The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/3/23

Good Morning, kids. Well, it's official. Joe Rogan has declared that the country under Biden has indeed degenerated into a banana republic. Good of him to notice what has been blazingly self-evident to many of us for the past three years. I suppose I shouldn't be hard on him, and in fact, given his reach, I take it as a positive sign that many who have been ignorant of it or refused to see it can no longer escape the cold hard reality.

Aside from the in-your-face persecution of political enemies from Trump all the way down to ordinary citizens viewed as enemies of The State that make the national headlines (albeit spun and twisted to favor the junta), there are other telltale signs that are no less troubling, and in fact even more so. Not if, but when the day comes that the shit hits the fan.

Why on earth did the NYPD cop-block a Post reporter from interviewing the migrants camped this week outside Midtown’s Roosevelt Hotel?
Yes, the public campout was a huge embarrassment for the Adams administration. But that doesn’t qualify as “exigent circumstances”, the BS excuse the cops gave to stop reporters from speaking to the migrants themselves.
“You don’t have to be here, you want to be here,” bluffed one officer.
Wrong: We do have to be there!
A massive throng of illegal migrants gathered in the commercial nerve center of America’s largest city as they await processing by a slapdash, jerry-rigged system that can in no way accommodate them is the definition of newsworthy.
That Gotham’s crisis is a direct result of federal policy only makes it more so.
Cracking down on our reporters’ First Amendment rights in response is beyond unacceptable. . .
. . . What were the cops (or whoever told them to do this) hoping to achieve, anyway? That they could somehow make this obvious mess go away if no pushy journalists got to stick their noses in?
The fact that no one from the department brass has owned up to this proves that the cops recognize it was a blunder. The Adams administration played dumb as well, with Deputy Mayor Anne Williams-Isom saying: “That seems strange, I’ll follow up. And that’s even as a private contractor the city hired to deal with the migrants crisis, DocGo, has allegedly been pulling similar shenanigans with New York Times reporters, blocking them from speaking to migrants in an Albany hotel.
Policy solutions to our migrant crisis do exist. But banana-republic tactics against the press simply aren’t among them.

The link goes to Murdochs' NY Post but most of it is here as is the crux of the biscuit. The last line though says it all, despite the Post's Editorial Board's ridiculousness. First, the migrant crisis IS the policy and the banana republic tactics are being used because we are a banana republic.

And even though I escaped New York a year ago for Wisconsin, this shit happened right here in what I thought was my sanctuary (no pun):

When Watertown, Wisconsin police arrested Marcus Schroeder for reading the Bible at an “all ages” Saturday drag event, the news stunned conservatives. Now, less than a week after his arrest, Schroeder has changed the tone from one of shock to one of hope.

Marcus Schroeder, the young man arrested for reading the Bible at a drag queen event in Watertown, Wisconsin, preached the gospel to the city council and residents concerned about the Nazi presence at the event. pic.twitter.com/6DLP2gDa8C
— Ben Zeisloft (@BenZeisloft) August 2, 2023
The Christian protester stood before the Watertown Common Council on Tuesday. There he used the headline grabbing Nazi presence at the drag queen event to give an example of what leftists and Nazis have in common.
“I know a Nazi group showed up at the event Saturday, and people were talking about that. And I just wanted for all of us to really think about this: what’s wrong with Nazism?” Schroeder asked. “Imagine for a moment that there is no God above us, no hell below us, no heaven to live for, as John Lennon wanted to imagine. If we are truly the result of evolved stardust and our ancestors were fish and we’re the descendants of monkeys, then where do we find our value as human beings? What’s wrong with Nazism, unless you understand that the God of Scripture says that we are made in His image, and so to murder innocent people is a violation to God’s commands?” . . .
. . . He also clarified that he did not share his side of the arrest to conjure pity. Instead, he used his testimony to shed light on the connection between pride celebrations, Christianity, and crime.
“You see, as we become more and more tolerant of sexual immorality in our culture, we become more and more intolerant toward Christian morality. The more we become intolerant toward Christian morality, the more we’re going to see lawlessness in our streets. The more we become intolerant of Christian morality, the more we’re going to see Nazis. The more we’re going to see people who don’t hold to a Christian worldview who think that everybody is a result of animals, and therefore, if we are animals, why can’t we just act like animals?”

All well said, and for sure ample fodder for further discussion. But what I want to draw attention to, and as I, a number of the cobs and many of you have spoken about is whither law enforcement, specifically the beat cop, national guardsman or even soldier when things really get hairy?

As the above two links have shown, as well as the actions or lack thereof of law enforcement when Antifa and BLM go on a rampage or during the lockdowns when orthodox Jews decided to worship God in defiance of Bill DeBolshevik, all the way back to Ruby Ridge and the Branch Davidian massacre and on and on, it seems that the well known motto of "To Serve and Protect" means to follow orders and protect one's job and pension.

Make no mistake; the velvet glove illusion of "justice" and "democracy" has an iron fist inside it. We can rail, and rightly so, against the horrid, naked criminality and lust for power of the political class and their immediate underlings, as well as the apparatchiks and technocrats in the bureaucracy and elsewhere who, as true believers, follow orders or take the initiative independently to repress us.

But more horrendous by orders of magnitude is the attitude of people like us, our fellow citizens who wear a uniform and swear an oath to uphold the law, yet go along to get along and "just follow orders."  

What was Michael Byrd thinking and feeling when he gunned down Ashli Babbitt? Ditto the agents of the regime when they beat Roseanne Boyland to death? Or Lon Horiuchi when he pulled the trigger on Randy Weaver's wife and son? And that was 31 years ago when the nation was not on the brink of turning into what was happening concurrently in Yugoslavia.

As for what is happening to Donald Trump and by direct extension all of us, regardless of who you support in 2024, Mark Levin states:

“The fact is that this kind of legal warfare against a presidential and possible, if not likely, opponent to the present president, is not only unprecedented in the history of our Republic, it will destroy our electoral system for all time,” Levin argued further.
“It is not something that should be let to the various district courts or local courts to sort out in the course of regular judicial proceedings. In fact, that is part of the intended strategy by the prosecutors, who are engaged in this assault on our electoral system. They must not be rewarded for their behavior,” he said. . .
. . . “It is the process that’s the killer here, and they know it. And they’re playing the process by unloading all these indictments, by taking Trump off the campaign trail, by depleting his resources, by influencing [voters],” Levin said.
He continued: “I want to publicly encourage the Trump legal team to seek an emergency hearing before the United States Supreme Court, not to resolve legal disputes, but to at least temporarily halt the abomination of this legal warfare that is unfolding in front of us, where Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans are unashamedly celebrating the use of the courts by the Biden administration and Democrat district attorneys to further their political wishes as the rest of the nation watches in shock.”
“This unprecedented legal warfare requires an unprecedented response by the only constitutional body left that can do something about it.”
“This would not be the Supreme Court interfering in the political process,” he said. “This would be the Supreme Court defending the Constitution.”

Bless Levin's heart but the electoral system and the Constitution are essentially dead already. Yet he is correct insofar as we are living in Zombie America and there are avenues to attempt to pursue immediate redress. Yet, given the nature of the court and the absolute political divide of our citizenry, what do you think a 5-4 decision (assuming Julia Roberts votes the right way) to toss Hack/Jack Smith's bullshit indictment will do?

Ace highlighted yesterday evening Biden's infamous declaration that Trump will not be allowed to serve regardless of the election results. And then there is the abject rabid hatred and delegitimization of the Supreme Court in it's Dobbs and Affirmative Action decisions. If things do get sporty, either spontaneously or with a little help from the 1st Ray Epps Glowie Airborne Division, the question is what will the beat cop do when/if martial law is declared?

Remember: Smith and this Judge Tanya Sue Chutkan are the bastard children of Roland Freisler and Dean Wormer. At the behest of Moloch Garland they are going after potentially thousands of people for merely showing up to DC on 1/6/21, let alone the ones duped into entering the Capitol.

We are a banana republic. Given the deviancy and perversion running rampant, as well as Obama's love of chocolate bananas, a banana in the tailpipe republic.

If you can keep it.

Have a good weekend. See you tomorrow for the hobby thread. Be there. Aloha.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"The Plague of Models is a wide-ranging attack on a broad spectrum of government regulation and policy. It has been banned by Amazon."
The Problem with Modelling
"If enacted, these policies would guarantee rigged elections forever." (If we don't have that already - jjs)
Democrats’ ‘Freedom to Vote Act’ is the Death of Free Elections

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

"According to Archer’s transcribed testimony before House investigators, money Hunter Biden received from his board position ($83,000), was sent to Bohai Harvest Rosemont (BHR), a Chinese state-backed investment fund."
Devon Archer Partially Corroborates IRS Whistleblower Claims of How Hunter Biden Evaded Burisma Taxes
Margot Cleveland: "Media hacks want you to believe the millions Burisma paid Hunter Biden were not illegal because his dad was merely executing American policy."
Media Talking Points About the Biden-Forced Firing of Ukraine’s Prosecutor are Laughable
"He himself had the contacts!"
Josh Hawley Slams Biden Junta's Response To Hunter Allegations As 'Total Lie'
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
“This is nothing more than the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner, and leading by substantial margins,” Trump’s campaign said in a statement at the time of the indictment.
Trump Pleads Not Guilty In DC To Charges From Third Indictment
Victor Davis Hanson: "To retain power at all cost, and to destroy a political rival, leftwing Democrats are systematically dismantling the constitutional foundations of the United States as we once knew them."
Two Sets of Laws for Two Americas
William Jacobson: “Let’s go on the assumption they think they can prove these things, that the allegations were made in good faith. The question is, is there a crime here? That’s what I think a lot of people are questioning.”
Trump DC Indictment – Where is the Crime?
David Harsanyi: "And you don’t have to be a Trump supporter to see it."
Jack Smith’s Jan 6. Indictments are an Attack on Political Speech
“The fact is that this kind of legal warfare against a presidential and possible, if not likely, opponent to the present president, is not only unprecedented in the history of our Republic, it will destroy our electoral system for all time,” Levin argued further.
Mark Levin: Trump’s Lawyers Should Ask SCOTUS to Stop Unconstitutional Prosecutions

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"The case should be dismissed for failure to state an offense." (Should be but won't, and it should never have been brought in the first place - jjs)
Trump’s Third Indictment Is Ludicrous
“We live in an era of the noble lie — the so-called lie that the government tells to its people — because it believes that people can’t handle the truth,” Ramaswamy said. “Why is it that we see the rise of three different indictments, three supposedly independent prosecutions, at the same time in the midst of a presidential election? It’s because the government doesn’t trust the people to select their leaders.”
Ramaswamy Sues DOJ, Files FOIA Request 'to Understand What Biden and Garland Told Jack Smith' About Trump Prosecutions
"Biden did, however, release a statement on the political unrest going on in Niger, West Africa. Anything to steer the conversation away from domestic issues, right?" 
Biden Tries to Dodge Questions About Trump's Indictment
“A cup of Joe never tasted better,” the president’s Twitter (X) account stated on Thursday in a tweet with a video of Biden drinking a cup of coffee from a mug bearing the “Dark Brandon” meme wedged between 2024. “I like my coffee dark,” Biden says in the video. He also provided a link to purchase the mug.
Biden Gloats in ‘Dark Brandon’ Video on the Day Trump Gets Arraigned
"Trump now has the right to argue in court – for the first time ever – that he told the truth about the 2020 Presidential election." (Except the judge is the bastard child of Roland Freisler and Dean Wormer - jjs)
Handing Trump the Sword
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“No, no, you’re not [crazy]. I actually write about that person in the book. It raises concern for me, uh, his involvement. Uh, and the fact that we, we haven’t learned more. Matter of fact, I think the January 6th committee thanked him for his candor.”
Chief Capitol Cop Told Tucker ‘It’s Not Crazy’ to Wonder About Ray Epps in Hidden Fox Interview
"It’s increasingly and terrifyingly clear that the First Amendment is dying in America, and that religious persecution is becoming more mainstream."
WATCH: Young Street Preacher Arrested for Reading Bible at Drag Queen 'Family' Event
“We can have our disagreements, but there comes a time when we have to understand that we are all going to stand before God one day,” Schroeder concluded. “We’re going to have to give an account for what we have done with the children in our society–the innocent minds who deserve to be protected.”
WATCH: Wisconsin Bible Reader Stuns Council Meeting After His Arrest
"The left is using this claim to stifle debate."
Anything the Democrats Don't Like is Now a "Threat to Democracy"
"Your blue-haired liberal sister-in-law needs to understand that, despite her Hillary t-shirt and BLM lawn sign, she isn’t immune to the atrocities that await us."
Tyranny 101: Stop Saying That 'It Can't Happen Here' — It IS Happening Here
"A truly evil cabal has taken control of the Democrats."
The USA's Turn Toward Communism
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Robert Spencer: "Wipe that smile off your face, peasant!"
Biden Regime Pressured Facebook to Ban Jokes
"The House Judiciary Committee received the memos as part of an investigation into the Biden [junta's] social media censorship endeavors."
Biden Junta Told Facebook That Censoring 'Bad Content' Was 'Our Primary Concern'
"Instinctively, we understand that America has a serious problem but, until you know social media’s power, you cannot recognize just how serious it is."
Government’s Collusion With Social Media Is Worse Than You Realize
"Amazingly, no one on the ‘Morning Joe’ panel seemed to notice Sharpton’s egregious misunderstanding of American history."
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton: Can You Imagine if Thomas Jefferson Tried to Overthrow the Government?
"Thanks, WaPo.
This is One of the Stupidest Articles I Have Seen on "Climate Change"
"Policy solutions to our migrant crisis do exist. But banana-republic tactics against the press simply aren’t among them." (Another indicator that when the shit hits the fan, the cops will not be on our side - jjs)
You Can't Hide NYC Migrant Crisis by Chasing Off Journalists, NYPD
Douglas Murray: "The reality is that life is more complex than the lies we have been telling ourselves in recent years."
Media Ignores Muslim Killing of a Homosexual Because it Doesn't Fit the Narrative
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"You guessed it: we're all gonna die."
Beware of 'Global Boiling'
"Four activists used ladders to climb atop the prime minister’s home to drape the building in a jet-black fabric. Two men and two women were arrested after they returned to the ground on suspicion of causing criminal damage and public nuisance. A third man was arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance. The group remains in North Yorkshire Police custody."
British Prime Minister's Home Attacked by Environmental Terrorists, Greenpeace
"Why eco-zealots don’t care about winning hearts and minds."
The Left Loves Humanity But Hates People
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"It’s astonishing the lengths that prosecutors — including one Republican — will go to get out of doing their jobs. But thankfully, the state of Georgia is going to continue to hold their feet to the fire."
Georgia Prosecutors File Challenge to Block Law That Holds Prosecutors Accountable
“We have to be very careful when we use language to describe certain behavior,” Johnson continued. “There’s history in this city. I mean, to refer to children as like baby Al Capones is not appropriate.
Chicago Mayor Claims Term 'Mob Action' Is 'Not Appropriate' For Over 40 Looters
"Attempts to solve the crime problem with partisan rhetoric miss the mark."
Gun Violence in Red and Blue
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"A House subcommittee report affirms that the ‘Proximal Origin’ paper was not the result of rigorous scientific research but rather a coverup."
Useful Idiots in the West Helped the CCP Cover Up the Worst Scientific Scandal of Our Time
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Bilkszto’s death serves as an example of the destructive effects of woke ideology in schools. This is what happens when school boards place an inappropriate emphasis on race and gender identity, and make it their mission to ensure everyone thinks the same way. A school board that cannot tolerate one administrator who pushes back during a professional development session has clearly lost its way."
How 'anti-racism' indoctrination led to the death of Toronto educator Richard Bilkszto
"'Girls are a protected class, right?' state board member asks."
New Jersey To Separate Sex Ed Classes By Gender Identity, Not Biological Sex
“Harvard Business School would not discuss the lawsuit Wednesday. The named defendants could not be immediately reached for comment.”
Harvard Dishonesty Expert Accused of Dishonesty Files Defamation Lawsuit Against University, Critics
"Colleges will find trashing DEI initiatives is good for business."
Affirmative Action Ruling May Save American Colleges
"Leaders from more than a dozen conservative organizations are calling on states to ditch the ALA."
Leaders Of 13 Conservative Groups Demand States Abandon American Library Association
Heather Mac Donald: "Right-leaning philanthropists need to think more strategically with their largesse—and stop bestowing massive gifts on Harvard, of all places."
Conservative Donors: Wake Up!
"Unlike most recent cases of blacklisting, DeJong did not sue the university but the individuals involved, making them personally liable. Last week her lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) announced that it had settled the case with those individuals in a manner that signaled a solid victory."
Pushback: Student wins against school officials who tried to suppress her first amendment rights
"When your university has a class called 'The Problem of Whiteness,' you have to say something, right?"
Brave University of Chicago Student Speaks Out Against the Leftist War on Whites
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Issue 1 makes it harder for out-of-state organizations to take advantage of ballot proposals to inflict their leftist agenda on red states."
In Ohio, Voters To Decide How Easily They’ll Let Pro-Abortion Interest Groups Change Their Constitution
"Republicans in the state have pushed for election integrity measures following the 2020 election, including an audit for two races that cycle and the GOP-held legislature passing a hand-counting measure this year that was later vetoed by Democrat [pseudo] Gov. Katie Hobbs, according to NBC News. Democratic Secretary of State Adrian Fontes wrote a letter to the board warning of legal implications after they requested the elections office write up a plan for hand-counting the 2024 ballots."
County In Crucial Swing State Abandons Plans To Hand-Count Ballots In 2024 Election
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"House Republicans say legislation like McCollum’s bill—which is co-sponsored by a who’s who of anti-Israel advocates in Congress, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), Cori Bush (D., Mo.), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.)—is par for the course among House Democrats, where anti-Semitism has become commonplace."
Democrat-Led Anti-Israel Bill Relies on Research From Designated Terror Group
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Feinstein, who has represented California for over 30 years, announced earlier this year that she would not seek re-election in 2024. Several longtime colleagues have leaked to the press that her mental acuity has significantly declined."
Dianne Feinstein, 90, Cedes Power of Attorney to Daughter — But Still Serves in Congress
POLITICS
"It’s not a story you’ll see in the papers."
Trump Won
Daniel Greenfield: "Apart from his mythical days marching in Selma and wrestling with Corn Pop, Biden is surrounded by black staffers, aides and allies who are representative of a D.C. political elite, not black people."
Biden Discovers Most Black People Aren’t Really Black
Maybe if you unequivocally stood up for Trump, you might gain a bit more credibility - jjs
Ron DeSantis on Nixing Deep State: ‘We Are Going to Start Slitting Throats on Day One’
"The poll found 51% of Americans saying the economy is getting worse, and Biden received a 41% approval rating. When his handling of the economy is factored in, Biden receives just a 37% approval rating, according to the poll. His approval rating also drops down to 30% when considering his handling of inflation. Independent voters were less pleased with Biden, giving him a 26% approval rating for his handling of inflation."
New CNN Poll Spells Big Trouble For Biden
"One gets the impression that Houck is not running for office out of a desire for personal gain, or even revenge. Rather, Houck has experienced first-hand the capricious, avaricious wrath of the progressive empire. And he wants to spare you and me that experience if he can. Which may be one of the best reasons anyone ever ran for office in these United States."
Mr. Houck Goes to Washington
"RFK Jr. could be a perfect storm opposing Trump in a three-way race."
RFK, jr. and Trump's Achilles Heel
"To beat Harris, Newsom would have to come out as both gay and trans and immediately begin the hormonal and surgical transition process. Well, Governor? How far are you really willing to go in pursuit of that Oval Office you pinky-swear you aren’t running for in 2024?"
Gavin Newsom Just Took Another Huge Step in His Non-Campaign to Topple Joe Biden
"In short, he's building name recognition, and his spending tells the story of an ambitious Democratic governor ready to jump into the presidential race should [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden choose not to seek reelection, political observers say."
PAC Spending Shows How Gavin Newsom Is Positioning Himself for a Presidential Bid
"It doesn’t take much imagination to envision how the White House will use Gen-Z for Change in 2024."
Gen-Z for Change: Biden’s Astroturf Youth Group

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New Netflix special: Obama vs. Kamala in a hot dog eating contest . . . - jjs
Obama Once Wrote To Ex-Girlfriend That He 'Repeatedly Fantasizes About Making Love To Men,' Biographer Says
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The attack on Novorossiysk is the first time a commercial Russian port has been targeted in the 18-month war."
Major Russian Navy Base Attacked by Ukraine Sea Drones, Kremlin Says; Warship Seen Listing to Port After Blast (isn't this really the story of the US post-2020? - jjs)
"The greatest threat to peace is posed by those who claim to oppose going to war while demanding that the U.S. intervene militarily."
The Dogs of War Sit Set to Slip
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The incident occurred near a subway station in Seongnam just south of the South Korean capital of Seoul, according to CNN. While the perpetrator’s motive remains unknown, local media reported that he appeared to be suffering from mental health issues, per Reuters."
Driver Rams Into 13 Pedestrians, Stabs Nine Of Them
"Other parts of the country are struggling with drought, putting further pressure on food supplies for the nation’s 1.4 billion people already struggling with the disruption in grain shipments resulting from Russia’s war against Ukraine." (Anyone else looking at that Three Gorges Dam about now? - jjs)
Deadly Flooding in China Worsens as Rescues Continue and Areas Downriver Brace for High Water

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"Niger plays host to over a thousand U.S. troops and a similar number of soldiers from France, tasked primarily with helping combat jihadist militants in the Sahel region. Both countries have condemned the coup, not least because similar coups in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso have seen their new military governments align with Russia, with the former expelling French troops and inviting Wagner mercenaries in."
U.S. Preparing Evacuation of Niger Embassy After Pro-Russia Military Coup
"CCP’s rush to buy prime American real estate sounding alarm bells in Congress."
How China’s Push To Control U.S. Food Supply Prepares It for War with Taiwan
“We have made several reports to the police, but it feels like we have not been taken seriously, because there has been no change. So we decided to find these addicts and try to have a dialogue with them.”
Swedes Turn Vigilante to Counter Surging Migrant Crime
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Lloyd Billingsley: "Legal loopholes could speed the spread of viral agents."
Busting Covert Chinese Bio-Lab in California
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
"Welcome to the fate of a thinking person in Afghanistan." (Might not be such a bad idea over here. Then again, the American professoriate has already done the job - jjs)
Taliban Destroys What’s Left of Afghanistan’s Universities
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Sometimes there are heroes. But there are always cowards."
Rescuing Korans in Scandinavia
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"New report on a blockbuster scandal showcases why 'freedom friendly' policies are preferable to political deal making."
Anaheim’s Shadow Government Exposed
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The discovered asteroid is 600 feet long, large enough to pose a real threat should it ever hit the Earth. Fortunately, the data says that though its orbit can take it as close as 140,000 miles there is no impact likely in the foreseeable future." (tease, tease, tease - jjs)
New software detects its first potentially dangerous asteroid
"In other words, they presently have no idea what the species actually looked like, or how big it actually was. It very well could have been much shorter and thinner than proposed."
Bones of the biggest ever whale species possibly found?
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The court found no relevant differences between the challenged Kentucky law and a similar Tennessee law the court kept in place during litigation."
Appeals Court Upholds Kentucky Ban on Sex Transition for Minors During Ongoing Litigation
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Strike on, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!'”
The Actors’ Strike: May It Last Forever
"Barbie, Oppenheimer, and Sound of Freedom."
Let’s Go to the Movies
Christian Toto: "Spotify superstar blasts efforts to imprison political rival, notes blazing hypocrisy."
Joe Rogan Calls U.S. a ‘Banana Republic’ Under Biden
HITHER & YON
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Calvin Coolidge: The Great Refrainer Shows the Way

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1 Howdy JJ!

Posted by: Doof at August 04, 2023 07:51 AM (yUjc0)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 04, 2023 07:51 AM (sNtYB)

3 NOOD duties have been performed

Posted by: Doof at August 04, 2023 07:52 AM (yUjc0)

4 Thank you, JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2023 07:52 AM (1n+EO)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 04, 2023 07:52 AM (ENBF0)

6 happy fricking friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 07:53 AM (BRHaw)

7 Worst banana republic evah.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2023 07:54 AM (Q4IgG)

8 But the police are on "our" side. Right?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 04, 2023 07:55 AM (rH1KZ)

9 SA without the diamond mines.
-Dennis Miller

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 04, 2023 07:55 AM (zZu0s)

10 an article mentions the writer's strike and I cannot help but think out loud, "as God is my witness I did not see any difference in any TV or movies with or without the "talented writers" participating or not participating

Posted by: paulnjax at August 04, 2023 07:57 AM (O1n6R)

11 "“This would not be the Supreme Court interfering in the political process,” he said. “This would be the Supreme Court defending the Constitution.”"

We need a Lincoln-type on SCOTUS to step-up. Ironically it'll be Thomas, not Roberts, let us pray.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 07:57 AM (RqMSv)

12 Good morning to those who are also suffering the evils of a government long-established...

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 04, 2023 07:58 AM (KUmG1)

13 You see, as we become more and more tolerant of sexual immorality in our culture, we become more and more intolerant toward Christian morality. The more we become intolerant toward Christian morality, the more we’re going to see lawlessness in our streets.

There is a real values to the IDEAL.
The IDEAL marriage.
The IDEAL parents.
The IDEAL friend.

Will we ever rise to that IDEAL in thoughts and actions? No, but is is still there.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 07:58 AM (BRHaw)

14 "In other words, they presently have no idea what the species actually looked like, or how big it actually was. It very well could have been much shorter and thinner than proposed."
Bones of the biggest ever whale species possibly found?

Stacey Adams is dead?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2023 07:59 AM (Angsy)

15 It's way past time for anyone the feds come for to resist with anything and everything at their disposal.

Or sit in prison on chumped up charges and never see the light of day again as a free man.

Our judicial system is broke and will be used against you to the full extent of the democrat's running dogs and lackeys.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 04, 2023 08:00 AM (5L/TD)

16 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 04, 2023 08:00 AM (NBVIP)

17 The Junta persecution of Trump is a symptom, and not the disease itself. The disease is the Uniparty, the self-protective government and its handmaidens in the Propaganda Press.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2023 08:00 AM (AH6lU)

18 I'm all for freedom of speech including Christians witnessing at these horrible places but as I read this latest story, most of the accounts I read omit the fact that the man was allegedly speaking through a megaphone and that is what he was charged with.

Posted by: pawn at August 04, 2023 08:01 AM (wsHtO)

19 Yes we have no bananas.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 04, 2023 08:01 AM (aD39U)

20 Ron DeSantis on Nixing Deep State: ‘We Are Going to Start Slitting Throats on Day One’
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I'll believe this only when he spits upon his hands and hoists the black flag.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 04, 2023 08:01 AM (YIVH2)

21 Great post as always, JJ!

Yeah, I used to be a knee-jerk back-the-blue law and order guy, but covid and the summer of love changed that. Ace posted the Watertown, WI video of Marcus Schroeder getting hassled by the cops yesterday. It made my blood boil; it conjured up images for me of cops (in Canada) arresting pastors for having services, of cops in Ohio in 2020 dragging some woman out of bleachers because she wasn’t masked, of so many police chiefs who took the knee at St George protests…. And on and on; not to mention the fed cops and all their blatant criminality. It’s sad because if cops hadn’t behaved this way I’d still be on their side.

I no longer trust the military, either. Just very sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2023 08:02 AM (3WhGI)

22 The soy just drips off this Dark Brandon BS. What a contemptible loser.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 04, 2023 08:03 AM (rH1KZ)

23 The Junta persecution of Trump is a symptom, and not the disease itself. The disease is the Uniparty, the self-protective government and its handmaidens in the Propaganda Press.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2023 08:00 AM (AH6lU)

Yup

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2023 08:03 AM (pVWRI)

24 14 "In other words, they presently have no idea what the species actually looked like, or how big it actually was. It very well could have been much shorter and thinner than proposed."
Bones of the biggest ever whale species possibly found?

Stacey Adams is dead?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2023 07:59 AM (Angsy)

Abrams. As in Tank.

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25
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Posted by: Ciampino -- Fauci is a consistent liar! at August 04, 2023 08:03 AM (qfLjt)

26 From the "rule of law is dead" file:

Democrat judges in the 9th Circuit approve of Biden migrant policies identical to Trump policies they very recently rejected. They get called out by a colleague.

My colleagues, who made all that precedent, should not be able to now just elide it. It's hard to shake the impression that something other than the law is at work here

https://tinyurl.com/4mehtskm

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (+sKZq)

27 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (T4tVD)

28 Stacey Adams is dead?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2023 07:59 AM (Angsy)

Abrams. As in Tank.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:03 AM (x0n13)

Wait. Spelling's a ting her now?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (Angsy)

29 "Stacey Adams is dead?"

Check Lizzo for a pulse.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (1n+EO)

30 arrested Marcus Schroeder for reading the Bible
No, actually, he was arrested because he was using an amplifying device. This is almost always considered "disturbing the peace" unless you have a permit. You can talk as loud as you want, normally, but the moment you use a mic and speaker it's considered disrupting.

Posted by: GWB at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (XfCzJ)

31 "And even though I escaped New York a year ago for Wisconsin, this shit happened right here in what I thought was my sanctuary (no pun):"

I believe Wisconsin is still dominated by the starry eyes, unicorn gentry-academic type liberalism. It has not reached the blatant tyranny and oppression of the big city Dem shitholes like NYC. Yet. Although it has been a few years since I have been there so maybe they have already gone full commie.

Posted by: Ripley at August 04, 2023 08:07 AM (KrJTL)

32 I'm all for freedom of speech including Christians witnessing at these horrible places but as I read this latest story, most of the accounts I read omit the fact that the man was allegedly speaking through a megaphone and that is what he was charged with.
Posted by: pawn at August 04, 2023 08:01 AM (wsHtO)

In the video he had a microphone and some other guy was holding the associated speaker, not a megaphone. Maybe just as loud I don’t know. The cops grabbed it aggressively from his hands… he did resist in the sense he didn’t hand it over. In his defense he was obviously shocked that the cops were hassling him…. And at least from video sound he wasn’t being overly loud. The cops were aggressive and rude IMHO

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2023 08:07 AM (3WhGI)

33 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 04, 2023 08:08 AM (1Z8zZ)

34 30 arrested Marcus Schroeder for reading the Bible
No, actually, he was arrested because he was using an amplifying device. This is almost always considered "disturbing the peace" unless you have a permit. You can talk as loud as you want, normally, but the moment you use a mic and speaker it's considered disrupting.
Posted by: GWB at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (XfCzJ)

Funny how that never happened to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

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

35 No, actually, he was arrested because he was using an amplifying device. This is almost always considered "disturbing the peace" unless you have a permit. You can talk as loud as you want, normally, but the moment you use a mic and speaker it's considered disrupting.

Posted by: GWB at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (XfCzJ)

Too bad for his target. I don't care that they were "disturbed" by it. Should have been a citation at most.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2023 08:08 AM (Angsy)

36 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

In use !

Posted by: JT at August 04, 2023 08:08 AM (T4tVD)

37 and still your elected representatives continue to fund the police state. Maybe they will serve up a little more failure theater to help the fundamental transformation go down.

Posted by: Ex GOP at August 04, 2023 08:08 AM (4sJ6b)

38 31 Posted by: Ripley at August 04, 2023 08:07 AM (KrJTL

As I understand it, Wisconsin was one of the main spawning grounds of "progressivism" in this country.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)

39 I, a number of the cobs and many of you have spoken about is whither law enforcement, specifically the beat cop, national guardsman or even soldier when things really get hairy?
________

If you wish to say they are good per se, or bad per se, you are missing the point. The reason we have cops, et al, is to keep the peace so we can go about our lives in safety. If the government starts using them to oppress us, THAT is the problem.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 04, 2023 08:09 AM (brAQZ)

40 "Funny how that never happened to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. "

To be fair, I don't think they ever read from the bible.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2023 08:09 AM (1n+EO)

41 Check Lizzo for a pulse.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

"You're a braver man than I, Gunga Din !"

Posted by: JT at August 04, 2023 08:10 AM (T4tVD)

42 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at August 04, 2023 08:10 AM (T4tVD)

43 Two Sets of Laws for Two Americas

There are no Two Americas. If there were, I sure as hell wouldn't be paying taxes to the Pure Evil America that has developed under the Democrat/Leftist rainbow flag.

The monsters (pretty much all of Babylon DC) who make up Leviathan are as American as an anchor baby. They absolutely hate Heritage America as they see themselves as amoral globalist/world-citizens or just nihilistic opportunistic drones who just happen to make a good living daily attacking We The People.

If there were Two Americas, we would have our National Divorce, yet these monsters won't even tolerate us leading our own separate lives without them.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 04, 2023 08:10 AM (p8A+W)

44 To be fair, I don't think they ever read from the bible.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2023 08:09 AM (1n+EO)
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*snort*

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2023 08:10 AM (+sKZq)

45 "whither law enforcement, specifically the beat cop, national guardsman or even soldier when things really get hairy?"

A review of the First Amendment audit videos on youtube (a growth industry) will provide hard proof of whither. It's horrifying.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 04, 2023 08:10 AM (56OFQ)

46 40 "Funny how that never happened to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. "

To be fair, I don't think they ever read from the bible.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2023 08:09 AM (1n+EO)

They're men of the cloth. They know it by heart!

Cloth being a used hack-rag.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:11 AM (x0n13)

47
Lizzo. Sounds like a lesbian kitchen cleanser.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:11 AM (x0n13)

48 Headline I expect to see soon: "The government is cracking down on reporter's First Amendment rights and why you should applaud this."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2023 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

49 "Cloth being a used hack-rag."

You misspelled Jerk-Sock.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2023 08:12 AM (1n+EO)

50 Stacey Adams returned a shoe company.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 04, 2023 08:12 AM (zZu0s)

51 A friend in college wanted a reference from one of our Profs so he could go the UW - Madison for Grad school. The Prof refused, saying that UW was not a good school.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 04, 2023 08:12 AM (jgJfd)

52 "My colleagues, who made all that precedent, should not be able to now just elide it. It's hard to shake the impression that something other than the law is at work here"

It's the fruit of the Critical Legal Studies movement that started at Harvard Law and Yale Law in the 70s.

Law is politics by other means, you see.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 08:12 AM (RqMSv)

53 The following (non-original) thought crystallized for me yesterday as I heard news reports of Trump’s arraignment: The Junta will kill this man if they have to… if all the lawfare doesn’t slow his campaign and if (really when) he wins the GOP nomination and it’s fall 2024 and he’s ahead in the polls or it’s uncomfortably close…. They will take him out.

I think he wins a free and fair election but the deep state won’t allow another Trump term

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 04, 2023 08:12 AM (3WhGI)

54 Sorry I had to bail on the post below. The antibiotics kicked my ass so hard I swear if I have to take them again I'd rather shoot myself. I was so weak hubby had to take me everywhere, my body felt like it has been hit by a freight train and the headaches were migraine territory. I think I'm better today thank the Lord.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:13 AM (5iFFd)

55 Keep waving your thin blue line flags. Never forget that if the choice was between you and the regime holding their pension, your neck is soft and compliant to combat boots.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:13 AM (slgIg)

56 Republics are overrated.

Posted by: Idi Amin at August 04, 2023 08:14 AM (rgc/1)

57 Sorry I had to bail on the post below. The antibiotics kicked my ass so hard I swear if I have to take them again I'd rather shoot myself. I was so weak hubby had to take me everywhere, my body felt like it has been hit by a freight train and the headaches were migraine territory. I think I'm better today thank the Lord.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:13 AM (5iFFd)

Sheesh, not fun. I'm not sick or anything, but I sure feel tired all the time, gotta be worse for you. Hope you feel better.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2023 08:15 AM (Angsy)

58 and still your elected representatives continue to fund the police state.

Lets be abundantly clear is that We The People do not have elected representatives. It is not possible. In the beginning of the FUSA, the ratio of representatives to voters was 1:5000, now its something like 1:800,000 random people (give or take since the census is utterly corrupt).

The machine only listens to Party stewards and the top echelon of donors/bundlers; the ballots have replaced voters.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 04, 2023 08:15 AM (p8A+W)

59 48 Headline I expect to see soon: "The government is cracking down on reporter's First Amendment rights and why you should applaud this."
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2023 08:12 AM (Q4IgG)

"The Conservative Case for Abolishing the First Amendment"

Hello?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:16 AM (x0n13)

60 "Funny how that never happened to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. "
To be fair, I don't think they ever read from the bible.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2023 08:09 AM (1n+EO)

Resist we much. I blame dat dr. gurgles for de 3rd reich for lying and fronting and mees not bees ables to read or write too good.

Hey Ho! YT Bees Gots To Go! Let's go to Freddy's Fashion Mart and gets some free shit...

Posted by: Al Sharpton, MSNBC Rayciss Warlord at August 04, 2023 08:16 AM (5L/TD)

61 Keep waving your thin blue line flags. Never forget that if the choice was between you and the regime holding their pension, your neck is soft and compliant to combat boots.

And in Illinois, that Thin Blue Line agent might be covered in MS-13 tattoos.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 04, 2023 08:16 AM (p8A+W)

62 "The Conservative Case for Abolishing the First Amendment"

Hello?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:16 AM (x0n13)

Sounds good to us!

Posted by: John and Sam Abrams at August 04, 2023 08:17 AM (Angsy)

63 “You don’t have to be here, you want to be here,” bluffed one officer.

Wrong: We do have to be there!
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Who cares about "need" (whatever that means) vs. "want?" It's a public sidewalk, no? I can be there anytime I damn well please.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

64 Maybe if you unequivocally stood up for Trump, you might gain a bit more credibility

Hold on. So, despite Trump spending $20M on attack ads against RDS, calling him a worse governor than Andrew Cuomo, attacking RDS constantly using Democrat talking points, and encouraging his followers to spout "Meatball Ron is a George Soros homo" on social media ... RDS has still proven himself to be the bigger man by denouncing the charges and saying he would pardon Trump. I'm not sure what more anyone has the right to demand of him.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 08:17 AM (9yUzE)

65 That Gotham’s crisis is a direct result of federal policy only makes it more so.
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Is it? C'mon, man. Sure, those aliens wouldn't be there if the FedGov did its job, but those aliens are there *also* because of NYC and NYS. Y'all are the ones who proudly and loudly declared yourself a "sanctuary city." You nullified federal immigration law (however it's enforced or not) and encouraged it. You talked up the benefits of unrestrained illegal migration.

Don't try to pawn this off on the feds. You played a major role in this farce, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

66 Naturally, Democrat district attorneys leaped from their fainting couches in the highest of dudgeon over the new law, calling it “excessive and unnecessary” and even “racist” for suggesting that prosecutors should actually prosecute or face discipline.

Hey we dont have to take this standing up!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 08:18 AM (BRHaw)

67 I suspect that given the chance, armed, law-abiding citizens in Watertown, WI could maintain order without a lot of cops.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 04, 2023 08:18 AM (rJ48h)

68 I'm not sick or anything, but I sure feel tired all the time, gotta be worse for you. Hope you feel better.

Thank you. If you feel tired all the time check with your doctor. Could be something easily remedied.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:19 AM (5iFFd)

69 A friend of mine in college asked a professor (whom he thought had a good relationship with) for a reference to a grad school. The prof gave him the letter in an unmarked envelope.

"I have had a close working relationship with student smith in the department of chemistry. I do not think he would be a good fit in your program"

The letter was not included in his application, and he was eventually accepted.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:19 AM (slgIg)

70 It was sickening to hear that 3 of the judges involved in the sentencing of the J6 defendants were sitting in the courtroom yesterday to watch Trump's indictment.

https://tinyurl.com/25kc6a7x

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

71 Why are we writing articles about how what they're doing to Trump NOW will mess with the presidency or Our Norms forever.

Hello? They did that already in 2016 when they colluded with an opposing campaogn to make up an entire story whole cloth and then used our official intelligence apparatus and media to attempt to beat him and then when that failed, destroy his presidency.

Like... it's done. Rubicon was crossed in 2015 and probably long before that. I hate how we have to treat every new outrage like it's somehow special and important. This is the world we have already been living in.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 08:20 AM (HJY0X)

72 "Funny how that never happened to Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. "
To be fair, I don't think they ever read from the bible.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 04, 2023 08:09 AM (1n+EO)

To be fair, I don't think they ever read.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 08:20 AM (BRHaw)

73 Hugs and prayers, Jewells

Posted by: Doof at August 04, 2023 08:21 AM (yUjc0)

74 Morning Horde and a happy Friday to all. Thx JJ. The propaganda ministries are doing a solid job of covering up a very large non human caused climate event. Been reading about the effects of the Tonga volcano . It blew an immense amount of water into the stratosphere. An initial NASA report said it increased the water content in the stratosphere by 10%, but a subsequent European Space Agency report said 30%. Either way the impact upon Earth's climate will be very noticeable and it is already showing an impact

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 04, 2023 08:21 AM (iOSZT)

75 To be fair, I don't think they ever read.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 08:20 AM (BRHaw)
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I certainly don't recall ever seeing them on the Sunday Morning Book Thread...

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

76 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:13 AM (5iFFd

Hope you feel better. What kind of antibiotics are you taking?

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2023 08:21 AM (88xKn)

77 As far as the "FrontPage" review of Barbie, Oppenheimer and Sound of Freedom, I don't have the energy to read the entire thing right now. However, you couldn't pay me- unless it was a large amount -to see "Barbie", no matter how "adorable" or "cute" ( whichever word was used) Ryan Gosling is. Meh. Spouse and son will probably see "Oppenheimer" and I already saw "SOF" and Jim Caviziel is neither cute nor adorable, IMO, but a good looking man, all the actors were quite good, and the story compelling .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:21 AM (cKXXC)

78 70 It was sickening to hear that 3 of the judges involved in the sentencing of the J6 defendants were sitting in the courtroom yesterday to watch Trump's indictment.

And masturbating under their robes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 04, 2023 08:22 AM (56OFQ)

79 my guess is the reason that DC is in such a state to claim absolute power is that they know the debt bomb is coming and they will need total control to somehow manage it's consequences

and it's not only the staggering number of 50-55 trillion dollars we will be in debt in 10 years or less but the composition of the debt, which now is being held in bonds that are at much lower rate than what could be had at today's rates

the coupling of the increasing debt with the cost of exchanging old debt for new will be overwhelming, too say the least

and the liberal interventionists in DC are freaked cuz money is the life blood of their adventures

I wish this was up for discussion but unfortunately, the Titanic has left the dock

it will happen

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:22 AM (us2H3)

80 But more horrendous by orders of magnitude is the attitude of people like us, our fellow citizens who wear a uniform and swear an oath to uphold the law, yet go along to get along and "just follow orders."  
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That paycheck doesn't write itself. In a decent system, the cops will probably be decent. In a lousy system, the cops will probably be lousy. We have a lousy system, and lousy cops, and they feed each other to get lousier and lousier by the day. This doesn't justify or excuse the behavior of the beat cop who violates the rights of citizens, but it does help to explain it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

81 Jeez. What a week. I've done nothing but stomp out brush fires at work all week. I hate those kind of weeks.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2023 08:22 AM (5apCz)

82 Jewells I will send some bigly prayers up for you.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 08:22 AM (HJY0X)

83 “It is the process that’s the killer here, and they know it. And they’re playing the process by unloading all these indictments, by taking Trump off the campaign trail, by depleting his resources, by influencing [voters],” Levin said.
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"Process is the punishment" isn't just a throwaway expression without meaning. It's been true for an extraordinarily long time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:23 AM (t0OGg)

84 LOL,

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 18h
JUST IN - Daily active user count on Zuckerberg's "Threads" is down 82% from launch as of July 31 — Sensor Tower

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:23 AM (krqg6)

85 Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. 🍪

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

86 Thank you. If you feel tired all the time check with your doctor. Could be something easily remedied.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:19 AM (5iFFd)

Probably by getting a job, but I don't want to go that route.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 04, 2023 08:24 AM (Angsy)

87 Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. 🍪
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:23 AM (NpAcC)
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Uhhhh, yeah. Yes. Yes indeed. "Chocolate chips." Absolutely.

Posted by: The Raisin Cabal at August 04, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)

88 Posted by: Paul at August 04, 2023 08:21 AM (JBU43)

It clearly means they hate the old doodyhead, correct, Paul.? It didn't occur to your magnificent trolling brain that maybe he asked them not to attend or that lawyers advised that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:24 AM (cKXXC)

89 I don't care about the case but as FYI news...

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 2h
JUST IN - Andrew Tate wins appeal, house arrest order lifted

MORE - Tate must remain in Romania pending trial.
Show this thread

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:24 AM (krqg6)

90 The liberals are getting the outcome they desired. They pushed the defund the police rhetoric (but didn't really do much defunding) as a way to demoralize officers in to retiring.

They then used their DEI hiring process to fill those officer slots with liberals who are going to act more like the gestapo than the imaginary ways the liberals always pretended cops acted.

So in blue cities you're going to end up having a police force that's half inept diversity hires, and half communist foot soldiers out there trampling on every right in the name of destroying the country.

Conservatives need to start rethinking their blind support for police, as they're becoming just as political as everyone else, with glaring example A being the assholes in the Capitol Police who are, and have been probably since Obama, nothing more than leftwing scum using the job as an excuse to abuse people.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:24 AM (HzoNv)

91 Todays FOAD list:

The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2
Kristian G. Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, W. Ian Lipkin, Edward C. Holmes & Robert F. Garry

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 08:25 AM (BRHaw)

92 Hugs and prayers, Jewells
Posted by: Doof at August 04, 2023 08:21 AM (yUjc0)
******
Seconded.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

93 JUST IN - Daily active user count on Zuckerberg's "Threads" is down 82% from launch as of July 31 — Sensor Tower
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:23 AM (krqg6)

a desperate move by the junta to somehow reclaim censorship that Musk has relinquished

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:26 AM (us2H3)

94
a banana in the tailpipe republic

Perfect. My wife howled with laughter.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2023 08:27 AM (enJYY)

95 DENVER (KDVR) — Friday evening, a first-of-its-kind cannabis consumption bus will debut in Denver.

the business model is for people to have a legal place to consume marijuana in public spaces

A $10 fee at Friday night’s art walk will give consumers the opportunity to bring their own marijuana onto the bus to consume

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 08:27 AM (geLO8)

96 What kind of antibiotics are you taking?

It's called Invanz and an IV only antibiotic. Powerful but nasty stuff.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:28 AM (5iFFd)

97 It was sickening to hear that 3 of the judges involved in the sentencing of the J6 defendants were sitting in the courtroom yesterday to watch Trump's indictment.

https://tinyurl.com/25kc6a7x

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

I mean it's not like they previously hid their partisan bullshit. If by some miracle an actual conservative wins in 2024 they need to have their DoJ do a complete investigation and give criminal penalties to these judges if they had any political bias in these cases (as well as stripping them poor to pay restitution to those they harmed)

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:28 AM (HzoNv)

98 Uhhhh, yeah. Yes. Yes indeed. "Chocolate chips." Absolutely.
Posted by: The Raisin Cabal at August 04, 2023 08:24 AM (t0OGg)
******
I prefer my chocolate chip cookies without raisins.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

99 So - last night I attended a Ted Nugent concert in Lancaster PA. As I shared with a few morons offline, it felt like I was at a MoMe on Jan 6th.

At 75, Uncle Ted is still quite the performer!

Posted by: Doof at August 04, 2023 08:28 AM (yUjc0)

100 so, the opium den is back

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 08:28 AM (geLO8)

101 I wish this was up for discussion but unfortunately, the Titanic has left the dock
it will happen
Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:22 AM (us2H3)

Good. The sooner all those layabouts getting a hand out/check from the federales go without the sooner we get rid of the federales.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 04, 2023 08:29 AM (5L/TD)

102 No, actually, he was arrested because he was using an amplifying device. This is almost always considered "disturbing the peace" unless you have a permit. You can talk as loud as you want, normally, but the moment you use a mic and speaker it's considered disrupting.
Posted by: GWB at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (XfCzJ)

OH. Then everything's fine.

I mean, when someone is playing speakers too loudly in the park, OF COURSE, the first resort is for the police to assault the guy, take his speakers, arrest him and THEN tell him he's breaking the law. RIGHT? They'd never just calmly tell the guy he's disturbing the peace and has to shut off his speakers.

It's clearly how they treat any random person and TOTALLY didn't attack this guy because he was reading the Bible.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 04, 2023 08:29 AM (KUmG1)

103 Lol. Pence's new grift is a promise to support the thin blue line and hire more cops.

It is like he read my earlier comment.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:29 AM (slgIg)

104 Conservatives need to start rethinking their blind support for police, as they're becoming just as political as everyone else, with glaring example A being the assholes in the Capitol Police who are, and have been probably since Obama, nothing more than leftwing scum using the job as an excuse to abuse people.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:24 AM (HzoNv)

Maybe defunding the police isn't such a bad idea? No longer delegate public safety to a professional force. I'm ready to admit I made a mistake.

Posted by: Sir Robert Peel at August 04, 2023 08:29 AM (Angsy)

105
All these cases have to go before the Supreme Court or we won't have a nation left. Clarence?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2023 08:30 AM (enJYY)

106 Oppenheimer is the best biopic since Lawrence of Arabia. Nolan tries to out Kubrick Kubrick. Third act drags a bit, but for artistic reasons.

I had hopes for Barbie. It looks great, the actors are great, but it's got a poor script. It's not funny at all, and it could have been. I could forgive crazy feminism, Ken being made an accessory, if it was funny. Instead, it's the movie equivalent of the t-shirt: Boys are stupid. Throw rocks at them.

Ironcially, Sound of Freedom is more entertaining than Barbie. Because it's written as a caper flick.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 08:30 AM (RqMSv)

107 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:13 AM (5iFFd)

Sorry that you had such a hard day, dear. Prayers for renewed strength and complete healing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:30 AM (Keyt1)

108 88 Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. 🍪
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

I've been into white chocolate-macadamia nut cookies lately

made over in Great Barrington

however they only come in the 5 inch diameter size

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:30 AM (us2H3)

109 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2023 08:30 AM (T0jQj)

110 It's also,
International Beer Day! 🍺

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

111 “We’re going to have all of these Deep State people, you know. We are going to start slitting throats on day one,” DeSantis said during the barbecue event. DeSantis also promised that his administration will ensure the woke agenda “ends up in the dustbin of history.”

Flag Position:

Hoisted

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 08:31 AM (BRHaw)

112 " ...yet go along to get along and "just follow orders."

"Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland"

9/10 of these bastards "didn't want to be different" so they became butchers.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 04, 2023 08:31 AM (klw0w)

113
A $10 fee at Friday night’s art walk will give consumers the opportunity to bring their own marijuana onto the bus to consume

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 08:27 AM (geLO

I can't think of many things that sound worse than that. Potheads are already the most annoying humans on earth, now your pairing that with pompous assholes who think because they completed a paint by numbers set they are an art expert.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:32 AM (HzoNv)

114 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
🚨 Two US Navy men arrested on China spying charges — The men are suspecting of selling secret info to China that included manuals for warships and their weapons systems, as well as blueprints for radar system and plans for a huge US military exercise

[Yesterday's...]

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 13h
ALERT 🚨 2 US Navy men arrested on China spying charges — The men are suspecting of selling secret info to China that included manuals for warships and their weapons systems, as well as blueprints for radar system and plans for a huge US military exercise

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:32 AM (krqg6)

115 103 Lol. Pence's new grift is a promise to support the thin blue line and hire more cops.

It is like he read my earlier comment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:29 AM (slgIg)

stuffed shirt def
A person regarded as pompous or stiff.
One who is pompous or self-important, especially one who is officious in a position of authority.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 08:33 AM (BRHaw)

116 I've been into white chocolate-macadamia nut cookies lately

made over in Great Barrington

however they only come in the 5 inch diameter size
Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:30 AM (us2H3)
*******
White chocolate chip-macadamia nut is probably my favorite cookie.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

117 I hate Wisconsin Nazis.

Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2023 08:33 AM (8SAJV)

118 > Conservatives need to start rethinking their blind support for police,....
__________

I have re-thunk my support for a lot more than just the cops. About everyone who provides some sort of service, whatever it may be, is now sus in my book until proven otherwise. For some it's a low bar, for others, not so much.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2023 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

119 Pray for Trump folks, if you haven't been doing that but are usually a prayer-ful person, if only to annoy Paul, who is probably one of those folks who has the aphorism sign outside his house, which includes "Science is real" as if God couldn't possibly be.

One of my responses to that sign several months ago was "In this house we believe "Science real-ly messed up on Covid."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:34 AM (Keyt1)

120 Verse for the Day:

"Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.""

–John 20:29

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2023 08:34 AM (T0jQj)

121 Maybe defunding the police isn't such a bad idea? No longer delegate public safety to a professional force. I'm ready to admit I made a mistake.
Posted by: Sir Robert Peel at August 04, 2023 08:29 AM (Angsy)

My line of thinking as well.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 04, 2023 08:34 AM (56OFQ)

122 I never go to Denver, except on the rare occasion when I have a medical appointment somewhere in the city limits. There are too many weird street people, the traffic is nightmarish, the buildings are way too tall... no.

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 08:35 AM (geLO8)

123 "Strike on, and be damned he who first cries, 'Hold, enough!'”

But what will we watch if Hollywood isnt producing content.

Apart from podcasts.

And Anime.

And K-dramas.

And video games.

And 70 years of quality film and television productions made before Hollywood was taken over by radical feminist social justice warriors with "not so hidden gay agendas."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 08:35 AM (9yUzE)

124 No, actually, he was arrested because he was using an amplifying device. This is almost always considered "disturbing the peace" unless you have a permit. You can talk as loud as you want, normally, but the moment you use a mic and speaker it's considered disrupting.
Posted by: GWB at August 04, 2023 08:06 AM (XfCzJ)

And those cops have arrested or laid hands on exactly 0 people for doing the same exact thing. Especially when it's being done in a public area.

The one cop (the obvious hipster douche with a weak beard) comes up behind the kid and assaults him as if he was a threat to the other officer. He's one of these assholes who has never had power in his life, and so he saw a situation to try and act like he did.

The other cop, that looks shorter and isn't doing much, is visibly embarrassed by the trash he's forced to be partnered with.

Can't wait till this kid is in that park doing donuts in a Ferarri with the money he gets off the city.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:36 AM (HzoNv)

125 Thanks everyone for the prayers. We had to put down one of the old dogs at Shep's morning. Russell said yesterday anyone who wanted to come by and say goodbye could do so. I was too weak and sick to drive out there. I just sat on the couch and bawled. He was a good boy. Longest resident at Shep's. Two years.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:36 AM (5iFFd)

126 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF and very busy

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2023 08:37 AM (T2Clu)

127 Trump needs to start saying:

I tried to get criminal justice reform done to keep corrupt prosectors from going after innocent men. You see millions of black men--even the President of the United States-- are railroaded by crooked prosectors every day

But, I couldn't get it done. The Democrats fought me every step of the way. They want the power to put innocent black men in prison. I mean, look at their leading candidate to replace Sleepy Joe-- Kamala has locked up more innocent black men than Jefferson Davis!
And they're tearing down his statue while trying to make her President!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2023 08:37 AM (TzW+Y)

128 I still maintain these fed fiascos will never go trial before the election

they are designed as narrative generators and to cause havoc in Trump's campaign schedule

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:38 AM (us2H3)

129 "Conservatives need to start rethinking their blind support for police,.."

Those whose eyes weren't already opened by the flagrant civil rights abuses of the 'War on Drugs' were slapped into reality watching cops enforce COVID rules while letting BLM run amuck.

Those who are still blind are not reachable.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 08:38 AM (9yUzE)

130 Nuts?

Posted by: General Anthony McAuliffe at August 04, 2023 08:38 AM (rgc/1)

131 Elise Joshi might or might not be right when she justifies her tactics with the principle that “power concedes nothing without a demand,” but she isn’t on the side she says she is. Look closely enough and Gen-Z for Change is part of the establishment it claims to oppose.

Same as it ever was!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 08:38 AM (BRHaw)

132 Those who are still blind are not reachable.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

There are none so blind as those that will not see.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2023 08:39 AM (T0jQj)

133 Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:36 AM (5iFFd)

Sorry, dear that you missed a goodbye, but I'm sure the good boy knew that you loved him when you were feeeling better and able to be with him. As you well know, animals know and appreciate love.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:39 AM (Keyt1)

134 Good morning again dear morons and thank you JJ for another great essay to start the day.

Old and Busted: Dissent is Patriotic
New Hotness: Dissent is Treason

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

135 120 Verse for the Day:

"Jesus said to him, “Have you come to believe because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed.""

–John 20:29
Posted by: Tonypete at August 04, 2023 08:34 AM (T0jQj)

no doubt

Posted by: Thomas at August 04, 2023 08:40 AM (BRHaw)

136 VIA, Fen, thanks for your prayers downstairs

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

137 White chocolate chip-macadamia nut is probably my favorite cookie.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

today, I will have a couple extra in your honor

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:40 AM (us2H3)

138 Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson 9h
Vile commentary

Answer me this @CTVNews (state-subsidized media)

If @JustinTrudeau and Sophie have been separated in all but name for four years and he kept up the pretence of a true marriage for that whole time

Capitalizing on "family man"

What else is he deceiving us…

Justin Trudeau's Ego @Trudeaus_Ego 17h
During this transition time in my life, I'm asking Canadians to respect my personal privacy.

Yes, I'm the guy who tracked 33-million cellphones during COVID.

Yes, I'm the guy who encouraged Canadians to spy on their neighbours.

But that didn't affect me so it doesn't count.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:41 AM (krqg6)

139 "Maybe if you unequivocally stood up for Trump, you might gain a bit more credibility - jjs"

Oh...bullsh*t!

Trump has been the epitome of nasty and sleazy in his dealings with DeSantis. What you want is for DeSantis to obey Reagan's 11th Commandment, but give Trump a pass.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2023 08:41 AM (PHmov)

140 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 08:35 AM (9yUzE)

And when it comes to movies ther strike may not even stop them.

They are going to start letting independent movies film again. So if a producer has a wink and a nod from a big company, they just have to self finance the film, and then sell it later to the big errr 5? As they normally do anyway with smaller budget films.

If the strike gets everything to no longer be the same superhero crap, well then keep on striking.

The biggest problem will be TV, where pretty much everything is connected to one of the major struck companies.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:42 AM (HzoNv)

141 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

Oh I did see your comment about Paul. I will continue to pray for him.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 08:42 AM (5iFFd)

142 Bless you JJ, your perspective is with the People.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 04, 2023 08:43 AM (klw0w)

143 "Treason is the highest form of Patriotism."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at August 04, 2023 08:43 AM (jgJfd)

144 Our cops in this small town are pretty good, except when the council feels they need a few bucks in the coffers and the speed traps go up.Most getting pulled over deserve it but when it's obviously for revenue that's another thing. I was BSing with one of the cops and said a sign at each end of the city limits on the main highway saying Aggressive Speed Enforcement in Effect would slow them down. He flat said, yeah, but there goes the revenue flow.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 04, 2023 08:43 AM (0EOe9)

145 RE: The Plague of Models

This popped up in my local News channel earlier this week: The Colorado River basin has lost trillions of gallons to climate change, according to study

That headline was followed by a five-sentence "article" re-stating the assumptions of the "study" as fact.

Here is the study: chock full of assumptions, data tweaks, flawed data and broad assertions of causality but oddly enough no real measurements of the outcomes claimed.

https://tinyurl.com/trillions-gallons

Posted by: Muldoon, not quite sure how this meme works at August 04, 2023 08:43 AM (l4B/J)

146 Old and Busted: Dissent is Patriotic
New Hotness: Dissent is Treason
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 08:40 AM (RIvkX)
++++
Old and Busted: Don't trust Big Pharma!
New Hotness: Don't question Big Pharma!

Old and Busted: Government hands off my body!
New Hotness: Shut up and {wear the mask|get the shot|stay home}!

Old and Busted: US out of Iraq! No blood for oil!
New Hotness: US into Ukraine! More blood for ... nothing!

The inversions over the past 6-7 years have been remarkable.

Posted by: The Raisin Cabal at August 04, 2023 08:43 AM (t0OGg)

147 Whoops. Off sock.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:44 AM (t0OGg)

148 I used to work in a print shop right off 8th & Santa Fe in Denver.

Those art walks. OMFG.

POMPOUS DOESN'T EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THIS.

The shop mostly did work for large clients in need of high-volume. Largely law firms and architects. But we did take small one-off jobs from walk-ins. We basically viewed it as a community service, not even worthwhile business. I *dreaded* the end of the summer months, when the """artists""" would come in to have their """art""" printed.

It's hard to find people more possessed by self-entitled, towering arrogance than attorneys and architects. But the """artists"""" managed it, and without any of the real-life achievements of those other losers who actually had real jobs they worked at.

And, unsurprisingly, the only nice ones among them were the ones who I printed things for and thought "would hang."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2023 08:44 AM (0FoWg)

149 Selling a better future usually wins when running for POTUS. In a normal election cycle, it could have been DeSantis's moment. But it's not a normal cycle, and DeSantis should have known better. I'd have told him, if he had asked.

No matter how this plays out, Vivek will emerge better positioned then Ron for the future. He's a quite capable guy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 08:44 AM (RqMSv)

150 Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 08:40 AM (RIvkX)

You are most welcome, brother.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:45 AM (Keyt1)

151 The full name is really “the Peoples Republic of Wisconsin”

Posted by: Advo at August 04, 2023 08:45 AM (VHN21)

152 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2023 08:37 AM (TzW+Y)

He needs to run an ad in every major city showing black men being arrested, and then just ending the ad with Hunter's plea deal, a list of his crimes, and the picture of him smoking crack.

Someone posted a story earlier, on Twitter i think, of how the same prosecutors who are letting Hunter walk free, sent a black police chief in DC to jail for 10 months (think they wanted 18, he got 12, and served 10) for not paying taxes that amounted to 1/15th what Hunter owed, and without the other added crimes.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:45 AM (HzoNv)

153 Toby Young @toadmeister 4h
Could last month's above average temperatures have been caused by a volcanic eruption in January that boosted water content in the atmosphere by a massive 10%? Don't expect to hear about that from 'climate correspondents'.
https://tinyurl.com/yrp55prj

Massive Water and Cloud Boost From Tonga Eruption Could Explain Recent Unusual Weather Patterns –...
Could last month's above average temperatures have been caused by a volcanic eruption in January that boosted water content in the atmosphere by a massive 10%? Don't expect to hear about that from...

dailysceptic.org
Aug 4, 2023 · 8:00 AM UTC

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:46 AM (krqg6)

154 That is to say, Trump has to change his tactics-- there is no way he has even a prayer to win in 2024 until he makes the election about the people.

Not " they rigged the election" but "they stole your vote."

Not "build the wall" but "they don't want you safe."

Not "they are prosecuting me" but "they want you in prison too."

But making his prosecution about a bigger issue of Democrats-- especially Kamala--locking up black men is a kill shot.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (TzW+Y)

155 >>“You see, as we become more and more tolerant of sexual immorality in our culture, we become more and more intolerant toward Christian morality. The more we become intolerant toward Christian morality, the more we’re going to see lawlessness in our streets. The more we become intolerant of Christian morality, the more we’re going to see Nazis. The more we’re going to see people who don’t hold to a Christian worldview who think that everybody is a result of animals, and therefore, if we are animals, why can’t we just act like animals?”

Ah, I can see why he had to be arrested.
How dare he so accurately describe what's happening - can't have him break the woke spell.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (avru5)

156 The prosecution is claiming that Trump knew he lost the election so therefore he was lying, which underpins the entire case. Trump will attempt to bring up evidence of election fraud to show he was telling the truth. The judge will not allow this evidence to be brought up in court.
Checkmate.
Banana Republic status achieved.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (fs1hN)

157 @jordanbpeterson 9h
Vile commentary

Answer me this @CTVNews (state-subsidized media)

If @JustinTrudeau and Sophie have been separated in all but name for four years and he kept up the pretence of a true marriage for that whole time

Capitalizing on "family man"

What else is he deceiving us…
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:41 AM (krqg6)
++++
Meh. He committed fraud. He built the "family man, good husband, etc." persona and used it to capitalize politically. His position represents an ill-gotten gain.

It doesn't matter. Every good thing a politician has *ever* said about himself or projected as part of his image is a lie. The G-d fearing fighter? That's a lie. The family man? That's a lie. The good person? That's a lie.

There is a 100% track record of politicians lying about who they are. They are actually sub-human scum nobody should ever associate with voluntarily. They are, to every last man, awful monsters. Of course they lie about who they are to get elected. Nobody would willingly vote for a demon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (t0OGg)

158 Justin Trudeau's Ego @Trudeaus_Ego 17h
During this transition time in my life, I'm asking Canadians to respect my personal privacy.

Now I can get all up in him and Justin will not feel all guilty about his wifey and kids at home.

Tee hee!

Posted by: Ramon, Canadian Male Prostitute at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (5L/TD)

159 187,000 jobs is "solid" now.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:48 AM (slgIg)

160 today, I will have a couple extra in your honor
Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:40 AM (us2H3
*******
Thank you.
I'm jealous.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

161 >It's hard to find people more possessed by self-entitled, towering arrogance than attorneys and architects. But the """artists"""" managed it

being an artist is a pretty good grift. It doesn't take any talent or training. Anything one slaps on a canvass is automatically art.

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 08:49 AM (geLO8)

162 139 "Maybe if you unequivocally stood up for Trump, you might gain a bit more credibility - jjs"

Oh...bullsh*t!

Trump has been the epitome of nasty and sleazy in his dealings with DeSantis. What you want is for DeSantis to obey Reagan's 11th Commandment, but give Trump a pass.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2023 08:41 AM (PHmov)

Aye, and there's the rub. This is NOT politics as usual. While I agree that Trump has been a pretty loud asshole about a lot of things to his detriment, what is being done to him is an absolute abomination that rises way above this crap.

I do stand by my assertion but, and I do concede that Trump is equally guilty in a sense of going on the offensive against his opponents as if this were ordinary retail business as usual.

Does he not realize this? I guess not. So I do concede that your anger is not unjustified, CBD.

And you're still a lousy anti-Semite.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:49 AM (x0n13)

163 Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
5m
JUST IN - U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in July.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

164 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 04, 2023 08:50 AM (xTRSc)

165 Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 04, 2023 08:43 AM (0EOe9)

It's similar for big cities, and why more and more poor or black people were getting arrested. More cops were stationed in those areas, and the city didn't care, and forced them in to quotas to make money. So what everyone blamed on racism, was more the fault of the greedy government thinking the police should just be tax collectors instead of doing their job.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:50 AM (HzoNv)

166 gript @griptmedia 1h
A man in the UK is facing criminal prosecution after police approached him as he was silently praying in front of an abortion clinic in memory of his unborn son
https://tinyurl.com/5e428xmv

UK: Man criminally charged for praying for 'son lost to abortion' - Gript
Prayer in “the privacy of my own mind”
Aug 4, 2023 · 11:03 AM UTC

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:50 AM (krqg6)

167 Conservatives need to start rethinking their blind support for police, as they're becoming just as political as everyone else, with glaring example A being the assholes in the Capitol Police who are, and have been probably since Obama, nothing more than leftwing scum using the job as an excuse to abuse people.
Posted by: Rbastid

Already done that.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2023 08:50 AM (5apCz)

168 We are in a fact-free society now.

Everything Trump says, the Democrats and the media are going to call lies.

So why not use that to his advantage and start telling the left's myths against them?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2023 08:50 AM (TzW+Y)

169 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (t0OGg)

I will find it a bit of a challenge not to associate with myself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:50 AM (Keyt1)

170 “This unprecedented legal warfare requires an unprecedented response by the only constitutional body left that can do something about it.”

From the Court that said Texas had no standing? Good luck with that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 04, 2023 08:50 AM (56OFQ)

171 Tee hee!

Posted by: Ramon, Canadian Male Prostitute at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (5L/TD

They're takin' our jerbs!!!!

Posted by: David DePape at August 04, 2023 08:51 AM (0FoWg)

172 Reagan's 11th commandment surely didn't apply to fucking primaries.

No wonder we don't beat the Democrats, our whole side goes to pieces when our own people compete, ffs.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 08:51 AM (HJY0X)

173 187,000 -Lowest jobs report since 12/2020

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

174 being an artist is a pretty good grift. It doesn't take any talent or training. Anything one slaps on a canvass is automatically art.
Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 08:49 AM (geLO

++++
"High art" or "in the art scene," yeah.

Commercial and industrial artists - the ones who make stuff for hotels, offices, brands, advertisements, product documentation and packaging, etc. - they have to be good at what they do.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:52 AM (t0OGg)

175 >Selling a better future usually wins when running for POTUS.

every candidate promises such. It's wearing thin.

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 08:52 AM (geLO8)

176 Pointing out Biden hypocrisy doesn't work. Shoot even Kamala brought up racist stuff that Joe said and you know what no one cares.

Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2023 08:52 AM (8SAJV)

177 I'm all for freedom of speech including Christians witnessing at these horrible places but as I read this latest story, most of the accounts I read omit the fact that the man was allegedly speaking through a megaphone and that is what he was charged with.

In order to legally arrest under that ordinance, the police need an objective measuring tool, like a decibel meter. They had none. As one of the other protestors noted, car radios are amplified speech, cell phones are amplified speech. The only way to legally prosecute is to show that the sound level exceeded the legally acceptable sound level at a prescribed distance from the speaker.

That is engineering and legal argument. MY argument to you is *Types Deletes * and the big white horse you rode in on.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 04, 2023 08:53 AM (CecP5)

178 I will find it a bit of a challenge not to associate with myself.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:50 AM (Keyt1)
++++
Right! Given that you're in that world now, how many showers a day are you up to? Is after every meeting, or can you hold out to just a lunchtime/dinnertime regimen?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:53 AM (t0OGg)

179 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 18h
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson minimizes mass looting over the weekend

He scolds a reporter for using the term “mob” and says we should instead call them “large gatherings".

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:53 AM (krqg6)

180 He scolds a reporter for using the term “mob” and says we should instead call them “large gatherings".

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:53 AM (krqg6)

Woman Beaten to Death by Large Gathering sounds so much less offensive.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 08:54 AM (HJY0X)

181 The election was fraudulent! We want a recount.

Ok. We recounted. No change.

Can we see your work?

No.

We want an audit

No. See! You have no evidence of fraud!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:54 AM (slgIg)

182 what meatball says or does matters not a whit nor did it ever matter

he is a small man of little consequence, which is probably why Rove Inc chose him as their Trump hating venue

he is just another Pence maybe even less

5 years from now, he will be politically moot

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:55 AM (us2H3)

183 @EndWokeness 18h
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson minimizes mass looting over the weekend

He scolds a reporter for using the term “mob” and says we should instead call them “large gatherings".
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 04, 2023 08:53 AM (krqg6)
++++
Cambridge: mob, n., a large, angry crowd, especially one that could easily become violent

So a "large gathering" of criminals looting things is literally the textbook definition of a "mob."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:55 AM (t0OGg)

184 I'll say it again: You're gonna need a bigger militia.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2023 08:55 AM (adINt)

185 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:53 AM (t0OGg)

Actually, the Republican politicians I have met and who are running for office are quite nice. I think only one has run for office before. One came from Taiwan and started her own business as well as helping to start a charter school.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:55 AM (Keyt1)

186 187,000 -Lowest jobs report since 12/2020
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:51 AM (NpAcC)

Biden Administration will blame it on the weather. The heat advisories kept people inside.

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2023 08:56 AM (88xKn)

187 A lousy anti-dentite?

https://youtu.be/ne_ucyzLK6E

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at August 04, 2023 08:56 AM (NBVIP)

188 No matter how this plays out, Vivek will emerge better positioned then Ron for the future. He's a quite capable guy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 08:44 AM (RqMSv)

Not that i hope DeSantis doesn't succeed, but I really do hope Vivek gets the chance to do something big. He seems like a nice guy, brilliant, able to fight against leftwing bs, and is great at communicating.

I hope, whoever gets the nom, if Vivek isn't in the presidential slot, that he's the VP (and I hope Trump doesn't really blow it by getting the nom and then picking Kari Lake to basically Palin his campaign)

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:56 AM (HzoNv)

189 In keeping in with Biden admin's penchant of constantly fabricating data, both May and June numbers were revised sharply lower of course:

May revised down by 25,000, from +306,000 to +281,000
June was revised down by 24,000, from +209,000 to +185,000.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:56 AM (slgIg)

190 So a "large gathering" of criminals looting things is literally the textbook definition of a "mob."
Posted by: Joe Mannix

There you go using that word.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 04, 2023 08:56 AM (TZ75n)

191 Actually, the Republican politicians I have met and who are running for office are quite nice. I think only one has run for office before. One came from Taiwan and started her own business as well as helping to start a charter school.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:55 AM (Keyt1)
++++
The demons inside will emerge within 24 months in office, if history is any indication. Enjoy knowing them in the "before" era.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

192 If @JustinTrudeau and Sophie have been separated in all but name for four years and he kept up the pretence of a true marriage for that whole time

Capitalizing on "family man"

What else is he deceiving us…
Posted by: andycanuck

He sucks dick by choice.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2023 08:57 AM (5apCz)

193 JUST IN - U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in July.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

ADP said it was a blockbuster month !!

so there !!

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 08:57 AM (us2H3)

194 "The greatest threat to peace is posed by those who claim to oppose going to war while demanding that the U.S. intervene militarily."
_____

US and Russia could have had signficantly better relations, that would have helped both countries strategically. The US has had worse partners and still does (see: China). But that wasn't allowed to happen. And now here we are. To hell with Lindsey Graham and the rest.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 04, 2023 08:57 AM (fs1hN)

195 112 " ...yet go along to get along and "just follow orders."

"Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland"

9/10 of these bastards "didn't want to be different" so they became butchers.
Posted by: Danimal28 at August 04, 2023 08:31 AM (klw0w)

IIRC, an SS man named Richard Bock who was assigned to Auschwitz actually refused to help in gassing the Jews and requested immediate reassignment.

It was granted and from what I can gather there were no real repercussions against him. Shocked he survived the war and was not arrested and executed to keep the secret about the mass murder, which in reality was no big secret at all.

Every German either knew it or did not want to know it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:57 AM (x0n13)

196 "my guess is the reason that DC is in such a state to claim absolute power is that they know the debt bomb is coming and they will need total control to somehow manage it's consequences"

Same. My hope for restoration of liberty lies not in "electing the right people" but in the collapse of the current regime. The Oppenheimers who created this fiscal atom bomb are not intellectually equipped to manage to consequences of its detonation.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 08:57 AM (9yUzE)

197 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (TzW+Y)

Ive said the same thing. If he makes it all about him, people are going to be put off. He needs to make the same points, but make it about the voter being screwed, not Trump.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 08:58 AM (HzoNv)

198 But somehow unemployment dropped to 3.5%

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:58 AM (slgIg)

199 And even the guy running against me says "I really am a moderate Democrat" and I think he is, but the lefties convinced him to run because he is a successful business who will appeal to a certain demographic (and others0 in our town.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 08:58 AM (Keyt1)

200 Commercial and industrial artists - the ones who make stuff for hotels, offices, brands, advertisements, product documentation and packaging, etc. - they have to be good at what they do.

One of the people I do Judo with has a MFA which is a terminal degree in fine arts. I have seen some of his work and talked to him about my experience with Fine Art. One of the things he said was "Real Art speaks for itself."

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 04, 2023 08:58 AM (CecP5)

201 >>“When I showed up Saturday, all I did was read from Scripture on the sidewalk, from Galatians,” he said. “By the way, I wasn’t reading Romans 1–I wasn’t reading any passage that spoke against homosexuality or anything like that. I was reading a passage from the Bible about love, and I was arrested. No reason, not given any warning, not told anything about my amplification needing to be turned down.”

The Left can roll up to an event and scream obscenities over a speaker, threaten harm ("Kill the TERFs!" "F-- the police!") and the cops will stand there.
This cleancut kid show up and reads from the Bible and his mic is grabbed while two cops grab him from behind.

Our side doesn't have the right to protest, hasn't for years now.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2023 08:59 AM (avru5)

202 Set the earth to fire and reshape it to the heart's desire.

We have to be ready to do the reshaping.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 09:00 AM (slgIg)

203 The whole point of a border is to stop non-citizens from entering.

If you just let anyone cross you don't have a border and...you don't have a country.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:00 AM (lc5cP)

204 Look Jack, I don't know nuffins 'bout no money. I'm as poor as the day I was born in a tarpaper shack in Georgia.

Posted by: Good Catholic Family Weather Man Joe Biden at August 04, 2023 09:00 AM (rgc/1)

205 The inversions over the past 6-7 years have been remarkable.

Posted by: The Raisin Cabal

Also:

Old and Busted: No such thing as a stupid question

New Hotness: Asking questions is conspiracy craziness and treasonous.

Posted by: Ripley at August 04, 2023 09:00 AM (KrJTL)

206 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 08:56 AM (t0OGg)

Even if I do get elected it's a two year term (Filling in for so meone who dropped out) so fortunately I won't have to have an exorcism.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:00 AM (Keyt1)

207 But somehow unemployment dropped to 3.5%
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

They admitted the other day that they aren't counting millions of unemployed. Fucking liars.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 04, 2023 09:00 AM (TZ75n)

208 But somehow unemployment dropped to 3.5%
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:58 AM (slgIg)
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Participation rate.

Except not. Participation rate holding steady at 62.6% across the past few months. The jobs added numbers are pretty close to population growth, so with a steady participation rate, the unemployment rate should be fairly stable.

The gross-level numbers don't seem to add up well. I wonder where the 'ole switcharoo is happening.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (t0OGg)

209 There are no moderate democrats. At the end of the day they are still democrats and will support the party.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (slgIg)

210 99 Saw Uncle Ted in Glenside last week. Great show and great people!

Posted by: Mick at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (sVc11)

211 UK: Man criminally charged for praying for 'son lost to abortion' - Gript
Prayer in “the privacy of my own mind”
____

Oh geez, I didn't even think of that!
- George Orwell, thinking about a rewrite of 1984

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (fs1hN)

212 --"You guessed it: we're all gonna die."
Beware of 'Global Boiling'--

It doesn't look like the Earth is boiling off into space today, at the midpoint of Northern Hemisphere summer, Boss!

https://graphical.weather.gov/

https://tinyurl.com/2eppch78

No, don't put me in the box to get my mind right about existential Global Warming, Boss!

Posted by: Gref at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (AMIL/)

213 So a "large gathering" of criminals looting things is literally the textbook definition of a ~~mob~~ congress.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2023 09:02 AM (5apCz)

214 Even if I do get elected it's a two year term (Filling in for so meone who dropped out) so fortunately I won't have to have an exorcism.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:00 AM (Keyt1)
++++
Just keep constantly on the lookout for the devil. He's in every government office in the country, aggressively recruiting with essentially a 100% success rate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 09:02 AM (t0OGg)

215 Ever notice when the FNM tell you there were "NAZIs" protesting some lefty event that they have government hair cuts and an absence of ugly tats.

And while I don't spend a lot of time around NAZIs the one I've seen don't fit the profile of the FNM NAZIs. At all.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:02 AM (lc5cP)

216
C O B
F I G H T

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 09:02 AM (BRHaw)

217 The intent of my comment about the Christian being arrested was that the news accounts I was reading completely omitted the fact that the guy was using an amplifier. It made it appear that they just arrested him for reading the Bible aloud.

My point was that the articles were distorting the story, much like how the left distorts things.

I was not agreeing the either the Christian or the police officers actions.

But go ahead and take my comments out of context if it makes you feel better.

Posted by: pawn at August 04, 2023 09:02 AM (wsHtO)

218 The gross-level numbers don't seem to add up well. I wonder where the 'ole switcharoo is happening.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (t0OGg)

well, certainly not at the BLS cuz they're all ham and eggers

straight shootin bunch

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 09:02 AM (us2H3)

219 But making his prosecution about a bigger issue of Democrats-- especially Kamala--locking up black men is a kill shot.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2023 08:47 AM (TzW+Y)

What you're arguing for is actually to make the issue smaller, personal. That is, to Alinsky the Left -- personalize and polarize. I agree. But Republicans have been missing the boat on this forever. It seems beyond their genetic capacity for political warfare.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 04, 2023 09:02 AM (56OFQ)

220 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:54 AM (slgIg)

The Dems are doing ther same thing with Biden's crimes (that they did with the Clintons too)

They commit the crime, destroy the evidence, and then mock thr system by going "well where's your evidence"

You destroyed it with the help of the DoJ you criminal sacks of crap.

I mean they literally told Hunter that the FBI was going to come interview him, and he should start destroying everything he could.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:03 AM (HzoNv)

221 what meatball says or does matters not a whit nor did it ever matter

he is a small man of little consequence, which is probably why Rove Inc chose him as their Trump hating venue
---
He could have been a force, a huge force in pushing the election to the right.
Instead, he whines that Trump is mean to him and tosses out empty slogans and platitudes.
"Where woke goes to die," "I get things done," "I'll start slitting throats in day one."

No one cares Ron. Because Republicans have been lying for so long and your campaign is staffed top to bottom with sellers of those lies.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2023 09:03 AM (TzW+Y)

222 The problem with politicians is that they stop listening to their constituents and sell out to special interests. I still think there are good men and women in government. I think Rand Paul is a pretty decent, courageous guy. I am running for a political job which pays $20,00 a week and I have a feeling there is not much opportunity for bribes. Maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:03 AM (Keyt1)

223 Trump is running for an office he knows doesn't matter, in a personal vendetta. DeSantis is running for a nomination he knows he can't win, in a textbook political grift.

There will be a lot sturm und drang about this until the primaries are over and Trump is the nominee, and gets ground to bits by the Party machine in the general.

But, that's all there is to this season of the soap opera.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2023 09:03 AM (0FoWg)

224 {jewells} sorry the Rx was rough

A prayer for complete and immediate healing

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

225 RNC Research
@RNCResearch
5m

Fox Business's
@cvpayne
notes that "hours worked, abysmal, down dramatically" as Americans' weekly income is outpaced by inflation.

https://tinyurl.com/yve7hdm2

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

226
I would guess for most government office holders corruption starts small. You "compromise" on something - the mayor's brother's company is making a decent bid for the work...even though it isn't the best bid...and the mayor told you if you make "the right choice" he'll fund that street repair you've been trying to get done for your voters...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:05 AM (lc5cP)

227 But somehow unemployment dropped to 3.5%

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:58 AM (slgIg)

100,000 people probably moved from unemployment insurance to welfare.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:05 AM (HzoNv)

228 When I ran for State House in TX in 1980, it didn't take me 30 seconds to see that the Democrat incumbent was a psychopath.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 04, 2023 09:06 AM (CecP5)

229 Taliban Destroys What’s Left of Afghanistan’s Universities

Now do DEI Departments.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 09:06 AM (BRHaw)

230 So we're still buying the lie that Sarah Palin, who energized McCain dead in the water campaign, somehow ruined it? Well it's what the Left says, and why would they lie?

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:06 AM (HJY0X)

231 >>Ive said the same thing. If he makes it all about him, people are going to be put off. He needs to make the same points, but make it about the voter being screwed, not Trump.

He's been doing that since 2016. He did it again yesterday. And by a number of current polls he is already tied or even beating Joe in the popular vote which means he is winning in the EC. Even Democrat pollster Larry Sabato has stated this.

The only way Trump loses in 24 is if he can't overcome the cheat. Anyone with two eyes and a lick of commonsense can see what the left is doing and nobody sees it more than the black community.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

232 > Taliban Destroys What’s Left of Afghanistan’s Universities
__________

I'd wholesale replace the Dept. of Ed. here with them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2023 09:08 AM (Q4IgG)

233 You don't believe Biden runs his own Twitter account do you? It reads like it's done by a Marxist black woman to me.

Posted by: Gwenn at August 04, 2023 09:08 AM (9Gr7n)

234 All gov published statistics are either outright lies or grossly inaccurate. The worst ones are inflation rate and unemployment.

Posted by: vic at August 04, 2023 09:08 AM (A5THL)

235 Whatever happened to Sarah Palin?

Posted by: I guess I could look it up at August 04, 2023 09:08 AM (NBVIP)

236 He sucks dick by choice.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2023 08:57 AM (5apCz)
===
I think "sips penis" would be a little more polite.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 09:08 AM (RIvkX)

237 "Trump is running for an office he knows doesn't matter, in a personal vendetta."

It's bigger than that, and he can win.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 09:08 AM (RqMSv)

238 Ministry of Labor and Social Inclusion

WTF Orwell bullshit in Norway

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 09:08 AM (BRHaw)

239 Taliban Destroys What’s Left of Afghanistan’s Universities

Now do DEI Departments.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 09:06 AM (BRHaw)
++++
They don't need universities, because they're outsourcing high-level work to imperial powers.

Like that oil field in northern Afghanistan that they're starting to develop. Well, I say, "they" but of course, it isn't Afghanistan doing it. The Taliban inked a deal with the regional power to the east to do it. China will be developing an oil field (if there's oil worth having there) and the Taliban will skim off the vig and provide security.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 09:09 AM (t0OGg)

240 Lol. The man who blew up the USS Forrestal would have been blown the fuck out if not for Palin. Obama would have just steamrolled him. Much worse than he did.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2023 09:09 AM (0FoWg)

241 One way to look at the war in 'Stan is that the Taliban won the war for the "hearts and minds" of 'Stanis.

Turns out your average 'Stani wasn't down with Big Gay and wasn't willing to fight for feminism (even if it was a much more reasonable version then we've had in the west for a long long time)

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:09 AM (lc5cP)

242 >>One of my responses to that sign several months ago was "In this house we believe "Science real-ly messed up on Covid."

LOL, Fen!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2023 09:09 AM (avru5)

243 Posted by: pawn at August 04, 2023 09:02 AM (wsHtO)

Your point is a good one.

There was a woman arrested in England for "praying" at an abortion clinic and that's all we on the Right heard about it.

The truth is she was an activist and she was being disruptive and essentially trying to cause a problem.

I'm on both these people's sides and down with their cause, but at least it makes sense to know the whole story.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:10 AM (HJY0X)

244 Every German either knew it or did not want to know it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 08:57 AM (x0n13)

I had many close relatives in Germany

some I talked to about the war when I went to visit

they were just farmers and such, good, hard working people

and they were scared shitless during that period

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 09:10 AM (us2H3)

245 Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:05 AM (lc5cP)

Possibly, but somebody has to do this. Right now there are only Democrats on the committee and the Mayor is very left wing and calls the police to escort out people who challenge her authority, so she will have no love for me-a Republican.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:10 AM (Keyt1)

246 There are fewer Americans working then any time in history.

But don't worry...unemployment is down.

And don't notice the millions of illegals we are bringing in "to work"...even though unemployment is "down"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:10 AM (lc5cP)

247 Turns out your average 'Stani wasn't down with Big Gay and wasn't willing to fight for feminism (even if it was a much more reasonable version then we've had in the west for a long long time)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:09 AM (lc5cP)

Not even feminism. It is all gay all the time- to say nothing of the trannies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 04, 2023 09:10 AM (zZu0s)

248 195 JJ, it’s my understanding that the SS usually granted requests for troops to be reassigned who couldn’t stand the Death Squads. I’ve tead that even Himmler almost lost his lunch when observing Death Squad activities.

If you’re gonna commit mass murder, you need to employ cold-blooded executioners who aren’t squeamish about it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 04, 2023 09:10 AM (xTRSc)

249 Anyone with two eyes and a lick of commonsense can see what the left is doing and nobody sees it more than the black community.
____

Don't worry, we have the black vote all taken care of. They don't even have to come to the polling stations or, heck, even fill out the mail-in vote. We've been working overtime (tee hee!) getting ready for the 2024 election.
- Municipal Workers Unions / Teachers' Unions

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 04, 2023 09:11 AM (fs1hN)

250 "nobody sees it more than the black community."

Jack,

That's because the black community has been on the losing side of a de facto two tiered system of justice for a very long time.

Long before St. George and all the monetization of race.

They know oppression when they see it. It probably amusing to them that whitey's getting kicked to the curb now.

Posted by: pawn at August 04, 2023 09:12 AM (wsHtO)

251 Everyone familiar with Ross Ulbricht?

https://tinyurl.com/49fvxczm

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 04, 2023 09:12 AM (adINt)

252 ... Turns out your average 'Stani wasn't down with Big Gay and wasn't willing to fight for feminism (even if it was a much more reasonable version then we've had in the west for a long long time)
Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:09 AM (lc5cP)
++++
It wasn't more reasonable. What we were doing in Afghanistan was an experiment of imposing hardcore progressivism on a foreign population. It wasn't about undoing the worst excesses of the Taliban (which might, but only might, have worked) but rather imposing the worst excesses of American academics.

The US experiment in Afghanistan was, for at least the last decade of the occupation, an exercise in outright cultural colonization. Yet the progs - anti-colonialists to every last man - saw nothing wrong with it when *they* were the ones doing it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

253 "SS usually granted requests for troops to be reassigned who couldn’t stand the Death Squads."

Which is why Heydrich came up with death camps. The man Hitler said had a black heart.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 09:13 AM (RqMSv)

254 Andrew Tate of all people had an amusing take on 'Stan.

Feminists in the west were furious that the 'Stani military ran and let the Taliban take over. The feminists complained about the cowardice of the 'Stani men. His take? If women are as good at fighting and military responsibilities as men why didn't the women of 'Stan fight the Taliban even if the men in their country are simple cowards?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:13 AM (lc5cP)

255 Joe Biden is not only corrupt, perverted and senile. He is entirely devoted to evil.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 04, 2023 09:13 AM (GwFQt)

256 I'm also tired of people who don't know what Trump's campaign is about.

His Agenda47 is seriously amazing shit. Not because it can be done, but because the message it gives is hopeful and freedom loving, and shows both Democrat and GOP alike for the funereal dirge they are and always will be.

There is NO ONE like Trump and the shirt changers who supported him when the going was good but threw eggs at the bandwagon when it was tough get no respect from me. Either hate him openly all along or open your mouth and look a fool.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:13 AM (HJY0X)

257 During his six years in the White House, he reduced the national debt by about a third, cut federal spending, and balanced the budget each year of his administration, a record unmatched by any president since. Like no other president, Coolidge understood that following the Constitution and serving the national interest is, above all, the constant struggle to defend against rent-seeking and self-serving political forces who seek to commandeer government agencies and expand federal power.

I know nothing about Cal. I guess I need to read a book.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 09:13 AM (BRHaw)

258 But somehow unemployment dropped to 3.5%
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 08:58 AM (slgIg)
++++
Participation rate.

Except not. Participation rate holding steady at 62.6% across the past few months. The jobs added numbers are pretty close to population growth, so with a steady participation rate, the unemployment rate should be fairly stable.

The gross-level numbers don't seem to add up well. I wonder where the 'ole switcharoo is happening.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (t0OGg)
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Trying to discern the reality behind official government statistics is so Soviet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 09:14 AM (RIvkX)

259 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott

Blackstone CEO: "The numbers justify" Fitch's downgrade. "We’ve had an explosion of debt since the global financial crisis & we don’t appear to have a lot of discipline going forward. We’re running huge deficits ... On the numbers, you can understand why they did it"

https://tinyurl.com/2y4pfeez

Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

260 The current American workforce is dysfunctional. Employers are having to "retrain" the workers how to behave in an office setting. Attitude is one thing. Belligerence is something else.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2023 09:14 AM (Q4IgG)

261 It's bigger than that, and he can win.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 09:08 AM (RqMSv)

Unlikely, but possible. But it doesn't change the equation, even if he does. He knows exactly how much power that office holds. He's been in it before. This is about him getting revenge. And I totally get that. I wish him the best.

But it would behove everyone to remember that. If you're supporting Trump, and he pulls off a second, even bigger political miracle, just don't get your hopes up about anything coming of it. Four more years just like '16-'20 is your best possible outcome in this thing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2023 09:15 AM (0FoWg)

262 @tomselliott
Blackstone CEO: "The numbers justify" Fitch's downgrade. "We’ve had an explosion of debt since the global financial crisis & we don’t appear to have a lot of discipline going forward. We’re running huge deficits ... On the numbers, you can understand why they did it"
Posted by: redridinghood at August 04, 2023 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
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He's not wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 09:15 AM (t0OGg)

263 we should instead call them “large gatherings".

By classical definition, the difference between a mob and a large gathering is, usually, artillery.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 04, 2023 09:15 AM (4PZHB)

264 >>That's because the black community has been on the losing side of a de facto two tiered system of justice for a very long time.

>>Long before St. George and all the monetization of race.

>>They know oppression when they see it. It probably amusing to them that whitey's getting kicked to the curb now.

Exactly. And let's not forget that before Joe morphed into his current progressive champion skin suit he was the author of the crime bill that disproportionately through black crack users in prison for a long stretch while not punishing cocaine using Hunters.

His Senate floor speech going off on crackheads would be a great campaign ad for Trump. Make Joe own his decades of racism.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

265
Sarah Palin was the only reason I would have voted for McCain. Then he made that statement a couple days before the election bragging about being on his aircraft loaded to bomb Cuba and start WW3 and I decided to stay home. Not sure how many people saw his comment and thought likewise.

So we got Obama and his reign of error. It's just tough to always have to hold your nose to vote for some of these jackasses. Trump was fresh air.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 04, 2023 09:16 AM (enJYY)

266 Thank you San Fran.

In other news does .. why does Daily Mail mess up my computer? Every time.. it either freezes, I get a black screen, doesn't load at all. etc...

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 09:17 AM (5iFFd)

267 Bud sales down $400 MILLION

Every single dollar NOT SPENT is a kick the nut sack to the WOKE.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 09:17 AM (BRHaw)

268 The only way Trump loses in 24 is if he can't overcome the cheat. Anyone with two eyes and a lick of commonsense can see what the left is doing and nobody sees it more than the black community.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

That's the huge problem though.

Biden is going to manage 82 million votes again, because that's the high water mark that the last cheat set up for him.

So Trump will need to pull Reagan like support and get 85 million real votes, and in states outside of the Republican comfort zone, to do so. Also without mass mail in voting he'll need to get something like 15 million more voters to get out and go to the polls than they did for him in 2016 (along with a 10 million person swing from Biden's real votes in 2020)

He's gotta win MI, AZ, WI, PA and GA by 500,000 votes, because we know Dems have no problem dropping that many fake views in a city with a population not much higher than that.

Id say hopefully Dems get cocky and go beyond what's plausible in their cheat, but if they dumped 350 million votes for Biden, the same assholes would still say it was fair, and Dems would still try to lock people up for it.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:17 AM (HzoNv)

269 209 There are no moderate democrats. At the end of the day they are still democrats and will support the party.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (slgIg)

Tribalism. It is the most powerful weapon in the Democrat arsenal. They appeal to tribalism based on race, ethnicity, sex/gender/whatever, LGBTQ, union membership, family has always voted Democrat, abortion, anti-gun, and any other tribe they can create, target, capture, and keep forever.

Posted by: Gref at August 04, 2023 09:18 AM (AMIL/)

270 "Four more years just like '16-'20 is your best possible outcome in this thing."

I'll take it.

The eight years of the JEF had me on the ropes and ready to cash out.

Posted by: pawn at August 04, 2023 09:18 AM (wsHtO)

271 *why does Daily Mail mess up my computer?*

It's the metric ones and zeros.

Posted by: Ask Pixy at August 04, 2023 09:18 AM (NBVIP)

272 Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 04, 2023 09:06 AM (CecP5)

Aside from the Mayor whom I've seen in action, I don't really know anyone on the Committe except the guy I'm running against, who seems very nice, but since he has one business and is starting another I don't know how he'll have time to do this. The former School Board head who is very leftist says that we (the township)" will lose our intellect, our humanity and our compassion" if we vote for people of a more conservative bent on the School Board. I'm sure she feels the same way about the township committee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:19 AM (Keyt1)

273 Re: The kid using a mic, conservative protesters without a mic are arrested much more often that Lefties.
Perfect example is the Canadian dad who quietly protests trans madness:

https://www.billboardchris.com/

You see him assaulted and then *he's* arrested for instigating it, etc.. So maybe next time this Schroeder kid doesn't have a mic - wanna bet he's arrested again?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2023 09:19 AM (avru5)

274 The future is unwritten -- Joe Strummer.

Lots can happen, especially if the American people wake up.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 09:20 AM (RqMSv)

275 His Senate floor speech going off on crackheads would be a great campaign ad for Trump. Make Joe own his decades of racism.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:16 AM (ZLI7S)

It was an ad in 2020. Kamala took Joe on about it.

Jim Clyburn gave him the endorsement anyway and blacks voted for him anyway.

Hypocrisy doesn't work because they have no principles and no shame.

Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2023 09:20 AM (8SAJV)

276 Biden will get 100M ballots.

More coffee..

Posted by: dantesed at August 04, 2023 09:20 AM (88xKn)

277 I know a purge and a show trial when I see one.

Posted by: Dianna at August 04, 2023 09:21 AM (YFlEv)

278 Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:10 AM (HJY0X)

Considering lefties get up and scream in people faces or use megaphones in people's face, and never get arrested, I honestly don't care if this woman was screaming bible verses in the faces of people at the clinic.

I'll start agreeing the rule of law should be followed when it's followed equally, until then f anyone who does the bidding for these commies.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:21 AM (HzoNv)

279 And you are automatically racist and sexist if you object to the policies promulgated by the School Board Chair who is a Black woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:21 AM (Keyt1)

280 255 Joe Biden is not only corrupt, perverted and senile. He is entirely devoted to evil.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 04, 2023 09:13 AM (GwFQt)

and he also will not be the nominee

he will step down next spring and be pardoned by Kameltoe after the election

the hole is dug

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 09:21 AM (us2H3)

281 > There are no moderate democrats. At the end of the day they are still democrats and will support the party.
___________

The same could be said for Republicans... that they still support the Democrat party.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 04, 2023 09:22 AM (Q4IgG)

282 Many (too many) city cops and other LE type swear allegiance to the Holy Pension G*d above and beyond all other allegiances.

IOW the cops have done and will do what they are told by the Soros funded DA's , State AG's and other assorted Marxist placeholders.

It's The Rule of Pensions Era. And everyone knows pensions have voted in favor of Marxist domination of the USA citizenry.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 04, 2023 09:22 AM (uxAXv)

283 And, in the highly unlikely event he wins - I don't think the Party and State settle for four years of slow-rolling coup again. I think they'll just put a bullet in the man this time around, if they don't just jail him before the election.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2023 09:22 AM (0FoWg)

284 >Biden will get 100M ballots.

he will get as many ballots as is necessary

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 09:22 AM (geLO8)

285 Yep the added battery weight of EVs wears out tires after
The Tesla model S battery weighs an impressive 1200 lbs but the model X fuel tank weighs in at a whopping 1700 lbs.
For something really impressive, the Tesla Semi 850KWh battery weighs in at 4570kg or about 10,000 lbs quite a weighty addition considering a traditional Diesel Semi weighs 17,000 lbs total.
A 10,000lb EV Semi fuel tank considerably reduces the amount of cargo that can be carried over a 95lb – 55gal diesel tank.

Now someone is sure to point out that the weight is for an empty tank (the battery pack is the fuel tank the electrons stored in it is the fuel) filling the tank with 55 gallons of diesel adds 412 lbs so a full 55gal diesel tank weighs about 500lbs compared to the 850KWh EV fuel tank at 10,000lbs (1/4 ton vs 5 tons)
That’s about 4-3/4 tons less cargo capacity to maintain road weight and dead heading will still be like carrying 5 tons of cargo when empty

Posted by: SMOD at August 04, 2023 09:23 AM (RHGPo)

286 I see it now. JJ said he'd be taking it easy on the editorials this week. Yet, they seem no shorter this week. What he didn't write himself he made up for in big, long block-quotes. Clever boy! Learned that from Ace. [heh]

Looks like our early-August heat blast is waning. Highs today and tomorrow around 103°, but only 90s after that in the forecast. I see one night's predicted low of 67! Better bundle up and look for the snow shovel. ⛄

Posted by: mindful webworker - I am not ready for winter. at August 04, 2023 09:23 AM (Ds3Rc)

287 In other news does .. why does Daily Mail mess up my computer? Every time.. it either freezes, I get a black screen, doesn't load at all. etc...
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 04, 2023 09:17 AM (5iFFd)
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The Daily Mail is one of the worst websites I have ever visited. It's up there with the Daily Caller for terrible website performance.

It is riddled with ads, trackers, cookies, etc. It's poorly designed and has to wait on third parties for responses. It uses a huge number of connections. The content it delivers is low-efficiency and takes a lot of rendering time. If I ever try to go there on my phone, I can feel it heating up in real time while the battery drains because of all the demands on it.

It is a terribly, poorly-designed website with worse engineering behind it. The "Brave" browser helps some, since it cinches off quite a bit of the bullshit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 04, 2023 09:23 AM (t0OGg)

288 “You see, as we become more and more tolerant of sexual immorality in our culture, we become more and more intolerant toward Christian morality. The more we become intolerant toward Christian morality, the more we’re going to see lawlessness in our streets. The more we become intolerant of Christian morality, the more we’re going to see Nazis. The more we’re going to see people who don’t hold to a Christian worldview who think that everybody is a result of animals, and therefore, if we are animals, why can’t we just act like animals?”

Worth reading again.
I've said in this forum, The lie of "separation of Church and State" (that's not what the FA is about) quickly morphed into "the separation of God from Society." This was purposefully done. We are seeing the affects of sowing the wind.

We are in the whirlwind.

Posted by: Question authority bumper sticker at August 04, 2023 09:24 AM (Rbu5d)

289 There are no moderate democrats. At the end of the day they are still democrats and will support the party.
___________

Sure there are. I just became a registered Republican after being a registered Democrat-although not voting for them for quite a long time.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:24 AM (Keyt1)

290 >>Biden is going to manage 82 million votes again, because that's the high water mark that the last cheat set up for him.

To be honest I'm not convinced Joe is even going to be on the ballot. The stuff that is coming out about his corruption is getting too big to ignore.

I know we specialize in skepticism around here but at some point if this keeps going as it is with bank records and business partners flipping on the Bidens the House is going to have no choice but to impeach. Bribery is literally one of the only crimes specifically listed for impeachment and the evidence is bordering on overwhelming already.

No, I don't think the Senate will convict but at some point the hands behind the scene will conclude trying to defend this decrepit, corrupt bag of shit just isn't worth it and Joe will step aside to spend more time sniffing little girls hair and counting his money.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

291 QUICK! RUN THE PROSPERITY MONTAGE!

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 04, 2023 09:26 AM (flINI)

292 The future is unwritten -- Joe Strummer.

Lots can happen, especially if the American people wake up.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 09:20 AM (RqMSv)

True dat. But if they wake up, the next actual president will not be 47 or 48 or whatever. It'll be 1, because this nation will have been reconstituted in a new form.

That's what it's gonna take. Authoritarian superstate out front shoulda told ya.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2023 09:26 AM (0FoWg)

293 But my absolute favorite comment by some leftist writing to the local paper-was that you were a misogynist if you will vote again for the more conservative school board members who won last time. They are both women. How does that work exactly? I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:26 AM (Keyt1)

294 "and he also will not be the nominee. he will step down next spring"

If Joe collects delegates in the primaries, the Junta can probably install who they want. Newsom?

If he's forced out earlier, and we have POTUS Kamala, the primaries can get sporty.

My Joker in the deck is RKJ Jr.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 09:26 AM (RqMSv)

295 The elected mayors of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago share the same politics as Julius "Kill the Boer" Malema.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (9yUzE)

296 There are no moderate democrats. At the end of the day they are still democrats and will support the party.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 04, 2023 09:01 AM (slgIg)

It's funny seeing all the moron lefties on my city's reddit. They hate the mayor and everything he's done, they think he's a criminal and a fraud.

They all also say how they'll vote for him for governor over any Republican, despite not having any clue what Republicans will run.

They are so blindly loyal to the party even when they admit the party is so wrong.

It's exactly why in CA they threw out the no party ballots, because moron liberals only vote based on the party, even if the party kills them.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (HzoNv)

297 >>To be honest I'm not convinced Joe is even going to be on the ballot. The stuff that is coming out about his corruption is getting too big to ignore.

Is Gavin Newsome auditioning for the nomination with the debate against DeSantis?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (avru5)

298 Being back among the horde is a comfort, after a call with my lefty sister. Oh lord, give me patience.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (pXHrN)

299 286 I see it now. JJ said he'd be taking it easy on the editorials this week. Yet, they seem no shorter this week. What he didn't write himself he made up for in big, long block-quotes. Clever boy! Learned that from Ace. [heh]

Looks like our early-August heat blast is waning. Highs today and tomorrow around 103°, but only 90s after that in the forecast. I see one night's predicted low of 67! Better bundle up and look for the snow shovel. ⛄
Posted by: mindful webworker - I am not ready for winter. at August 04, 2023 09:23 AM (Ds3Rc)

I actually had more time than I thought despite houseguests.

Ace? Short? LOL!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (x0n13)

300 >>It was an ad in 2020. Kamala took Joe on about it.

>>Jim Clyburn gave him the endorsement anyway and blacks voted for him anyway.

>>Hypocrisy doesn't work because they have no principles and no shame.

And Trump won in 2020, likely in a blowout. And it's worse for Joe now that he has a record of failure.

As I said the only question is can Trump beat the cheat.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (ZLI7S)

301 Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

He may step aside (doubt it, they will want to give him a hero's sendoff - Democrats can't have a Nixoon of their own - the Narrative matters too much) but IMO it will *only* be for Kamala and she will be the nominee along with her VP Buttigieg.

I've still seen nothing to convince me otherwise. She was chosen knowing what she was and everything Joe was.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:28 AM (HJY0X)

302 Ran across some articles in the FNM calling our current Biden hyperflation...."greedflation"

See the reason prices are going up isn't that Biden printed a sh*t ton of money to give to his friends and clients. Its because suddenly business leaders in America are greedy. Unlike any time in history before. What a coincidence they got greedy only after Biden was installed and printed all that money!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:28 AM (lc5cP)

303 I guess cuz I'm old, I realize what a year means to an old man

Biden is a mess now and will be much worse in a year

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 09:28 AM (us2H3)

304 Worst thing about Biden is that the facade you see in the news is not how he acts behind closed doors. He's an evil, vile fuck.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2023 09:28 AM (mE7cY)

305 Tyranny 101: Stop Saying That 'It Can't Happen Here' — It IS Happening Here

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Back when Leave It To Beaver was a hit TV show, I took beginning German in junior high. One day someone made a joke about the Nazis and our chick teacher flipped shit (as is the current expression, I believe). She launched into a lecture about how we shouldn't think that it can't happen here. I thought she was crazy. I have since re-evaluated my position.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 04, 2023 09:29 AM (FVME7)

306 >.The Daily Mail is one of the worst websites I have ever visited. It's up there with the Daily Caller for terrible website performance.

You need an adblocker that is absolutely ruthless. My beef with the DM is its over-reliance on celebrity news. Still, there are a few nuggets once in a while.

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 09:29 AM (geLO8)

307 Is Gavin Newsome auditioning for the nomination with the debate against DeSantis?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (avru5)

Huh? Really? Why would DePlantis give him that platform? Makes no sense. Unless he's a plant in which case it makes perfect sense. The GOP is always willing to be the patsy for the right POS.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:29 AM (HJY0X)

308 We will be taking bets on who croaks on live TV first.

Feinstein, The Turtle or Biden.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2023 09:30 AM (mE7cY)

309 293 But my absolute favorite comment by some leftist writing to the local paper-was that you were a misogynist if you will vote again for the more conservative school board members who won last time. They are both women. How does that work exactly? I laughed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:26 AM (Keyt1)

"You ain't a woman, or a female, or a birthing person if you don't vote for me!"

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 04, 2023 09:30 AM (AMIL/)

310 There are no moderate democrats. At the end of the day they are still democrats and will support the party.

The last time I remember a Democrat office holder bucking the party when it actually mattered was...Zell Miller almost 20 years ago.

Of course look at the Sen Menendez example. He disagreed with Obama's Iran deal and suddenly the FNM was full of stories about him having sex with underage hookers in the DR. As soon as be backed down all those stories went away.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:30 AM (lc5cP)

311 Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

I mean i would think the Dems would do everything they could to get Biden off the ballot. They'll just wait until after ther debates so that Newsome doesn't need to show he's an empty suit.

Then when he gets 85 million fake votes they'll chalk it up to enthusiasm, and his youth, and ther amazing things he's done for CA!

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:30 AM (HzoNv)

312 So I got to 'drive' a self driving Tesla yesterday. The owner told me he can get between 15-20k miles on a set of tires. He is on his third set of tires at 38k miles.

The self driving is impressive, until you get to a construction zone or an area that doesn't have shoulder stripes or curbs, then watch out.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 04, 2023 09:30 AM (91Pn5)

313 "Your blue-haired liberal sister-in-law needs to understand that, despite her Hillary t-shirt and BLM lawn sign, she isn’t immune to the atrocities that await us."

One quibble. The blue-hair is a communist, not a liberal.

Posted by: Question authority bumper sticker at August 04, 2023 09:30 AM (Rbu5d)

314 >>Is Gavin Newsome auditioning for the nomination with the debate against DeSantis?

He seems to be doing a lot of shadow campaign things just in case.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 04, 2023 09:30 AM (ZLI7S)

315 304 Worst thing about Biden is that the facade you see in the news is not how he acts behind closed doors. He's an evil, vile fuck.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 04, 2023 09:28 AM (mE7cY)

The Independence Hall Nazi Rally speech last September was kind of revealing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 09:31 AM (x0n13)

316 The day I saw the first Obama mob mindlessly chanting platitudes was the day I accepted it Can and likely Will happen here.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:31 AM (HJY0X)

317 Biden is a mess now and will be much worse in a year
Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 09:28 AM (us2H3)

His fuckin' eye exploded during the 2020 debates. He havered from his basement throughout the general. If the man still breathes he'll be the nominee - as long as that's what the Party actually wants. They've already made their decision. We're just waiting to find out what it is. Unless the Reaper intercedes, of course.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 04, 2023 09:31 AM (0FoWg)

318
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Posted by: rhennigantx at August 04, 2023 09:31 AM (BRHaw)

319 Sorry for taking up too much time here with news about my little race. If you feel so inclined please pray for my running mate and me. One of the leftist writers to the local paper says a conservative guy I know who goes to school board and twp committee meetings will ramp up the rhetoric until the election. Gee, Calling everyone who votes for more conservative candidates "misogynist, racist and lacking in compassion and intellect" is NOT ramping up the rhetoric?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 04, 2023 09:32 AM (Keyt1)

320 The Independence Hall Nazi Rally speech last September was kind of revealing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 09:31 AM (x0n13)

It was mostly meant to go viral and show him as a Strongman. Negating his very obvious weaknesses. And we on the Right obliged and made sure it worked.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:32 AM (HJY0X)

321 The elected mayors of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago share the same politics as Julius "Kill the Boer" Malema.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (9yUzE)
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Frontpage has an entire series on "Racist Mayors"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 04, 2023 09:32 AM (RIvkX)

322 also

a 'moderate' Democrat will nonetheless endorse the most virulent leftwing positions of their Party

in lockstep

Posted by: DB - rage against the thing at August 04, 2023 09:32 AM (geLO8)

323 The elected mayors of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago share the same politics as Julius "Kill the Boer" Malema.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (9yUzE)
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If their Overton Window on political violence moves sufficiently, yes. Right now the left is still marginally constrained by the tattered vestiges of our traditions of not executing political opponents. But that is changing, and Antifa, the Junta, Jack Smith and Merrick Garland are changing it.

Before long, the bootlicker propaganda press will publish pieces on "why righties should be beaten and killed by their communities".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2023 09:32 AM (pXHrN)

324 >>Huh? Really? Why would DePlantis give him that platform? Makes no sense.

Would be on Fox News, no less:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has agreed to debate California Gov. Gavin Newsom as the two states continue to take divergent paths.

DeSantis, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, appeared on Fox News’ “Hannity” Wednesday. Host Sean Hannity opened the segment with DeSantis by recalling that during a previous interview with Newsom, he floated the idea of the Democrat California governor engaging in a one-on-one debate with DeSantis as both continue to tout their respective states as models for the nation to emulate. Newsom described himself as “all in” to participate in such a debate, which Hannity would moderate.

We'll see. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2023 09:32 AM (avru5)

325 The elected mayors of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago share the same politics as Julius "Kill the Boer" Malema.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 09:27 AM (9yUzE)

I know a number of cops who knew the NYC mayor very well. From what they said he wasn't really a racist, just a lazy grifter who was mostly concerned with pulling whatever bs he could to get money, and then whoring around town with his 12 girlfriend.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:33 AM (HzoNv)

326
As I said the only question is can Trump beat the cheat.

No.

No other Republican can either.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 04, 2023 09:33 AM (9yUzE)

327 @290 "the House is going to have no choice but to impeach"

Yes. Many Senate Ds won't want to have to vote FOR Biden corruption. Media and Deep State won't want the exposure of hearings. If McCarthy can get the votes for hearings, the Left's best play is to pre-emptively push Joe out for health reasons.

But that creates an open primary.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 09:34 AM (RqMSv)

328 We have to be ready to do the reshaping.

Tell you what, stud. When you come around to reshape my place, pack a motherfucking lunch. You're going to have a long morning.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 04, 2023 09:34 AM (4PZHB)

329 Another after market rally for Team Biden. Jeebus, everything is rigged.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 04, 2023 09:35 AM (D8mow)

330 Posted by: 18-1 at August 04, 2023 09:28 AM (lc5cP)

Reminds me of the people who push the "women only get 78 cents on the dollar" and also "greedy capitalist are destroying thr country!"

But can't square that if they were so greedy, and women addres making almost 25% less, why would they just hire only women and pocket that gigantic windfall

Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:36 AM (HzoNv)

331 >>"Trump now has the right to argue in court – for the first time ever – that he told the truth about the 2020 Presidential election."

Not gonna happen.

The judge will constrain discovery, lines of defense, issue gag orders and may even go for pre-trial detention at some point.

Remember the Bannon trial?

The judge in that case did exactly this and in fact, essentially directed a guilty verdict of Bannon.

The game is rigged 6 ways to Sunday.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 04, 2023 09:36 AM (rc3Z7)

332 Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:21 AM (HzoNv)

I'm for all of it and more but the constant screaming headlines of Woman Arrested For Merely Having a Vagina are tiresome.

Posted by: ... at August 04, 2023 09:36 AM (HJY0X)

333 The Independence Hall Nazi Rally speech last September was kind of revealing.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 09:31 AM (x0n13)

***

I vas impressed

Posted by: Leni Riefenstahl at August 04, 2023 09:37 AM (flINI)

334 From what they said he wasn't really a racist, just a lazy grifter who was mostly concerned with pulling whatever bs he could to get money, and then whoring around town with his 12 girlfriend.
Posted by: Rbastid at August 04, 2023 09:33 AM (HzoNv)
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Sounds like the CEO of almost every large company

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 04, 2023 09:37 AM (pXHrN)

335 294 "and he also will not be the nominee. he will step down next spring"

If Joe collects delegates in the primaries, the Junta can probably install who they want. Newsom?

If he's forced out earlier, and we have POTUS Kamala, the primaries can get sporty.

My Joker in the deck is RKJ Jr.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 04, 2023 09:26 AM (RqMSv)

never RFK jr

Kameltoe will become President and trade in what political future she may have by pardoning the Bidens and whoever else needs one for the forever title of "the first woman president"
and a bunch of cash in books and speaking fees

depending on the lay of the political land

acceptable, Gavin

treacherous, Halfwhit

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 09:38 AM (us2H3)

336 Remember the Bannon trial?

The judge in that case did exactly this and in fact, essentially directed a guilty verdict of Bannon.

The game is rigged 6 ways to Sunday.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 04, 2023 09:36 AM (rc3Z7)

can't do that with Trump

too much name recognition

Trump 100%
Bannon .05%

Posted by: REDACTED at August 04, 2023 09:41 AM (us2H3)

337 333 The Independence Hall Nazi Rally speech last September was kind of revealing.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2023 09:31 AM (x0n13)
***
I vas impressed
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Meh, NAZIs had flair. Biden has flatulence.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 04, 2023 09:41 AM (DmtxH)

338 What else is he deceiving us…
Posted by: andycanuck

He sucks dick by choice.
Posted by: rickb223

He tried. But he ain't hiding that.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 04, 2023 09:43 AM (JkCto)

339 You know Jack, I sure am glad there's folk who safely shrug when the cops allow BLM and Antifa space to destroy, because that is a good thing, but sagely nod their heads at the guilt of preachers who use a bullhorn or sound system to amplify their voices. It's disruptive, and probably racist.

Posted by: Good Catholic Family Weather Man Joe Biden at August 04, 2023 09:43 AM (rgc/1)

340
the question is what will the beat cop do when/if martial law is declared?

Pray their families are still home and safe at the end of every single work day. Because if TSHTF, cops' families are in the game.

Its terrible to think about, but when things get ugly, this is a part of that ugliness.

Posted by: weew at August 04, 2023 09:45 AM (/uwTS)

341 So the DS has decided to have it's choice of candidates face off.

DeSantis vs. Newsome.

Could be interesting if Ron does a couple of rails before he goes on.

Posted by: pawn at August 04, 2023 09:47 AM (wsHtO)

342 If Himmler and Garland had a MMA Cage Match, which one would win?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 04, 2023 09:47 AM (D8mow)

343 IMO it will *only* be for Kamala and she will be the nominee along with her VP Buttigieg.

Posted by: ... at

And they think they have problems with the brothers now, voting with Joe on the ticket?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 04, 2023 09:49 AM (JkCto)

344 "The Plague of Models" doesn't come up at Amazon, but Barnes & Noble has it. Streisand effect in effect.

Posted by: Wofus at August 04, 2023 10:07 AM (QFmvK)

345 We're being ran by punks fronted by banking, enforced by unions, among others, and we're being drained dry.

When does it dawn on us this is exactly how O & Joe's 1st term went? Stock market woes, bail outs hither and yon, programs & bills for programs but seldom any actual work in evidence short of construction of more strip malls and $ into telecommunications. 2nd term = big plans ahead but, sorry, we can't get them done but with time... And that is what 45 F'ed up for them: the theft, redistribution of income, building of civilian security forces on so on.

Have time on your hands? The Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation's (PBGC) approved applications for Special Financial Assistance, just for 2023 alone, is an eye opener. And remember, that's not even touching on Biden's & Congressional bailouts of unions since he took office. Yeah, we can keep going like this. Heh.

Was in Pbg Sunday & on Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill when a new Torah dedication took place. It was a happy, festive occasion as a new scroll was dedicated to Stephen and Joyce Fienberg. (Joyce was one of 11 people killed in the synagogue shooting nearly five years ago.) Remarkable people.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 04, 2023 10:14 AM (GshMh)

346 For all you, "but actually" turds saying the arrest was proper because he was using an amplifier.

Piss off.

1) the left will never extend that "in fairness" pansy-ass BS to you. You are all fools for giving them that quarter.
2) the sodomites and child predators were almost certainly playing "amplified " music-- were they not also "disturbing the peace?"
Thus:
3) he was arrested because of his message. Every other proffered possibility is faggot-apologist diversions.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 04, 2023 10:44 AM (TzW+Y)

347 Play commie games, win commie prizes.

Posted by: setnaffa at August 04, 2023 11:02 AM (+V0Fm)

348 "And even though I escaped New York a year ago for Wisconsin,"

Oh, shit, he's actually serious.

BAHAHAHAHAHAAH. Come on man.

Posted by: somedood at August 04, 2023 11:29 AM (oL+dz)

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