The Morning Report — 7/24/23

Good morning, kids. Unless you have been living in a cave for the past several years or have the brain function of a cup of spoiled yogurt, i.e. John Fetterman, you are fully aware that our nation and really the entire world is in complete turmoil. Not merely the usual vicissitudes of localized wars, political and economic swings, and other events that regardless of their seriousness had no impact on the seeming trajectory of history since the end of World War 2. Or what we had imagined that trajectory was.

The possible exception to that was 9/11. As the "war on terror" (how I loathe that phrase) progressed and the years wore on, far too many of us tried to put things behind us and get back to some semblance of "normalcy." Turns out we were whistling past the graveyard. In the cold light of day, a return to that normalcy was not to be. The coming of Trump, that is, the fluke that was the coming of Trump, and even more, the reaction to his coming by truly malign forces, have brought us to this point. It is a fin du siècle, and one of the most significant turning points in history.

What comes next is unknown. The way things are shaping up, the existential threat to our personal freedom and that of future generations, along with international actors and movements, leaves the situation very much in doubt. Still in the darkest moments, we must not lose sight of the fact that leaders and even random individuals are always present, who can change the dynamic, and the course of history.

Michael Anton, the outstanding essayist who gave us "The Flight 93 Election" as well as elaborated on the color revolution that brought America down four years later has some interesting thoughts on optimism and pessimism and puts my rambling intro into much, much deeper perspective:

Think of the fortunes of the United States—if you will, of the whole West—like a stock-price chart. There will be a lot of ups and downs, positive and negative spikes. But zoom out and the trendline is clear. In conventional terms, the United States peaked around 1965. One may quibble over that date. Why not the moon landing? Victory in World War II or the Cold War? Fine. When do you think our political, moral, and spiritual health were at their peak? When was our power, prestige, wealth, cohesion, competence, and confidence—on balance and in the aggregate—highest? (For instance, gross domestic product was lower and infant mortality higher in 1965, but by those other metrics, we were healthier.)

Whatever date you pick, part of the answer must be: not today, and not recently. The great exception might appear to be the “Reagan Era,” which I might amend to the “Reagan-Clinton Era,” to capture both our emergence from malaise and our post-Cold War decade or so of unchallenged preeminence. This period was sold to us at the time, and interpreted by its partisans ever since, as the restoration of the American spirit, a burial of the twin albatrosses of Vietnam Syndrome and stagflation. In hindsight, though, it was one of those spikes on the chart. Most, if not all, causes of our pre-Reagan anomie have returned with a vengeance, and are accompanied by many more causes for concern. . .

. . . It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that America has close to zero remaining social cohesion. What do we have in common anymore? Not a culture, not patriotism, barely a language. We’re divided by race, class, region, religion (among those few who still believe), habits, tastes, and, of course, politics. We seem to agree on nothing. We can’t even talk to one another anymore. At best, the United States is just an economic zone filled with atomized consumers. The idea of us coming together on some grand national project is ludicrous. The prospects even of “live and let live” federalism seem vanishing.

At our worst, we hate each other. I could pretend to be evenhanded here, but let’s face it, that hatred is driven by one side: coastal-credentialed-moneyed-liberal-elites, or whatever you want to call them. We all know who they are.

Red America resents Blue America for outsourcing its jobs and otherwise treating it with contempt. But Blue America hates Red with feverish intensity. We can speculate about the cause another time. The point here is that we have a ruling class that believes half the country, at least, is irredeemable: born evil and deserving of every fresh insult they can throw at it. A ruling class that, to boot, works tirelessly to further degrade social and economic conditions for tens of millions and then enjoys kicking them when they object. It’s a kind of sadism practiced by the worst Roman emperors but today spread across millions of credentialed mandarins. . .

. . . Today, as noted, our “civilization” lets criminals walk and punishes self-defense. It celebrates destruction, arson, and rioting. It mutilates and sterilizes children. It propagandizes people to despise themselves, their countries, and their histories. It guilt-trips them into having fewer children (“for the planet!") and then says that, to make up for the birth dearth, they must welcome endless waves of immigration. It brags “we can replace them”—and gaslights and demonizes those who notice and object to being replaced. Above all, it is in the process of transforming itself so fundamentally through demography that, in a few decades at most, it will no longer make sense to call this the same society. Another Celebration Parallax: if you’re for that, you can say it; if not, it’s a “racist conspiracy theory.” Whatever. There seems to be, on one side, intense eagerness to see the project through and, on the other, insufficient will to stop it.

This, then, is the pessimistic case for our present and future. Assuming present trends continue is said to be a logical fallacy. But assuming they won’t, especially when they’ve been worsening for two generations, is wishful thinking.

But perhaps there is optimism in pessimism. Is it really pessimistic to predict (or hope) that a rotten system will give way to something better? I don’t know what the future holds. But to call “optimistic” the assertion that the present regime has a long time to run presupposes that one favors it.

Read the whole thing, and get the book from which it is excerpted as he really goes into a lot of the particulars of the past decade or so that have brought us to the brink of the abyss. Assuming we have not gone over the edge already.

At the very end, he seems to be cheering on the sweet meteor of death in the hopes that in its wake something better will arise. For sure, what cannot go on, will not go on. Yet, as Anton elucidates, it does not automatically follow that something better will necessarily follow. For sure, with everything so totally corrupted and a nation absolutely divided with no chance at reconciliation and compromise, there will be a new era. As Tina Turner sang, ". . . shine like a light, or end in the dark?"

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Michael Anton: "But perhaps there is optimism in pessimism. Is it really pessimistic to predict (or hope) that a rotten system will give way to something better? I don’t know what the future holds. But to call 'optimistic' the assertion that the present regime has a long time to run presupposes that one favors it."
  The Pessimistic Case for the Future
  
• Robert Spencer: "It has now been well over a week since a Syrian migrant named Mohamad Barakat opened fire on police at the scene of a traffic accident in Fargo, N.D., killing one and wounding two others, and investigators profess to be baffled as to why he would have done such a thing. Meanwhile, the information they have disclosed, which isn’t all that much, is oblique and contradictory, and the local Muslim community has added to the confusion with a decidedly mixed signal. At this rate, we may never find out what really happened in Fargo, and the questions and oddities keep multiplying."
  North Dakota Cop Shooting Case Just Gets Weirder and Weirder
  
• "Like a cancer, progressives’ obsession and weaponization of race is consuming America. It is weakening us just as the world is becoming more dangerous. For America to remain the greatest bulwark and champion of freedom this world has ever known, this self-flagellation must end."
  Barack Obama’s Success: How His Election Created the Modern Democrat Party and Transformed America

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
• Miranda Devine: "Archer also is expected to detail other speakerphone meetings in his testimony, including a dinner at a restaurant in Paris where Hunter whipped out his phone and put his father on speaker to impress prospective investors."
  Hunter Biden Put Then-VP Dad Joe on the Phone with Business Associates at Least 2 Dozen Times, Ex-Partner Devon Archer to Testify
  
• "People know what happened. The American people are very wise, and they know what happened. What I’ve been hearing from them has just been gratitude for finally saying what everybody has been thinking, which is we know what happened, and this is what it is.”
  Breitbart’s Morris: Government Institutions Have ‘Zero Credibility’ After Hunter Biden Laptop Story
  
• "FD-1023 was only shown to members of the House Oversight Committee after FBI boss Christopher Wray was issued a subpoena. Senator Chucck Grassley’s public release of the document brings it out for the first time – infuriating the FBI, whose failure to investigate the source’s allegations now looks like the most serious case of election interference in the United States in decades."
  FBI’s Burisma Cover-Up Swung 2020 for Joe Biden, Evidence Suggests
  
• "At no time since the 1868 impeachment of President Andrew Johnson has an impeachment been more warranted than it is now."
  Revelations About Biden’s $10 Million Ukraine Bribery Scheme Warrant Impeachment

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

• "The effort to imprison Trump stands in stark contrast to the very real corruption Joe Biden has been accused of. Not only has he been credibly accused of being bribed by the co-founder and CEO of Burisma, but the evidence supporting this is also overwhelming. Yet Democrats are pretending there’s no 'there' there, and the mainstream media is either downplaying it or ignoring it. Imprisoning Trump over bogus charges while Biden is not held accountable for his crimes will severely diminish faith in our justice system."
  Trump's Warning to Democrats About Imprisoning Him

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

• Venable said: “I just wanted to say congratulations to our state ‘Big Mike’ Fesi. That f*cking moron voted to make things worse for people who are already suffering. You fat f*cking piece of sh*t. You did not produce any god d*mn evidence to support the claims you made about people being harmed by transgender care, yet we have tons of empirical evidence that tells us [there are] increased suicide risks for people who don’t get this care.”
  LSU Prof Leaves Threatening Message for Louisiana State Senator After Passage of Bill Banning Child Sex Changes
  
• “Unfortunately, the stress and effects of these incidents continued to plague Richard. Last week he succumbed to this distress. His family and friends have been left reeling and wishing they could have had the chance to convince him that he was loved, respected and needed here. May he rest in peace.”
  Dedicated Longtime Toronto Educator Takes His Own Life After Bullying From DEI Activists
  
• Daniel Greenfield: " . . . the Harvard Law grad who is married to a white banker has blamed all her problems on white people."
  Racist Mayor: Boston’s Michelle Wu
  
• "As went Rome, so we go, too, it seems."
  Fall of Rome, Fall of the USA
  
• "While the settlement still awaits approval from a judge, it would be far from the first BLM payout. So far, these cases have drained the city of $12 million, simply because it was somehow 'wrong' for the police to arrest those involved in BLM."
  NYC Agrees to Pay $13 Million to Black Lives Matter Terrorist Rioters
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "[They] not only illustrated the ugly totalitarian nature of the Democratic Party, it also illustrated their utter lack of self-awareness as well as their inability to think, in any way at all. Their actions at that hearing are not exceptions to the rule, however, they are the rule.
  The Democrat Party of Thugs and Goons
  
• "It says a lot about the modern Democrat Party that its prominent figures like Rep. Eric Swalwell (California representative) and Beto O’Rourke (perpetually unemployed) would actually support and pose for a photo with [kiddie porn enthusiast] Stacie Laughton when he was running for a seat in the New Hampshire state house."
  The Democrat Party of the Proudly Unwell and Perverts
  
• "It's time to correct this simplistic, anti-historical lie."
  Prager U Video: Are We Living on Stolen Land?
  
• "The New World Order is engaged in an all-out war on personal conscience."
  The Final Countdown: Agenda 2030 on the March

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

• The Verge reports that Musk took to Twitter to announce the upcoming changes, stating, “Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” The tech mogul has been steering Twitter through a series of changes since acquiring the platform last year for a massive $44 billion — even though about half his purchase price has already been wiped out.
  Elon Musk’s Major Rebranding: Twitter Name Will Change to ‘X,’ Bird Symbols to Disappear
  
• Clarice Feldman: "Democrats in Congress and their legacy media enablers dropped their veils this week, revealing how dear they hold their desire and capacity to censor truth."
  "Thorny Questions": How the Democrats and Media Enablers Censor News
  
• Roger Kimball: "As Roger Ailes’s widow Beth memorably put it, what we see on view here is 'industrialized devil worship.' You’re not supposed to say such things, of course, but Mrs. Ailes is right. At some point, Fox News took a wrong turn. Now it appears to have driven off a cliff."
  Fox News’ Conservative Stance Belies Hidden Liberal Agenda
  
• "Notably, the BBC published its inaccurate report about Farage being debanked for commercial reasons a day after its economics editor Simon Jack, who wrote the report, sat next to Dame Alison at a dinner event. Farage is continuing to press her on whether the CEO herself planted the false story."
  Bank Boss Apologizes to ‘Debanked’ Farage, But Won’t Reopen Account
  
• "You have to read 16 paragraphs down in the piece to even hear that Burgess wasn’t charged with Nebraska's state abortion law. She was charged for removing or concealing human skeletal remains, but The New York Times, of course, let readers believe this was just about abortion."
  FACT CHECK: NYTimes LIES About Murderer Who Killed Then Burnt Her Baby
  
• "The Federalist was asked by NewsGuard to respond to its concerns we are ‘inaccurate and misleading’ — so we did. Proudly and publicly."
  The Disinformation Police are Even More Incompetent and Dishonest Than You Imagine
  
• "Here are some of the best examples of media hackery about the Burisma-Biden scandal that aged like fine milk."
  10 Media Hack Factories That Pooh-Poohed the Biden-Burisma Scandal as a Conspiracy Theory

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• “Well, a lot of it’s about messaging, of course.”
  Malig-Nancy Pelosi: Bidenomics Is Working, Americans Just Don’t Know It Because Biden Has Not Told Them
  
• "The Biden [junta] prioritized climate change and the demands of progressive lawmakers over sound economics. It rendered an already failed Fed Chairman a figurehead unable to grapple with his fundamental responsibilities. When policy becomes personnel, you get Bidenomics."
  What’s Behind Jerome Powell’s Woke Turn? Bidenomics

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

• Mollie Hemingway: "Democratic leadership refused to defend the legitimacy of the lower chamber at the behest of the environmental lobby."
  Top Democrat Jeffries Refuses To Defend Right Of Congress To Pass Laws After Environmental Activists Take Other Side
  
• "The op/ed is appropriately titled, 'Would an Occasional Blackout Help Solve Climate Change?' It is a headline that tacitly admits a truth about the transition that boosters of renewable energy have been careful not to publicize: That the notion that generation sources with extremely low energy density like wind and solar cannot hope to be viable alternatives to generation with extremely high energy density like natural gas, nuclear and coal."
  Climate Alarmists are Finally Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud in Their Agenda
  
• Jerome Corsi: "In a powerful book, Judith Curry explains what brought her from being a climate change believer to someone who seriously doubts climate theology."
  A Leading Climate Scientist Expresses Doubt About the Veracity of the Global Warming Movement
  
• "Generators, which keep the lights on when the power goes out, are on the White House hit list."
  You’ll Have Blackouts And You WILL Love Them
  
• "The new proposed rule would tighten requirements for water heaters, dictating that “most common-sized electric water heaters to achieve efficiency gains with heat pump technology and gas-fired instantaneous water heaters to achieve efficiency gains through condensing technology,” according to a press release from the agency."
  Biden Energy Dept. Proposes Rule Cracking Down On Water Heaters
  
• "Nope, not yet."
  Has Santa Barbara Sunk Beneath the Waves Yet?
  
• "In Oz, despoiling the landscape as a matter of national policy."
  Gone With the Wind

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Last week, Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Chris Coons (D-DE), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) reintroduced the Afghan Adjustment Act to give green cards to most of the Afghans brought to the U.S. by the Biden [junta]."
  Senators Look to Slip Green Card Giveaway for Biden’s Afghans into Defense Spending Bill

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• "The Sun-Times maintains a database on Chicago homicides and notes that 328 people were killed in the city from January 1, 2023, through July 22, 2023." (funny how this kind of "mass shooting" is completely ignored by the propagandists - jjs)
  Mayor Johnson’s Chicago: Nearly 30 Shot Friday into Mid-Afternoon Sunday
  
• "Hansbrough was allegedly fired for trying to stop the robbery; Lowe’s claims her actions were a 'violation of their policy.' Hansbrough was with the company for 13 years, according to police."
  Lowe's Worker Brutally Beaten After She Tried To Stop 3 Shoplifters, Gets Fired
  
• "At a time when Americans are drowning in cynicism and low expectations, local, state, and federal officials worked together to go after a 'demon.'”
  Gilgo Beach: Bad News for Serial Killers
  
• "Retail crime is driven by reduced penalties and organized gangs, not economic hardship."
  Myth of the Starving Shoplifter

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "In other words, Moderna and the FDA owe Americans some answers. Many Americans were even forced to take [Chinese] COVID vaccines for their jobs—and yet there was no serious effort made to investigate deaths or injuries potentially caused by Spikevax? That’s not only irresponsible, it’s very dangerous."
  Advocacy Group: Moderna Docs Cast ‘Serious Doubt’ on Vaccine’s Safety

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "This year’s NEA convention left no doubt as to what the teachers unions are really about."
  The Latest in Teacher Union Ugly
  
• "California's superintendent was escorted out of a local school board meeting on Thursday in a defeat for state Democratic leaders seeking to quash dissent from their LGBT education agenda."
  'You Will Not Bully Us': California School Board Shuts Down State Superintendent
  
• Dennis Prager: "Unlike the Left, I don't divide people by race or class – but by something else."
  The 34 Professors Who Protested My Speaking at Arizona State University

  SCOTUS ABOLISHES AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

• Star Parker: "The Court's decision is a victory in one sense and a defeat in another."
  More Thoughts on Affirmative Action

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "It won't be so easy to do in 2024."
  The Achilles Heel of Mail-In Ballot Fraud
  
• "Given the array of choices Alaskan voters had in November, which included three conservatives and one liberal candidate selected in the primary, it remains perplexing how a radical like Peltola emerged victorious."
  Ranked-Choice Voting Could Come Back To Bite Alaskan Republicans – Again
  
• "It's only one of the most crucial aspects of a transparent and fair election. And it's gone by the wayside."
  What is Election Certification?
  
• Deroy Murdock: "Now, as the 2024 election looms, [Chinese] COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror. Previously ubiquitous masks disfigure the faces of only a few germaphobes and diehards. Social distancing has gone the way of the Hustle. And yet Democrats’ “one-time” ballot procedures are becoming permanent. Shamefully, top Republicans now bow before them, as if in worship."
  Republicans Should Fight Tooth and Nail to Reverse Dems' Assault on Election Integrity (should and will are mutually exclusive - jjs)
  
• "It's okay to act to steal an election in Michigan – as long as you're a Democrat."
  Michigan Election Interference: The Real Story

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

• "Holt was slated to be ordained after he won both a May and November 2022 election to succeed Bishop John Howard, who was retiring, according to Episcopal News Service. Holt was denied, however, after the canonically mandated 120-day consent period passed and leaders raised concerns over Holt’s past statements regarding LGTBQ+ and racial issues, according to the report."
  Episcopal Church Leadership Rejects Popular Florida Bishop For Not Being Woke Enough
  
• "Despite the district’s purported lack of resources for extracurricular activities, it still has time to focus on ‘equity and inclusion.’"
  Parents Sue Pennsylvania School District For Barring Parochial Students From Extracurriculars

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "Liz Whitmer Gereghty's early departure left board scrambling to fill position."
  Wretched Whitmer’s Sister Leaves Local School Board High and Dry To Run for Congress

  POLITICS

• Thad McCotter: "Part One: The Democrats – ". . . as the trade deadline approaches, everything points to the Democrats trading their dead armed starting pitcher, Joe Biden, for the slick pitching of lefty, Governor Gavin Newsom and, perhaps, Governor Gretchen Whitmer gets tossed into the deal to work out of the bullpen. While I personally do not gamble, for those who do, consider this one last bit of insider innuendo emanating from Sacramento: President Obama is pressing Mr. Biden to retire. (Now where have I heard something like that before…?"
  Major League Inside Politics Nears the Trade Deadline
  
• “I don’t know why alarm bells aren’t going off now, and they should be at a steady drumbeat from now until the election.”
  Former Obama Adviser Sounds Alarm for Biden on Third Party Candidate Cornel West
  
• "Despite his cognitive limits, Joe is sufficiently sentient to understand his own vulnerability. He will therefore continue obeying his political masters, who have stood behind him while keeping his enemies in check."
  The Undumpable Biden
  
• "Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and nephew of slain President John F. Kennedy, contended that he’s weathered more flack than Donald Trump. . . Kennedy remains a longshot Dem challenger to incumbent President Biden, trailing him by more than 51 percentage points in the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate."
  RFK Jr. Admits He "Would Definitely Not" Vote for Himself if He Believed the News; "Even More Than Trump Was Slammed"

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• "Ukrainian drones hit Crimea weapons depot, Russians advance in Kharkiv region."
  Ukraine War Updates: Russia Tightens Black Sea Blockade, Hits Port Cities and Practices Seizing Ships 
  
• "While the Biden [junta] approved the transfer of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine earlier this year, the country is still waiting on the delivery, and in any case still need their pilots to be trained how to use the warplanes, a process which typically takes months."
  Zelensky Demands West Provide ‘Full Protective Shield’ of Anti-Aircraft Defence Systems
  
• "How to read the Ukraine conflict as it stands so far."
  Ukraine and the U.S. Response: Flooding the Zone

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Dr. Eyal Nof, the head of invasive electrophysiology service at the Sheba Medical Center, said Netanyahu received treatment after a monitoring device he had fitted a week ago issued an alarm about a transient heart block."
  Bibi Bypass: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu Doing ‘Very Well’ Following Emergency Heart Operation
  
• ". . . who is really behind this chaos? It still isn’t clear who, but someone or some organization is spending a lot of time and money trying to spread chaos and fear in Israel. Hopefully, Israel will learn from America’s mistakes and not capitulate to these domestic terrorists. But it is a hard road against a well-funded and organized group."
  Are We Seeing BLM 2.0 in Israel?
  
• "A US backdoor deal with the Islamic Republic – and who it will fund and enable."
  Iran and Jenin’s Terror Base
  
• “We are now living through the most dangerous moments in world politics when the number one world power sees that it is slipping into second place… We are moving toward a clash day by day,” Orban added.
  Hungary’s Orban: World is Heading for a Clash Due to U.S. Decline
  
• Lula: Government “cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands.”
  Leftist Brazilian President Lula Signs Decree to Restrict Gun Ownership 
  
• "If a united right wins in Sunday’s elections, it will change Europe and the civilized world."
  War Report From Spain: Everything Could Change in 24 Hours
  
• "Who – and what – was the rioting really driven by?"
  The French Disconnection
  
• "The E.U.'s green obsessions are set to doom it. And the United States is set to follow suit."
  Will the European Union Devolve into a Group of Third-World Countries?
  
• "Historically, Belgian politics has been dominated by French-speaking Wallonia, but it has lost its grip on power in recent years. The Belgian government, currently comprised of a seven-party coalition, is highly dysfunctional, and the country has gone as long as 652 days with no one in charge due to politicians with highly divergent beliefs being unable to reach compromises following national elections."
  Belgium – The Size of Maryland – Might Break Up Over Immigration
  
• "So, the Berlin demonstrators want to exterminate the nation where this poor unfortunate sought refuge, and turn the territory over to [a "Palestinian" homo's] executioners. How is this not insane?"
  The Most Inexplicable Chant Surfaces in Berlin Demonstration

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• By overriding the recommendation of his defense chief and putting in a less experienced female for the top job in the Navy, who is “risking our ability to ensure that the United States Armed Forces remain the greatest fighting force in the history of the world?” (at least Levine has a dick and balls - jjs)
  Biden Overrules Pentagon and Names a Female Admiral to Head the Navy
  
• “Regardless of what your beliefs are, our society is a Judeo-Christian society, and we have a moral compass,” Lt. Gen. Richard G. Moore Jr. said. “Not everybody does, and there are those that are willing to go for the ends — regardless of what means have to be employed, and we’ll have to be ready for that.”
  ‘Judeo-Christian Society’ Foundations Create More Ethical AI Than Adversaries, U.S. Air Force General Says
  
• Robert Spencer: "Encouraging trans madness in the ranks – yeah, that’ll beat China."
  Biden Regime Defense Department Gives Special Perks to Soldiers Who Are Mentally Ill

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• "It is impossible to understand National Socialism unless we see it in fact as a new Islam."
  Umberto Eco, Carl Jung, Karl Barth and Hitler on Islam and Nazism

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "This derailment comes only a month after a railroad bridge collapsed in southern Montana, causing cars carrying a total of 66 tons of oil to fall into the Yellowstone River."
  Train Derailed in Montana with Cars Spilling Carrots, Napkins, and Cake Mix
  
• "There’s plunging confidence among the business community that progressive leadership in the crime-ridden metro can revive the poop-infested downtown area. Businesses are closing up shops in droves, while some building owners have stopped payments on malls and hotels as the city’s economic recovery appears bleak."
  Video Of Deserted Mall And Streets In Downtown San Fran Reveals Democrats Destroyed City

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "The treatment involves targeting the protein that turns off tooth regeneration."
  Real Science: Tooth Regrowing Treatment to Begin Human Trials Next Year

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "SpaceX’s 49 successful launches so far this year carries some additional historical significance. This number exceeds the launch count of the entire United States per year from 1968 to 2021, and SpaceX has done it in only a little more than half the year. Its reported goal of completing 100 launches this year remains very much within reach."
  SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites
  
• "They then use a microwave to turn the sand-like simulant into solidified blocks."
  https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/south-korean-researchers-turn-simulated-lunar-soil-into-building-blocks/

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

• "The nation continues to be on the front lines, defending Western Civilization from the barbarism of woke ideology. Meanwhile, Miss Netherlands crowns its first transgendered individual."
  Miss Italy Pageant Bans Transgender Contestants in its “Miss Universe” Competitions
  
• "Self-described feminist nonprofit works to stop violent crime without police."
  Biden Junta Gives Soros-Backed Group Millions To Teach Young Puerto Ricans About 'Toxic Masculinities'

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "From the opening scenes of little girls bashing their baby dolls on rocks in a symbolic rejection of motherhood to the final scene where Barbie is so empowered and self-actualized that she visits a gynecologist for the first time, the film criticizes women's impulses toward motherhood, love and femininity and leaves the lead character standing alone in the real world with no friends, no husband, no children and only the medical industrial complex by her side."
  The New Barbie Movie is an Anti-Motherhood, Man-Hating Tangle of Daddy Issues Posing as a Tale of Female Empowerment
  
• "Guys aren’t angrily boycotting Barbie (which Big Left would take as a win because it would prove that they can’t handle a strong, feminist Barbie); they’re flocking to the movie specifically to applaud the ludicrous chauvinism espoused by Based Ken. And to demonstrate to Leftists that they are perfectly willing to behave as badly as Leftists claim they do. And to laugh at the Leftists’ fuming and sputtering when they do it."
  The Based and Hilarious Reason Gen Z Bros Are Flocking to the New Barbie Flick
  
• Christian Toto: "Barbie, Oppenheimer crush the competition – Hollywood should take notice."
  5 Fascinating Lessons from Barbenheimer’s Box Office Romp
  
• "It’s the Left’s next great ethical frontier."
  Are Robot Rights Next?
  
• “Sales of what was once America’s best-selling beer dropped 2.6 points from 11.3 percent dollar sales share to 8.73 percent at Union’s network of thousands of high-volume venues in the first week of the boycott alone,” the report said. 
  Bud Light’s Popularity At Bars And Restaurants Is “Almost Non-Existent”
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "The fight is not over however. Be warned that the leftists running this movement still have gigantic financial and political resources."
  The Corporate Fad to Impose Racial Quotas is Fading Fast
  
• "Even the wokest corporations are abandoning the DEI ship in the face of growing disenchantment and backlash."
  Is D.E.I. Going to D-I-E?
  
• "The man behind today’s fight for Judeo-Christian values."
  This Is Bigger Than a Culture War: Blame Michel Foucault
  
• "The report is yet another 'woke' drivel-fest funded by left-wing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Lankelly Chase Foundation, and the Barrow Cadbury Trust."
  Language Police Claim ‘Wealthy Elite’ is Anti-Semitic, and ‘Dark Times’ is Racist

  HITHER & YON

• "The latest Oppenheimer movie is yet another tiresome replay of the same old liberal fairy tales of the Cold War."
  Oppenheimer Was No Superhero
  
• "On Lincoln and democracy."
  Government by Reason—Or by Passion?

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1 Morning! Lots to read.

Posted by: Molly k. at July 24, 2023 07:29 AM (j/yko)

2 Thank you! Up early to run girlie to the airport.

Posted by: Scottst at July 24, 2023 07:30 AM (qcvs8)

3 WTFO?

MSFT and Google do not like me this AM.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)

4 thx JJ38

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)

5 Thank you!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:32 AM (isNL8)

6 I totally accept that Joe Biden knows nothing about anything, even though his family composes a criminal gang and his Junta is methodically destroying civilization as we know it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 07:33 AM (ACREu)

7 Good morning, J.J. Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 24, 2023 07:34 AM (53oGX)

8 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2023 07:34 AM (5ZwKX)

9 Good morning, one and all. Despite heavy rain and poor visibility, I made it in to work. Not sure if that's good or bad but I'll figure that out later.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2023 07:35 AM (4olE8)

10 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the day:

"What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life? For the Son of Man will come with his angels in his Father’s glory, and then he will repay everyone according to his conduct."

–Matthew: 16:26-27

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 07:35 AM (QG3cQ)

11 Wow -- I read the content and then noticed that I coulda been first. Oh well. Thanks, JJ!

Posted by: Doof at July 24, 2023 07:35 AM (2pH9T)

12 It has now been well over a week since a Syrian migrant named Mohamad Barakat opened fire on police at the scene of a traffic accident in Fargo, N.D., killing one and wounding two others, and investigators profess to be baffled as to why he would have done such a thing.

My guess is this is a test. Lose a few soldiers trying out the enemy and then know what happens when the real war starts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:36 AM (BRHaw)

13 morning horde, happy monday or something...

let's see what fresh hell awaits.

time for covfefe & content

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:37 AM (Mkvkw)

14 Dedicated Longtime Toronto Educator Takes His Own Life After Bullying From DEI Activists

Why kill yourself? Sheesh, punish your tormentors, not yourself. There's plenty of ways to do it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2023 07:38 AM (Angsy)

15 Use this one weird trick to behead your girlfriend with a machete in public and then be declared not guilty.

Posted by: Everything's great in America at July 24, 2023 07:38 AM (iayUP)

16 Good Morning.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2023 07:40 AM (SJKxM)

17 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2023 07:40 AM (Q4IgG)

18 NYC Agrees to Pay $13 Million to Black Lives Matter Terrorist Rioters

The next 9/11 crew will get the tickets refunded and have 30k miles added to their frequent flyer accounts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

19 13 morning horde, happy monday or something...

let's see what fresh hell awaits.

time for covfefe & content
Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:37 AM (Mkvkw)
*trudges along in hand pulled cart*

FRESH HELL
Get UR FRESH HELL

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:42 AM (BRHaw)

20 "The next 9/11 crew will get the tickets refunded and have 30k miles added to their frequent flyer accounts."

And free inflight cocktails..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:43 AM (isNL8)

21 It's almost 8 AM here in the east, so you know where Fetterman is hiding?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 24, 2023 07:43 AM (w8uSE)

22 "It's almost 8 AM here in the east, so you know where Fetterman is hiding?"

Speaking of which...

Has anyone seen his wife in recent months?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:44 AM (isNL8)

23 I-uh, uh-I-uh,, HEY! G-G-GOODNIGHT ER'BODY!

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at July 24, 2023 07:46 AM (5hfjS)

24 well, that was a sobering and thoughtful look at the current state of things. But it does seem about right. it's an interesting way of looking at the history of the US, for sure.

now the question is, what happens next. the answer is, i haven't a clue. do we go the way of the roman empire? do we have a new revolution? do we become the new balkans?

i have no idea, but part of me wants to live long enough to see the leftists decorating lamp posts...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:46 AM (Mkvkw)

25 If the twiter name is replaced by X, what will they call tweets?

Posted by: fd at July 24, 2023 07:46 AM (iayUP)

26 Obama, the stupid, lazy, puppet that he is, was successful in the globalists' mission, "fundamentally transform America."

Fucker.

And eff his America-hating, fat-ass "wife."

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 07:46 AM (DcKNO)

27 hiya

Posted by: JT at July 24, 2023 07:46 AM (T4tVD)

28 The issue of race in America will only end when there is no more profit in it and stop treating colored folks like lab rats.

The race warlords, guilty ridden YTs and smooth brained democrats and their politicians make a lot of money with that rayciss business and they love fostering programs on their little black and brown brothers to "help" them.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 07:47 AM (b+YaX)

29 “Well, a lot of it’s about messaging, of course,” Pelosi said. “I’m so proud of this president. In the two years that we were in the majority working with him, he broke all records, on the level with a Lyndon Johnson or a Franklin Roosevelt, in terms of the caliber of legislation that he passed for the good of the people, lowering prescription drugs, again, cutting in half – as you indicate, cutting in half unemployment.”

Are you going to believe me or your own lying eyes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

30 JJ we don't say it enough, but your morning round-ups are incredible, thank you.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 07:47 AM (DcKNO)

31 *trudges along in hand pulled cart*

FRESH HELL
Get UR FRESH HELL
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:42 AM (BRHaw)

i'll have 2 sir. i need one for this, and one for work please...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:47 AM (Mkvkw)

32 25 If the twiter name is replaced by X, what will they call tweets?
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2023 07:46 AM (iayUP)

xeets
xits
xrays

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:48 AM (BRHaw)

33 Dianne Feinstein...


She seems to have fallen completely out of the medias attention as well.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:49 AM (isNL8)

34
My guess is this is a test. Lose a few soldiers trying out the enemy and then know what happens when the real war starts.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:36 AM

My guess is enough terrorists have come across the border that a coordinated attack on critical infrastructure will occur some morning from coast to coast that will make 9/11 look like a child's tea party. An attack so devastating that it will change the country forever.

Sure, you can belittle the person who cries 'Wolf' but on a long enough timeline and with enough wolves around... bound to actually happen.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 24, 2023 07:49 AM (enJYY)

35 Obama, the stupid, lazy, puppet that he is, was successful in the globalists' mission, "fundamentally transform America."

He's just the frontman.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2023 07:49 AM (SJKxM)

36 Good Morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear into the heart of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 24, 2023 07:49 AM (u82oZ)

37 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

I slept past 4 so I haven't read content, don't know what's going on, have not made coffee. Sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 07:50 AM (JvZF+)

38 I don't think Obama nor *biden themselves are responsible for where we are today. Neither has the gravitas to personally implement policy. Their respective staffs and faceless bureaucrats with a like-mindedness do. Whether there is some sort of weird collection of smooth brained billionaires behind the scenes is debatable but it does appear that the US President is simply a figurehead.

I think much the same can be said for all the presidents over the last century. Except one. He bucked this system and is paying dearly for it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2023 07:50 AM (Q4IgG)

39 Obama, the stupid, lazy, puppet that he is, was successful in the globalists' mission, "fundamentally transform America."

He's just the frontman.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2023 07:49 AM (SJKxM)

More like a backdoor man, right?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2023 07:50 AM (Angsy)

40 The "San Francisco is dead" piece includes a video tour of Embarcadero Center mall showing only one closed store after another. And Marc Benioff, huge Demofascist donor and Pacific Heights resident crazily says the city needs to spend tax money converting offices and stores to apartments.
----------
"We need to rebalance downtown," Benioff said, adding Breed needs to initiate a program to convert dormant office space into housing and hire additional law enforcement to restore law and order.

San Francisco's demise is much more than just the remote or hybrid work narrative, and a record 30% of office space is vacant. Remember, without office workers, local shops can't thrive.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 07:50 AM (hkZDC)

41

Now, more than ever, is the time to look back through our history and note those instances where we met and prevailed over issues even more serious than this current one, with an unbroken record of success.

It has become our heritage to continue the struggle to ensure this Republic endures. and it must NEVER be abandoned no matter the circumstance.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 24, 2023 07:50 AM (KATBx)

42 Almost forgot.

Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marylin Mosby has filed for divorce from her husband Nik Mosby.
Who currently is the President of the Baltimore City Counsel.
And up for re-election.

While she awaits her Federal trial.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:50 AM (isNL8)

43 i'll have 2 sir. i need one for this, and one for work please...
Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:47 AM (Mkvkw)

One FRESH HELL per person per day. Your FRESH HELL may vary in temperature and anguish.
Do not use FRESH HELL is you are allergic to FRESH HELL o the ingredients in HELL.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:51 AM (BRHaw)

44
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 24, 2023 07:51 AM (ENBF0)

45 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:51 AM (isNL8)

46 Read a good article at American Greatness by Michael Ginsburg that Barky and Cultural Marxists started down this path we are on.
Looked through the links and didn't see it but am on my phone and it's small to see everything

Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2023 07:51 AM (5ZwKX)

47 >“Well, a lot of it’s about messaging, of course,” Pelosi said.

In other words, it's about the lies, and lying convincingly.

Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2023 07:52 AM (SYTee)

48 30 JJ we don't say it enough, but your morning round-ups are incredible, thank you.
Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 07:47 AM (DcKNO)

Deserves repeating

Posted by: 7man at July 24, 2023 07:52 AM (qwO6y)

49 Retail theft in America has grown to a $94 billion epidemic

All of those little no name bodega gas stations are supplied with stolen merch.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:53 AM (BRHaw)

50 47 >“Well, a lot of it’s about messaging, of course,” Pelosi said.

In other words, it's about the lies, and lying convincingly.
Posted by: davidt at July 24, 2023 07:52 AM (SYTee)

And repeating the lie so that people believe it as truth.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 07:53 AM (zZu0s)

51 And keep in mind that current Maryland Governor Wes Moore is being groomed as the second coming of Obama.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:53 AM (isNL8)

52 One FRESH HELL per person per day. Your FRESH HELL may vary in temperature and anguish.
Do not use FRESH HELL is you are allergic to FRESH HELL o the ingredients in HELL.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:51 AM (BRHaw)

well crap. guess i'm stuck with the left over hell from last week's work...

-_-

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:54 AM (Mkvkw)

53 Congratulations Brian Harman, the champion golfer of the year.

Posted by: Redenzo at July 24, 2023 07:54 AM (V/pbu)

54 The backdoor frontman.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2023 07:55 AM (SJKxM)

55 well crap. guess i'm stuck with the left over hell from last week's work...

-_-
Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:54 AM (Mkvkw)

Reheated hell can almost be as good as fresh, piping hot Hell.

But you can never get the crust right...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 07:55 AM (zZu0s)

56 I lost my virginity yesterday, as my son took me to a shooting range in NJ. Never fired a gun before.

We rented a Glock 19. And an AR15, which is a hoot to shoot. I can see why they're so popular.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2023 07:55 AM (RqMSv)

57 "well crap. guess i'm stuck with the left over hell from last week's work... "

Just remember, Fresh Hell should be refrigerated once opened.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:55 AM (isNL8)

58 Another excellent summary cousin Sefton.
There is only so much room for retreat, and retreat is what the mass population of normal men have been doing; none of us wants conflict, that interferes with a calm and peaceful life. So it is best, in our minds at least, to back away and cede ground to the enemy; the beasts will eat someone else.
And that is a the behavior of men who've been whipped into submission.

Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at July 24, 2023 07:55 AM (5mIZs)

59 There were also numerous examples in the clinical trial data of participants diagnosed with post-vaccination Bell’s Palsy and Shingles, with numerous vaccinated trial participants seeing the onset of Shingles less than 10 days after getting the shot.

Is not shingle the dormant chicken pox. So my guess is the vax also woke up AIDS, HIV, Hep C, etc.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:55 AM (BRHaw)

60 25 If the twiter name is replaced by X, what will they call tweets?
Posted by: fd at July 24, 2023 07:46 AM (iayUP)

xeets
xits
xrays
Posted by: rhennigantx

BEWBS !

Posted by: JT at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (T4tVD)

61 Michael Anton is an EEYORE. /sarc

Posted by: JROD at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (IlL6s)

62 a Fox Business Channel panelist just called for a boycott of Lowes stores, because they fired some poor woman for trying to stop thieves, and a CNBC panel called for the repeal of Section 230 internet protections. Interesting turnabouts from libtard networks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (GJIkK)

63 Retail theft in America has grown to a $94 billion epidemic

All of those little no name bodega gas stations are supplied with stolen merch.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:53 AM (BRHaw)

you know, that's a good point. i always kind of wondered where that stuff goes. I mean some of the stolen stuff is mundane everyday items. i can't imagine there's much profit in stealing toiletries.

but to stock the bodega would make sense...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (Mkvkw)

64 56 I lost my virginity yesterday,

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2023 07:55 AM (RqMSv)

That's what all the gals in college said too...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (zZu0s)

65 "Reheated hell can almost be as good as fresh, piping hot Hell.

But you can never get the crust right..."

Any good toaster oven, set on 'toast' should do it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (isNL8)

66 49 Yep. I was going by one of the little "ethnic"markets in Fort Smith, on a street in a sketchy neighborhood, and they were getting a delivery out of a car trunk.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2023 07:57 AM (0EOe9)

67 Any good toaster oven, set on 'toast' should do it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (isNL

But the cheese is never quite right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 07:57 AM (zZu0s)

68 It's almost 8 AM here in the east, so you know where Fetterman is hiding?
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Behind the Democratic Party - once again.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 07:57 AM (QG3cQ)

69 Regarding the Toronto teacher, there is only one answer.

We have to accept the fact that DEI and its acolytes are absolute fucking evil and that the moment they target you, they don't stop until you are destroyed.

The response is to fight back and fight back hard. Name them openly, share every email they use to threaten you. And yes; expose their families as well. Make it clear that the instant they step out of line and forget their place then any victory they have will be a hollow one.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2023 07:58 AM (4olE8)

70 @49 rhennigantx-the worst part about this retail theft is how much the thieves are charging for luxury items they looted on eBay. Damn ripoffs.

Posted by: JROD at July 24, 2023 07:59 AM (IlL6s)

71 Nancy doesn't get nearly enough credit for the damage that she's done. I'd argue more than Obama. Biden is just a puppet.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2023 07:59 AM (RqMSv)

72 "Reheated hell can almost be as good as fresh, piping hot Hell.

But you can never get the crust right..."

Any good toaster oven, set on 'toast' should do it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (isNL

what about using a pizza stone or pan? those always seem to help with reheated pizza in the oven...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:59 AM (Mkvkw)

73 I have entitled the photo of Swallowswell and Stacie Laughton together, Two Perverts Recognize

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 07:59 AM (JvZF+)

74 Retail theft in America has grown to a $94 billion epidemic
All of those little no name bodega gas stations are supplied with stolen merch.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:53 AM (BRHaw)

Concur. I love it when I see that "Not for individual sale" on this or that item at Babu's Gas N Go.

That Babu is a funny guy!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 08:00 AM (b+YaX)

75 I lost my virginity yesterday, as my son took me to a shooting range in NJ. Never fired a gun before.

Posted by: Ignoramus

Hopefully, no premature discharges.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 08:01 AM (QG3cQ)

76 thx JJ38
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 07:31 AM (BRHaw)
===
I picture JJ as a robot motorcycle cop

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:01 AM (JvZF+)

77 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2023 08:01 AM (nW4TA)

78 Miranda Devine says Devon Archer is gong to testify that Joey Choo Choo got involved "dozens of times" with the Hunter "business" conversations, phone calls and meetings.

Apparently Joe Biden, get this, lied when he repeatedly claimed he "never, not once, discussed business with Hunter".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:03 AM (FZc/T)

79 I was watching security camera video on TV, showing the oppressed loading a shopping cart before pushing it out the door in lieu of reparations. It looked like they were working off a list in hand. Bodega owners putting in advance orders.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2023 08:04 AM (0EOe9)

80 Today is International Chicken Wing Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:04 AM (NpAcC)

81 ""well crap. guess i'm stuck with the left over hell from last week's work... "

Just remember, Fresh Hell should be refrigerated once opened.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice"


I gave it to the dogs and it was gone in 5 seconds.

Posted by: fd at July 24, 2023 08:04 AM (iayUP)

82 Goes to Louder with Crowder:

CMT STARTS TO GET BUD LIGHT'D AS NASHVILLE RESTAURANT BANS NETWORK AFTER CANCELING "TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN"

At the onset of the Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney BREWhaha, there were signs that other brands were startling to learn a valuable lesson. CMT (Country Music Television) is a brand that did not. Now since the NYC-based MTV-owned "country" "music" channel is starting to ban country music, Nashville restaurants are starting to ban CMT.

https://tinyurl.com/2acnt2vf

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2023 08:04 AM (nW4TA)

83 That's what all the gals in college said too...
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (zZu0s)

this time

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

84 It's so weird that everyone thinks it's only the liberals who hate us and that we just think they're peachy keen. I show outward disdain for liberals and try to avoid them at all cost. I have a few friends that are liberals and I spend way less time with them than I used too almost to the point of not at all. I have no use for their mental illness.

Posted by: Jaimo at July 24, 2023 08:05 AM (DBrN4)

85 Marc Benioff is one of the douchiest Silicon Valley magnates and is absolutely sure how you should live.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:05 AM (JvZF+)

86 "I lost my virginity yesterday,
Posted by: Ignoramus "

Where was the last place you saw it?

Posted by: fd at July 24, 2023 08:05 AM (iayUP)

87 @63 Sturmtoddler-The SOB's looted my Nordstroms in Walnut Creek California. All luxury items. They're charging out the ass on the bay and Etsy. I try to lowball the F out of them though. They're asking a $1000 and I make an offer for $300. These F'ers should be so easy to nail because nobody with an ebay shop name of Pookie and Ray Rays is a dealer with that much inventory of D&G, Tom Ford, Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Prada in Oakland.

Posted by: JROD at July 24, 2023 08:06 AM (IlL6s)

88 CMT STARTS TO GET BUD LIGHT'D AS NASHVILLE RESTAURANT BANS NETWORK AFTER CANCELING "TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN"

At the onset of the Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney BREWhaha, there were signs that other brands were startling to learn a valuable lesson. CMT (Country Music Television) is a brand that did not. Now since the NYC-based MTV-owned "country" "music" channel is starting to ban country music, Nashville restaurants are starting to ban CMT.

https://tinyurl.com/2acnt2vf
Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2023 08:04 AM (nW4TA)

Cracks a Devils Backbone, ahhh this schadenfreud is good this morning...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 08:06 AM (Mkvkw)

89 "I lost my virginity yesterday,
Posted by: Ignoramus "

Where was the last place you saw it?
Posted by: fd

It didn't fit so I returned it to the store.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 08:06 AM (QG3cQ)

90 that hatred is driven by one side: coastal-credentialed-moneyed-liberal-elites
_______

I like Anton, but the "coastal" isn't quite right. Chicago? Pritzker? Whitmer?

I'd also say 1945-49 was our peak. The loss of China, then the Sovs got the bomb. Then the stalemate in Korea.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 24, 2023 08:07 AM (brAQZ)

91 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, guv'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at July 24, 2023 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

92 But 'retail theft' isn't a crime anymore. Is it?

You can fill shopping carts full of merch at Target or Lowes and walk out the door without consequence. Fill one with meats, beer and processed food and dump into your Escalade with no fear of prosecution.

And if you're one of those who take exception to this, you will be demonized and harassed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2023 08:07 AM (Q4IgG)

93 I see the media is falling back on the "republicans are going to cut your social security" garbage again. It's front page on my yahoo news feed.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2023 08:08 AM (ncXxy)

94 ""I lost my virginity yesterday,
Posted by: Ignoramus "

Show us on the doll where the evil gun touched you.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 08:08 AM (isNL8)

95 And it's,
National Gingersnap Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

96 80 Today is International Chicken Wing Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:04 AM (NpAcC)

It's important to use every part of the Buffalo.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 24, 2023 08:10 AM (z+89e)

97 @63 Sturmtoddler-The SOB's looted my Nordstroms in Walnut Creek California. All luxury items. They're charging out the ass on the bay and Etsy. I try to lowball the F out of them though. They're asking a $1000 and I make an offer for $300. These F'ers should be so easy to nail because nobody with an ebay shop name of Pookie and Ray Rays is a dealer with that much inventory of D&G, Tom Ford, Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Prada in Oakland.
Posted by: JROD at July 24, 2023 08:06 AM (IlL6s)

should be easy, if the feds or po-po actually cared to try. but i'm sure they've been told to ignore it.

I hope you've had good luck with low balling them.

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 08:10 AM (Mkvkw)

98 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 24, 2023 08:10 AM (uvymP)

99 I watched that San Francisco video and it seems to me intentionally misleading.

The Embarcadero is a day-time, week-day, business hours place. Is downtown deserted now? Yes. But the filmmaker did not date/timestamp his video and what he showed would be very usual on any weekend or early morning.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:11 AM (JvZF+)

100 Chicken Wings and Gingersnaps by Strawberry Alarm Clock didn't get much airplay.

Posted by: fd at July 24, 2023 08:11 AM (iayUP)

101 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !!!

Posted by: JT at July 24, 2023 08:11 AM (T4tVD)

102 I see the media is falling back on the "republicans are going to cut your social security" garbage again. It's front page on my yahoo news feed.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2023 08:08 AM (ncXxy)

Thank God Al Gore put our social security in his lock box for safe keeping back when he was president. With the price of things today, it's not easy flying to Hawaii 2 or 3 times a year on our fixed income. Blah Blah says republicans hate old people.
Thank you Joe Biden!

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomers at July 24, 2023 08:11 AM (b+YaX)

103 The Episcopal Diocese of Florida was blocked from installing the reportedly popular Rev. Charlie Holt as its bishop coadjutor after the majority of bishops and standing committees refused to approve him over concerns he is not woke enough.

Next thing ya know Charlie will be calling sinners to come to Jesus and praying over the sick and afflicted.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:12 AM (BRHaw)

104 Kelly Ayotte announces run for governor of New Hampshire.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

105 97 @63 Sturmtoddler-The SOB's looted my Nordstroms in Walnut Creek California. All luxury items. They're charging out the ass on the bay and Etsy. I try to lowball the F out of them though. They're asking a $1000 and I make an offer for $300. These F'ers should be so easy to nail because nobody with an ebay shop name of Pookie and Ray Rays is a dealer with that much inventory of D&G, Tom Ford, Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton and Prada in Oakland.
Posted by: JROD at July 24, 2023 08:06 AM (IlL6s)

should be easy, if the feds or po-po actually cared to try. but i'm sure they've been told to ignore it.

I hope you've had good luck with low balling them.
Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 08:10 AM (Mkvkw)

ebay and posh are just a way to convert theft to cash.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:13 AM (BRHaw)

106 Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marylin Mosby has filed for divorce from her husband Nik Mosby.
Who currently is the President of the Baltimore City Counsel.
And up for re-election.

While she awaits her Federal trial.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:50 AM (isNL
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Too bad they deserve each other.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:13 AM (JvZF+)

107 95 And it's,
National Gingersnap Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

I never really liked Ginger Snaps.

Give me a well made Snickerdoodle every time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 08:13 AM (zZu0s)

108 25 If the twiter name is replaced by X, what will they call tweets

Xcrement?

Posted by: Admiral Rachel Levine, pride of PA at July 24, 2023 08:14 AM (1q60j)

109 Cracks a Devils Backbone, ahhh this schadenfreud is good this morning...
Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 08:06 AM (Mkvkw)

Not sure about who’s on the receiving end of the schadenfreud. AB owns DB.

Posted by: 7man at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (qwO6y)

110 I never really liked Ginger Snaps.

Give me a well made Snickerdoodle every time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Word. I don't like hard cookies. Or biscotti, for that matter. When I make them, I only bake them once. Monoscotti?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (QG3cQ)

111 " If the twiter name is replaced by X, what will they call tweets

Xcrement?"

Shut it down...

We're done with this thread.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (isNL8)

112 Despite the district’s obvious disdain for charter schools and its onerous requirements for homeschool students, Pennsylvania law requires school districts to make extracurricular activities available to charter school or homeschool students who reside within them.

In defiance of the law, however, children within the district who attend the approximately 10 private religious schools in the area have been subjected to a “longstanding practice” of exclusion from extracurricular activities.

I hate to be this way but at least the child groomers and child fuckers are up front. These type of shitweasels need to be beat with jagged rocks and thorned sticks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (BRHaw)

113 104 Kelly Ayotte announces run for governor of New Hampshire.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

'Kelly Ayotte announced her plan to run via Twitter, saying, "I am running for governor because I fear that we are one election away from turning into Massachusetts."'

That's pretty funny

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (z+89e)

114 My TV comes on to Fox. Lately, I've just been switching to something else but didn't bother this morning. They were just talking about a "summer of strikes". After the covid hysteria cooled, I put together a few plastic totes with stuff that was in short supply like toilet paper, lysol, rubbing alcohol. I was dipping into it and then decided things could get more fucked up in a heartbeat so I replenished. Glad I did.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2023 08:16 AM (0EOe9)

115 "ebay and posh are just a way to convert theft to cash."

Those new IRS agents will be sure to make them pay their fair share.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 24, 2023 08:16 AM (RqMSv)

116 111 " If the twiter name is replaced by X, what will they call tweets

Xcrement?"

Shut it down...

We're done with this thread.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (isNL

oh xhit

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:16 AM (BRHaw)

117 And it's,
National Gingersnap Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

I never really liked Ginger Snaps.

Give me a well made Snickerdoodle every time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 08:13 AM (zZu0s)

it's funny, I don't normally care for ginger snaps.

however, i've been doing Rev War reenactments, and that's commonly one of the snacks in the quartermaster's tent. and damn if i can't help but munch on them and they are SO good in period gear... lol

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 08:16 AM (Mkvkw)

118 The Embarcadero is a day-time, week-day, business hours place. Is downtown deserted now? Yes. But the filmmaker did not date/timestamp his video and what he showed would be very usual on any weekend or early morning.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:11 AM (JvZF+)
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His point was the stores were closed permanently, not because it was off-hours. Are you saying that is wrong and the stores are in fact open during business hours?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:16 AM (hMvZ1)

119 Thanks as always, JJ. I read that Anton piece over the weekend. He’s always worth the time because he thinks clearly. I think he’s right about peak America… 1965 seems about right; I might nudge it a few years earlier before say 1963 (when the deep state took out a President).

As for Mohammad Baraket in Fargo and when we’ll here about motive… about the same time they release the Nashville tranny manifesto unredacted…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:17 AM (OC6Lw)

120 Government by Reason—Or by Passion?
_________

The standard issue Pinker-Goldberg (and, alas, Claremont) "Enlightenment Now" bullshit.

People should at least reflect on the obviously question-begging and propagandistic term "Enlightenment". It was actually a dethronement of reason.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 24, 2023 08:18 AM (brAQZ)

121 It didn't fit so I returned it to the store.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 08:06 AM (QG3cQ)

old joke

got sox and some pussy for my bday and neither fit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:18 AM (BRHaw)

122 "As for Mohammad Baraket in Fargo .."

How did a Frenchman get to Fargo?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 08:18 AM (isNL8)

123 Obama, the stupid, lazy, puppet that he is, was successful in the globalists' mission, "fundamentally transform America."

Fucker.

And eff his America-hating, fat-ass "wife."
Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 07:46 AM (DcKNO)
The election of Chicago Jesus was , truly, the beginning of The End. . None of the Spectre WEF globalist types could have taken over with such ease....?and How in the name of all that is Holy could a ignorant repellant racist like Big Mike be the odds on favorite to be head of the ruling junta and geographical USA in 2024?

Posted by: Voter theater. at July 24, 2023 08:19 AM (DJYaQ)

124 it's funny, I don't normally care for ginger snaps.

however, i've been doing Rev War reenactments, and that's commonly one of the snacks in the quartermaster's tent. and damn if i can't help but munch on them and they are SO good in period gear... lol

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 08:16 AM (Mkvkw)

Because they're like ship's biscuits.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 24, 2023 08:19 AM (Angsy)

125 I probably would not put too much thought into buying a new 80" 4K smart TV, still in a sealed box, for $425 out of the back of a truck.

I'm a consumer. I don't regulate where the consumables come from or how they get to market. Those that do apparently don't give a shit, so neither do I.

In the not-too-distant future this will likely be the norm.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2023 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

126 "got sox and some pussy for my bday and neither fit."

Switch 'em around.

Put the sox on your feet, and....

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 08:19 AM (isNL8)

127 As for Mohammad Baraket in Fargo and when we’ll here about motive… about the same time they release the Nashville tranny manifesto unredacted…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:17 AM (OC6Lw)

I saw Nashville Trannys open for Dixie Chicks at TPAC in 2004.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:19 AM (BRHaw)

128 Kelly Ayotte announces run for governor of New Hampshire.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:13 AM (NpAcC)
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Couldn't make it in a real job? No actual skills?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:20 AM (JvZF+)

129 Ginger Snaps?

So werewolf movie thread?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:20 AM (UvWAV)

130 "It still isn’t clear who, but someone or some organization is spending a lot of time and money trying to spread chaos and fear in Israel."

There was a story several weeks ago that protests in Israel were being funded by the US State Department.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 24, 2023 08:20 AM (FD5dr)

131 How did a Frenchman get to Fargo?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

A little known fact: The French indeed settled Fargo. It was originally called 'Fargot'.
-- Cliff Claven

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 08:20 AM (QG3cQ)

132 125 I probably would not put too much thought into buying a new 80" 4K smart TV, still in a sealed box, for $425 out of the back of a truck.

I'm a consumer. I don't regulate where the consumables come from or how they get to market. Those that do apparently don't give a shit, so neither do I.

In the not-too-distant future this will likely be the norm.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 24, 2023 08:19 AM (Q4IgG)

its a about a 5 dollar fix to smart card or rfid these so they are dead.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:21 AM (BRHaw)

133 idly musing about "centuries" as a historical construct and not just the hard numerical date... they always seem to wait to really turn over until about twenty to thirty odd years in, don't they?

16th century really didn't end until the TYW in the 1630's. 18th didn't end until the societal upheavals of the 1830's (which lead to the outright revolutions and riots of the 1840's). 19th didn't really end until WWI. 20th seems to be ready to crest into Crazy World right now in the 2020's.

You'll forgive me i'm sure for being so Anglocentric, but the rest of the world just isn't all that interesting.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2023 08:22 AM (/EuRN)

134 His point was the stores were closed permanently, not because it was off-hours. Are you saying that is wrong and the stores are in fact open during business hours?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:16 AM (hMvZ1)
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No I'm not saying he was factually wrong, but misleading.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:22 AM (JvZF+)

135 its a about a 5 dollar fix to smart card or rfid these so they are dead.

"Wi-fi required to finish activating your new TV."

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:22 AM (UvWAV)

136 AB owns DB.
Posted by: 7man at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (qwO6y)

huh, guess i need to peek into that. good news is, i've got a bunch of micro brews in town i can drink instead.

didn't know ab was that far down the list of small time breweries.

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 08:22 AM (Mkvkw)

137 never really liked Ginger Snaps.

Give me a well made Snickerdoodle every time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Word. I don't like hard cookies. Or biscotti, for that matter. When I make them, I only bake them once. Monoscotti?
Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (QG3cQ)
******
I definitely prefer Snickerdoodles, but World Market and Hammacher Schlemmer sell award winning Swedish Nyakers Gingersnaps which are thin and addicting.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

138 I don't even order the McHell anymore. They always get the order wrong, the prices are too high, and the kids in the back spit in your food. Somebody said there is worm meal in there too.

I can tell everyone else is also staying away from McD's, by the way we spend ONE HOUR EVERY DAMN MORNING bitching about the list above.

You're going to buy a solar water heater and an electric car just like the government says, and then you're going to come here and whimper about it. And I know this by hearing the discussions of washing machines.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 24, 2023 08:23 AM (4PZHB)

139
Former Baltimore State's Attorney Marylin Mosby has filed for divorce from her husband Nik Mosby.
Who currently is the President of the Baltimore City Counsel.
And up for re-election.

While she awaits her Federal trial.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:50 AM

oh, good

now they can be compelled to testify against each other

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 24, 2023 08:24 AM (ENBF0)

140 Biden Overrules Pentagon and Names a Female Admiral to Head the Navy

If her and Rachel Levines periods ever synch up we're fucked.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

141 So is that why we christened an LCS in Australia?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:25 AM (UvWAV)

142 Serious question, why did Israel go all-in on vaccines?

It seems that of all countries to be wary of a bullshit deal like these vaccines were FROM THE START Israel would say, "Let's wait and see what the data says."

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 08:25 AM (DcKNO)

143 "oh, good

now they can be compelled to testify against each other"

Part of the fun will be that her offered defense against the perjury charge is that her husband did all the finances, and didn't tell her about the tax lien against their home.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 08:26 AM (isNL8)

144 125 Back in Ohio, in the Mahoning Valley (Youngstown area) up to the late 70s most people wouldn't think of making a major purchase without seeing the guy. Then the guy and some other guys decided to start setting off car bombs killing all the guys and the deals ended. And gps tracking on semi trucks put the final nail in the coffin.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2023 08:26 AM (0EOe9)

145 Reheated hell can almost be as good as fresh, piping hot Hell.

But you can never get the crust right..."

Any good toaster oven, set on 'toast' should do it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 07:56 AM (isNL

what about using a pizza stone or pan? those always seem to help with reheated pizza in the oven...
Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 07:59 AM (Mkvkw)

For this yiu gotta use a well seasoned brimstone.

Posted by: reason at July 24, 2023 08:26 AM (xJ+d7)

146 If her and Rachel Levines periods ever synch up we're fucked.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

You can't just replace a period with a colon, dammit. That's not how grammar works.

Posted by: Warai-otoko, consulting the Style Guide at July 24, 2023 08:27 AM (/EuRN)

147 112
I hate to be this way but at least the child groomers and child fuckers are up front. These type of shitweasels need to be beat with jagged rocks and thorned sticks.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 24, 2023 08:15 AM (BRHaw)

Well, they did start the war. Not our fault that we punch back.

Posted by: NR Pax at July 24, 2023 08:27 AM (4olE8)

148 Speaking about the deep state taking out presidents…. We’ve had 3 since 1963. That’s 3 out of 12… 25% is not a good number! JFK, Nixon in 74, and Trump in 2020. Brute violence the first time, but more sophisticated the last two… full-on color revolution in 2020.

Honestly every time I look back at the details of watergate it seems like a tempest in a teapot. Nixon really left over that??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:27 AM (OC6Lw)

149 142 Serious question, why did Israel go all-in on vaccines?

It seems that of all countries to be wary of a bullshit deal like these vaccines were FROM THE START Israel would say, "Let's wait and see what the data says."
Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 08:25 AM (DcKNO)

What kind of a place do you think Israel is?

Posted by: tubal at July 24, 2023 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

150 Heh this is cute
https://tinyurl.com/yfj78uya

A car plunged down a set of pedestrian stairs yesterday and the 5 yutes fresh from a heist got out and ran leaving the overturned car in the intersection. It was a carjacked car and a miracle no one was killed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:28 AM (JvZF+)

151 my grandmother used to make ginger snaps that I inhaled. no other ginger snaps work for me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:28 AM (GQNjd)

152 What kind of a place do you think Israel is?
Posted by: tubal at July 24, 2023 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

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Well, they certainly seem ahead of the curve about stomping out threats.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 08:28 AM (DcKNO)

153
Honestly every time I look back at the details of watergate it seems like a tempest in a teapot. Nixon really left over that??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:27 AM

I came across a tune recently that was written specifically about the Watergate thing. 'Save the country' and 'save the children' were part of the overwrought lyrics.

Nice tune, but the lyrics sucked.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 24, 2023 08:32 AM (enJYY)

154 Maybe Disney needs to make Snow White more political.

Jill Biden as Snow White. The usual suspects as the seven well non-traditional stereotyped side-kicks. And Melania Trump as the heavy of the piece.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:32 AM (UvWAV)

155 Israel has a deeply entrenched socialized medicine infrastructure… when that is the case, Big Pharma calls the shots.

Posted by: tubal at July 24, 2023 08:33 AM (PCK5/)

156 148 I think Nixon resigned because the media frenzy just would not stop. The Communists hated Nixon and found a story to focus that hatred and did not relent. Just like Trump.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at July 24, 2023 08:33 AM (JLpSJ)

157 My daughter saw both Barbie and Oppenheimer in one go this weekend. Nuts to that.

She told me Barbie is crazy social commentary dressed in pink and blond, and annoyed her. Even her lefty husband was annoyed. But the money was spent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:34 AM (0PaK9)

158 Honestly every time I look back at the details of watergate it seems like a tempest in a teapot. Nixon really left over that??
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Deep Throat was the Deputy Director who was passed over for Director by Nixon. Bob Woodward was an active duty Naval Intel Officer working at the Pentagon who suddenly was a lead reporter at WAPO. Deep State anyone?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 08:34 AM (8Sqzu)

159 Considering what has emerged since the election, there would have been no chance in all of Babylon on the Potomac of Mike Pence granting Trump a pardon like Ford did for Nixon when Tricky Dicky resigned.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:35 AM (UvWAV)

160 Well, since this has become a movie thread, I can say that I saw my very first Mission Impossible movies this weekend - 4 & 5.

I don't know what I was expecting but I had a surprisingly good time.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2023 08:36 AM (N3zMI)

161 155 Israel has a deeply entrenched socialized medicine infrastructure… when that is the case, Big Pharma calls the shots.
Posted by: tubal at July 24, 2023 08:33 AM (PCK5/)

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That makes sense. I thought they would be more discerning.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 08:36 AM (DcKNO)

162 153 Nixon could have kept mum, had his AG take point, and the AG could have used the old "ongoing investigation, can't comment". The mess would have blown over. Prior to the incident and the media pile on Nixon was a very popular President.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2023 08:36 AM (0EOe9)

163 RNC Research
@RNCResearch

Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) says censorship is important so Americans "can have science and facts and history."

"Anytime you point out untruths, you're censoring. You're stopping people from speaking."

https://tinyurl.com/2juw6u9w

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

164 As far as Fargo goes, I've ruminated on whether many small city mayor's have a perverse inferiority complex that motivates them to seek "diversity" and other hip things that are destructive to civic health.

Like they follow a cargo cult that says "If I just bring in more non-white people my city will be cool!!"

Posted by: logprof at July 24, 2023 08:37 AM (0/Hdj)

165 "Republicans Should Fight Tooth and Nail to Reverse Dems' Assault on Election Integrity"

Yeah, but... "We make more money when our guys lose." - Justin Riemer, Chief Legal Counsel for the RNC.

John Boehner said essentially the same thing after they allowed Ocare to pass; it was fuel for the 2010 election and money gains.

The globalist republican party - right side of the globalist uniparty - is fundamentally unserious about winning elections.

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 24, 2023 08:37 AM (klw0w)

166 Honestly every time I look back at the details of watergate it seems like a tempest in a teapot. Nixon really left over that??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:27 AM


It wasn't a big deal but the media made it one. The dan rather's and walter kronkite's of that time had an outsized influence on what all Americans read and watched on the nightly news because that's all there was. They had gone way beyond just reporting the news, they had became the news.


Remember this was right after walter kronkite claimed that we had lost the Vietnam war just as we were winning it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2023 08:37 AM (ncXxy)

167 Bud Light’s Popularity At Bars And Restaurants Is “Almost Non-Existent”
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Well, I'm glad they're down; I have the same kind of schadenboner we all do. But really, #4 isn't that bad. Hell, #400 would be too high. I still see plenty on the shelves, and stores have had time to figure out what the new levels will be.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 24, 2023 08:37 AM (brAQZ)

168 A car plunged down a set of pedestrian stairs yesterday and the 5 yutes fresh from a heist got out and ran leaving the overturned car in the intersection. It was a carjacked car and a miracle no one was killed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:28 AM (JvZF+)
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"This is what happens when you don't follow the Rules."

Posted by: Noted Transporter Frank Martin at July 24, 2023 08:39 AM (YIVH2)

169 I've seen a guy lay out a solid case that we go through 40 interest cycles.
That the last peak was in the 80's and we just passed the bottom.
Which is to say, we are entering 40 years of rising rates. Of course, not continuous but the long-term trend.
I think the scariest part was, literally no financial advisor today has any experience in retirement advice for rising rates-- they all spent their entire careers is a always falling interest, rising markets.
So, all of the advice of retirement professionals today? Not just completely worthless but worse--exactly contrary for what to expect for the next 30 years.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2023 08:39 AM (oVrDc)

170 Miss Italy Pageant Bans Transgender Contestants in its “Miss Universe” Competitions
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Back in my yute, the two countries usually named as home of hotties were Sweden and Italy. I always preferred the Italians, myself.

Posted by: Eeyore at July 24, 2023 08:40 AM (brAQZ)

171 "Anytime you point out untruths, you're censoring. You're stopping people from speaking."

https://tinyurl.com/2juw6u9w
Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

That is fantastically ignorant.

"X says Y, and Y is incorrect because Z". That's not even remotely what censorship is. She is begging the question by asserting that the correct response to "X says Y which is incorrect" is "Don't allow X to say Y".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 24, 2023 08:40 AM (/EuRN)

172 What kind of a place do you think Israel is?
Posted by: tubal at July 24, 2023 08:27 AM (PCK5/)
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Excluding the government, it's wonderful here, even though far from perfect. Regards from Jerusalem.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2023 08:40 AM (tRkUf)

173 Back in my yute, the two countries usually named as home of hotties were Sweden and Italy. I always preferred the Italians, myself.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 24, 2023 08:40 AM (brAQZ)
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Ah, the classic conflict between blondes and brunettes...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 24, 2023 08:41 AM (YIVH2)

174 Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) says censorship is important so Americans "can have science and facts and history."

Yungay Peru.

Two American scientists warn that this huge slab of stone is being undermined by a glacier. The Lima government threatens them with prison if they don't retract their misinformation. The guys from MIT flee the country as a government scientist says there is no threat.

Until seven years later in 1970 when an offshore 8.0 earthquake triggers a chunk of that slab to break off and plunge towards the town of Yungay at a speed of almost 300mph.

The town was wiped out and buried killing between 22,000 and 25,000.

This is the type of 'science' Stacey wants. The type that murders to protect the State.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:41 AM (UvWAV)

175 169 I've seen a guy lay out a solid case that we go through 40 interest cycles.
That the last peak was in the 80's and we just passed the bottom.
Which is to say, we are entering 40 years of rising rates. Of course, not continuous but the long-term trend.
I think the scariest part was, literally no financial advisor today has any experience in retirement advice for rising rates-- they all spent their entire careers is a always falling interest, rising markets.
So, all of the advice of retirement professionals today? Not just completely worthless but worse--exactly contrary for what to expect for the next 30 years.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2023 08:39 AM (oVrDc)

Short duration or variable rate debt in a rising rate environment. The stuff isn't terribly complicated. The scary part is being a financial advisor requires minimal qualifications.

The up and down cycle is much shorter than 40 years, usually centers around recessions. Up in between them, down during them. You want to be long duration when rates are going down, and in short duration investments when rates are rising.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 24, 2023 08:42 AM (eYoxG)

176 173 The blondes of Northern Italy. Compromise.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 24, 2023 08:42 AM (0EOe9)

177 Happy Monday!

Re: Social cohesion - H#ll, yes, it's gone. If you've had the pleasure of working with customers in the general public (e.g. customer service) in recent years, there has been a noticable change. People have become AWFUL - angry, demanding, dehumanizing. And no small part of that has to be how *they* have been treated by the companies.

It has become almost impossible to have a human interaction with basic utilities, etc.. - we've been forced online, through maze-like automated phone systems, and then when we finally get a warm body, it's a foreigner reading a script w/no ability to do/understand anything meaningful. We've been told technology is to make our life easier. NO. Tech makes companies' lives easier/cheaper in that they can stop servicing us and ignore any issues/dissatisfaction.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 08:43 AM (avru5)

178 Israel was founded a worker's paradise until 1977. The reason the Soviets supported it's founding was they had legitimate hope the Israelis would be on their side of the Iron Curtain.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:44 AM (JvZF+)

179 154 Maybe Disney needs to make Snow White more political.

Jill Biden as Snow White. The usual suspects as the seven well non-traditional stereotyped side-kicks. And Melania Trump as the heavy of the piece.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:32 AM (UvWAV)

I still can't believe how rough the Benetton kids look. Thirty years in the Diversity mines will do that, I guess.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 24, 2023 08:44 AM (z+89e)

180 Remember this was right after walter kronkite claimed that we had lost the Vietnam war just as we were winning it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 24, 2023 08:37 AM (ncXxy)

and it's still even taught that way. i was kind of stunned to learn that we won the tet offensive, MANY years after high school.

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 08:44 AM (Mkvkw)

181 American Thinker reports a Gay Pride protest in Berlin chanted the antisemitic "From the river to the sea" chant advocating the end of Israel just after a Palestinian gay man was beheaded on the West Bank.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:44 AM (osCwp)

182 >>Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) says censorship is important so Americans "can have science and facts and history."


No x 1million

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 08:45 AM (avru5)

183 Like they follow a cargo cult that says "If I just bring in more non-white people my city will be cool!!"
Posted by: logprof at July 24, 2023 08:37 AM (0/Hdj)
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Same with bike lanes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 08:45 AM (JvZF+)

184 Some might get more insight regarding what we are experiencing by reading a 1997 book titled "The Fourth Turning" and a 2023 book by the same author Neil Howe titled "The Fourth Turning is Here". We've been here before as a country, 1780s, 1860s, and 1940s. The four cycles of societal change: High, Awakening, Unraveling, and Crises repeats as reliably as the change of seasons. Even the Bible acknowledges this in Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.

Posted by: Bill at July 24, 2023 08:45 AM (zQ08J)

185 169 - Our retirement “professional” is worthless in my judgement but I’ve interviewed a few others; they’re all clones so why bother switching…. sigh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:45 AM (OC6Lw)

186 Unless you have been living in a cave for the past several years or have the brain function of a cup of spoiled yogurt, i.e. John Fetterman, you are fully aware that our nation and really the entire world is in complete turmoil.

Hey folks, this is what so many have been screaming for: Life without God.

Without a transcendent moral code that promotes human flourishing and a will to diligently abide by it, this is what you get.

When God said "Love Your Enemies As You Love Yourself", it didn't mean maliciously regulate, plunder mercilessly, rape children and kill adults with cluster bombs.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 24, 2023 08:45 AM (p8A+W)

187 Same with bike lanes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

That reminds me - I need to stock up on side mirrors again.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 24, 2023 08:46 AM (QG3cQ)

188 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 24, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

189 >>I don't know what I was expecting but I had a surprisingly good time.

Tom Cruise may be a crazy Scientologist, by OMG he knows how to entertain -- he will just about anything (stunt wise) to entertain.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 08:47 AM (avru5)

190 I still can't believe how rough the Benetton kids look. Thirty years in the Diversity mines will do that, I guess.

HA! Wasn't their advertising slogan about the "United Colors of Benetton" or something?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:47 AM (UvWAV)

191 Nice write up as usual, JJ. And the meme is perfect. Pelosi was spewing absolute horseshit about Biden. She's senile. Almost as bad as Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 24, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

192 American Thinker reports a Gay Pride protest in Berlin chanted the antisemitic "From the river to the sea" chant advocating the end of Israel just after a Palestinian gay man was beheaded on the West Bank.
Posted by: Huck Follywood


Hitler is back.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2023 08:47 AM (nW4TA)

193 Hitler may have left, but the Left never abandoned Hitler.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:48 AM (UvWAV)

194 I actually had a chance to drop by the Gun Thread last night.

I really need to do that more often. TONS of good info in that there thread. If you haven't done it, you NEED to check it out. I need to get it added back into the rotation.

Sorry I missed out on the IWB OWB discussion. I have thoughts.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 24, 2023 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

195 >>American Thinker reports a Gay Pride protest in Berlin chanted the antisemitic "From the river to the sea" chant advocating the end of Israel just after a Palestinian gay man was beheaded on the West Bank.


Were they ethnic Germans, or Turks and Syrians and. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 08:49 AM (avru5)

196
The up and down cycle is much shorter than 40 years, usually centers around recessions. Up in between them, down during them. You want to be long duration when rates are going down, and in short duration investments when rates are rising.

"The Skyscraper Curse" makes for good reading.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 24, 2023 08:50 AM (p8A+W)

197 Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) ….

I watched a little video of the RFK Jr testimony/hearing on censorship and saw this functional illiterate and just assumed she was a congresswoman because after all she gets to question witnesses. But only a delegate? Okay…. Another Eleanor Holmes Norton…. Who’s still probably around, right? Pushing 100 years of age at this point no doubt….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:50 AM (OC6Lw)

198 I've seen a guy lay out a solid case that we go through 40 interest cycles.
That the last peak was in the 80's and we just passed the bottom.
Which is to say, we are entering 40 years of rising rates. Of course, not continuous but the long-term trend.
I think the scariest part was, literally no financial advisor today has any experience in retirement advice for rising rates-- they all spent their entire careers is a always falling interest, rising markets.
So, all of the advice of retirement professionals today? Not just completely worthless but worse--exactly contrary for what to expect for the next 30 years.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2023 08:39 AM (oVrDc)

My husband says this and has been for 20 years. He manages over 6B. There are people who do know what they are doing, but you never hear about them. Guys who can literally squeeze blood from a turnip.

Posted by: Miss issippi at July 24, 2023 08:50 AM (9CTr8)

199 Another Eleanor Holmes Norton….

Just keep her away from red buttons and things might be okay.

Is Maisy Hirano still a thing?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:51 AM (UvWAV)

200 Tech makes companies' lives easier/cheaper in that they can stop servicing us and ignore any issues/dissatisfaction.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 08:43 AM (avru5)
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My local utility installed a new meter that allowed them to collect usage info remotely and it didn't work properly, so they fined me to recapture their lost revenue, even though the letter explicitly said they improperly installed the meter.

I wrote a letter to the company consumer ombudsman complaining, and then to CEO. No dice. I wrote to the state consumer fraud department. No response. I never once talked to a human being. Couldn't get anyone on the phone.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:51 AM (iIRco)

201 "Same with bike lanes."

Bikers of Color?

Doesn't really seem to be a thing.

Although, I have heard that in Baltimore it is easier for a teen to get a gun than a bicycle.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 08:51 AM (isNL8)

202 Excluding the government, it's wonderful here, even though far from perfect. Regards from Jerusalem.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2023 08:40 AM (tRkUf)

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Were you resistant to getting the vaccine?

No judgment (that I'll post).

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 08:52 AM (DcKNO)

203 162 153 Nixon could have kept mum, had his AG take point, and the AG could have used the old "ongoing investigation, can't comment". The mess would have blown over. Prior to the incident and the media pile on Nixon was a very popular President.
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Nixon only won 49 states. He probably won MN but let that ride just to make the NAZIs in Minneapolis happy.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 08:53 AM (D8mow)

204
I wrote a letter to the company consumer ombudsman complaining, and then to CEO. No dice. I wrote to the state consumer fraud department. No response. I never once talked to a human being. Couldn't get anyone on the phone.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:51 AM

Do you have a state 'Utility Commission'*? Because I think that is who would have the power to correct the situation.

*It may go by another name in your state.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 24, 2023 08:54 AM (enJYY)

205 In this era of wiping out all vestiges of Confederate history why are these two Baltimore grifters still named Mosby?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:54 AM (UvWAV)

206 Guys who can literally squeeze blood from a turnip.
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So your husband is a loan shark?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 08:54 AM (D8mow)

207 Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) ….
functional illiterate...Another Eleanor Holmes Norton…. Who’s still probably around, right? Pushing 100 years of age at this point no doubt….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:50 AM (OC6Lw)

The Virgin Islands are full of fat layabouts who have been stealing, raping, looting, mooching, raping and welfaring since they fell out of the crib.

We should give the islands back to Denmark.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 08:54 AM (b+YaX)

208 >>never really liked Ginger Snaps.

Give me a well made Snickerdoodle every time.


Heh, I love both - but it has to be my homemade gingersnaps, not the lil' bricks sold in stores.
My new summer treat has been the Salted Peanut Butter Cookies (Smittenkitchen.com gluten free for a family member) with ice cream sandwiched between them -- YUM!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 08:55 AM (avru5)

209 "*It may go by another name in your state."

Dead Letter Office?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 08:55 AM (isNL8)

210 Morning everyone, thx JJ. Hope you all have a great week.
Read the article about Lincoln and democracy and while it somewhat ignored Lincoln's unconstitutional actions it makes good points. When I hear politicians talk about "empathy" "feelings" and "our democracy" you know immediately they're leftists who are trying to sell you down the river. Nothing rational whatsoever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2023 08:55 AM (S75Fo)

211 My husband says this and has been for 20 years. He manages over 6B. There are people who do know what they are doing, but you never hear about them. Guys who can literally squeeze blood from a turnip.
Posted by: Miss issippi at July 24, 2023 08:50 AM (9CTr
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And, what is he buying?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 08:56 AM (iIRco)

212 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 24, 2023 08:56 AM (NBVIP)

213 What we need to do is announce a Jubilee and dispose of all debts. That would fuck Manhattan in the ass with a barbed cock.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 08:56 AM (D8mow)

214 Yungay Peru.
Posted by: Anna Puma

You posted a good summary last night so I went and read up on it. Fascinating story, lots of take-aways.

Of the repeating themes I was able to distill from it were the ideas of social inertia, gamblers fallacy and normalcy bias.

• "It won't happen for thousands of years"
• "It just happened next door
• "Okay, then it won't happen again for thousands of years"
-- a few years later --
• "Where did everybody go? Its quiet now and still familiar, I guess I'll rebuild just to the north of what was once town"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 24, 2023 08:56 AM (p8A+W)

215 The Virgin Islands are full of fat layabouts who have been stealing, raping, looting, mooching, raping and welfaring since they fell out of the crib.

We should give the islands back to Denmark.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

SBF is agahst at your characterization.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2023 08:56 AM (CIS44)

216 Biscotti are barely fit to be dog biscuits. And only for people who dislike their dogs.

Posted by: Hydrox Harry at July 24, 2023 08:57 AM (gRkDb)

217 215 The Virgin Islands are full of fat layabouts who have been stealing, raping, looting, mooching, raping and welfaring since they fell out of the crib.

We should give the islands back to Denmark.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
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Add Hawaii to the list.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 08:57 AM (D8mow)

218 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

In use !

Posted by: JT at July 24, 2023 08:57 AM (T4tVD)

219 What we need to do is announce a Jubilee and dispose of all debts. That would fuck Manhattan in the ass with a barbed cock.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 08:56 AM (D8mow)

You ought to see deacon Jones
When he rattles the bones,
Old parson Brown foolin' 'roun like a clown,
Aunt Jemima who is past eighty three,
Shoutin' "I'm full o' pep!
Watch yo' step!, watch yo' step!
One legged Joe danced aroun' on his toe,
Threw away his crutch and hollered, "let 'er go!"
Oh, honey, hail! hail! the gang's all here
For an Alabama jubilee

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 08:58 AM (b+YaX)

220 Commies have long long memories. Nixon had the gall and temerity to call out Alger Hiss in 1948… 26 years later they got their revenge. Boy the lefties really love them some Alger Hiss…. Even to this day.

I read Whittaker Chambers’ Witness memoir about 15 years ago. There is no doubt whatsoever that Hiss was a commie.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:58 AM (OC6Lw)

221
I went to the Virgin Islands - once. They're US citizens and lazy as hell. Plus, I've been to the beach were Bill and Hillary got their picture taken after the Monica thing. The entire island is now desecrated forever.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 24, 2023 08:58 AM (enJYY)

222 Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands) ….
functional illiterate...Another Eleanor Holmes Norton…. Who’s still probably around, right? Pushing 100 years of age at this point no doubt….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at July 24, 2023 08:50 AM (OC6Lw)

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The big story about her questioning (statement) was her assistant/handler sitting behind her mouthing her statement and correcting her when she said something incorrectly. Our government is fake and it's all smoke and mirrors.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 08:59 AM (DcKNO)

223 "From the river to the sea"
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Don't get so worked up.

The rest of the chant was "Homos love their brie!"

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 24, 2023 08:59 AM (krqg6)

224 I read Whittaker Chambers’ Witness memoir about 15 years ago. There is no doubt whatsoever that Hiss was a commie.
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Well, he worked for FDR. QED.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 08:59 AM (D8mow)

225 The best part about being a pessimistic ... you can only be pleasantly surprised

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2023 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

226 "Biden Energy Dept. Proposes Rule Cracking Down On Water Heaters"

All these control freaks and their supporters need to move to a cave.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

227 The rest of the chant was "Homos love their brie!"

Brie Larson?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:59 AM (UvWAV)

228 " you can only be pleasantly surprised"

I doubt that.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:00 AM (isNL8)

229 Our government is fake and it's all smoke and mirrors.
Posted by: Seems Legit.

smoke and mirrors resent this statement.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2023 09:00 AM (CIS44)

230 Reuben Hicks

The kick the problem down the road until it is someone else's problem.

With Yungay it was only seven years later.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 09:00 AM (UvWAV)

231 It's not just that everyone has no useful memory of a rising interest rate and stagnant to falling market, it's that every government program--from the feds down to the small town--all are completely and totally built on low interest rates, rising markets and growing populations.

Not a single program, not even the local fire department, can survive when the city isn't able to borrow cheap money and the population declines.
But all of them will, every one, raise taxes, as a promise to the layabouts who stay, that they will fix it. Further accelerating the declines.

Detroit is the now and future city; that's the undeniable, inevitable path of every blue city.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2023 09:00 AM (oVrDc)

232 Brie Larson?
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With that ass??

I don't think so!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 24, 2023 09:00 AM (krqg6)

233 "With that ass?? "

They found it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:01 AM (isNL8)

234 213 What we need to do is announce a Jubilee and dispose of all debts. That would fuck Manhattan in the ass with a barbed cock.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 08:56 AM (D8mow)

If you cancel what they've lent out and cancel what they've borrowed from depositers, it'd mostly sort out the duration issues that're hurting them with rising rates.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 24, 2023 09:01 AM (eYoxG)

235 And now Nancy Pelosi will do the Frank Slide...

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 09:01 AM (UvWAV)

236 I went to the Virgin Islands - once. They're US citizens and lazy as hell. Plus, I've been to the beach were Bill and Hillary got their picture taken after the Monica thing. The entire island is now desecrated forever.
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My sister and BIL worked for his father in VI renting boats. After the murder on the golf course (circa 1973) the entire economy shut down. It never really came back after that.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 09:02 AM (D8mow)

237 HA! Wasn't their advertising slogan about the "United Colors of Benetton" or something?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 08:47 AM (UvWAV)

Yeah, if you do an image search for "united colors of benetton" and then look at the new Disney dreck, it checks out pretty well.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 24, 2023 09:02 AM (z+89e)

238 #138
Yes indeedie.
See my comment about retreat.

Posted by: Clear-Eyed Killer at July 24, 2023 09:03 AM (5mIZs)

239 The best part about being a pessimistic ... you can only be pleasantly surprised
Posted by: SMOD
+++
But you almost never get surprised.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 24, 2023 09:03 AM (T35CB)

240 Yeah, if you do an image search for "united colors of benetton" and then look at the new Disney dreck, it checks out pretty well.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls,

Benetton at least avoid the trannys is I recall.

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2023 09:03 AM (CIS44)

241 Meanwhile, at vidmax, twink needs to poop:
https://tinyurl.com/38nafuj8

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2023 09:03 AM (MvF+J)

242 >>Biscotti are barely fit to be dog biscuits. And only for people who dislike their dogs.

Aw, those are tasty, too!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:03 AM (avru5)

243 So Snow White and the Benetton Kids Gang.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 09:03 AM (UvWAV)

244 Barakat's "final search at 10:30 the night before the shooting was 'thousands enjoy first day of downtown Fargo street fair.'" The Downtown Fargo Street Fair did indeed begin the day before Barakat's attack. What's more, he had "1,800 rounds, multiple guns, and a homemade hand grenade" in his car, "along with gasoline containers and two propane tanks filled with explosive materials built in his home."

But why did Barakat want to carry out a "mass shooting event"?
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First name is "Mohamed", which explains the rest.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 09:04 AM (RT5m4)

245 Hey, AMC is popping up 35% on the open. I smell panic time.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 09:04 AM (D8mow)

246 Speaking of Brie, it has been hilarious watching the lead up here to 'The Marvels.' They hooted and hollered about how great the over Billion dollar earnings of Captain Marvel was- but why didn't she get a sequel quickly then? And why is she in a three way movie with two other schlubs? If indeed she is such a draw as both an actress and character, surely they should have capitalized on her charisma and star power.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:05 AM (zZu0s)

247 I believe that the junta and their virulent wing EPA have said that they aren't banning portable generators - as long as the generators remove at least 95% of their exhaust. Which means they are banning generators.

They finally realized that there was a flaw in their plan to kill us. They need to remove the last vestige of self reliance when it comes to electricity. The grid is headed towards collapse, either from unreliable energy sources, or from overloading due to forcing people into electric toy cars.

Imagine an evacuation scenario, where all of the people in EV need to leave an area, but cannot charge their vehicles because generators are illegal.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 24, 2023 09:05 AM (lTGtQ)

248 Mayor Johnson’s Chicago: Nearly 30 Shot Friday into Mid-Afternoon Sunday

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The funny thing is that if blacks thought that black lives mattered, this wouldn't be happening.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 24, 2023 09:05 AM (FVME7)

249 prager-u-video-are-we-living-on-stolen-land/

Yeah, right. And the Trail of Tears was just a native road trip.

Posted by: creeper at July 24, 2023 09:06 AM (cTCuP)

250 "With that ass?? "

They found it?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:01 AM (isNL

it was impersonating her brain...

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 09:06 AM (Mkvkw)

251 242 >>Biscotti are barely fit to be dog biscuits. And only for people who dislike their dogs.

Aw, those are tasty, too!
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:03 AM (avru5)

Dogs?

Posted by: Former President at July 24, 2023 09:06 AM (zZu0s)

252 When I hear politicians talk about "empathy" "feelings" and "our democracy" you know immediately they're leftists who are trying to sell you down the river. Nothing rational whatsoever

Which is interesting because Leftist literally do not have any empathy. They are psychopaths, who do not know how to operate in life unless they are guided. The Universities have filled that void and told them to let their violent, depraved and wicked emotions guide them without guiderails or speed bumps.

It also helps when the minds full of mush are estranged from any real practical knowledge, wisdom or concepts of right and wrong. The psychotropics help cement the dependency on chemistry rather than character.

This is how they can operate with a nihilistic worldview where they have no Purpose.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 24, 2023 09:06 AM (p8A+W)

253 Imagine an evacuation scenario, where all of the people in EV need to leave an area, but cannot charge their vehicles because generators are illegal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 24, 2023 09:05 AM (lTGtQ)

And the downside is?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 24, 2023 09:07 AM (eYoxG)

254 253 Imagine an evacuation scenario, where all of the people in EV need to leave an area, but cannot charge their vehicles because generators are illegal.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 24, 2023 09:05 AM (lTGtQ)

And the downside is?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 24, 2023 09:07 AM (eYoxG)

It's like Cannae- but with more pretension!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:07 AM (zZu0s)

255 So the Baltimore trial of the squeegee kid charged with murdering a driver that got out of his car with a baseball bat is reaching closing arguments today.

One thing I learned from the Defense team is that in Baltimore, it is self defense if you walk away from someone with a bat, go to your backpack several yards away, pull a mask down over your face to conceal your identity, remove a handgun from your backpack, walk back to the guy with the bat who is now walking away, and then shoot him five times. Three of those in the back, while he is lying on the ground.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:08 AM (isNL8)

256 One thing I learned from the Defense team is that in Baltimore, it is self defense if you walk away from someone with a bat, go to your backpack several yards away, pull a mask down over your face to conceal your identity, remove a handgun from your backpack, walk back to the guy with the bat who is now walking away, and then shoot him five times. Three of those in the back, while he is lying on the ground.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

This checks out.
-David Simon

Posted by: BruceWayne at July 24, 2023 09:09 AM (CIS44)

257 that article about the parochial schools suing Centre County for access to extracurriculars is very interesting to me! I didn't think ANY Pennsylvania school districts allowed our Catholic school kids ANY access! they bitch about our kids using "their" buses! (which we pay for, along with everything else we DO NOT USE).

anyway the local dioceses (sp?) here built their own sports leagues (CYO) so the publics can bite me. and with little money comparatively, and nowhere NEAR the facilities, and sometimes having to pay for skate times at private rinks ourselves (same with swim and squash etc) ...we regularly kick the butts of the public schools in sports so HA HA HA!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 24, 2023 09:09 AM (AcWfM)

258 Imagine an evacuation scenario, where all of the people in EV need to leave an area, but cannot charge their vehicles because generators are illegal.

Oh, like in that annual mad scramble in California where out of control forest fires encroach upon populated areas.

Lets make sure we never learn lessons from that.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 24, 2023 09:10 AM (p8A+W)

259 Anyway. New week. Let's just forget everything that happened last week. Old news. What is on the outrage menu this week?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 24, 2023 09:10 AM (slgIg)

260 One thing I learned from the Defense team is that in Baltimore, it is self defense if you walk away from someone with a bat, go to your backpack several yards away, pull a mask down over your face to conceal your identity, remove a handgun from your backpack, walk back to the guy with the bat who is now walking away, and then shoot him five times. Three of those in the back, while he is lying on the ground.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:08 AM (isNL

Kyle Rittenhouse! ... or something...
-The Usual Suspects

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:10 AM (zZu0s)

261 245 Hey, AMC is popping up 35% on the open. I smell panic time.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 09:04 AM

As a 2+ year diamond handed ape, I've seen this before, and am not getting my hopes up.

Posted by: Money Moron at July 24, 2023 09:11 AM (JCZqz)

262 The WSJ says Taylor Swift's concert tour is going to gross over a billion dollars.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 09:11 AM (dtUE0)

263 AMC the car or AMC the theater?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 24, 2023 09:11 AM (UvWAV)

264 >>“I’m getting used to dealing with problems that are expensive, disruptive and white,” Wu had sneered at the Saint Patrick’s Day Breakfast while surrounded by the old Irish guard that used to define Boston. Sitting and smiling next to her was Senator Elizabeth Warren, a fellow “woman of color” and her old Harvard Law professor, who had given Wu her start in politics.

Wu's politics and attitude has always lined up with 'the Squad's' - while on City Council she endorsed every radical idea, such as free bus fare, rent control, etc.. She has never been Libertarian, she is a Harvard Commie, as the linked article details so well. Sad.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:11 AM (avru5)

265 262 The WSJ says Taylor Swift's concert tour is going to gross over a billion dollars.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 24, 2023 09:11 AM (dtUE0)

Peanuts.

Posted by: Voldemort Zelensky at July 24, 2023 09:12 AM (zZu0s)

266 I saw Diamond Handed Apes open for the Monkees back in '72.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 24, 2023 09:12 AM (N3zMI)

267 @247 Thomas Paine, the next big earthquake in SF will be an eye opener. No one will be able to recharge their EV because the power grid is down . Additionally the criminals ,drug addicts and homeless will be picking stealing everything not nailed down. The national guard will be a necessity and it will be a horror show

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2023 09:12 AM (S75Fo)

268 Supposedly, both Barbie and Oppenheimer had monster openings this past weekend.

Weird Timeline.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:12 AM (zZu0s)

269 If Taylor Swift were a nice person, she would send that money to Ukraine.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:13 AM (isNL8)

270 No I'm not saying he was factually wrong, but misleading.
Posted by: San Franpsycho'

Okay, and this is a problem how?
Really, everyone in the USA is in the middle of the most intense propaganda war the Earth has ever seen, and it's starting to genuinely anger me how cultural conservatives absolutely will not fight it.
"It's lying; that's not true; we have to tell the truth; nobody can 'lie'; etc. In a war, which this is, you fight it to win it or you don't fight it at all. It's a war. Fight it.
This came up when Biden handed the world an easy 'win' about activating troops 'for Ukraine', and a number of people here went on a tear of insisting it 'wasn't accurate' and there wasn't anything to panic about. He handed it to you!
This is a propaganda war and it's unbelievably intense, and 'The Good Guys' won't fight it.

Posted by: LenNeal at July 24, 2023 09:13 AM (/BBNv)

271 267 @247 Thomas Paine, the next big earthquake in SF will be an eye opener. No one will be able to recharge their EV because the power grid is down . Additionally the criminals ,drug addicts and homeless will be picking stealing everything not nailed down. The national guard will be a necessity and it will be a horror show
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2023 09:12 AM (S75Fo)

This reminds me of the story of the Ant and Grasshopper: if they loot everything now and the stores move out of town, what will they loot when the earthquake comes?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:14 AM (zZu0s)

272 The Most Inexplicable Chant Surfaces in Berlin Demonstration

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The classics never get old.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 24, 2023 09:14 AM (FVME7)

273 271 267 @247 Thomas Paine, the next big earthquake in SF will be an eye opener. No one will be able to recharge their EV because the power grid is down . Additionally the criminals ,drug addicts and homeless will be picking stealing everything not nailed down. The national guard will be a necessity and it will be a horror show
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2023 09:12 AM (S75Fo)

This reminds me of the story of the Ant and Grasshopper: if they loot everything now and the stores move out of town, what will they loot when the earthquake comes?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:14 AM (zZu0s)

Maybe needs a modern revision of the locust and the farmer?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 24, 2023 09:15 AM (eYoxG)

274 " if they loot everything now and the stores move out of town, what will they loot when the earthquake comes?"

After deep and careful consideration, the only response that I can come up with is:

Not my problem.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:15 AM (isNL8)

275 >>The WSJ says Taylor Swift's concert tour is going to gross over a billion dollars.

It's wild how crazy people are over her tour, but at least it's a positive thing -- it's not, say, a hip hop tour with wildly anti-social/divisive lyrics and riots breaking out at each venue. It's a lot of young (and not so young) girls dressing up in sequins, cowboy hats and spending the day sharing bracelets with fellow fans then a 3 hour concert of teen angsty, girly songs sung together.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:15 AM (avru5)

276 261 245 Hey, AMC is popping up 35% on the open. I smell panic time.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 09:04 AM

As a 2+ year diamond handed ape, I've seen this before, and am not getting my hopes up.
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They pump AMC to save the day. COIN is signaling a down day. COIN is the battering ram for NASDAQ.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 09:15 AM (D8mow)

277 The one good thing that would come of impeaching and removing Biden is impeaching and removing his nameless staff who are running and ruining the country. The fact that VP giggles is an idiot, is not nearly as bad as the people behind the scenes destroying the country. Being a woman, she will absolutely insist on doing things her own way. The goons won't have as much effect on her as they do on China Joe.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 24, 2023 09:16 AM (CecP5)

278 The Most Inexplicable Chant Surfaces in Berlin Demonstration

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The classics never get old.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Hey hey! Ho ho! Eva Braun has got to go!
Hey hey! Ho ho! Eva Braun has got to go!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 24, 2023 09:16 AM (nW4TA)

279 The possible exception to that was 9/11. As the "war on terror" (how I loathe that phrase) progressed and the years wore on ...

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"Here, hold my dear."

-- "Department of Homeland Security"

Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2023 09:16 AM (Pk+pJ)

280 The girl spawn watched Barbie with some friends. All teenagers. None of them liked it because of the woke feminist bullshit. The girl spawn was the only one who thought it was okay. She didn't like the woke shit but thought the actors did a decent job and was okay with how colorful it was. She's an artist so..... I dunno.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 24, 2023 09:17 AM (Wy1BU)

281 Clown World
@ClownWorld_

Remember those dancing nurses? Well, they're back, and this time they're dancing for climate change

https://tinyurl.com/4epmhw8u

Posted by: redridinghood at July 24, 2023 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

282 as far as Oppenheimer I'm surprised but I guess people really really like Nolan!

my kids went to Barbie and they actually liked it - and the boys esp are usually very based and will be open about when things suck or are irritating. but they said "it was ok."

that's pretty good for Gen Z! they are not very bubbly or anything

so yah I'll watch it free on streaming someday maybe. I did watch a few clips of Ken's antics and they were pretty fun so I dunno.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 24, 2023 09:17 AM (AcWfM)

283 275 >>The WSJ says Taylor Swift's concert tour is going to gross over a billion dollars.

It's wild how crazy people are over her tour, but at least it's a positive thing -- it's not, say, a hip hop tour with wildly anti-social/divisive lyrics and riots breaking out at each venue. It's a lot of young (and not so young) girls dressing up in sequins, cowboy hats and spending the day sharing bracelets with fellow fans then a 3 hour concert of teen angsty, girly songs sung together.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:15 AM (avru5)

It involves angsting about men right? I recall that's what Taylor Swift songs are supposed to be about.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 24, 2023 09:17 AM (eYoxG)

284 Honestly every time I look back at the details of watergate it seems like a tempest in a teapot. Nixon really left over that??

Someone probably told him private "That is your only warning shot. Don't go to Dallas"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 24, 2023 09:17 AM (p8A+W)

285 @260 does that work in Baltimore if you are white?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2023 09:17 AM (S75Fo)

286 The Virgin Islands are full of fat layabouts who have been stealing, raping, looting, mooching, raping and welfaring since they fell out of the crib.
...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 08:54 AM (b+YaX)
===
*licks tip of pencil*

*writes 'Virgin Isl' on pad*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 24, 2023 09:17 AM (JvZF+)

287 I'm really fascinated with what is going on in Alabama, telling the Supreme Court to F off.
Not in those words just, "they made their ruling we are free to interpret it how we see fit"
Which is driving the left to fits of rage.
Because they know that's the end of their power if the Republicans there hold firm.
Every court ruling that goes their way is sacred and never to be questioned.
Every one that goes against them is decried as dire threats of the highest danger. See how they are ramping up the "Biden should ignore the MAGA Court" incendiary rhetoric?
Which is hilarious. Because that's exactly what Alabama is doing.
War.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2023 09:18 AM (oVrDc)

288 274 " if they loot everything now and the stores move out of town, what will they loot when the earthquake comes?"

After deep and careful consideration, the only response that I can come up with is:

Not my problem.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:15 AM (isNL

That's a good one. 'Reap as ye have sewn', etc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:18 AM (zZu0s)

289 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 24, 2023 09:18 AM (xTRSc)

290 >>Dogs?

Heh - nooooo! - biscotti!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:18 AM (avru5)

291 The denizens of Democratic Underground disagree strongly with your harsh characterizations of Democrats, J.J.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2023 09:18 AM (a3Q+t)

292 The Most Inexplicable Chant Surfaces in Berlin Demonstration

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The classics never get old.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks


Oans, zwoa, g'suffa?

Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2023 09:19 AM (gmo/4)

293 "Here, hold my dear."

-- "Department of Homeland Security"
Posted by: ShainS at July 24, 2023 09:16 AM (Pk+pJ)

I can get behind that sentiment.
-David French, from inside a closet, whacking off

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:19 AM (zZu0s)

294 >>It involves angsting about men right? I recall that's what Taylor Swift songs are supposed to be about.

Of course. She is the queen of breakup songs.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:19 AM (avru5)

295 287 I'm really fascinated with what is going on in Alabama, telling the Supreme Court to F off.
Not in those words just, "they made their ruling we are free to interpret it how we see fit"
Which is driving the left to fits of rage.
Because they know that's the end of their power if the Republicans there hold firm.
Every court ruling that goes their way is sacred and never to be questioned.
Every one that goes against them is decried as dire threats of the highest danger. See how they are ramping up the "Biden should ignore the MAGA Court" incendiary rhetoric?
Which is hilarious. Because that's exactly what Alabama is doing.
War.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2023 09:18 AM (oVrDc)

Nice, I hadn't heard about that.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 24, 2023 09:19 AM (eYoxG)

296 Imagine thousands of EV's floating around New Orleans or Siesta Key. Some maybe on fire.

Good times. Totes cool.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2023 09:19 AM (TZ75n)

297 Taylor Swift's tour sure has a lot of witchy/devil-worshipping bullshit in it.

Just saying.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 09:20 AM (DcKNO)

298 This reminds me of the story of the Ant and Grasshopper: if they loot everything now and the stores move out of town, what will they loot when the earthquake comes?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:14 AM (zZu0s)

I liked it in the movie "Earthquake" when that Marjoe Gortner dude shot the looters then tried to rape someone.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 09:20 AM (b+YaX)

299 "does that work in Baltimore if you are white?"

Well, the Defense team didn't specifically say that it didn't.

I'm thinking citizen self defense cases against criminals are gonna see an uptick, if this clown is found Not Guilty.

Remember, laws actually protect the criminal from law abiding citizens taking justice into their own hands.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:20 AM (isNL8)

300 What ruling is Alabama fighting?

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 09:21 AM (DcKNO)

301 300 What ruling is Alabama fighting?


I bet it was that "one bad one" about redistricting

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 24, 2023 09:21 AM (AcWfM)

302 It involves angsting about men right? I recall that's what Taylor Swift songs are supposed to be about.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 24, 2023 09:17 AM (eYoxG)

yeah, from what i've heard, it's all about her ex's

and not about her making them sandwiches and giving bjs, which is probably why they're ex's....

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 09:21 AM (Mkvkw)

303 What ruling is Alabama fighting?
Posted by: Seems Legit.

You can ask him if he's here.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2023 09:22 AM (TZ75n)

304 Taylor Swift is an over hyped no talent hack.

Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2023 09:22 AM (gmo/4)

305 Report: Florida Man Shoots, Kills Pregnant Transgender Partner, Then Turns Gun on Himself

Let me guess, before shooting, they yelled "Allahu Akbar",so we will never know the motivation

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2023 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

306 Taylor Swift is an over hyped no talent hack.

Translation: A perfect icon for this Generation

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 24, 2023 09:23 AM (p8A+W)

307 Taylor Swift is an over hyped no talent hack.
Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2023 09:22 AM (gmo/4)

Concur.

But 8 year olds must be entertained.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 09:23 AM (b+YaX)

308 305 Report: Florida Man Shoots, Kills Pregnant Transgender Partner, Then Turns Gun on Himself
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So a good day for a change.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (D8mow)

309 I liked it in the movie "Earthquake" when that Marjoe Gortner dude shot the looters then tried to rape someone.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 09:20 AM (b+YaX)

Damn. That's a deep ref. Lorne Greene. I vaguely remember the part you mention.

*looks up movie*

Charlton! I had forgotten that bit. I just remember Lorne has a ... heartattack, no? And Ava...

Gortner. Yeah, he had a run as the skeevy guy, didn't he?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (zZu0s)

310 >>At the onset of the Bud Light/Dylan Mulvaney BREWhaha, there were signs that other brands were startling to learn a valuable lesson. CMT (Country Music Television) is a brand that did not. Now since the NYC-based MTV-owned "country" "music" channel is starting to ban country music, Nashville restaurants are starting to ban CMT.


Did CMT play creepy, gay hip-hop singer Lil Nas X's (or whatever) stupid "country" music video "Old Town Road?"

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (avru5)

311 Those Swifties are like a fucking cult.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (TZ75n)

312 What ruling is Alabama fighting?
Posted by: Seems Legit.

I think it's the infield fly rule

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

313 308 305 Report: Florida Man Shoots, Kills Pregnant Transgender Partner, Then Turns Gun on Himself
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So a good day for a change.
Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (D8mow)

Wait. Was it Florida Trans Man (she) or was he saying he was a woman at the time?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (zZu0s)

314 If Taylor Swift were a nice person, she would send that money to Ukraine.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:13 A

Geez, VIA, why you gotta be so mean?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (FVJNG)

315 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 10h
🚨#BREAKING: Multiple Law Enforcement are on the scene to Armed Man Holding Over a Dozen People Hostage Aboard a yacht
📌#Miami | #Florida
Currently, multiple law enforcements and other agencies are on the scene as they respond to an Armed man with a gun holding a boat captain along with 18 others hostage on a yacht vessel in Miami Florida. According to Police they are investigating a possible robbery that may have unfolded onboard. Police have reported an end to the stand-off, with all 18 occupants aboard the vessel taken into custody. This is story still developing

🚨#UPDATE: The yacht owner said they had chartered the yacht to a rapper with 17 people on board. When it was time to return to the dock, the charterers paid initially but later held the captain at gunpoint and demanded he wanted his money back and get a refund no one was hurt, adding that another crew member had a cell phone and was able to text for help.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (krqg6)

316 And Sotomayor whining about Alabama can F right off.

She voted to do nothing when PA defied Alito and failed to follow the clear, direct order of the Court.
She voted to do nothing when several states sought redress to prevent the illegal voting in 6 states from overturning the election.
How about all the states ignoring the Second Amendment rulings?
The ones that have already said they will defy the affirmation action ruling?

She can F off because she and hers made this bed--Alabama is just playing by the new rules:
If you don't like what the Court votes, ignore it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 24, 2023 09:25 AM (oVrDc)

317 Huck, I'm actually on the side of your power company. Just because the meter was not working properly doesn't mean you're not responsible for your usage. (I'm assuming they have some secondary means to determine your actual usage.)

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 24, 2023 09:25 AM (XMwZJ)

318 Hmmm...wonder why energy costs so much?
Homes Become 'Air Fryers' In Phoenix Heat, People Ration AC Due To Cost.I'm visiting my mother in law in Arizona and I miss my cold SF. It’s feels like a furnace here. And the right wingers say global warming is a hoax…..NOT!!

Solar panels are the way to go. We live in Oregon and our electric bill with solar panels is $12 a month with AC on most days. Yes we have a 15 year loan to pay off, but worth it for sure

Energy Cos are pulling in gazillions in profit and they've got us talking about how much discomfort we can stand to save a little money. Those execs should fuck off.

Lol...they quote a Shapiro Tweet: "It's hot outside. You know what I can do about that? Zero things. Thank God we have this thing called air conditioning. It's awesome. You know what's a great cure for it being super-duper hot outside? Being a first world country"

The Sonoran Desert is no place for a city of 5 million. it's turned into a hundred mile wide heat sink, and it's only going to get worse. I swear that heat is one of the reasons so many politicians there are crazy.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 24, 2023 09:25 AM (JCZqz)

319 "Wait. Was it Florida Trans Man (she) or was he saying he was a woman at the time?"

I've heard it both ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:25 AM (isNL8)

320 300 What ruling is Alabama fighting?
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Forced gerrymandering of a second "black" congressional district.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 24, 2023 09:25 AM (krqg6)

321 yeah, from what i've heard, it's all about her ex's

and not about her making them sandwiches and giving bjs, which is probably why they're ex's....


Posted by: SturmToddler at July 24, 2023 09:21 AM (Mkvkw)

She's a younger, slightly skinnier and much paler Ann Coulter, who I once imagined would be like having sex with a bucket of Lincoln Logs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:26 AM (zZu0s)

322 "Malig-Nancy Pelosi: Bidenomics Is Working, Americans Just Don’t Know It Because Biden Has Not Told Them"

Another Democrat 'messaging' problem? Yes, because the Junta's messaging consists of lies, damned lies, and BS statistics.

Posted by: Gref at July 24, 2023 09:26 AM (AMIL/)

323 Marjoe Gortner played with Lynda Carter's major league yabos in Bobbi Jo and the Outlaw. So he had that going for him

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 24, 2023 09:26 AM (S75Fo)

324 304 Taylor Swift is an over hyped no talent hack.

Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2023 09:22 AM (gmo/4)


Kanye was ahead of his time. But then he went crazy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2023 09:26 AM (x0n13)

325 Taylor Swift is an over hyped no talent hack.

Quick .. name the last Swift tune you were humming

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2023 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

326 What ruling is Alabama fighting?

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 09:21 AM

Donks got a SCOTUS decision that said Alabama has to create black-majority districts so that more Donks can be permanent congresscritters.

https://is.gd/03If1Z

Posted by: Bert G at July 24, 2023 09:26 AM (VARTN)

327 Were you resistant to getting the vaccine?

No judgment (that I'll post).
Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 08:52 AM (DcKNO)
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Had a medical emergency in 2020 and I was convinced by family (including a nurse) that under the circumstances I should get it. Caved in and got the first 2.

Had there been no emergency, I would have held out, as did most but not all of our children.

I regret that I caved in. Fortunately, nothing medically unusual to see so far in my family.

After the shots, we came to our senses and flaunted all of the rules whenever and wherever possible.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2023 09:27 AM (tRkUf)

328 >>Taylor Swift is an over hyped no talent hack.

>>Translation: A perfect icon for this Generation


I know, and yet -- her concert is the biggest thing ever.
It's a low bar, but in 2023, it's a relief it's not led to rioting/looting, etc.. like most "celebrations" and trends.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 24, 2023 09:27 AM (avru5)

329 Gortner. Yeah, he had a run as the skeevy guy, didn't he?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:24 AM (zZu0s)

Sure did. He was an odd looking fella, I think he's still alive somewhere.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 24, 2023 09:27 AM (b+YaX)

330 Thanks to the people who answered seriously.

Everyone else can eat a bag of dicks.

But I mean that in a nice way.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 24, 2023 09:27 AM (DcKNO)

331 Taylor Swift is Barbie incarnate. A dress-up doll.

Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 24, 2023 09:27 AM (MvF+J)

332 "The yacht owner said they had chartered the yacht to a rapper with 17 people on board. "

Next....on 'Below Decks'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:27 AM (isNL8)

333 Kanye was ahead of his time. But then he went crazy.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 24, 2023 09:26 AM (x0n13)

Hold on a second, JJ- I'ma gonna let you finish...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:28 AM (zZu0s)

334 (I'm assuming they have some secondary means to determine your actual usage.)
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Hamster keeps count of how many times the wheel turns over.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 24, 2023 09:28 AM (krqg6)

335 Speaking of climate change, did you all see what Lancet tried to pull?

https://tinyurl.com/9wy86dny

(Twitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2023 09:30 AM (tRkUf)

336 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 24, 2023 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

337 332 "The yacht owner said they had chartered the yacht to a rapper with 17 people on board. "

Next....on 'Below Decks'.
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Doesn't this mean the Rapper is now a Congressman under redistricting?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 24, 2023 09:31 AM (D8mow)

338 The Lancet has "Jumped the Shark"

There is no way to unjump the shark

Posted by: SMOD at July 24, 2023 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

339 Thomas Paine, the next big earthquake in SF will be an eye opener.

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Instead of food, water, and blankets, they'll send semis filled with electrons to the disaster area.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 24, 2023 09:36 AM (FVME7)

340 "There is no way to unjump the shark"

Seppuku has been said to have a restorative effect.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 24, 2023 09:39 AM (isNL8)

341 What ruling is Alabama fighting?
Posted by: Seems Legit.

He's never truly embraced his iconic status as the inaugural member of the Intragalactic Yoko Ono Artistries Appreciation Association Hall of Fame.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 24, 2023 09:47 AM (a3Q+t)

342 Concerning the SMOD:

I am finding myself in the same camp as Mr Anton; it would seem that the only things that will absolutely stop these monsters is either an EMP or some sort of atomic conflict...
...and I am subsequently wishing for something of the kind to occur, God help me, in spite of everything this would mean for me and mine.
On balance, I would rather die this way, than give these people what they so clearly want to take from me.
Some things cannot be borne.

Posted by: Mike in Canada at July 24, 2023 10:19 AM (xBLFI)

343 Clay Travis used to practice law in the USVI, and he said it's a haven for corporate lawsuits.

Much of the pop may live off civil litigation. Like Lucky from King of the Hill.

Posted by: logprof at July 24, 2023 10:32 AM (QjNBJ)

344 Taylor Swift is an over hyped no talent hack.

Posted by: Archer at July 24, 2023 09:22 AM (gmo/4)

--Someone had dirt or lavished massive $$$ on her because she went full Woke on a dime.

Charles Barkley has also recently beclowned himself (probably settled massive gambling debts)

Posted by: logprof at July 24, 2023 10:42 AM (QjNBJ)

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

IMHO they're encouraging the wreaking havoc in some parts of the country, i.e., outer rings of cities, etc., as distraction from the huge economic problems we'll face shorty. Tax Policy Center, Jun 7, 2023 - "Buckle up. 2025 promises to be an historic year in tax and budget...' Politico, 06/19/2023: "2024's hidden prize: The upper hand in tax "Armageddon." Axios, 6/26/2023: "The next president's $4 trillion problem. Republicans' tax cuts and Democrats' enhanced ACA subsidies both expire in 2025."

There's 'talk' of government reform, getting Federal agencies under control & reinventing government along the line of a Base Realignment & Closure (BRAC) Commission program (Wikipedia) or even Al Gore's National Partnership for Reinventing Government. Not now, soon, after the next presidential election.

EPA, DOT maritime, US Army Corps of Engineers & so many other Fed agencies & contractors have been staying busy thanks to BRAC. BRAC is for the greater good (unless, of course, one's livelihood is/was connected to one or more of those sites) AND for plausible deniability of Congress & the White House.

Invest overseas. They are.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 24, 2023 10:46 AM (GshMh)

346 {271} ... if they loot everything now and the stores move out of town, what will they loot when the earthquake comes?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 24, 2023 09:14 AM (zZu0s)

Mr. President, we must not allow a looting gap!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2023 10:55 AM (nRMeC)

347 "You did not produce any god d*mn evidence to support the claims you made about people being harmed by transgender care"...

They can't have children afterwards.

If we're talking small children, then it's like vegetarian cats; they didn't do that to themselves, and it's abuse.

Suicide rate amongst trannies is exceedingly high. Surgery does not fix that. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32250142/
"40% or more of trans people have attempted suicide at least once in their lifetime." This is not just ideation, but execution of that ideation.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2023 11:15 AM (ynpvh)

348 NYC Agrees to Pay $13 Million to Black Lives Matter Terrorist Rioters

Because their arson, murder, and rioting are free speech, Racist H8ter.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2023 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

349 Elon Musk’s Major Rebranding: Twitter Name Will Change to ‘X,’ Bird Symbols to Disappear

Does it change from a Bird to THE BIRD?
🐦 to 🖕?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2023 11:18 AM (ynpvh)

350 Lula: Government “cannot allow gun arsenals to be in the people’s hands.”

And that always ends well for the people, right?

:::Cambodia has entered the chat:::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 24, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

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