The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 7/25/23

Good morning, kids. Leaving aside the doctrinaire liberal if not hard left personal politics and beliefs of RFK Jr., as I've mentioned before, his candidacy in the Democrat race – assuming for a moment that there actually will be one as opposed to the powers that be rigging it, as they have done in both 2016 and 2020 – is now growing beyond merely the turd in the punchbowl but a live hand grenade in a Delaware bunker.

Speaking with Fox News, the Democrat presidential candidate said allegations surrounding [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden and Hunter Biden about allegedly accepting $5 million in bribes are worth “a real investigation.”
“I think the issues are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened,” Kennedy said. “I mean, these revelations about the, where you had Burisma, which is, you know, a notoriously corrupt company that paid out, apparently, $10 million to Hunter and his dad. If that’s true, then it is really troubling.”
“So, I think that that needs to be investigated,” he added.
Kennedy’s statement is a dramatic course correction from just last week when he refused to attack [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden on his family’s alleged corruption, despite polling that shows overwhelming concern about the scandal. . .
. . . Kennedy’s opinion now aligns with polling that shows a majority of independents want congressional investigations into the Biden family business prioritized. Another majority of registered voters believe Joe Biden’s family received millions of dollars from Chinese government-linked sources. Moreover, 61 percent of Americans believe Hunter Biden received “special treatment” in his plea deal with U.S. Prosecutor David Weiss.

I don't have the link handy but this comes on the heels of RFK Jr.'s fairly conciliatory remarks about Donald Trump that though mild, was the moral equivalent to the average Leftist of Michael Richards' Tourette's barrage of "ni*ger!" on the reviewing stand of the Million Man March. Humanizing Donald Trump is an abject desecration of everything holy to the Left.

Be that as it may, is what Rush Limbaugh PBUH referred to as "the daily soap opera" going through a rewrite in order to ease Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants out and pave the way for a Newsom/Whitmer ticket? The narrative seems to be slipping away from the propagandists' ability to shape and control it. It's also why you'll likely see a Trump indictment within days, I would think.

Of course, the random elements include Biden himself refusing to step aside, as well as Kamala Harris. Yes, America is gone but the illusion of regular order and more importantly the preservation of that illusion dictates that Harris' ascension to the Oval Office must go forward. And that would leave her as the de facto standard-bearer for the party in '24.

But, as I maintain the fix is more than likely cemented in place – a few encouraging signs in the 2020 Election Heist section notwithstanding (see below) – and with a completely corrupted justice system that at best will either let Joe skate and give Hunter a wrist slap while Donald Trump, who I believe is unstoppable in the primary as of this moment, will be railroaded by a kangaroo court and sentenced to hundreds of years in the Gulag, what does all this matter?

It will be a moral victory for a majority of heretofore unaware or unconcerned citizens to have this corruption shoved in their face and not be able to look away from it. Frankly, I'm sick to death of settling for moral victories because moral victories won't stop us from being persecuted into silence and acquiescence on every issue under he sun. Or worse. And that is the road we're on right now.

On that note, one GOP candidate, his trustworthiness and potential for corruptibility notwithstanding seems to be making all the right noises. That's why I'm calling him Red Meat Ramaswamy:

In an interview with Glenn Beck on July 15, Vivek said that he intends to shut down the FBI and that he can do so without going through Congress—and even if Congress were entirely Republican, you know it would never act to clip the FBI’s wings:

“I’m coming in with a clear-sighted view, Glenn, of shutting down most of the administrative state,” Ramaswamy told talk show host Glenn Beck shortly after his interview with Tucker Carlson, a co-founder of the Daily Caller and Daily Caller News Foundation. “First of all, do it on strong legal authority, so I’m a unique combination. I don’t like to brag a lot, but I’m a CEO, but I’ve also studied the Constitution deeply and the Supreme Court right now shares my view of the Constitution.”
“The U.S. president already has statutory authority, the Presidential Reorganization Act of 1977, says you can shut down redundant agencies,” Ramaswamy explained to the former Fox News host. “Well, when I look at what the DEA does and what the U.S. Marshals do, there’s my legal justification for shutting down the FBI without asking Congress for permission or forgiveness.”
. . . Having explained his authority to act, Vivek is starting to name the federal agencies that, in addition to the FBI, he’d do away with, starting with the Department of Education. . .
. . . Most Republican candidates talk a good game about shrinking the federal government, but Vivek is making headlines by explaining his authority and naming his targets.

About the only other candidate in the pack that is even hinting at doing anything against the Leviathan is Ron DeSantis. Everyone else is lost in Chris Christie's asscrack. Of course, the idea that the Leviathan is going to willingly and cheerfully shutter even a broom closet door is a pipe dream, wrapped in an LSD trip inside a drunken stupor. They run the show, regardless of which party is in the Executive Branch and especially if it's a Republican president. Most especially if it's an outsider/reformer.

It is this Leviathan that has brought us to the brink of disaster. And they're hell bent on finishing the job.

“Suppose we got it all wrong and the real crazies are the TV people in nice suits and $300 haircuts?”
That’s an observation by Richard Fernandez on Twitter, and he has a good point.
There’s a lot of craziness in the air these days.
But for the most part it seems to be flowing from the top down, not bubbling up from the bottom. . .
. . . All these crazy ideas and more are the product of our allegedly educated and intelligent overclass, the experts, policymakers and media types who in theory represent the thinking part, the brains, of our society.
But there’s something wrong with these people — the “brains” of our society are basically crazy.
Crazy is when you believe and do things that obviously don’t make sense or fit with the facts.
It’s important to have an intellectual class.
Exactly how important is open to question — in his recent book “How Innovation Works,” Matt Ridley argues that most 19th- and 20th-century innovations actually came from tradespeople and industry, not academics doing abstract research — but important enough.
There are dangers to an intelligentsia, though.
Communism and Nazism started as intellectual movements; so did such fads as eugenics and lobotomies.
The Tuskegee Experiment wasn’t the product of racist Klansmen but of the curiosity of credentialed public-health experts.
In a 1999 essay, Neal Stephenson wrote that “during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.”
It’s gotten worse. . .
. . . A decade ago, the crazy ideas I listed earlier would have been seen as beyond the pale of civilized political discussion. Now they’re all endorsed by leading American institutions. That’s the hallmark of dysfunctional politics, and dysfunctional politics is what we have.

What the estimable Glenn Harlan Reynolds describes is nothing new, especially what he alludes to vis a vis Germany.

The term “technocracy” is nothing new to our political lexicon. It’s been around for decades and is commonly associated with totalitarian leftist regimes who appoint technical elitist “experts” to manage specialized sectors of their regime’s military, economy, and other civil sectors. A technocracy’s effect is to nullify the will of the people.
The first of such modern regimes was arguably the National Socialist German Workers Party (aka the Nazi Party). Minister of Armaments Albert Speer was among Hitler’s finest and most prized technocrats. In recent years, Speer’s role has been overshadowed by diabolical agents with more obvious blood on their hands, such as Adolf Eichman, Rudolph Hess, Hermann Goering, and others. . .
. . . When Germany surrendered, Speer was brought to the ancient German city of Nuremberg, where he was put on trial for crimes against humanity along with twenty-four others. After much deliberation between the tribunal, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at Spandau prison in Berlin. It was a slap on the wrist sentence compared to other regime members who stood trial and received death sentences.
When Speer’s trial neared its conclusion, his final testimony included information explaining how the Nazi regime effectively won the hearts and minds of the bulk of the German population after the nation’s economic and cultural decline following WWI. He also issued a stern warning to the victorious democratic nations that were already building large bureaucratic departments that were overseen by the proto-technocrats of their day.
(Keep in mind that America had a head start on this project: During the 1930s, Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed the American federal government by adding nearly seventy megalithic bureaucracies to the Federal government, permanently transforming America’s governing system. This transformation began the process of convincing many well-meaning Americans that “the bigger the government, the better,” and conditioned Americans to embrace large bureaucratic agencies run by technocrats . . .
. . . Speer explained that, while Hitler was the first to employ the tools of authoritarian control to carry out his regime’s crimes, as technology developed after the war, other technocratic dictatorships would pose an even greater threat to humanity:

The more technological the world becomes, the greater is the danger…As the former minister in charge of a highly developed armaments economy it is my last duty to state: Every country in the world may be dominated by technology; but in a modern dictatorship this seems to me to be unavoidable. Therefore, the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the individual human being as a counterpoise to technology.
In 2023, America is witnessing an ever-encroaching government composed of unelected and unrestricted technocrats who are increasingly running, or perhaps, ruining, ordinary Americans’ lives. Therefore, it pays to take a lesson from one of history’s most evil technocratic regimes and its chief architect.
Speers’ words from his final testimony should chill any reader who favors a free society. We already see how the dozens of huge bureaucracies routinely roll over Americans’ constitutional rights, imposing their collective wills upon the people without regard to our ostensibly representational government.
Moreover, this rogue bureaucracy is allied with Big Tech’s spiderweb. Both big tech and the Deep State are composed of radical leftist ideological factions who believe in their absolute right to censor any view or opinion that runs contrary to a far-left narrative. No wonder, then, that we are witnessing a government, press corps, and common culture run amok with the Marxist-Woke mind virus.

Big Club Status: [x] You ain't in it.

And it will be used on your head until morale improves.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The GOP has long been AWOL on both the wishes of the voters and on the candidate who has emerged to serve those voters. Why?"
The GOP Death Wish
"If Charles Brown gets this job, the office will shift from a cynical careerist to an angry true believer. This does not bode well for reversing the military’s recent string of failures, its descent into wokeness, and the all-volunteer forces’ recruiting collapse." (how the hell did this clown ever rate four stars, let alone a mop and a bucket? - jjs)
‘True Believer’ Joint Chiefs Chairman Will Hurt the Military
Victor Davis Hanson: ". . . how does the government abort a conspiracy theory? Simple: Quit the chronic lying and for once tell the truth."
How To Create Conspiracy Theories
"What Americans need to know about their greatest enemy."
"Stay Out of China!" – Before it Collapses?

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

“I think the issues are now coming up are worrying enough that we really need a real investigation of what happened. I mean, these revelations about the, where you had Burisma, which is, you know, a notoriously corrupt company that paid out, apparently, $10 million to Hunter and his dad. If that’s true, then it is really troubling.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Calls for Probe into Joe Biden for Alleged Bribes, Changing His Tune
“I think that there is almost a panic setting in the media. They all want to move on because the alternative is to recognize one of the most significant corruption scandals in modern history, but it’s something the media played a role in suppressing, so they want everyone to move on.”
Lib Legal Eagle Turley Says Democrats, Media Have No 'Maneuvering Room' Over Biden Scandals
“It’s pretty clear what Burisma was paying Hunter Biden for,” Devine said. “When you look at the fact that a couple of months after Joe Biden was out of office, ceased being vice president, Hunter Biden’s 83,000-dollar a month stipend from Burisma was cut in half.”
Larry Kudlow, Miranda Devine Say Biden Associate Could "Break This Case Wide Open"
Margot Cleveland: "FBI agents told the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office they had already corroborated multiple details in the FD-1023, a source told The Federalist."
FBI Told Delaware U.S. Attorney It Had Already Partially Corroborated Biden Bribery Claims, Source Says
". . . guess who served as a board member of Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings, alongside the president’s troubled younger son, Hunter Biden? You guessed it: Archer. Archer eventually resigned from his spot on Burisma’s board after he was arrested in 2016. Biden’s best buddy was then convicted of defrauding a Native American tribal entity in 2022 and was then ordered to pay a staggering $43,954,416.75 to victims."
Key Hunter Biden Associate Spooked, Cancels Testifying for Third Time
"Naftali was appointed by President Biden to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad in July 2022 — about eight months after Hunter’s first art show, which took place in Hollywood. It is unclear when Naftali bought her Hunter artwork or how much she paid for it." (hat tip to commenter "MTF" - jjs)
Hunter Biden's Gallery Sold His Art to a Democrat Donor 'friend' who Joe Biden Named to a Prestigious Commission
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“The FBI continues to break the rules put in place to protect Americans, running illegal searches on public officials including a U.S. senator, and it’s long past time for Congress to step in,” argued the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s National Security Project, Patrick Toomey.
FBI Spied on Senators & Judges With Backdoor Surveillance Tool
“Effective immediately, unannounced visits will end except in a few unique circumstances and will be replaced with mailed letters to schedule meetings.”
IRS Will End ‘Most Unannounced Visits to Taxpayers’ by Agency Officers
“Permit me not to give you Kamala Harris’ motives. They’re invisible. I don’t know them. We can all have suspicions that there’s a dishonest purpose afoot. But what’s more important than that dishonest purpose is the truth, and this curriculum is devoted to telling the truth. Whereas, Kamala Harris has re-telled a lie. Now, it may have only have been a falsehood the first time she stated it. But when you repeat a falsehood, it becomes a lie.”
'Devoted To Telling The Truth': Co-Author Of Black History Curriculum Slams Kamala Harris' 'Lies'
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Too much truth for the Google-owned video platform to handle."
YouTube Removes Glazov Gang’s General Flynn Interview
"The last social media bastion of free speech is still beholden to transgender activists."
The Twitter Exile
"For Nigel Farage and free speech."
A Stunning Victory
The real question tis “Why is Biden more popular than he deserves to be?'"
Media Can’t Understand Why Biden Is So Unpopular (After Everything They’ve Done For Him)
"When whistleblowers came forward during Donald Trump's presidency, MSNBC gave them its full support. During Joe Biden's [spurious pseudo "presidency"], however, the network isn't defending two veteran IRS investigators who testified that the Justice Department interfered in their probe of Biden's son." 
WATCH: MSNBC on Whistleblowers, Then and Now
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The PR blitz hasn't worked. People live the inflationary economy day in and day out."
Why ‘Bidenomics’ Isn’t Selling
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) has pushed to ban gas stoves and enact new regulations on water heaters, washing machines and dishwashers to enhance their climate agenda. The administration recently introduced a new proposal for water heater efficiency standards to allegedly curb carbon dioxide emissions."
'How Many More Home Appliances Will Americans ... Have To Replace?': Reporter Presses KJP On Gas Stove, Heater Rules
"The next 'green' horror: exploding carbon-capture pipelines."
Cowering Before "Carbon"
"The lesson? The Biden [junta] shouldn’t be investing tax dollars in solar panels. They’re unreliable and far more carbon intensive than many like to admit. And investment in solar panels inevitably ends up benefiting the Chinese Communist Party."
Solar Panels Don’t Really Help the Environment, but They Do Help Our Enemies
"The 20-year-old Thunberg was charged with and convicted of refusing to obey a police order during a June climate protest in the Swedish oil port of Malmö, the Malmö District Court ruled Monday, according to Reuters."
REPORT: Court Finds Greta Thunberg Guilty
Mercedes has previously issued a recall for the 2023 EQE350 models due to potential lithium ion battery malfunctions that might not alert drivers. The risks associated with it do not appear on the German company’s website.“ The EQE electrifies the essence of Mercedes-Benz values,” reads the description. “Leadership in user-friendly technology and earth-friendlier power. Satisfaction for driver and passengers alike.” (hat tip to commenter "MTF" - jjs)
Mercedes-Benz electric car was parked at Florida home. Then came the fire, video shows
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Democrats in Congress have sought to codify the policy — filing legislation in 2021 that would strip from federal immigration law all references to the term “alien” and “illegal alien.”
Watch–Alejandro Mayorkas: Banning DHS from Using ‘Illegal Alien’ Term Respects ‘Dignity of the Individual’
“This un-secure border, it’s not simply a threat from possible criminals and others in South America, there are people from a variety of countries, not just China, who I think are sneaking in,” warns Fred Fleitz, the National Security Council’s chief of staff during the Trump administration and a former CIA analyst.
9-Fold Increase in Suspected Terrorists Attempting U.S. Border Crossings
“He went to I guess find safety. Instead they pushed him into the glass and pulled him out as he was trying to get away.”
NYC Migrants Allegedly Beat Two Men Outside a Shelter in Harlem
"While the governors certainly put a strain on it, leftist policies had already destabilized that poor camel almost to dropping point."
Did Governors Abbott and DeSantis Break The Illegal Immigration Camel’s Back?
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Rider is a female to male transitioner and was eight months pregnant when "he" was shot, according to local Tampa Bay outler, WTSP. On Friday, Grover shot his “boyfriend” and their child in utero numerous times on the couple’s front lawn in front of several witnesses. After killing his “boyfriend,” Grover took his own life.
Florida Man Shoots & Kills Pregnant ‘Boyfriend’
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Durbin was quick to mention that he was fully vaccinated and boosted on the previous two occasions that he tested positive for coronavirus. Durbin was a strong advocate of vaccine mandates during the pandemic, admitting that he would vote in favor of forcing the jab if [so-called quote-unquote "president"]
Biden pushed for mandates. He has also regularly attacked the unvaccinated as “risking the lives of their fellow Americans."
Vaxxed & 2X Boosted Dick Durbin is Chinese COVID Positive For 3rd Time in a Year
"A laugh-out-loud short video brilliantly summarizes the evidence that Dr. Fauci bullied scientists into changing their minds about what their research showed: that Covid was the product of a lab."
85 Seconds of Video That Hilariously Show What a Liar Fauci Was About Chinese COVID's Origins
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Phil Murphy's administration has sued school districts over parental notification policies."
Dem Governor: Failing To Notify Parents When Their Child Changes Gender Is 'The American Way'
"I identify as a gift card."
STEM Students Troll Woke LGBT Survey — Researchers Blame ‘Rise Of Online Fascism’
"I taught in public school, I homeschooled my children and I taught Sunday School. I know how beautiful and innocent children are. We are obligated to protect them from a culture that drags children to the altar of sterilization, mutilation and indoctrination. If we do not fight on this hill, on what other hill will we fight?"
The Cultural Revolution Never Ends
Lloyd Billingsley: "Gov. Gavin Newsom profiles California’s $128 billion government education system."
Offensive and Ignorant
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The wailing and gnashing of teeth is music to honest citizens’ ears. “Instead of focusing our money, resources and time on other endeavors and talking to voters, we’re having to spend resources to get people back on the rolls,” lamented Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried — as if Republicans didn’t have exactly the same challenge. So why carry on like it’s just a Democrat problem? Why is it so important to them to have so many mail-in ballots sent out into the ether? (this should be the M.O. in every fucking state! - jjs)
Florida Democrats Scurry to Rebuild Mail-in Voter Rolls After New Law Wipes Them Clean
“Clean voter rolls mean cleaner elections. This is a victory for all legal voters in Illinois,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said of the ruling in a statement. “Voters will now have the transparency that federal law requires in order to ensure elections in Illinois are more honest and cleaner.”
Court: Illinois Must Forfeit Voter Roll Data To Conservative Group
"Democrats used [Chinese] Covid-19 as an excuse to transform our elections; they are still at it."
The Left’s Elections ‘Fortification’ in 2024
"Analyses have shown these 'Zuckbucks' were heavily skewed toward Democrat municipalities, especially in swing states, effectively making it a giant Democrat get-out-the-vote operation."
Texas Announces Exit From Leftist-Controlled Voter-Roll ‘Management’ Group ERIC
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"[Death] ‘Squad’ member Pramila Jayapal called Israel a ‘racist state’ in an address to Palestinian activists."
Nazi Collaborator George and Alex Soros Max Out to Israel-Hating Congresswoman
"The bakery has been embroiled in a decade-long dispute with Colorado officials over using the state’s anti-discrimination law to compel speech."
Colorado Supreme Court Asked To Find for Christian Baker Who Refused Gender Transition Cake After SCOTUS Web Designer Ruling
"For peaceably assembling to petition his government, Rev. Harold Ristau says, he was threatened with the removal of his security clearance and government confiscation of his life’s savings."
Pastor "Exiles" Family to Kenya to Escape Canadian Persecution of Christians
"Islamists Wilfredo Amr Ruiz and Omar Suleiman deceivingly label Israel 'child murderers.'”
CAIRing for Child Terrorists
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"To the dismay of the RINO establishment in Texas, their campaign to besmirch Paxton has not diminished his popular support."
The Establishment’s Paxton Impeachment Sham Undermines The Will Of Texas Voters
He overcooked the Portuguese water dog . . .
Obama's Personal Chef Drowns In Pond Near Their Multi-Million Dollar Home: Reports
POLITICS
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is learning that, as an enemy of the state, everything he says can and will be held against him."
The Perils of Race Baiting a Kennedy
Mitt Romney is the Mike Pence of Chris Christies. Abject piece of shit.
Pee-Air Defecto Romney Asks GOP Donors to Pressure Low-Polling Candidates Out of 2024 Race to Defeat Trump
"Well, Donald Trump can scratch one more name off his potential veep list and Vivek Ramaswamy’s (or a player to be named later) chances of moving into the Naval Observatory just got better." (It's not that he can't win it. He won't win it because the rigging is already in full swing. And this dusky duplicitous dipshit is delusional if she thinks she's going anywhere - jjs)
Nikki Haley Says Trump Can't Win the General Election
"He’s also explained that he knows how to close government agencies because he’s already studied the Constitution, laws, and regs."
Red Meat Ramaswmay: Vivek Promises to Shut Down Specific Government Agencies on His First Day
"Where's the outrage from left-wing activists?"
Why is Malig-Nancy Pelosi Still in Congress?
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"There were reportedly no injuries in the attack, but it did strike close to where the Russian military holds briefings. The recent attack suggests that Ukraine's drones can penetrate deep within the Russian mainland."
Drone attack near Moscow's Defense Ministry blamed on Ukraine
"What role did NATO expansion and Biden family corruption play in the war in Ukraine?"
Whither Ukraine? Part Two
"The incoherent nattering about religious liberty in Ukraine shows that 'liberal values' are beside the point."
Ukraine’s Illiberalism, and Ours
Robert Zimmerman: "This Russian doctrine is exactly the same defensive strategy used by both the Allies and the Axis militaries from 1915 to 1918, during their own long stalemate."
The Trench War Continues in Ukraine
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"There has been no clear winner in the Spanish general election, with the neo-conservative People’s Party (PP) and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) – currently in office – both failing to achieve an outright majority."
Spain’s Complex Elections: Neo-Cons Largest Party But Far-Left Claims Win
"Sharing dissent cables with Congress is a surprising betrayal of State Department tradition."
Blinken’s Breach of Faith
"As Beijing faces ever fewer consequences for its malign actions in international affairs, ask yourself: would we be better off with a West that acquiesces to the CCP, or by taking bold action to pressure them into better behavior?"
As China’s International Behavior Worsens, Jimmy Lai Languishes in Jail
"China experienced its first population drop in six decades last year, with the number of newborns expected to fall further in 2023. The current number of births per 1,000 people in China is just 6.77, whereas the death rate is 7.37 per 1,000. The current birth rate in the United States is 12.023 per 1,000 people."
China Pushes IVF to Combat ‘Baby Bust’
"As the left-wing establishment weaponizes U.S. law enforcement, how might these actions be viewed in Beijing or Moscow?"
What Must Putin and Xi Think of U.S. Deep-State Shenanigans?
"It is currently unclear what charge the election commission’s order is related to, and whether police would be acting on the warrant."
New arrest warrant issued for former Pakistani PM Imran Khan days after Revolver interview
David Harsanyi: "The alleged authoritarian ‘backsliding’ by Israel’s ‘far-right’ government would actually make the country far more democratic."
Ignore So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Biden, Here’s What Is Really Happening In Israel
"The Arab mindset replaces truth with bragging about imaginary heroism and victories."
The "Palestinians" Keep Dreaming That They’re Close to Victory
"The main financial stream of support to Hamas suddenly dries up."
Hamas Unable to Pay Salaries in Gaza
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
". . . Then admits he has no idea what the term means."
Video: Air Force Head Declares Support For ‘Demi-genders’
"The U.S. military has an enormous pool of unused and capable retirees. Let them help." (this assumes the junta wants the best and most qualified, which it does not - jjs)
Privatize Military Recruitment
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Jihadist sieges of Nigerian Christian communities became a topic of concern in Washington this month as the House Foreign Affairs Committee hosted a hearing on global religious persecution. The hearing was prompted by meetings Father Ihyula and Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Diocese of Makurdi held with lawmakers through cooperation with Aid to the Church in Need, a pontifical charity organization."
Local Priest: Nigeria Trying to Blame Its Christian Genocide on Climate Crisis
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"While at first glance this Martian terrain vaguely resembles the granular surface of the Sun, with the largest depression having its own faint resemblance to a sunspot, the resemblance exists only in our feverish imagination."
No, that is not a sunspot on Mars!
"What struck me about this picture however were the many smaller spiral galaxies scattered nearby and behind UGC 12295."
Spirals within spirals
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"As evidence mounts against their position, how long will proponents of 'gender-affirming care' for minors hold out?"
The New Onodas
"If, as the left insists, there is nothing fixed about gender, how can mutilating surgery provide care?"
The Deceptive Advertising of Gender-Affirming Surgery
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“A form of extremist propaganda”
VOX Declares Sound of Freedom Movie to Be “As Dark and Dangerous” as Child Sex Trafficking Itself
"If the Left isn’t against it, are they for it?" (Yes - jjs)
Slavery in the 21st Century Falls on Deaf Ears of the Left
Christian Toto: "Daily Wire pundit tells 'Club Random' host about Trudeau's totalitarian ways."
Jordan Peterson Schools Bill Maher on Canadian Fascism
"Joel Webbon’s book Fight by Flight makes the case for leaving blue states. Indeed, such trends could shape future elections for the better."
How Do You Know When It’s Time to Flee a Deep-Blue Hellhole?
"Conservatives have disliked the movie because of its values (which are a problem), but its real problem is that it’s just not a very good movie."
Barbie Is All Emotionalism And Appearance But Lacks Any Rationality
Daniel Greenfield: "Adults who refuse to grow up are ruining childhood."
Barbie and the Left’s War on Childhood
HITHER & YON
Lloyd Billingsley: "According to the National World War II Museum, of the 16 million Americans who served in World War II, only 167,284 remained in 2022. The great Tony Bennett was one of them. Take a good look, people. You’re not likely to see, or hear, someone like that ever again." (Billingsley glosses over the singer's more lefty leanings, but he was surely an original. RIP - jjs)
Tony Bennett Departs the Good Life: Great American Artist, Liberator, Civil Rights Activist
Glenn Reynolds: "A decade ago, the crazy ideas I listed earlier would have been seen as beyond the pale of civilized political discussion. Now they’re all endorsed by leading American institutions."
Our Society's "Top Brains" Have Gone Mad — and Dysfunctional Politics is the Result
"Speer was evil, but he was not stupid, so he understood how mass communication helped shape and empower the Third Reich."
Related: Albert Speer’s Warning to the West About the Rise of Technocracy

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2023 07:37 AM (BRHaw)

2 Hola

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3
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2023 07:38 AM (ENBF0)

4 Yay, doom!

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at July 25, 2023 07:40 AM (DTX3h)

5 Happy Tuesday, all!

Posted by: NR Pax at July 25, 2023 07:40 AM (4olE8)

6 Ha! Now Cadaver Joe is even lying about his vicious dogs. This cocksucker can't help himself.

Per Joe, ten SS agents are all lying about Joe's unruly feral dogs running wild and biting people.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 25, 2023 07:41 AM (fY84s)

7 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 07:42 AM (Q4IgG)

8 Mornin' Horde! HB:JJ...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at July 25, 2023 07:42 AM (F7QaX)

9 "Joe's unruly feral dogs running wild and biting people."

If Joe's dogs had opposable thumbs, they'd be picking up the pipe, yo. It's all in the family, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2023 07:44 AM (RqMSv)

10 Todays rant is a pleasure to read, since it articulates so well a path I hope we follow: Close down the administrative state.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 07:45 AM (XM346)

11 Occassionally I look at the cover of The New York Times to see what news doesn't fit.

Sure enough, no mention of Biden corruption reaching the level of an impeachment inquiry (per Kevin M) or of recent revelations.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2023 07:47 AM (RqMSv)

12 Fat Albert > Albert Speer

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2023 07:47 AM (b+YaX)

13 Climate change and forest fires. We have a match!

https://tinyurl.com/mryw2v93

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 25, 2023 07:47 AM (adINt)

14 The department of education signed into existence by jimmah cahtah. Of all the stupid shit he did, this might have been the worst. Billions of dollars wasted and the education system in this country is worse than ever.
But the teacher's unions are a super reliable dem voting block. And that's the most important thing.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 25, 2023 07:48 AM (isF4e)

15 Pixy this morning reported Google has end all pretense and has gone full-on evil. Plug Google into an enforcement apparatus (pick any police state you want) and the question of who goes into the camps is auto-answered by your browser.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 07:48 AM (XM346)

16 morning

and it's a bloody monday all over again

side note, the picture from the Duck Ferry post last night in Colmar France is lovely. I've been there numerous times for work. the food and the people are awesome and if you have the chance, i highly recommend a visit.

now off to content & covfefe

Posted by: SturmToddler at July 25, 2023 07:48 AM (nXhwP)

17 "If Charles Brown gets this job, the office will shift from a cynical careerist to an angry true believer. This does not bode well for reversing the military’s recent string of failures, its descent into wokeness, and the all-volunteer forces’ recruiting collapse." (how the hell did this clown ever rate four stars, let alone a mop and a bucket? - jjs)

Heh. 'Charlie Brown, you're a clown. That Charlie Brown.'

It's obvious why everyone is always picking on him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at July 25, 2023 07:49 AM (zZu0s)

18 Not only has Trump been talking about gutting the administrative state, not only does he have a plan, he is the only person in the race who has actually implemented the plan before Biden cancelled it.

Schedule F.

https://tinyurl.com/4ffus8x3

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 07:49 AM (ZLI7S)

19 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Thanks for the round-up, JJ.

It's not that he can't win it. He won't win it because the rigging is already in full swing.

I wish we weren't at the point where you see the sham of 'elections' the way I do, but here we are.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 07:50 AM (AW0uW)

20 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the Day:

"O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for thee. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble."

–Isaiah 33:2

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 07:51 AM (GmDse)

21 Xi Jinping may wish to “Wag the Dog” but the price will be too big

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 07:52 AM (GUs7B)

22 I'm glad that Vivek has persevered. His message is as pure as any politician I have heard for as long as I can recall. The fact that he is unelectable (is he?) when we have total idiot nutballs like Kamala in place in the Dem machine says a bit about the RINOs and neocons.

Posted by: pawn at July 25, 2023 07:52 AM (wsHtO)

23 "The new Onodas" is a great title. It brings an image to mind of weird people living in the Philippine jungles doing secret child gender reassignment surgeries while the rest of the world tries to be ethical.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 07:53 AM (XM346)

24 Communism and Nazism started as intellectual movements; so did such fads as eugenics and lobotomies.

Do do gender mutilation!

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2023 07:54 AM (BRHaw)

25 CBS: Scorching current heat waves "virtually impossible" without climate change, researchers say NBC: Heat waves hitting U.S. and Europe 'virtually impossible' without climate change, researchers say Heat waves currently happening in North America, Europe 'virtually impossible' without climate change: Report New York Times: Some July Heat: ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change, Analysis Finds Axios: Record heat "virtually impossible" without climate change Barron's: Europe, US Heatwaves 'Virtually Impossible' Without Climate Change CNN: Heat waves in US and Europe would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, new report finds

.. all BS

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 07:54 AM (GUs7B)

26 . all BS
Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 07:54 AM (GUs7B)

"What's that weird hollow clicking sound?"

"Oh, that's just Buck over in the other room gnashing his teeth."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 07:55 AM (9UlRk)

27
"Anti-intellectualism" is used as an epithet by Our Betters, but it's often sensible. It is natural that people should resist the imposition of a polity that's imposed from above rather than evolving from a societal consensus.

There was a flutter years ago when an Air Force officer questioned a presidential order to fire nuclear weapons, asking, "What if the president is insane?" I don't know what happened to him, likely cashiered. But what do we do when our Ruling Class is insane?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 07:56 AM (MoZTd)

28 Good morning JJ and horde
Again from the historical City of Brotherly Love

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2023 07:56 AM (yRuBu)

29 Good morning dear morons and thanks JJ

I like that guy Vivek.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2023 07:56 AM (JvZF+)

30 The fact that he is unelectable (is he?) when we have total idiot nutballs like Kamala in place in the Dem machine says a bit about the RINOs and neocons.
Posted by: pawn at July 25, 2023 07:52 AM (wsHtO)

Yeah. I'm a little bit done with plastic television assholes and limp backstabbing quislings telling me who is "electable".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 25, 2023 07:57 AM (9UlRk)

31 I like that guy Vivek.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2023 07:56 AM (JvZF+)

I like him as well, but I hope he doesn't become a Mitt Romney or Mike Pence.

Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2023 07:58 AM (88xKn)

32 A 30-ish woman at work, a graduate of an elite college, was remarking about the heat in NYC, which is now in the low 90s with high humidity. She said it's never been this hot.

I told her that on the day of the 1977 NYC blackout it was 103, which was a contributing factor, and that it was over 100 in the days before and after.

She said she wasn't alive back then.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2023 07:59 AM (RqMSv)

33 Trump’s initiatives were mostly met with resistance, led by House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell. Trump’s promised border wall was not funded by Congress, the GOP choosing to sell out American sovereignty to appease the big business donor class, telling their voters to pound sand.

Obamacare was not repealed, with a maverick GOP senator siding with Democrats and Big Pharma over Republican voters who wanted it repealed.

maverick GOP senator
I hope Satans great thorned cock has extra barbs today.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2023 07:59 AM (BRHaw)

34 Ramaswamy telling everyone what he plans to do if elected. Telling the very people that run the country they'll be out of a job. This does not sound like a winning strategy.

Telegraphing your intentions to a hostile enemy.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)

35
She said she wasn't alive back then.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2023 07:59 AM (RqMSv)

To the Left, their history began yesterday, while all of your history, even before you were born, is with you today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 08:02 AM (MoZTd)

36 Nazi Collaborator George and Alex Soros Max Out to Israel-Hating Congresswoman
-------------------------
While the left claims anyone criticizing Soros is antisemitic.

*George Orwell smiles knowingly*

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:02 AM (XM346)

37 I'm glad that Vivek has persevered. His message is as pure as any politician I have heard for as long as I can recall.
Posted by: pawn at July 25, 2023 07:52 AM (wsHtO)

Vivek Ramaswamy is best my friend. He used to work with me at WNS Flatworld Solutions in Bangalore in the pits of the call center. He knows prices on things my friend as is best at math. Vishnu and Ganesha bless you my friend.

Posted by: Ravadem Patel, Money In A Mattress at July 25, 2023 08:03 AM (b+YaX)

38 Telegraphing your intentions to a hostile enemy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)
================
You think we should sneak up on them?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:03 AM (XM346)

39 Devon Archer did not kill himself.

Too soon?

Posted by: pawn at July 25, 2023 08:03 AM (wsHtO)

40 The FBI continues to break the rules put in place to protect Americans, running illegal searches on public officials including a U.S. senator, and it’s long past time for Congress to step in,” argued the deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s National Security Project, Patrick Toomey.

--

Slowly, then all at once, it's become abundantly clear that the FBI is morphing into this country's version of the NKVD. Unless it is stopped dead in its tracks, it will become a number 1 threat to all freedom loving Americans in ways we can only conjure in our worst nightmares.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2023 08:03 AM (mupln)

41 >>Ramaswamy telling everyone what he plans to do if elected. Telling the very people that run the country they'll be out of a job. This does not sound like a winning strategy.

Drain the swamp isn't exactly a love letter to deep state.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:03 AM (ZLI7S)

42 "..and pave the way for a Newsom/Whitmer ticket?"

That us making my eye twitch. We all know Biden/Kamala are bumbling, hard left idiots but the LIV's, MSM and even some Dems are starting to notice. Newsom/Whitmer can appear much more moderate and competent and sane (Atlantic recently did a cringy piece on how wonderful Whimer is) and the LIV's and lemming will go back to sleep.

Posted by: Ripley at July 25, 2023 08:03 AM (KrJTL)

43 32 She said she wasn't alive back then.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2023 07:59 AM (RqMSv)

Too cruel to say It'd be nice for history to repeat itself vis a vis her existence?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 25, 2023 08:04 AM (x0n13)

44 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2023 08:04 AM (AXL3t)

45 Fuck you Ravadem,

He's from Cincinnati.

Posted by: pawn at July 25, 2023 08:05 AM (wsHtO)

46 The script is already written, President Kamala Harris.

Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2023 08:06 AM (SYTee)

47 Not meant in any way at you, JJ, and I am completely and only for candidates with a history of private sector fiduciary responsibilities which includes Trump and Vivek only...

End the FBI... I agree. So did Trump when he fired James Comey. What happened after that? Much, however, THE FUCKING REPUBLICAN PARTY COMPLETELY ABANDONED TRUMP and sided with their D.C. bureaucrat temporary kings. And more importantly, they abandoned the American People.

Perhaps republicans will focus on cleaning and managing their voter rolls like DeSantis and Reynolds(complete red in 2022) rather than worrying about money.

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 25, 2023 08:06 AM (klw0w)

48 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2023 08:07 AM (z99Zw)

49 To have a progressive America, you have to disenfranchise half the country, and bust a few million heads, apparently.

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51 IRS Will End ‘Most Unannounced Visits to Taxpayers’ by Agency Officers

Pol Pot promises to only kill those that mostly needed killing.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2023 08:07 AM (BRHaw)

52 I like Vivek, if he can stay the course. I like him as PDT's VP. Here would be a good test for him. Arrange for an audience of, say, 100 college students, the indoctrinated kind from a few very liberal campuses. Poll them on a variety of issues. Stipulate there are to be no demonstrations or the usual bullshit. Mr. Ramaswamy gets to have his say. Let Vivek speak on the issues polled. Afterwards, poll the students again and see if there's a bump in the right direction.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 08:07 AM (0EOe9)

53 Meanwhile your representatives continue funding the police state

Posted by: Ex GOP at July 25, 2023 08:08 AM (1q60j)

54 (It's not that he can't win it. He won't win it because the rigging is already in full swing. And this dusky duplicitous dipshit is delusional if she thinks she's going anywhere - jjs)

--

Sadly, JJ, I agree. I want him to win. I think he'd have a good chance to win (again). But unless there's a cataclysmic change to how those same handful of states calculate and count votes, I have no hope he'll win in '24. Oh, and apropos of nothing, I wouldn't vote for Haley if I got paid big bucks to do so. She is dead to me. Deader than dead.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 25, 2023 08:08 AM (mupln)

55
...and pave the way for a Newsom/Whitmer ticket?

Gretchen Whitmer is the Jussie Smollet of governors

Posted by: AltonJackson Contractual Obligation Comment at July 25, 2023 08:08 AM (ENBF0)

56 35
She said she wasn't alive back then.
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2023 07:59 AM (RqMSv)

To the Left, their history began yesterday, while all of your history, even before you were born, is with you today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 08:02 AM (MoZTd)

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2023 08:09 AM (BRHaw)

57 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:09 AM (Zz0t1)

58 El Commandante Zero is so rich he has personal chefs staffing houses full time that he rarely visits.

I know how naïve I sound, but it blows my mind how rich a guy who has literally never had a productive job is become and his idiot political supporters think only that its a well-deserved good start.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:09 AM (XM346)

59 "The script is already written, President Kamala Harris."

I refuse this. (Which will do as much good as refusing to believe I am not 29.)

Posted by: Ripley at July 25, 2023 08:09 AM (KrJTL)

60 Plan F. Vivek can go around congress. Ok great. Now what happens when the left and Deep State resist? What happens if a group of Republicans and Democrats call this dismantling of our national security and democracy? The left/Dems have already made grumblings about this. We really think there will be no resistance from the Deep State and military officials on this? You know they're going to label this stuff Insurrection 2.0 and act?

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2023 08:09 AM (IlL6s)

61 Donna Hansbrough, the 68-year-old Lowes employee who was fired for violating the company’s policy on stopping the theft of merchandise was reinstated earlier today.

"After senior management became aware of the incident"

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:10 AM (geLO8)

62 53 Meanwhile your representatives continue funding the police state
Posted by: Ex GOP at July 25, 2023 08:08 AM (1q60j)

Bingo. The tyranny is coming from inside the house, too.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 25, 2023 08:11 AM (KSNKu)

63 Sidebar cop video is ridiculous.

I hope that guy sues and wins bigly.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 25, 2023 08:11 AM (YPWOk)

64 It really saddens me that Americans are so politically blind, they can't see what's right in front of them.

There was no evidence Trump did anything wrong. He's been under investigation for 8 years and the only thing they've had was proven to be made up bullshit. Yet they're still pursuing charges against him.

In Biden, they have OVERWHELMING evidence that he and his family have committed numerous crimes, including treason against the United States, yet they sit on their hands, cheering them on.

We are so completely and utterly f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

65 > Telegraphing your intentions to a hostile enemy.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)
================
You think we should sneak up on them?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:03 AM (XM346)
____________

No. I think it's a better plan to say nothing of your intentions and spring it on them unsuspecting. The deep state is going to fight any attempts to neuter it. Why give them extra time to put in place obstacles?

Trump's schedule F, had he been able to resume office was one way to dismantle the administrative state but it was destined to be litigated for decades and it's implementation was not assured.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 08:11 AM (Q4IgG)

66 Good, a destroyed military is less a threat to us.

Posted by: Keep Movin On at July 25, 2023 08:11 AM (TolOR)

67 "What if the president is insane?" I don't know what happened to him, likely cashiered. But what do we do when our Ruling Class is insane?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You know what other national leader was insane?

It didn't end well for them.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 08:12 AM (GmDse)

68 Of course, the idea that the Leviathan is going to willingly and cheerfully shutter even a broom closet door is a pipe dream, wrapped in an LSD trip inside a drunken stupor. They run the show, regardless of which party is in the Executive Branch and especially if it's a Republican president. Most especially if it's an outsider/reformer.
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Right. The state refuses reform. Donald Trump, for all their bleating, was a reformer. He failed. Ramaswamy will fail if he tries. DeSantis will fail if he tries. These agencies will refuse to be reformed and Congress will either do nothing or explicitly support the agencies and help them out through impeachment or other measures.

This is not a system where reform is possible, and so reformers are doomed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:12 AM (B2vkr)

69 61 After Lowes' legal department became aware of the incident. After a call from Lowes' Public Relations department.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 08:12 AM (0EOe9)

70 >>> it blows my mind how rich a guy who has literally never had a productive job is become and his idiot political supporters think only that its a well-deserved good start.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

Why people go into politics, explained

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:12 AM (geLO8)

71 Both the Guardian and Harper’s have done extensive work on the fraud of "climate mitigation." Carbon sequestration is a scam meant to steal public money.

Now do COVID Global Warming Climate Change EVs Social Security EPA Bridge to No Where Bullet Trains...

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2023 08:12 AM (BRHaw)

72 Donna Hansbrough, the 68-year-old Lowes employee who was fired for violating the company’s policy on stopping the theft of merchandise was reinstated earlier today.

"After senior management became aware of the incident"
Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:10 AM

This is garbage. Sr. Management already made a statement that they had a no tolerance policy about letting criminals go free for the 'safety of the employees.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

73 >After a call from Lowes' Public Relations department.

Posted by: bill in arkansas,

no doubt

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:13 AM (geLO8)

74 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 25, 2023 08:13 AM (NBVIP)

75 In a 1999 essay, Neal Stephenson wrote that “during this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abattoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.”
++++
Understatement of the millennium.

Read "Intellectuals" by Paul Johnson. It's a worthwhile read.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:13 AM (B2vkr)

76 Can't sat why yet but something of Vivek is giving me Spidey Sense vibes

Posted by: Skip at July 25, 2023 08:13 AM (yRuBu)

77 It's National Hot Fudge Sundae Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

78 ""After senior management became aware of the incident""

Somebody made them look bad.

Good. Fcuk em for not making the right decision at the onset.

Maybe we can demand Jason Aldean songs be piped into the store audio systems too.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:15 AM (isNL8)

79 Donna Hansbrough, the 68-year-old Lowes employee who was fired for violating the company’s policy on stopping the theft of merchandise was reinstated earlier today.

"After senior management became aware of the incident"
Posted by: DB

' and the asshoe fook head manager that fired her was horsewhipped.'
-- what would be added when I am elected your King

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 08:15 AM (GmDse)

80
To the Left, their history began yesterday, while all of your history, even before you were born, is with you today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 08:02 AM (MoZTd)

I mean, like, the constitution is 100 years old........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

81
Vivek Ramaswamy just got my attention. I want to hear more from him on other key issues before I get sport a woody.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 08:16 AM (enJYY)

82 Moreover, this rogue bureaucracy is allied with Big Tech’s spiderweb. Both big tech and the Deep State are composed of radical leftist ideological factions who believe in their absolute right to censor any view or opinion that runs contrary to a far-left narrative. No wonder, then, that we are witnessing a government, press corps, and common culture run amok with the Marxist-Woke mind virus.
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As it must. Whether leftist or not (and the odds of "leftist" are always high), there *must* be agreement between the technical and the government. Each is a threat to the other. The government and the technology outfits can fight each other (which would be a good thing, on balance, by keeping both sides off of the extreme edges) and *not* get what they want, or they can agree about what they want and team up.

That team-up will happen every time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:16 AM (B2vkr)

83 Plan F. Vivek can go around congress. Ok great. Now what happens when the left and Deep State resist? What happens if a group of Republicans and Democrats call this dismantling of our national security and democracy? The left/Dems have already made grumblings about this. We really think there will be no resistance from the Deep State and military officials on this? You know they're going to label this stuff Insurrection 2.0 and act?
Posted by: JROD

They will JFK him.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2023 08:16 AM (AXL3t)

84 72 I had a moonlighting job at a gun shop/indoor shooting range. You know how some bosses say if held up, cooperate even if it means carrying out the cash register. My boss said in the event of a robbery, he wanted to see blood, ours or theirs, made no difference. "You guys are all carrying, and they ain't ornaments".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 08:16 AM (0EOe9)

85 Drone attack near Moscow's Defense Ministry blamed on Ukraine

Blamed?

Is there some retard somewhere that thinks it might have been Russia that tried to drone their own Defense Ministry?

I guess I shouldn't be surprised, there are retards that think they bombed their own pipelines, bridge, dam and plan on blowing up their nuclear power plant.

If you hate Russia so much that you mentally punch your intelligence and reasoning in its own dick, you probably should seek counseling.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 25, 2023 08:16 AM (YPWOk)

86 Speer... James Landis of the FDR administration envisioned the 'expert class' to 'bridge' the three independent branches of government.

Oh how large the bridge is these days. The People - the true innovators out here solving our daily problems(not intellectuals) - desperately want the bridge destroyed.

Posted by: Danimal28 at July 25, 2023 08:17 AM (klw0w)

87 Vivek Ramaswamy just got my attention. I want to hear more from him on other key issues before I get sport a woody.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 08:16 AM (enJYY)

You asked for it.........

https://youtu.be/St2XNO819lA

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

88 It's also why you'll likely see a Trump indictment within days, I would think.

ESPN will start airing a "Trump Indictment of the Day" segment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 25, 2023 08:17 AM (z99Zw)

89 Mornin’, All.

They’re really gonna put a guy named Charlie Brown in charge of the military?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 08:17 AM (xTRSc)

90 I had a moonlighting job at a gun shop/indoor shooting range. You know how some bosses say if held up, cooperate even if it means carrying out the cash register. My boss said in the event of a robbery, he wanted to see blood, ours or theirs, made no difference. "You guys are all carrying, and they ain't ornaments".
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 08:16 AM (0EOe9)
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Anyone stupid enough to hold up a gun shop deserves their Darwin Award.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 08:18 AM (YIVH2)

91 "My boss said in the event of a robbery, he wanted to see blood, ours or theirs, made no difference. "You guys are all carrying, and they ain't ornaments".
"

Has there ever been a successful armed robbery of an open and staffed firearms facility?

I can't seem to think of any.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:19 AM (isNL8)

92 Swamy can claim a president has authority to shut down an executive department, but in reality I think such a move would fail. 'The system' would simply refuse. You can't just unplug Skynet.

IMO YMMV

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:19 AM (geLO8)

93 They’re really gonna put a guy named Charlie Brown in charge of the military?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 08:17 AM (xTRSc)
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Maybe he'll be awarded the Golden Dildo of Valor for his brave stance in support of LGBTQ+ soldiers.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 08:19 AM (YIVH2)

94 89 Great. Now I'll have The Coasters song Charlie Brown as an earworm.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 08:19 AM (0EOe9)

95 Therefore, the more technological the world becomes, the more essential will be the demand for individual freedom and the self-awareness of the individual human being as a counterpoise to technology.
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I don't want to agree with a Nazi, or Kaczynski (who could also have written this statement), so help a guy out: There must be a Saint or two I can cite, who articulated similar sentiments. Saint Augustine probably.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:19 AM (eGo5o)

96 My boss said in the event of a robbery, he wanted to see blood, ours or theirs, made no difference. "You guys are all carrying, and they ain't ornaments".
Posted by: bill in arkansas

Does this man have a newsletter per chance?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 08:20 AM (GmDse)

97 Police in Japan arrest a woman and her parents in connection with the death of a man found beheaded in Sapporo hotel.

No info on whether the Obama's former chef had also been staying in the hotel that day.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 08:20 AM (krqg6)

98 Great. Now I'll have The Coasters song Charlie Brown as an earworm.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 08:19 AM (0EOe9)

He's a clown, that Charlie Brown.

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

99 It's also,
National Merry-Go-Round Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

100 Why is everybody always picking on me?

Posted by: Charlie Brown at July 25, 2023 08:22 AM (SYTee)

101 Perhaps Obama's Chef was trying to pursue Bo, their Portuguese Water Dog.

Although I can't imagine what Obama's Chef would need with a Water Do.......

Oh.
Wait a minute!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:22 AM (isNL8)

102
Anyone stupid enough to hold up a gun shop deserves their Darwin Award.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 08:18 AM

Old News from 7 days ago:

Three 16-year-olds from Philadelphia were arrested as police recovered more than 20 stolen firearms from the stolen vehicle, according to the DA's office. On Tuesday, all three teens were adjudicated delinquent and placed in a secure facility in Bucks County for burglary, criminal conspiracy and possession of a firearm without a license.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 08:22 AM (enJYY)

103 @6

>>Per Joe, ten SS agents are all lying about Joe's unruly feral dogs running wild and biting people.

I would call Joe and his mutant family trailer park trash but that would unfairly malign people who live in trailer parks, who are by and large, not trash.

81 Millions votes my ballsack.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2023 08:22 AM (DQ6Qo)

104 Great. Now I'll have The Coasters song Charlie Brown as an earworm.

1-877-KARS-4-KIDS. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 08:24 AM (AW0uW)

105 My sister Violet and her husband Bruce have a pony and a burning Mercedes in their garage.

Posted by: Hyacinth Bucket at July 25, 2023 08:24 AM (gRkDb)

106 Everyone else is lost in Chris Christie's asscrack.
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To be fair, between Christie and Stacey Abrams, that would be most of the solar system.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 08:24 AM (krqg6)

107
Vivek Ramaswamy was on Tim Pool's show last Wednesday

youtube.com/watch?v=5fhitoVUECE

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2023 08:24 AM (ENBF0)

108
I would call Joe and his mutant family trailer park trash but that would unfairly malign people who live in trailer parks, who are by and large, not trash.

81 Millions votes my ballsack.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2023 08:22 AM (DQ6Qo)

He's the most popular president, residing over the best economy with the lowest unemployment rate this country has EVER SEEN.

Just listen to his speeches. He'll tell you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

109
Oh, the gun shop was closed at the time. My bad. But they stole the car, stole the guns, got caught.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 08:24 AM (enJYY)

110 Lowe's was getting a lot of heat on social media.

People were saying that they wouldn't be shopping there unless the lady that was fired got her job back.

Glad they did the right thing.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

111 Be that as it may, is what Rush Limbaugh PBUH referred to as "the daily soap opera" going through a rewrite in order to ease Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants out and pave the way for a Newsom/Whitmer ticket?

I really must stop getting my hopes up when I see my name posted in lights like that.

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

112 Crazies? The Nets, the pundits, the InfoWhores on MSDNC, all of them. . . . . they know exactly what they're are doing and whose dongs they are servicing (none with the style, grace and efficiency of Ms Kumalloverme Harris, however). They are the servants of the Politburo running around believing they will be exalted with that class.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards & MSM InfoHarlots at July 25, 2023 08:27 AM (5uy7A)

113 Oh great.

B'More is now celebrating 'Black Restaurant Week'.

Are empinada's of African origin, or is there some cultural theft taking place?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:27 AM (isNL8)

114 It's also,
National Merry-Go-Round Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

You asked for it...

https://youtu.be/uac_KQn9Q-M

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:29 AM (StUJj)

115 People were saying that they wouldn't be shopping there unless the lady that was fired got her job back.

Glad they did the right thing.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

I didn't say a word, yet stopped shopping there. And I have a neighbor that works there that I've been helping by shopping there.......Maybe this will change my mind. Maybe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

116 Peterson leaned into the conversation.

“They seized the bank accounts of 200 Canadians and that was not amusing,” Peterson notes. “Trudeau has no idea what that did to Canada’s international reputation.”

Maher looked stunned.

“Wait. Go back. They seized the bank accounts of people who were in the protests?” Maher said.

“They [even] seized some bank accounts of people who only sent money to the protests,” Peterson. “They locked them out of the financial system.”

“That is creepy,” Maher admitted.

Coming to a small North American Republic near you.

Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2023 08:29 AM (BRHaw)

117 This is not a system where reform is possible, and so reformers are doomed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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You are predicting a stable equilibrium where the Deep State negates change agents. They can win battles in the short run but all things including the Deep State (more properly termed as regimes) end by losing the war against change.

For example, the original Deep State (where the term was coined) of the Turkish military was ended by a Islamists after a series of Deep State failures and now the Islamists under Erdogan went about creating their own deep state which is now faltering.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 08:29 AM (9hLLz)

118 Theories about dumping Biden are fantasy. The Left can't admit the failure. He will have to die or be totally incapacitated. This will trigger succession as well as the sickening encomia of what a good man and legendary political figure he was.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2023 08:30 AM (Lh3Lk)

119 96 Does he have a newsletter? Tonypete, he's probably no longer with us but an unusual guy. Got his start up money in college. He and his dorm roomy were hitting the bong and looking at the Federal Register. Saw a notice on a bid for a traffic count. These clowns put in a bid, got the job, sat around in his car (probably hitting the bong) and submitted their best guess and got paid.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 08:30 AM (0EOe9)

120 “Wait. Go back. They seized the bank accounts of people who were in the protests?” Maher said.

Welcome to the party, you bloviating dumb f*ck........

I don't care how many nuts this squirrel finds, he's still a dipshit liberal f*cktard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

121 That statement of Speer’s reminds me of Ike’s warning about the MIC.

Both were spot on.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 08:31 AM (xTRSc)

122 We just found out that a local Lowe's manager, backed only by the local HR, can separate an employee 'for cause.' Surprising; most big firms would require an HR clearance at least at the regional level. Another thing not to try in a small town.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at July 25, 2023 08:32 AM (4PZHB)

123 Morning all, thx JJ. The article by Zimmerman comparing the situation in Ukraine+ Russian war to WWI is interesting but glosses over one point. The combatants on the Western front were relatively evenly matched in population. The Russians outnumber the Ukes at least 5-1. While drones and tech somewhat even the field, the Russians advantage in manpower will still lead to a Ukraine collapse .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 08:32 AM (S75Fo)

124 You are predicting a stable equilibrium where the Deep State negates change agents. They can win battles in the short run but all things including the Deep State (more properly termed as regimes) end by losing the war against change. ...
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 08:29 AM (9hLLz)
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Right, that's the point. I am predicting an unstable pseudo-equilibrium where the state continues to destroy all attempts at reform until eventually revolutionaries take over, which ends that system and installs some new one - some new one that is likely going to have to try to rebuild from splintered remains.

I think that the deep state has made reform impossible, which is why I am not optimistic about reformers. And when reform is impossible, revolution is inevitable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (B2vkr)

125 -----------
To be fair, between Christie and Stacey Abrams, that would be most of the solar system.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 08:24 AM (krqg6)

Black Holes be all "DAYUM!!!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

126 It's National Hot Fudge Sundae Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

Unpopular opinion -- hot fudge sundaes are an abomination. Heat and ice cream should never mix. A hot fudge sundae is nothing but a soupy mess.

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (StUJj)

127 Imagine a modern lefty being as reflective as Speer was there. You can't because they would never.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (KbCG3)

128 "Another thing not to try in a small town."

Speaking of which, Jason Aldean is slated to perform at Merryweather Post Pavilion outside of Baltimore in a few days. And then up to Hershey Pa, I believe.

Let's see if he gets cancelled.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (isNL8)

129 @83 rickb223-I'm genuinely curious when we talk this stuff just how the hell anyone plans to pull this off. Maybe you can't really say too much and need to hold your cards close to your chest?
If I'm a member of the bureaucracy/Deep State and facing losing my job.......if I'm a leftist I'm going to rally the troops(antifa) and a host of other goons and I'm going to terrorize the F out of every R and burn down part of D.C.. Who the hell is going to stop me/us? I think we got a preview of this and heard what the upper echelon of our military thought of a Republican president clamping down on rioters and the taking over sections of a city.

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2023 08:34 AM (IlL6s)

130 123 Zimmerman's great great uncle sent a letter during WW1.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at July 25, 2023 08:34 AM (0EOe9)

131 "They [even] seized some bank accounts of people who only sent money to the protests,” Peterson. “They locked them out of the financial system.”

“That is creepy,” Maher admitted.

Coming to a small North American Republic near you.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 25, 2023 08:29 AM (BRHaw)
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Chrystia Freeland is not your friend.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:34 AM (XkUZw)

132 "Unpopular opinion -- "

Why yes...yes it is.

But we still love you.
And all your bizarre positions on Ice Cream.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:35 AM (isNL8)

133 Good morning, J.J. Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at July 25, 2023 08:35 AM (53oGX)

134 I don't want to agree with a Nazi, or Kaczynski (who could also have written this statement), so help a guy out: There must be a Saint or two I can cite, who articulated similar sentiments. Saint Augustine probably.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Madison and Hamilton address this in the Federalist papers--basically ambition must check ambition. However, neither Madison nor Hamilton addressed the obvious solution to unite the separated systems--political parties which ironically both helped create. That has led in turn to a federal bureaucracy run amuck that has essentially neutered the Congress and courts and at times presidents who they do not like policy wise.

Other systems solved this by having a king (despot or not) that could basically become the decision maker or some sort of committee system which is what we have now. A politburo of faceless Dems hiding behind the facade of Joe Biden's decaying mind and face.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 08:35 AM (9hLLz)

135 Did someone say, 'soupy mess?'

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 25, 2023 08:36 AM (AW0uW)

136 I am certain that the biggest impediment to technogical advancement is government funding.

The ideological conformity and enforcement of the last 30 years has only worsened the problem.

They researchers won't explore unless there's funding.
Government won't fund unproven work.
And they certainly won't fund anything that even hints at contradicting their ideology.

So nothing new gets funded.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2023 08:36 AM (EYVn3)

137 when reform is impossible, revolution is inevitable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (B2vkr)
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History lessons were not wasted on a young Mannix

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:37 AM (XkUZw)

138 Did someone say, 'soupy mess?'
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 25, 2023 08:36 AM (AW0uW)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 25, 2023 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

139 USA Today has a lead story about a Christian transgender man has his faith strengthened by fighting LGBTQWERTY+ discrimination.

I can’t imagine why there is a whole table full of those papers at the hotel with none of them being taken by guests…

FFS…I hate the “media”…

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2023 08:37 AM (PQNCb)

140 This sure sounds like science...

Several climate scientists say this month is likely the hottest Earth has been in about 120,000 years.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 08:37 AM (krqg6)

141 thanks so much JJ - great links today. thank you especially for the history lesson re: Albert Speer's testimony.

we should be taught so much more about what was said and what went on during the Nuremberg Trials! it's sort of just a footnote in history class. "and then everyone was punished" ... okayyyy anything else there guys?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 08:37 AM (AcWfM)

142 He and his dorm roomy were hitting the bong and looking at the Federal Register. Saw a notice on a bid for a traffic count. These clowns put in a bid, got the job, sat around in his car (probably hitting the bong) and submitted their best guess and got paid.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

"Party on Wayne!"
"Party on Garth!"

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 08:38 AM (GmDse)

143 If I'm a member of the bureaucracy/Deep State and facing losing my job.......if I'm a leftist I'm going to rally the troops(antifa) and a host of other goons and I'm going to terrorize the F out of every R and burn down part of D.C.. Who the hell is going to stop me/us? I think we got a preview of this and heard what the upper echelon of our military thought of a Republican president clamping down on rioters and the taking over sections of a city.
Posted by: JROD
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A young Louis XIV watched the crowds invade the palaces during his time. There is a reason he built Versailles out in the countryside and ordered his aristocrats to attend to him at court rather than creating mischief by factionalism.

Disperse the executive throughout the country and make the vacation home the permanent residence rather than the White House.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 08:38 AM (9hLLz)

144 @138 giving someone an image of Sandra Fluke and Amy Schumer scissoring is not good for digesting breakfast

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 08:39 AM (S75Fo)

145 126 It's National Hot Fudge Sundae Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:14 AM (NpAcC)

Unpopular opinion -- hot fudge sundaes are an abomination. Heat and ice cream should never mix. A hot fudge sundae is nothing but a soupy mess.
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM

(sobbing)

Posted by: Mexican Fried Ice Cream at July 25, 2023 08:39 AM (NCgXW)

146 A correlary is, everything that has made life better has come from the private sector; invented by people living in the real world.
Everything that makes life worse comes from the university.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 25, 2023 08:39 AM (EYVn3)

147 "Several climate scientists say this month is likely the hottest Earth has been in about 120,000 years."

We've seen hotter

Posted by: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo and Dresden at July 25, 2023 08:40 AM (isNL8)

148 This sure sounds like science...

Several climate scientists say this month is likely the hottest Earth has been in about 120,000 years.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 08:37 AM (krqg6)

I watched the speech the Nobel Prize winning scientists gave in Korea where he spent 10 of 13 minutes explaining how junk science the whole climate change scam is.

He's right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

149
B'More is now celebrating 'Black Restaurant Week'.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:27 AM

'Bounce House' status?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 08:40 AM (enJYY)

150 we should be taught so much more about what was said and what went on during the Nuremberg Trials! it's sort of just a footnote in history class. "and then everyone was punished" ... okayyyy anything else there guys?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 08:37 AM (AcWfM)
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A lot of it wasn't particularly interesting. The malefactors either refused to cooperate or said they were right. The trials were also a sham - there was a time when those people would have just been dragged out back and shot by the victors - and a lot of people have a problem with show trials, so they tend to gloss over them (well, used to - they all love a good show trial now).

Speer was interesting. So one of the others, who used his powerful command of language to confound translators and drag the proceedings out (I forget who that was, though).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:40 AM (B2vkr)

151 I'm starting to think that Vivek is what I thought DeSantis would be: a laser strike to Trump's wrecking ball.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 08:41 AM (KbCG3)

152 Heading to Pizza John's later today for lunch.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:41 AM (isNL8)

153 "Well, Donald Trump can scratch one more name off his potential veep list and Vivek Ramaswamy’s (or a player to be named later) chances of moving into the Naval Observatory just got better."

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If Desantis isn't careful Vivek is going to nab that VP spot.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 08:41 AM (VW7tl)

154 Unpopular opinion -- hot fudge sundaes are an abomination. Heat and ice cream should never mix. A hot fudge sundae is nothing but a soupy mess.
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (StUJj)
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What about a large scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a slice of hot apple pie?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 08:42 AM (YIVH2)

155 Unpopular opinion -- hot fudge sundaes are an abomination. Heat and ice cream should never mix. A hot fudge sundae is nothing but a soupy mess.
Posted by: Doof

Word, my friend. If one wants to make it even worse - add that abominable Marshmallow sauce to it.

The ice cream wars - they have begun.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 08:42 AM (GmDse)

156 The story about the transgender guy in Florida killing his pregnant " husband" does suggest that the gender issues may sort themselves out in a perfectly Darwinian way.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 25, 2023 08:42 AM (S75Fo)

157 If Desantis isn't careful Vivek is going to nab that VP spot.

oh that would be interesting

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 25, 2023 08:42 AM (AcWfM)

158 68 Right. The state refuses reform. Donald Trump, for all their bleating, was a reformer. He failed. Ramaswamy will fail if he tries. DeSantis will fail if he tries. These agencies will refuse to be reformed and Congress will either do nothing or explicitly support the agencies and help them out through impeachment or other measures.

This is not a system where reform is possible, and so reformers are doomed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:12 AM (B2vkr)

We need a destroyer.

The problem is, there's not a single person out there the Demoncrats, or even the RINOs (but I repeat myself) are afraid enough of to give him what he wants, even though they don't want it.

Posted by: XTC at July 25, 2023 08:43 AM (UnA8+)

159 @143 whig-Good Morning! You need to quit slacking(rib poke) and pick up the amount of comments you make.

Hope you're feeling well.

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2023 08:43 AM (IlL6s)

160 "What about a large scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a slice of hot apple pie?"

Forget it, he's rolling.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:43 AM (isNL8)

161 >>I think that the deep state has made reform impossible, which is why I am not optimistic about reformers. And when reform is impossible, revolution is inevitable.

Before Trump, who spent his entire term under assault, nobody has even mentioned let alone tried. It was all about growing the beast.

I think it is possible now that we have a SC that seems to understand the Constitution is something more than a dusty old document. The left might have a bigger megaphone to get their message out than we do but if there weren't so many of us who want this they wouldn't have to cheat and lie so much to beat us.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:43 AM (ZLI7S)

162 Viking's Jordan Addison, caught driving 140mph in a 50 zone, says it was because of an emergency with his dog.

If true, "Not guilty, M'lud!"

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 08:43 AM (krqg6)

163 we should be taught so much more about what was said and what went on during the Nuremberg Trials! it's sort of just a footnote in history class. "and then everyone was punished" ... okayyyy anything else there guys?
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Might want to read the sobering Hitler's Justice which describes the trial of the Nazi judges in detail. Basically, like in the Frankfurt School, they began with the idea of positivism--that is if the source of authority is legitimate then the state's action must be approved.

People like Felix Frankfurter and Ezra Pound made it popular among legal circles in the 20's and 30's in the US and as a result, Democrat judges appointed after the New Deal were overwhelmingly partisan for the fed gov expansion of powers and developed various doctrines to work around precedents limiting the growth. The idea is that the Dems have the popular branches and the presidency and thus were legitimate authority to actually de facto rewrite the Constitution and its separation of powers.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 08:43 AM (9hLLz)

164 Unpopular opinion -- hot fudge sundaes are an abomination. Heat and ice cream should never mix. A hot fudge sundae is nothing but a soupy mess.
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (StUJj)
*******
Not a huge fan, but I do like eating the nuts coated in that soupy mess.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

165 Good morning JJ and horde
Again from the historical City of Brotherly Love
Posted by: Skip

How's the FAT Convention ?

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (T4tVD)

166 131: Canada is an evil country run by evil people.

With apologies to our Canadian friends who visit here…what does that say about Canada’s voters?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (PQNCb)

167 we should be taught so much more about what was said and what went on during the Nuremberg Trials! it's sort of just a footnote in history class. "and then everyone was punished" ... okayyyy anything else there guys?
Posted by: BlackOrchid

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It's sort of neat how similar it is to the conditioning regarding the Civil War.

THE SOUTH WAS WRONG TO HAVE DONE WHAT THEY DID!!!

(watches the same people discussing post-2020 options)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (VW7tl)

168 "what does that say about Canada’s voters?"

They're sorry?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:45 AM (isNL8)

169 166 131: Canada is an evil country run by evil people.

With apologies to our Canadian friends who visit here…what does that say about Canada’s voters?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (PQNCb)

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There's a reason our State Department pushed parliamentary systems on the world for decades, and it's not because they're MORE receptive to the will of the voters than our system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 08:45 AM (LvTSG)

170 159 @143 whig-Good Morning! You need to quit slacking(rib poke) and pick up the amount of comments you make.

Hope you're feeling well.
Posted by: JROD
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Not really, endless visits with doctors wear on a person and the occasional doctor I encounter that refuses to acknowledge an error pointed out by other doctors is annoying.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 08:45 AM (9hLLz)

171 What about a large scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a slice of hot apple pie?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That works but even better - mix that piece of apple pie (or blueberry!) into a milkshake. No don't blend the shit out of it! We're not animals. Just mixed enough to incorporate the pie into the slurry as it were.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 08:45 AM (GmDse)

172 Why yes...yes it is.

But we still love you.
And all your bizarre positions on Ice Cream.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:35 AM (isNL

I'm right and everyone else is wrong. Nanny nanny boo boo.

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:45 AM (StUJj)

173 "Worrying" "Troubling" "Should be investigated"

Blah blah.

Posted by: Tom C at July 25, 2023 08:45 AM (lo+il)

174 Doug Burgum has now qualified for the first GOP debate.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

175 >>>He won't win it because the rigging is already in full swing. And this dusky duplicitous dipshit is delusional if she thinks she's going anywhere - jjs)
Nikki Haley Says Trump Can't Win the General Election
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She isn't trying to win, I think is obvious. But she is right to point out PDJT lost last time to the vivacious basement dweller, so he is in fact, a past loser now in a worse political position than last time. The federalized election system is aimed specifically at Trump, and is strengthened by SecState victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona.

Seems pretty obvious the only way to win is with some candidate other than Trump, but someone dedicated to Trumpian principals. He's a man of action, though, and probably cannot see himself as the elder statesman "idea man" of the party.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:46 AM (bRHEL)

176 Not a huge fan, but I do like eating the nuts coated in that soupy mess.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

I thought we were done with the phrasing.

Posted by: dantesed at July 25, 2023 08:47 AM (88xKn)

177 "Everyone else is lost in Chris Christie's asscrack."

I laughed and now have to bleach my brain. Thanks JJ.

Posted by: Joey Sausage at July 25, 2023 08:47 AM (MMe0T)

178 uh PHRASING

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:47 AM (geLO8)

179
'Bounce House' status?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 25, 2023 08:40 AM (enJYY)

Shot to hell and flat as a pancake.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

180 Unpopular opinion -- hot fudge sundaes are an abomination. Heat and ice cream should never mix. A hot fudge sundae is nothing but a soupy mess.
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:33 AM (StUJj)
*******
Not a huge fan, but I do like eating the nuts coated in that soupy mess.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (NpAcC)
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I am pro-banana splits. Big time, even though they are now but a faint memory.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (bRHEL)

181 Photoshop appears at top

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (geLO8)

182 What about a large scoop of vanilla ice cream on top of a slice of hot apple pie?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 08:42 AM (YIVH2)

Nope. Ice cream should never be allowed to melt. Just drink some heavy cream if that's the texture you want.

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (StUJj)

183 175 The federalized election system is aimed specifically at Trump, and is strengthened by SecState victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Arizona.

Seems pretty obvious the only way to win is with some candidate other than Trump, but someone dedicated to Trumpian principals. He's a man of action, though, and probably cannot see himself as the elder statesman "idea man" of the party.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:46 AM (bRHEL)

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How does this follow?

Why would Democrats "fortify" less against someone else?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (LvTSG)

184 "Not a huge fan, but I do like eating the nuts coated in that soupy mess.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (NpAcC)
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Call me!

Posted by: Deez at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (isNL8)

185 Before Trump, who spent his entire term under assault, nobody has even mentioned let alone tried. It was all about growing the beast.

I think it is possible now that we have a SC that seems to understand the Constitution is something more than a dusty old document. The left might have a bigger megaphone to get their message out than we do but if there weren't so many of us who want this they wouldn't have to cheat and lie so much to beat us.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:43 AM (ZLI7S)
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And Trump tried. He tried *hard.* And the deep state refused to be reformed. It disobeyed orders. It tried to destroy the reformer and succeeded. Its allies in the Congress - deep staters themselves, although elected - played along brilliantly. Even that great 'ole SCOTUS refused to do its duty during the election and slow-walked everything it could during COVID.

There will be no meaningful reform. They have eliminated that possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (B2vkr)

186 I thought Ice Cream was verboten now that it's so indelibly associated with Biden and Dementia.

Posted by: XTC at July 25, 2023 08:49 AM (UnA8+)

187 Why would Democrats "fortify" less against someone else?

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Especially when they'd only have to beat 55M or so votes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 08:49 AM (VW7tl)

188 *******
Not a huge fan, but I do like eating the nuts coated in that soupy mess.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

So we're really not doing phrasing anymore?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

189 There is quite a concerted effort at the moment trying to tout Biden as executing a brilliant economic recovery:
He tweets: Remember when the experts said that to get inflation under control we needed to lower wages, and drive up unemployment? I never bought that. Instead, I focused on getting more Americans into the workforce, fixing our broken supply chains, and lowering costs. And it's working.

Morgan Stanley is credits Biden’s economic policies with driving an unexpected surge in the economy that is so significant, the bank was forced to make a “sizable upward revision” to its estimates for U.S. GDP, CNBC reports.

As a result of these unexpected swells, Morgan Stanley now projects 1.9% GDP growth for the first half of this year. That’s nearly four times higher than the bank’s previous forecast of 0.5%.

CNN Business: Inflation’s steady slowdown this year has boosted Americans’ confidence in the economy. It has also improved the odds of the Federal Reserve pulling off a so-called soft landing, or a scenario in which inflation returns to the central bank’s 2% target without pushing the economy off a cliff.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 25, 2023 08:49 AM (NCgXW)

190 @170 whig-I understand. Took me over a half a year just to get surgery on my arm/shoulder. PT is coming along slowly, some improvement in range of motion but the clicking, clunking and grinding of my shoulder really gives me the heebie-jeebies. I've had popping joints before but I can literally hear it and it feels funky.

Hang in there and I 'll say a prayer for you.

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2023 08:50 AM (IlL6s)

191 I am pro-banana splits. Big time, even though they are now but a faint memory.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Tra la la, la la la la.
Tra la la, la la la la.

One banana, two banana, three banana, four.
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 08:50 AM (GmDse)

192 I think this goes back to when Doof's family included ice cream in his school lunch box.

That can scar a kid.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:50 AM (isNL8)

193
With apologies to our Canadian friends who visit here…what does that say about Canada’s voters?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (PQNCb)

But Guy Bi-curious is so DREAMY!!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

194 As a straight male, I think I would be shocked to learn my boyfriend was pregnant. Sure, I would be angry that he had cheated on me, but shooting and killing him might be just a bit "over the line".

Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 08:50 AM (zLLgI)

195 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

In use !

Had to refill it FIVE times yestiddy !

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2023 08:51 AM (T4tVD)

196 Even that great 'ole SCOTUS refused to do its duty during the election and slow-walked everything it could during COVID.

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The most eye opening one for me was when they said Texas didn't have standing in a dispute against another state.

And the one that got me watching was when PA did something that was ruled unconstitutional by the SCOTUS and they kept doing it, and then nothing was thrown out at any level.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 08:51 AM (VW7tl)

197 >Nope. Ice cream should never be allowed to melt. Just drink some heavy cream if that's the texture you want.

Next thing you know they'll be telling us that gravy is wrong!

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (geLO8)

198 There will never be another Republican POTUS.

The Deep State won't permit it.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (jgJfd)

199 Here's a new one I haven't heard. CNN is on in the hotel. One of their crazed looking anchor ladies was running a story about retail theft in SF, where somebody said that retail theft is bad for the city.

She closed it out by saying "That's an interesting point, but it's important to remember that a lot of this is about subsistence rights."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (93JJq)

200 ==============
I am pro-banana splits. Big time, even though they are now but a faint memory.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (bRHEL)

WOOT!

https://youtu.be/6XoIjhbzPtg

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 25, 2023 08:49 AM (NCgXW)

I wonder what the air smells like in their world. I'd guess a mix of metal concert and Hunter Biden's bathroom.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (KbCG3)

202 Heading to Pizza John's later today for lunch.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Ya gotta eat in the john ?

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (T4tVD)

203 "Next thing you know they'll be telling us that gravy is wrong!"

Ice Cream makes it's own gravy!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:53 AM (isNL8)

204 Saint for the Day:
St. James the Greater (died 44 AD) is the brother of St. John the Apostle, and was one of Jesus’s original 12 Apostles. The title “Greater” was added to distinguish him from St. James the Lesser, and is believed not to concern status or holiness, but physical height. Besides being the son of Zebedee, what is known of St. James’s life comes after he and his brother were called to leave their father and their nets and follow after Jesus. James was one of the three apostles invited to witness the miraculous Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor. As well, his righteous anger at seeing a Samaritan town reject Jesus inspired him to ask Jesus to call down fire on the town, which Jesus gently rebuked. Following Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension, James preached the Gospel across the Roman empire before traveling to Spain, where he spread the Gospel for many years. The famous “Camino de Santiago” pilgrimage path in Spain is named in his honor (Santiago is Spanish for James). At the end of his life, James returned to Jerusalem, where he was the first apostle to be martyred. His feast day is July 25th.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 25, 2023 08:53 AM (GmDse)

205 I think this goes back to when Doof's family included ice cream in his school lunch box.

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My Fall Guy thermos keeps the hot stuff hot, and the cold stuff cold.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 08:53 AM (VW7tl)

206 190 @170 whig-I understand. Took me over a half a year just to get surgery on my arm/shoulder. PT is coming along slowly, some improvement in range of motion but the clicking, clunking and grinding of my shoulder really gives me the heebie-jeebies. I've had popping joints before but I can literally hear it and it feels funky.

Hang in there and I 'll say a prayer for you.
Posted by: JROD
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Thanks. I need it and likewise for a speedy recovery of your shoulder. That surgery recovery is pretty hard on folks as I have seen them progress in my repeated bouts of pt. for my conditions.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 08:53 AM (9hLLz)

207 199 She closed it out by saying "That's an interesting point, but it's important to remember that a lot of this is about subsistence rights."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (93JJq)

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Fine. Let's come to a compromise.

Stealing bread is legal.

Stealing salt or TVs is punishable by death and the people are allowed to carry it out because police are racist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 08:53 AM (LvTSG)

208 I think this goes back to when Doof's family included ice cream in his school lunch box.

That can scar a kid.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:50 AM (isNL

Yes. It was chocolate. Lunch box in my back pack. Melted ice cream ran down the back of my khaki colored pants. Kids can be cruel.

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:54 AM (StUJj)

209 I had a nice bird feeding/bathing station on my deck. Bath, suet, sunflower seeds... the whole shebang... and then the tree rats and garbage pandas showed up. I had to shut the whole operation down.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2023 08:54 AM (flINI)

210 CNN Business: Inflation’s steady slowdown this year has boosted Americans’ confidence in the economy. It has also improved the odds of the Federal Reserve pulling off a so-called soft landing, or a scenario in which inflation returns to the central bank’s 2% target without pushing the economy off a cliff.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 25, 2023 08:49 AM (NCgXW)
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Inflation - as heavily massaged as possible - is sitting at 4% over 2022. It was 9.1% last year. What cost a dollar in June of 2021 costs $1.135 today - assuming the numbers are true. Assuming the numbers are true, CPI inflation is still running *double* what the Fed targets (setting aside that the Fed target is insane anyway).

Supply chain improvement - something Biden had nothing to do with - has helped, yeah. That much is true. Commercial real estate and urban central business districts are still collapsing, and will take a lot regional banks with them.

"Soft landings" do not exist. They never have and they never will.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:54 AM (B2vkr)

211 I am pro-banana splits. Big time, even though they are now but a faint memory.

Eh, the Archies were a better band.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 08:54 AM (AW0uW)

212 "Ya gotta eat in the john ?"

Nope.

Eating at one of the finest family owned pizza shops in B'More.

The original owner had family up the road from us when we were stationed in Italy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:54 AM (isNL8)

213 Missed it by THAT much!

Posted by: Agent 99 at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM (NBVIP)

214 >>Seems pretty obvious the only way to win is with some candidate other than Trump, but someone dedicated to Trumpian principals

I don't see that as obvious at all. Trump currently has more support than all other candidates combined and none of them even breaks 20% support. Trump beat Hillary when all the experts were saying she was going to win in a walk. He then got more votes than any sitting president in history and we all know they had to go to extreme lengths to rig the election for Biden.

There is nobody on the right who comes close to generating the enthusiasm in the base and very importantly energizes marginal voters and brings in new votes than Trump and if he's not in the race a lot of the voters aren't in the race either. It doesn't matter how many Independents you get if you don't have the base.

And anyone who runs on a Trumpian platform will get the same treatment Trump gets from the left and none of them are the kind of knife fighter he is. It's either beat the cheat with Trump or bust.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

215 Heading to Pizza John's later today for lunch.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:41 AM (isNL

A little more of a heads-up would have been nice. I'd have met you there!!

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM (StUJj)

216 ... She closed it out by saying "That's an interesting point, but it's important to remember that a lot of this is about subsistence rights."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (93JJq)
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"Subsistence rights."

Yeah, okay.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM (B2vkr)

217 >>The most eye opening one for me was when they said Texas didn't have standing in a dispute against another state.

I thought Article III Section 2 allowed for such
unless I read it wrong according to contemporary opinion

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM (geLO8)

218
Eh, the Archies were a better band.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 08:54 AM (AW0uW)

Josie and the Pussycats >

For obvious reasons.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

219 "Please excuse Epstein's absence from LGBT in STEM research this week. Xis feelings were hurt.

Signed
/Epstein's Mother

Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (zLLgI)

220 "My Fall Guy thermos keeps the hot stuff hot, and the cold stuff cold."

How did it know?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (isNL8)

221 Saying hot fudge and ice cream should not be mixed together........BLASPHEMER!!!!

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (IlL6s)

222 @140

>>Several climate scientists say this month is likely the hottest Earth has been in about 120,000 years.

Well, what is the nominal temperature that the earth is supposed to be?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (8/h7D)

223 214 And anyone who runs on a Trumpian platform will get the same treatment Trump gets from the left and none of them are the kind of knife fighter he is. It's either beat the cheat with Trump or bust.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

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There's no beating the cheat with anyone through elections at this point.

MI, AZ, PA, WI, and GA won't allow it. Their Secretaries of State will make sure that Biden gets the win.

Our solutions are post-legal now because our problems are post-legal.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (LvTSG)

224 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 12h
NEW - Hunter Biden's art got sold to a Democratic donor "friend" who Joe Biden named to a prestigious commission. Another buyer spent $875,000 on Hunter's "artworks."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (krqg6)

225 Thanks TonyPete !

Posted by: JT at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (T4tVD)

226 There will never be another Republican POTUS.

The Deep State won't permit it.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM (jgJfd)

Oh, I think there's a chance for one. But he'll be a bought-off Judas like Pence or a loudmouthed nickelfucker like Christie. IOW, someone who'll keep the spice flowing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (AW0uW)

227 Why would Democrats "fortify" less against someone else?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (LvTSG)
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The ship of Deep State can't rapidly adjust, though the Propaganda Press would certainly do so. Indicting an alternate politician can happen in Michigan politics, but on the national stage, the DOJ can't move that fast.

Moreover, the entire rationale behind a Biden candidacy is "beat Trump", so when Trump is gone thee Democrats would suffer an identity crisis and would likely move on from Biden, again causing some chaos.

So no indictments to vilify the Republican and a little chaos on the Democrat side means, I believe, lower Democrat turnout and a considerably harder steal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (9a24s)

228 "A little more of a heads-up would have been nice. I'd have met you there!!"

You know us.

No decision is made in advance.

We practice 'Just In Time' decision making around here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (isNL8)

229 The most eye opening one for me was when they said Texas didn't have standing in a dispute against another state.

And the one that got me watching was when PA did something that was ruled unconstitutional by the SCOTUS and they kept doing it, and then nothing was thrown out at any level.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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Stories at the time had John Roberts screaming his cowardice at Clarence Thomas and Alito in a phone call. Basically he feared the BLM mobs, Dems, and Deep State more than he wanted to deliver justice.

That is another institution that would be best if moved around the nation instead of sitting in DC. The original conception of the Court had them sitting in DC only part of the time but riding circuit and acting as judges the rest of the time.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (9hLLz)

230 Well, what is the nominal temperature that the earth is supposed to be?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (8/h7D)
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The answer to this is two-fold:
1. Whatever the temperature *isn't* right now.
2. Whatever requires a complete unmaking and subsequent reconstruction of civilization to achieve.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (B2vkr)

231 198 There will never be another Republican POTUS.

The Deep State won't permit it.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 25, 2023 08:52 AM

Meh. You think we'd really have an issue if someone like ¡Jeb!, Romney, Rubio or Haley was POTUS?

Posted by: Deep State and Uniparty Establishment at July 25, 2023 08:58 AM (NCgXW)

232 Seems pretty obvious the only way to win is with some candidate other than Trump...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:46 AM (bRHEL)

They'll do to any man who sticks to "Trumpian principles" the same thing they did to Trump. Why can't we see that? In any case, there isn't a candidate in the general proximity of Trump's popularity with the base.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2023 08:58 AM (Lh3Lk)

233 227 The ship of Deep State can't rapidly adjust, though the Propaganda Press would certainly do so. Indicting an alternate politician can happen in Michigan politics, but on the national stage, the DOJ can't move that fast.

Moreover, the entire rationale behind a Biden candidacy is "beat Trump", so when Trump is gone thee Democrats would suffer an identity crisis and would likely move on from Biden, again causing some chaos.

So no indictments to vilify the Republican and a little chaos on the Democrat side means, I believe, lower Democrat turnout and a considerably harder steal.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (9a24s)

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They shut down ballot counting in six states at the same time in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall and barely get Biden a win. And they got away with it. The GOP let them.

The idea that there is a ceiling to their cheating now is ludicrous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

234 Hey, hey we're the

Posted by: Monkees at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (NBVIP)

235 "Well, what is the nominal temperature that the earth is supposed to be?"

72.4 degrees with 48% R/H.

As determined by science.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (isNL8)

236
Oh, I think there's a chance for one. But he'll be a bought-off Judas like Pence or a loudmouthed nickelfucker like Christie. IOW, someone who'll keep the spice flowing.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (AW0uW)

*waves*

*shows tan*

*displays bottle of Relaxium Sleep*

Posted by: Mitt Romney at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

237 She closed it out by saying "That's an interesting point, but it's important to remember that a lot of this is about subsistence rights."
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||Myth Of The Starving Shoplifter

Retail crime is driven by reduced penalties and organized gangs, not economic hardship.

A recent video on Twitter showed a supermarket employee tussling with a shoplifter who had filled her bag with items. As the employee pulled the bag from her hand, she cried, “I have to feed my family!” That’s a common refrain from shoplifters these days, echoed in media headlines proclaiming that people have turned to stealing to put food on the table—despite a U.S. social safety net that includes $185 billion in spending on food stamps and other nutrition-assistance programs. In truth, America’s exploding shoplifting problem predates our current economic difficulties. Much of the stealing, store owners and security experts say, has less to do with putting food on the table than with a rise in organized theft, and it’s having a particularly adverse effect in cities where criminal-justice reforms have made it easy to get away with.||

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (krqg6)

238 And anyone who runs on a Trumpian platform will get the same treatment Trump gets from the left and none of them are the kind of knife fighter he is. It's either beat the cheat with Trump or bust.

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People haven't realized it yet, but this entire election is Trump. It's either going to be him as the candidate, or the candidate defending every single position as "a Trump position" or similar. It will be a tedious slog as every question asked unique and new candidates is tied to Trump.

Trump is the only one that gives the chance for the miracle, though. The new VP is the one that can continue to attempt to right the ship in 2028.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (VW7tl)

239 I am pro-banana splits. Big time, even though they are now but a faint memory.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 08:48 AM (bRHEL)
******
I love bananas in pretty much everything. I am now in the mood for Bananas Foster.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

240 Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

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Yup. If it is not Trump I am not voting. It's that simple

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (flINI)

241 Good morning!

So. . . is the MSM just gonna ignore the Obama WH sous chef drowning in the water on Obama Martha's Vinyard property?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (avru5)

242
72.4 degrees with 48% R/H.

As determined by science.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM

"Everyone in McKinney is dead."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

243 217 >>The most eye opening one for me was when they said Texas didn't have standing in a dispute against another state.

I thought Article III Section 2 allowed for such
unless I read it wrong according to contemporary opinion
Posted by: DB
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The court majority claimed no standing because they had no desire at all to become involved in correcting voter fraud.

We do know that some justice on the right dissented from the ruling.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (9hLLz)

244 Damn. Now I want ice cream.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (xTRSc)

245 The Palestinians Keep Dreaming That They’re Close to Victory-The Arab mindset replaces truth with bragging about imaginary heroism and victories.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

246 You know us.

No decision is made in advance.

We practice 'Just In Time' decision making around here.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 25, 2023 08:57 AM (isNL

Understood. Hey, you should try the hot fudge sundae there. It's my favorite.

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (StUJj)

247 243 The court majority claimed no standing because they had no desire at all to become involved in correcting voter fraud.

We do know that some justice on the right dissented from the ruling.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (9hLLz)

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And since, the court still hasn't taken up a serious election case. It really does feel like only Thomas and Alito want to take it up, and they can't convince anyone otherwise, even after years of efforts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (LvTSG)

248
So. . . is the MSM just gonna ignore the Obama WH sous chef drowning in the water on Obama Martha's Vinyard property?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (avru5)

And, if what I read this morning is true, this is his 2nd chef that's mysteriously died.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

249 Soup is soup and ice cream is ice cream and never the twain shall meet.

Posted by: I'm With Doof at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (gRkDb)

250
So. . . is the MSM just gonna ignore the Obama WH sous chef drowning in the water on Obama Martha's Vinyard property?

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And draw attention to the fact that he couldn't swim?
What are they supposed to do, racist?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (VW7tl)

251 Our solutions are post-legal now because our problems are post-legal.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 08:56 AM (LvTSG)
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If SCOTUS can undo the basis of the administrative state, I think we can save some of out liberty, and if, God willing, we can win an election or three in some critical states, I think there is plenty of reason to hope.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (9a24s)

252 @223

>>MI, AZ, PA, WI, and GA won't allow it.

Well, also, apparently the GOP apparatuses in those states are collapsing financially, so throw that bit of detestable shrimp on the shit barbie.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (8/h7D)

253 Biden’s dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

254 >>There's no beating the cheat with anyone through elections at this point.

You might be right, you might be wrong. Certainly everyone running for the Republican nomination thinks you are wrong.

I don't know everything that is being done to combat the issue in the swing states that literally everyone on the planet knows rigged the election in 2020 but then again literally everyone on the planet knows it so all I can do is hope that they are taking steps to address the issues in their states. What's the point in just giving up?

And unless they are planning to poison us again there likely won't be a lockdown and mass mail in voting and they won't control social media. They seem to think that matters a lot.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

255 I am now in the mood for Bananas Foster.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

What does my dog have to do with this? He doesn't like bananas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

256 They shut down ballot counting in six states at the same time in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall and barely get Biden a win. And they got away with it. The GOP let them.

The idea that there is a ceiling to their cheating now is ludicrous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 08:58 AM (LvTSG)

AHEM!! Don't I get any credit for letting them get away with it?!?!?

Posted by: John "No Standing" Roberts at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (StUJj)

257 Trumpian? Is that a word?

Posted by: I'll ask the internet at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (NBVIP)

258 >>—despite a U.S. social safety net that includes $185 billion in spending on food stamps and other nutrition-assistance programs.

BINGO

Food stamps, WIC, public schools providing 3 meals per weekday and a take-home bag of groceries for the weekend, countless non-government foodbanks and other food assistance programs.

Yeah, right - "feed her family".

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (avru5)

259 They shut down ballot counting in six states at the same time in the middle of the night to ballot box stuff like Tammany Hall and barely get Biden a win. And they got away with it. The GOP let them.

The idea that there is a ceiling to their cheating now is ludicrous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Well, the limit is what the population will stand. Direct action regarding voter fraud occurred in the past including Tennessee post WWII in the Battle of Athens.

In fact, more regimes are probably toppled over voter fraud than any other reason in recent history. Sometimes with blood, sometimes relatively peacefully.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:03 AM (9hLLz)

260 Will the Emmitt Till statue feature Nike Shoes?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2023 09:03 AM (3FiQa)

261 The most eye opening one for me was when they said Texas didn't have standing in a dispute against another state.

That's when we should have actually rolled into PA, declared war, and just started shooting the first people we saw.

That was the WHOLE point of the SC. To adjudicate differences between the states to keep them from going to war with each other.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2023 09:03 AM (AXL3t)

262 Soup is soup and ice cream is ice cream and never the twain shall meet.
Posted by: I'm With Doof at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (gRkDb)

I appreciate the support!!

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:03 AM (StUJj)

263 251 If SCOTUS can undo the basis of the administrative state, I think we can save some of out liberty, and if, God willing, we can win an election or three in some critical states, I think there is plenty of reason to hope.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (9a24s)

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2024 is shot. Biden is going to steal the election again because he's the only one taking voter fraud seriously.

After 2024, I have no idea. Do we split? Do the people of stolen states get mad enough to show up at state capitols to "insurrect"? Does the Deep State just say, "fuck it" and make the thin veneer of republicanism we have a point of history rather than a sop to our traditions?

There are ways things can go well. There are ways that things can go badly. I haven't seen anything from the people that tells me that they're willing to do much of anything, though, relying on largely corrupt institutions to fix themselves.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 09:04 AM (LvTSG)

264
As the employee pulled the bag from her hand, she cried, “I have to feed my family!”

Does she feed her family cosmetics and shampoo?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 09:04 AM (MoZTd)

265 That “privatize military recruitment” thing? It’s not a bad idea.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2023 09:04 AM (PQNCb)

266 So. . . is the MSM just gonna ignore the Obama WH sous chef drowning in the water on Obama Martha's Vinyard property?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (avru5)

And, if what I read this morning is true, this is his 2nd chef that's mysteriously died.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

We need common sense chef control!

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:05 AM (StUJj)

267 261 The most eye opening one for me was when they said Texas didn't have standing in a dispute against another state.
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Texas was part of the Confederacy, ergo, they require moar reconstruction.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2023 09:05 AM (3FiQa)

268 254 I don't know everything that is being done to combat the issue in the swing states that literally everyone on the planet knows rigged the election in 2020 but then again literally everyone on the planet knows it so all I can do is hope that they are taking steps to address the issues in their states. What's the point in just giving up?

And unless they are planning to poison us again there likely won't be a lockdown and mass mail in voting and they won't control social media. They seem to think that matters a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (ZLI7S)

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I had that hope, too.

And then we got John Fetterman.

No one is doing anything. Better to acknowledge that now rather than in early November of next year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 09:05 AM (LvTSG)

269 I don't have the link handy but this comes on the heels of RFK Jr.'s fairly conciliatory remarks about Donald Trump

Donald Trump is basically a 90s centrist Democrat politically.

The fact that this now makes him a "NAZI" and a "white supremacist" shows how insane the left has gotten.

Also the fact that this makes him the most "rightwing" Republican president/presidential candidate since Reagan is ridiculous.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2023 09:05 AM (lc5cP)

270 As the employee pulled the bag from her hand, she cried, “I have to feed my family!”

Does she feed her family cosmetics and shampoo?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 09:04 AM (MoZTd)

Funny. That's the same thing I heard in Minnesota as they were running out of Wal-Mart with big screen TV's and tobacco products on the way to loot the liquor store.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

271 Saw the trifecta of bumper stickers on a car while driving around yesterday. On the left was a biden/harris sticker, in the middle a coexist, and on the right a Ukrainian flag sticker.
As an added bonus, there was another sticker that said I love NY.
My thinking was, if you love NY so much why don't you take your politics and go on back up there.
The car had a Florida plate.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (isF4e)

272 259 Well, the limit is what the population will stand. Direct action regarding voter fraud occurred in the past including Tennessee post WWII in the Battle of Athens.

In fact, more regimes are probably toppled over voter fraud than any other reason in recent history. Sometimes with blood, sometimes relatively peacefully.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:03 AM (9hLLz)

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As I've said: our solutions are now post-legal.

There's no voting our way out of this. 100,000 young men from the outer areas of PA need to show up to Philly on election night, fully armed, to help the counting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

273 No one needs more than one chef a month.

Posted by: Karen down the street at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (NBVIP)

274 At the House Democrats’ 2019 impeachment inquiry into then-President Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff blocked Republicans from calling witnesses and obtaining documents that could have told today’s unfolding, seedy story of the Biden family in Ukraine. Mr. Schiff, the California Democrat who proudly championed the 2016 anti-Trump hoax dossier, kept the Biden family safe so that Joe could run for president untainted by scandal.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

275 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
BREAKING: TikTok is launching an e-commerce business in the U.S. to sell made-in-China goods to consumers - WSJ

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (krqg6)

276
We need common sense chef control!
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:05 AM (StUJj)

Why do I have a feeling these chefs were writing books about their time in the White House during the Owebama years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

277 Soup is soup and ice cream is ice cream and never the twain shall meet.
Posted by: I'm With Doof at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (gRkDb)
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Not at all.
- Whisk together egg yolks and sugar. Set aside.
- In a saucepan, stir together cream, half-and-half, salt, sugar
- Heat the mixture on medium-high heat
- Before simmering is achieved, *slowly* add room-temperature minestrone condensed soup, diluted by twice the amount recommended on the can
- Continue heating and stir continuously until simmering, then reduce heat
- Add egg yolks and sugar while whisking continuously
- Continue to cook while stirring continuously
- Strain through a sieve and cool in an ice bath, stirring occasionally

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (B2vkr)

278 I enjoyed the review of "Barbie". I thought that was a quite literate dissection of the movie. Piers Morgan writing in today's "NY Post" didn't like it either. His (appropriate) screed
was well written, but not so literate an analysis.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (Keyt1)

279 BREAKING: TikTok is launching an e-commerce business in the U.S. to sell made-in-China goods to consumers - WSJ
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (krqg6)

They'll be hearing from our lawyers.

Posted by: Wal-Mart at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

280 I don't know everything that is being done to combat the issue in the swing states that literally everyone on the planet knows rigged the election in 2020 but then again literally everyone on the planet knows it so all I can do is hope that they are taking steps to address the issues in their states. What's the point in just giving up?

And unless they are planning to poison us again there likely won't be a lockdown and mass mail in voting and they won't control social media. They seem to think that matters a lot.
Posted by: JackStraw
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Ohio and Florida have shown what works. Basically you drain the pool of non existent voters in a jurisdiction via lawsuits using the Motor Voter act. The addresses are the key part in demonstrating non existent voters such as 500 people registered to a non existent address.

That is the key to addressing voter fraud as it removes the fig leaf where plausible other explanations exist. Making organized voter fraud a lengthy prison sentence will also discourage it among the fairly substantial pool of workers it requires.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (9hLLz)

281 (2nd try, this time in the proper thread)

Hey! In before the Art! Gives me a chance to say, thanks JJ, for all you do.

SonM is in surgery right now for a busted leg. Prayers for his swift healing welcomed.

Posted by: mindful webworker - spontaneously at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (22t4K)

282 Biden’s dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major
Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

***

Shitty dogs almost ALWAYS have shitty owners. That Venn Diagram is damn near a circle

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (flINI)

283 271 Saw the trifecta of bumper stickers on a car while driving around yesterday. On the left was a biden/harris sticker, in the middle a coexist, and on the right a Ukrainian flag sticker.
As an added bonus, there was another sticker that said I love NY.
My thinking was, if you love NY so much why don't you take your politics and go on back up there.
The car had a Florida plate.
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What prevented you from opening fire on them?

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (3FiQa)

284 Could someone contact David Horowitz and see if they can figure out why the banner for frontpage is all I can see on my phone of his website? I can get the text at about 1 line at a time just below the huge banner.

Might be a java thing..

Posted by: Reforger at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (B705c)

285 An urgent investigation is needed into why excess deaths are near pandemic levels, because the lack of an explanation is fuelling “wildly accurate theories”, experts warn.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

286 > Does she feed her family cosmetics and shampoo?
_______________

A woman was observed filling a shopping cart with meats and laundry soap, then proceeding to a waiting SUV without paying.

- local social media post a couple days ago -

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (Q4IgG)

287 And unless they are planning to poison us again there likely won't be a lockdown and mass mail in voting and they won't control social media. They seem to think that matters a lot.

I'm more ambitious in my prognostications. #FJB will get us into a hot war with someone (likely Russia, possibly China), then die or 25th out, because of the war, be replaced by some Calvin Ball Mechanism that would never pass Constitutional Muster, the SCOTUS either won't take the case, or will, a year later we get some mealy mouthed crap that effectively says "It Is What It Is", and we have a proper totalitarian dictatorship with hot wars and lifetime long Dear Leader who makes Caligula look great in comparison.

Then we get eaten by wolves.

-finis

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (p8A+W)

288 >The court majority claimed no standing because they had no desire at all to become involved in correcting voter fraud.

We do know that some justice on the right dissented from the ruling.

Posted by: whig

but- 14th Amendment or something!

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (geLO8)

289 I enjoyed the review of "Barbie". I thought that was a quite literate dissection of the movie. Piers Morgan writing in today's "NY Post" didn't like it either. His (appropriate) screed
was well written, but not so literate an analysis.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2023 09:07 AM (Keyt1)

Critical Drinker is the best review, always.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

290 >>And, if what I read this morning is true, this is his 2nd chef that's mysteriously died.

Oh, hey - really?
I recall TFG used to golf with the head chef (the bald one who married the MSNBC chick) and other young staffers *wink, wink*.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (avru5)

291 BREAKING: TikTok is launching an e-commerce business in the U.S. to sell made-in-China goods to consumers - WSJ

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If y'all haven't discovered Temu yet, you should go have a look.

Takes a week or so to arrive, but the junk comes straight from the factories in China and is priced accordingly. No Amazon or Walmart middleman to mark it up three or four times.

temu.com

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (VW7tl)

292 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
BREAKING: TikTok is launching an e-commerce business in the U.S. to sell made-in-China goods to consumers

Let me guess. They're going to call it Wal Mart?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (AXL3t)

293 Next thing you know, Doof will be proclaiming his love of maple syrup on French toast.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 09:09 AM (xTRSc)

294 There's no voting our way out of this. 100,000 young men from the outer areas of PA need to show up to Philly on election night, fully armed, to help the counting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Heck, most of the rats are cowards, the 2000 election recounts in the Miami area demonstrated that when a bunch of GWB supporters burst into the counting room and refused to allow the cheat behind closed doors.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:09 AM (9hLLz)

295 Biden’s dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major
Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

And I'm betting Joe stood there laughing the entire time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

296 Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:00 AM (avru5)

Yes, they are. I feel sorry for the guy and his friends and family. He was a young guy, obviously young enough to be Obama's son..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2023 09:09 AM (Keyt1)

297 258 - I drive past schools advertising “FREE MEALS FOR KIDS” all the time, shuddering. These are schools, ostensibly for teaching, that refuse to teach one of the most basic tenets of economics - NOTHING IS FREE.

Second, this is yet more proof that government is AT WAR with civil society and wants civil society DESTROYED.

Third, um, where are the parents? I went through twelve summers in my public school sentence, and I didn’t starve, for some weird reason.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2023 09:09 AM (PQNCb)

298 A woman was observed filling a shopping cart with meats and laundry soap, then proceeding to a waiting SUV without paying.

People respond to incentives. If you allow them to make $$$ stealing with no threat of arrest they will.

If you went the opposite direction and were hanging thieves with coverage on the nightly news there would be *no* theft.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2023 09:10 AM (lc5cP)

299 259 Well, the limit is what the population will stand. Direct action regarding voter fraud occurred in the past including Tennessee post WWII in the Battle of Athens.

In fact, more regimes are probably toppled over voter fraud than any other reason in recent history. Sometimes with blood, sometimes relatively peacefully.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:03 AM (9hLLz)

I don't see it happening.

It feels like on some level the achievers are waiting for the non-achievers with no kids (in other words : the ones with "nothing to lose") to pick up their guns first and make the first sacrifice.

And they don't seem inclined to do that.

Posted by: XTC at July 25, 2023 09:10 AM (UnA8+)

300 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM (B2vkr)

I am familiar with all of those words but the combination in which you used them is bewildering and quite unappealing

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:10 AM (StUJj)

301 Half the vehicles in Charlotte have Yankee stickers in the back window.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 09:10 AM (SJKxM)

302
Takes a week or so to arrive, but the junk comes straight from the factories in China and is priced accordingly. No Amazon or Walmart middleman to mark it up three or four times.

temu.com
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (VW7tl)

Because funding China directly and consuming their cheap shit is the way to go.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

303 and unless they are planning to poison us again there likely won't be a lockdown and mass mail in voting and they won't control social media. They seem to think that matters a lot.

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It doesn't have to be anything major. Biden won in five cities by 45K votes. Coincidentally, they all stopped counting simultaneously across multiple time zones. Then just count until the (D) wins, declare victory, and wait two months until the statute of limitations on presidential elections expires.

They figured out how to beat the electoral college.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 09:11 AM (VW7tl)

304 We need common sense chef control!
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:05 AM

You can have my sous vide circulator when you pry it from my duck-fat smeared, dead hands!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 09:11 AM (Wnv9h)

305 Heck, most of the rats are cowards, the 2000 election recounts in the Miami area demonstrated that when a bunch of GWB supporters burst into the counting room and refused to allow the cheat behind closed doors.

If Kari Lake had called for her supporters to descend on the Maricopa counting center when their insane sheriff locked it up so they could "count" without any oversight I suspect she would have won.

Presuming the Sheriff didn't just have his snipers shoot her of course.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2023 09:11 AM (lc5cP)

306 I am familiar with all of those words but the combination in which you used them is bewildering and quite unappealing
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:10 AM (StUJj)
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Yes, quite awful.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 09:11 AM (B2vkr)

307 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
NEW 🚨 PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother Ido Netanyahu told Israeli media that he doesn't think President Biden is informed about the details of judicial reform in Israel. "I don't know what's his mental situation", he added.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 09:12 AM (krqg6)

308 303 It doesn't have to be anything major. Biden won in five cities by 45K votes. Coincidentally, they all stopped counting simultaneously across multiple time zones. Then just count until the (D) wins, declare victory, and wait two months until the statute of limitations on presidential elections expires.

They figured out how to beat the electoral college.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 09:11 AM (VW7tl)

========

But, this won't work if we nominate Kasich! He's got the inside on the mailmen!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 09:12 AM (LvTSG)

309 An official of Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance was sacked after the release of a video purportedly showing him having same-sex intercourse. The scandal emerged last week when the Radio Gilan Telegram channel shared a video allegedly showing Reza Saghati engaging in a sexual act with a young man. Saghati is the director-general of Culture and Islamic Guidance in northern Gilan province.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

310 Refusing to put hot fudge on your sundae has got to be racist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 25, 2023 09:12 AM (JvZF+)

311 Because funding China directly and consuming their cheap shit is the way to go.

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Spoiler alert: You're not buying cheap sh*t made in the U.S. Heck, you're not buying expensive sh*t made in the U.S. You're not even buying American cars made in America. Our Betters sold us down that road 30+ years ago.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 09:12 AM (VW7tl)

312 282 Biden’s dog Commander sent Secret Service officer to hospital, bit 6 others after replacing first pooch Major
Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

Sounds like a socially reactive dog either through genetics or absent/indifferent schooling. Most certainly remediable. And what does "sent to hospital" mean, anyway.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2023 09:12 AM (Lh3Lk)

313 That is the key to addressing voter fraud as it removes the fig leaf where plausible other explanations exist. Making organized voter fraud a lengthy prison sentence will also discourage it among the fairly substantial pool of workers it requires.

So you are saying that Organized Crime will be ended just due to longer sentencing.

I think you are missing out on the fact the entire prosecutorial system is utterly corrupt. Winner takes all. You can engineer the most obvious steal, write a book and go on tour describing in detail every crime, every felony, naming places, dates and names and if Your Party won, you get an ambassadorship to a wealthy first world nation as your "punishment"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 25, 2023 09:13 AM (p8A+W)

314 "I don't know what's his mental situation", he added.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 09:12 AM (krqg6)

What's not to know? He's got hairy legs and loves kids sitting in his lap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

315 >>BREAKING: TikTok is launching an e-commerce business in the U.S. to sell made-in-China goods to consumers

"Hey now -- that's MY job!!"
-- Amazon.com, now primarily selling Chinese crap with fake reviews

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:13 AM (avru5)

316 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 25, 2023 09:06 AM

That is disturbing on so many levels, and an offense against all that is decent and 'Murican.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 09:13 AM (Wnv9h)

317 Well, the limit is what the population will stand.

By my count about a third of Biden's votes were fraudulent - illegals, dead people, fake registrations and most importantly casting ballots for people that don't normally vote.

And we KNOW this happened - remember the voter registrations that went to empty buildings? Or the people that showed up to vote only to be told they already voted by mail?

And NOTHING happened.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2023 09:13 AM (lc5cP)

318 255 I am now in the mood for Bananas Foster.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

What does my dog have to do with this? He doesn't like bananas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:02 AM

I tried to make an AI image of Bananas Jodi Foster....it came out uncanny. https://tinyurl.com/3eryrc3z

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 25, 2023 09:13 AM (NCgXW)

319 What prevented you from opening fire on them?
Posted by: Puddinhead
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Bad decision making.
I was on my way to the gym and not carrying at the time.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (isF4e)

320 How dare you take away profits from the leftist fanatics that own Amazon and Walmart!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (VW7tl)

321 LA Times says quiet part out loud:
‘Would an occasional blackout help solve climate change?’ – ‘We might not have a choice’

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

322 REPORT: Court Finds Greta Thunberg Guilty

********

Of course it did. She's got beady Davos eyes.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (zLLgI)

323 And, if what I read this morning is true, this is his 2nd chef that's mysteriously died.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

We need common sense chef control!
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:05 AM (StUJj)

Oh Barak, you mean you lost ANOTHER chef?

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (U0PO9)

324 >>And then we got John Fetterman.

I saw a post election breakdown of the voting and how Fetterman won. He won by an aggressive ballot harvesting campaign, a legal one under PA law, that focused on Philadelphia bedroom communities. The race was over before election day.

I have seen indications from a number of places that Republicans have finally gotten off their "election day voting is the only way to uphold my principles!" stance and started to embrace ballot harvesting where it is legal. About time.

The Democrat party is a mess. A majority of them don't even want Joe to run. Harris is universally seen as a drooling imbecile and their term has been pretty much a Carter level disaster. And a lot more Biden corruption is going to be exposed over the next few months.

I have absolutely nothing to lose by at least supporting Trump and other candidates who support his platform. It's not a real heavy lift for me and the worst that can happen is he loses and even more people see how corrupt the country has become.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (ZLI7S)

325 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 25, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

I saw that. After a while, his style sort of bores me. The amping up the sound and the undertone of "f*ck this, f^ck that" is redundant. It's not that he can't be funny . It's just if you've heard one negative review, you've heard them all. I get it-It' shi Sticht (sp?). Meh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (Keyt1)

326 Next thing you know, Doof will be proclaiming his love of maple syrup on French toast.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 09:09 AM (xTRSc)

I prefer my French toast dusted with powdered sugar, the way my grandmother served it. But I have no hate for maple syrup on French toast. CBD has his unpopular opinion, I have mine. We can argue about them over a healthy pour of bourbon!!

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:15 AM (StUJj)

327
And anyone who runs on a Trumpian platform will get the same treatment Trump gets from the left and none of them are the kind of knife fighter he is. It's either beat the cheat with Trump or bust.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM

so that points to Vivek or Larry Elder: staunch "America First" candidates with the advantage of having "race armor"...any criticism of their statements or policies can be countered with the charge of THAT'S RAYCISSSST

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 25, 2023 09:15 AM (ENBF0)

328 @254 Jackstraw-I don't think anyone really wants to give up. I'd like to know what the people running are actively doing now to combat the cheat and what I can do. If it's one thing the left has shown us is that they are relentless and don't rest on their laurels after a win like we do. "Yay we won, it's all good now, let's go home!". I am positive they already have a few plans cooked up for election fraud in 24'.

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2023 09:15 AM (IlL6s)

329 When I was a kid, I would stir the ice cream in my bowl until it was kinda the consistency of cream of wheat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (xTRSc)

330 REPORT: Court Finds Greta Thunberg Guilty

********

Of course it did. She's got beady Davos eyes.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (zLLgI)

Hahahaha!

I worry about that poor girl, with her criminal background she's going to have a hard time finding work in the future.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (U0PO9)

331 but- 14th Amendment or something!
Posted by: DB

Nope, the conservative justices Thomas and Alito argued that original jurisdiction meant that the court had to take the case as it was a dispute over whether states allow fraud like PA effectively disenfranchised voters in Texas. In a sense, it probably contributed to the disjointed post election legal response by Trump as that lawsuit came from the states and was not originated by the Trump team. They put their own legal actions on the backburner to support the all or nothing Texas lawsuit which allowed cover for leftist district court judges in Michigan for example to rule against Trump.

Trump was extremely poorly served by his legal beagles and that is a warning sign that do not expect legal means to overcome politics and force. Lawyers always expect another client to come through the door like a taxi and take a long view of their profession. They have to practice long after the current case disappears. The extrajudicial punishment of bar actions, loss of business for commercial leaning firms, etc. is more than enough to dissuade a lot of legal talent to ignore the plight of Trump.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (9hLLz)

332 324 I have absolutely nothing to lose by at least supporting Trump and other candidates who support his platform. It's not a real heavy lift for me and the worst that can happen is he loses and even more people see how corrupt the country has become.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (ZLI7S)

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And the PA secretary of state "accidentally" sending out 250,000 mail in ballots a few months before the election had nothing to do with it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (LvTSG)

333 Third, um, where are the parents? I went through twelve summers in my public school sentence, and I didn’t starve, for some weird reason.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2023 09:09 AM (PQNCb)

The monster chirruns must eat to maintain their obesity so when they are fully grown they can vote a straight "D" ticket so they can get free social security disability to go along with their free medicaid assistance.

Free Shit Army 101.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (b+YaX)

334 We can argue about them over a healthy pour of bourbon!!
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:15 AM (StUJj)
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Oh, great...now the bourbon/whiskey wars have begun...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (YIVH2)

335 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 13h
NEW 🚨 Hunter Biden sold artwork to Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a Democratic donor who was appointed to a prestigious federal commission, according to three people directly familiar with Hunter Biden's account. The transaction raises questions about Joe Biden's pledge of an "absolute wall" separating his administration from his family members' business deals - Insider

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 09:17 AM (krqg6)

336 And, if what I read this morning is true, this is his 2nd chef that's mysteriously died.

Idiots. The chef is not also supposed to be the Food Tester to royalty.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 25, 2023 09:17 AM (p8A+W)

337 Of course it did. She's got beady Davos eyes.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM

Never not funny.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 09:17 AM (Wnv9h)

338 9 "Joe's unruly feral dogs running wild and biting people."

If Joe's dogs had opposable thumbs, they'd be picking up the pipe, yo. It's all in the family, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 25, 2023 07:44 AM (RqMSv)

Why would Joe teach his dogs any better than he taught two of his children?

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2023 09:17 AM (AMIL/)

339 And anyone who runs on a Trumpian platform will get the same treatment Trump gets from the left and none of them are the kind of knife fighter he is. It's either beat the cheat with Trump or bust.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM

I'm afraid his credentials as knife fighter are a little shaky. I'm all-in with Trump but I pray he's learned the hard lessons (which, honestly, he should have learned six months into his first term).

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 25, 2023 09:18 AM (Lh3Lk)

340 It says here, Miss Thumpberg, you've been arrested and convicted 19 times. And you never finished high school?

I'm sorry, I don't think you are Vandalay Industries material, young lady.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 09:18 AM (Kdc6E)

341 “Progressives” are angling to build an illegal supermajority on the Postal Service governing board, destroying what’s left of election integrity—but only if Senate Republicans let them. Restoration News was the first to report on the latest front in election integrity: The battle for control of the U.S. Postal Service. Now that conflict is heating up. In May, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) launched a new offensive to seize control of the USPS Board of Governors with the goal of transforming the $81 billion organization into the world’s biggest mail-in ballot collector.

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

342 The White House sharply changed its tune on Monday, saying that Joe Biden "was never in business" with his son.

For nearly three years, the president has insisted that he didn't know anything at all about Hunter's dodgy foreign grift, let alone do business with him.
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They've been trying to subtly change these words for a couple of weeks and now they sprung their new fully-formed lie to the public. In effect, the WH is admitting Biden participated in the corrupt acts, but are trying to claim it wasn't "really grifty, only a little grifty".

That will not fly, obviously.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 09:19 AM (A9kSL)

343 And, if what I read this morning is true, this is his 2nd chef that's mysteriously died.

Idiots. The chef is not also supposed to be the Food Tester to royalty.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 25, 2023 09:17 AM

Barack...you've lost another one?

Posted by: Jeffrey Pelt at July 25, 2023 09:19 AM (Wnv9h)

344 Iron Chef (the original Japanese version) was an awesome show.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 09:20 AM (xTRSc)

345 Oh, great...now the bourbon/whiskey wars have begun...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (YIVH2)

Those wars began a long time ago and are likely to never end!

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:20 AM (StUJj)

346 I still don't get this "Dems are easing Biden out" silliness. If they wanted him gone, he'd be gone. There's plenty to go on, instead you have ridiculous Jamie Raskin going on every outlet shouting "NOTHING TO SEE HERE" and then all the media flacks go "well there you have it."

Perhaps they are trying to solve for the Kamala problem at the same time, but that's their problem, they created it.

Posted by: blaster at July 25, 2023 09:20 AM (Jk9SN)

347 I'm sorry, I don't think you are Vandalay Industries material, young lady.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 09:18 AM

We'll take her!

Posted by: MSDNC at July 25, 2023 09:20 AM (Wnv9h)

348 By my count about a third of Biden's votes were fraudulent - illegals, dead people, fake registrations and most importantly casting ballots for people that don't normally vote.

And we KNOW this happened - remember the voter registrations that went to empty buildings? Or the people that showed up to vote only to be told they already voted by mail?

And NOTHING happened.
Posted by: 18-1
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One of the reasons that nothing happened is the GOP was complicit in wanting Trump and Trumpism gone. Its corporate funders want open borders, liberal social issues, and trade with fundamentally hostile states like China. I strongly suspect that the GOPe has been engaged in cheating particularly at the primary level for a long time and the Dems know it. A fair number of GOPe national elected officials are actually Dems that cannot get elected as such in red states and others are open to be bought off.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:21 AM (9hLLz)

349 Oh, great...now the bourbon/whiskey wars have begun...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (YIVH2)

Those wars began a long time ago and are likely to never end!
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:20 AM

We'll have to do more research. A lot more research.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 09:21 AM (Wnv9h)

350 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 12h
2015: Former White House chef for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush drowned in a New Mexico mountain stream, and his death was ruled an accident

2023: Former White House chef for Obama died during an accident on a paddle boarding trip near the Obamas' Massachusetts home.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2b6k8w

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 09:22 AM (krqg6)

351 The Mercedes burned wildly in that garage, and the fire department did a great job preventing the total destruction of the house. Lithium fires are no joke.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 25, 2023 09:22 AM (A9kSL)

352 It says here, Miss Thumpberg, you've been arrested and convicted 19 times. And you never finished high school?

I'm sorry, I don't think you are Vandalay Industries material, young lady.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 09:18 AM (Kdc6E)

I just wretched a bit -- you made me think of Greta and latex together.
*throws up in mouth*

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:22 AM (StUJj)

353 348 One of the reasons that nothing happened is the GOP was complicit in wanting Trump and Trumpism gone. Its corporate funders want open borders, liberal social issues, and trade with fundamentally hostile states like China. I strongly suspect that the GOPe has been engaged in cheating particularly at the primary level for a long time and the Dems know it. A fair number of GOPe national elected officials are actually Dems that cannot get elected as such in red states and others are open to be bought off.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:21 AM (9hLLz)

=======

But, Trumpism without Trump will convince them to fight, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at July 25, 2023 09:22 AM (LvTSG)

354 The only way to make vanilla ice cream palatable is to top it with tincture of opium.

Posted by: In the Know at July 25, 2023 09:22 AM (gRkDb)

355 341 “Progressives” are angling to build an illegal supermajority on the Postal Service governing board, destroying what’s left of election integrity—but only if Senate Republicans let them.
Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:18 AM

This CERTAINLY doesn't sound like the hill to die on. Everyone loves the postal service, and it has a squeaky-clean image of being apolitical. Also, everyone loves mail-in ballots...so fair and convenient! You'd have to be a dirty TRUMPER to allege otherwise, and sully the honor of American elections with insurrectionist conspiracy theories!!

Posted by: Congressional Republicans at July 25, 2023 09:22 AM (NCgXW)

356 CBS Propaganda Factory: Scorching current heat waves "virtually impossible" without climate change, researchers say

NBC Propaganda Factory: Heat waves hitting U.S. and Europe 'virtually impossible' without climate change, researchers say

Heat waves currently happening in North America, Europe 'virtually impossible' without climate change: Report

New York Times Propaganda Factory: Some July Heat: ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change, Analysis Finds

Axios Propaganda Factory: Record heat "virtually impossible" without climate change

Barron's Propaganda Factory: Europe, US Heatwaves 'Virtually Impossible' Without Climate Change

CNN Propaganda Factory: Heat waves in US and Europe would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, new report finds

Forbes Propaganda Factory: July Heat Waves In U.S. And Europe ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Human-Driven Climate Change, Researchers Find

Bloomberg's Propaganda Factory: July’s Heat Waves ‘Virtually Impossible’ Without Climate Change

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

357 It would appear someone hasn't been playing nice with others in the WH. Commander, Biden family's current GS dog is biting the Secret Service staff.

Link goes to Judicial Watch.

https://tinyurl.com/2fzremjp

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2023 09:23 AM (N39Ws)

358 Oh, great...now the bourbon/whiskey wars have begun...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (YIVH2)

Those wars began a long time ago and are likely to never end!
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:20 AM

We'll have to do more research. A lot more research.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 09:21 AM (Wnv9h)

RMBS gets it!!

Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:23 AM (StUJj)

359
2015: Former White House chef for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush drowned in a New Mexico mountain stream, and his death was ruled an accident

2023: Former White House chef for Obama died during an accident on a paddle boarding trip near the Obamas' Massachusetts home.

White House Chef = Senior Al Qaida Leader

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 09:24 AM (MoZTd)

360 >>I'm sorry, I don't think you are Vandalay Industries material, young lady.

LOL, like she'll ever get a normal job!
Her mom is an actress and singer, her dad is a second-generation movie director. Her mom has been an international activist with Bono and many others in the international celebrity class, receiving some big award for her activism the year before little Greta started her campaign (imagine that?!).

Greta's about as "white privileged" as one can get, and she will no doubt get honorary degrees in lieue of earned graduation, since her activism began years ago with her taking every Friday off from her private school to protest (IIRC).

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:24 AM (avru5)

361 I strongly suspect that the GOPe has been engaged in cheating particularly at the primary level for a long time and the Dems know it.

This is something that likely could be put to the test if a Republican state level official had the balls for it. And it would explain how someone like a Lindsey Graham keeps getting elected.

As a partial test of this - DeSantis got somewhat serious about vote fraud in FL and it went from a purple state to a red one overnight.

Did a bunch of incumbent GOPe types lose to MAGA types as well in the primaries?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2023 09:24 AM (lc5cP)

362 Of course it did. She's got beady Davos eyes.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 25, 2023 09:14 AM (zLLgI)

Ha!

That reminded me to look and see if the video for "Marty Feldman Eyes" is available on YouTube again ... nope. Some people have posted the song, but the original music video that went with it has disappeared. I wonder who it offended, or who decided to flex some weird copyright power.

Posted by: spindrift at July 25, 2023 09:24 AM (iG1Nf)

363 We'll have to do more research. A lot more research.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 09:21 AM (Wnv9h)

Is a Horde funded research project being solicited? Is that what I am hearing?

Posted by: blaster at July 25, 2023 09:25 AM (Jk9SN)

364
Obama's chef was about to reveal Barry's insistence on carrots in his chili.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 09:25 AM (MoZTd)

365 I find it virtually impossible to listen to this bullshit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 09:25 AM (SJKxM)

366 Zelensky Associate Was Present at Biden Bribery Meetings – Then Went to Work for President Zelensky Who Now Is Holding Blackmail Information Against Joe Biden

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:25 AM (RHGPo)

367 @341 SMOD-The left never rests. They don't even take time to savor their victories. Conquer and move on to the next item on the agenda.

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2023 09:25 AM (IlL6s)

368 Oh, great...now the bourbon/whiskey wars have begun...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 09:16 AM (YIVH2)

Those wars began a long time ago and are likely to never end!
Posted by: Doof at July 25, 2023 09:20 AM

We'll have to do more research. A lot more research.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 25, 2023 09:21 AM (Wnv9h)

For my regular evening pour, I've been sampling Evan Williams 1783 small batch bourbon.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2023 09:26 AM (N39Ws)

369 SMOD-The left never rests. They don't even take time to savor their victories. Conquer and move on to the next item on the agenda.

Immediately after getting gay marriage legalized, which is where the left sweared all this would end, they moved on to BAKE THE CAKE

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2023 09:26 AM (lc5cP)

370 >>I'm afraid his credentials as knife fighter are a little shaky. I'm all-in with Trump but I pray he's learned the hard lessons (which, honestly, he should have learned six months into his first term).

I don't think there are many people who would have even lasted those six months.

I think people tend to minimize what Trump was up against. He had the intelligence community, most of Congress, the media, social media and even some foreign governments and people in his own administration trying to take him out. There are a lot of people in this country who to this day think Trump is Putin's asset. They are extremely stupid but they get to vote.

Nobody is going to take all of that down alone and definitely not in 3 years. Not Super Ron or Vivek. If we do eventually get our country back to some degree of normalcy it is not going to be in a single presidential term and there will be lots of ups and downs along the way and there will be blood.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (ZLI7S)

371 It's being reported that Ron DeSantis was in a car accident and is ok.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

372 For my regular evening pour, I've been sampling Evan Williams 1783 small batch bourbon.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2023 09:26 AM (N39Ws)

This. Very this.

Posted by: blaster at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (Jk9SN)

373 339 And anyone who runs on a Trumpian platform will get the same treatment Trump gets from the left and none of them are the kind of knife fighter he is. It's either beat the cheat with Trump or bust.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 25, 2023 08:55 AM

I'm afraid his credentials as knife fighter are a little shaky. I'm all-in with Trump but I pray he's learned the hard lessons (which, honestly, he should have learned six months into his first term).
Posted by: Ordinary American
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Trump probably has the strongest urge to pull a Samson as he does not depend on the political system for future wealth and influence unlike his competitors. Dunno though that Trump's popularity will be sufficient though to sweep in a House and Senate more favorable to him.

DeSantis might be the shrewder of the two candidates at doing targeted reforms of the worst of the Deep State but is simply unlikely to be a mass populist candidate if he continues using GOP campaign advisors and mega donors. I don't think he has much of a coat tail effect from what I've seen to pull others into office.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (9hLLz)

374 >>It would appear someone hasn't been playing nice with others in the WH. Commander, Biden family's current GS dog is biting the Secret Service staff.

Well, he abused his kids (and likely other family members) - why wouldn't he be abusing his dogs, too. The poor things are probably total headcases, and obviously not trained. Joe can't get his middle-aged son of crack and hookers, what makes anyone believe he could get the dogs to behave?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (avru5)

375 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 12h
2015: Former White House chef for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush drowned in a New Mexico mountain stream, and his death was ruled an accident

2023: Former White House chef for Obama died during an accident on a paddle boarding trip near the Obamas' Massachusetts home.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2b6k8w
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 09:22 AM (krqg6)

Other than shooting people in the head, is drowning becoming the CIA's second most reliable form of assassination?

Remember, William Colby supposedly drowned during a canoe trip.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (Kdc6E)

376 2015: Former White House chef for Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush drowned in a New Mexico mountain stream, and his death was ruled an accident

Over the last 30 years, 56 people of the Clinton family employees have died under mysterious circumstances. 14 by supposed suicide, 8 in assorted vehicle accidents, and 14 that cannot be explained. Each of these people would have information that could have harmed the Clinton's careers.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (AXL3t)

377 364
Obama's chef was about to reveal Barry's insistence on carrots in his chili.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 25, 2023 09:25 AM (MoZTd)

Oh, they may have been phallic, but they weren't carrots...

Posted by: XTC at July 25, 2023 09:28 AM (UnA8+)

378 39 Devon Archer did not kill himself.

Too soon?

Posted by: pawn at July 25, 2023 08:03 AM (wsHtO)

Tomorrow's news today -
BREAKING ---

Today the FBI announced it has closed its investigation into the disappearance of Devon Archer, after an exhaustive one-day, nationwide search.

Posted by: Gref at July 25, 2023 09:28 AM (AMIL/)

379 Other than shooting people in the head, is drowning becoming the CIA's second most reliable form of assassination?

Suffocating SC justices.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2023 09:28 AM (AXL3t)

380 311: BMWs are made in SC. (For example)

The way to solve this is to pass a law requiring Americans to work in manufacturing as there are THE only jobs that matter. You wanna farm? Too bad, go to a factory or jail, you wanna be a doctor? Too bad, go to a factory or jail.

Also, force every country in the world to give up manufacturing, or we drop nukes.

All Problems Solved. Right?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 25, 2023 09:28 AM (PQNCb)

381 @353 TheJamesMadison-you're lucky the other guys supporters don't roll out of bed before 11am eastern time.

......and lazy too!

Posted by: JROD at July 25, 2023 09:29 AM (IlL6s)

382 It's being reported that Ron DeSantis was in a car accident and is ok.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (NpAcC)

Tell him to avoid bathing for the time being.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 09:29 AM (Kdc6E)

383 It is almost comical - we went from the Clintons who govered as mob bosses, to the Obamas that used the media and the police power of the government to keep us plebes in line to...the Bidens that spend their time f*cking each other.

There has to be an Aristocrats joke here somewhere

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2023 09:29 AM (lc5cP)

384 Well, he abused his kids (and likely other family members) - why wouldn't he be abusing his dogs, too. The poor things are probably total headcases, and obviously not trained. Joe can't get his middle-aged son of crack and hookers, what makes anyone believe he could get the dogs to behave?
Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:27 AM (avru5)
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I suspect FJB's dogs aren't really his. They don't accept him as their pack leader. And whomever has been tasked with training them is not doing their job very well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 25, 2023 09:29 AM (YIVH2)

385 It's being reported that Ron DeSantis was in a car accident and is ok.
Posted by: redridinghood

What info does he have on the Clintons?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2023 09:29 AM (AXL3t)

386 Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 09:25 AM (SJKxM)

Which particular bullshit were you referring to?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2023 09:30 AM (Keyt1)

387 Other than shooting people in the head, is drowning becoming the CIA's second most reliable form of assassination?
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Suffocating SC justices.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 25, 2023 09:28 AM (AXL3t)

Sure, but that's just one. Also slipping something into the drink of an alternate media personality, so when he walks home he collapses and dies.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 25, 2023 09:30 AM (Kdc6E)

388 >Other than shooting people in the head, is drowning becoming the CIA's second most reliable form of assassination?

sometimes they do plane crashes

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 09:31 AM (geLO8)

389 Other than shooting people in the head, is drowning becoming the CIA's second most reliable form of assassination?

You do have to respect leaving a corpse to be found hanging with a fatal shotgun wound to the chest and...no shotgun lying around...and getting everyone to agree it was a suicide.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 25, 2023 09:31 AM (lc5cP)

390 Art is nood with snipers.

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=405444

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 25, 2023 09:31 AM (3CCua)

391 nood york city

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 09:31 AM (krqg6)

392 >>I suspect FJB's dogs aren't really his. They don't accept him as their pack leader. And whomever has been tasked with training them is not doing their job very well.

He has German Shepherds, right?
Very smart dogs that take a lot of work and discipline -- two things none of the Biden clan have demonstrated.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 25, 2023 09:31 AM (avru5)

393 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 25, 2023 09:32 AM (xTRSc)

394 >>I suspect FJB's dogs aren't really his. They don't accept him as their pack leader.

I think more than a few presidential pets were just PR props

Posted by: DB - the more you know at July 25, 2023 09:32 AM (geLO8)

395 I think more than a few presidential pets were just PR props

And eventually a great meal!

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 25, 2023 09:32 AM (lc5cP)

396 This is something that likely could be put to the test if a Republican state level official had the balls for it. And it would explain how someone like a Lindsey Graham keeps getting elected.

As a partial test of this - DeSantis got somewhat serious about vote fraud in FL and it went from a purple state to a red one overnight.

Did a bunch of incumbent GOPe types lose to MAGA types as well in the primaries?
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In places that allow it, GOPe (worst offender Mitch and his wretched crew of turncoats) hire Democrat voting machines to win open primaries against GOP. That is how Ratshitburger in GA as Georgia Secretary of State won his primary in 2022 despite being widely despised by the Republican voters. Lindsay does the same thing. This is often why Southern states send people like Lindsay or Nancy Mace to Congress because of open primaries.

I'm a bit rusty on empirical work but I suspect that Kemp actually lost in 2018 but as Secretary of State, for that election, the servers were mysteriously wiped before Abrams and her crew could document them. The lawsuit that Abrams brought in federal court afterwards documented that the Dominion machines were bad.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:33 AM (9hLLz)

397 It would appear someone hasn't been playing nice with others in the WH. Commander, Biden family's current GS dog is biting the Secret Service staff.

Link goes to Judicial Watch.

https://tinyurl.com/2fzremjp
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 25, 2023 09:23 AM (N39Ws)
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You're welcome!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 25, 2023 09:33 AM (adINt)

398 Which particular bullshit were you referring to?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 25, 2023 09:30 AM (Keyt1)

Climate change stories.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 25, 2023 09:35 AM (SJKxM)

399 But, Trumpism without Trump will convince them to fight, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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GOP likes ersatz warmed over failure theater like the multiple votes revoking Obamacare when it was sure that Obama would veto it.

Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:36 AM (9hLLz)

400 IRS Will End ‘Most Unannounced Visits to Taxpayers’ by Agency Officers

“Effective immediately, unannounced visits will end except in a few unique circumstances and will be replaced with mailed letters to schedule meetings.”

Posted by: SMOD at July 25, 2023 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

401 . . . Most Republican candidates talk a good game about shrinking the federal government, but Vivek is making headlines by explaining his authority and naming his targets.

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I read that as SHANKING ....
you know ... that works too.

Posted by: Ciampino - cats are active after breakfast at July 25, 2023 09:40 AM (qfLjt)

402 Not a huge fan, but I do like eating the nuts coated in that soupy mess.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 25, 2023 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

Kamala?

Posted by: Inogame at July 25, 2023 09:44 AM (53oGX)

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

Trump 1st...then DeSantis...now Vivek.

Government Executive, July 27, 2022, Trump Has Endorsed a Plan to Purge the Civil Service of ‘Rogue Bureaucrats.’
"Former Trump staffers have said they have identified 50,000 federal employees who would be ousted under a new iteration of Schedule F during the next Republican administration."

And also, for example, New Republic, July 25, 2022, The Next GOP President Will Replace Civil Servants With Political Hacks, Wreaking Havoc on the Government. "Trump fumbled it in 2020. The Republicans will try again next time they win the White House."

IMO, the left wants a mad scramble in all of Federal employment. In about the last decade & a half, its replaced 'civil servants' at its highest levels w/all political hacks - as Trump, yet again, had been accused of plotting - and is working its way down the line identifying purported disloyal 'subjects' for replacement by competent & loyal private sector personnel. In short, its overflowing with unnecessary bodies & would welcome a bit of a purge that could be solidly blamed on conservatives. Contracts & stakeholders are acceptable to get government done.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 25, 2023 09:52 AM (GshMh)

404 Allowing RFK Jr to take the Democrat primary in 2024 (without a chance in hell of winning the general) may be the best hope the Dems have of getting out from under Biden/Harris without utterly destroying their brand with the electorate.
Biden would be a disaster; Harris would be a disaster; but they are the face of the Democrat Party at the moment. Newsom is their Golden Boy for the future, but currently he cannot win in '24 because California has become radioactively toxic in the minds of average Americans.
But if RFK Jr is the candidate... he will be gotten rid of as a spoiler (think Ralph Nader) and the Dems can blame him (an outsider) rather than themselves for their losing the election, without any of their insiders being hurt politically.

FJB

Posted by: jbspry at July 25, 2023 09:52 AM (s78zi)

405 252 @223

>>MI, AZ, PA, WI, and GA won't allow it.

Well, also, apparently the GOP apparatuses in those states are collapsing financially, so throw that bit of detestable shrimp on the shit barbie.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 25, 2023 09:01 AM (8/h7D)

You mean donors who watched their party help throw an election to the other guys aren't really excited about ponying up cash to watch them do it again?
Who'd have thunk it?

Posted by: Inogame at July 25, 2023 09:53 AM (53oGX)

406 Dear Speaker McCarthy and the Republican "leadership" in the U.S. House, please stop being Mitch McConnell's cucks and fucking impeach this phony SOB squatting in the White House for REAL high crimes and misdemeanors committed against this nation!

You are nothing but fucking cowards and corporatist whores who can bang your hands on a damn podium and say all these threatening things but then you DO NOTHING, because that's who you are!! The fucking party of NOTHING!!!

I HOPE YOUR PARTY DIES, YOUR WORTHLESS FUCKS!!!!!

Posted by: Tracy at July 25, 2023 10:02 AM (F32c0)

407 299 259 Well, the limit is what the population will stand. Direct action regarding voter fraud occurred in the past including Tennessee post WWII in the Battle of Athens.

In fact, more regimes are probably toppled over voter fraud than any other reason in recent history. Sometimes with blood, sometimes relatively peacefully.
Posted by: whig at July 25, 2023 09:03 AM (9hLLz)

I don't see it happening.

It feels like on some level the achievers are waiting for the non-achievers with no kids (in other words : the ones with "nothing to lose") to pick up their guns first and make the first sacrifice.

And they don't seem inclined to do that.
Posted by: XTC at July 25, 2023 09:10 AM (UnA8+)

This type of thing doesn't just happen.
When achievers aren't allowed to achieve and people start having trouble getting things.. like food.
That's when sporty things happen.
Also, the election thievery hasn't really gotten super local yet... that's the type of thing that gets Battle of Athens.. because locals know who is shady and have less stomach for it than people elsewhere.

Posted by: Inogame at July 25, 2023 10:04 AM (53oGX)

408 46 The script is already written, President Kamala Harris.
Posted by: davidt at July 25, 2023 08:06 AM

Horrifying; like O, she lies with conviction & may have no problems droning, cluster bombing. The husband is already useful. Put someone like Murphy behind her, heaven help us.
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Also, if you missed it: ARE THERE LIMITS ON ABORTION IN MAINE? There is no waiting period required for abortion services in Maine. Maine law allows for abortions up to the point of viability.

Governor Mills Signs Legislation Empowering Women & Doctors to Make Reproductive Health Care Decisions
July 19, 2023

Another governor like Murphy. How about that?

Aloha.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at July 25, 2023 10:06 AM (GshMh)

409 NPR this proudly announced that today was the anniversary of President Trump's phone call to Ukraine, asking for Joe Biden's corruption to be investigated!

The tiny stone where my empathy for Democrats used to be glows in anticipation.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at July 25, 2023 10:16 AM (OqSlY)

410 sock off
snooze on

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 25, 2023 10:29 AM (krqg6)

411 FL Democrats naming Nikki Fried as their chair is hilarious. It's an organization doing a 'Bud Light' - assuming that clicks equal influence and importance. She is vacuous beyond measure. A smug, vapid self-promoter with nothing to promote. Her tenure in office and her campaign were hilarious exercises in Bidenesque stagecraft - a big empty desk and lots of prop mics. Then there was her still-unexplained 'refugee camp' video clip during covid in which actors played reporters and she wore a headscarf and implied she was a relief worker.

She couldn't organize a one-car funeral and her flailing about is hilarious.

Posted by: Patchy at July 25, 2023 10:41 AM (I/Pe0)

412 Willowed:

Because funding China directly and consuming their cheap shit is the way to go.

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Spoiler alert: You're not buying cheap sh*t made in the U.S. Heck, you're not buying expensive sh*t made in the U.S. You're not even buying American cars made in America. Our Betters sold us down that road 30+ years ago.
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BMWs are made in SC. (For example)

The way to solve this is to pass a law requiring Americans to work in manufacturing as there are THE only jobs that matter. You wanna farm? Too bad, go to a factory or jail, you wanna be a doctor? Too bad, go to a factory or jail.

Also, force every country in the world to give up manufacturing, or we drop nukes.

All Problems Solved. Right?
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I'm not sure pointing out that German luxury vehicle makers moved production of a few "German" luxury cars to a less costly manufacturing area is quite the best counter to the statement that American cars aren't made in America any longer.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 10:51 AM (VW7tl)

413 IRS Will End ‘Most Unannounced Visits to Taxpayers’ by Agency Officers

“Effective immediately, unannounced visits will end except in a few unique circumstances and will be replaced with mailed letters to schedule meetings.”

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That doesn't go very far in explaining the need for the guns.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at July 25, 2023 10:53 AM (VW7tl)

414 All that is required is chronic government stonewalling of reasonable requests for transparency. "The secret of propaganda is not what you say, it's what you don't say", Nazi minister of propaganda.

Then add in high officials serially lying under oath, along with the blatantly unequal application of the law. Institutionalize arguments from authority of politicians and bureaucrats who refuse to adjudicate arguments empirically. "Misinformation", or "always accuse the other side of what you are doing". Yup, that same Nazi minister of propaganda again.

Finish with the transformation of an obsequious media into a mouthpiece of the state. What system is it that, rather than owning the means of production, uses government regulatory power (like democratically elected government's laws, but without any input from, you know, voters, the people) to control "private" ownership, defacto control without legal ownership? Fascism.

This is why they are calling you "neo-Nazis". As *AHEM* that same Nazi minister of propaganda said, "always accuse the other side of what you are doing". Or in this case, being.

Posted by: Nightfall at July 25, 2023 01:15 PM (xd3qE)

415 Of course Ramaswamy can short-circuit the bureaucracy without further Congressional approvals. All he has to do is to send the money directly to the States without bothering to launder it through the DC bureaucracy. Let the States worry about the allocations and the audits and the traceability and the accounting.

Ramaswamy might run into problems disestablishing bureaucracies that Congress established, but he can take away / reassign the scope of their duties, even if he cannot actually fire the people. Let 'em sit on chairs in empty rooms for the rest of their tenure.

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