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The Morning Report — 8/17/23

Good morning, kids. One of the real stalwarts of our movement is Professor William Jacobson over at the invaluable Legal Insurrection.com. He and his team consistently produce quality reportage and opinion and as a result earn a considerable number of links each day on this page. That said, it makes it that much harder to criticize someone whom you admire, but with all due respect, I gotta do what I gotta do:

So I think he’s in a lot of legal trouble, and I’ve been saying this on my website for a while and people, you know, attack that. But hey, I live in the real world and the real world is telling us that Donald Trump has a lot of legal problems. He’s probably going to get convicted in one or more of these cases. And people need to wake up and people need to understand what’s happening. And people also need to understand that, while he is not to blame for the hyperpartisan actions of the prosecutors, he left himself very vulnerable. He handed a lot of this stuff to them on a silver platter, and they are now exploiting it. It’s a bad situation.
And now he’s going to roll out, apparently Monday, a new report about Georgia election fraud. I mean, are you kidding me? It’s two and a half years later.
What is the endgame here? Trump supporters don’t seem to understand, what is your endgame? There is no process to decertify an election that took place two and a half years ago. The way you stop this growing totalitarianism is to win the next election, but everything they’re doing is set up to lose the next election. You’ve got to win the next election because Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith are just the first of a wave of totalitarian attacks using the law enforcement and prosecutorial powers of the state that’s coming our way.

If you read the entire interview, while his analysis of the situation from a purely legal perspective makes complete sense, it nevertheless irks me for a number of reasons.

First of all, like so many other folks he seems to be looking at this situation as if it's normal, or at worst at the extreme limit of normal political discourse. It isn't, and ceased to be that way during the period from 11/8/20 through 1/6/21.

Second, he states, "while he is not to blame for the hyperpartisan actions of the prosecutors, he left himself very vulnerable. He handed a lot of this stuff to them on a silver platter, and they are now exploiting it. It’s a bad situation."

I read and reread the link and nowhere does he elaborate on how Trump made himself vulnerable. By his words up to, during and in the wake of 1/6 (none of which could possibly be construed by a sane rational person as calling for a violent overthrow of the government)? By his legal actions in the retaining of declassified documents post his departure from office that led to the the Mar-a-Lago FBI Gestapo raid? By a legal NDA with Sloppy Daniels? To my way of thinking, Donald Trump's only vulnerability was and is because he exists and from a policy standpoint alone poses an existential threat to the counter-American revolution that began with Woodrow Wilson, exploded under FDR and was completed with Obama (not to ignore the aiding and abetting by every subsequent GOP administration minus Harding/Coolidge and to a lesser extent Reagan in that time).

Third, and this one is at the heart of what irks me is his assertion that "The way you stop this growing totalitarianism is to win the next election, but everything they’re doing is set up to lose the next election. You’ve got to win the next election because Fani Willis and Alvin Bragg and Jack Smith are just the first of a wave of totalitarian attacks using the law enforcement and prosecutorial powers of the state that’s coming our way."

Professor Jacobson, the reason that this wave of naked totalitarianism is happening in the first place is because 2020 was stolen, and the now institutionalized mechanisms for Democrats to rig all subsequent elections have been thoroughly cemented in place. How do you propose that Donald Trump or for that matter any other GOP candidate win the election or any subsequent election? You rightly rail against, as even I have, Donald Trump re-litigating the 2020 election as a pillar of his 2024 campaign. Yet what happened in 2020 cannot and must neither be ignored nor minimized. But again, to do so presupposes this attitude of "business as usual" when by even the most cursory examination of events and the situation we find ourselves in proves it is anything but.

Even if by some miracle, the almost lead pipe cinch of rigging is overcome by Trump (imprisoned or otherwise by that time), the entire federal bureaucracy including the weaponized justice and intelligence communities will still be in place and even more determined to take him and all of us out. By any means necessary. Ditto and more alarming with the eager approval and participation of every Democrat and Leftist in this country.

If I can criticize Trump – and he is not above criticism even with everything happening to him – is that he too seems to be approaching the campaign as well as his persecution as if it's hardball American politics. At least from what I glean of his statements on the campaign trail. In fact, the very act of being on the campaign trail is itself kind of schizophrenic. And that goes for all the other non-hack candidates, of which there are only two, DeSantis and Ramaswamy.

This is why I don't support Trump as a candidate. I support him as a martyr. I don't even think even he'll realize that that's what he is until they strap him in a gurney and get ready to put him to death. Or will he be hanged? As friend of the blog Robert Spencer pointed out a couple of weeks ago, the charges against Trump from Hack Smith include penalties up to and including capital punishment. Given the mindset of who and what is running this junta, and its entire base, and what they have done to this country just in the past 15 years since Obama, do you really think that they would not go all the way wild on that?

If I were Trump, I'd refuse to surrender to this Fanny Willis scumbag, go back to Mar-a-Lago and tell the Feds and the state of Georgia to get fucked. If I were Ron DeSantis, I'd ring Mar-a-Lago with state troopers and National Guardsmen and dare the Junta to try and enter.

Unfortunately, it seems that both Trump and DeSantis are equally willing to play the game when what is needed is for them and everyone like them to kick the damn table over and burn down the casino. Rhetorically speaking.

They won't. And I guess in that sense, Professor Jacobson is, in a way, correct in his analysis of Trump.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Government unions control and corrupt public services; private sector unions betray the worker."
How Unions Have Betrayed America
Wayne Allyn Root: "Jane will never be the same."
A Vaccine Nightmare Story Everyone Needs to Hear
John Stossel: "You’ve been hearing about DEI training. It’s supposed to make us aware of our unconscious prejudice. But former diversity trainer Erec Smith tells me, 'if you can keep this race thing going, then you will always have a business in getting rid of racism.'”
The Full Erec Smith: A Diversity Trainer Speaks Out Against DEI

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

Victor Davis Hanson: "When even the establishment media and DNC can't laugh off the evidence."
Joe Biden’s Race Against the Truth
“The evidence continues to mount – and can no longer be ignored. Joe Biden is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, warranting the opening of an impeachment inquiry, which must ultimately result in impeachment by the House and removal by the United States Senate of Joe Biden as President of the United States.”
Conservative Leaders Call on House GOP to Open Impeachment Inquiry
The lawyers also tried to force Weiss into a corner to abide by the irregular deal, claiming the government “reneged” on a “previously agreed-upon Plea Agreement.”
Special Counsel David Weiss Says Hunter Biden’s Sweetheart Plea Deal ‘Withdrawn’ and Null
"Democrats frequently say that no one is above the law. Yet they have been silent about Garland apparently placing himself above the law in choosing Weiss in violation of governing legal regulations."
Alan Dershowitz Op-Ed: The Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment Is Blatantly Illegal
The airbrushing was done via “sock puppet” accounts designed to appear as though they were operated by regular, anonymous users of Wikipedia. One named “Earflaps” was seemingly tasked with removing negative commentary on Hunter’s relationship with Ukrainian energy corporation Burisma, for example.
Hunter Biden Paid to Remove Criminal Business Partner from Wikipedia
Those close to the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] have advised him to keep his son at a distance, NBC News reported June 28. Joe Biden allegedly told his aides he would reject any suggestions about pushing Hunter Biden away, telling advisers to keep their “hands off my family.”
As Troubles Mount, Joe Biden Distances Himself From Hunter
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Daniel Greenfield: "Garland lied about the Trump investigation from the beginning."
How the DOJ Outsourced Trump’s Indictment to House Dems
“I mean, this is the sort of thing that happens in countries whose Powerball jackpots is 387 chickens and a goat. I mean, we don’t don’t do that in America.”
Sen. John Kennedy Likens Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Indictments to Political ‘Zombie Apocalypse’
Margot Cleveland: "To get a handle on the indictment and stay current with the various developments, it is helpful to put the charges into one of six buckets."
To Understand the Latest Crazy Trump Indictment, Check Out the 6 Types of Charges
“She threw everything against the canvas and looked to see if a picture emerged, said this is all one big conspiracy, every tweet, every speech that we cite. Well, by doing that she also tripped wires with regard to his time as president, and that has created this question of whether it could be removed.”
Jonathan Turley Warns Georgia DA May Have 'Tripped the Wire' With Her 'Jackson Pollock School of Prosecution' Approach
Lloyd Billingsley: "Forget banana-republic comparisons, it’s full-on Stalinist now."
Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan Joins the Trump Show Trial
"Once again, this isn’t hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy. And it amounts to a threat: Imagine what we can do to you."
The Purpose of the Trump Indictments is to Demonstrate the Left’s Power
"Trump and 18 other defendants are scheduled to go to trial on March 4, 2024, and are charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, according to the motion. Super Tuesday, which is the day when most states hold their primary elections, and will be on March 5, 2024, according to U.S. Presidential Election News."
Fulton County DA Proposes Start Date For Trump Trail One Day Before Super Tuesday
"So the plot has thickened in Fulton County, and it’ll be interesting to see if Trump’s team makes this move and what they’ll do next."
Trump Has One Potentially Advantageous Card up His Sleeve
MAUI WILDFIRE DISASTER & DISASTROUS RESPONSE
"Of course, now that he’s been roundly criticized, Biden has booked his ticket to Maui."
Biden’s Hawaii Response Follows Familiar Pattern: Ignore, Deny, Then Claim He's Done a Great Job
"The company had plans to spend nearly $200 million on wildfire mitigation measures on Maui, the Journal reported, but instead had spent less than $245,000. The wildfire plan was stalled by bureaucracy; in the interim, the company focused on climate goals."
WSJ: Hawaiian Electric Focused on Climate Change, Neglected Wildfire Risk
“The number one job of government is public safety, and they totally dropped the ball at every level,” Steve Milloy, senior E&E legal fellow and former Trump EPA transition team member, told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
As Democrats Blame Climate Change, Massive Government Failures May Have Fueled Hawaiian Fires
On Tuesday, the state-run Global Times taunted that Hawaii’s travails made the U.S. look “unlike a developed country,” as the fires exposed incompetence at every level. (Be funny if the Three Gorges Dam suddenly collapsed - jjs)
China Mocks Biden’s Inability to Handle Hawaii Fires
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The self-professed authority on anti-Asian hate crimes in America pushes a misleading and divisive narrative on race."
Stop Stop AAPI Hate
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"A federal appeals court delivered a major free speech victory on Tuesday."
Federal Court: D.C. ‘Selectively’ Enforced Law to Arrest Pro-Lifers but Not BLM Protesters
"How the media manipulates voters."
Jack Smith Thinks He Can Leak Evidence, But Trump Can’t
"The media have hardly questioned the reversal."
After DOJ's Reversal on Hunter Biden Special Counsel, the Media Still Suspect Nothing
"All Seasons Press also claims to have undertaken a customer survey, which found 40 percent of Amazon preorder customers had not received their copies ten days after launch. 'It begs the question: is Amazon intentionally trying to sabotage Tucker sales and bestseller status?' the company asked."
Tucker Publisher to Make FTC Complaint, Also Alleges Amazon Sales Chicanery
Beck claimed that the show had previously never even so much as received a strike against it before this step was taken by Apple. He even went so far as to say that Apple will most likely tell him, as most social media authoritarian platforms do, that the removal was “just a glitch.”
Poisoned Apple? Glenn Beck Says Apple has Removed His Podcast from Platform
"McCormick acquaintances say Marley Klaus Dowling has presented herself, alternatively, as 'fact-checker,' reporter, and researcher."
Democrat Opposition Researcher, a Former 60 Minutes Producer, Masquerades as Journalist While Digging Dirt on Pennsylvania's David McCormick (they all masquerade as journalists - jjs)
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Soros owned nearly 8 million shares in Proterra stock, now valued at just 8 cents a share."
Nazi Collaborator Soros Firm Lost Up To $105 Million On Now-Bankrupt Green Energy Firm Boosted By Biden
"But don't believe a word they say about cheap 'renewables.'"
Print the Legend
"The 16 plaintiffs argued that Montana’s State Energy Policy Act was unconstitutional."
Montana judge rules in favor of climate alarmists who were 'impacted by fear' of 'melting glaciers'
"In the final analysis, the EV pushers don’t see any gaps or contradictions."
Those EV Shortcomings Aren’t Shortcomings at All
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
“Camps like this not only incentivize migrants to travel through central America to our southern border, but also pose a national security risk to the United States, as they serve as way-stations for U.S.-bound bad actors traveling across the Western Hemisphere to infiltrate our nation,” the Republican lawmakers wrote.
Reps. Chip Roy, Andy Biggs Question Mayorkas on Taxpayer Funds Going to Migrant Camps Outside US
Lightfoot Lite Brandon: “Here’s what I am committed to doing, honoring the law of being a sanctuary city and building systems of care that provide a pathway with dignity for individuals who are seeking refuge here in the city of Chicago."
Sanctuary City Chicago Considers Shipping Border Crossers to Suburbs
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“I think we’re all a little bit blindsided by it, but we’re resilient, and we’re going to move forward”
Entire Police Force Resigns in Small Minnesota City of Goodhue
"I start from the basic observation that law and order seem to be in retreat."
Raw Egg Nationalist says 'managed lawlessness' root cause of decline of 'law and order'
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Our government massaged the numbers and the data and determined that….even more government was needed and established the Office of Long [Chinese] COVID Research and Practice."
Long Chinese COVID Cases in US Adults Fall to 6%
SECOND AMENDMENT
"Even I, an experienced detector of governmental BS and doublethink, failed to notice that pernicious phrase the first time around. And that’s even while writing an entire column about it at the time."
Gavin Newsom Opened His Newspeak Dictionary and Found the Goodthink for 'Gun Control'
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Time for Glenn Youngkin and Winsome Sears to crack the whip and bust some heads - jjs
State's Largest School District Defies GOP Gov's Guidance On Bathrooms, Pronouns
Robert Zimmerman: "While the recommendations call for the elimination of majors in creative writing, mathematics, and languages, it included no cuts to the college’s blatantly bigoted identity-based Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, its LGBTQ+ Center, or its Center for Black Culture."
West Virginia University: to save money it eliminates 32 majors instead of its bloated overhead
"There are legitimate ways to increase salaries without burdening taxpayers."
The Erroneous ‘Underpaid Teacher’ Claims
ABORTION
"The order does NOT change access to the pill. SCOTUS has the final say when it receives the case, likely in 2024."
No, the Fifth Circuit Didn’t Restrict Access to the Abortion Pill
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
William Jacobson: “And now [Trump’s] going to roll out, apparently Monday, a new report about Georgia election fraud. I mean, are you kidding me? It’s two and a half years later. What is the endgame here? … There is no process to decertify an election that took place two and a half years ago. The way you stop this growing totalitarianism is to win the next election, but everything they’re doing is set up to lose the next election.” (Prof Jacobson kind of contradicts himself, no? - jjs)
There Is No Endgame To Continuing To Relitigate the 2020 Election. It’s a Dead End.
"Some of the irregularities included a number voter registrations being written in the same handwriting and addresses on multiple forms being 'invalid or non-existent.'”
CONFIRMED: Michigan Told FBI of 2020 Election Fraud Attempts
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"'Squad' member has a history of making anti-Semitic comments about Israeli lobbyists."
All About the (Qatari) Benjamins: Qatar Funded Ilhan "Bro-Fo" Omar’s World Cup Trip
"Freshman Rep. Max Miller from Ohio went on X, formerly known as Twitter, to decry a call for ‘faith in Jesus Christ alone’ as ‘bigoted.’"
GOP Rep Aiming More Fire at Christian Tweet Than Trump Indictment Shows Why Republicans Keep Losing
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Princeton and Yale tap Robert Malley to teach classes after he allegedly mishandled classified info."
Biden's Scandal-Plagued Iran Envoy Lands Ivy League Gigs Amid FBI Investigation
"Paxton trial is the final play for the dying vestiges of RINO legislators."
Texas GOP Civil War Will Erupt if Impeachment Upheld
POLITICS
"In 2020, Biden’s campaign frequently touted its appeal to minority voters in contrast to his primary rival, independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. After two-and-a-half years of his [junta], minority men reported negative views about Biden’s handling of key issues such as the economy, according to a focus group conducted of Biden voters by HIT Strategies, and first reported by Politico."
'Discouraged': Focus Group Of Minority Voters Express Dismay With Biden's Job Performance
"One has to seriously consider how anyone could expect him to do the job at all, with his failing health and increasing time away from the White House."
Joe Biden Has Spent More Time on Vacation Than Any President, Legit or Otherwise, in History
"He claimed that he watched a bridge in Pittsburgh collapse."
Videos: Biden Just Flat Out Lies Over And Over Again During Speech
"Trump-supporters continue to turn out in massive numbers when the former president promises us a rally."
One Year After Mar-a-Lago, Trump's MAGA Movement Won't Be Silenced
"Michelle checks all the 'Democrat president' boxes that Joe Biden does not."
The 2024 Michelle Obama Factor
Okay, we love that he's the turd in the Dem punchbowl, but let's not go crazy here - jjs
Poll: 48% of GOP Primary Voters Want RFK Jr. as CDC or FDA Director
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
“I’m not saying it has to be like this. But that could be a possible solution,” Jenssen explained before adding, “it must be up to Ukraine to decide when and on what terms they want to negotiate.”
Ukraine May Have to Give Up Territory, Says Senior NATO Official
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
David Harsanyi: “'From my philosophical point of view, the state is a criminal organization that is funded through taxes taken from people by force. We are giving back the money that the political caste has stolen.' And along with rejecting climate alarmism as a destructive attack on modernity, he proposes an armed citizenry and calls for Argentina to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem (both the United States and Israel, he says, are his 'natural allies.') Into my veins, as the kids say."
My Favorite Presidential Candidate Is Running In Argentina
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"There are 270 suspected Chinese illegal marijuana grow operations in Maine worth an estimated $4.37 billion, according to the memo."
Illegal Chinese Marijuana Grow Operations Are Taking Over Blue State, Leaked Memo Says
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"An Arab writer admits the truth."
"Palestinian" Journalist: We Have Always Hated the Evil Jews
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The San Francisco Standard reported that the owner of Gump’s, John Chachas, took out a full-page ad in the Sunday edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. The ad took the form of an open letter to San Francisco Mayor London Breed and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. It read in part, “Gump’s has been a San Francisco icon for more than 165 years. Today, as we prepare for our 166th holiday season at 250 Post Street, we fear this may be our last because of the profound erosion of this city’s conditions.”
Historic SF Luxury Department Store May Close Its Doors Over City Squalor
"The rule will open contractors up to potential abuse and attacks on their reputation due to allegations lacking evidence. . ."
'Power Grab': Biden Junta's Rollback of Trump-Era Rule Will 'Steamroll' Federal Contractors, Experts Say
With very few exceptions, they can all drop dead - jjs
Congress Looking at a Stopgap Spending Bill Until It Reaches a Deal on FY2024 Budget
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Meanwhile, the mainstream press is downplaying public fears and making the Chinese owners into the potential victims or racism."
FDA Issues Warning for Pregnancy Tests Linked to Illegal Fresno-Area Bio-Lab
"Essentially, 95% of these approved drugs were failures. Most did nothing and were worthless, despite the Swedish government paying huge amounts of money buying them. A few either improved the quality of life (but failed to keep the patient alive) or kept the patient alive longer (but made their lives miserable)."
Two-Thirds of All Approved Cancer Drugs do Nothing for Patients
The Marxist obsession with race, sex, and class seems to have permeated every aspect of society. Why do doctors and nurses need to learn about supposed “structural racism” in modern America? Shouldn’t they be working rather to treat everybody the same, regardless of skin color? (Hold the Mayo - jjs)
Mayo Clinic Offers Course in ‘Racial Equity,’ ‘Structural Racism,’ and ‘Anti-Blackness’
"More than 7.6 million Britons are waiting for medical treatment – equivalent to around 12 percent of the population – with nearly 400,000 on standby for heart conditions. Two in five patients have to wait up to 18 weeks to be seen by their general doctor."
Brits Turning Away from Socialized Medicine In Favor of Private Coverage
"A new book correctly identifies the flaws in the health-insurance system but unwisely gives up on the free market."
Reconsidering America’s Health-Care Patchwork
". . . if you feel like celebrating a rare win over the red-tape addicts and unelected bureaucrats who run the administrative state, light up your favorite stogie and take a little extra time to savor the feeling."
Federal Judge Delivers Big Win to the Premium Cigar Industry
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The scientists think these now vertical walls, when horizontal in the past, marked a major water-hole location visited by numerous dinosaurs and other species.}"x
Scientists discover in Alaska the largest dinosaur track site in U.S.
Robert Zimmerman: "SpaceX always does this to pressure government paper pushers. It has now put the FAA on notice that it is ready to launch by the end of this month, and any delays thereafter will be entirely because of government intransigence. We shall now find out if (as I have been predicting) the FAA and the Biden [junta] intends to stall SpaceX, or instead it really wants to get Starship/Superheavy flying."
SpaceX report on first Starship/Superheavy launch failure submitted to FAA
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The investigation into VUMC from the Biden [junta] comes after a heated legislative session earlier this year when Tennessee Republicans moved to prevent sex change procedures and hormones from being prescribed to minors, legislation prompted by The Daily Wire’s investigation into VUMC’s gender clinic."
Biden Junta Investigates Vanderbilt University Over Release Of Transgender Clinic Patient Records
Lloyd Billingsley: "The perils of reality dysphoria."
Get Ready for "Gender Confirmation Surgery"
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Celebrate Pride Month but don’t be shocked when people, especially parents, don’t approve of merchandise aimed at small children."
Target Sales Slump After Pride Month Merchandise Backlash
"Disney management is all-in with the woke staff, and if Kathleen Kennedy and Kevin Feige still have jobs after running both Star Wars and the Marvel franchises into the ground, it’s safe to say nobody in a position of power at Disney can get fired for anything."
Disney Already Knows Who to Blame for Its Next Massive Flop
". . . Says architect of cancel culture."
‘Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist’
“When you are a foreign company, and you rely on these woke students that are coming out of these local colleges to do your advertising for you, you’re making a big mistake.”
Anheuser-Busch Heir Wants to Buy Bud Light Back to "Make The Brand Great Again"
"Corporations selling harmful food products have chimed in to demonstrate their faux morality and obsession with the plight of black America."
Skittles Panders To Black Americans While Selling Them Prepackaged Diabetes
Christian Toto:"Human Centipede director Tom Six says no one will release his latest feature."
Why Can’t We See The Onania Club?
"One movie ticket at a time."
Let Your Movie Shine in the Darkness
HITHER & YON
"Rising TV ratings mask a sharp decline in American kids playing the game."
Soccer’s Couch-Potato Popularity

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:37 AM

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2023 07:37 AM (BRHaw)

2 Happy Thursday, one and all. Today I get to work from home so I get an easier commute, better food and a lot of dogs in the office. May try day drinking a little later.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 17, 2023 07:37 AM (4olE8)

3
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 17, 2023 07:38 AM (ENBF0)

4 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 17, 2023 07:39 AM (sNtYB)

5 Everyone who bucks the junta makes themselves vulnerable.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2023 07:41 AM (9UlRk)

6 Mornin' Hordians!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at August 17, 2023 07:41 AM (k6uu5)

7 Yonder Horde

Trump has always had "legal issues." Trump also has a penchant for wanting to win.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2023 07:43 AM (Q4IgG)

8 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 07:44 AM (T4tVD)

9 Everyone who bucks the junta makes themselves vulnerable.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

What if they juck the bunta ?

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 07:45 AM (T4tVD)

10 Trial rules will stipulate President Trump must wear trousers three sizes too big, with no belt or suspenders. This will be known as the Roland Rule.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 17, 2023 07:46 AM (0EOe9)

11 ... and people need to wake up and people need to understand what’s happening.
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The Constitution has been gang-rape by operatives of the Demoncrapic Party who has installed a rogue regime.

The United States will not return back to its core foundations without a revolution against the regime.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 17, 2023 07:46 AM (adINt)

12 I don't want to live in a system where i have to police my every thought and action in case anything i do upsets the system and they decide to come after me for it should i ever become "inconvenient".

That's basically the upshot of every dystopian novel ever, isn't it? The sterile existence of either looking over your shoulder 24/7 in case you run afoul of The Party in some way you hadn't even conceived of, or of living a life so conditioned and constrained and automatic that you aren't living a life in any meaningful sense anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2023 07:46 AM (9UlRk)

13 Concur. The way to win is not play. Tell the federales to fuck off and if they come for President Trump they need to be met with lethal force.

There is no other way this will stop until those who work for the federales and their lackeys fear for their lives.

More coffee…

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 17, 2023 07:47 AM (R/m4+)

14 What if they juck the bunta ?
Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 07:45 AM (T4tVD)

I saw them open for Hott the Moople.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2023 07:48 AM (9UlRk)

15 It all boils down to the weaponization of the offices responsible for maintaining the rule of law and public order.

If only anyone in history had ever grappled with the concept.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2023 07:49 AM (9UlRk)

16 It’s two and a half years later.

What is the endgame here?
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Showing the [GA] election was indeed rigged and that PDT believed that then and does now and so wasn't he "lying" about it to start an [unarmed] insurrection to keep himself illegally in power.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 07:50 AM (krqg6)

17 Since I have a lot of work this morning and I wasn't on yesterday, let me drop this here:

I quick-glanced at Ace's post about the MFM finally admitting what Joan Rivers knew a long time ago - [i"He's gay and she's a tranny!" I predicted years ago that this would happen, because the left would love, love to crow "See, you homophobe bigot crackers, not only was Obama the first black president, he was the first gay one, too! And we rubbed your faces in it for eight years! Haw, haw!"

And now, just as I said, here comes the admission. Expect Mooch to be outed as a tranny in a year or two.

BBL.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 17, 2023 07:51 AM (AW0uW)

18 14 What if they juck the bunta ?
Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 07:45 AM (T4tVD)

I saw them open for Hott the Moople.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2023 07:48 AM (9UlRk)

Thread winner. Turn off your sets.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 07:51 AM (x0n13)

19 Dammit. Off, slut sock.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 17, 2023 07:52 AM (AW0uW)

20 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 07:52 AM (HfehJ)

21 Showing the [GA] election was indeed rigged and that PDT believed that then and does now and so wasn't he "lying" about it to start an [unarmed] insurrection to keep himself illegally in power.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 07:50 AM (krqg6)

He doesn't even need to show it was definitively rigged. Only that there was sufficient evidence to believe it either might have been or could have been.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 17, 2023 07:52 AM (9UlRk)

22 Good morning again dear morons and thank you JJ

Mr. Jacobson's thesis that you can vote your way out of "growing totalitarianism" is weak sauce.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

23 I agreed with your (as usual) fantastic analysis, JJ, until the very end. Because I don’t think Trump has any other choice then to do what he’s doing. If he declines to go along with the Fanni Willis and Hack Smith (great nic) farces, it doesn’t end well. DeSantis won’t defend him! He continues running against Trump and he obviously doesn’t get IT. Yes… if the rest of the GOP had cajones Trump could do as suggested. But they most assuredly do not and they’ve proved it by their words and their actions and inactions. Trump’s only choice is to first route his feckless GOP opponents (every single one of them) and then draw such a massive number of votes in the general as to wipe out the fraud. Then enter office as an avenging angel. Of those 3 steps, the first is certain, the second I’d give a 30% probability and the last a 10% probability. It is what it is… you play the game with the team you have. Trump has a bunch of wimps and backstabbers and folks who don’t know what time it is

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 17, 2023 07:54 AM (xT8gx)

24
The law is the false nose the Left puts on to achieve its goals.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2023 07:56 AM (MoZTd)

25 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !

And welcome back !

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 07:58 AM (T4tVD)

26
What is the endgame here? Trump supporters don’t seem to understand, what is your endgame?

You bring a fat lazy dog home that shits all over your carpeting - a metaphor for some nasty part of the US government. That dog shits and pukes all over your carpeting. If you do not force that dogs nose into that pile of shit while holding its neck in a death grip you'll discover another hot steamy pile on your carpet tomorrow.

Yeah, it's not a great system but the days of 'pretty please' don't commit election fraud are over.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 07:58 AM (enJYY)

27 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 07:59 AM (ElM8W)

28 Eah en Sidney, ya neva Juck the Bunta onna Thursday, mate.

Posted by: Bruce at August 17, 2023 08:00 AM (EcQad)

29 I don't have any fantasies of the 2020 election being over turned. At this point, why bother? But we have to keep pressing the case that there was massive fraud and highlight how the fraud happened otherwise there is no way to stop it next time.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 17, 2023 08:00 AM (AasIe)

30 I quick-glanced at Ace's post about the MFM finally admitting what Joan Rivers knew a long time ago - [i"He's gay and she's a tranny!" I predicted years ago that this would happen, because the left would love, love to crow "See, you homophobe bigot crackers, not only was Obama the first black president, he was the first gay one, too! And we rubbed your faces in it for eight years! Haw, haw!"

And now, just as I said, here comes the admission. Expect Mooch to be outed as a tranny in a year or two.

BBL.
Posted by: [mary poppins] at August 17, 2023 07:51 AM (AW0uW)
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Mayor Butt hardest hit.

Posted by: reason at August 17, 2023 08:01 AM (Lq/su)

31
If you don't want election results questioned, don't set up a system that leads to questions about election results.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2023 08:01 AM (MoZTd)

32 It ain't complicated.Trump disrupts the crooked scams and schemes.

Posted by: davidt at August 17, 2023 08:01 AM (SYTee)

33 During the bogus J6 committee hearings Liz Cheney opined that their goal was to either put Trump in prison or, at the very least, make him and his supporters in Congress ineligible to run, or remain in office.

To a certain degree that committee's goals are still in effect.

Trump very well may be indicted and may go to jail. He also may not. But if his name is not printed on ballots in any number of states (several come to mind right off the bat) he faces long odds in winning as a write-in. And runs the possibility of being DQ'd in those states for reasons.

Short of killing Trump the left has only so many things they can do to assure the fraud is by all appearances another "red mirage."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2023 08:02 AM (Q4IgG)

34 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:03 AM (xTRSc)

35 These people are fucking pigs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:03 AM (TZ75n)

36 Are we doing this again? “Michelle Obama is tranny. “ Couldn’t Obama just be gay without adding that one too? Maybe she’s just a person who’s obnoxious but actually a woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2023 08:04 AM (exg+Y)

37 "If I were Trump, I'd refuse to surrender to this Fanny Willis scumbag, go back to Mar-a-Lago and tell the Feds and the state of Georgia to get fucked. If I were Ron DeSantis, I'd ring Mar-a-Lago with state troopers and National Guardsmen and dare the Junta to try and enter."

OMG, wouldn't that be something. Hopefully it would be recorded in the history books.

Posted by: pawn at August 17, 2023 08:04 AM (wsHtO)

38 Yeah, there was a rigged election in 2020. There were also manufactured riots, a manufactured plague caused by illegal government bioweapons research, and an authoritarian crackdown on individual rights. Prior to that came four years of stage managed investigations and impeachments and campaign surveillance by agents of the State, with legislative stonewalling and legerdemain by both its Party factions.

Throughout, government control of the media was used to push all these initiatives, and subsequently, it's being used to help railroad the deposed President and his political allies, cover up the crimes of the current junta, and manufacture consent for an unprovoked generational war against a nuclear power.

This is, bluntly, a wholly unaccountable rogue superstate, and no campaign or debate performance by Trump or DeSantis is going to stop its momentum.

At some point, something will wake up the righty fantasists like this professor guy, but I don't know what the hell it's gonna take. The regime hasn't exactly been shy about the totalitarian agenda thus far, and nothing seems to budge the vote-harder hopium hopheads from their torpor.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 08:05 AM (0FoWg)

39 I read Legal Insurrection daily to get different perspectives and often reports on events not covered here. But Jacobson is sometimes too lawyerly in his analysis in that he gets hung up on small legal details early in the event that are not the primary reason for the actual event that took place and continues to justify his entire opinion on that detail. Comes with being a lawyer who wants to work with the letter of the law and ignores that the opposing lawyer doesn’t. Bianca can be the same way.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 17, 2023 08:05 AM (t4btt)

40 35 These people are fucking pigs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:03 AM (TZ75n)

"Phrasing."

- - Ned Beatty

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:05 AM (x0n13)

41 These people are fucking pigs.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:03 AM (TZ75n)
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...they.... they're CHEATING on me!??!

Posted by: the chicken at August 17, 2023 08:05 AM (Lq/su)

42 Are we doing this again? “Michelle Obama is tranny. “ Couldn’t Obama just be gay without adding that one too? Maybe she’s just a person who’s obnoxious but actually a woman.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

She dances and waves the twig and berries around on the Ellen show.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:06 AM (TZ75n)

43 Even if by some miracle, the almost lead pipe cinch of rigging is overcome by Trump (imprisoned or otherwise by that time), the entire federal bureaucracy including the weaponized justice and intelligence communities will still be in place and even more determined to take him and all of us out. By any means necessary. Ditto and more alarming with the eager approval and participation of every Democrat and Leftist in this country.

How people cannot see the only way out of this is by visiting extreme violence on the left is beyond me. We've asked nicely to stop. We've told them to stop. The only way left is making them.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 08:06 AM (ElM8W)

44 Good morning Horde , thx JJ. Living in an ultra blue are like I do I have a lot of liberal and prog friends. On Facebook they are arguing that Biden has been great on his response to Maui, that FEMA is on the ground and everything is going great. On every subject they delude themselves, like a friend posting that Liz Cheney is a hero for the 1/6 hearings and that's a "good" Republican. I hold my tongue but what conservatives are up against is formidable. Have a great day, I'm off to play nine before it rains.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 08:07 AM (Vnu5T)

45 “hands off my family”

Yeah, only Joe is allowed to get handsy with his family.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:07 AM (xTRSc)

46 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:03 AM (xTRSc)

Good morning, Bulgar. I just wanted to respond to your post from yesterday about reptiles and salmonella. The reptiles were at a nature center in aquariums behind glass. I didn’t actually touch them or kiss them, so I’m not worried about salmonella . I’m more likely to get salmonella from bad fruit products from the grocery,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2023 08:07 AM (exg+Y)

47 Too many people fail to understand just how vile, vindictive, and vicious the left are.

Posted by: Jim at August 17, 2023 08:08 AM (zhWvq)

48 39 I read Legal Insurrection daily to get different perspectives and often reports on events not covered here. But Jacobson is sometimes too lawyerly in his analysis in that he gets hung up on small legal details early in the event that are not the primary reason for the actual event that took place and continues to justify his entire opinion on that detail. Comes with being a lawyer who wants to work with the letter of the law and ignores that the opposing lawyer doesn’t. Bianca can be the same way.
Posted by: Jen the original at August 17, 2023 08:05 AM (t4btt)

It's like Andrew McCarthy, Yawn Inanity and others vis a vis the police and FBI.

They refuse to believe their own lying eyes that the system that they are a part of and support is totally or nearly all corrupt. Same with Jacobson. Imagine being a lawyer and legal scholar and suddenly discovering that everything you work for, support and are a part of is worse than useless, but cancerous?

That would be kind of shocking. Hence, denial.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)

49 ...I’m more likely to get salmonella from bad fruit products from the grocery,
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2023 08:07 AM (exg+Y)
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Wash your cantaloupes before slicing!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

50 How people cannot see the only way out of this is by visiting extreme violence on the left is beyond me. We've asked nicely to stop. We've told them to stop. The only way left is making them. Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 08:06 AM (ElM8W)

We must make the cost of doing business in this manner too great to continue.

Posted by: Jim at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (zhWvq)

51 "There is no process to decertify an election that took place two and a half years ago. "

See, the problem with this comment is that there is no process to decertify a corrupt election that took place yesterday. Or today. Or that will take place next week.

The problem is that there is no way to decertify a corrupt election AT ALL.

That's the problem. It would be nice if the naysayers would address that elephant.

Posted by: Tar Bae at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (xcjP7)

52 Whatever happened to violent MAGA mob that was going to storm the Fulton County courthouse? It failed to show up, yet again. Could it be all those barriers and extra security and warnings were just part of the op? I shan't believe it.

Posted by: Ripley at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (OW+MX)

53 Thank you, JJ.

FJB and the evil retard junta and all its soviet kangaroo court show trials and mis, dis maladministrations.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (0q+t6)

54 What is the endgame here? Trump supporters don’t seem to understand, what is your endgame? There is no process to decertify an election that took place two and a half years ago. The way you stop this growing totalitarianism is to win the next election, but everything they’re doing is set up to lose the next election. ...
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My assumption is that this is precisely why Trump is going to try to prove his case in the court of public opinion. I have no idea if it will work or if any of his evidence is any good. But the intent, I think, is clear.

The purpose isn't to "decertify" an election. That probably can't be done no matter what, even if it had all been proven on January 22nd of 2021. It's irrelevant, and if that is what people think this is about, then I understand their confusion.

I think it's about demonstrating that the fraud was real and that the election was stolen. Why? Two reasons: to enrage the base and make them want to try *really* hard to set things right, and to force an acknowledgement of fraud in an effort to level the playing field and create conditions for victory.

Neither will work, but I think that's the game.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:10 AM (kBSKe)

55 Good Morning, Fen. Glad to hear you’re not kissing reptiles.🙂

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:10 AM (xTRSc)

56 Unless she’s nude I don’t see how she’s waving twigs and berries around. Maybe she just had badly .fitting underwear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2023 08:10 AM (exg+Y)

57 The DS always wanted Trump to run again. They stole the election that mattered, 2020. We need to focus on destroying the legitimacy of the opposition. The con only works if the pigeon thinks his handler is honest and can win with him.
Robert Shaw never enters the betting parlor if he thinks Redford is not on his side no matter how much Shaw hates Newman.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 17, 2023 08:11 AM (Y/f8I)

58 Top hunnert; gonna be a good day.

Posted by: Ligma Balzak from Fuggencrass, Vulgaria at August 17, 2023 08:11 AM (JNTt1)

59 55 Good Morning, Fen. Glad to hear you’re not kissing reptiles.🙂
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:10 AM (xTRSc)

The Gorn and Anita Dunn hardest hit. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:11 AM (x0n13)

60 That would be kind of shocking. Hence, denial.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)
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I would call it cognitive dissonance.

He is preconditioned to believe something that has since quite demonstrably disappeared: the rule of law.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

61 36. Fen, I am with you. Common sense would say there is no way all of the people associated with the Obamas since the 80s would not have somehow let it slip Michelle is a man and the girls are not hers, but the tranny bullshit story persists. No different and just as intelligent as Trump is a Russian agent still today.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 17, 2023 08:11 AM (t4btt)

62 "Unless she’s nude I don’t see how she’s waving twigs and berries around. Maybe she just had badly .fitting underwear.
"

Have you seen it?

Go watch the clip on the Ellen show and then comment.

Posted by: pawn at August 17, 2023 08:12 AM (wsHtO)

63 It's like Andrew McCarthy, Yawn Inanity and others vis a vis the police and FBI.

They refuse to believe their own lying eyes that the system that they are a part of and support is totally or nearly all corrupt. Same with Jacobson. Imagine being a lawyer and legal scholar and suddenly discovering that everything you work for, support and are a part of is worse than useless, but cancerous?

That would be kind of shocking. Hence, denial.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)
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This is very true. Much of their personal identity is bound up in their profession and in the professions of their friends and family, many of whom are no doubt part of the legal community in some way. Therefore, ANY attack against members of that community is perceived as a personal attack against THEM.

That's why they are so resistant to understanding the corruption around them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 08:12 AM (YIVH2)

64 Unless she’s nude I don’t see how she’s waving twigs and berries around. Maybe she just had badly .fitting underwear.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Badly fitting underwear smothered in twigs and berries. I don't know if you can even find the video anymore. I saw enough. Yikes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:13 AM (TZ75n)

65 What is the general consensus here? Do most people think Michelle Obama is a tranny?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2023 08:13 AM (exg+Y)

66 "If I were Trump, I'd refuse to surrender to this Fanny Willis scumbag, go back to Mar-a-Lago and tell the Feds and the state of Georgia to get fucked. If I were Ron DeSantis, I'd ring Mar-a-Lago with state troopers and National Guardsmen and dare the Junta to try and enter."

And the Junta would federalize the NG and have them arrest him.

Leave the NG out of it. Because they bow the knee to the Junta.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 08:13 AM (ElM8W)

67 Happy Thursday, one and all. Today I get to work from home so I get an easier commute, better food and a lot of dogs in the office. May try day drinking a little later.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 17, 2023 07:37 AM (4olE

I highly recommend it. helps make the teams calls and idiot managers MUCH easier to deal with.

plus, if you blow on your mug like it's coffee, no one will know the difference...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 17, 2023 08:14 AM (nXhwP)

68 Are we doing this again? “Michelle Obama is tranny. “ Couldn’t Obama just be gay without adding that one too? Maybe she’s just a person who’s obnoxious but actually a woman.

I'm not saying she is, Fen. Only that I was correct in predicting that the MFM would eventually admit Barky was gay and it would not surprise me if they admitted Mooch was a tranny.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 17, 2023 08:14 AM (AW0uW)

69

JJ puts a huge amount of effort into this post every weekday, but there's no point in following the links. If you do you can't get back to where you started. You get dumped someplace down the page multiple prior posts from yesterday, randomly. Hugely annoying. Ruins the experience. Mostly just skip the morning post now. You can't actually extract useful information out of it without having to deal with an experience from 1997 AOL...

Posted by: Uvula Grande at August 17, 2023 08:15 AM (/JW4u)

70 If Obama is gay, it kind of puts a new perspective on his relationship with Frank Davis.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 17, 2023 08:15 AM (AasIe)

71
My wife saw the Ellen video and I'm taking her word for it. No desire to see something that can't be unseen.

With modern editing there is no possible reason not to cut the footage except they wanted the footage seen - for whatever unGodly reason.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 08:16 AM (enJYY)

72 "You can't actually extract useful information out of it without having to deal with an experience from 1997 AOL..."

We are so sorry. Would you like to speak with the manager?

Posted by: pawn at August 17, 2023 08:16 AM (wsHtO)

73 Posted by: Jen the original at August 17, 2023 08:11 AM (t4btt)

I agree
And as far as there being no pictures of Michelle pregnant, I think there may be two pictures of me when I was pregnant. One belongs to me. One belongs to my sister. That’s because I don’t like getting my picture taken, not because I’m a tranny or I had artificial insemination.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2023 08:16 AM (exg+Y)

74 60 That would be kind of shocking. Hence, denial.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)
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I would call it cognitive dissonance.

He is preconditioned to believe something that has since quite demonstrably disappeared: the rule of law.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 08:11 AM (RIvkX)

Of late, even Dershowitz and Turley seem to sound more aware of the situation than Jacobson. And they are of the liberal bent.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:16 AM (x0n13)

75 JJ puts a huge amount of effort into this post every weekday, but there's no point in following the links. If you do you can't get back to where you started. You get dumped someplace down the page multiple prior posts from yesterday, randomly. Hugely annoying. Ruins the experience. Mostly just skip the morning post now. You can't actually extract useful information out of it without having to deal with an experience from 1997 AOL...
Posted by: Uvula Grande

Then get the fuck out and go somewhere else.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:17 AM (TZ75n)

76 Posted by: Uvula Grande

Don't happen for me. Also "open in new tab" is your friend.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 17, 2023 08:17 AM (AasIe)

77 Put me in the “Michelle O is an actual female” camp

BO’s letter from 1982 sure makes him sound gay

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 17, 2023 08:17 AM (xT8gx)

78 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

79 The new so-called Justified *really* sucks. It's actually getting worse. The writing is shit and its ham-handed pseudo leftist messaging is all over the place. God its probably even worse than I thought it could be.

One of the corrupt people in a judge's blackmail book is accused of being guilty of "capitalism". So edgy. Another person in the book is a black lawyer who helps cover up and disguise "bad police shootings" with planted weapons (!).

And Raylan had to promise his stupid shitty daughter that he would "Do Better". Which has been code in recent movies and TV for the white man is bad. What a steaming pile of shit.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:18 AM (VuwEX)

80 JJ puts a huge amount of effort into this post every weekday, but there's no point in following the links. If you do you can't get back to where you started. You get dumped someplace down the page multiple prior posts from yesterday, randomly. Hugely annoying. Ruins the experience. Mostly just skip the morning post now. You can't actually extract useful information out of it without having to deal with an experience from 1997 AOL...
Posted by: Uvula Grande at August 17, 2023 08:15 AM (/JW4u)
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On a computer: right-click and select Open in New Tab
On a phone: tap and hold, then select Open in New Tab

Browser technology has evolved since 1997, even if the webpage itself hasn't...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 08:18 AM (YIVH2)

81 Fanni Willis's daddy was a leader in the Black Panther Party.

Posted by: Gwenn at August 17, 2023 08:18 AM (9Gr7n)

82
Don't happen for me. Also "open in new tab" is your friend.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 17, 2023 08:17 AM

Yeah, I've used that method since well before 1997. Like a decade before.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 08:19 AM (enJYY)

83 What is the endgame here? Trump supporters don’t seem to understand, what is your endgame? There is no process to decertify an election that took place two and a half years ago.

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Yes, exactly.

Which is why it's so important to push people to understand what happened, what is happening, and what will happen.

Shame that simple-minded people seem to think this is about Trump or Trump supporters.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:19 AM (o1Y90)

84 The various Big Mike videos are here, at Revolver, including Joan Rivers' comment and the Ellen appearance in slo-mo.

https://tinyurl.com/2akn4mpp

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 08:19 AM (krqg6)

85 Personally I think those that opine on other blogs or websites and for whatever reason get too far into the weeds are not necessarily in denial.

They refuse to be wrong.

It's a trait I've observed with many (not all) people who would be considered "high functioning." Smart. Intelligent. But also incapable of admitting they're wrong.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2023 08:20 AM (Q4IgG)

86 What is the general consensus here? Do most people think Michelle Obama is a tranny?

UHH_Yeah. Big Mike is a man babee!!!

Posted by: Outside of Life at August 17, 2023 08:20 AM (89Sog)

87 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:18 AM (x0n13)

Usually that garbled page error happens when there is a weird character in the URL. Like a single quote.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:20 AM (VuwEX)

88 ... Donald Trump's only vulnerability was and is because he exists and from a policy standpoint alone poses an existential threat to the counter-American revolution ...
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What I think the author is talking about is that Trump did things that *could* be twisted into crime by a system designed to twist anything into crime. He took classified documents. He was allowed to take them based on all history of the office, but one interpretation of the contradictory laws says he wasn't.

He called elections officials and demanded recounts in ways that could be interpreted - by hyper-partisan bad actors in government - as demanding the fabrication of votes. He called for a mass rally to apply pressure to the electors. There was no demand for violence (indeed, there were specific instructions and pleas to the contrary), but the bad actors can and do argue that assembly designed to pressure electors is itself treasonous.

It is easier to argue that Trump created the means of his own destruction than to acknowledge that arbitrary "guilt" is the purpose of American law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:20 AM (kBSKe)

89 So I think he’s in a lot of legal trouble, and I’ve been saying this on my website for a while and people, you know, attack that. But hey, I live in the real world and the real world is telling us that Donald Trump has a lot of legal problems. He’s probably going to get convicted in one or more of these cases. And people need to wake up and people need to understand what’s happening. And people also need to understand that, while he is not to blame for the hyperpartisan actions of the prosecutors, he left himself very vulnerable. He handed a lot of this stuff to them on a silver platter, and they are now exploiting it. It’s a bad situation.

Yeah, no. He's done nothing wrong. He's better than a teflon don. He's sofa king squeaky clean. They've come after him for 10 years now and have NOTHING.

What they're accusing him of and attempting to arrest him for are things that Democrats have been doing for GENERATIONS.

If you don't see how false this is, you're f*cking stupid and should drown in a rain shower.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

90 Then get the fuck out and go somewhere else.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

This place is a wealth of good advice.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 17, 2023 08:21 AM (AasIe)

91 Happy National Black Cat Appreciation Day! 🐈‍⬛

Posted by: redridinghood at August 17, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

92 And they are of the liberal ~~bent~~ bunt.
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Fixed.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 08:21 AM (krqg6)

93 First of all, like so many other folks he seems to be looking at this situation as if it's normal, or at worst at the extreme limit of normal political discourse.
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With due respect, JJ, that is a complete misread of his argument. If anything he is saying the reverse, and emphasizing the danger of Democrat tyranny. He is saying that the energy of the right needs to be laser-focused on beating the next steal, because we lost the last one. And look were we are.

Relitigating and constantly trying to prove to each other the details of the last steal is bewildering. Focus, focus, focus on beating the next steal. Sure, understanding what happened last time is part of that, but those details are long known. Trump seems determined not to use that information to win in 2024, but instead to try to get the general public to acknowledge he won last time. It's pointless, weird, and totally destructive. Worse, it is enabling the Democrat tyranny to grow.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 08:22 AM (Qqpbi)

94 I just looked at Michelle O dancing on Ellen. She doesn’t look particularly mannish to me… I’m still a nay on Michelle is a tranny

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 17, 2023 08:22 AM (xT8gx)

95 He handed a lot of this stuff to them on a silver platter, and they are now exploiting it. It’s a bad situation.
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Bullshit.
Pure "head three miles up your ass" bullshit.
He did not hand one damned thing to them: THEY MADE IT THE F UP!

Every single MFing thing they have accused him of doing is a completely legal and normal thing-- if you're on their team!
But Trump? Waking up in the morning is seditious, criminal and traitorous.
It absolutely does not F'ing matter what he did, did not do, could have done or should have done: The second he declared for 2024-- they were going to charge him come hell or high water. You are an ignorant jackass if you say otherwise, that there was some magical, perfect path that ever existed where they wouldn't charge him.
Stupid.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 17, 2023 08:23 AM (yw7eP)

96 Even if by some miracle, the almost lead pipe cinch of rigging is overcome by Trump (imprisoned or otherwise by that time), the entire federal bureaucracy including the weaponized justice and intelligence communities will still be in place and even more determined to take him and all of us out. By any means necessary. Ditto and more alarming with the eager approval and participation of every Democrat and Leftist in this country.
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Yes. Just like last time. And don't forget Congress, which will slow-walk every appointment (if he can even find someone willing to be appointed - and that will be a pretty tall order) and block every attempt at reform.

This is why I think the presidency is a false prize. Even if you can get it, it's not worth having. I think I understand why Trump wants it anyway (vindication or possibly vengeance), but it won't matter if he gets it. The FedGov is unreformable and some dude trying to exercise executive power counter to its own goals will have no influence over it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:23 AM (kBSKe)

97 Happy National Black Cat Appreciation Day! 🐈‍⬛
Posted by: redridinghood at August 17, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

Locked and loaded.

PEW PEW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

98 Trump was a billionaire NY property developer for decades. And after a decade and hundreds of layers and forensic accountants combing every aspect of his business and personal life, the best they could come up with is he disagreed with a property's appraised value on a loan application.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 17, 2023 08:23 AM (AasIe)

99 I just looked at Michelle O dancing on Ellen. She doesn’t look particularly mannish to me… I’m still a nay on Michelle is a tranny
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 17, 2023 08:22 AM (xT8gx)

The cock flopping doesn't give you a clue? Huh.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:24 AM (Zz0t1)

100 And in case anyone is keeping up at home (be sure to scroll to the bottom to read the names of those charged):

"Feds busted 9 people in violent sex trafficking ring in Queens

...The organization committed crimes as far as Oregon, Washington and Hawaii, the complaint said. As part of their prostitution network, they sent women from New York to various locations in the US, where the victims would stay for weeks at a time in hotels and apartments.

...“Beat [her] to death tomorrow,” one member said in a message on the WeChat app, according to prosecution documents."

https://tinyurl.com/23vgz7fx

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:24 AM (o1Y90)

101 I am a womanpenis. That's how I roll.

Posted by: Big Mike's Talking Penis at August 17, 2023 08:25 AM (EcQad)

102
Shame that simple-minded people seem to think this is about Trump or Trump supporters.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:19 AM

If you can convince people that their group is the actual majority by stealing an election, banning conservatives from Facebook and Twitter, having a compliant press - all of these things - they become extremely dangerous. I'm okay with them having their echo chambers like Facebook and pre-Elon Twitter.

But they don't get to steal elections. That's the line in the sand.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 08:25 AM (enJYY)

103 93 Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 08:22 AM (Qqpbi)

That's not what he said. He said we need to win the next election to defeat totalitarianism. Ridiculous on the face of it since a stolen election - itself a totalitarian move - is what has ramped up the totalitarianism Trump and all of us are now experiencing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:25 AM (x0n13)

104 A MAN, baby......

https://youtu.be/znlrhiodX5A

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

105 (again, notice the names and locations, Queens especially)

2 Men Sentenced in Sex-Trafficking Ring That Preyed on Teenage Girls

Five members of a family-run operation trafficked girls between Mexico and Queens and pushed them into prostitution.

https://tinyurl.com/y8fg52hn

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:25 AM (o1Y90)

106 Everything you saw and discussed about Sound of Freedom is happening here.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:26 AM (o1Y90)

107 Happy National Black Cat Appreciation Day!
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Just don't get too familiar.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 08:26 AM (krqg6)

108 Unfortunately, it seems that both Trump and DeSantis are equally willing to play the game when what is needed is for them and everyone like them to kick the damn table over and burn down the casino. Rhetorically speaking.
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That is in their nature (at least, it is in Trump's nature). I have been saying since 2016 that Trump is a reformer, not a revolutionary. He will not flip over the table and set it on fire because that table is part of his identity. He's a patriot, with great confidence in peace, justice and the American Way. The "American Way" no longer exists, but many people - Trump among them - cannot acknowledge that. It goes against everything they are and shreds their identities as patriotic Americans.

Flipping the table is a revolutionary act, and you won't get that out of a reformer. Trump was, is and will likely remain a reformer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:26 AM (kBSKe)

109 101 I am a womanpenis. That's how I roll.
Posted by: Big Mike's Talking Penis at August 17, 2023 08:25 AM (EcQad)

"I am woman, watch me tuck . . ."

- - Helen is not Ready

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:26 AM (x0n13)

110 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Havvvard MBA at August 17, 2023 08:26 AM (53oGX)

111 Badly fitting underwear smothered in twigs and berries. I don't know if you can even find the video anymore. I saw enough. Yikes.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Is this the one?

https://tinyurl.com/45wr26hz

Even the comments mention it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 08:27 AM (ElM8W)

112 Locked and loaded.

PEW PEW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)
******
🙀

Posted by: redridinghood at August 17, 2023 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

113 I expected better of Jacobson

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 17, 2023 08:27 AM (vHIgi)

114 While she’s no great beauty, I think Michelle O is too feminine-looking to be a tranny.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:28 AM (xTRSc)

115 108 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:26 AM (kBSKe)

As always, you say it better than I can!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:28 AM (x0n13)

116 The company had plans to spend nearly $200 million on wildfire mitigation measures on Maui, the Journal reported, but instead had spent less than $245,000.

Public Utilities appear to be little more than crime syndicates.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2023 08:28 AM (BRHaw)

117 This is why I think the presidency is a false prize. Even if you can get it, it's not worth having. I think I understand why Trump wants it anyway (vindication or possibly vengeance), but it won't matter if he gets it. The FedGov is unreformable and some dude trying to exercise executive power counter to its own goals will have no influence over it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:23 AM (kBSKe)
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Someone yesterday pointed out that the DOJ is handling the cases of Trump and Biden in completely contradictory fashion. My response was that this tells you *exactly* who is in charge in this country.

It ain't POTUS, regardless of who is in office.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 08:28 AM (YIVH2)

118 The FedGov is unreformable and some dude trying to exercise executive power counter to its own goals will have no influence over it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:23 AM (kBSKe)

Unreformable from the top, I’d say. However, if every red state Governor started to nullify and ignore the feds …. Pressure from 27 states (or whatever that number is) would ultimately have a positive impact. I love Trump tilting at the federal windmill because he’s uniquely equipped to do so…. The rest of the GOP should focus on state lawfare against the feds

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 17, 2023 08:29 AM (xT8gx)

119 114 While she’s no great beauty, I think Michelle O is too feminine-looking to be a tranny.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:28 AM (xTRSc)

Salt Creature/Wookie/Worf combo.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:29 AM (x0n13)

120 @38 Yudhishthira's Dice-NOTHING will wake up a portion of our side. if the R nomination lands in DeSantis lap and he loses then Trump("white trash"-ace) will be blamed by every DeSantis supporter on this blog, never mind fraud. Most DeSantis supporters here won't say it, don't believe it or say tepidly that some fraud happened.
Should DeSantis be installed, that'd be the smart play by the Uni-Party to keep up appearances, he will sign some some BS legislation that doesn't do shit and DeSantis supporters will scream "it was more than what Trump did" and call it a day. To DeSantis supporters this is politics as usual and merely a debate to be won. Pointy headed policy wonks with big ego that like to flex, read and hear how smart they are.

They won't get it, I guarantee it.

Posted by: JROD at August 17, 2023 08:29 AM (IlL6s)

121 116 The company had plans to spend nearly $200 million on wildfire mitigation measures on Maui, the Journal reported, but instead had spent less than $245,000.

Public Utilities appear to be little more than crime syndicates.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2023 08:28 AM (BRHaw)

It's worse than you think.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:30 AM (TZ75n)

122 While she’s no great beauty, I think Michelle O is too feminine-looking to be a tranny.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

So's Ru Paul.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 08:30 AM (ElM8W)

123 International news on Canadian chyron:

Texas woman charged with threatening to kill federal judge overseeing Trump's criminal case in Washington.

I don't recall the Supreme Court death threats arrest/s being publicized although, admittedly, it was a while ago.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 08:31 AM (krqg6)

124 There Is No Endgame To Continuing To Relitigate the 2020 Election. It’s a Dead End.
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Is this guy a dumbshit or what?

The stolen 2020 election is still being used by Democrats and held over Trump's and our heads. It's being "litigated" right now whether anyone likes it or not.

I just cannot understand this idiotic "conservative" will to overintellectualize everything into oblivion.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:31 AM (VuwEX)

125 The preliminary recommendations, released Friday afternoon, said 12 of those programs are undergraduate majors and 20 are graduate-level majors. Other programs were told to reduce their faculty size — 169 faculty jobs are on the line for cuts.

Notice they left ADMIN out!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2023 08:32 AM (BRHaw)

126 JJ puts a huge amount of effort into this post every weekday, but there's no point in following the links. If you do you can't get back to where you started. You get dumped someplace down the page multiple prior posts from yesterday, randomly. Hugely annoying. Ruins the experience. Mostly just skip the morning post now. You can't actually extract useful information out of it without having to deal with an experience from 1997 AOL...
Posted by: Uvula Grande at August 17, 2023 08:15 AM (/JW4u)
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1. Press and hold the "CTRL" key when clicking the link. This opens it in a new tab.
2. Click the link with the center button (the scroll wheel). This opens it in a new tab.
3. If on a smartphone or similar, touch and hold the link and choose to open it in a new tab.

JJ is an aggregator as well as a commentator. If you click a link, you leave the site and find have your spot when you come back. If you want to avoid that, don't leave the site and open the links in new tabs. Then the original page remains exactly how you left it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:32 AM (kBSKe)

127 There is an election coming up which they are going to try to steal again.

They do need a significant number of legitimate votes to make their steal work. That means the game is still every bit a persuasion game against the average idiot as it ever was, and as usual Democrats and DJT are the only ones who seem to know it.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:32 AM (VuwEX)

128 67
I highly recommend it. helps make the teams calls and idiot managers MUCH easier to deal with.

plus, if you blow on your mug like it's coffee, no one will know the difference...
Posted by: SturmToddler at August 17, 2023 08:14 AM (nXhwP)

I'm a bit luckier than most in that regard. We rarely have meetings, my boss is low maintenance ("Are you doing your job? Good. Carry on.") and my co-workers are about as politically correct as I am. The main thing I handle is customer issues but I can fake being sober long enough for those calls.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 17, 2023 08:32 AM (4olE8)

129 1. Press and hold the "CTRL" key when clicking the link. This opens it in a new tab.
2. Click the link with the center button (the scroll wheel). This opens it in a new tab.
3. If on a smartphone or similar, touch and hold the link and choose to open it in a new tab.

JJ is an aggregator as well as a commentator. If you click a link, you leave the site and find have your spot when you come back. If you want to avoid that, don't leave the site and open the links in new tabs. Then the original page remains exactly how you left it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:32 AM (kBSKe)

Nice advice if you are using a desktop or a laptop.. how about phones or pads?

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2023 08:34 AM (PCK5/)

130 I am so tired of the "please don't hit me again, I'll be good" Republicans.

Oh sure they hate Trump, they lie about him on everything, they accused him of every crime, impeached him 3 times and not once specified an actual crime, called him a new Hitler daily for 6 years, a racist, a bigot and every other slur in the book, even made up new slurs.

But now, there's these indictment?
Oh, now this we must take as true. We must take it serious. They must be honest. This time they are telling the truth.

Just, just F off. You're a coward. A weakling. A soft mind with softer hands.

Trump is going to die in prison over this BS if they win on even one. The one politician in your lifetime that stood up to all of Washington, all of the media, all of the popular culture to finally-- at long last, after decades of Republican promises--actually tried to enact conservative policies.
But the Democrats hate him, right to their bones, burning their souls. And you don't want to get hit again.
So, he's in his own?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 17, 2023 08:34 AM (yw7eP)

131 Off Boston sock

Posted by: Inogame at August 17, 2023 08:34 AM (53oGX)

132 The company had plans to spend nearly $200 million on wildfire mitigation measures on Maui, the Journal reported, but instead had spent less than $245,000.

Public Utilities appear to be little more than crime syndicates.
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It's worse than you think.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

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And I just heard on the radio that private corporations were banned from performing forest thinning/mitigation procedures.

This is all government. Again.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:35 AM (o1Y90)

133 129

JJ is an aggregator as well as a commentator. If you click a link, you leave the site and find have your spot when you come back. If you want to avoid that, don't leave the site and open the links in new tabs. Then the original page remains exactly how you left it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:32 AM (kBSKe)

Nice advice if you are using a desktop or a laptop.. how about phones or pads?
Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2023 08:34 AM (PCK5/)

Gee tubal… how about if I read ALL of what Mannix writes for a change???

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2023 08:35 AM (PCK5/)

134 88 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:20 AM (kBSKe)

Well, Jacobson didn't specify what he did. That said, I don't think his protestations of fraud were any worse or even more illegal than what Gore, Kerry or Hillary did.

His belief that he could do what others did or just exercising his rights is what he is guilty of, to my way of thinking.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:35 AM (x0n13)

135 2020 is done but vote fraud is living and getting worse. The Deep State and Marxists will figure out how to get more ballots pumped out even if it gets to hacking vote tallies.

Never seen z explanation how votes were subtracted in the Pennsylvania state voting. Saw it with .y own two eyes repeatedly

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 08:36 AM (HfehJ)

136 Police say they have arrested more than 100 Muslim rioters from an area in eastern Pakistan.

... with AP/CP omitting that they were burning churches and killing Christians [despite having 34 character-spaces of free space available in the chyron screen to add that].

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 08:36 AM (krqg6)

137 I'm a bit luckier than most in that regard. We rarely have meetings, my boss is low maintenance ("Are you doing your job? Good. Carry on.") and my co-workers are about as politically correct as I am. The main thing I handle is customer issues but I can fake being sober long enough for those calls.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 17, 2023 08:32 AM (4olE

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Sounds a lot like my job. We only have a meeting once a week. Sometimes we have special meetings for projects, but that's about it. My boss doesn't care what I do as long as the work gets done in a timely manner.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 08:36 AM (YIVH2)

138 I deal with public utilities all the time. very shady business practices.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:37 AM (TZ75n)

139 BREAKING: Trump has been indicted on three counts of saying the word doody

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:37 AM (VuwEX)

140 Unreformable from the top, I’d say. However, if every red state Governor started to nullify and ignore the feds …. Pressure from 27 states (or whatever that number is) would ultimately have a positive impact. ...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 17, 2023 08:29 AM (xT8gx)
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State-level rebellion of some form - be it nullification or secession - is the way out. I favor nullification and triggering a crisis because it's the only way I see where one of the possible outcomes is not "war." War is still a possible outcome of that, but it is not guaranteed.

But the FedGov itself is finished. It cannot be fixed. Nobody running for federal office can fix it. People running for federal office are either on quixotic quests for vindication (which I think is Trump's situation) or they're in it for the money and power and can't wait to play the game at a high level if they sneak in, but can't wait to hoover up money by campaigning regardless (Christie and Hutchinson). Some might be in it for other purposes. A federal run as such, however, is pointless on its own terms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 08:37 AM (kBSKe)

141
Gee tubal… how about if I read ALL of what Mannix writes for a change???
Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2023 08:35 AM (PCK5/)
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Now THAT'S good advice!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 08:37 AM (YIVH2)

142
Never seen z explanation how votes were subtracted in the Pennsylvania state voting. Saw it with .y own two eyes repeatedly

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 08:36 AM

Easy to explain - 15,000 Trump voters stood in line and patiently went back inside the polling locations and changed their votes in eight minutes time.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 08:39 AM (enJYY)

143 >And I just heard on the radio that private corporations were banned from performing forest thinning/mitigation procedures.

This is all government. Again.

Posted by: Moron Robbie

same in Colorado. Environmentalists block companies from logging out beetle-killed timber.
It will all catch fire one day, and make the Yellowstone fires look like a backyard weenie roast.

Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 08:39 AM (geLO8)

144 Nice advice if you are using a desktop or a laptop.. how about phones or pads?
Posted by: tubal a

hold down the link til the menu ops up click open in new tab

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 17, 2023 08:40 AM (CIS44)

145 I usually don’t read past “this busty bikini blonde.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:40 AM (xTRSc)

146 It isn't, and ceased to be that way during the period from 11/8/20 through 1/6/21.

It ceased to be that way 11/08/20 period.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 08:40 AM (lCWOD)

147 World chess federation bars transgender women [MEN!!!] from competing in official women's events.

Quick! Someone sign Michelle up for a tournament, then we'll see!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 08:41 AM (krqg6)

148 Wonder if CBD is still in London.

If he is, you can bet they're reading the content.

Whether they want to or not.

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

149 Palestinian Journalist: We Have Always Hated the Evil Jews

Now do Harvard and Yale.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2023 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

150 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:35 AM (x0n13)

The advice to not fight 2020 but just to win 2024 counts to me as actually the dumbest statement of the year thus far. I have nothing close.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:41 AM (VuwEX)

151 I suppose my takeaway this morning is that even the most brilliant, educated and well informed person can be dead wrong on a subject… and playing that thought out to the end, it applies to anyone, at any time.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2023 08:42 AM (PCK5/)

152 I posted this once before but maybe you guys missed it.

https://human.globalincidentmap.com/

Human trafficking around the world.

Posted by: Gwenn at August 17, 2023 08:42 AM (9Gr7n)

153 Trump didn't have a plan to handle the Steal before the election, and the ad hoc plan he put in place afterwards was poor.

Since then he's done little to try and avoid the Steal '22 and now '24.

None of this is fair, normal, or just. In our Republic candidates shouldn't have to fight against fraud...but for non-leftists they do, primarily due to years of R candidates ignoring it...including Trump.

So as far as '24 is concerned I have *no* doubt that Trump, DeSantis, Vivek, whoever, will get more votes from living, eligible, American citizens than President Bidenflation. But if they don't have a plan to beat the Steal '24 it doesn't matter.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 08:42 AM (lc5cP)

154 >The advice to not fight 2020 but just to win 2024 counts to me as actually the dumbest statement of the year thus far. I have nothing close.

it's like that line in Oliver Stone's Nixon, on the 1960 election:

"They stole it, fair and square. We'll get 'em next time."

Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 08:43 AM (geLO8)

155 Good morning!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 17, 2023 08:43 AM (avru5)

156 World chess federation bars transgender women [MEN!!!] from competing in official women's events.

Do men have a significant advantage over women in Chess? I mean...boxing Chess sure but Chess with out punches to the face?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 08:43 AM (lc5cP)

157 World chess federation bars transgender women [MEN!!!] from competing in official women's events.

Quick! Someone sign Michelle up for a tournament, then we'll see!
Posted by: andycanuck

Let me finish polishing the bishop.

Posted by: JEF at August 17, 2023 08:43 AM (TZ75n)

158 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 17, 2023 08:45 AM (NBVIP)

159 Helllllloooooooo Lizzy, always a sight for sore eyes

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:45 AM (VuwEX)

160 Biden Junta Investigates Vanderbilt University Over Release Of Transgender Clinic Patient Records

They were released to research Medicaid fraud.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2023 08:46 AM (BRHaw)

161 Is there supposed to be some kind of sexual disparity in chess like there is in physical sports?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 08:46 AM (xTRSc)

162
Do men have a significant advantage over women in Chess? I mean...boxing Chess sure but Chess with out punches to the face?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 08:43 AM (lc5cP)

"Did you put on deodorant? Where did you get that shirt? Who didn't you comb your hair? Did you take out the trash like I told you?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2023 08:46 AM (MoZTd)

163 So JJ finally backs off on his support of Trump
A bit too late
Trump will be the nominee of the GOP

[Kurt, I never "supported" Trump as a candidate. At best it was tepid support. But, your criminal friends have rigged the system, so what's the point? Hit my tip jar, you cheap jerk - jjs]

Posted by: Paul [Kurt, gargling the penises Kamala refuses] at August 17, 2023 08:46 AM (Dzxud)

164 Homeowner arrested after trying to evict squatters from his own property: ‘Walked in on weapons, a prostitute, a bunch of dogs’

https://tinyurl.com/yahkh9d4

Posted by: redridinghood at August 17, 2023 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

165 137
Sounds a lot like my job. We only have a meeting once a week. Sometimes we have special meetings for projects, but that's about it. My boss doesn't care what I do as long as the work gets done in a timely manner.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 08:36 AM (YIVH2)

I had to take over as team lead for two weeks as the boss was going on a college tour with her daughter. My one and only conversation with the team was this:

"OK, as you know I'm the team lead for the next two weeks. At the end of the day, I want you to ask yourself this question: 'We have a team lead?' Most of you have been doing this job longer than I have so I'm not going to tell you how to do your job. The only thing I care about is things that are stopping you from doing it. Tell me about them and I will take care of it. There will be blood, fire and screams but it will be taken care of. Oh, and I need a list of what you're doing by 9 every day because I have to tell the managers what's going on."

Posted by: NR Pax at August 17, 2023 08:47 AM (4olE8)

166 Well...Sh*t.

Sefton, you are wrong again!

Trump brought at least some if this on himself by not learning from his mistakes, and by not being able to appreciate just how rabid the Democrat machine was. He should have been far more aware.of their intentions, because they signaled them from the very start.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:48 AM (oawq3)

167 Hey looks it's paul the paid soros troll.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 17, 2023 08:48 AM (QNSds)

168 And now he’s going to roll out, apparently Monday, a new report about Georgia election fraud. I mean, are you kidding me? It’s two and a half years later.

What is the endgame here?
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What a poor mind, torturing itself trying to counter the rhetoric of the left.
Why does it matter? What is the endgame?
The one thing you missed.

It matters because apparently some people still can't get through their thick skulls that 2020 was stolen from us, from me, from you, from 75 million actual voters--by a mere 40,000 fucking fraudulent ballots illegally counted in only 6 cities controlled absolutely top to bottom by rabid partisan Democrats.

And not one of those cities, not even one precinct, has allowed even a whisper of honest examination.
Florida in 2000 let Al Gore examine every ballot. Even after he lost, they let the media pour over every ballot for months-- they hid NOTHING!

But not now. Not a single Republican save Trump is willing to demand even half that level of examination.
And they are going to send him to jail for the rest of his life for even daring to ask.
And Republicans, the good and fair men, where are they, what side are they on? The people or the state?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 17, 2023 08:48 AM (yw7eP)

169
it's like that line in Oliver Stone's Nixon, on the 1960 election:

"They stole it, fair and square. We'll get 'em next time."

Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 08:43 AM

If Kennedy had not had the election stolen on his behalf he would not have been in an open limo in Dallas in 1962.

Receiving stolen goods is not always a great way to go through life.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 08:49 AM (enJYY)

170 Nice advice if you are using a desktop or a laptop.. how about phones or pads?
Posted by: tubal

Chrome on iPhone:
Three little dots on bottom right. Press it. Up pops a menu. Select "New Tab". Bottom of the screen next to it has a number. That's the number of tabs open. Press it. It brings up thumbnails of all open tabs. Press the one you want. Repeat to toggle thru open tabs.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 08:49 AM (ElM8W)

171 Yes; I was disappointed in Professor Jacobsen's analysis too, and as far as the comments over there, I don't even read them if they're about Trump they are so toxic .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2023 08:49 AM (vCBzQ)

172 But then, as Freddie deBoer explained in a recently republished article, the sectarian is not interested in enlarging his faction’s influence in society, only in deepening his influence over the faction, even when that means that faction is dug into ever less popular positions. Jones seems to have given up on his ambitions of making Britain a better place and traded them for a larger influence in a smaller pond of like-minded sectarians.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2023 08:49 AM (BRHaw)

173 Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

Who is "they?"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:50 AM (oawq3)

174 With the tragic Maui fires was wondering: what's going on w/the raging wildfires in Canada? How many are/were there, how were they started, what is the damage, etc.?

Posted by: Lizzy at August 17, 2023 08:50 AM (avru5)

175 >>If I were Trump, I'd refuse to surrender to this Fanny Willis scumbag, go back to Mar-a-Lago and tell the Feds and the state of Georgia to get fucked. If I were Ron DeSantis, I'd ring Mar-a-Lago with state troopers and National Guardsmen and dare the Junta to try and enter.

1000X This.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 08:51 AM (6ox+6)

176 166 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:48 AM (oawq3)

Umm, I believe I did indicate or at least alluded to that a few times in my post.

In any case, is Trump at fault for being a victim of totalitarian persecution?

Fault him for foot in mouth disease at times and for bad decisions like Ronna Romney. But this shit is way beyond electoral politics, which is now an extinct concept.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:51 AM (x0n13)

177 hahahahahahaha

I just heard why the Ashley Babbit pretend death occured.

The "conspiracy against rights" charge comes with the death penalty if anyone died. They set up the pretend Ashley Babbit shooting so that they could have a path.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:51 AM (o1Y90)

178 "Google is testing an AI system that offers life advice."

Pshaw. HordeSource has been doing this for years.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 17, 2023 08:51 AM (a3Q+t)

179 Rising TV ratings mask a sharp decline in American kids playing the game."
Soccer’s Couch-Potato Popularity

finally some great news

TTFN

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 17, 2023 08:52 AM (BRHaw)

180 John Stossel: "You’ve been hearing about DEI training. It’s supposed to make us aware of our unconscious prejudice. But former diversity trainer Erec Smith tells me, 'if you can keep this race thing going, then you will always have a business in getting rid of racism.'”

When did the Leftists stop telling us plebes that Diversity, now amped-up to DEI, will increase corporate profits, create astounding new technologies and devices because of outside-the-box thinking, and many more terrific things when people other than pale, stale whites are hired?

It has been a long time since I've heard any such predictions from the Democrat-Media Complex. Must be because there is no evidence of the promised effects and results. That's what I expected at the end of my first required diversity training session (in FedGov) about over 15 years ago.

Yet the DEI industry continues to expand. Sickening. It's an op, a sham, a backdoor way to impose racial and ethnic hiring quotas.

Posted by: Gref at August 17, 2023 08:52 AM (AMIL/)

181 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

I was just wondering where you was.

In use.

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 08:52 AM (T4tVD)

182 same in Colorado. Environmentalists block companies from logging out beetle-killed timber.
It will all catch fire one day, and make the Yellowstone fires look like a backyard weenie roast.
Posted by: DB

This. I 70 through the rockies will be lit.

Posted by: Infidel at August 17, 2023 08:52 AM (n2500)

183 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:50 AM (oawq3)

How are you always in the shadows like that. Do you have alerts set up?

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:53 AM (VuwEX)

184 Biden and Trump are both too old to be President.

Trump, as a Republican, cannot stop these trials with a pen and phone once elected.

If Trump would throw his support behind someone like Ramaswamy and frame it as an inside/outside game (I kick ass in court, while he kicks ass in the Swamp so no-one gets tried like this again) and we could have enough electoral success to really move the needle.

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at August 17, 2023 08:53 AM (J3OJd)

185 People don’t realize this but that Tunga Bunga volcanic eruption last year has completely disproven every climate model produced by climate hysterical leftards.

That eruption increased the water content of the atm by 10-13%. Percent, not parts per million. Water vapor causes greater warming than CO2, by a factor of 1000’s.

It is warmer and will be for a few years. But the world has not ended.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2023 08:54 AM (JTwsP)

186 COB FIGHT!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

187 The beautiful Canadian WW1 war memorial at Vimy Ridge has been vandalized by an enviro asshole who got away.

Monument history here although without any really good photos of it at Wiki:
https://tinyurl.com/fpav96zs

||A spokesperson for Veterans Affairs Canada said an employee at the site noticed a person vandalizing a wall at the memorial around 9 p.m. local time Tuesday. The individual fled the scene upon being spotted.

A VAC official told Global News on background that the alleged vandal was “a misguided individual with a cause.”

A source with knowledge of the incident told Global News the graffiti was environmental slogans written in French.||

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 08:54 AM (krqg6)

188 Do men have a significant advantage over women in Chess? I mean...boxing Chess sure but Chess with out punches to the face?

--

It's poor form to discuss it, but yes, men are better at everything except childbirth. Somehow even board games.

Someone will try to drag out something about long distance swimming and never bother looking at world records, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:54 AM (o1Y90)

189 >>Trump, as a Republican, cannot stop these trials with a pen and phone once elected.

The only one the Executive could not stop is the GA indictment.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (6ox+6)

190 Rising TV ratings mask a sharp decline in American kids playing the game."
Soccer’s Couch-Potato Popularity

Shoving a national team out there that hates the nation will do that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

191 Unfortunately, it seems that both Trump and DeSantis are equally willing to play the game when what is needed is for them and everyone like them to kick the damn table over and burn down the casino. Rhetorically speaking.
______

The trouble with the above is that I don't know what you have in mind, non-rhetorically speaking. What does "kicking over the table" mean in real action?

IMO, the Left wants to see us start shooting.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (brAQZ)

192 the situation on Maui is far worse than what is being reported

It was essentially burned to the ground and the residents were told to shelter in place.

deaths could be as high as 2,000

Posted by: SMOD at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

193 My wife locked me out of my office and now Joe Mannix is driving over here to let me in. Ridiculous. FML, LOL.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (0FoWg)

194 The argument that diversity will increase profits is based on two premises

1) There is massive corporate discrimination against black people in corporate America and having them able to fully leverage their talents will increase productivity.

2) Just by being black someone adds some value of diversity

The first half of #1 is a lie though the second half is true enough. And number two is stupid and racist.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 08:56 AM (lc5cP)

195 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott

Robert Reich
(@RBReich)
on the “goldilocks economy,”: “I don’t recall an economy that is this good.”

https://tinyurl.com/2taerfsu

Posted by: redridinghood at August 17, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

196 >>Do men have a significant advantage over women in Chess?

Yep.

Spatial Recognition and Logic are both advantages men have over women.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 08:56 AM (6ox+6)

197 Do you have alerts set up?

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 08:53 AM (VuwEX)

Heh...I wish! I don't know how to do that sort of sh*t. But if I did I would have a macro that would auto-ban every hash that used the words "maple syrup" and "French toast" in the same comment.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:56 AM (oawq3)

198 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 08:57 AM (IaTa3)

199 My wife locked me out of my office and now Joe Mannix is driving over here to let me in. Ridiculous. FML, LOL.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (0FoWg)

IF he's no a cop, how can he assist in this situation?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

200 Kids participation in sports and activities is falling across the board.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:57 AM (BIG3/)

201
Heh...I wish! I don't know how to do that sort of sh*t. But if I did I would have a macro that would auto-ban every hash that used the words "maple syrup" and "French toast" in the same comment.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:56 AM (oawq3)

While wearing flip flops.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

202 Kids participation in sports and activities is falling across the board.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 08:57 AM (BIG3/)

You're welcome.

- - - - Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

203 Robert Reich
(@RBReich)
on the “goldilocks economy,”: “I don’t recall an economy that is this good.”

It's a shame you weren't hired for the Snow White remake, little person.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

204 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 08:54 AM (o1Y90)

So I know nothing about chess and the only board game I've played is Scrabble. So chess, is it style of play? Aggressiveness? Taking chances that women may not take? Interesting.

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 17, 2023 08:59 AM (eheVn)

205 If elected could Trump or another R President stop the GA circus?

According to a strict reading of the constitution no.

But...according to the powers that Biden has been allowed to have...sure. You could have everyone involved arrested on federal civil rights charges. You could demand the states don't have the right to bring charges against a federal official. And on and on.

But...that would require an R party willing to stop playing the role of the Washington Generals.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 08:59 AM (lc5cP)

206 193 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (0FoWg)

"Mom liked you best!"

- - The Smothered Brother

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:00 AM (x0n13)

207 Not even 6 a.m. I'm lifting weight at home. Back window and door are open, it's 58 degrees, and I'm shvitzing like a pig. 99% humidity. Ugh

Posted by: SFGoth at August 17, 2023 09:00 AM (KAi1n)

208 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:51 AM (x0n13)

The fact is that Trump was unprepared for the 2020 election, and he is unprepared for the 2024 election. I have heard no plan from him explaining how it will be different. All I hear is him criticizing DeSantis.

He doesn't learn from his mistakes.

He simply doubles down.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:00 AM (oawq3)

209 Bidenflation has already destroyed half the wealth of every American. This is the worst peace time economy since at least the Great Depression and I would argue ever.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 17, 2023 09:00 AM (lc5cP)

210 My wife locked me out of my office and now Joe Mannix is driving over here to let me in. Ridiculous. FML, LOL.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (0FoWg)

There’s gotta be an interesting backstory here? And we’ll all want to hear about a successful resolution…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 17, 2023 09:01 AM (xT8gx)

211 I admire your blindness JJ.

You can’t see how Trump handed them issues on a silver platter, but somehow can see blame for De-Santis being part of the problem.

I would support him as a martyr if he was one. But instead he’s like the tik-tok kid who mocked the cartel on his feed and wound up dead; talking shit about people for four fucking years has consequences. I know his Twitter issues are almost a catch phrase now (hey, you know “mean tweets”

but it’s true.

He won the White House. He spent four years grabbing his dick and shit-talking people. He certainly didn’t spend it firing Christopher Wray or Anthony Fauci.

He didn’t drain the swamp for Jack shit. And I doesn’t matter if 90 percent of his indictments are bullshit—10 percent aren’t.

My children’s future is now fucked—because none of Biden’s issues will ever be fodder for electoral debate. Trump doesn’t have the human decency to pull out of the race, and use his supposed “kingmaker” Midas skills to endorse someone else.

He not an elephant. He s hippo. He’s a raging animal who loves to fight. And he’ll snap your electoral neck as well as mine to get his polemical rocks off.

Posted by: MarleysGhost at August 17, 2023 09:01 AM (9L3dT)

212
Yep.

Spatial Recognition and Logic are both advantages men have over women.
Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 08:56 AM (6ox+6)

In my neck of the woods, there's a strenuous effort to unearth music by women composers of the past, unjustly suppressed and neglected (so they say). Now we're expected to gasp in amazement over the works of Florence Price, Louise Farrenc and Lili Boulanger.

OK, we've unearthed them and heard them. Any Bachs or Mozarts we've missed? Or are we still looking?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2023 09:01 AM (MoZTd)

213 It's a shame you weren't hired for the Snow White remake, little person.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)
******
Now I can't unsee it.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 17, 2023 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

214 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:48 AM (oawq3)

Forget politics for a second.

How does one keep from being falsely accused? Every human does things every day that can be taken advantage of by a bad actor. Remember the "you commit ten felonies a day" thing?

Exaggerated or no, there just happens to be a million or so bad actors, watching Trump's every breath for an errant carbon dioxide particle. Also, try staying the right side of every single things when you are under pressure from lies every day with little recourse to defend yourself without coloring outside a line or two and hardly anyone you can trust to not be compromised.

This is way beyond fault or politics. I don't give a fuck if someone says something bad about Trump. But the idea that he has a, degree of culpability in possibly some or more of the hundred thousand lies and charges that have been thrown at him is quaint to me if nothing else.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (VuwEX)

215 208 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 08:51 AM (x0n13)

The fact is that Trump was unprepared for the 2020 election, and he is unprepared for the 2024 election. I have heard no plan from him explaining how it will be different. All I hear is him criticizing DeSantis.

He doesn't learn from his mistakes.

He simply doubles down.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:00 AM (oawq3)

Please tell me how any amount of "preparation" by any candidate will prevent what happened in 2020 from happening again in 2024 and what that preparation entails.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (x0n13)

216 shvitzing like a pig.
Posted by: SFGoth

THAT'S a new one.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 09:03 AM (ElM8W)

217 Trump has no endgame. It's hail Mary, after hail Mary.

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 09:03 AM (+T4jH)

218 It's a shame you weren't hired for the Snow White remake, little person.
Posted by: Sponge

Thought experiment - which one would he play?

Dopey or Grumpy? Or a combination of both.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 09:03 AM (IaTa3)

219 Hmm. Ancient Chinese secret, eh??

Thai authorities seize more than a ton of pangolin scales worth over $1.4-million that were being sent through land border.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 09:03 AM (krqg6)

220 Nice advice if you are using a desktop or a laptop.. how about phones or pads?

On iOS you can just tap and hold a link to pop up a menu. One of the options will be to open in a new tab. I expect android has something similar if not exactly the same.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at August 17, 2023 09:03 AM (EXyHK)

221 188 men are better at everything except childbirth

And boobs.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (xTRSc)

222 There's an awful lot of speculation coming out of Maui these days. Yesterday someone posted that the local government on Maui was passing out placards to residents that restricted their movement.

The truth is those placards let authorities know you actually live (lived) in the affected areas and are not someone trying to loot the place.

The multi-million dollar homes that were 'spared' by some mysterious force? They had acres of lush green grass around them. Not tinder-dry scrub brush like elsewhere.

The 24 hour rule with the disaster in Hawaii has gone out the window...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (Q4IgG)

223 As far preparation, entrusting very significant reelection to a drunkard was not a good plan. But perhaps Trump is not a good boss..,,flippant, erratic and no qualified individual wanted to take that on..,

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (+T4jH)

224 Please tell me how any amount of "preparation" by any candidate will prevent what happened in 2020 from happening again in 2024 and what that preparation entails.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (x0n13)
---
I've been wondering the same thing.

NOT ONE CANDIDATE seems to have an actual plan, nor do they seem to have the personnel necessary to carry it out.

Even if Vivek somehow squeaked out a win and said he'd burn the Deep State to the ground on day one, the Deep State would tell him to fuck off. Then haul every member of his family into court on bogus charges, just because they can.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (YIVH2)

225 Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (VuwEX)

It's politics. It's filled with bad actors. Trump failed to realize that.

Add in the lack of support from the corporate wing of his own party and he should have been more aware of the possibilities, and planned for the worst.

All he did was count on his appeal to the base.

Yup! He got their votes...but ignored the bad actors!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (oawq3)

226 Article at American Thinker yesterday puts a good argument that Mooch will be taking over in 2024.
I didn't think so a year ago but it would explain lots and she wouldn't need to do anymore work than Sundowner does now.

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (HfehJ)

227 >>Thai authorities seize more than a ton of pangolin scales worth over $1.4-million that were being sent through land border.

So...

roughly a buck a lb for Pangolin Scales?

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:06 AM (6ox+6)

228 It's a shame you weren't hired for the Snow White remake, little person.
Posted by: Sponge

Thought experiment - which one would he play?

Dopey or Grumpy? Or a combination of both.
Posted by: Tonypete

Sleazy.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 09:06 AM (ElM8W)

229 211 Posted by: MarleysGhost at August 17, 2023 09:01 AM (9L3dT)

Umm, how did I blame DeSantis for being part of the problem?

Trump's failures in his term have ZERO to do with what is being done to him. About the only thing you can blame him for is not realizing that the Swamp was the size and depth of all the four oceans combined.

The issue is not his failings, nor DeSantis' failings nor anyone else's.

The issue is tyranny in your face here and now and no way to stop it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:06 AM (x0n13)

230 Lawyers will always side with the legal profession. Even conservative ones. They have to pretend at least some of the charges against Trump are valid or they would have to admit that their entire profession and education is smoke, mirrors, and bullshit mumbo-jumbo that can change in a heartbeat depending on who is in power.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2023 09:06 AM (JTwsP)

231 And if Sleazy wasn't an original Snow White dwarf, he should be.

Tiny, carny looking bi*tch.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 09:07 AM (ElM8W)

232
Dopey or Grumpy? Or a combination of both.
Posted by: Tonypete

F*cky Sucky

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

233 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:56 AM (oawq3)

🙂

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 09:08 AM (VuwEX)

234 And boobs.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (xTRSc)

And the seemingly physically impossible motion of a well-formed backside clothed in a sundress...

Yes..

I just finished a pint.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:08 AM (oawq3)

235 People say Trump should do or should have done this or that. He is one man against the uniparty not a god.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 09:09 AM (lCWOD)

236 Trump brought at least some if this on himself by not learning from his mistakes, and by not being able to appreciate just how rabid the Democrat machine was. He should have been far more aware.of their intentions, because they signaled them from the very start.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 08:48 AM (oawq3)

As has been said in the past, Teh Donald is essentially a 70s Democrat. And, as has also been noted, he believes in an "America" that hasn't existed for over 70 years. I'd argue he was aware of the Dems' intentions (whatever that may mean), but dismissed them because he believed their screams were simply part of the partisan system.

I do agree that he does not seem to have learned from his mistakes. If he does win (which he will not), he is not going to go scorched earth on the left. And even if he did, the GOP would fight him all the way.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 17, 2023 09:09 AM (AW0uW)

237 Trump is not a good strategist. In fact, he is awful at it.

Posted by: runner at August 17, 2023 09:10 AM (+T4jH)

238
Please tell me how any amount of "preparation" by any candidate will prevent what happened in 2020 from happening again in 2024 and what that preparation entails.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM

I don't know what the candidates themselves can do but 'Judicial Watch' is examining voter rolls all over the country and forcing states and counties to purge them. In Pennsylvania alone that was around 90,000 potential ballots cast. Notice Biden appearing in Pennsylvania much? He's here in Philly a lot.

I can't be all doom and gloom about 2024. There are some silver linings out there. Any spare change I had I wouldn't send to a candidate if election integrity is your issue. Send some to the lawyers at Judicial Watch.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 09:10 AM (enJYY)

239 *Tiny, carny looking bi*tch.*

Small hands. Smells of cabbage.

Posted by: A. Powers at August 17, 2023 09:10 AM (NBVIP)

240 And boobs.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (xTRSc)

I think there are quite a few men that are good at being boobs- witness the entire group of progressive Dems and the trolls on here.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 17, 2023 09:11 AM (RHC2G)

241 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (oawq3)

I presume we can agree that the fact that Trump is our best option (or one of our best so we don't get into the weeds here) against said system is an indictment of the system and all it's bad actors, half of whom have an R behind their name.

DeSantis and Vivek certainly ain't here to save us. Politicians through and through. Whether by fortune, accident, or divine providence, I do believe Trump tried.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 09:11 AM (VuwEX)

242 237 Trump is not a good strategist. In fact, he is awful at it.
--------------
Umm, he tossed The Blue Wall's salad and launched a reformation of the GOPers.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (DmtxH)

243 I'm sorry. I have to seriously question the sanity of persons running for public office who go around kissing reptiles. Unseemly and egregious.

Posted by: Tommy Turtle at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (83IzV)

244 So I know nothing about chess and the only board game I've played is Scrabble. So chess, is it style of play? Aggressiveness? Taking chances that women may not take? Interesting.
Posted by: Joey Sausage

--

I suspect it's everything everywhere all at once.

We men were designed in large part to make war and die. I have a feeling that sort of thing matters brain-wise.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (o1Y90)

245 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (x0n13)

Why do the Dems have armies of lawyers ready to go at a moment's notice and Trump didn't? Where was his poll security organization? Who was tasked with the lawfare necessary in a modern American election.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (oawq3)

246 It's a shame you weren't hired for the Snow White remake, little person.
Posted by: Sponge

Thought experiment - which one would he play?

Dopey or Grumpy? Or a combination of both.
Posted by: Tonypete

Innumerate.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (AW0uW)

247 Ah, sundresses…

One of the best things about summer. Right up there with halter tops.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (xTRSc)

248 >>I can't be all doom and gloom about 2024.

I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how I can Monetize the State Sponsored Riot Season of 2024.

It's gonna happen. I just need to figure out an avenue to profit.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (6ox+6)

249 Israel sells sophisticated missile defence system to Germany for $3.5-billion in country's largest ever defence deal.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (krqg6)

250 Wow, quite the free-for-all here today…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:13 AM (xTRSc)

251 192 the situation on Maui is far worse than what is being reported

It was essentially burned to the ground and the residents were told to shelter in place.

deaths could be as high as 2,000

Posted by: SMOD at August 17, 2023 08:55 AM (RHGPo)

The President cares deeply about the disaster-stricken people on Mowa uh Mohwee uh Maui! He and DOCTOR Jill will travel to the island next week, to help the people grieve, because he still grieves for his fallen son. And,he has already ordered a lot of blankets, MREs, and bottles of water be sent to the island!

Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (AMIL/)

252 I long for the return of politicians that need three to five days to determine what they believe before speaking about a topic.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (o1Y90)

253 238 Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 09:10 AM (enJYY)

I appreciate your optimism and yes there are good people out there trying to do good works.

I too am or try to be optimistic about life. But I can't ignore the reality of the situation, at least how I see it.

We have truly evil people that are on course to repeat the worst depredations of Hitler, Stalin and Mao. If given the opportunity and if the circumstances arise where they have to do it - or can get away with it - we will suffer the fate of at least 100 million souls ground into dust.

To argue about personalities or even garden variety politics right now is useless. To me anyway.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (x0n13)

254 >> Israel sells sophisticated missile defence system to Germany for $3.5-billion in country's largest ever defence deal.

Suckers.

Missile Defense Systems are worthless against Space Lasers and Weather Machines.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (6ox+6)

255 Israel sells sophisticated missile defence system to Germany for $3.5-billion in country's largest ever defence deal.
Posted by: andycanuck

defense.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (TZ75n)

256 Wow, quite the free-for-all here today…
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And it's not even Friday.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (krqg6)

257 People say Trump should do or should have done this or that. He is one man against the uniparty not a god.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 09:09 AM (lCWOD)
^^^^This!

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (3NeBC)

258
Wow, quite the free-for-all here today…
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:13 AM (xTRSc)

*punches Bulgaroctonus*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (MoZTd)

259 Michael Parkinson, the renowned British broadcaster who interviewed some of the world’s most famous celebrities of the 20th century from Muhammad Ali to Miss Piggy, has died. He was 88. His family said in a statement to the BBC on Thursday that Parkinson died “peacefully at home last night” after a brief illness.

Posted by: SMOD at August 17, 2023 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

260
I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how I can Monetize the State Sponsored Riot Season of 2024.

It's gonna happen. I just need to figure out an avenue to profit.
Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (6ox+6)

Pallet of bricks delivery.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

261 245 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (x0n13)

Why do the Dems have armies of lawyers ready to go at a moment's notice and Trump didn't? Where was his poll security organization? Who was tasked with the lawfare necessary in a modern American election.
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Umm, cuz Deep State is Full of Lawyers as Feds and its Owners the Manhattans.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 17, 2023 09:15 AM (DmtxH)

262 The continuous stream of indictments is starting to work. I can see the increasing anti-Trump mood here at the HQ. Some of it is based on utilitarian arguments, some a lot more personal. But you can feel the momentum. Not that the horde is some kind of indicator of the general populace but certainly we know more about the Right.

Posted by: blaster at August 17, 2023 09:16 AM (Jk9SN)

263
I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how I can Monetize the State Sponsored Riot Season of 2024.

It's gonna happen. I just need to figure out an avenue to profit.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM

brick vendor?

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 17, 2023 09:16 AM (ENBF0)

264 “ I presume we can agree that the fact that Trump is our best option”

It’s literally a hive mind.

Posted by: MarleysGhost at August 17, 2023 09:16 AM (9L3dT)

265 I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how I can Monetize the State Sponsored Riot Season of 2024.

It's gonna happen. I just need to figure out an avenue to profit.
Posted by: garrett

Become a brick merchant.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 09:16 AM (ElM8W)

266 defense.
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Get with the programme.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 09:16 AM (krqg6)

267
I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out how I can Monetize the State Sponsored Riot Season of 2024.

It's gonna happen. I just need to figure out an avenue to profit.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM

I can't see how a 'Riot Season' while Biden is in office works for him. Nixon as a "Law and Order' candidate won the largest Electoral College victory on record, iirc.

Maybe single women will shed their love for abortion if they lose their job, their home, their safety in the scenario you suggest.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 09:16 AM (enJYY)

268 I'm reading this on my phone and the fucking site isn't optimized for phones, so it bounces all over the fucking place.

I am so fucking sick of 20-year-old software.

Maybe Pixy can stop watching Anime long enough to fix it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:17 AM (oawq3)

269 As I have been predicting since May, there will be no Superheavy/Starship launch this year.
================
The Junta wants SpaceX to fail, for reasons of ideological Musk-hate, but the DoD is totally dependent on SpaceX, as is NASA.

Hopefully the interagency battles to come end the right way.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 09:17 AM (Qqpbi)

270 Damn you gotta be quick around here.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 09:17 AM (ElM8W)

271 If it makes anyone feel any better, the skull ditches have been headed our way for a good long while and this last 6 years has finally opened a lot of eyes to it. Though perhaps not as many as one would hope.

Lord knows I was screaming it from the rooftops from 2012 on and I will tell you it didn't have much traction. I sounded like a maniac. Kind of like now.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 09:17 AM (VuwEX)

272 Remember “build back better”?
The picture gets clearer after reading this:

"The government of Hawaii states goal for rebuild is to make the entire island of Maui the first Smart ISLAND. They want the entire island governed by AI as outlined in the Hawaii Digitial government summit of 2023 that they have planned to host next month Monday, September 25, 2023 on Maui.

Posted by: SMOD at August 17, 2023 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

273 Michael Parkinson, the renowned British broadcaster who interviewed some of the world’s most famous celebrities of the 20th century from Muhammad Ali to Miss Piggy, has died. He was 88. His family said in a statement to the BBC on Thursday that Parkinson died “peacefully at home last night” after a brief illness.
Posted by: SMOD

Get Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem to play at his funeral.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 09:18 AM (TZ75n)

274 Become a brick merchant.
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The Merchant of Menace.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 09:18 AM (krqg6)

275 So, do the Brits spell “defensive” as “defencive?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:18 AM (xTRSc)

276 Meanwhile: "A Michigan man who identifies as a Muslim woman has filed a legal claim to retrieve his amputated testicles from his ex-boyfriend’s refrigerator ..."

... in time for dinner?

Posted by: Minimal gp-Based Barrier at August 17, 2023 09:18 AM (MvF+J)

277 Alan Dershowitz Op-Ed: The Hunter Biden Special Counsel Appointment Is Blatantly Illegal
_______

The trouble with that article, and everything else I've seen on the subject, is that it never addresses just what anyone can DO about it.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 17, 2023 09:18 AM (brAQZ)

278 I think this is the obligatory bar room brawl scene in every old Western.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 17, 2023 09:18 AM (NBVIP)

279
*punches Bulgaroctonus*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM

:: Throws brick at back of Hadrian's head. ::

Posted by: Krazy Kat at August 17, 2023 09:18 AM (enJYY)

280 >>The Merchant of Menace.

Nice!

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:19 AM (6ox+6)

281 Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (VuwEX)

It's politics. It's filled with bad actors. Trump failed to realize that.

Add in the lack of support from the corporate wing of his own party and he should have been more aware of the possibilities, and planned for the worst.

All he did was count on his appeal to the base.

Yup! He got their votes...but ignored the bad actors!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:05 AM (oawq3)
*****
Trump picks the wrong battles and
I fear he is alienating more and more people.
Yes, I plan on voting for him, but the comment his sent out about once of his fiercest defenders still has me pissed.

"Kayleigh "Milktoast'McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews. I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up. While 25 is great, it's not 34. She knew the number was corrected upwards by the group that did the poll. The RINOS &
Globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use REAL Stars!!!"

I have no idea how he plans to win over independents, Gen Z, women and even people that have supported him.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 17, 2023 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

282 245 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (x0n13)

Why do the Dems have armies of lawyers ready to go at a moment's notice and Trump didn't? Where was his poll security organization? Who was tasked with the lawfare necessary in a modern American election.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:12 AM (oawq3)

Would that have reversed national mail-in balloting? Would poll security overcome Democrat police forces when poll watchers were ejected?

If you want to blame Trump, and I can agree with this, is that the COVID lockdowns which he went along with and did little or nothing to end was the precursor to this.

That said, too many politicians and judges and the system were preordained to screw him over the moment he went down that escalator in 2015.
His greatest failing was his naivete that in the system. And I think we were all guilty of that to some degree.

Again, you blame him for things that were out of his control and are still out of his control. Does that mean I support his candidacy? Not necessarily. And that's because I think that if the Lord in Heaven came down and ran as the GOP nominee, even He could not overcome the cheat.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:19 AM (x0n13)

283 216 shvitzing like a pig.
Posted by: SFGoth

THAT'S a new one.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 09:03 AM (ElM8W)

Pigs don't really shvitz like other mammals which is why they wallow in mud to stay cool.

Posted by: The more you know at August 17, 2023 09:19 AM (II3Gr)

284 During an interview with Spectrum News NY1 on Wednesday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) stated that New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) “didn’t invite” all the migrants that have come to the city in and “there was an expectation that not so many would be allowed to come through the border or that they’d relocate in other states” instead of the number that has caused “a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.”

Hochul said that New York City is “in the midst of a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 17, 2023 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

285 AP- four more states are expecting their K-12 schools to keep transgender girls off their girls teams.

KS, ND and WY had laws in place restricting transgender athletes before classes resumed, a Missouri law takes effect soon, bringing the number of states with restrictions to 23. NC could soon, and OH may follow in the fall.

Outside of being incredibly cruel to LGBT people and short sighted this policy is a straight up guaranteed looser for the GOP because the vast majority of Gen Z has LGBT family, friends, co-workers, lovers, and people they see everyday and being mean to those people is a non starter to America's next generations.

This is a non problem but is being made into a problem by the Christo-Fascists who are the minority in America and their population demographic is becoming smaller and smaller % of America as a whole.

this is not a losing issue -- it's the only one that has an actual constituency spanning the spectrum. Right wingers are in it for the hate, but not one bit more insane than your typical sports parent. The only difference is a liberal sports parent can turn off the insanity at times.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 17, 2023 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

286 >>John Stossel: "Smith tells me, 'if you can keep this race thing going, then you will always have a business in getting rid of racism.'”

You're thinking small, Stossel.
A WSJ op-ed by a criminal justice professor yesterday left a clue, "The Post-Pandemic Murder Wave is Cresting." After spending many paragraphs blaming the **post-BLM riot** surge in crime on everything but that comes this:
This is attributable to a subculture of violenceamong low-income African-Americans. A propensity to resolve interpersonal conflict through violence traces back to the 19th century South, where whites manifested similar behavior. Blacks, overwhelmingly Southerners in the 19th century, adopted the white, Southern subculture of violence and took it to the Northern cities. . ."

Got that - it's all pre-civil war white Southerners' fault.? This will all be used for reparations, the brass ring.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 17, 2023 09:20 AM (avru5)

287 Lots of people are waiting for that Man on Horseback to ride to the rescue to save them… I do not think that any one is coming to save us… we may have to do that ourselves down the road. It will be messy, very messy.

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2023 09:20 AM (PCK5/)

288 I think that there were a lot of people who formed the idea of DeSantis as a disciplined, competent Trump. But a lot of NT got in there as here is our weapon against Trump! Not a good mix of support and the NT drove out the others for the most part.

Plus, we keep thinking that a competent politician is a winner because you know candidate quality! That's not really the standard. The standard is branding.

Posted by: blaster at August 17, 2023 09:21 AM (Jk9SN)

289 There’s gotta be an interesting backstory here? And we’ll all want to hear about a successful resolution…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 17, 2023 09:01 AM (xT8gx)

I'd like to say she discovered my underground weapons-smuggling and Mexican weather girl trafficking ring, and locked me out to prevent my evil doing, and Mannix had to come over to keep his sweet, sweet luchre flowing into those offshore accounts.

But... she lost her keys yesterday, and borrowed mine, and then found hers, but failed to put mine back, and presto - I was locked out when I went to clock in.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 09:21 AM (0FoWg)

290 I think this is the obligatory bar room brawl scene in every old Western.

**begins playing "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling" on the piano**

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 17, 2023 09:21 AM (AW0uW)

291 During an interview with Spectrum News NY1 on Wednesday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) stated that New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) “didn’t invite” all the migrants that have come to the city in and “there was an expectation that not so many would be allowed to come through the border or that they’d relocate in other states” instead of the number that has caused “a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions.”

You declared yourself a sanctuary, you stupid c*nt. You supported Biden that ran on an open border campaign.

You build this. Reap it. Hope they do what they do to you soon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

292 How do frostbacks spell "centered"?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 17, 2023 09:21 AM (TZ75n)

293 Not that the horde is some kind of indicator of the general populace but certainly we know more about the Right.
Posted by: blaster at August

Hear a lie often enough and soon one begins to believe it.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 09:21 AM (lCWOD)

294 When you’re out of shvitz, you’re out of beer.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:22 AM (xTRSc)

295 >>This is attributable to a subculture of violenceamong low-income African-Americans. A propensity to resolve interpersonal conflict through violence traces back to the 19th century South, where whites manifested similar behavior. Blacks, overwhelmingly Southerners in the 19th century, adopted the white, Southern subculture of violence and took it to the Northern cities. . ."

Southern Whites Fail to Position African Americans for Success

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:22 AM (6ox+6)

296 Morning JJ.

So what is President Trump to do? Look at the corner his numerous enemies - on the Left as well as in the GOPe - are trying to paint him into. DJT might be boisterous at times but I believe he's doing what he can to stay between the lines and not get forcibly detained, thrown into jail and his fortune seized, all things said enemies would love to do. And considering how weak, compromised and useless the Republicans controlling the House are, who has his back? The only army President Trump has, is the hundreds of thousands who clamor at his rallies and the nearly 75 million who cast legal ballots for him.
What else is he to do?
Americans see the government going after DJT unfairly, yet they also see his party doing NOTHING about it, jist like they did NOTHING for 4 years and NOTHING as 2020 was being stolen right before their faces and THEY CONFIRMED IT!
And they will do NOTHING now. So where does that leave DJT and his supporters to go for justice?
All due respect to Professor Jacobson, he doesn't get it. We want 2020 fixed and those responsible for this massive criminal conspiracy to defraud the electorate of the United States, prosecuted. This is our hill.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 09:22 AM (LHRhh)

297 Trump will die in prison.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 09:22 AM (Cr2ZZ)

298 When you’re out of shvitz, you’re out of beer.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:22 AM (xTRSc)

Well played.

https://youtu.be/_qFuqDZauz0

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

299 294 When you’re out of shvitz, you’re out of beer.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 17, 2023 09:22 AM (xTRSc)

Take my shvitz? Take my gusto?

Posted by: Angry-looking mountain man guy at August 17, 2023 09:23 AM (fhX0j)

300 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 09:17 AM (oawq3)

If you are on android you can turn your screen resolution down and make it much better.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 09:23 AM (VuwEX)

301 188 men are better at everything except childbirth

And boobs.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

And parking spots. Apparently, I don't see them. I wonder how I found them before marriage.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 09:23 AM (IaTa3)

302 297 Trump will die in prison.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 09:22 AM (Cr2ZZ)

Not of natural causes either. They will go for the death penalty.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:24 AM (x0n13)

303 The U.S. [and Canada] need an Alternative für Deutschland party candidate. Someone we can all get behind!
https://tinyurl.com/3vma34pn

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 09:24 AM (krqg6)

304 That's not really the standard. The standard is branding.
Posted by: blaster at August 17, 2023 09:21 AM (Jk9SN)

I'm heating up the coals.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 09:25 AM (lCWOD)

305 FedGov is largely too big to reform. Even with the fascist tendencies inherent to it I don't think the dictatorial leanings of *biden would be permitted to water down FedGov's stranglehold on power.

I think that's some of what we see going on with the on-again, off-again reporting about *biden's ability to either remain in office or run and be installed in the White House again.

Being a dictator means, on paper at least, you really don't need all that bureaucracy around.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2023 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

306 Useless Facts For Your Information today, August 17th:

The French toast bread to make some sandwiches.

One of Canada's most popular exports is pure maple syrup.

Posted by: Gref, Tempting the Wrath of Forces Beyond His Control at August 17, 2023 09:25 AM (AMIL/)

307 Hear a lie often enough and soon one begins to believe it.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 09:21 AM (lCWOD)

To a point, that's true.

But if you hear enough lies often enough, you just stop believing anything you hear. Or you should, anyway. It's lie-saturation, it's real, and it's NOT fabulous.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 09:25 AM (0FoWg)

308 ... Outside of being incredibly cruel to LGBT people and short sighted this policy is a straight up guaranteed looser for the GOP because the vast majority of Gen Z has LGBT family, friends, co-workers, lovers, and people they see everyday and being mean to those people is a non starter to America's next generations. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 17, 2023 09:20 AM (JCZqz)
++++
LOL. This person seems to think both that popular support matters in some way, and that Gen-Z is as uniformly progtarded as the Millennials. Neither is true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 09:25 AM (kBSKe)

309 Silver platters..

J.J. - First off.. some of those documents WERE still classified. He did an interview with a reporter with him being recorded as saying so!

2nd - with regards to Georgia.. Trump handled it about as poorly as everything he did in office. He personally tried to bully Georgia officials - on recorded phone calls!
He never once, while in office, used surrogates.. he thought he was still the CEO who could GET THINGS DONE with just a personal phone call. What an ass. And, he has yet to learn these lessons.

Last - As I said in August of 2020 - Trump better get his ass to Georgia, Penn, etc. with an army of lawyers fighting the unconstitutional changes to election laws.. Did he?

No.. he just did a grift donation campaign "Stop the Steal" AFTER the elections.. and then pocketed to donations.

He's a scumbag that I will never vote for again. He needs to just go away.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 17, 2023 09:25 AM (w/RvR)

310 Trump will die in prison.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 09:22 AM (Cr2ZZ)

Not of natural causes either. They will go for the death penalty.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:24 AM (x0n13)
******
Realistically, I see no way Trump doesn't avoid prison.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 17, 2023 09:26 AM (NpAcC)

311 I have no idea how he plans to win over independents, Gen Z, women and even people that have supported him.

Posted by: redridinghood

--

Same way he won in a landslide by getting record numbers of voters (R)s have been struggling to appeal to the last two times, except now those same voters are hoping for a good economy and end to wars.

Seems easy enough.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 17, 2023 09:26 AM (1cF3m)

312 re: Trump 'vulnerable'

Common wisdom, JJ.

I have mentioned before this weird thing I have noticed for... oh about 7 years. Certain people HATE Trump viscerally. They dislike him and KNOW he is dirty. They are just waiting for the evidence to drop or the Dems to justify their assumption. They have been doing it for seven years.

(Quote paraphrased from from memory): ace: Now I think all this is wrong, but Trump probably did it.

Now I am not a huge fan of Trump (aside from liking what he did, while not liking the things he did not do.) However, it is hard not to at least come to his defense while watching normally rational people shrug while the guy is railroaded in the worst case of persecution since Zinoviev and Kaminev.

Now, mostly this manifested as NTism. But the people who stayed behind still harbor this visceral thing. I have usually put it down to a cultural thing, but fuck if I know. All I know is from the outside, it is fricking sad to watch. "he's asking for it.' 'I always knew he was dirty.'

I am starting to get to the point where I just want to scream and start shaking people like a british nanny.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 17, 2023 09:26 AM (zZu0s)

313 I like to put all of my hope and trust into politicians. You know, people who lie for a living.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 17, 2023 09:27 AM (NBVIP)

314 He never once, while in office, used surrogates.. he thought he was still the CEO who could GET THINGS DONE with just a personal phone call. What an ass. And, he has yet to learn these lessons.

—

This is true.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 09:27 AM (Cr2ZZ)

315 I am starting to get to the point where I just want to scream and start shaking people like a british nanny.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 17, 2023 09:26 AM (zZu0s)

What's the difference between a British tranny and a standard, average tranny?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

316 Mexican weather girl
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Chili today; hot tamale.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 09:28 AM (krqg6)

317 Neither will work, but I think that's the game.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Agreed Joe.

Until that bubble of conspiracy is broken (libs/Ds saying EVERYTHING was on the up and up) and the MSM grudgingly reporting from the court room that there were irregularities across multiple states, conversations of cleaning up voting laws wi go no where.

The MSM will poopoo these submissions to the court, but at worst they will not be able to continue saying EVERYTHING was on the up and up. And unfortunately that's the best we can hope for.

Because any plea deal will be defacto Acknowledgement Trump is guilty of everything by the other side.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 17, 2023 09:28 AM (FxH7T)

318 Trump's biggest obstacle has been the Vichy wing of the GOP.

They have no idea how hated Mitch McConnell is right now

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:28 AM (33nmr)

319 All due respect to Professor Jacobson, he doesn't get it. We want 2020 fixed and those responsible for this massive criminal conspiracy to defraud the electorate of the United States, prosecuted. This is our hill.
Posted by: Tracy
...
Tell me you don't know how elections work without telling me you don't know how elections work. There's no going back.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 17, 2023 09:29 AM (w/RvR)

320 he thought he was still the CEO who could GET THINGS DONE with just a personal phone call. What an ass.
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He, like many - most? - of us here, was working under the flawed assumption that judges, elected officials in his own party, and everyday people working for the government loved America and Americans.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 17, 2023 09:29 AM (1cF3m)

321 He never once, while in office, used surrogates.. he thought he was still the CEO who could GET THINGS DONE with just a personal phone call. What an ass. And, he has yet to learn these lessons.

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Nah. Everyone he delegated to stabbed him in the back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

322 Realistically, I see no way Trump doesn't avoid prison.

When that happens, the left will squirt harder than Annie Spinkle.

The right will be more circumspect, but will high-five each other.

Trump's supporters will grumble and mutter, but in the end will be too cowed by the fully-weaponized junta to do anything at all.

I won't bother saying 'change my mind,' because you won't.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 17, 2023 09:30 AM (AW0uW)

323 You get dumped someplace down the page multiple prior posts from yesterday, randomly.

"Right-click, open in a new tab" will change your life.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 17, 2023 09:30 AM (NHoLP)

324 >I'm reading this on my phone and the fucking site isn't optimized for phones, so it bounces all over the fucking place.

it's optimized for retirees and shut-ins

Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 09:30 AM (geLO8)

325 "WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) -

U.S. General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called General Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army on Oct. 30, 2020 - four days before the election - and again on Jan. 8, two days after Trump supporters led a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, the newspaper reported.

In the calls, Milley sought to assure Li the United States was stable and not going to attack and, if there were to be an attack, he would alert his counterpart ahead of time, the report said."

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But Trump or something.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 17, 2023 09:31 AM (1cF3m)

326 324 >I'm reading this on my phone and the fucking site isn't optimized for phones, so it bounces all over the fucking place.

it's optimized for retirees and shut-ins
Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 09:30 AM (geLO

Windows 95….

Posted by: tubal at August 17, 2023 09:31 AM (PCK5/)

327 Any fair Legal reading of the Trump indictments make it clear that these are cases that are ONLY meant to be tried in the Court of Public Opinion.

None would stand on their merits alone if our Courts worked as designed.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:32 AM (6ox+6)

328 309. Jerry your vote means shit living in Illinois anyways.

You choose to live in the same blue state dump as i do. why would somebody in a swing state care what you think?

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:32 AM (33nmr)

329 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

330 To argue about personalities or even garden variety politics right now is useless. To me anyway.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:14 AM (x0n13)

Exactly right... Thanks for all you do J.J.

Posted by: spypeach at August 17, 2023 09:32 AM (UuB/1)

331 >Milley sought to assure Li the United States was stable and not going to attack and, if there were to be an attack, he would alert his counterpart ahead of time

you're doing national defense wrong

Posted by: DB - at August 17, 2023 09:33 AM (geLO8)

332 Trump sentenced to prison- it's over.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 09:33 AM (lCWOD)

333 "Lots of people are waiting for that Man on Horseback to ride to the rescue to save them… I do not think that any one is coming to save us…"

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Revelation 19:11-16

Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns.
He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses.
Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:

KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 17, 2023 09:33 AM (RiKyN)

334
The personal phone call - as reported - is not the same as the official transcript of the phone call.

ANYONE SHOCKED?

But you never learn. You may claim you know the media lies, every day. But they still manage to pull the covers over your head and let loose a bone-rattling SBD while you snore.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 09:33 AM (enJYY)

335 They have no idea how hated Mitch McConnell is right now

Oh, they know. They simply don't care.

Because what are you going to do, prole? Vote Democrat? Go third-party? Stay home? The GOP doesn't care because they don't have to.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 17, 2023 09:33 AM (AW0uW)

336 @319 Chi-Town Jerry-oh by all means please do enlighten us on exactly how elections work now......

Posted by: JROD at August 17, 2023 09:33 AM (IlL6s)

337 Over the last five years of this hushed-up tawdry saga, Americans knew immediately that Joe Biden was lying in all his denials of any involvement whatsoever in the procurement of a large part of his income from abroad simply because no one in the entire Biden family had any business, investment, or energy expertise. In other words, as grifters without Joe, the Bidens had zero market value.

~~VDH, cutting like a hammer

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 09:33 AM (leqXh)

338 They're after me pot o' gold!

||An IT glitch allowed Bank of Ireland customers to overdraw cash from ATMs, but the issue has since been fixed, bank officials said on Wednesday.

According to Irish media, the bank’s clients were able to take out up to €1,000 ($1,009) over their account balance on Tuesday. Social media users spread news of the glitch, leading to long lines at ATMs across the country.

A man waiting in line in Dublin told the Irish Times newspaper that he heard about the issue online.||

CBD should have gone to Eire instead of the UK.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 17, 2023 09:34 AM (krqg6)

339 LOL. This person seems to think both that popular support matters in some way, and that Gen-Z is as uniformly progtarded as the Millennials. Neither is true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 09:25 AM (kBSKe)

Yep. American Millennials are the high water mark - the closest thing to the New Soviet Man ever achieved since the first vanguard of the proletariat sallied forth after WWI.

It's all downhill from here. Blind obedience to and support for authority erode from here on out.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 09:34 AM (0FoWg)

340 Yup! He got their votes...but ignored the bad actors!
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Ron's supposedly 'fresh' and 'youthful' and YaleHarvard HarvardYale trained in doublespeak. Someone should do a videoshop of Ron superimposed on that Harvard MBA twit that destroyed Budweiser. Who is the bad actor here?

The more I watch, the more Ron's lack of experience and loyalty makes me cringe. He is not a uniter, except for the HarvardYale establishment crew against 'outsiders' and I really do not think he can win in a general.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 17, 2023 09:34 AM (MIKMs)

341 If Trump goes to prison , the GOP will lose 30 seats in the House.

His voters wont vote, because they will blame the GopE for not defending him

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:34 AM (33nmr)

342 Nah. Everyone he delegated to stabbed him in the back.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 17, 2023 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
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This is probably true to a great extent. One of the problems of leadership is assuming burdens you don't have to because you have difficulty finding people who are reliable to take on those burdens.

I've seen it in my church with the pastor who has been burned by well-meaning, but ultimately unreliable people who left him to take care of the task that was assigned to them. As a result, his trust circle is fairly small these days.

In Trump's case, virtually EVERYONE in the Federal government was actively working against him from day one, so it's possible he felt the ONLY way to get things done was to try and take care of it himself.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 09:35 AM (YIVH2)

343 Any fair Legal reading of the Trump indictments make it clear that these are cases that are ONLY meant to be tried in the Court of Public Opinion.

None would stand on their merits alone if our Courts worked as designed.

Posted by: garrett at August 17, 2023 09:32 AM (6ox+6)
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truth

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 09:35 AM (leqXh)

344 He, like many - most? - of us here, was working under the flawed assumption that judges, elected officials in his own party, and everyday people working for the government loved America and Americans.
Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 17, 2023 09:29 AM (1cF3m)
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I don't think so. Love of America? Whatever. Few people love the company.

But I think he did expect obedience. I think he did expect that if he gave an order, it would be carried out or the person would quit. That is how it works in the business world. You give the order, the subordinate does it. If he refuses to do it, he quits or gets fired.

I think the biggest development of Trump's administration is the staff's rampant rejection of orders and refusal to do as instructed. Trump's administration was largely insubordinate. He fired some of them, but not enough. After a firing, he couldn't get loyal people installed through the Congress - not that this is an excuse, but it is a factor.

When essentially your entire staff refuses to do as they're told, you're not really in charge. And that's Washington if you're not down with the program.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 17, 2023 09:35 AM (kBSKe)

345 The Deep State owns Roberts, but at some point they will threaten alito and Thomas to retire. Then the GOP becomes the British Tories. Pro Choice, anti Gun, Pro Tranny

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:36 AM (33nmr)

346 War on the Bill of Rights is nothing new. It goes back to 1789.

But busting through the orderly relatively clean election process using unconstitutional means to install a junta means every outrage against the Bill of Rights is also dissolving it.

So now vigorous dissent and speech decrying the various tactics to capture the Executive Branch are declared to be criminal. And parties who acted to rectify what they believed to be illegal election related tactics are to be imprisoned.

If they are successful they will work down the list of dissenters until they shut down dissent using the courts as a bludgeon against speech and beliefs.

That's how the cookie is crumbling.

Posted by: torabora at August 17, 2023 09:37 AM (OUiUM)

347 Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s office confirmed in June that it was investigating the medical center over potential billing fraud. The center recently ceased providing cross-sex hormones and performing sex-change surgeries on minors in compliance with a new Tennessee law that took effect earlier this year.

Brandon Smith, chief of staff for the state attorney general, said that the investigation is purely about Vanderbilt’s billing practices and not about the patients themselves, saying the AG’s office was “surprised that VUMC has deliberately chosen to frighten its patients like this.”

“The Office does not publicize fraud investigations to preserve the integrity of the investigative process. The Office maintains patient records in the strictest confidence, as required by law,” Smith added. “The investigation is focused solely on VUMC and certain related providers, not patients, as VUMC is well aware.”

Posted by: SMOD at August 17, 2023 09:38 AM (RHGPo)

348 Take a look at what just happened in Ohio with the constitutional vote. That's what's in store for the next general. While the GOP and its voters were out complaining about everything, Democrats were out organizing and getting as many votes across the finish line as possible. That's what wins the game. Not Rona McDaniels particular brand of fail, not complaining about stolen elections or fairness, but playing the game by the rules which have been set. Face it, GOP voters and their organizations have been lazy, apathetic Karen's about the elections and have done very little to cure the real issues. But you go Trump, have that press conference on the stolen election. That'll work in fixing things.

Posted by: The Truth Hurts at August 17, 2023 09:39 AM (sTg9F)

349 Trump gets railroaded by bogus charges, while BLM, Hillary etc... walk. Gop leaders do nothing to help him.

In that scenario, even Reagan would lose the next election.

We are looking at 2008 folks

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:40 AM (33nmr)

350
Another tremendous number. We’re going to have an accurate number over the next two days with certified accountants. But an accurate number but its in the 50s of thousands— and that’s people that went to vote and they were told they can’t vote because they’ve already been voted for. And it’s a very sad thing. They walked out complaining. But the number’s large. We’ll have it for you. But it’s much more than the number of 11,779 that’s — The current margin is only 11,779. Brad, I think you agree with that, right? That’s something I think everyone — at least that’s’ a number that everyone agrees on.

Is Trump anywhere in that paragraph asking anyone to find 11,779 votes?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 09:41 AM (enJYY)

351 they still manage to pull the covers over your head and let loose a bone-rattling SBD while you snore.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 09:33 AM

They sound like my kind of people. Newsletter?

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA) at August 17, 2023 09:42 AM (a3Q+t)

352 His greatest failing was his naivete that in the system. And I think we were all guilty of that to some degree.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:19 AM (x0n13)

Yes. If not for Trump we would not know how bad and how deeply entrenched Dem corruption and hate for conservatives was. (They want us dead). We now know to what lengths they will will go to destroy him and us. It's glaringly out in the open and they don't care that it is because there's nothing we can do. Did I say they want us dead? I'm starting to think they may be able to go there sooner than later. Who will stop them? Police? Woke military?

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 17, 2023 09:42 AM (eheVn)

353 Trump's supporters will grumble and mutter, but in the end will be too cowed by the fully-weaponized junta to do anything at all.

we'll vote harder

and go back to supporting the next uniparty globalist GOP candidate because hey, they're better than the other guy, right?

Posted by: brak at August 17, 2023 09:43 AM (3BMQI)

354 I think the biggest development of Trump's administration is the staff's rampant rejection of orders and refusal to do as instructed. Trump's administration was largely insubordinate.
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In some, like Milley, their insubordination rose to treasonous.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 09:44 AM (aFwXl)

355 Trump goes to prison, third party guaranteed. GopE has to be erased, the way of the whigs

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:45 AM (33nmr)

356 Why do the Dems have armies of lawyers ready to go at a moment's notice and Trump didn't? Where was his poll security organization? Who was tasked with the lawfare necessary in a modern American election.
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1) that is the job of the RNC
2) which, of course, brings the insanity of Trump endorsing Ronna.
3) not that anyone acceptable to the body of the RNC will ever lift a finger to help Trump
4) how many lawyer will sign on to help Trump now anyway?

We really are on our own ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 17, 2023 09:46 AM (yw7eP)

357 The fact that Rhonna Romney McDaniel still has an RNC job is inexplicable. She played major roles in two losing national elections.

Trump is responsible. His choice of people is just crazy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 09:47 AM (aFwXl)

358 If a corrupt DOJ and Blm District Attorneys are successful in this conspiracy, why would any Trump voter go the polls?

What would be the point? DOJ will just go after DeSantis next.

If the GOP allows it, what is the point

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:47 AM (33nmr)

359 Wrong, Chi-Town Jerry.

CAN'T is an easy way of saying WON'T.

The Republicans WON'T actually litigate 2020 (it has never been litigated, so the re-litigation claim is bullshit) as it will show their wholehearted participation in that stolen election.

And I'll see the nation burn as long as the Repubicans do nothing. At least they will go down before the republic falls and deservedly so.
FUCK THEM.
This is the hill and tens of millions agree with me.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 09:48 AM (LHRhh)

360 Having said that, I think PDJT could win this next election, if Jack Smith has anything to say about it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 09:48 AM (aFwXl)

361 357. Agreed. Trump fucked up with McDaniel, Wray was forced upon him by McConnell

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:48 AM (33nmr)

362 Dems steal elections openly. Republicans shrug.
That’s what it all boils down to.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 09:49 AM (Cr2ZZ)

363 If the GOP allows it, what is the point
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The majority of GOP is run by oligarchs. All of the Dem is run by oligarchs. Our politics is merely which group of oligarchs get to drive the boat.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 17, 2023 09:49 AM (DmtxH)

364 Chi Town Jerry is a good guy, but has Blue State PTSD . like most Illinois Republicans

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:50 AM (33nmr)

365 Trump never leaned Politics 101, Which is you need allies to succeed.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 09:52 AM (Cr2ZZ)

366 >>>The Republicans WON'T actually litigate 2020 (it has never been litigated, so the re-litigation claim is bullshit)
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Tracy, the "relitigate" word doesn't refer to a court action (though there were some 50 odd of those), it means "argue". The idea is that instead of arguing over who won in 2020, we should win in 2024. After winning you can hope for a full investigation of 2020, but to argue about it now distracts from the all-important country-saving task of 2024.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 09:52 AM (aFwXl)

367 364 Chi Town Jerry is a good guy, but has Blue State PTSD . like most Illinois Republicans
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Smelling the Pritzker glove will do that to a person.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 17, 2023 09:52 AM (DmtxH)

368 Bottom line. If they can take down a former president, with High School charges, what is the point anymore?

They will do this to any GOP frontrunner. Notice how not one Republican Attorney General or District attorney in this country to set up a grand jury on any corrupt Dem?

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:53 AM (33nmr)

369 Jon Tester has always been ruored to have made shady land deals in Montana. Republicans run that state. Not a fuckin finger

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 09:54 AM (33nmr)

370 They will do this to any GOP frontrunner. Notice how not one Republican Attorney General or District attorney in this country to set up a grand jury on any corrupt Dem?
Posted by: Jonah

Well the 2 that would be most likely to say fuck it and do it Schmidt form MO is now a senator and Paxton from TX is suspended. Be nice if someone else had the balls to step up but just dont see it. Much like many Govs would follow Desantis's lead but didnt have the balls to set the precedent themselves.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 17, 2023 09:56 AM (CIS44)

371 365 Trump never leaned Politics 101, Which is you need allies to succeed.
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Umm, he did have 75+ million allies. A single printing plant in NY printed and shipped enough votes to give Biden 81 million votes. The simple answer to this problem is to identify the secessionist states (Sanctuaries) and cut them off from the Federal Government and disallow their votes in Washington. Obama loves him some War of Northern Aggression so lets play by the rulebook. No need to attack them. Just say goodbye and hope them well. Oh, implementing tariffs on their operations and denying them access to free travel and marketing across the nation will need to be restricted.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 17, 2023 09:56 AM (DmtxH)

372 @365 Montec-allies? sounds nice, where are you going to get those in the Republican Party with an anti-deep state agenda? I know, I know, you're going to import them from Florida.
Now among those who is going to be able to weather the onslaught of legal/lawfare destruction through a weaponized legal system? who amongst them are clamoring for that opportunity?

Posted by: JROD at August 17, 2023 10:00 AM (IlL6s)

373 Trump never leaned Politics 101, Which is you need allies to succeed.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 09:52 AM (Cr2ZZ)
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Disagree. He sought allies, and then consistently misread allies.

Where he went wrong is not punishing those many allies who betrayed him. Trump needs a course in "The Prince". Win, yes, but absolutely destroy anyone who acts against you. Obama learned this, and here we are.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 17, 2023 10:03 AM (aFwXl)

374 I read LI quite a bit. The problems with lawyers is they always think their the solution when usually they are most of the problem. As I always remind folks at the treehouse, Marxist and commies have courts too. The entire legal structure of the former USA are gone. It pure banana Republic until we insist it's not. So far we're not insisting.

Posted by: Esperman at August 17, 2023 10:04 AM (nNH2y)

375 Chi Town Jerry has always hated Trump and guaranteed over and over and over that Trump would lose in 2016 since he knows so much about everything.

"I will never vote for him again"

As if he is some longtime supporter.

My God some people have nerve.

Posted by: ... at August 17, 2023 10:05 AM (VuwEX)

376 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J. -

By any means necessary. Indeed.

demos: an inclusive democracy demands full access to the ballot by all eligible voters, yet many states use election procedures that create unnecessary burdens on the right to vote.

Indivisible: "Rs only care about their power, and they will stop at nothing to stay in it." "That's why they're trying to push the ACE Act, an anti-voter bill that will disenfranchise millions of voters."

Unrepresentatives - A project of Indivisible. 18 Republicans in Biden-won districts... "...hold them accountable for their extremism." If we do it, we can make the Unrepresentatives famous locally for their MAGA extremism, peel them off for important victories in the short term, and bring more people in their districts into our winning 2024 coalition to secure a Democratic trifecta in 2025.

Powering Progress - The right regularly uses racial fear and a tool... Join our training on how to use Race Class Narratives to build cross-racial solidarity.

Call Now - The Supreme Court, which is stacked with MAGA justices hand-picked by Rs and dark money groups, is completely out of control.

1/Continued

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 17, 2023 10:12 AM (GshMh)

377 2/ Continued: Lot of sites, recently: Eastman is currently representation the Colorado GOP in a lawsuit designed to prevent unaffiliated voters from participating in the party's primary elections.

Politico, yesterday: "California authorities want Eastman's disbarment trail to continue despite Georgia."

Giuliani known for anti-racketeering law against mobsters, it's on him. Daily Beast, today: Mobsters F**king thrilled with Georgia's RICO charge, lawyer says.

Lastly, Will Bunch, The Phila Inquirer, back in April 4, 2023: Arresting Trump still leaves 74M angry voters | Will Bunch Newsletter (In small part) Look at it this way: There seems to be a misconception, albeit rarely spoken, that things were just hunky dory in the U.S. of A. until the mid-2010s... "We need to cure the pathologies that made 74 million people vote authoritarian in the first place."

Perhaps, read the last article. He drives me crazy(ier) but at least considered a path forward.

Lastly, the Rs better get on pamphlets on voting rights, training about voting by ballot, volunteering for/at polls, legal participating in election processes, etc. Like the Ds.

I ban myself. Peace.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 17, 2023 10:12 AM (GshMh)

378 representing

trial

So many typos...sorry.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 17, 2023 10:15 AM (GshMh)

379 If Trump had made himself legally vulnerable, the prosecutors (James, Bragg, Willis, Smith) would have come up with some real charges instead of the smoke and mirrors they presented.

They couldn't even find anything in his tax returns. And even the civil case he lost to that crazy woman was patently fraudulent.

It seems to me this "Trump brought it on himself" stuff is just an excuse for not defending him.

Posted by: gallchobhair at August 17, 2023 10:17 AM (6thaT)

380 261 245 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 09:02 AM (x0n13)

Why do the Dems have armies of lawyers ready to go at a moment's notice and Trump didn't? Where was his poll security organization? Who was tasked with the lawfare necessary in a modern American election.
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Umm, cuz Deep State is Full of Lawyers as Feds and its Owners the Manhattans.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 17, 2023 09:15 AM (DmtxH)

Are we pretending not to know they have raided no less than three of Trumps lawyers. Or that any other lawyer that so much as visits Trump gets Ethics complaints sent to their Bar and clients are harassed at their firms?

Posted by: Inogame at August 17, 2023 10:21 AM (53oGX)

381 This isn't about Chi-Town Jerry. I'm just correcting him, not taking aim at him.

Also, WTF is up with all you "Trump should have known this or Trump should have known that" nonsense?!? He's not omnipotent or God. He put his trust in people WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ON OUR SIDE! He trusted in the loyalty of the Republican Party WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON HIS SIDE! And yet time and time and time and time again, all of these people lied to him, betrayed him, didn't do the jobs he gave them and let the other party violate all kinds of laws.But they made sure to undermine their president to make the big donors happy, fuck middle America!
Seriously, when you can't even trust your own Vice President to have your back, what are you supposed to do?!?!?
So when I say DIE G.O.P., you better believe I mean it. I hope I live to see people like Ryan, Graham, Boehner, Barr, Ducey, Kemp, McConnell, Romney, Murkowski and the whole Chamber of Commerce in front of a firing squad.
So Republicans, you can get behind President Trump (the legitimate president) or you can get fucked for all enternity.

THIS IS OUR HILL.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 10:25 AM (IPIyO)

382 "It seems to me this "Trump brought it on himself" stuff is just an excuse for not defending him."

It's who the disclaimer at the bottom of the post is for. Dunces.

Posted by: DOYLE at August 17, 2023 10:33 AM (Z8Yh2)

383 And Huck Follywood, you are WRONG.

50 something court cases that are summarily dismissed and not even heard becausre of "lack of standing" aren't cases being litigated. They weren't even given a fucking honest day in court!!!

THIS IS OUR HILL. WE GO DOWN, SO DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

FUCK THEM.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 10:35 AM (IPIyO)

384 nic update

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 17, 2023 10:36 AM (LvTSG)

385 Say, just exactly what would constitute Trump proceeding to "...kick the damn table over and burn down the casino" ???

Any thoughts on that, or comfy enough to just spit it out with no ideas on what that looks like or how it makes the situation better instead of infinitely worse ?

Posted by: deadrody at August 17, 2023 10:52 AM (kYmXc)

386 383 And Huck Follywood, you are WRONG.

50 something court cases that are summarily dismissed and not even heard becausre of "lack of standing" aren't cases being litigated. They weren't even given a fucking honest day in court!!!

THIS IS OUR HILL. WE GO DOWN, SO DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

FUCK THEM.
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Glad to see someone else recognize this. Sad to say, but even Ace has taken to pretending this didn't happen, both before AND after the election.

Posted by: deadrody at August 17, 2023 10:53 AM (kYmXc)

387 Someone should point Stoessel to Booker T. Washington:

“There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” - Ch. V: The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob, p. 118 published in 1911.

Nothing changes, and the people running DIE want to be paid

Posted by: JD at August 17, 2023 10:53 AM (71QBd)

388 Well deadrody, with no Republican Party to stab us in the back anymore, we would finally be able to put all our focus forward on the enemy in front of us. The Left.

As to what my vision looks like:

1. Disband the FBI totally and free all J6 prisoners
2. End the Department of Education
3. Fire everyone at the DOJ and State Department
4. Have the military seize the DOJ and Chamber of Commerce and don't let one damn person get out the door with a sheet of paper, a flash drive or even shoes. Arrest anyone trying to destroy evidence in those places
5. Demolish the Chamber of Commerce building
6. Sack the Joint Chiefs and arrest Miley for treason

And this would be just the start.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 11:07 AM (hwyfH)

389 But hey, no worries right? Kevin McCarthy is going to have "hearings" on all these crimes, so everything will be fucking hunky-dory! The Republicans promise, this time! 🤬

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 11:11 AM (hwyfH)

390 Whether declassified or not, the Maralargo documents had been subpeoned by a federal grand jury. Trump did not file a motion to quash the subpeona. He was legally obligated to comply with it. It doesn't look like he did.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at August 17, 2023 11:19 AM (hJ8mh)

391
Mr. Sefton, I find many of your posts extremely difficult to read because they ring true and they reflect my worse fears.
I thank you for doing that very hard work.
Someone has to say what you're saying.
The truth must be faced - no matter how difficult.
God help us.

Posted by: Bach in Black at August 17, 2023 11:25 AM (dBoDT)

392 WRONG Reggie1971.

President Trump's legal team had already been in discussion with the National Archives concerning any records or documents they were requesting. It was ongoing. That is fact. Look it up.

The rulers of Oceania decided to pick this as their excuse - not turning over documents - in order to raid DJT's home. But worry not, the correctors of misinformation at the Ministry of Truth are working diligently to make sure all official records reflect Big Brother's version of events. We must keep fighting Eurasia in Ukraine, whilst our allies in East Asia (we've always been at war with Eurasia) mind their business by taking a bit of islands called Taiwan and a chunk of the seas in that region.
All is well in Airstrip One. Citizen!

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 11:42 AM (hwyfH)

393 NO TRACY, IT APPEARS THAT YOU ARE WRONG. HAVE YOU READ THE INDICTMENT?

There was a grand jury subpeona. There isn't supposed to be a protracted "discussion" about it. You comply with it or you file an objection. Trump's atty had represented to the court that they had complied with the subpeona. That does not appear to have been the case.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at August 17, 2023 11:55 AM (hJ8mh)

394 OH SO YOU BELIEVE THE GA COURT, Reggie1971?
FINE THEN. GO AND BE BRIAN KEMP'S PERSONAL BIDET WHILE YOU'RE AT IT.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 12:04 PM (hwyfH)

395 You ever hear the term "you can indict a ham sandwich," Reggie?!? Apparently not.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 12:05 PM (hwyfH)

396 385 Say, just exactly what would constitute Trump proceeding to "...kick the damn table over and burn down the casino" ???

Any thoughts on that, or comfy enough to just spit it out with no ideas on what that looks like or how it makes the situation better instead of infinitely worse ?
Posted by: deadrody at August 17, 2023 10:52 AM (kYmXc)

The act of refusing to cooperate and MAKING them arrest him for everyone to see will at least shatter illusions and delusions about where we are and how low we have sunk.

To not do anything and go along/play along as if all is normal in the good old US of A only legitimizes what they have done, are doing and will no doubt continue to do to all of us.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 17, 2023 12:05 PM (x0n13)

397 Great idea JJ. And I mean it. My only worry with that option is what will happen next. If the G.O.P. does nothing, which is likely, what then?
We know them all to well.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 12:19 PM (hwyfH)

398 395 You ever hear the term "you can indict a ham sandwich," Reggie?!? Apparently not.
Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 12:05 PM (hwyfH)

Yes, I have heard that. What about it? That doesn't mean that Trump didn't violate the law.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at August 17, 2023 12:23 PM (yrJGA)

399 394 OH SO YOU BELIEVE THE GA COURT, Reggie1971?
FINE THEN. GO AND BE BRIAN KEMP'S PERSONAL BIDET WHILE YOU'RE AT IT.
Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 12:04 PM (hwyfH)

I'm not talking about the GA case. I'm talking about the Maralargo case.

Posted by: Reggie1971 at August 17, 2023 12:24 PM (yrJGA)

400 Go be Biden's lapdog, Reggie1971. You're not one of us and I'm done with you.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 12:30 PM (hwyfH)

401 Oh just one last point, Reggie1971.

I don't have to read an indictment written by a bunch of hyper-partisan legal hacks to know it's BULLSHIT. But since you believe everything that is written, then you must hereby give me all your money.
See, I wrote that so it must be true. Gimme, lapdog boy!

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 01:06 PM (VcOSm)

402 Breaking news!

Reggie1971 once clubbed baby seals to death for sport while on a Green Peace mission to the Artic. It's true because I just wrote it, much like an indictment.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 01:21 PM (VcOSm)

403 This just in!

Reggie1971 was once a member of a Boy Band and insists that he "wasn't the gay one," despite playing the triangle.

You know it's true because I just wrote it. Kind of like an indictment.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 01:23 PM (VcOSm)

404 Highly descriptive article, I liked that bit. Will there be a part 2?

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