the everlasting hatred of Big Anus, including Lindsey Graham.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 15, 2023 01:13 PM (6AGF4)

This is why I love the Horde!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 15, 2023 01:38 PM (Mzdiz)

308 Queequeg the Harpooner I've lost some respect. Get just a little informed.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 15, 2023 01:39 PM (17s+e)

309 This is why I love the Horde!

Ditto. I laughed my arse off.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 15, 2023 01:41 PM (Xrfse)

310 He's got some messed up stuff in there too, because he's Muslim and screwy about some things, but is overall positive and good for young men. Which is why they hate him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 01:31 PM (0hOvj)

Yeah, that's why I don't believe ANY of the sex stuff. According to him there's no evidence of him actually pimping anyone, because he never has, and the reason I believe it is, why would he. It goes against what he claims are his beliefs, the ones that have made him wildly successful.

And if he's telling the truth, that this is about Tik Tok influencers who the government CLAIMS he profited from, not from sex, but just from putting out videos... well yeah, that's not human trafficking.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:41 PM (nj0fS)

311 Where do you get books for kids?
We got a lot of ours at homeschool conventions. Lots of good, wholesome content there, though a few are kinda lame.

Posted by: GWB at July 15, 2023 01:44 PM (vQrdQ)

312 Basically they busted Tate on international Mann act violation, the go-to government stunt for getting rid of people they didn't like in the early 20th century
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 01:33 PM (0hOvj)

Well, to be fair, Jack Johnson WAS banging white women.

Not saying that should be illegal (I would hope not), just that, given he was a HUGE and popular and "scary" black man, one can understand, if not condone their going after him.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:46 PM (nj0fS)

313 Romania arrested him for committing the ultimate crime. He didn’t pay enough bribes to be left alone.

Posted by: Montec at July 15, 2023 01:47 PM (rOObm)

314 Also rich that Romania which has a massive well documented child trafficking industry, ignores that, but arrests a foreigner for “trafficking”.

Posted by: Montec at July 15, 2023 01:51 PM (rOObm)

315 Romania arrested him for committing the ultimate crime. He didn’t pay enough bribes to be left alone.
Posted by: Montec at July 15, 2023 01:47 PM (rOObm)

I doubt they had any choice. Romania is NOT a third world shithole, they're a former Soviet vassal state, but one that has managed to become reasonably stable and economically sound.

Their problem is, like so many other Euro nations, they're fully dependent on the U.S. to protect them, and they're smack dab in the middle of every possible invader, from all sides (except I guess the German side... maybe... for now). If the U.S. says "get this guy," they're gonna get him. No bribes needed.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:52 PM (nj0fS)

316 Much power Big Anus has.

Posted by: Yoda at July 15, 2023 01:53 PM (TZ75n)

317 Also rich that Romania which has a massive well documented child trafficking industry, ignores that, but arrests a foreigner for “trafficking”.
Posted by: Montec at July 15, 2023 01:51 PM (rOObm)

That's true. But so does Italy, as well as those other crappy eastern Euro areas.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 15, 2023 01:53 PM (nj0fS)

318 Per Breitbart: 'Millions affected and at risk'- Houston deals with major syphilis outbreak.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 15, 2023 02:03 PM (TZ75n)

319 318 Per Breitbart: 'Millions affected and at risk'- Houston deals with major syphilis outbreak.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 15, 2023 02:03 PM (TZ75n)

Huh. Wonder where that came from?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 02:11 PM (zZu0s)

320 Watch out for Tertiary. That's airborne.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 02:11 PM (zZu0s)

321 Tate's interview this week with Tucker Carlson was very illuminating and his message is a positive one. He could use some humility oh well.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 15, 2023 02:18 PM (RIvkX)

322 The Communist Teachers Union pushes Cultural Marxism included in LGBQXYZ and BLM

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 02:18 PM (xhxe8)

323
Syphilis is a STD caused by a spirochete called Treponema pallidum.

♪ Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Treponema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes "aah"
♪

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 15, 2023 02:19 PM (enJYY)

324 Most diseases had iconography in how they were presented in art. Of course, the most well known is the dancing skeleton of the Black Death. Syphilis iirc was usually a woman with a veil (she's hiding a deadly secret.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

325 He's got some messed up stuff in there too, because he's Muslim and screwy about some things, but is overall positive and good for young men. Which is why they hate him.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 01:31 PM (0hOvj)

--I think Islam has an appeal to rudderless young men that our feminized, namby-pamby mainstream churches utterly lack. Apparently some rudderless young woman too. The want to be [art of something spiritual, but not anodyne.

Posted by: logprof at July 15, 2023 02:32 PM (ywVDE)

326 --I think Islam has an appeal to rudderless young men that our feminized, namby-pamby mainstream churches utterly lack. Apparently some rudderless young woman too. The want to be [art of something spiritual, but not anodyne.
Posted by: logprof at July 15, 2023 02:32 PM (ywVDE)

Some want to be coddled. Some reach for some ideal to strive or test themselves against.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 15, 2023 02:37 PM (zZu0s)

327 Mixed martial arts champion, multi-millionaire, most googled man in 2022, and champion for bring manhood back to the west's young men... and hated by the left like Jordan Peterson for being a men's right advocate.

From what I gather, Tate is a Peterson who will kick your ass.

Instead of Make Your Bed, its Hit The Gym.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 15, 2023 02:40 PM (p8A+W)

328 Per Breitbart: 'Millions affected and at risk'- Houston deals with major syphilis outbreak.

Damn You, MAGA Trump Supporters!

Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 15, 2023 03:13 PM (2tUFv)

329 Per Breitbart: 'Millions affected and at risk'- Houston deals with major syphilis outbreak.

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Posted by: Sodom and Gamorrah at July 15, 2023 03:18 PM (Xrfse)

330 Wonder why illegals want to come here with serious diseases like syphilis and .malaria around?

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2023 03:22 PM (xhxe8)

331 Wonder why illegals want to come here with serious diseases like syphilis and .malaria around?

To become Democrats.

Posted by: Sodom and Gamorrah at July 15, 2023 03:35 PM (Xrfse)

332 Millions affected and at risk

Isn't this true of anything?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 15, 2023 03:37 PM (aD39U)

333 Basically they busted Tate on international Mann act violation, the go-to government stunt for getting rid of people they didn't like in the early 20th century
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 01:33 PM (0hOvj)

The charge is that he was nice to Young Women, and talked them into doing Tik Tok videos, for which he would somehow make money...

Even though they can't find any women he coerced, nor any money he made.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 15, 2023 03:59 PM (oHd/0)

334 I think Islam has an appeal to rudderless young men that our feminized, namby-pamby mainstream churches utterly lack.

I think so too, and its a painful condemnation of the modern Christian church.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 04:05 PM (0hOvj)

335 I think so too, and its a painful condemnation of the modern Christian church.

Plenty of condemnation to spread around, for sure. The church or synagogue is just a piece in the overall puzzle of dysfunctionality

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 15, 2023 04:14 PM (Xrfse)

336 Post first look for answer now.

Oanon is quoted by the left but I don’t remember it being quoted by conservatives unless conservatives reference the quote coming from a left wing source.

Posted by: Goatweed at July 15, 2023 04:59 PM (0Q/6W)

337 Regarding the description of a speech as being "a real stemwinder" -- I had always assumed it meant "Lordy this speaker is going on and on; lemme just
check my watch, hey is this thing running? it only shows two minutes later than the last time I looked. Lemme just wind it, to be sure it hasn't run down..." . In other words, a long and very boring speech.

Posted by: Doo-Dah, Doo-Dah at July 15, 2023 11:13 PM (UDBDw)

338 I had always assumed it meant "Lordy this speaker is going on and on

It means that it keeps winding you up more and more like winding your watch up, tightening your spring. She gets her entire style from black gospel preachers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 15, 2023 11:54 PM (0hOvj)

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