The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/16/23

Good morning, kids. I'm physically and emotionally exhausted after my trip, but made it back home yesterday afternoon with relative ease. There's nothing more necessarily to add to yesterday's story of Trump's latest indictment for the high crime of thinking he could exercise his first amendment rights and really thinking he had them in the first place. But let us let the illusion that this is all just slightly more than normal "ain't beanbag" politics as usual continue. If it can. Certainly that's how the usual gang of idiots and frauds on our side are treating it.

What underscores our transmogrification of what was the greatest nation and society in history into nothing more than a gilded banana republic – and the dissolution and squalor left in the wake of armies of criminals, derelicts and drug addicts, political thuggery, and a national debt that is reaching dangerously high levels set to erase the "gilded" part – are the real crimes and borderline (if not actual) treason of Joe "Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants" Biden.

Biden and family made their bones over the course of more than half a century not just on mere graft and influence peddling, but on trading on the national security of the nation itself. Burisma and Ukraine is bad enough, but crap like this which is flying under the radar (mostly courtesy of a media that function as propagandists in service to the junta and more broadly the anti-American cause) is orders of magnitude worse.

There’s a certain truth to the joke. DuPont is the corporation that defines Biden’s career. His first Senate bid was staffed with DuPont employees, including future chief-of-staff and senator Ted Kaufman, who was conveniently allowed to take a “leave of absence” from DuPont to help elect Biden. Biden celebrated his victory at the Hotel DuPont and bought a former DuPont mansion.
DuPont figures in a lot of Biden’s stories. He even claims to have gotten on board with gay marriage when his father showed him a gay couple kissing at DuPont. And Biden figures in the latest DuPont story which involves handing over advanced military technology to China.
Last year, DuPont sold off its biomaterials unit to the Huafon Group of China. Huafon, a massive chemical and finance organization.
Biden’s own defense secretary warned that the sale would put technology that could be used for advanced explosives in China’s hands. Those concerns were not unreasonable. DuPont had been born as a gunpowder firm that came to dominate the American defense industry in the 19th century. DuPont was there handling plutonium on the ground floor of the Manhattan Project even though its former president, Irénée du Pont, had admired Hitler. DuPont has since tried to avoid associations with weapons, but its biomaterials had potential military applications. . .
. . . Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has generally been a loyal political soldier. He had previously toed the line on nearly every Biden initiative. But on DuPont, he broke ranks. National security officials tried to meet with Biden to warn him that the DuPont deal might be good for the Delaware company, but was bad for America. Biden however refused to meet with them.
And the deal went through. Despite the supposed safeguards which were supposed to prevent Covation Biomaterials, the name of the new Chinese-controlled company, from getting its hands on the production process, it happened anyway. And the FBI launched an investigation.
Nothing is expected to come of that.
This is far from the first time that advanced American technology has fallen into the hands of our enemies in China, but it’s particularly outrageous because top defense officials, including the secretary of defense, had warned of the consequences, and it happened anyway.
And because there is no company closer to Joe Biden than DuPont. . .
. . . DuPont has been kind to Biden, donating $250,000 to his inauguration committee alone, and the Biden family has been kind to DuPont. When Robert H. Richards IV, a DuPont heir, admitted to raping his 3-year-old daughter, Attorney General Beau Biden defended the judge who refused to lock him up because he has “strong family support” and “will not fare well in prison.”
. . . Joe and Hunter Biden are far more interested in what’s good for DuPont than what’s good for America. Biden’s decision is likely to increase China’s military edge and weaken our own.
China didn’t have to buy the [spurious] President of the United States, just the “Senator from DuPont.”

Delaware, graft and incest. Yup, Biden and DuPont are peas in a pod, eh?

And then there's a Chi-Com bioweapons lab operating right here in the US of A. The People's Republic of California to be precise.

Last December in Reedley, a city of 25,000 near Fresno, city inspectors noticed a garden hose attached to an abandoned warehouse. Inside they found a secret, illegal biolab harboring, as the Mid Valley Times reported, hundreds of allegedly genetically engineered mice, “potentially infectious” bacteria, and viral agents, including chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5, rubella, and malaria. . .
. . . As of Aug. 14, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the CDPH had issued no official statement on the illegal lab. Bonta, busy challenging parents who want to be notified over gender propaganda in schools, had nothing to say about the ramshackle facility.
Newsom, who had been threatening a school district for rejecting a textbook celebrating sexual predator Harvey Milk, was stone silent on the Reedley lab. As of Aug. 14, Newsom’s news website was still ignoring the illegal Chinese operation. That should come as no surprise.
In April of 2020, Newsom went on national television to announce a $1 billion deal for face masks with the Chinese company Build Your Dreams, which is not known for protective equipment. The governor refused to share details with fellow Democrats, and what happened to the $1 billion remains something of a mystery.
Long before Newsom’s mask deal, California hired a Chinese company, the state-owned Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries, to build the new span of the Bay Bridge. At the time, the Chinese company had no experience building bridges, and it showed. The project came in 10 years late, $5 billion over budget, and riddled with corrosion, bad welds, and other safety issues. When informed of the safety issues, Gov. Jerry Brown famously said, “I mean, look, shit happens.”
Brown protégé Gavin Newsom — Brown appointed Newsom’s father as a Superior Court and Appeal Court judge — is taking a pass on doings in Reedley, and so have major California newspapers. By contrast, reports on the lab by the California Globe have gone viral and attracted national attention.

And for those keeping score at home, should Joey's brain melt before 2024, or if his and his family's collective crimes cannot be swept under the rug, Newsom is supposedly being groomed (pun intended) to take Biden's place at the top of the pre-punched ticket.

Meanwhile, RFK Jr. sat down with Tucker Carlson for an extended conversation and dropped what only a few years ago would have been considered tinfoil hat nuttery, but today sounds not only plausible but highly likely:

“Anthony Fauci got all the responsibility for bio-weapons development,” adding that after three bugs escaped from three labs in the U.S. “In 2014, 300 scientists wrote to President Obama and said ‘you’ve gotta shut down Anthony Fauci, because he is going to create a microbe that will cause a global pandemic.'”
“And so Obama signed a moratorium and shut down the 18 worst of Anthony Fauci’s experiments, where most of them were taking place in North Carolina by a scientist called Ralph Baric,” Kennedy added.
He then explained that Fauci outsourced many programs offshore to avoid scrutiny.

For sure, this and the previous item were going on before Biden was installed as the ventriloquist's dummy "president." But that it has metastasized during his illegitimate occupation of the White House as well as the fact that the bureaucracy that helped install him and that will prevent any non Deep State player from dismantling the Leviathan let alone winning an election to make the attempt, is telling.

But Trump said "pussy." Worse, he had the gall to even think he had the right to say it.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Schwab, the son of a Nazi collaborator and leading proponent of “the Great Reset,” made the remarks in an unearthed interview with Swiss television . . .
WEF Boss Schwab Backs Mass State Intrusion: ‘Nothing to Hide, Nothing to be Afraid of.’
"The quicker people see the roots of the FDA problem -- which go much deeper than whether it was 'giving medical advice' or phrasing things this way or that – the more rapidly they will see what it means to be a free person. And the sooner they will see that it is utterly imperative to eliminate the FDA.
Forget The Past: FDA Claims It Never Warned Against Ivermectin for Chinese COVID19

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

"We are facing a national tragedy."
The Big Guy
"Attorneys from Empower Oversight, an organization dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, corrected assertions Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell made during interviews with CNN and CBS News regarding the ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden."
IRS Whistleblower's Attorneys Debunk False Claims From Hunter Biden's Lawyer
"Political victories are achieved by patience, not rash action."
The Impeachment Chorus Needs to Cool It
"Joe, c'mon man. Tell the truth. It will set you free."
After His Navy and ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Confessions, What Will Biden Admit to Next? Here’s a List of Possibilities
"The bagman doing the big guy’s dirty work always ends up thrown under the bus."
Media Fixers Pretend Hunter Biden Is Under The Law — So Joe Biden Can Stay Above It
TRUMP PERSECUTION BY PROSECUTIONS
"If we no longer uphold equal justice under the law, we still have a country, but not the one we thought we had."
When the Justice System Falls Apart, So Does the Republic
“And what about those Indictment Documents put out today, long before the Grand Jury even voted, and then quickly withdrawn? Sounds Rigged to me! Why didn’t they Indict 2.5 years ago? Because they wanted to do it right in the middle of my political campaign. Witch Hunt!”
Trump Responds to Indictment: ‘The Whole World is Laughing at the United States’
"Last year, for example, the communist dictatorship in Cuba held a mass trial for 21 protesters and dissidents . . . In 2020, Turkey, which is run by a democratically-elected autocrat, nearly 500 people were sentenced to life in prison in one trial for their alleged participation in a 2016 coup attempt (one cheered by some of the same Democrats who later impeached Trump)."
Georgia Indictment Joins Totalitarian Tradition of Mass Trials of Political Opposition
William Jacobson: “Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President’s behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President. One would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do these sorts of things…. This is precisely the kind of state interference in a federal official’s duties that the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits, and that the removal statute shields against.”
Mark Meadows Files To Remove Georgia State Prosecution To Federal Court
"Raffensperger did not clarify how, exactly, indicting a former president, and the leading opposition candidate in the next election, plus his attorneys, for contesting a vote meant upholding the rule of law or the Constitution. . . Notably, Georgia has never indicted Democrat Stacey Abrams for years of claiming the 2018 gubernatorial race was stolen. Nor has it indicted Mark Zuckerberg and others who spent $51 million in private money to turn out the vote in Democratic counties in the state."
Georgia’s Elected Republicans on Trump Indictment: We Told You, No Fraud
DeSantis: “And so, I think it’s an example of this criminalization of politics. I don’t think that this is something that’s good for the country.” (the understatement of the year - jjs)
DeSantis and Other GOP Presidential Candidates Respond to Trump’s Georgia Indictment
"Here is a run-down of the ‘conspiratorial’ acts cited by the Fulton County district attorney’s office in the unprecedented indictment."
How Stupid Is The Georgia Anti-Trump Case? They Indicted Trump For Tweeting At People To Watch TV
"When politicians are tempted to prosecute their enemies for political reasons, they must fear the same thing happening to them." (Never going to happen - jjs)
How Should Republicans Respond To Fulton County? Indict The Left
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Charles McGonigal, a former special agent and chief of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York field office, pled guilty to money laundering and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), in connection to services provided to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch, according to the release issued Tuesday. McGonigal was a key player in spearheading the “Crossfire Hurricane” probe – informally referred to as “Russiagate” – in 2016, which was the investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia, the New York Post reported.
Top FBI Official Involved In 'Russiagate' Investigation Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Aid Russian Oligarch
"The Republican establishment must awaken from its coma and begin unmasking the Democrats’ reign of terror against their political adversaries." (The GOP-e is in on the whole thing, pal - jjs)
The Democrats are Certain They Will Never be Held Accountable for the Trump Indictments and Biden Cover-Up
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accidentally published a post on Tuesday afternoon on her official government X account that apparently was meant to be published on [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s account official government account." (Pro tip: now would be the appropriate time to say "no comment" - jjs)
White House Staffer Accidentally Posts Tweet Seemingly Meant For Biden’s Account
"One would be remiss not to note that these are the same people, ironically, who promulgated the fact-free Russiagate conspiracy theory hoax, now totally debunked by the Mueller investigation and countless other reports, for a literal half-decade in the service of coping with Clinton’s utterly unexpected 2016 loss."
WATCH: Hillary Cackles Like a Hyena on MSNBC About Latest Trump Indictments
In fact, a cursory glance through the Washington Post‘s own site search function reveals dozens if not hundreds of articles cheering on the censorship of conservatives, or Trump himself, with one declaring: “Twitter’s Trump ban is even more important than you thought” and another which says Twitter actually went “easy” on Trump, despite banning the President.
WaPo Bemoans Big Tech Bias After Years of Cheering It On
". . . for the First Amendment and the right of Americans to enter the modern public square of the internet without fear of government censorship, it seemed like a good day. We shall see if this is borne out by the court’s eventual opinion."
In Landmark Free Speech Case, Fifth Circuit Judge Likens Government Coercion Of Big Tech To ‘Mob’ Boss

* * * * *
"Expecting an ever-evolving AI 'intelligence' to remain constrained by its programmers' national interests may prove hopelessly naïve."
All Hail the Coming Computer King?
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"This fiscal doom and gloom comes at a time when the administration is trying to take credit for its economic ‘achievements.’"
Congressional Budget Review Shows Biden Drowning Americans in a Sea of Red Ink
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Ship of state of fools."
Finally Zeroing Out Net-Zero?
"Apparently, the government has powers that are magical enough to manipulate the world's climate." (wait, I thought only the Jooz can control the weather? - jjs)
Is This The Most Asinine Sentence Ever Written About "Climate Change?"
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"DeSantis’ statement will likely prompt much criticism from groups and individuals that support the program. In 2021, hired researchers claimed that Trump’s temporary curbs on the H-1B inflow in 2020 chopped $100 billion from the Wall Street value of U.S. companies."
Ron DeSantis Slams H-1B Program
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“I will apologize for my language, but I will not apologize for getting upset & speaking my mind considering the circumstances,” the Texas Republican stated in another post. “If I had to do it again, I would still step up & act in a life-threatening situation. I will ALWAYS help someone in need. I WILL NOT apologize for that.”
WATCH: Fiery Clash Between Republican Ronny Jackson and Police at Rodeo
“'I don’t understand why I have to be villainized so they can feel better about their ideology,' immigrant victim abused by now-fired teacher says of leftist activists." (You just accidentally won a cookie! - jjs)
‘Scared For My Safety’: Sexual Assault Victim Stunned As Leftists Defend Teacher Who Attacked Her
"An iconic retailer pens a scathing letter to the city and state government on public safety."
San Francisco’s “Tyranny of the Minority”
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Arwady pushed back against the CTU’s refusal to reopen schools in Chicago, and it cost her. And Johnson made it absolutely clear that there’s a new sheriff in town, and its initials are C.T.U."
Chicago Mayor Fires Public Health Chief Who Fought Teachers Over School Closures
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Legislative push comes as admin has threatened school districts that want to notify parents if their child is trans or nonbinary."
California's Newsom Hints at Legislative Crackdown on Parental Rights
University President’s “The Year of Free Speech is shaping up to be public relations window dressing,… President Pollack has stated that she remains as committed to DEI as she is to academic freedom, even though various Cornell DEI policies directly conflict with academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and free expression on campus. Political purity screens and DEI litmus tests have no place in the policies of a university.”
Cornell Free Speech Alliance Calls On Administration To Drop “DEI Litmus Tests
"Two deeply flawed reports encourage colleges to go after immigrants."
Higher Ed’s New Targets
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
Despite VRP’s “nonpartisan” status, it has strategically geared its activities towards securing election wins for Democrats by focusing on specific demographics, CRC claims.
'Nonpartisan' Voter Registration Org is Actually a Dem Get Out The Vote Machine, Report Says
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Jew-hating blood libels find a home in a 'Decolonizing Trauma Studies' course."
Princeton Course Claims That IDF "Harvests the Organs of 'Palestinians'"
"Shameful moral idiocy and cowardice."
The West’s Long Demonization of Israel
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Paxton trial is the final play for the dying vestiges of RINO legislators."
Texas GOP Civil War Will Erupt if Impeachment Upheld
"Longtime Clinton confidante Minyon Moore tapped to lead 2024 convention."
FLASHBACK: Feds Accused Incoming Dem National Convention Chair of Steering Funds to Illegal Clinton Shadow Campaign
"Pamela Price failed to disclose relationship with controversial senior staffer, prompting charges of nepotism."
Nazi Collaborator Soros-Backed District Attorney Hires Boyfriend for Six-Figure Position
POLITICS
"On the hour-long call heard by the Pulse were some of the most conservative state legislators from South Carolina, Arizona, Illinois, and Idaho, with Trump opening the conversation by calling it 'a privilege to address the State Freedom Caucus Network… a very important group of people,' before making an opening statement and going on to take questions from the participants."
Trump Hosts Townhall With 130+ GOP Lawmakers: Talks Vaccines, 2024 Plans, & Explains The Lindsey Graham Thing
"Ramaswamy has been an outspoken critic of the indictments of Trump . . ."
GOP Presidential Candidate Says He'd Ask Trump to be a 'Mentor' if He, "Red-Meat Ramaswamy, Wins
". . . And the audience wasn't spared the cackle."
Video: Kamala Has ‘Please Clap’ Moment as She Touts Bidenomics
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Who is he hiding from?"
Putin Goes Missing
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The Stand-Off at Second Thomas Shoal is a Moment of Historical Importance."
PRC’s Aggression in South China Sea Needs to Be Defeated
“Milei has reaped the rewards of the resulting disenchantment with politics as usual.”
Can a Gonzo Libertarian Save Argentina?
"Internal docs show Biden [junta] knew there was a 'high risk' Hamas would benefit from U.S. aid."
Biden Junta Raised Concerns Palestinian Aid Would Boost Hamas. It Went Ahead With Aid Anyway.
"The new right-wing government plans a crackdown on illegal immigration and migrant gangs."
Finland: Helsinki Set To Become ‘Sanctuary City’ For Illegal Migrants
"The move, which comes after foundation-funded NGOs ferried migrants to Europe for over a decade (mission accomplished?), comes after the $25 billion family foundation announced a headcount reduction of at least 40% following Alexander’s ascent."
Nazi Collaborator Soros To End ‘Most EU Operations’ In ‘Radical Shift’
"Hezbollah was responsible for the 'blast in Beirut' – so why should Kuwait pay for it?"
Lebanese Minister Speaks of Kuwait as if it Were an ATM Machine With a Flag
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Daniel Greenfield: "He refused to meet with national security officials warning against the deal."
Biden Allowed Major Donor to Hand Advanced Military Tech to China
"During an interview with Tucker Carlson, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr warned that there are thousands of so called ‘scientists’ developing killer bioweapons inside America without oversight."
Video: RFK Jr. Warns Of Thousands Of “DEATH SCIENTISTS” Developing Killer Microbes In America
Lloyd Billinglsey: "Newsom’s state is grasping at plastic straws but ignoring a covert Chinese bio-lab."
California’s China Syndrome Exposed
"So it’s not really a diplomatic issue, but I think that there absolutely could be a resolution."
US Ambassador says Julian Assange could receive plea deal, 'there's a way to resolve it'
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Report: "a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and DLNR’s deputy director for water resource management, initially balked at West Maui Land Co.’s requests for additional water."
Report: State Official Refused to Release Water to Fight Lahaina Fire Until Too Late
"First Individual Maui Wildfire Lawsuit Against Hawaiian Utilities Filed."
Maui Wildfires Being Blamed on Damaged Hawaiian Electric Power Lines
“I’ve been to too many disaster areas. But I want to go, make sure we have everything they need.”
Biden Promises to Visit Hawaii But Still Hasn’t Gone to East Palestine, OH
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"AOC's target was sunscreen regulations by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)."
WHAT?!? Titty-Caca AOC Criticizes Gov't Regulations as Costly
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The data also showed that another one of these early galaxies spotted by Webb did not exist 250 million years after the Big Bang, but one billion years after, a date that better fits the theories about the early universe, based on the nature of this galaxy."
Webb confirms galaxy as one of the earliest known in the universe
"The impact at Hellas would certainly have been strong enough to send shock waves through the planet, enough to crack the opposite hemisphere as well as generate the volcanic energy needed for the growth of the Tharsis Bulge."
The impact that almost cracked Mars open
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
England remains a nominally Christian country, with the monarch swearing Christian oaths and the established Church of England sending bishops to the Upper House of Parliament – but it is secular in practice, with Christians being arrested for offending homosexuals and Muslims.
600-Year-Old Lawyers’ Society Bans Grace Before Meals to Be ‘More Inclusive’
"The singer will likely be heard from again as a voice for that old soul, forgotten America so despised by the cool kids north of Richmond."
Oliver Anthony’s Army Is Here to Stay
"As demonstrated in a PC-USA minister’s recent sermon openly promoting abortion."
Presbyterianism Lost Its Clout When It Embraced Modernism
Christian Toto: "'Mind of Mencia' alum perfectly describes why comedians need their freedom."
Carlos Mencia: "Your Feelings Are Not Protected in the Constitution"
"Robert Zimmerman: "For though curses and obscenities have their place and proper time, in a civilization of rational civil adults one does not encourage their use. Instead, one limits their use to very rare exceptions, and even then if you are a mature thinking person you try to avoid their use entirely. By doing so you force yourself to reaction thoughtfully to difficult situations, rather than emotionally and irrationally."
We are Becoming a Nation of Barbarians
"The university is on the wrong side of history." (I hate that expression but the gravamen of the essay is spot on - jjs)
UW-Madison Needs to Restore Fredric March’s Name

NOTE: The opinions expressed in the links may or may not reflect my own. I include them because of their relevance to the discussion of a particular issue.

ALSO: The Morning Report is cross-posted at CutJibNewsletter.com if you want to continue the conversation all day.

TIP JAR : Your support helps keep the lights on and is truly appreciated. Note: We are on Stripe, not PayPal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:33 AM

Comments

(Jump to bottom of comments)

1 Goodest Humpday mourning, horde.

Blowme,
Blimey

P.S. Today is the day that the
man comes to deliver my garbage
to the dump. Hence, I think of
Humpday as Dumpday.

Posted by: Marooned at August 16, 2023 07:33 AM (kt8QE)

2 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 07:34 AM (BRHaw)

3
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 16, 2023 07:37 AM (ENBF0)

4 Biden is just a retarded remake of rapey Clinton with his China grift and, "What is 'is'?"

Posted by: Marooned at August 16, 2023 07:38 AM (kt8QE)

5
*looks around in awe*

So this is a Morning Report.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 16, 2023 07:38 AM (MoZTd)

6 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2023 07:41 AM (Q4IgG)

7 First time I've heard of the DuPont/Biden connection.

Posted by: davidt at August 16, 2023 07:42 AM (SYTee)

8 The left hates President Trump, but they really hate us more.

Posted by: Eromero at August 16, 2023 07:42 AM (z3WCn)

9 Mooornin'

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 16, 2023 07:42 AM (k6uu5)

10 And the FBI launched an investigation.

The Clueless looking for the Blameless.

FBI of today can not find its own ass with 2 hands and a fleshlight.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 07:44 AM (BRHaw)

11 Good morning dear morons b"h for a safe arrival home JJ

Sometimes my mind reels with events you report.

So, what did you eat?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2023 07:45 AM (JvZF+)

12 Trump should not even answer the spurious charges in Georgia. Do not even mount a defense. Instead, concentrate on defeating Jack Smith and winning election to the Presidency. Then, level the motherpuckers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2023 07:45 AM (CUJgk)

13 “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

Orwell wrote eternal words that befit most government agencies, politicians, and their media lackeys -- and they perfectly fit the behavior of that brazen insult to the Constitution known as the “Food and Drug Administration.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 07:46 AM (BRHaw)

14 ‘You are not a horse’: FDA tells Americans stop taking dewormer for Covid
Agency issues message after misinformation about ivermectin, a medicine used to deworm livestock, spreads on social media

Martin Pengelly
@MartinPengelly
Mon 23 Aug 2021 08.21 EDT

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 07:47 AM (BRHaw)

15 Glad you're in home one piece, JJ.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at August 16, 2023 07:49 AM (0q+t6)

16 ….Look Fat….. Better living through chemistry…

Posted by: Biden at August 16, 2023 07:49 AM (V/pbu)

17 Joe Biden is the poster boy with what is wrong with America. Elected and re-elected first as a local councilman stealing, raping and looting then as a senator with more stealing, raping and looting since 1970.

1970! More entrenched than a tick.

The voters in Delaware are to blame, not Joe. 53 years and we still can't get rid of the bastard and they went to the polls over and over again to vote for him. Even more telling is all the idiots that voted for Joe when he was Barack Obama's lap dog. Then as "President".

President Of Shit.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2023 07:49 AM (hqgX1)

18 National security officials tried to meet with Biden to warn him that the DuPont deal might be good for the Delaware company, but was bad for America. Biden however refused to meet with them.
_______

They should have slipped a few pazoozas to Hunter.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 16, 2023 07:50 AM (brAQZ)

19 Grand jury. 41 count indictment brought back in 10 hours. The same indictment was posted before the grand jury convened. And the judge appointed before the indictment. Nah, everything above board.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 16, 2023 07:50 AM (0EOe9)

20 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 07:51 AM (uvymP)

21 Glad you had a safe trip home, JJ! Your comment about the press being purely propagandists is at the heart of the problem, I believe. The lefties in government and other institutions couldn’t get away with half of this crap if there was a honest press to shine lights and watch the cockroaches scatter. But there isn’t, so the crap goes on and gets worse. Perfect example: Here in Dallas the popular morning AM radio hosts (who are generally conservative BTW… it is Texas after all)… they had some lady on today to talk Trump indictments… and her VERY first comment was she was surprised how meaty and serious they were; what a thorough investigation!!! (Sarcasm off)… this is peak gaslighting. We all know they’re garbage and she has the gall to start like that.. I turned it off (of course I’d just arrived at work)…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 07:52 AM (nNI2N)

22 WEF Boss Schwab Backs Mass State Intrusion: ‘Nothing to Hide, Nothing to be Afraid of.’
_______

OK, start with the WEF honchos.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 16, 2023 07:52 AM (brAQZ)

23 Glad your back JJ
Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2023 07:52 AM (MIc+U)

24 He even claims to have gotten on board with gay marriage when his father showed him a gay couple kissing at DuPont
-----------

LMAO they think we're so stupid. And they could be right.

As for myself I got on board with gay marriage when my dad showed me hours and hours of gay porn. And I got on board with abortion when my mom drew me a picture of a pregnant woman trying to have a career and family and failing at both.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 07:53 AM (lgxc1)

25 Carried over....

Unless the program is shored up before 2033, the typical newly retired, dual-earner couple will see their Social Security checks reduced by $17,400 annually, or $1,450 per month, according to the report from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 07:11 AM (BRHaw)

This is why I always required my investment planner to calculate my retirement position excluding SS. Lot of people are in for a real shock... no doubt Trump will get indicted for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 07:53 AM (uvymP)

26 Morning, all.

The FDA, like most things that started out to address a real problem (think 19th century trade unions), morphed into a bloated and power mad caricature of its former self.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 16, 2023 07:55 AM (hAfUZ)

27 "What underscores our transmogrification of what was the greatest nation and society in history into nothing more than a gilded banana republic – and the dissolution and squalor left in the wake of armies of criminals, derelicts and drug addicts, political thuggery, and a national debt that is reaching dangerously high levels set to erase the "gilded" part – are the real crimes and borderline (if not actual) treason of Joe "Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants" Biden."

Let me also add that there is a disturbing amount of trannie porn that shows up when I search 'Busty' anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2023 07:55 AM (zZu0s)

28 17 Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2023 07:49 AM (hqgX1)

EVERYTHING you said (except the coffee part; I drink Diet Coke in the morning; I’m weird)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 07:55 AM (nNI2N)

29 *biden, Pelosi, McConnell, etc. are all symptoms of a fundamentally broken and corrupt political system. They've made sure that in their own states they would be guaranteed a seat in the capitol city for as long as they wanted. They've never really had competition.

Blame the voters, but these asshats and the other asshats in congress that keep getting "elected" are doing so because the political system shit. These people make sure it stays like that.

The choice, such that it is, that voters get is rigged from the get go.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2023 07:56 AM (Q4IgG)

30 Charles McGonigal, a former special agent and chief of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York field office, pled guilty to money laundering and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), in connection to services provided to Oleg Deripaska, a sanctioned Russian oligarch, according to the release issued Tuesday.

Rush Rule: What they accuse you of, they are doing or have done.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 07:56 AM (BRHaw)

31 This is why I always required my investment planner to calculate my retirement position excluding SS. Lot of people are in for a real shock... no doubt Trump will get indicted for it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 07:53 AM (uvymP)
---
By the time I retire (in 10-12 years), I'll be lucky to get enough from SS to buy the premium Fancy Feast cat food for my daily meal ration.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2023 07:56 AM (YIVH2)

32 The problem with this new narrative is that it's completely bogus. Does anyone think Joe Biden had 200-plus conversations with Hunter's business partners about the weather? Does anyone believe foreign oligarchs were happily forking over cash to a washed-up druggie for empty promises? Are we to just ignore the evidence that millions of those foreign dollars went into not just Hunter Biden's pockets but Joe's?
----------------------------
No, no, and no.

But the real crime, as they like to say when they indict Republicans, is the cover up. Impeach Garland. Impeach Smith. Impeach the entire DOJ prosecution team who persecuted Trump and let Joey walk.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2023 07:57 AM (ciDfw)

33 Rush Rule: What they accuse you of, they are doing or have done.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 07:56 AM (BRHaw)

Man, do I miss Rush! Was just thinking about him the other day… gone too soon

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 07:58 AM (nNI2N)

34 Good morning and happy hump day. I don't know if I'll be alive to see it but someday this will all implode. Everything worldwide will come crashing down. It will be the worst thing humanity has ever experienced and they brought it upon themselves.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at August 16, 2023 07:59 AM (5iFFd)

35 'Calligraphy Creators' day on ewetub.

Riiiiiight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 16, 2023 07:59 AM (zZu0s)

36 I keep hearing about the short period of time between the Grand Jury's first awareness of the specific charges, the deliberation period and the release of the decision from the Grand Jury.

Does anyone have the actual verified time line between these events?

Because if it is really only 10 hours between 'First, I would like to thank you for performing this important duty' and 'Our decision, your Honor', that would seem to be worth noting.

But are we simply seeing circular reporting on this?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2023 07:59 AM (isNL8)

37 Democracy dies in Delaware.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 16, 2023 08:00 AM (NBVIP)

38 Even the $572 billion the federal government has paid in interest costs this fiscal year will likely prove lower than the sums Washington will pay going forward. At the beginning of the current fiscal year last Oct. 1, the Federal Reserve had set interest rates in a range of between 3-3.25 percent. Now, they are between 5.25-5.5 percent.

That makes it bigger than the Pentagon budget.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:03 AM (BRHaw)

39 Georgia’s Elected Republicans on Trump Indictment: We Told You, No Fraud

Republican is just the label on the can the uniparty uses when Democrat won't get the job done.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 08:03 AM (uvymP)

40 Mornin’, All. Happy Wednesday.

Leftists are idiots.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:04 AM (xTRSc)

41 How long does it take to drive from NYC to Wisconsin?

Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:04 AM (88xKn)

42 By the time I retire (in 10-12 years), I'll be lucky to get enough from SS to buy the premium Fancy Feast cat food for my daily meal ration.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2023 07:56 AM (YIVH2)

You'll get Meow Mix and like it!

Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 08:04 AM (Jk9SN)

43 Lebanese Minister Speaks of Kuwait

*********

Check out this guy's picture. He looks like my Lebanese nana...

Posted by: 14 y/o autistic British girl at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (991eG)

44 Does anyone believe foreign oligarchs were happily forking over cash to a washed-up druggie for empty promises?
-------

But that's just it. They don't need anyone to believe the lies, they just need to be able to freely repeat them.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (lgxc1)

45 The Blind Side movie was heartwarming but it’s getting ugly now. The real life Michael Oher is now suing the Tuohy family that took him in…. Alas, the racial angle will eventually be used, I predict. Sad…. No Hollywood ending. Sandra Bullock hardest hit?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (nNI2N)

46 "The Year of Free Speech is shaping up to be public relations window dressing," said Carl Neuss, a member of the board of CFSA. "President Pollack has stated that she remains as committed to DEI as she is to academic freedom, even though various Cornell DEI policies directly conflict with academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and free expression on campus. Political purity screens and DEI litmus tests have no place in the policies of a university.
==================
To apply for an academic job at Cornell, to even be entered into competition, candidates must first file a DEI pledge.

Cornell tries to hide their suppression of wrong-think, burying it in HR processes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (aFwXl)

47 People say the ridiculousness of the Fulton County indictment means that it will fail.

No. The ridiculousness is the point.

Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (Jk9SN)

48 36 VIA, the LA Times reports that it was 10 hours of testimony. Even that sounds strange, given the number of counts and defendants. And the grand jury comes back the same day.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 16, 2023 08:07 AM (0EOe9)

49 There’s a certain truth to the joke. DuPont is the corporation that defines Biden’s career. His first Senate bid was staffed with DuPont employees, including future chief-of-staff and senator Ted Kaufman, who was conveniently allowed to take a “leave of absence” from DuPont to help elect Biden. Biden celebrated his victory at the Hotel DuPont and bought a former DuPont mansion.
++++
There is *always* a fair amount of truth to the "joke." It is never actually a "joke." It's instead a contemptuous way to say the truth.

Joe Biden was the Senator from DuPont.
Asa Hutchinson is the Governor from Wal-Mart.
Owen Brewster was the Senator from Pan-Am.

There are various others. I forget who was the senator from Sun Microsystems, but I remember that they had one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:08 AM (kBSKe)

50 This country is now an international joke.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 16, 2023 08:08 AM (sJOit)

51 The ridiculousness is the point.
Provocation.

Posted by: steevy at August 16, 2023 08:08 AM (FQmDC)

52 Alexander Soros is probably trying to save money. He's definitely not in the currency manipulation game so these operations have no value to him beyond the ideological.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (eYoxG)

53 No. The ridiculousness is the point.
Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (Jk9SN)

The point is to keep Trump in court during the primaries of 2024.

Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (88xKn)

54 And the deal went through. Despite the supposed safeguards which were supposed to prevent Covation Biomaterials, the name of the new Chinese-controlled company, from getting its hands on the production process, it happened anyway. And the FBI launched an investigation.

Nothing is expected to come of that.
++++
Nothing is to come of an FBI investigation into glad-hand deals cut between ruling elites at the expense of American security and propserity?

Shocking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (kBSKe)

55 49 Joe Biden was the Senator from DuPont.
Asa Hutchinson is the Governor from Wal-Mart.
Owen Brewster was the Senator from Pan-Am.

There are various others. I forget who was the senator from Sun Microsystems, but I remember that they had one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:08 AM (kBSKe)

Ed Rendell was the governor from Comcast.

Posted by: XTC at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (UnA8+)

56 "And the grand jury comes back the same day."

Is this where we say that Justice is blind, swift and fair?
Or more like WTF....did y'all even debate the charges, or simply in a single show of hands vote for indictment?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (isNL8)

57 By the time I retire (in 10-12 years), I'll be lucky to get enough from SS to buy the premium Fancy Feast cat food for my daily meal ration.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2023 07:56 AM (YIVH2)

Dont forget to save your greenstamps and get yourself a GE electric can opener.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (BRHaw)

58 49 Why run for Senator or Governor when you can buy one?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (0EOe9)

59 Joe and Dr Jill are nearcisstic sociopaths.

Just tripped over an article about what narcissists do to their children: "Two of the most common roles narcissists force their kids into are the golden child and the scapegoat."

Beau and Hunter?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 16, 2023 08:10 AM (RqMSv)

60 Carried over....

Unless the program is shored up before 2033, the typical newly retired, dual-earner couple will see their Social Security checks reduced by $17,400 annually, or $1,450 per month, according to the report from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 07:11 AM (BRHaw)

This is why I always required my investment planner to calculate my retirement position excluding SS. Lot of people are in for a real shock... no doubt Trump will get indicted for it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 07:53 AM

It's gonna happen way sooner than that I syspect. That's why I am using my social security check to make double mortgage payments, if it all falls apart at least the bank can't repossess my house because it will be paid off nearly 20 years early.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 16, 2023 08:10 AM (QNSds)

61 And for those keeping score at home, should Joey's brain melt before 2024, or if his and his family's collective crimes cannot be swept under the rug, Newsom is supposedly being groomed (pun intended) to take Biden's place at the top of the pre-punched ticket.
++++
He is. He is not the only one, though, and I would *not* count Whitmer out. I think Whitmer is actually the stronger choice.

Either way, it will probably mean the removal of Kamala Harris. If it's Newsom, she can't be the VP because they're from the same state. If it's Whitmer, they'll probably take the opportunity to scuttle her and put a black man in at VP to balance the ticket.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:10 AM (kBSKe)

62 61 He is. He is not the only one, though, and I would *not* count Whitmer out. I think Whitmer is actually the stronger choice.

Either way, it will probably mean the removal of Kamala Harris. If it's Newsom, she can't be the VP because they're from the same state. If it's Whitmer, they'll probably take the opportunity to scuttle her and put a black man in at VP to balance the ticket.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:10 AM (kBSKe)

Macho Man Mike Obama.

Posted by: XTC at August 16, 2023 08:12 AM (UnA8+)

63 Is Pete DuPont still alive?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:12 AM (xTRSc)

64
Last December in Reedley, a city of 25,000 near Fresno, city inspectors noticed a garden hose attached to an abandoned warehouse. Inside they found a secret, illegal biolab harboring, as the Mid Valley Times reported, hundreds of allegedly genetically engineered mice, “potentially infectious” bacteria, and viral agents, including chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5, rubella, and malaria. . .

Ever vigilant! Cower in place, America!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2023 08:12 AM (5pZqO)

65
Unless the program is shored up before 2033, the typical newly retired, dual-earner couple will see their Social Security checks reduced by $17,400 annually, or $1,450 per month, according to the report from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Because the left likes to lie and always claim the (R)'s wanna cut SS, I looked at this a little closer. They're using the most extreme example possible. A two earner family. They neglected to mention whether the female took a decade or two out of the workplace to raise children which has traditionally been the norm. Assumption is also assumed that they earned near the maximum taxable amount during their careers. They also threw the word 'nonpartisan' in there for additional bullshit.

Many grains of salt are required.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 16, 2023 08:12 AM (enJYY)

66 The Blind Side movie was heartwarming but it’s getting ugly now. The real life Michael Oher is now suing the Tuohy family that took him in…. Alas, the racial angle will eventually be used, I predict. Sad…. No Hollywood ending. Sandra Bullock hardest hit?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (nNI2N)

I always wondered why Hollyweird doesn't do a movie and call it "The Seeing Side" about a young YT child who gets adopted by a black family in the hood and is taught all the ways of surviving like a little G until he becomes a big G. Rapping, slinging dope, pimping hos and doing the occasional drive by. Set it in Chicago. Get Oprah to play the adopting mammy and it would be a blockbuster.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2023 08:13 AM (hqgX1)

67 S i'm sitting here watching WBFF, the B'More Fox affiliate, and for a brief series of reports, I thought that JJ's morning report was being used for the news.

About five of JJ's topics touched on in a row.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2023 08:13 AM (isNL8)

68 Equally curious is that major American utility companies are selling their renewable assets. What do they know that they aren’t telling us? Likely that they know the grid won’t work with this flood of intermittent and unreliable power sources, and Democrats are unable to convince their powerful environmental faction that removing regulatory barriers to grid improvements are necessary, because the Greens lose sleep over the fact that it would allow more oil and gas pipelines to be built. They would rather we have blackouts than allow any expansion of natural gas, let alone oil.

Crazy on a ship of fools
Crazy on a ship of fools
Turn this boat around, back to my loving ground
Oh no, oh no

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:13 AM (BRHaw)

69 Happy Wednesday one and all. Let it be a good day despite the best efforts of others.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2023 08:14 AM (4olE8)

70 “Anthony Fauci got all the responsibility for bio-weapons development,” adding that after three bugs escaped from three labs in the U.S. “In 2014, 300 scientists wrote to President Obama and said ‘you’ve gotta shut down Anthony Fauci, because he is going to create a microbe that will cause a global pandemic.'”
“And so Obama signed a moratorium and shut down the 18 worst of Anthony Fauci’s experiments, where most of them were taking place in North Carolina by a scientist called Ralph Baric,” Kennedy added.
++++
The same Ralph Baric who's work at UNC on engineering spike genes and virus reconstruction - specifically on coronaviruses - directly fed EcoHealth's plans to create SARS derivatives in Wuhan - plans that DARPA refused to entertain, so EcoHealth had to retry with the much more cooperative NIH.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:14 AM (kBSKe)

71 53 No. The ridiculousness is the point.
Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (Jk9SN)

The point is to keep Trump in court during the primaries of 2024.
Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (88xKn)

And the irony here is that the more they persecute him, the more likely he'll run away with the primaries. Assuming the GOP-e doesn't rig them the way the Dems did for Hillary and Joe that last two times.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2023 08:14 AM (x0n13)

72
DuPont has been kind to Biden, donating $250,000 to his inauguration committee alone, and the Biden family has been kind to DuPont. When Robert H. Richards IV, a DuPont heir, admitted to raping his 3-year-old daughter, Attorney General Beau Biden defended the judge who refused to lock him up because he has “strong family support” and “will not fare well in prison.”

Richards is the grandson of Irénée du Pont, Jr.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2023 08:15 AM (5pZqO)

73 Either way, it will probably mean the removal of Kamala Harris. If it's Newsom, she can't be the VP because they're from the same state. If it's Whitmer, they'll probably take the opportunity to scuttle her and put a black man in at VP to balance the ticket.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:10 AM (kBSKe)

why not same state?

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:15 AM (BRHaw)

74 45 The Blind Side movie was heartwarming but it’s getting ugly now. The real life Michael Oher is now suing the Tuohy family that took him in…. Alas, the racial angle will eventually be used, I predict. Sad…. No Hollywood ending. Sandra Bullock hardest hit?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (nNI2N)

Apparently he was never actually adopted, just signed into a conservatorship.

But saying that probably doesn't help anything, so...

Posted by: XTC at August 16, 2023 08:15 AM (UnA8+)

75 Ed Rendell was the governor from Comcast.
Posted by: XTC at August 16, 2023 08:09 AM (UnA8+)
++++
Kamala Harris was the Senator from Big Tech. She is somewhat unusual in that she was industry-owned rather than company-owned, but it's the same basic idea.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:15 AM (kBSKe)

76 56 In a perfect world, a judge would be hauling each and every one of those jurors into chambers for an interview. Prior to convening, were you briefed? Were you coerced? Were you in any way threatened? But it won't happen, just wam, blam, thank you ma'am, our work here is done.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 16, 2023 08:15 AM (0EOe9)

77 The FDA, like most things that started out to address a real problem (think 19th century trade unions), morphed into a bloated and power mad caricature of its former self.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 16, 2023 07:55 AM (hAfUZ)

While this outcome does not surprise me, I am surprised that Congress has never thought to ban members of regulatory agencies from having financial interests in the industries they regulate. I suppose knowing that the press will never mention it makes the decision easier.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 08:16 AM (uvymP)

78 DuPont has been kind to Biden, donating $250,000 to his inauguration committee alone, and the Biden family has been kind to DuPont. When Robert H. Richards IV, a DuPont heir, admitted to raping his 3-year-old daughter, Attorney General Beau Biden defended the judge who refused to lock him up because he has “strong family support” and “will not fare well in prison.” ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2023 08:15 AM (5pZqO)
++++
You know, the more I learn about these Biden characters, the less I like them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:16 AM (kBSKe)

79 It's National Roller Coaster Day. 🎢

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:16 AM (NpAcC)

80 By the way, JJ, what'd you bring us?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:17 AM (xTRSc)

81 Rapping, slinging dope, pimping hos and doing the occasional drive by. Set it in Chicago. Get Oprah to play the adopting mammy and it would be a blockbuster.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2023 08:13 AM (hqgX1)

That scene where he comes home an tells Big Momma he had to pop Tiny cause he may go to the popo and they share a 40 is so heart warming.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:17 AM (BRHaw)

82 "Apparently he was never actually adopted, just signed into a conservatorship. "

But this was known, acknowledged and written about by him years ago.

Including the families insistence on his birth mother being involved in the process, and his life.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2023 08:17 AM (isNL8)

83 "Political victories are achieved by patience, not rash action“

😂 you have to admire the tenacity of the GOPe

Posted by: Ex GOP at August 16, 2023 08:18 AM (C0Gpf)

84 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

85 Morning all, thx JJ , glad to see you got home safely. Read with interest the story about the girl assaulted by the diversity professor. All of the other diversity professors rallied to support their colleague . What did the young lady, a Hispanic by the way expect. Victimization is their sword and shield. The story should be given to every would teen who wants to be a social justice warrior. "It's a big club and you ain't in it"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:19 AM (GGja9)

86 Whelp.....we're empty nesters.

Thought we were doing OK, but woke up this morning to find the wife sleeping in the kid's bed......with the cat. Guess this is going to take a bit to adjust to......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

87 There are various others. I forget who was the senator from Sun Microsystems, but I remember that they had one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:08 AM (kBSKe)
==================
Did they need one? Scott McNealy's father was best friends with Mitt Romney's father, they worked together for years.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2023 08:20 AM (MOC99)

88 why not same state?
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:15 AM (BRHaw)
++++
Because according to the Constitution, if it happens, then the state's electoral votes cannot be cast:
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.

If both of the persons are from the same state, electors from that state logically cannot vote for either of them and so they *must* vote for a different slate of candidates or they must abstain. Either way, it means losing the electoral votes of the state if the candidate pair wins that state. In this case, it would mean that the Democrats would lose California's staggering 55 electoral votes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:20 AM (kBSKe)

89 Hey, Sponge. Where ya been?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:20 AM (xTRSc)

90 “Olivia expressed despair due to climate change.”
“Badge is anxious when he thinks about the future that he, and his potential children, will inherit.”
“Grace … is anxious about climate change.”
“Mica gets frustrated when he is required to stay indoors during the summer because of wildfire smoke.”

ffs They are fucking kids. They believed in the tooth fairy just 3 or 4 years ago and prolly think Mutant Ninja Turtles is a documentary.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:21 AM (BRHaw)

91 And it's also,
National Rum Day! 🍹

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

92 Of course we know Obama only learned of Biden extensive decades long graft and corruption on tv. And Biden's possible treason--its ony after it appears on State approved tv that O 'knows'. Obama NEVER knows anything except what he sees on tv...and a totally corrupt NSA, FBI, DOD and DOJ avoids telling him anything. Not even a smidgen. .
It's ALL about and can be traced to O and Kalorama. To talk about Biden is to truly take the fake and think you tackled the ball carrier.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (qW5d6)

93 I never seen 'The Blind Side'. Did I miss anything?

Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (88xKn)

94 And it truly saddens me that Fauci hasn't been brought up in front of some global tribunal for his crimes against humanity, then I remember: They were likely in on it, so he'll never suffer one consequence till he's judged by God.

Welcome to liberal Hell.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

95 "Expecting an ever-evolving AI 'intelligence' to remain constrained by its programmers' national interests may prove hopelessly naïve."
All Hail the Coming Computer King?
_______

Notice we are back to my youth here. The fear of rule by computers was common from the 60s through the 70s. Just watch an old Twilight Zone or Star Trek.

In the 80s and 90s, computers were seen as a force for freedom.

Now we're back to Rod's and Gene's dystopias.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (brAQZ)

96 7 First time I've heard of the DuPont/Biden connection.
----------
It rains paint and solvent in DE!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (krqg6)

97 So now Governor Hobbs is hinting of a 5th indictment in Arizona.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (NpAcC)

98 When Robert H. Richards IV, a DuPont heir, admitted to raping his 3-year-old daughter, Attorney General Beau Biden defended the judge who refused to lock him up because he has “strong family support” and “will not fare well in prison.”

****

Pedo families stick up for each other

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (vHIgi)

99 I always heard Biden called the "Senator from MBNA", as the credit card company (and the Lerner family) "lent" him the money to pay for that house Biden moved into, as well as his present one.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (MOC99)

100 Hey, Sponge. Where ya been?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:20 AM (xTRSc)

Moved the kid off to college.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

101 >> He is. He is not the only one, though, and I would *not* count Whitmer out. I think Whitmer is actually the stronger choice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:10 AM (kBSKe)

Whitmer! Ugh… just ugh. She reminds me of the evil white winter witch (winter forever but never Christmas) in Narnia (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe)…. She’s so unattractive in every way. I just can’t see her having broad appeal…. Of course I was shocked that she won reelection after how she treated the people of Michigan during covid… it was disgraceful

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (nNI2N)

102 “The Year of Free Speech is shaping up to be public relations window dressing,… President Pollack has stated that she remains as committed to DEI as she is to academic freedom, even though various Cornell DEI policies directly conflict with academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and free expression on campus. Political purity screens and DEI litmus tests have no place in the policies of a university.”
++++
What? You thought that commissars and their ideologically pure executive enablers and money men were just going to stop?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (kBSKe)

103 "Robert Zimmerman: "For though curses and obscenities have their place and proper time, in a civilization of rational civil adults one does not encourage their use. Instead, one limits their use to very rare exceptions, and even then if you are a mature thinking person you try to avoid their use entirely. By doing so you force yourself to reaction thoughtfully to difficult situations, rather than emotionally and irrationally."
We are Becoming a Nation of Barbarians
_____

Uh, that's a battle that was lost by 1970.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (brAQZ)

104 The story about Harvard students getting food stamps is cracking me up... Reverse noblesse oblige. Gotta love our wacky ruling class.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (0FoWg)

105 There's still a chance that the D primaries will be open and voters can influence, if Joe is forced out soon. If Joe lasts into the primaries he'll get lots of delegates that the Left will swing to whoever they decide to install.

If before, others like RFK Jr can catch fire. Kamala and Newsom won't fare well in primaries. Gretchen might.

Why I'm pounding the drum for Impeachment hearings to force the issue.

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

106 I never seen 'The Blind Side'. Did I miss anything?
Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (88xKn)
===============
some highly quotable lines.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2023 08:24 AM (MOC99)

107 The Blind Side movie was heartwarming but it’s getting ugly now. The real life Michael Oher is now suing the Tuohy family that took him in…. Alas, the racial angle will eventually be used, I predict. Sad…. No Hollywood ending. Sandra Bullock hardest hit?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:06 AM (nNI2N)

Supposedly he's tried to sue them multiple times in the past but his lawyers would always drop the case when they saw the evidence. I'm guessing he thinks they got more from the movie than they claim to have received.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 08:24 AM (uvymP)

108 I never seen 'The Blind Side'. Did I miss anything?
Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (88xKn)
*****
I've seen it several times and really liked it.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

109 I would think that in order for Trump to win any/all primary "elections" he'd probably need to be on the ballot. I don't think that's necessarily going to happen... him being on the ballot. If the intent is to keep him out of politics this would probably be a good first step.

As a write-in I wonder what his numbers would look like. They'd likely be good enough for 2nd behind whomever the left is going to put in the White House. But he's probably not going to be allowed back there anytime soon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2023 08:25 AM (Q4IgG)

110 Whitmer! Ugh… just ugh. She reminds me of the evil white winter witch (winter forever but never Christmas) in Narnia (The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe)…. She’s so unattractive in every way. I just can’t see her having broad appeal…. Of course I was shocked that she won reelection after how she treated the people of Michigan during covid… it was disgraceful
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (nNI2N)
++++
There's no reason to assume that the election was legitimate, but that doesn't matter. She won by contemporary standards and it is what it is.

She's a walking nightmare and would be an astoundingly destructive president. She also has lots of other upsides as far as the Dems are concerned. She's a she, she's ideologically pure, she's ruthless, she's corrupt, she's from the interior. There are a lot check marks in Whitmer's "plus" column for the Dems.

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

111 I never seen 'The Blind Side'. Did I miss anything?
Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (88xKn)

Good movie. Whitlock has a good column on the controversy, too.

Mornin', all! Car trouble means driving the family assault vehicle into the ground all day instead of the 14 y/o commuter go-cart. Moar covfefe . . .

Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2023 08:25 AM (ZSsrh)

112 The story about Harvard students getting food stamps is cracking me up... Reverse noblesse oblige. Gotta love our wacky ruling class.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (0FoWg)
++++
Which story is this?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:26 AM (kBSKe)

113 Mornin', all! Car trouble means driving the family assault vehicle into the ground all day instead of the 14 y/o commuter go-cart. Moar covfefe . . .
Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2023 08:25 AM (ZSsrh)
++++
Hopefully the econo-box isn't too badly broken!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:27 AM (kBSKe)

114 100 Ah, that’s always a bittersweet occasion, for both parents and child.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:27 AM (xTRSc)

115 112 The story about Harvard students getting food stamps is cracking me up... Reverse noblesse oblige. Gotta love our wacky ruling class.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 16, 2023 08:23 AM (0FoWg)
++++
Which story is this?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:26 AM (kBSKe)

It's not on here but easy to look up. TL;DR Harvard pays its grad students being used as teachers 40k, which is apparently low enough to be on food stamps.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 16, 2023 08:27 AM (eYoxG)

116 Test

Posted by: Redenzo at August 16, 2023 08:28 AM (V/pbu)

117 By the time I retire (in 10-12 years), I'll be lucky to get enough from SS to buy the premium Fancy Feast cat food for my daily meal ration.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2023 07:56 AM (YIVH2)

Luxury!! You'll eat the store brand of cat food, canned in China, like the rest of us and be happy.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at August 16, 2023 08:28 AM (Zvtjl)

118 ... Harvard pays its grad students being used as teachers 40k, which is apparently low enough to be on food stamps.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 16, 2023 08:27 AM (eYoxG)
++++
Delightful. Some of them may be legit if they have no other income, but if I had to guess, that's not the norm.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:28 AM (kBSKe)

119 How is your father, Sponge?

Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2023 08:28 AM (ZSsrh)

120 107 Supposedly he's tried to sue them multiple times in the past but his lawyers would always drop the case when they saw the evidence. I'm guessing he thinks they got more from the movie than they claim to have received.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 08:24 AM (uvymP)

Also feels like being portrayed as an idiot in the movie caused NFL teams to think he was dumber than he was, and claims it harmed his draft position and what sort of contracts teams were willing to offer him.

Posted by: XTC at August 16, 2023 08:28 AM (UnA8+)

121 Let's make a deal. I'll quit with the blistering torrents of profanity the very moment the fussy, supine lickspittles of Conservative Inc. get off their ample asses and do a single fucking thing to stand up the dickchopping communist fanatics who are dismantling our society before their own avaricious eyes.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 16, 2023 08:29 AM (0FoWg)

122 "Apparently he was never actually adopted, just signed into a conservatorship. "

But this was known, acknowledged and written about by him years ago.

Including the families insistence on his birth mother being involved in the process, and his life.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 16, 2023 08:17 AM (isNL

Is he retired from football? Is he running out of money, as is common? And, furthermore, "apparently he was never actually adopted, just signed into a conservatorship" - who gives a shit?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (uvymP)

123
Do not neglect the fact that the then-CEO of DuPont, Ellen Kullman, served on Barky's "Advisory Council on Jobs", headed by Jeffrey Immelt, GE Poobah.

More bullshit from the simp.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (5pZqO)

124
He is. He is not the only one, though, and I would *not* count Whitmer out. I think Whitmer is actually the stronger choice.

Either way, it will probably mean the removal of Kamala Harris. If it's Newsom, she can't be the VP because they're from the same state. If it's Whitmer, they'll probably take the opportunity to scuttle her and put a black man in at VP to balance the ticket.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:10 AM

in addition to Gretchen Whitmer being the Jussie Smollet of governors; she's also the governor of the UAW

Posted by: AltonJackson Contractual Obligation Comment at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (ENBF0)

125 Hopefully the econo-box isn't too badly broken!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:27 AM (kBSKe)

I'll likely find out whether it's another repair bill or a new car today. I'm torn on which I'd rather have at this point.

Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (ZSsrh)

126 Luxury!! You'll eat the store brand of cat food, canned in China, like the rest of us and be happy.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at August 16, 2023 08:28 AM (Zvtjl)
++++
One of my local supermarkets has an own-brand variety of canned tuna. It isn't very good. Low-quality fish, lots of water or oil. But it is food, and human food at that, and the price per pound (or oz, whatever) is lower than most of the canned cat food products they have.

I actually don't know how the canned cat food sells. The cat loves the cheap tuna, and I can eat it, too, in a pinch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (kBSKe)

127 OT: Shoddy construction in China? Oh yeah.. Fake drains that contributed to recent horrific flooding.
https://youtu.be/D6MANCW9yWA

Fire hoses in high-rises not connected to water
https://youtu.be/62hEhJqzxlU

A culture of corruption, of shortcuts. Makes you wonder about all the drugs made in China for the USA.

Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (2S53I)

128 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2023 08:31 AM (T4tVD)

129 2020: The clot shot is the only way to stop the spread. IVM is for horses!

2021: The clot shot is PROVEN to stop the spread and now mandated. Also, IVM is banned

2021 DoD leak: The clot shot doesn't do anything. IVM is effective against COVID. Also COVID came from that chinese lab.

2022: The clot shot stops the spread? We never said that. Anyone who claims so is spreading fake news. Also IVM is still banned

2023: Covid? Who cares about that old thing. Also we never banned IVM.

Posted by: The government at August 16, 2023 08:31 AM (lc5cP)

130 121. Don’t hold back, YD. Tell us how you really feel.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:31 AM (xTRSc)

131 I always wondered why Hollyweird doesn't do a movie and call it "The Seeing Side" about a young YT child who gets adopted by a black family in the hood and is taught all the ways of surviving like a little G until he becomes a big G. Rapping, slinging dope, pimping hos and doing the occasional drive by. Set it in Chicago. Get Oprah to play the adopting mammy and it would be a blockbuster.

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 16, 2023 08:13 AM (hqgX1)

I was born a poor black child.

Posted by: Navin at August 16, 2023 08:31 AM (Zvtjl)

132 118 Some of them have no other income, except for the Trust fund. After shopping with food stamps, some will call Mummy to please send Cook up for the weekend after the dorm microwave disaster.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 16, 2023 08:31 AM (0EOe9)

133 WATCH: Fiery Clash Between Republican Ronny Jackson and Police at Rodeo

Another example of how these pigs only care about their AUTHORI-TYE and not people's well-being.

Posted by: Shit like this hands "Defund the Police" ammo on a silver platter at August 16, 2023 08:32 AM (fhX0j)

134 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 16, 2023 08:32 AM (IaTa3)

135 I never seen 'The Blind Side'. Did I miss anything?
Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:22 AM (88xKn)

Very rich white couple steals a poor black child, forces him to attend a private school and play football. He becomes a highly paid left tackle in the NFL.

It was okay, it wasn't great.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 08:32 AM (uvymP)

136 Fuhrer Whitmer is more competent then most Dem office holders. So on the one hand you'd think the left would want her but...as we've seen with Biden the various factions that pull the shots in the Dem coalition want someone who does not think for him or herself.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:33 AM (lc5cP)

137 How is your father, Sponge?
Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2023 08:28 AM (ZSsrh)

He's doing better. Since we've been out of town, his brother has come back to town and is spending time with him. He appears to be eating, finally, and is now in a different rehab center that is going to concentrate on speech therapy and getting him physically up and moving a lot more than previous. I'll likely go see him today.

Thanks for asking.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

138 I'll likely find out whether it's another repair bill or a new car today. I'm torn on which I'd rather have at this point.
Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (ZSsrh)
++++
Unless it's really bad - or the car is otherwise worn out or you dislike it or just want something new - a repair bill is usually the better approach. The car is already paid off (I am assuming), and repairs are unlikely to cost more than the total car payment in any given year.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:33 AM (kBSKe)

139 In this case, it would mean that the Democrats would lose California's staggering 55 electoral votes.
____

Well, this analysis is sorely lacking the application of Meta-law. Standard law is not equitable. Meta-law transcends this problem, and by allowing the Dem ticket to keep the 55 electoral votes, equity is restored. Note, this doesn't apply to a situation with a Trump/DeSantis ticket in Fla, for again, reasons of equity.

Posted by: Perfesser Laurence Tribe - Meta-lawyer at August 16, 2023 08:33 AM (fs1hN)

140 Good to hear that about your dad, Sponge.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:34 AM (xTRSc)

141 I never seen 'The Blind Side'.

********

This statement seems inherently obvious. Who really has?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 08:34 AM (991eG)

142 "But Trump said "pussy." Worse, he had the gall to even think he had the right to say it."

and he said "pussy" in a private conversation. Why do we not get Hillary's or Biden's private conversations recorded? What much more vulgar words do they say when dressing down their subordinates?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2023 08:34 AM (Cus5s)

143 WEF Boss Schwab Backs Mass State Intrusion: ‘Nothing to Hide, Nothing to be Afraid of.’

Like we've been hearing from our own cops and other authorities for the past several decades.

Posted by: Totalitarian thugs gotta totalitarian thug at August 16, 2023 08:35 AM (fhX0j)

144 I thought the easy fix was for the VP nominee to move their legal residence. Like Cheney "moving" to Wyoming.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 16, 2023 08:35 AM (RqMSv)

145 I'll likely find out whether it's another repair bill or a new car today. I'm torn on which I'd rather have at this point.
Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (ZSsrh)
++++
Unless it's really bad - or the car is otherwise worn out or you dislike it or just want something new - a repair bill is usually the better approach. The car is already paid off (I am assuming), and repairs are unlikely to cost more than the total car payment in any given year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:33 AM (kBSKe)

Yeah, we're borderline on whether the repairs even out with a car payment. I want to wait until the teen buys her own car to trade in on new, but the teen being stranded with yet another problem is also not okay. We haven't had a car payment in years . . . ugh.

Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2023 08:36 AM (ZSsrh)

146 The DuPonts have some weird family members. One guy rapes his three year old daughter and another one murdered Dave Schultz the Olympic wrestling champ.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:36 AM (GGja9)

147 Good to hear that about your dad, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:34 AM (xTRSc)

Thanks.

We're told that he'll be there for a minimum of 2 weeks. so we'll see how he responds. We're also still pushing for his VA benefits along with now leaning toward assisted living for he and his wife. That's likely to go over with him like a post binder fart in church, but we're doing what we've got to do. All these trips to the hospital lately have proven they can't really do it themselves anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

148 "and he said "pussy" in a private conversation."

Said in CA which requires consent to be recorded. NBC had the tape from The Apprentice but gave it to WaPo to leak.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 16, 2023 08:36 AM (RqMSv)

149 Technically the supposed problem with Trump saying p*ssy is that he was talking about gold diggers.

And if you go to sites like Althouse you'll see this annoys left leaning women for some reason. They'll deny gold diggers exist for a while then eventually offer up that maybe some such women exist but we shouldn't talk about them because it will give people bad ideas.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

150 and he said "pussy" in a private conversation. Why do we not get Hillary's or Biden's private conversations recorded? What much more vulgar words do they say when dressing down their subordinates?
Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2023 08:34 AM (Cus5s)

"That's a bit f*ckin' deal......"

- - - - Joe Biden on an open mic during a national broadcast

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

151 146 The DuPonts have some weird family members. One guy rapes his three year old daughter and another one murdered Dave Schultz the Olympic wrestling champ.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:36 AM (GGja9)

It's all the chemicals.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 16, 2023 08:37 AM (eYoxG)

152 EcoHealth is being sued by 4 families that lost loved one to covid. More, harder faster

Posted by: Ben Had at August 16, 2023 08:38 AM (ZzsKp)

153 "Fuhrer Whitmer is more competent then most Dem office holders."

Yes. And a cross between Nurse Ratched and the Red Queen.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 16, 2023 08:38 AM (RqMSv)

154 MFM f#cks up again.

"Entire police force in Goodhue, MN resigns, leaving town of 15,000 people in limbo."

The HQ last night, that I've confirmed elsewhere:

"How does an entire police force including the chief resign and you are "blindsided"? Per the 2020 census the city had a population of 1,243. Talk about not knowing the pulse of your community."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 08:39 AM (krqg6)

155 A culture of corruption, of shortcuts. Makes you wonder about all the drugs made in China for the USA.
Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 16, 2023 08:30 AM (2S53I)
++++
I know a guy who sells herbal supplements manufactured in China because it's the only place they *can* be manufactured. The producer of them - an American firm - had no end of trouble until he figured out the game. He quality checks *every* batch. He noticed that after the initial six months (where high-quality goods were delivered), they started subbing ingredients and not delivering to the contract. He found another manufacturer. Same progression.

So he hired someone from the States to go live in China and ride herd on the third manufacturer and watch the production like a hawk and enforce quality. With a foreign overseer - in the contract, of course - there at all times during sourcing and manufacturing, he is able to maintain quality. It costs at least as much as producing it in the States would, but China is where all the stuff is grown and cultivated and he has little choice.

Getting quality from China is possible. Getting it affordably from China is not.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:39 AM (kBSKe)

156 @RepAOC
·
Follow
US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!

We shall REDOUBLE our efforts after having lost completely the ideas of what were our original plans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:39 AM (BRHaw)

157 Good to hear that about your dad, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:34 AM (xTRSc)
++++
Absolutely! Keep on truckin', Sponge.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:39 AM (kBSKe)

158 Carlos Mencia: "Your Feelings Are Not Protected in the Constitution"

Wonder who he stole that from.

Posted by: Please God, not Amy Schumer... at August 16, 2023 08:40 AM (fhX0j)

159 The ruling caste is making sure that they will never be out of power again. They have abandoned all pretense. And even their "moderates" are fully on board. Oh why does Trump want to delay the trials surely he wants the chance to be proven innocent before the elections as if there is ANYTHING on the up and up in these indictments.

And the Q simps claiming that Trump really wants all these court cases so he can show them all that he's actually been President of Space Force all this time.

This house sho gone crazy.

Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 08:40 AM (Jk9SN)

160 Good to hear that about your dad, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:34 AM (xTRSc)
++++
Absolutely! Keep on truckin', Sponge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Thirded !

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

161
why not same state?
Posted by: rhennigantx

It's all there in the ancient piece of toilet paper formerly known as the Constitution.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (5pZqO)

162 Question of the Day

Why isn't race swapping a character considered blackface?

NBC: The More You Know 🎶🎵

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (lgxc1)

163 The big takeaway on Bloomberg news from the GA indictment is that it includes 18 of Trump's advisors, and some of them will likely turn on Trump because GA prison is no fun.

I'm not sure how admitting to doing lawful things would constitute turning on Trump, but this is clown legal world.

"Yes your honor, at Trump's direction, I reserved a meeting room for the purpose of discussing our legal options, and again at Trump's direction, I tweeted out that you should watch OAN segment covering the GA election."

*sobs*

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (fs1hN)

164 Olympic swimmer Helen Smart dies suddenly at age 43

https://tinyurl.com/mu7cszxt

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

165 @RepAOC
·
Follow
US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!

Sunscreens are causing a massive vitamin D deficiency in the worlds population leading to illness and death.

But that's the plan, isn't it. Were the world actually healthy, Covid would've failed miserably.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

166 The book "The Blind Side" was actually more about football in general than Oher specifically . The blind side refers mostly to the left offensive tackle who protects the QBs (right handed) blind side . A lot dealt with how they tried to stop LT from causing havoc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (GGja9)

167 Julie Newmar: 90 years old today.

She was still a 1 the last time I saw a current pic of her.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (Y6AXb)

168 Olympic swimmer Helen Smart dies suddenly at age 43

https://tinyurl.com/mu7cszxt
Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

Nothing to see here. Only SADS. Please disburse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

169 Also feels like being portrayed as an idiot in the movie caused NFL teams to think he was dumber than he was, and claims it harmed his draft position and what sort of contracts teams were willing to offer him.
Posted by: XTC at August 16, 2023 08:28 AM (UnA8+)

Of course, the fact that he wasn't portrayed as an idiot is irrelevant. He was portrayed as someone who had not received a quality education leading to his senior year in high school. He was drafted 23rd. I don't know who was drafted higher but that's right on up there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (uvymP)

170 Getting quality from China is possible. Getting it affordably from China is not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:39 AM (kBSKe)

Quality fade is what it's called.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (eYoxG)

171 I thought the easy fix was for the VP nominee to move their legal residence. Like Cheney "moving" to Wyoming.
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 16, 2023 08:35 AM (RqMSv)
++++
Ordinarily, yes. But there's a variable on this one: timing. Biden is still the presumptive nominee. There isn't much more time for the Dems to decide if they're going to shit or get off the pot. If the replacement is based on a crisis response (Biden vegetablizes or dies), they might not have time to pull off the 'ole switcharoo on part of the ticket.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (kBSKe)

172 I worked for one company that wanted to get into the Chinese market so they partnered with a company to do local manufacturing there.

The Chinese company then stole our IP and became a competitor. The VP behind the idea was NOT fired.

And a couple years later another VP had a great idea. Let's partner with a Chinese company for local manufacturing and get into the Chinese market. And you'll never guess what happened...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (lc5cP)

173
The DuPonts have some weird family members. One guy rapes his three year old daughter and another one murdered Dave Schultz the Olympic wrestling champ.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:36 AM

I was just reading up on the murder case because it was sorta local to the Philly area in 1996. The murdering DuPont died in prison at age 72 in 2010.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 16, 2023 08:43 AM (enJYY)

174 Very interesting Martian speculation in todays BehindTheBlack link, on the possibility of a SMOD-like impact on one side of Mars so enormous it cracked the other side of the planet.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2023 08:43 AM (U0PO9)

175 146 The DuPonts have some weird family members. One guy rapes his three year old daughter and another one murdered Dave Schultz the Olympic wrestling champ.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:36 AM (GGja9)

It's all the chemicals.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 16, 2023 08:37 AM (eYoxG)
---
And possibly some inbreeding...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 16, 2023 08:43 AM (YIVH2)

176 Absolutely! Keep on truckin', Sponge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Thirded !
Posted by: JT at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

Fourthed! Also, we became empty nesters 2 years ago and I’m still getting used to it. Much harder on my wife, though

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:43 AM (nNI2N)

177 Good to hear that about your dad, Sponge.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:34 AM (xTRSc)
++++
Absolutely! Keep on truckin', Sponge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Thirded !
Posted by: JT at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

Thank you all.

Life gets overwhelming at times. We're searching for strength and praying a lot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

178 Bob Dole was the Senator from Archer Daniels Midland.

--Bob Dole

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 16, 2023 08:44 AM (354Wv)

179 147 Sponge, obtaining VA benefits is surprisingly easy if you have his DD214 and avoid the middlemen. By that I mean go to the nearest regional office, not your local clinic or hospital business office.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 16, 2023 08:44 AM (0EOe9)

180 Question of the Day

Why isn't race swapping a character considered blackface? ...
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (lgxc1)
++++
Because it's more properly called cultural appropriation?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:44 AM (kBSKe)

181 Of course, the fact that he wasn't portrayed as an idiot is irrelevant. He was portrayed as someone who had not received a quality education leading to his senior year in high school. He was drafted 23rd. I don't know who was drafted higher but that's right on up there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Ravens. Went on to have a HOF career and made 34.5$ in salary alone in his career.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 08:45 AM (CIS44)

182
Olympic swimmer Helen Smart dies suddenly at age 43

https://tinyurl.com/mu7cszxt

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 16, 2023 08:45 AM (ENBF0)

183 Quality fade is what it's called.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (eYoxG)
++++
And it's quite deliberately engineered.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:45 AM (kBSKe)

184 The impact at Hellas would certainly have been strong enough to send shock waves through the planet, enough to crack the opposite hemisphere as well as generate the volcanic energy needed for the growth of the Tharsis Bulge.

I saw Tharsis Buldge open for Uriah Heap at the Will Rodgers in Ft Worth in 1975.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:45 AM (BRHaw)

185 The DuPonts have some weird family members. One guy rapes his three year old daughter and another one murdered Dave Schultz the Olympic wrestling champ.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:36 AM

I was just reading up on the murder case because it was sorta local to the Philly area in 1996. The murdering DuPont died in prison at age 72 in 2010.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 16, 2023 08:43 AM (enJYY)
===================
Pete DuPont aside, I bet not many DuPonts led productive lives, or even got much education.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 16, 2023 08:45 AM (U0PO9)

186 > Getting it affordably from China is not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:39 AM (kBSKe)

Someone who purports to know said that SOP for a Chinese manufacturer is this:

1) deliver top-quality samples to get the contract
2) degrade the quality when actual production begins
3) continue 2) until the customer complains

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 08:46 AM (Y6AXb)

187 >>Long before Newsom’s mask deal, California hired a Chinese company, the state-owned Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industries, to build the new span of the Bay Bridge. At the time, the Chinese company had no experience building bridges, and it showed. The project came in 10 years late, $5 billion over budget, and riddled with corrosion, bad welds, and other safety issues. When informed of the safety issues, Gov. Jerry Brown famously said, “I mean, look, shit happens.”

This is a classic One Belt One Road China scam. They are doing this all over the world. It is designed to get a country into huge debt to China on infrastructure projects that never get done/fail. WTF?!?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Belt_and_Road_Initiative

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 08:46 AM (avru5)

188 https://twitter.com/i/status/
1691118848882376704

Maui Senator smirks about the fire. Bastard.

Posted by: Gwenn at August 16, 2023 08:46 AM (9Gr7n)

189 The story about Harvard students getting food stamps is cracking me up... Reverse noblesse oblige. Gotta love our wacky ruling class.
------------
Metro Toronto food banks recent report shows 75% of users have been in Canada less than a year; 89% are renters; and 93% are BIPOC [and I'm guessing two of those letters are represented alot more than the others].

Just like you guys and illegals.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 08:46 AM (krqg6)

190 "Robert Zimmerman: "For though curses and obscenities have their place and proper time, in a civilization of rational civil adults one does not encourage their use.

His whole piece bashes the Oliver Anthony song saying it's full of "obscenities." Um...no. Not even close. He comes off as a bit of a snobby milquetoast pantywaist like the guy from NR the other day.

Posted by: Clutch the pearls and faint! at August 16, 2023 08:47 AM (fhX0j)

191 181 Only $34.50? No wonder the guy’s pissed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:47 AM (xTRSc)

192 Sponge, obtaining VA benefits is surprisingly easy if you have his DD214 and avoid the middlemen. By that I mean go to the nearest regional office, not your local clinic or hospital business office.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 16, 2023 08:44 AM (0EOe9)

Noted, however, we took him to a VA office where they took photos and such, yet a follow-up revealed they lost everything and have no record of his ever having been to the office.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

193 Technically the supposed problem with Trump saying p*ssy is that he was talking about gold diggers.

And if you go to sites like Althouse you'll see this annoys left leaning women for some reason. They'll deny gold diggers exist for a while then eventually offer up that maybe some such women exist but we shouldn't talk about them because it will give people bad ideas.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:37 AM (lc5cP)

I wonder why they bother. It's such an exceedingly rare phenomenon that no one would even know what you're talking about if you said "gold digger".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 16, 2023 08:47 AM (uvymP)

194 162 Question of the Day

Why isn't race swapping a character considered blackface?

NBC: The More You Know 🎶🎵
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 08:41 AM (lgxc1)

Now do LadyFace!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:47 AM (BRHaw)

195 I saw a ethnically Chinese comedian in the US. He saw a guy in the front row who was Chinese and asked him where the guy was from and the guy mentioned a place in China.

The Comedian looks down at his pocket and says, "China what a great country! Long live the great Chairman!"

Then he looks at the audience and says, "We have to say that now right? Especially if you have a Huawei phone". It was funny and terrifying...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:47 AM (lc5cP)

196 some will call Mummy to please send Cook up for the weekend after the dorm microwave disaster.
------------
I'm sorry, honey. Cook died in a mysterious water-paragliding accident.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 08:47 AM (krqg6)

197 1) deliver top-quality samples to get the contract
2) degrade the quality when actual production begins
3) continue 2) until the customer complains
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 08:46 AM (Y6AXb)
++++
Yup. There are some variations on the theme, but that's it. But after the customer complains, they never get back to sample quality - they just come off the bottom and restart the process.

Like with the new Bay Bridge, which used Chinese-manufactured structural steel shapes that often came in at below quality and with the holes in the wrong places.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:47 AM (kBSKe)

198 133 WATCH: Fiery Clash Between Republican Ronny Jackson and Police at Rodeo
----------
I always thought Sting was a dick!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 08:48 AM (krqg6)

199 The one indicted “co-conspirator” with Trump that really infuriates me is Jenna Ellis. She provided pro-bono legal help to Grace Community Church (John MacArthur) in 2021… they won their covid cases. For that single reason she rates very high in my book…. And I assume she’d be disbarred if convicted. She’s fairly young

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:48 AM (nNI2N)

200 Bide the senator from DuPont, Dole from ADM, Dingle family congress people from auto industry, Harry Reid from Vegas mob, any others that specific?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:48 AM (GGja9)

201
Getting quality from China is possible. Getting it affordably from China is not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:39 AM (kBSKe)

///

So, are drug companies doing the same oversight in China your friend uses? Who knows? Maybe I need to check my blood pressure daily to make sure I'm not taking sugar pills -- or worse.

Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 16, 2023 08:49 AM (MQkFE)

202 Isn't the DuPont family still running the Dow Chemical Company?

Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 08:49 AM (88xKn)

203 In this case, it would mean that the Democrats would lose California's staggering 55 electoral votes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:20 AM (kBSKe)

You're assuming Democrats wouldn't find a way to defy or subvert the law which is a bold assumption.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 08:49 AM (lgxc1)

204 Maui Senator smirks about the fire. Bastard.
___

To be fair, he might just have resting smirk face. A lot of unaccomplished rich people have this look. (Joe Biden for example)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 16, 2023 08:49 AM (fs1hN)

205 189 The story about Harvard students getting food stamps is cracking me up... Reverse noblesse oblige. Gotta love our wacky ruling class.
------------
Metro Toronto food banks recent report shows 75% of users have been in Canada less than a year; 89% are renters; and 93% are BIPOC [and I'm guessing two of those letters are represented alot more than the others].

Just like you guys and illegals.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 08:46 AM (krqg6)

It is about 50 mil to put all grads on the meal plan. Harvard has over 54 BILLION.

It is a 0.1% ISSUE

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:49 AM (BRHaw)

206 https://twitter.com/i/status/
1691118848882376704

Maui Senator smirks about the fire. Bastard.

The guy looks *exactly* like when a CEO is interviewed about acquiring another company or getting into a new market.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:50 AM (lc5cP)

207 So, are drug companies doing the same oversight in China your friend uses? Who knows? Maybe I need to check my blood pressure daily to make sure I'm not taking sugar pills -- or worse.
Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 16, 2023 08:49 AM (MQkFE)

the China fake Syntroid is worthless and made my wife and daughter sick for about 2 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:50 AM (BRHaw)

208 > Bide the senator from DuPont,

It's a never-ending source of black humor to me that the people who are always ranting about "corporations" can then turn around and vote for the former Senator-for-Life from the state that has more registered corporations than actual human residents.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 08:50 AM (Y6AXb)

209 >>Question of the Day - Why isn't race swapping a character considered blackface? ...

Just wait - articles are coming out about Bradley Cooper's offensive "Jew face" for a Leonard Bernstein biopic, because he wears a prosthetic nose.

Putting aside the particulars of the fake nose, isn't it funny how the definition of cultural appropriation/"blackface" evolves while we're still compelled the say a man in a dress is a "woman?"

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 08:51 AM (avru5)

210 You're assuming Democrats wouldn't find a way to defy or subvert the law which is a bold assumption.
___

See Larry Tribe's analysis @139

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 16, 2023 08:51 AM (fs1hN)

211 192 Was that a vet center or the regional office? The regional offices are pretty efficient but there are some not so much. Pittsburgh misplaced some of my stuff, but Little Rock recovered everything in good time and came back with an increase decision in a reasonable amount of time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 16, 2023 08:51 AM (0EOe9)

212 All of the other defendants in Fulton are NOT billionaires and are going to face millions in legal fees no matter what. Plus while under felony indictment their livelihoods are threatened. The Democrats are gleeful over this. They can't wait to watch it on TV

Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 08:51 AM (Jk9SN)

213 The one indicted “co-conspirator” with Trump that really infuriates me is Jenna Ellis. She provided pro-bono legal help to Grace Community Church (John MacArthur) in 2021… they won their covid cases. For that single reason she rates very high in my book…. And I assume she’d be disbarred if convicted. She’s fairly young
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 08:48 AM (nNI2N)
++++
If you so much as shook hands with the bad orange man, you're head is on the block.

It's called "being made into an object lesson." Babylon 5 out of context:
I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price.

Well, they're sharpening their pikes, and the warning is very clear: do not associate with anyone who is not down the program.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:52 AM (kBSKe)

214 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott

Rep.
@AdamSchiff
, 2019: “Bill Barr, on the president’s behalf, is weaponizing the Justice Department to go after the president’s enemies. When you win an election, you don’t seek to just prosecute the losing side.”

SUPERCUT!

In 2019, Dems blast "dictator" Trump for using DoJ to investigate a political rival, turning the U.S. into a "banana republic"

https://tinyurl.com/mskrpwy4

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

215 @208 the left isn't particularly intelligent just unbelievably persistent

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:53 AM (GGja9)

216 Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 16, 2023 08:42 AM (GGja9)

I think the title is a play on words about being race blind, which 15 years later is now a Class A Felony punishable by death.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 08:53 AM (lgxc1)

217 ""Raffensperger did not clarify how, exactly, indicting a former president, and the leading opposition candidate in the next election, plus his attorneys, for contesting a vote meant upholding the rule of law or the Constitution"

It is worse than a "two tiered justice system".

One side gets prosecuted for non-crimes, the other side faces no prosecution for the real crimes.

It is NOT just "selective prosecution", it is persecution of the innocent, and protection of the guilty. It is not "well they did the same thing and were not prosecuted" ... because they did not do the same thing, they committed actual crimes.

Tank Abrams is an example of "they did the same thing", except she had no legit gripe whereas Trump (and a couple R senators?) did have real gripes. But the Zuckerberg thing and toilet leak shutdowns and other evidence exposed real criminal frauds.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2023 08:53 AM (Cus5s)

218 Is Jeff Bridges related to the DuPonts?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 08:53 AM (991eG)

219 Out modern government looks like a twisted game of Clue doesn't it?

Miss Hillary killed Mr Body on the sidewalk with the pistol

Professor Black killed Mr Body in his bedroom with the pillow

Col Mike killed Mr Body in the pond with the paddleboard

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:54 AM (lc5cP)

220
RepAOC
·
Follow
US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!

Just because you mixed drinks doesn't mean you were a chemist, Sugar Tits.

By the way, when are your extravagant nuptials? Or is Riley (wisely) having second thoughts and getting cold feet?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2023 08:54 AM (5pZqO)

221 You're assuming Democrats wouldn't find a way to defy or subvert the law which is a bold assumption.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 08:49 AM (lgxc1)
++++
Not at all. It's the way the rule is written, not the way anything would actually go down. I think the Dems will play along with it, too. It's useful. If the candidate ends up being Newsom, they can use it as an easy excuse to get rid of Kamala.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:54 AM (kBSKe)

222 LOL. I told my wife that it’s National Rum Day. She thought I said “National Grump Day” and thought “Isn’t that every day?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:54 AM (xTRSc)

223 @214 well let's call the Dems out on hypocrisy again because it has proven so effective in the past!

Red State DAs, get to indicting. Congress get to impeaching.

Tit for tat is the only way to fix this.

Because we need tats for our tits.

Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 08:55 AM (Jk9SN)

224 TTFN

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 16, 2023 08:56 AM (BRHaw)

225 If you so much as shook hands with the bad orange man, you're head is on the block.

They went so far as to demand the name of the woman who was a sign language interpreter for Trump because she was "spreading disinformation."

These people won't stop. Plan accordingly.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2023 08:56 AM (4olE8)

226 Because we need tats for our tits.
Posted by: blaster

*Christy Mack has entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 08:56 AM (CIS44)

227 They went so far as to demand the name of the woman who was a sign language interpreter for Trump because she was "spreading disinformation." ...
Posted by: NR Pax at August 16, 2023 08:56 AM (4olE

++++
When it goes pear-shaped, I hope the revolutionary warlord who takes over remembers this standard and goes after the typists who put all of Biden's speeches and all of the newstalkers' scripts into the prompter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:57 AM (kBSKe)

228 Tank Abrams is an example of "they did the same thing", except she had no legit gripe whereas Trump (and a couple R senators?) did have real gripes. But the Zuckerberg thing and toilet leak shutdowns and other evidence exposed real criminal frauds.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2023 08:53 AM (Cus5s)

You got your whataboutism in your racism!

Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 08:57 AM (Jk9SN)

229 America isn't having a crisis of confidence in the institutions.

America is going through something worse. Its most ardent believers in value and virtue of institutions are being forced to face what only decades ago were being battled over in the hearts of its citizens.

The left, for some time, has been shouting that the institutions are unjust, be it war mongering interventionist policy, institutional racism/sexism, corporate elitism, anti-vaxxing or otherwise. The right, in many cases, understood the danger of this and supported the institutions in an effort to maintain the cohesion of the country.

But now the right has an awkward moment, we must accept begrudgingly that we were in err, that America's institutions are in fact corrupt, and that there is a high degree of doubt in the morality of anything the government asks Americans to back in the spirit of patriotism.

This crisis will not so easily be overcome. Americans are asked to pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to a system that seems morally bankrupt and depraved. Decades of placing the least righteous among us in the seats of power has eroded the very fabric of our country.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2023 08:58 AM (41s8q)

230 I've seen clips of the actress playing Snow White, saying it's no longer about the prince but about Snow realizing her leadership abilities or somesuch.
Uhh, it's a love story and you're removing the love part.
If you want to make a Marysue-sassy-gal-becomes-girboss movie come up with your own story!

As Critical Drinker mentions, this fairy tale has held up for hundreds of years but now it needs to be "updated for the modern audience." No one will remember this updated version 10 years from now, but the original story will live on for many more years.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 08:58 AM (avru5)

231 re: Chi-Coms in CA

SFGate had an article yesterday: "Since 2018, a shadowy company called Flannery Associates has been buying up land around Travis Air Force Base — so much land, in fact, that it is now the biggest property owner in the county."

They have paid more than the going rate for that land in that area. It surrounds Travis on three sides.

Hmmmm?

Surely it is totally innocent? Right? Nothing to see here. Just a li'l ol' business trying to set up next door to an air force base...

Posted by: Lee Also at August 16, 2023 08:58 AM (YPgjG)

232 If the revolution comes I want to see HR drones that enforced the clot shot mandate in the dock.

It was be interesting hearing a whole bunch of people argue, again, "I was only following orders" only without the German accent this time.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:59 AM (lc5cP)

233 ... If you want to make a Marysue-sassy-gal-becomes-girboss movie come up with your own story! ...
Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 08:58 AM (avru5)
++++
They did. Everything but the title.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:59 AM (kBSKe)

234 >>LOL. I told my wife that it’s National Rum Day. She thought I said “National Grump Day” and thought “Isn’t that every day?”

Ha! I would like to have a National Grump Day.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 08:59 AM (avru5)

235 LOL. I told my wife that it’s National Rum Day. She thought I said “National Grump Day” and thought “Isn’t that every day?”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:54 AM (xTRSc)
******
Rum drinks make me happy.
Always reminds me of being on a tropical island soaking up the sun.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 09:00 AM (NpAcC)

236 When discussing the quality, or lack there of, of stuff made in China remember they are building ships, planes, subs and tanks for whatever designs Xi has in mind.

Those pieces of equipment are likely every bit as "well made" as anything else they manufacture.

And they're building those things every bit as fast as they build plastic toys that break two days after the kid opens it.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2023 09:00 AM (Q4IgG)

237 We're told that he'll be there for a minimum of 2 weeks. so we'll see how he responds. We're also still pushing for his VA benefits along with now leaning toward assisted living for he and his wife. That's likely to go over with him like a post binder fart in church, but we're doing what we've got to do. All these trips to the hospital lately have proven they can't really do it themselves anymore.
-----------
It was the same with my then 93-year-old dad in late 2019 and early 2020.

We got him into full care showing him I couldn't take care of him as I had him and mom in 2019 and earlier so it was a strain on me; got our GP to agree with that; and luckily we were able to get him into the best VA care centre in the country [that our GP confirmed to him].

After several weeks living there, he was massively pleased with his treatment and me seeing him for every Raptors' game [west coast matches excepted] until the mid-March lockdowns ended my weekly visits.

Maybe you could do the same with your dad, Sponge, and point out that assisted living still has plenty of freedom?

["VA" here is Veterans Affairs Canada.]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 09:00 AM (krqg6)

238 It was be interesting hearing a whole bunch of people argue, again, "I was only following orders" only without the German accent this time.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 08:59 AM (lc5cP)
++++
Too many people know otherwise. They were not merely "following orders." They were enforcing them with relish and naked malice. It's hard to unsee that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 09:00 AM (kBSKe)

239 Just caught my first ban of the Musk-era Twatter.

Apparently "skank ho" is now a protected class.

I've appealed the ban.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 09:00 AM (Y6AXb)

240 When Robert H. Richards IV, a DuPont heir, admitted to
----------

Fucking hell, I didn't need this shit today.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 09:00 AM (lgxc1)

241 Looks like “Mr, Loyalty” is going to help with 17 of his 18 co-defendants legal bills—except Jenna Ellis. Her crime? Complementary statements about DeSantis.

Two reactions: one, enjoy prison you wish-dot-Com-mafioso.

Two: you really do lose the “3D chess” mystique when you refuse to help one of your own lawyers in a RICO case.

Posted by: MarleysGhost at August 16, 2023 09:01 AM (9L3dT)

242 But now the right has an awkward moment, we must accept begrudgingly that we were in err, that America's institutions are in fact corrupt, and that there is a high degree of doubt in the morality of anything the government asks Americans to back in the spirit of patriotism.

Oh, I'll go further. Soviet America is evil through and through. The America that won the Cold War died decades ago and the thing that replaced it isn't better then any of our nominal "enemies" like Vlad.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 09:01 AM (lc5cP)

243 And the FBI launched an investigation.

The Clueless looking for the Blameless.

Being an "intelligence" agency, not a law enforcement agency has its advantages for the Stasi.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 16, 2023 09:01 AM (CecP5)

244 Ha! I would like to have a National Grump Day.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 08:59 AM (avru5)
****
January 29th is National Curmudgeons Day.
And October 15th is National Grouch Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

245 Two: you really do lose the “3D chess” mystique when you refuse to help one of your own lawyers in a RICO case.
Posted by: MarleysGhost at August 16, 2023 09:01 AM (9L3dT)

No doubt she didn't want to be connected to Trump in any way...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 16, 2023 09:03 AM (bs+z0)

246 " it isn't better then any of our nominal "enemies" like Vlad."

Deep down Vlad is actually a Russian patriot.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 16, 2023 09:03 AM (RqMSv)

247 Those pieces of equipment are likely every bit as "well made" as anything else they manufacture.

So you'll have Chinese soldiers that are taught to fight and instilled with national pride fighting with crappy equipment versus American soldiers taught how to NOT fight taught that they are always wrong fighting with top notch tech....made with components from China.

Should be... "interesting"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 09:03 AM (lc5cP)

248 L. I told my wife that it’s National Rum Day. She thought I said “National Grump Day” and thought “Isn’t that every day?”
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 16, 2023 08:54 AM (xTRSc)

Why can't it be both?

Posted by: Make a fuckin' mojito, dammit! at August 16, 2023 09:04 AM (fhX0j)

249
Apparently "skank ho" is now a protected class.

I've appealed the ban.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

"hank sko" still good?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 16, 2023 09:04 AM (5pZqO)

250 Is Jeff Bridges related to the DuPonts?
Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 08:53 AM (991eG)

Jeff Bridges played a murderer in a really interesting but REALLY creepy movie from the early 90s called The Vanishing. With Keifer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. Pretty good

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:04 AM (nNI2N)

251 >>RepAOC
·
Follow
US sunscreens are far behind the rest of the world and our regulations aren’t necessarily making our sunscreens better or safer — but it doesn’t have to be this way!

Talk about 'scope creep'!
Why is this Congress' business - is there no other more appropriate and important issues to deal with?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 09:04 AM (avru5)

252 >>Jeff Bridges played a murderer in a really interesting but REALLY creepy movie from the early 90s called The Vanishing. With Keifer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. Pretty good

Oof, creepy. It was a remake with the originally being equally creepy.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 09:05 AM (avru5)

253 Jeff Bridges played a murderer in a really interesting but REALLY creepy movie from the early 90s called The Vanishing. With Keifer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. Pretty good
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Love that flick

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 09:05 AM (CIS44)

254 ...generate the volcanic energy needed for the growth of the Tharsis Bulge.
-------------
Nuts!!!

Posted by: Zemulac Beeblebrox McAuliffe at August 16, 2023 09:06 AM (krqg6)

255 What underscores our transmogrification of what was the greatest nation and society in history into nothing more than a gilded banana republic – and the dissolution and squalor left in the wake of armies of criminals, derelicts and drug addicts, political thuggery, and a national debt that is reaching dangerously high levels set to erase the "gilded" part – are the real crimes and borderline (if not actual) treason of Joe "Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants" Biden.

I think that we have checked off enough boxes that Banana Republic really doesn't apply.

We need to become comfortable with: Failed State

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 16, 2023 09:06 AM (p8A+W)

256 Fuck the Left.
March them to the curb . . . .then cap them . . . .take a samurai victory, piss on their backs . . ...and let the dogs and the rains take away what's left.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards at August 16, 2023 09:06 AM (g3qlC)

257 >>January 29th is National Curmudgeons Day.
And October 15th is National Grouch Day.

Noted, thanks!!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 09:06 AM (avru5)

258 Jeff Bridges will forever be The Dude in my mind.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2023 09:07 AM (41s8q)

259 I got your Tharsis Bulge right HERE!

Posted by: Mars, grabbing his crotch at August 16, 2023 09:08 AM (fhX0j)

260 JJ - Cleanup on needed on aisle 256?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 09:08 AM (avru5)

261 DuPont is also a big reason that original Freon (R-12) got banned. The patent had expired, so DuPont went along with the environmentalists' demands that it be banned.

Just like how Honeywell was fine with the US government legislating the now-dominant R-410A out of existence in 2020. It's a phase-in, of course, but it will be banned in a few years. For no reason in the slightest.

The big chemical companies will get another bite at the cherry anyway, and it shows fealty to Big Enviornment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 09:08 AM (kBSKe)

262 Hawaii dem senator hirono says there are entire states where you can't say the words climate change.
I wonder if she could expand on that and tell us which states they are. Florida is supposed to be a very red state now. And I here those words all the time down here.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 16, 2023 09:09 AM (dr4Q1)

263
Well, they're sharpening their pikes, and the warning is very clear: do not associate with anyone who is not down the program.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 08:52 AM (kBSKe)

///

This makes you wonder: who would be crazy enough to work in a future Trump administration?? Or any Republican administration? A corrupt, weaponized "justice" system is a frightful thing.

Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 16, 2023 09:09 AM (SL5u5)

264 Klaus Schwab: "In this new world... everything is going to be transparent, and you have to get used to it, you have to behave accordingly... if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be afraid"

-
Boy, that's hardly Nazi like at all!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 16, 2023 09:09 AM (FVME7)

265 The impact that almost cracked Mars open

********

Slim Whitman's Indian Love Call had an even bigger impact on Martians...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 09:10 AM (991eG)

266 This makes you wonder: who would be crazy enough to work in a future Trump administration?? Or any Republican administration? A corrupt, weaponized "justice" system is a frightful thing.
Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 16, 2023 09:09 AM (SL5u5)
++++
Why, only naves and traitors.

Kind of the point.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 09:10 AM (kBSKe)

267 SUPERCUT!

In 2019, Dems blast "dictator" Trump for using DoJ to investigate a political rival, turning the U.S. into a "banana republic"

https://tinyurl.com/mskrpwy4
Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

Further proving EVERYTHING the left accuses their opponents of doing, they're already doing tenfold.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

268 Is Jeff Bridges related to the DuPonts?
-------------
A bilingual pun too far.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 09:10 AM (krqg6)

269 There's nothing more necessarily to add to yesterday's story of Trump's latest indictment for the high crime of thinking he could exercise his first amendment rights and really thinking he had them in the first place.

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

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action. The fourth time it's a CONSPIRACY THEORY!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:11 AM (6VKyY)

270 Jeff Bridges played a murderer in a really interesting but REALLY creepy movie from the early 90s called The Vanishing. With Keifer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. Pretty good
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:04 AM

I remember that one. Creepy, but good.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 16, 2023 09:11 AM (FVJNG)

271 Why is this Congress' business - is there no other more appropriate and important issues to deal with?
Posted by: Lizzy at August 16, 2023 09:04 AM (avru5)

Ever since the Congressional investigations into excessive baseball home runs, I've assumed the answer to this is always "No. No, they really have nothing better to do."

Posted by: spindrift at August 16, 2023 09:11 AM (pyXMr)

272 It's always the same with guys like Zimmerman. Silence or mousey objections when it comes to the Left's psychotic rampage of destruction... But as soon as a right winger says "fuck this, you dickchopping commie creepers," then their dander goes right up. "That's swearing! Barbaric! I bet he hasn't even learned to code! Fetch my monkeypox salve, this is making me flare up!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 16, 2023 09:12 AM (0FoWg)

273 Bipartivifiloxtureagain are tight!

https://tinyurl.com/ydxcuzbe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 16, 2023 09:12 AM (FVME7)

274 AI becomes AP (Artificial Propagandist)

China on Tuesday implemented a new interim regulation requiring providers of artificial intelligence services to support the communist system and prevent the technology from subverting state power, according to the text of the administrative measure. The restrictions highlight a renewed emphasis on security under Chinese President Xi Jinping that regulates all technologies and information in the country from perceived threats to Communist Party’s rule.

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

275 'Nonpartisan' Voter Registration Org is Actually a Dem Get Out The Vote Machine, Report Says
_______

We all know that "nonpartisan" (like "bipartisan") means "Democrat". The alternate term is "far right".

Posted by: Eeyore at August 16, 2023 09:12 AM (brAQZ)

276 Hawaii dem senator hirono says there are entire states where you can't say the words climate change.
I wonder if she could expand on that and tell us which states they are. Florida is supposed to be a very red state now. And I here those words all the time down here.
Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 16, 2023 09:09 AM

In her defense, she's a complete imbecile.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 16, 2023 09:13 AM (FVJNG)

277 > 268 Is Jeff Bridges related to the DuPonts?

In much the same way that Marcel Duchamp was related to Totie Fields.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 09:13 AM (Y6AXb)

278 RNC Research
@RNCResearch

Residents of Saint Paul, Minnesota, say rampant crime has turned the Democrat-run city into "a garbage can":

"It's been allowed to become like that -- and it's sad and it's pathetic"

"I feel like getting a license to carry because of my fear"

https://tinyurl.com/rpsadxyn

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

279 Fragile State Index:

Social indicators:
✓ Demographic pressures
✓ Refugees or internally displaced persons
✓ Group grievance
□ Human flight and brain drain

Economic indicators:
✓ Uneven economic development
✓ Poverty and economic decline

Political and military indicators:
✓ State legitimacy
✓ Public services
✓ Human rights and rule of law
✓ Security apparatus
✓ Factionalized elites
□ External intervention

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 16, 2023 09:13 AM (p8A+W)

280 There’s a certain truth to the joke. DuPont is the corporation that defines Biden’s career.

-----------

One word: ~~Plastics~~ Spastics.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:13 AM (6VKyY)

281 In her defense, she's a complete imbecile.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState a

Her whore house was pretty successful

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 09:14 AM (CIS44)

282 Residents of Saint Paul, Minnesota, say rampant crime has turned the Democrat-run city into "a garbage can":

Sorry.. You voted for this crap... And you will continue to do so

Posted by: It's me donna at August 16, 2023 09:14 AM (bs+z0)

283 > In her defense, she's a complete imbecile.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 16, 2023 09:13 AM (FVJNG)

She's a strong contender for the coveted "Dumbest Person in Congress" award, along with AOC, Eric Swalwell, and Maxine Waters.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 09:14 AM (Y6AXb)

284 264 Klaus Schwab: "In this new world... everything is going to be transparent, and you have to get used to it, you have to behave accordingly... if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't be afraid"

-
Boy, that's hardly Nazi like at all!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 16, 2023 09:09 AM (FVME7)

Shouldn't people who disagree get a hickory shampoo? That is what they deserve for resisting violations of their rights by the authorities, yes?

Posted by: Unquestioning obedience and obeisance before authority made this country great! at August 16, 2023 09:15 AM (fhX0j)

285 Residents of Saint Paul, Minnesota, say rampant crime has turned the Democrat-run city into "a garbage can":

Sorry.. You voted for this crap... And you will continue to do so

Posted by: It's me donna at August 16, 2023 09:14 AM (bs+z0)

When the voters say Garbage Can't, Democrats say Garbage Can.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 09:15 AM (lgxc1)

286 She's a strong contender for the coveted "Dumbest Person in Congress" award, along with AOC, Eric Swalwell, and Maxine Waters.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Cori Bush, Sheila Jackson Lee, Hank Johnson... man seems to be some commonalities among these people

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (CIS44)

287 Further proving EVERYTHING the left accuses their opponents of doing, they're already doing tenfold.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)
*******
It's infuriating when the average voter doesn't realize that this is happening and is unable to see the forest for the trees.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

288
Fragile State Index:

Cultural indicators:
✓ Majority Mass Formation Psychotic Death Cult Clinical Insanity

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (6VKyY)

289
She's a strong contender for the coveted "Dumbest Person in Congress" award, along with AOC, Eric Swalwell, and Maxine Waters.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 09:14 AM (Y6AXb)

Big sunscreen has failed society.

- - - - - Alex O'Cortez

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

290 >>RepAOC???
___________

A couple weeks ago she was all bent out of shape over the parody accounts that keep making fun of her idiocy. She threatened to quit X (Twitter) if they weren't banned.

So... did those parody accounts get axed or (more likely) she can't quit the twit?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (Q4IgG)

291 Speaking of DuPonts, the nearly impenetrable
Pontine Marshes set the effective operational limits on the right flank of the Anzio beachhead in 1944.

No relation.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (991eG)

292 The Vanishing was a remake.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (lgxc1)

293 Biden Junta Goes Full-on Stalinist Against Trump-With William Barr as Andrei Vyshinsky.

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

294 They may not sweep clean but they definitely sweep broad.

Kanye West’s Former Publicist Among Those Indicted With Trump In Georgia

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (FVME7)

295 Looks like we're gonna get more rain out thar.

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (T4tVD)

296 It's been allowed to become like that -- and it's sad and it's pathetic"

"I feel like getting a license to carry because of my fear"

"Sir, your three minutes has expired. Next."

That's all that they will hear in response from their "representatives".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (41s8q)

297 Sorry to start a movie thread, but speaking of Jeff Bridges, my wife and I sat down to watch Thunderbolt and Lightfoot recently…. I’d never seen it before. Our conclusion: horrible. Worst Eastwood flick ever…. We couldn’t make it to the end

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (nNI2N)

298
"It's been allowed to become like that -- and it's sad and it's pathetic"

"I feel like getting a license to carry because of my fear"

https://tinyurl.com/rpsadxyn
Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 09:13 AM (NpAcC)

"But I will continue to vote Democrat because they're for the little guy and will fight for ME!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

299 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !

Glad you're back safely !

Posted by: JT at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (T4tVD)

300 "Let us make the best of it." More defeatist mewling from the pathetic so-called "Right." We're always the ones trying to make the best of it while the Left is lopping off our heads. F*ck off.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 16, 2023 09:18 AM (iou+s)

301 Xi's Whiz

********

Ha Sefton! You funny man!! Make me laugh long time!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 09:18 AM (991eG)

302 Looks like we're gonna get more rain out thar.
Posted by: JT at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (T4tVD)

Must be nice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

303 The Vanishing was a remake.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (lgxc1)

Why am I thinking of a guy driving a car cross-country or something like that?

Posted by: dantesed at August 16, 2023 09:18 AM (88xKn)

304 Sunscreen just reinforces white privilege anyway.....

Posted by: steevy at August 16, 2023 09:18 AM (FQmDC)

305 Hunter Reportedly Confesses to Biden’s Payments in Revealing 2018 Text...'Too many cooks in the kitchen...'

Rep. Tim Burchett
@RepTimBurchett
·
Follow
This is no longer just about Hunter Biden. The president shared this bank account with him. More and more evidence just keeps hitting us in the mouth and eventually there’s got to be some justice. The American people are owed that much.

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

306 Like Custer bragging about the Little Big Horn.

Biden Admin Brags About Stranded Americans They Evacuated After Leaving Afghanistan

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (FVME7)

307
"Sir, your three minutes has expired. Next."

That's all that they will hear in response from their "representatives".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (41s8q)

That's not true. They might also hear "Officer, remove this man from the premises."

Posted by: Something else you might hear at a council meeting at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (fhX0j)

308
"But I will continue to vote Democrat because they're for the little guy and will fight for ME!"

One of the hardest arguments to get someone to accept is getting lefty LIVs to acknowledge that who they vote for determines the policies they get.

But Democrat X says he likes the little people like me! How could voting for him make my life worse?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (lc5cP)

309 304 Sunscreen just reinforces white privilege anyway.....
Posted by: steevy at August 16, 2023 09:18 AM (FQmDC)

True... It's the pasty White supremacists that use the stuff

Posted by: It's me donna at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (bs+z0)

310
Rep. Tim Burchett
@RepTimBurchett
·
Follow
This is no longer just about Hunter Biden. The president shared this bank account with him. More and more evidence just keeps hitting us in the mouth and eventually there’s got to be some justice. The American people are owed that much.
Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

I'm sure the DOJ will get RIGHT on that........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

311 Vanishing point. Dodge Challenger.
Different movie.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at August 16, 2023 09:20 AM (dr4Q1)

312 She's a strong contender for the coveted "Dumbest Person in Congress" award, along with AOC, Eric Swalwell, and Maxine Waters.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 16, 2023 09:14 AM (Y6AXb)

Patty Murray is sitting right there.

Posted by: blaster at August 16, 2023 09:20 AM (Jk9SN)

313 The Vanishing was a remake.
Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM

*consults imdb*

I did not know that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 16, 2023 09:20 AM (FVJNG)

314 eventually there’s got to be some justice. The American people are owed that much.
Posted by: SMOD

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA *inhales* BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *passes out*

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 09:20 AM (CIS44)

315 Also, I missed Muldoon’s Jeff Bridges pun. Apologies… I’m slow

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:21 AM (nNI2N)

316 314 eventually there’s got to be some justice. The American people are owed that much.
Posted by: SMOD

Well bless your heart

Posted by: It's me donna at August 16, 2023 09:21 AM (bs+z0)

317 Murray was the one that argued the Taliban won over the people of 'Stan by building them day care centers so women with kids could work outside of the home right?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 09:21 AM (lc5cP)

318 So, why is the rich black football player suddenly saying that the story about is life, that he participated in making the movie about, is all a lie and whitey didn't help him one bit?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

319 It's always the same with guys like Zimmerman. Silence or mousey objections when it comes to the Left's psychotic rampage of destruction... But as soon as a right winger says "fuck this, you dickchopping commie creepers," then their dander goes right up. "That's swearing! Barbaric! I bet he hasn't even learned to code! Fetch my monkeypox salve, this is making me flare up!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 16, 2023 09:12 AM (0FoWg)

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

Forget it, Dice -- it's 1930'sville.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:21 AM (6VKyY)

320 Of Course: NYC Professor Who Threatened Reporter With Machete May Get Jail-Free Plea Deal

-
Let she who has not threatened machete decapitation cast the first stone.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 16, 2023 09:21 AM (FVME7)

321 Workers at San Francisco's Federal Building located on 7th and Mission streets are reportedly being advised to work from home due to safety concerns over crime. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has also reportedly expressed safety concerns about her staff who work there.

This summer, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would double the amount of California Highway Patrol officers deployed in San Francisco as part of a plan to crackdown on the ongoing deadly fentanyl crisis.

It's safe. This is just more RW propaganda. San Francisco isn’t even in the top 100 cities in the US for crime.

Exactly. anything to change the music, eh? San Francisco is doing reasonably well. There are problems, but only in pockets.

It's nationwide. What right wingers don't want to mention is how COVID and work from home as well as tech correction has contributed to retail closures. Foxnews can go fuck themselves.

mostly right wingers piling on against an exceedingly prosperous blue city in a prosperous blue state.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 16, 2023 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

322 @RepTimBurchett
This is no longer just about Hunter Biden. The president shared this bank account with him. More and more evidence just keeps hitting us in the mouth and eventually there’s got to be some justice. The American people are owed that much.
Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (RHGPo)
++++
Owed? The American people are "owed" something?

There is much I could say, but I can't be bothered. I'll just quote Jessup and say that I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to.

Posted by: The Deep State at August 16, 2023 09:22 AM (kBSKe)

323 NYTimes:

It’s Not Your Father’s Democratic Party. But Whose Party Is It?

.. this is weird coming from the NYTimes

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:22 AM (RHGPo)

324 So, why is the rich black football player suddenly saying that the story about is life, that he participated in making the movie about, is all a lie and whitey didn't help him one bit?

Why is Jennifer Connolly arguing that people casting her in roles solely because she is pretty after it made a career for her sexist and wrong?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 09:22 AM (lc5cP)

325
Those pieces of equipment are likely every bit as "well made" as anything else they manufacture.

For complex systems, I would think the integration of components would be a mess.

When I was doing some DoD work with multiple sub contractors, most of the time was spent playing Game of Thrones over whose design imperfection should be compensated for by changes to other systems.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 16, 2023 09:22 AM (p8A+W)

326 mostly right wingers piling on against an exceedingly prosperous blue city in a prosperous blue state.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 16, 2023 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

Okay , that one takes the cake... LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (bs+z0)

327 Sorry to start a movie thread, but speaking of Jeff Bridges, my wife and I sat down to watch Thunderbolt and Lightfoot recently…. I’d never seen it before. Our conclusion: horrible. Worst Eastwood flick ever…. We couldn’t make it to the end
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:17 A

I liked Arlington Road. Joan Cussack had crazy down pat in that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (FVJNG)

328 Who's dumber Mazie Hirono, Karine Jean-Pierre or Kamala Harris?

Posted by: steevy at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (FQmDC)

329 In much the same way that Marcel Duchamp was related to Totie Fields.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

*******

Thank you, Rodrigo

It's like I don't know these people any more...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (991eG)

330
I liked Arlington Road. Joan Cussack had crazy down pat in that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (FVJNG)

Seems to be a family trait that works well in hollywood.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

331 mostly right wingers piling on against an exceedingly prosperous blue city in a prosperous blue state.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions b

prosperous - I dont think that word means what you think it means

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (CIS44)

332 ... Exactly. anything to change the music, eh? San Francisco is doing reasonably well. There are problems, but only in pockets. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 16, 2023 09:22 AM (JCZqz)
++++
The same can be said for Philadelphia. After all, not *every* neighborhood is a shit hole and not *every* street is littered with needles or feces

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (kBSKe)

333 When Robert H. Richards IV, a DuPont heir, admitted to raping his 3-year-old daughter, Attorney General Beau Biden defended the judge who refused to lock him up because he has “strong family support” and “will not fare well in prison.”

-----------

Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:24 AM (6VKyY)

334 Who's dumber Mazie Hirono, Karine Jean-Pierre or Kamala Harris?
Posted by: steevy at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (FQmDC)

Why split atoms when you're not making any energy whatsoever?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

335 Police responded to a report of a woman firing a gun into the air at the intersection of Bellmore and Jerusalem avenues in North Bellmore around 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon.

Footage of the incident, posted on Reddit, shows the woman holding the handgun and threateningly pointing it at other cars as she walks across the road.

At one point she even holds the gun to her own head, the video shows.

Suddenly, tires can be heard screeching and a Nassau Police cruiser flies into the frame.

The woman tries to get out of the way, but the officer clips her, knocking her to the ground.

“Drop the gun!” one officer screams as he sprints toward the woman.

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

336 We couldn’t make it to the end
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (nNI2N)

///

Good choice. Dumb movie; I saw it to the disappointing end.

Posted by: JM in Florida, now Illinois at August 16, 2023 09:24 AM (2S53I)

337 San Fran like most big blue shitholes has had more and more crime leaking into the rich areas. That's what generates the news now.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 09:24 AM (lc5cP)

338 Murray was the one that argued the Taliban won over the people of 'Stan by building them day care centers so women with kids could work outside of the home right?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 16, 2023 09:21 AM

You are correct, sir! Dumber than a box of very dumb rocks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 16, 2023 09:24 AM (FVJNG)

339 When Robert H. Richards IV, a DuPont heir, admitted to raping his 3-year-old daughter, Attorney General Beau Biden defended the judge who refused to lock him up because he has “strong family support” and “will not fare well in prison.”

-----------

Unexpectedly.
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:24 AM (6VKyY)

"That's my boy!!!"

- - - - Joe Biden, teabagging his daughter

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

340 Sir, your three minutes has expired. Next."

That's all that they will hear in response from their "representatives".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (41s8q)

That's not true. They might also hear "Officer, remove this man from the premises."
Posted by: Something else you might hear at a council meeting at August 16, 2023 09:19 AM (fhX0j)
*****
IJBOL.
which I'm told now replaces LOL.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 09:25 AM (NpAcC)

341 Who's dumber Mazie Hirono, Karine Jean-Pierre or Kamala Harris?
Posted by: steevy at August 16, 2023 09:23 AM (FQmDC)
++++
Maybe a tie between Hirono and KJP, but I suspect that Hirono has the edge.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 09:25 AM (kBSKe)

342 297 Sorry to start a movie thread, but speaking of Jeff Bridges, my wife and I sat down to watch Thunderbolt and Lightfoot recently…. I’d never seen it before. Our conclusion: horrible. Worst Eastwood flick ever…. We couldn’t make it to the end
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (nNI2N)

"Pfft."

- - Paint Your Wagon

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2023 09:25 AM (x0n13)

343 Jeff Bridges played a murderer in a really interesting but REALLY creepy movie from the early 90s called The Vanishing. With Keifer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock. Pretty good
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:04 AM

I remember that one. Creepy, but good.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 16, 2023 09:11 AM (FVJNG)

The original German? movie was creepier and better because it followed the logic of the story to its end and didn't go for the happy Hollywood ending.

Just a devastating movie if you went in without knowing any more than the original premise and had no idea of the end.

One of the few movies that I haven't forgotten at all.
Even decades later.

Slow burn but ultimately terrifying and creepy.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2023 09:25 AM (QzZeQ)

344 DuPont has long been ignored by MSM. It was Dow that was assailed by it and the Left (BIRM) during Nam. And it's been DuPont that drove the Ozone controversy prior to their Freon patent expiration. Better Living (for DuPont) through "science."

Posted by: Pascal at August 16, 2023 09:25 AM (dK19S)

345 This is no longer just about Hunter Biden. The president shared this bank account with him. More and more evidence just keeps hitting us in the mouth and eventually there’s got to be some justice. The American people are owed that much.
____

You'll keep getting hit in the mouth and like it!

Posted by: Gerrick Marland at August 16, 2023 09:26 AM (fs1hN)

346 "I think that we have checked off enough boxes that Banana Republic really doesn't apply. We need to become comfortable with: Failed State" Posted by: Reuben Hick"

Or a "Confiscated State".

not sure when the final acquisition took place, but it started decades ago, maybe when the CIA was formed, maybe 1913?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 16, 2023 09:26 AM (Cus5s)

347 Headline made me think of my favorite Pulp song.

Also made me chuckle.

A two-fer!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 16, 2023 09:26 AM (KbCG3)

348 How come no one asks the NeverTrump politicians and writers:

Why don't you give a speech and prove your ideas are more popular than Trump by the numbers you draw?

They never will.
Because they are cowards, losers and liars: Because if they dared put their preferences to a real-world test, they would be exposed:
It's not Trump they hate-- it's his supporters.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 16, 2023 09:26 AM (yw7eP)

349 241 Looks like “Mr, Loyalty” is going to help with 17 of his 18 co-defendants legal bills—except Jenna Ellis. Her crime? Complementary statements about DeSantis.

Posted by: MarleysGhost at August 16, 2023 09:01 AM (9L3dT)

Allegedly.

Would like to hear it from the horse's mouth, but nah all "reliably sourced" stories about Trump are automatically true.

Posted by: ... at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (lgxc1)

350 Worst Eastwood flick ever…. We couldn’t make it to the end
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 16, 2023 09:17 AM (nNI2N)

"Pfft."

- - Paint Your Wagon
Posted by: J.J. Sefton a

This is a very long list. His style of one shot and done and out by noon while making some sure winners has produced a LONG list of shite as well.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (CIS44)

351 Forget The Past: FDA Claims It Never Warned Against Ivermectin for Chinese COVID19

-----------

"The future is known, comrade -- it's the past that keeps changing!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (6VKyY)

352 The left's responses to the Pelosi Fed Bldg illustrate just how insane these people are. You simply cannot reason with this.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (Q4IgG)

353 Stealing ace's thunder: Archaeologists discover lost village dating back 1,500 years.

'Lost' 1,500-year-old Teotihuacan village discovered in the heart of Mexico City
By Sascha Pare; Live Science
Excavations revealed three human burials, as well as ceramics and architectural structures from a settlement that existed around A.D. 450 to 650.

https://tinyurl.com/mry8n4fd

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (krqg6)

354
-----------

"The future is known, comrade -- it's the past that keeps changing!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (6VKyY)

It's those that control the books that control the history.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

355 prosperous - I dont think that word means what you think it means
__

I read it as 'preposturous'

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (fs1hN)

356 prosperous - I dont think that word means what you think it means
__

I read it as 'preposturous'
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 16, 2023 09:27 AM (fs1hN)

That's ponderous man, really ponderous.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

357 They never will.
Because they are cowards, losers and liars: Because if they dared put their preferences to a real-world test, they would be exposed:
It's not Trump they hate-- it's his supporters.
_____

That's because the Cult of Trump is yuuuuge!

Posted by: National Review at August 16, 2023 09:29 AM (fs1hN)

358 It's infuriating when the average voter doesn't realize that this is happening and is unable to see the forest for the trees.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 16, 2023 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack upon the doctrines of the Party — an attack so exaggerated and perverse that a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it.

Posted by: 2 Minutes Hate at August 16, 2023 09:29 AM (hqgX1)

359 That's ponderous man, really ponderous.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)
++++
Don't be so pedantic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 16, 2023 09:29 AM (kBSKe)

360 I think the thing Whitmer fears, more than anything, is a Tornado dropping a house on her.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 16, 2023 09:29 AM (CecP5)

361 "Pfft."

- - Paint Your Wagon

*******

Worse singer

Lee Marvin or Clint Eastwood?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 09:30 AM (991eG)

362 Worse singer

Lee Marvin or Clint Eastwood?
Posted by: Muldoon

Russell Crowe

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 16, 2023 09:30 AM (CIS44)

363 IJBOL

---------

I Just Belched Out Loud?

/busted-out laughing?

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 16, 2023 09:31 AM (6VKyY)

364 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 16, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

365 "Pfft."

- - Paint Your Wagon

*******

Worse singer

Lee Marvin or Clint Eastwood?
Posted by: Muldoon at August 16, 2023 09:30 AM (991eG)

Worst movie musical?

Tommy.

Putting in several "singers" who can't sing was a bold choice, Cotton.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 16, 2023 09:31 AM (QzZeQ)

366 A Van Gogh kind of a day
ART NOOD

Posted by: Skip at August 16, 2023 09:31 AM (MIc+U)

367 It's safe. This is just more RW propaganda. San Francisco isn’t even in the top 100 cities in the US for crime.

By no greater an authority than Wikipedia San Francisco, in practically every individual metric (murder, rape, robbery, theft, etc) is in the 30th-40th range of FUSA cities.

Furthermore, the comparison is stupid because it is like the Poverty Rate being stuck at 12% for years because the definition of Poverty is set at a percentage of average household income.

Comparing a increasingly crime-ridden city with another increasingly crime-ridden city only is measuring the delta in decline

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 16, 2023 09:31 AM (p8A+W)

368 I mean, look at their great hope to defeat Trump, DeSantis.

He's fallen to 3rd because the stink (and acts) of NeverTrump are all over him.

He'd easily be in second, likely less than 20 behind Trump, if he campaigned against them, the NeverTrump losers.

Notice that? You recall any criticism since he announced of the NeverTrump losers destroying the country? Notice how he didn't tell Romney and his weakling "Everyone drop out so we can beat trump" plan to get f'ed?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 16, 2023 09:31 AM (yw7eP)

369 Difficult to have rising crime when the Soros' DAs and new laws mean no one is arrested let alone prosecuted and convicted.

BTW, a Nike store near the expensive stored looted a few days ago ["Nordstream"??!!] was looted yesterday.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 16, 2023 09:32 AM (krqg6)

370 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 16, 2023 09:34 AM (GshMh)

371 This summer, Governor Gavin Newsom announced he would double the amount of California Highway Patrol officers deployed in San Francisco as part of a plan to crackdown on the ongoing deadly fentanyl crisis.

It's safe. This is just more RW propaganda. San Francisco isn’t even in the top 100 cities in the US for crime.

Exactly. anything to change the music, eh? San Francisco is doing reasonably well. There are problems, but only in pockets.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 16, 2023 09:22 AM (JCZqz)
===
Bullsh*t.

The only thing Gavin doesn't f*ck up is "announcements."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 16, 2023 09:38 AM (JvZF+)

372 “’FDA explicitly recognizes that doctors do have the authority to prescribe ivermectin to treat COVID,’ Ashley Cheung Honold, a Department of Justice lawyer representing the FDA, said during oral arguments on Aug. 8 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.”

Judges indicated they agree that the FDA lacks the power to give medical advice; Judge Clement said, ‘You’re not authorized to give medical advice.’”

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

373 Good morning, JJ.

As always, starting my day here with coffee and thoughts after reading your words.
I'm at a loss and feel everything is over. Truly over. I honestly have come to believe that we will never have a fair election in the United States again. And it makes perfect sense as the elites who run the show can't ever afford to lose power and be held accountable. And only one guy is out there taking all the arrows while the rest of the field "talks" about what they'll do when they are president. Fucking cowards and sellouts, the whole lot of them! The new American police state is in full service, big brother is watching us and all our politicians are dutifully following within the lines laid out by the state, to ensure their seat at the federal trough.
We are done here. Thanks for watching the play. And in the words of Ray Batty, it's time to die.

Posted by: Tracy at August 16, 2023 09:44 AM (LHRhh)

374 Biden Budget Deficits Look Like Those Normally Seen In Recessions

...and Biden wants to spend even more.

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 09:53 AM (RHGPo)

375 "It's always the same with guys like Zimmerman."

It's called virtue signaling and it's done on both sides of the political spectrum in various ways.

Posted by: Alter Ego at August 16, 2023 09:55 AM (wsHtO)

376 On Jul 31, Canadian investor and “Shark Tank” star Kevin O’Leary, also known as “Mr. Wonderful,” announced plans to teach about the “unprecedented” boycott of Bud Light to college students nationwide this fall.

“This is an extraordinary case that I’ll be teaching in business schools across America this fall,” O’Leary said in an interview with Fox News.

“To lose 25% market share has never been achieved, and it’s impossible to even dream it,” O’Leary Fox News, mentioning that some of the largest previous moves in the beer market range between 1-5%.

He emphasized that beer is essentially the same product, and what sets it apart is the power of its brand. In April 2023, Bud Light partnered with controversial transgender influencer, Dylan Mulvaney.

“You have to ask yourself: ‘on a campaign that really brings you into a discussion around gender identity, is that the right thing for my beer brand?’” O’Leary said,.referring to Mulvaney’s “365 Days of Girlhood” Tiktok video series, which initially propelled him into the spotlight.

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 10:01 AM (RHGPo)

377 Read about upcoming Biden trip to Lake Tahoe. Article said he will "stay mostly on Nevada side" of lake. Curious wording about a curious trip.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 16, 2023 10:25 AM (OqSlY)

378 Budweiser made the choice to 'diss' their regular customers while trying to reachout to a tiny market segment. Just not a good idea.

They could have endured the Mulvaney nonsense, but the video 'diss'-ing the current customers was just too much.

It seems petty obvious that InBev and A-B just don't see this as two issues to make a "perfect storm" of sorts. Their best course of action was to fire Heinershied for the video and STFU about Mulvaney.

Instead, A-B let Heinershied make Bud Light the "beer of nut cases".

Posted by: SMOD at August 16, 2023 10:29 AM (RHGPo)

379 Illegal Aliens getting court dates in the 2030's allowing them to work in US?

Quite possible. Way to go, Biden Admin, leave them here long enough to create anchor babies.

https://is.gd/H3Do0n

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2023 10:36 AM (ynpvh)

380 We need modern Nuremburg trials here in the US. Only problem is the left runs the show, so we already see and know who gets this treatment.

https://is.gd/sVdLMP

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 16, 2023 10:38 AM (ynpvh)

381 Burisma?
It isn't a Ukrainian company
It is headquartered on Cyprus and is owned by friends of Putin.
If they thought giving Hunter Biden money would influence Joe Biden, it sure looks to me like wasted money.

Posted by: Paul at August 16, 2023 10:56 AM (vE0xc)

382 I wonder what Irenee DuPont would have thought of Irving Shapiro, who was the company CEO in the 70s.

Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at August 16, 2023 11:08 AM (kvDvI)

383 "The GOP-e is in on the whole thing, pal - jjs"

Yep, and it starts with the 15 or so DeceptiCons in the Senate. They are: Blunt (MO), Burr (NC), Capito (WV), Cassidy (LA), Collins (ME), Cornyn (TX), Ernst (IA), Graham (SC), McConnell (KY), Murkowski (AK), Portman (OH), Romney (UT), Tillis (NC), Toomey (PA) and Young (IN)

They side with the Left side of the UniParty on everything.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 16, 2023 11:53 AM (klw0w)

384 382 I wonder what Irenee DuPont would have thought of Irving Shapiro, who was the company CEO in the 70s.
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at August 16, 2023 11:08 AM (kvDvI)

I'm sure the words "Joo-bastard" would've figured prominently and frequently.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 16, 2023 01:16 PM (x0n13)

385 Yep, and it starts with the 15 or so DeceptiCons in the Senate. They are: Blunt (MO), Burr (NC), Capito (WV), Cassidy (LA), Collins (ME), Cornyn (TX), Ernst (IA), Graham (SC), McConnell (KY), Murkowski (AK), Portman (OH), Romney (UT), Tillis (NC), Toomey (PA) and Young (IN)

Hey Danimal28, don't forget our cucked Senator, Roger Wicker (MS) in your list. Our other one, Cindi-Hyde Smith is about worthless too. One of the reddest states in the union and we have these two Chamber of Commerce bots representing us. They state GOP has rigged the system where they will always control who has these seats. We haven't had a Senator from our state who won an original election since Thad Cochran in 1980. Every other one has been "appointed" by the Governor and is only selected if they get the Chamber of Commerce greenlight. And they outright stole an election from their own voters in 2014. They are fatcat, lying, dishonest criminals. I hate them all.

Posted by: Tracy at August 16, 2023 01:50 PM (Oxmhv)

Processing 0.05, elapsed 0.0527 seconds.
15 queries taking 0.0177 seconds, 394 records returned.
Page size 263 kb.
Powered by Minx 0.8 beta.