Quick Hits

ALec Baldwin could be charged again with negligent homicide in the Rust shooting.

The DA dropped the charges when a report claimed that the gun could have discharged without Baldwin pulling the trigger. But now a new report says the trigger was pulled.

Alec Baldwin could once again face manslaughter charges, after a forensic report released Tuesday found that his Colt .45 revolver would only fire if the trigger was pulled.
Baldwin was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter in the October 2021 death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. But the charge was dropped after the defense noted that the gun had been modified, which raised doubts about whether it was working properly at the time of the shooting.
Baldwin has denied that he pulled the trigger. Hutchins, 42, was killed after being struck with a live round on the set of the film "Rust" near Santa Fe, N.M.
The special prosecutors on the case, Kari Morrissey and Jason Lewis, commissioned a new forensic examination of the gun and have been waiting on the results before deciding whether to refile the charges. The report, by Lucien and Michael Haag, was submitted to them earlier this month and released Tuesday in a public court filing.
The experts reconstructed the gun, which had been broken during earlier testing by the FBI, and concluded that it could only have been fired by a pull of the trigger.
"This fatal incident was the consequence of the hammer being manually retracted to its fully rearward and cocked position followed, at some point, by the pull or rearward depression of the trigger," the report concluded. "Although Alec Baldwin repeatedly denies pulling the trigger, given the tests, findings and observations reported here, the trigger had to be pulled or depressed sufficiently to release the fully cocked or retracted hammer of the evidence revolver."
The prosecutors had previously stated that Baldwin will be charged again if the gun was working properly.

I linked this story in yesterday's Quick Hits but very Lamontishly forgot to include any juicy quotations.

A Fifth Circuit judge blasted the Biden Administration's "strong-arming" and mafia-like tactics in pressuring social media companies to censor for the benefit of the current rancid government, and rejected their claims that, as David French maintains, the government was merely "jawboning" them.

This hearing was about the injunction put into place by the trial judge ordering the Biden Administration to stop talking to social media companies entirely. The Biden junta wants this order lifted, because they want to be free to "jawbone" allegedly private corporations into working their partisan and corrupt will once more.

Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod declared in court that the Biden administration's efforts to persuade social media companies to remove, throttle and suppress purported misinformation on COVID-19, Hunter Biden's laptop and elections reminded her of a mafia movie.
That was just one of the most memorable examples of the frosty reception Justice Department Civil Division lawyer Daniel Tenny received Thursday from the three-judge panel considering whether to lift or modify last month's ban on several forms of contact between the feds and companies -- currently stayed by the 5th Circuit -- as the First Amendment lawsuit led by Missouri and Louisiana proceeds.
The back-and-forth at Thursday's hearing resembled that between 6th Circuit judges and DOJ's lawyer at a June hearing in a related social media censorship lawsuit against federal officials by users of X, formerly known as Twitter. Both panels were appointed by Republican presidents.
Echoing the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, the 5th Circuit judges repeatedly cited specific conversations from the factual record that suggest social media companies feared legal consequences for not complying with White House and agency requests to censor or diminish the reach of websites or social media postings of which the Biden administration disapproved.
When Tenny claimed the injunction's wording was so broad and vague it could ban the government from alerting the public about "untrue statements" about a natural disaster, Judge Don Willett countered that documented private conversations were the issue.
Federal officials appeared to practice "fairly unsubtle strong-arming" and make "not-so-veiled threats" in the vein of "this is a really nice social media platform you've got there, would be a shame if something happened to it," Willett said.
Tenny, upon hearing what the judges appeared to be interpreting as coercive pressure, tried to soft pedal the severity of that pressure. "The government is generically going to be angry" when companies resist taking action, but the communications show officials and companies alternating between "friendly" and "testy" conversations, not specific orders to comply "or else."
Judge Elrod didn't seem particularly convinced, telling Tenny that "Or else" isn't required when the government and companies have a "very close working relationship" that resembles a supervisor addressing a subordinate. The "irate messages" actually show high-ranking officials badgering counterparts about why they hadn't taken action against specific accounts as requested, Judge Elrod said: "It's like 'jump and how high.'"
Drilling down on that issue, and pointing to COVID claims specifically, Elrod queried if high-level government officials asked companies "in a coercive manner to propagate certain things that the government knew were untrue, and to deamplify certain things that it knew were true ... but didn't fit its message, would that be able to be enjoined?"
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"Time and again," what the government labels as mis-, dis- and malinformation, "always with great fervor," is vindicated as true, Willett said. Elrod pointed to then-National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins' internal request to issue a published takedown of the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration. Tenny tried to downplay the government's influence, say that Collins merely asked to rebut its "premises."
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Asked by Judge Edith Brown Clement if the feds were still communicating with social media platforms, Tenny clarified he wasn't claiming they "entirely stopped" but evaded whether they maintained "day-to-day involvement."

So the Biden junta admits it is ignoring and flouting a federal injunction? Apparently so.

That's some quality jawboning.

A new lawsuit aims to force the CIA to admit what role it had in perpetrating a massive psyops disinformation campaign on the country -- namely, the "51 former intelligence officials" letter. As you may recall, a CIA functionary recommended signing that hoax to one of the former 51 intelligence officers.

So the CIA already had one hand in it that we know of -- but how much more did America's own secret interior police do to foist this lie on the nation?

A new lawsuit filed on Thursday by Judicial Watch seeks to obtain information from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) about its role in the publication of a letter signed by 51 former intelligence community officials which claimed Hunter Biden's Laptop from hell bore "all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign." The lawsuit comes after the CIA failed to respond to Judicial Watch's initial FOIA request for the information.
While Hunter's laptop and the letter from former intelligence officials are now well-known, many may not be aware that the CIA's Prepublication Classification Review Board (PCRB) reviewed the letter and approved it just days before it was cited by candidate Joe Biden in his second debate against then-President Donald Trump. As Judicial Watch explains of the timeline and CIA's involvement:

In October 2020, in the run-up to the presidential election, the New York Post reported that Hunter Biden's laptop, which was abandoned at a Delaware computer shop, contained embarrassing and possibly incriminating information about the Biden family. In a May 10, 2023, report the House Judiciary Committee revealed that on October 19, 2020, three days before the second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat candidate Joe Biden, then-Acting CIA Director Michael Morell sent the PCRB the finalized letter for review, calling it a "rush job," and quickly secured its approval.
The new lawsuit comes after a previous public records request from Judicial Watch received no response from the CIA....
That information is sought by more than just Judicial Watch. Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have been seeking such information to conduct oversight of the CIA based on knowledge of at least some communications from within the Agency that would be responsive to such requests. In addition, Judicial Watch noted that lawmakers "have received evidence that the CIA, or at least an employee of the CIA, may have helped to solicit signatories for the statement about Hunter Biden."

Geraldo Riviera boasts that some Fox employees praised him for attacking Tucker Carlson as "malevolent."

This is not the brag that Geraldo thinks it is. 75% of Fox's employees are stone-cold progressives who couldn't get a job at MSNBC and so settled for Safety School Fox.

"I got calls within Fox, 'Right on. We're shocked, we're outraged by what Tucker trying to do. Thank you for speaking out,' people that could not speak out. I even advised some prominent people just to cool it. I could take the heat because I felt I was more bulletproof...I felt that I could say things that others, perhaps more vulnerable or early in their careers, could not say," Rivera explained.
"It was pathetic, really pathetic," he continued. "[Carlson] really got way too big for his britches. The worst thing about what he did was the ruthless pragmatism that he displayed. I'm going to do this because that's what the audience wants. In other words, it wasn't the malevolent media leading the audience. It was the audience leading the malevolent media."
"What he did was unforgivable," he added. "He made a mockery of the tenets of journalism."

Yes, it is Tucker Carlson who made a mockery of journalism, Geraldo.

Remember Geraldo's autobiography? Boy, bragging about the (made-up) claim that you slept with 1,000 women is super quality journalism.

I've hated Fox for years for hiring this guy, just because he would hyperemotionally call Taliban jihadist "rats." That's supposed to make him acceptable for a "news" channel that allegedly provides pushback against leftwing media bias?

What was shocking to me was that Geraldo Rivera is so arrogant and confident in his stupid opinions despite not having any real achievements besides "keeping a job in the ghetto sections of broadcast TV" and sexually assaulting Bette Midler (??!?!!?).

The leftwing mayor of the self-proclaimed Sanctuary City of Chicago loves illegal aliens so much he wants to ship them to the non-sanctuary suburbs.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says the city of Chicago has had conversations with suburban leaders in Cook and other counties about the possibility of moving migrants into their communities.
Thousands of migrant families have arrived in Chicago over the past year. City officials have placed many in police stations, YMCAs and Daley College.
Johnson said the city is looking at other towns to help with housing migrants.
"We've had conversations with mayors across not just Cook County but the surrounding counties, and we have had tremendous feedback," Johnson said. "We see some real support on the horizon."

Who does he think he is, the mayor of Martha's Vinyard?

In further proof that the Maui wildfires were caused by leftwing disdain for reality, the
man responsible for diverting water to reservoirs to make it available for fire-fighting failed to do so.

From the Star-Advertiser:

On the day after the fire, the West Maui Land Co. Inc. sent a letter to Deputy Director M. Kaleo Manuel of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management, or CWRM, describing the events and communication problems that resulted in delaying the diversion of streams to fill reservoirs with water being made available to fight the fire....
According to the letter, although the initial fire was contained at 9 a.m., there were reports of fallen power lines, fierce winds, outages and low reservoir levels, prompting the company to reach out to the commission to request approval to divert more water from streams so it could store as much water as possible for fire control.
Instead of approving the request, CWRM asked the company whether the Maui Fire Department had requested permission to dip into the reservoirs and directed it to first inquire with the downstream user to ensure that his loi and other uses would not be impacted by a temporary reduction of water supply.
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'At around 6:00 p.m., we received CWRM's approval to divert more water,' Tremble wrote. 'By then, we were unable to reach the siphon release to make the adjustments that would have allowed more water to fill our reservoirs.
'We watched the devastation unfold around us without the ability to help. We anxiously awaited the morning knowing that we could have made more water available to MFD if our request had been immediately approved,' he said.
There were reports of the fire moving so quickly and at such temperatures that water was spewing out of melting pipes and depressurizing the lines that also supplied the fire hydrants.
Tremble's letter said it is unknown whether filling the reservoirs at 1 p.m. would have ultimately made a difference.
But 'we know that fires spread quickly. We know that we need to act faster during an emergency. We know that the community we serve relies on the water as a defense from spreading fire. We know that we must have water available for MFD before MFD needs it. We know we can do better. We're all in this together.'

And he practices what is being called "faith-based water management," insisting that water should not be used, only "revered."

Hawaiian official M. Kaleo Manuel refused to release water in Maui as the fire raged

Manuel is deputy director of the Department of Land and Natural Resources

Here he is explaining that water should be revered, not used:pic.twitter.com/iZ6PvghwqN
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 16, 2023

And his management resulted in hundreds of deaths? Who could have seen this coming?

Thanks to Shain S. and Anonysaurus Wrecks.

Biden, who is a congenital liar -- it's not just that he's demented; he's been casually and prodigiously lying since he was 20 -- claims he reduced the deficit by $1.7 trillion.

BIDEN: "I'm the first one to cut the federal debt by $1,700,000,000,000!" pic.twitter.com/Rm0Y9MuWjD
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 15, 2023

By "reduce the deficit," he certainly doesn't mean he cut spending. No, he jacked up taxes by trillions.

But that has nothing to do with the budgets for 2021-2022, which is when he claims his $1.7 trillion deficit drop took place, because those tax increases began this year, as even CNN begrudgingly acknowledges in a rare "fact" check of Biden.

This CNN story is from March. Biden just keeps telling this lie, no matter how many times he's corrected.

President Joe Biden falsely said on Wednesday that his new corporate minimum tax is the reason the federal budget deficit declined in 2021 and 2022. In reality, that tax didn't even come into effect until the beginning of 2023.
Biden has repeatedly taken credit for reducing the deficit in 2021 and 2022 even though experts have said that the vast majority of this reduction occurred simply because emergency Covid-19 pandemic spending from 2020 expired as planned -- and that Biden's own initiatives made the deficits higher than they otherwise would be.
We've described Biden's previous deficit boasts as misleading or missing key context. But he went further in his Wednesday speech in Las Vegas on lowering prescription drug costs, delivering a version of the story that is just not true.
Biden said: "And by the way, you know everybody said, well, how was I able to have these new programs and still cut the deficit $1.7 trillion the last two years? Well, it's pretty -- pretty straightforward. There were 550 companies of the Fortune 500 that made $40 billion that didn't pay a penny in tax -- zero, nothing -- in taxes. So I said the -- you know, outrageous. And we got votes for it. I said they ought to pay a minimum of 15%. Fifteen percent. That's less than you all pay. And guess what? It allowed me to cut the deficit."

Hmmmm....

Republicans recover a Hunter Biden text claiming he paid Joe Biden�s bills for over a decade pic.twitter.com/qwMTZ8EWh5
— � ᗰISᑕᕼIᗴᖴ � � (@4Mischief) August 16, 2023

Posted by: Ace at 06:17 PM

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1 Reading's for suckers~~!!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2023 06:18 PM (IG4Id)

2 Geraldo is asshoe.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 17, 2023 06:18 PM (u73oe)

3 The DA dropped the charges when a report claimed that the gun could have discharged without Baldwin pulling the trigger. But now a new report says the trigger was pulled.
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Just wondering if that DA is in the market for some swamp land.

Posted by: Axeman at August 17, 2023 06:20 PM (krQz2)

4 Suburbs of Chicago are mostly Dem now, especially all the ones in Crook County. Let the Abortion barbie wine moms, and their cuck husbands trip over them on their way to hot yoga

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:21 PM (33nmr)

5 The experts reconstructed the gun, which had been broken during earlier testing by the FBI, and concluded that it could only have been fired by a pull of the trigger.
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What the fucking fuck??!?!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at August 17, 2023 06:21 PM (ScR16)

6 So the Biden junta admits it is ignoring and flouting a federal injunction? Apparently so.
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That motherfucker ain't real!

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at August 17, 2023 06:22 PM (krQz2)

7 I saw Hunter Biden's text to his daughter about paying the bills for Joe years ago. Congress is catching up just now. Pathetic.

Posted by: huerfano at August 17, 2023 06:22 PM (7zEAH)

8 3. Remember, New Mexico is another one party slum. No way a jury there convicts a nyc gay rights activist

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:22 PM (33nmr)

9 Remember Geraldo's autobiography? Boy, bragging about the (made-up) claim that you slept with 1,000 women is super quality journalism.

I don't necessary disbelieve Geraldo here. He's in an industry filled to the brim with whores. Journalism is kinda like Hollywood for semi-literate 6s.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 17, 2023 06:22 PM (ppBhU)

10 Republicans recover a Hunter Biden text claiming he paid Joe Biden’s bills for over a decade
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Jawboning.

Posted by: David French at August 17, 2023 06:23 PM (krQz2)

11 He's going to win all sorts of Satan points if he can come up with an even more retarded excuse that works. Fortunately for him, that's what lawyers are for.

Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 06:23 PM (e2onP)

12 No firearm of mine ever pulled its own trigger
Maybe Weasel has, he has more guns than me so odds are better for him.

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 06:23 PM (MOY79)

13 > The experts reconstructed the gun, which had been broken during earlier testing by the FBI

What the hell were the Fibbies doing? Destroying evidence?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 06:23 PM (0N1h0)

14 Buncha non-nooders.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 06:23 PM (ElM8W)

15 And he practices what is being called "faith-based water management," insisting that water should not be used, only "revered."

Practicing that Old Time Religion: Paganism. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 06:24 PM (0chEi)

16 As you may recall, a CIA functionary recommended signing that hoax to one of the former 51 intelligence officers.
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Maybe this has been noted, but it just occurred to me.

51, as in Area 51?

Surpisingly quality trolling by the G-men.

Posted by: Methos at August 17, 2023 06:24 PM (Dnobf)

17 More trouble for Sundowner?
Guess #5 indictment for DJT will hit in a day or so

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 06:25 PM (MOY79)

18 Mike Davis, conservative senate aide to Grasslee, who helped get Gorsuch, Kav, and Barrett confirmed makes a great point. State governors and high ups are worthless. Their donors are deep state. State senators and local Da’s are the way to go

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:25 PM (33nmr)

19 FBI's July 2022 firearms testing report that said damage was done to internal components of the gun during the FBI's functionality testing

Maybe someone who knows more about guns could put me some knowledge here. WTF could they have done to it?

Posted by: huerfano at August 17, 2023 06:26 PM (7zEAH)

20 He killed a Uke. He's a Putinist. String him up.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 06:26 PM (0FoWg)

21 James comer says multiple district attorneys in red states ask him how they could set up grand juries on the biden’s in their counties. Comer told them the governors red states block it

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:26 PM (33nmr)

22
Reminder: Judicial Watch is worthy of a donation if you really, really want a fair election in 2024. They shook 90,000 dead fleas out of the voter rolls in my state of PA. Biden's *win* in PA was only some tiny percentage of that.

Biden has spent as much time in Philly as he has at his Ukrainian beach house.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 17, 2023 06:27 PM (enJYY)

23 Buncha non-nooders.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 06:23 PM (ElM8W)
.......

Here's a non-nooder.

https://tinyurl.com/jc59c3fn

zomg

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2023 06:27 PM (v0R5T)

24 Deputy Director M. Kaleo Manuel of the Hawaii Commission on Water Resource Management manages Maui like Secretary of the Interior, Chief Dream Catcher manages Federal Land. What they do have in common is both are unqualified for anything more than running a Spam sandwich stand.

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 17, 2023 06:27 PM (kxv2o)

25 Skip. Are you drunk?

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:27 PM (33nmr)

26 So tomorrow Trump will be indicted for drive Baldwin to insanity and thus the trigger was pulled.

Posted by: Simon at August 17, 2023 06:27 PM (BRhwL)

27 I guess a single action target pistol with an incredibly light trigger could fire on its own, but this was a reproduction of a 19th-century revolver...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 17, 2023 06:28 PM (A3700)

28 The experts reconstructed the gun, which had been broken during earlier testing by the FBI

They found the missing piece! It works now!

Posted by: Where is Johnnie Coochran When You Need Him? at August 17, 2023 06:28 PM (Sv58p)

29 Fuck Hawaii. Sorry for the deceased. 90% dem state

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:28 PM (33nmr)

30 > Remember Geraldo's autobiography? Boy, bragging about the (made-up) claim that you slept with 1,000 women is super quality journalism.

Jerry's gay, right? Didn't Rivera complain he was in a toxic relationship with a male co-host at Fox?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 06:29 PM (0N1h0)

31 jerry was a loser long before the vault b.s.

Posted by: florida guy with big balls and a southern accent at August 17, 2023 06:29 PM (eHbEv)

32 Maybe someone who knows more about guns could put me some knowledge here. WTF could they have done to it?

They were trying to see if it would go off by itself if you were holding it, so they ran over it with a bulldozer.

Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 06:29 PM (Sv58p)

33 Just thinking a Chicago drive by using those tricked out Glocks could clean out a lot of illegal sidewalk sleepers.

Mayor needs to innovate.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 17, 2023 06:30 PM (nnp+f)

34 Joe's claim of 15% of 40 billion would net 6 billion to offset 1.7 trillion.

Posted by: fd at August 17, 2023 06:30 PM (vFG9F)

35 OK, I know that was uncalled for.

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2023 06:30 PM (v0R5T)

36 The experts reconstructed the gun, which had been broken during earlier testing by the FBI, and concluded that it could only have been fired by a pull of the trigger.

You asked for Miracles, I give you.....the FBI.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 06:30 PM (0chEi)

37 County DA’s have authority to indict any us citizen who has committed a possible crime overseas. Red state could indict hunter in 5 minutes.

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:31 PM (33nmr)

38 Off go to whorewood and get woke sock.

Posted by: Bete at August 17, 2023 06:31 PM (BRhwL)

39 "The trigger was pulled."

A defendant's wet dream.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 17, 2023 06:31 PM (Q4IgG)

40 Had to be a Nood call, that's how I found this thread

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 06:31 PM (MOY79)

41 trigger. But now a new report says the trigger was pulled.

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"Cocking's for closers."

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 06:31 PM (weO2z)

42 "In further proof that the Maui wildfires were caused by leftwing disdain for reality, the man responsible for diverting water to reservoirs to make it available for fire-fighting failed to do so."

Let me guess: It is a Federal death penalty crime to install and use a fire-fighting water system in Hawaii that draws water from a bottomless reservoir called the Pacific Ocean. Because reasons.

Posted by: Gref at August 17, 2023 06:32 PM (AMIL/)

43 "The experts reconstructed the gun, which had been broken during earlier testing by the FBI, and concluded that it could only have been fired by a pull of the trigger.
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What the fucking fuck??!?!
Posted by: Captain Obvious,"

I dropped it. Twice. Oops.

Posted by: FBI Lab Tech at August 17, 2023 06:32 PM (vFG9F)

44 $1.7 trillion?! That's a wink.

Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 06:32 PM (Sv58p)

45 33 Just thinking a Chicago drive by using those tricked out Glocks could clean out a lot of illegal sidewalk sleepers.

Mayor needs to innovate.
Posted by: Regular joe

As someone said last thread, if the mayors really wanted them out, just sending the property tax assessors. Charge them property tax for sleeping on the sidewalk.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 06:33 PM (ElM8W)

46 > Maybe someone who knows more about guns could put me some knowledge here. WTF could they have done to it?

Maybe some asshole got the bright idea to cock it and see how much pressure on the hammer it would take for the hammer to be released without pulling the trigger? Then they proceeded to put so much pressure on the gun they broke something internal?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 06:33 PM (0N1h0)

47 Come quickly, Lord. There's some asses needing a beating down here.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 06:34 PM (XtkZj)

48 14 Buncha non-nooders.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 06:23 PM (ElM8W)

I did so. Hmph. I even used the word "nood" from the AOSHQ Style Book, even though I dislike it, but some of you Morans can't recognize a nood call without it. So.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 17, 2023 06:34 PM (MoDpf)

49 Yes, his reverence for water killed 100+ kids.

But does he need to be so smug about it?

Posted by: Regular Jeff Dalmer at August 17, 2023 06:34 PM (nnp+f)

50 > $1.7 trillion?! That's a wink.

With $1.7 trillion, just imagine how many twinks that could buy.

Posted by: BarryOh! at August 17, 2023 06:34 PM (0N1h0)

51 Someone should revere kaleo manuel's face in a bucket of water

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 17, 2023 06:35 PM (mkvKa)

52 This puts to rest the fight over .45 vs. 9mm.

Amirite?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 06:35 PM (Uh2jt)

53 What can I say? I'm human.

Posted by: FBI Lab Tech at August 17, 2023 06:35 PM (vFG9F)

54 Next they'll be telling us that Alec Baldwin is an equestrian stuntman like Rex Rossi and that he didn't need a team three ranch hands and a loading ramp and ladder to get his tired, crippled old ass into a saddle.

Alec Baldwin shot a woman and she died.

Hunter Biden lit up a crack cocaine pipe and fucked a prostitute.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 17, 2023 06:35 PM (fY84s)

55 But does he need to be so smug about it?

Posted by: Regular Jeff Dalmer at August 17, 2023 06:34 PM (nnp+f)
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The definition for "punchable face" has his picture attached.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at August 17, 2023 06:35 PM (ScR16)

56 The gun was slippery. It still has Alex's slime on it.

Posted by: FBI Lab Tech at August 17, 2023 06:36 PM (vFG9F)

57 Hawaii and Chicago are learning that there is a price to be paid for poor governance.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 17, 2023 06:36 PM (rJ48h)

58 Alex belongs to a class that is allowed a kill or two.

Know your place, plebes.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 06:37 PM (XtkZj)

59 Yes, his reverence for water killed 100+ kids.

But does he need to be so smug about it?

Posted by: Regular Jeff Dalmer at August 17, 2023 06:34 PM (nnp+f)

Did he actually sit there and say this after the fire? Or was this recorded some previous time?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 17, 2023 06:37 PM (MoDpf)

60 19 FBI's July 2022 firearms testing report that said damage was done to internal components of the gun during the FBI's functionality testing

Maybe someone who knows more about guns could put me some knowledge here. WTF could they have done to it?
Posted by: huerfano at August 17, 2023 06:26 PM (7zEAH)

There's a host of things they COULD have done. I'd have to know what testing they'd performed to be sure. But I'm going to guess they damaged the sear or hand to 'prove' that the gun 'went off' by itself.

This is the FBI we're talking about. Destroying evidence is what they do.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 17, 2023 06:37 PM (xcxpd)

61 Yes, his reverence for water killed 100+ kids.

But does he need to be so smug about it?

The new (and rightful) owners will need it for the resort landscaping and golf course.

Posted by: Keeper Of The Sacred Water at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (ptElO)

62
The other thing that perplexes me about Geraldo is how the rest of the MFM hasn't totally blackballed him. He was on the ground in Iraq the first week or so of Gulf War II: Electric Boogaloo. Did a live segment where the idiots in the studio asked him about if he was in any danger. He basically said he was prepared, and the dumbasses flat out asked him if he was carrying a gun. And the even more idiotic Geraldo admitted that yes, he was carrying.

In civilian clothes.

On an active battlefield.

While in possession of press documentation.

Basically, according to the laws of war, he was legally a spy, an illegal combatant. And if the Iraqis got their hands on him, they could legally shoot him in the face on the spot. Along with damned near any other Western journalist, now that he'd admitted on LIVE TV that they were spies.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (n+4am)

63 45. Marxists in chicago and other cities , want to tax train commuters who visit city limits, or work there.

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (33nmr)

64 Unpossible. I've been repeatedly told that the guns are the malfactors. Now you're saying someone has to pull the trigger?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (9JrBt)

65 Besides, it only broke a little.

Posted by: FBI Lab Tech at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (vFG9F)

66 Alex belongs to a class that is allowed a kill or two.

Know your place, plebes.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 17, 2023 06:37 PM (XtkZj)
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But only for those people with the official status "Needed Killin'"

Posted by: Axeman at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (krQz2)

67 Jerry's gay, right? Didn't Rivera complain he was in a toxic relationship with a male co-host at Fox?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 06:29 PM (0N1h0)
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It's Gutfeld. Gutfeld can't stand him and doesn't try to hide it.

Posted by: Rigby Reardon at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (0PiZr)

68
I would've believed Biden when he said he cut the budget by $1.7T, but-

he didn't make the claim by creepily whispering into the microphone.

Sorry, Joe. No sale!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (QzZeQ)

69 57 Hawaii and Chicago are learning that there is a price to be paid for poor governance.
Posted by: mr tmz

New charges will be brought against Donald J Trump for his roll in Jan 6, last nights shootings in the South Side, and the wild fires in Hawaii.

Posted by: DA's in Hawaii and Illinois at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (0chEi)

70 Can you imagine being taxed to visit a slum like New York, chicago or philly

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:39 PM (33nmr)

71 Biden has spent as much time in Philly as he has at his Ukrainian beach house.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

Hunter, of course, would fit right in on Kensington Ave.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 06:39 PM (Uh2jt)

72 36 The experts reconstructed the gun, which had been broken during earlier testing by the FBI, and concluded that it could only have been fired by a pull of the trigger.

You asked for Miracles, I give you.....the FBI.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 06:30 PM (0chEi)

Wasn't it the World Class FBI Lab that issued the report stating the gun could fire without the trigger being pulled?

I wonder how difficult is was for uber-Leftist Baldwin to have strings pulled to get Wray's FBI Lab to write a report absolving Baldwin of the gun's discharge? Not very difficult is my bet.

Posted by: Gref at August 17, 2023 06:40 PM (AMIL/)

73 Fight the patriarchy! Stop manbreathing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2023 06:40 PM (b4o9z)

74 I shot the cinematographer, but I did not shoot the deputy
Alec baldwin

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 06:40 PM (MOY79)

75 I did so. Hmph. I even used the word "nood" from the AOSHQ Style Book, even though I dislike it, but some of you Morans can't recognize a nood call without it. So.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

In my defense, I just returned home. Believe me D, I would never miss a nood call by your's truly.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 06:41 PM (Uh2jt)

76 "Hey, go over there and do nothing really hard like~!"

@emily_hoeven 2h
BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is tripling the California Highway Patrol's presence in Los Angeles to help the city respond to a surge in organized retail theft, per his office.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2023 06:41 PM (IG4Id)

77 Hawaii and Chicago are learning that there is a price to be paid for poor governance.

We all are.

Posted by: Spock at August 17, 2023 06:41 PM (Xrfse)

78 In other words, the Colt .45 functioned as designed...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 06:42 PM (MeG8a)

79 I did so. Hmph. I even used the word "nood" from the AOSHQ Style Book, even though I dislike it, but some of you Morans can't recognize a nood call without it. So.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Erin Moran reads the HQ!!!

*spit combs hair, puts on pants*

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2023 06:43 PM (QzZeQ)

80 Wow. All this stuff that is undeniable.

Must mean consequences are coming, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at August 17, 2023 06:43 PM (Jk9SN)

81 Basically, according to the laws of war, he was legally a spy, an illegal combatant. And if the Iraqis got their hands on him, they could legally shoot him in the face on the spot. Along with damned near any other Western journalist, now that he'd admitted on LIVE TV that they were spies.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 17, 2023 06:38 PM (n+4am)

Oh no....please, PLEASE don't kill Western journalists....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 17, 2023 06:43 PM (xcxpd)

82 I wonder if Geraldo got calls about Gutfeld too.

Because you can't believe a word he says.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 06:43 PM (RIvkX)

83 The Maui fire just proves that progressives shouldn't be in charge of anything at any level, anywhere.

They would probably make shitting dogcatchers.

They would probably smear peanut butter on their dongs as "part of dog-catching".

Posted by: Axeman at August 17, 2023 06:44 PM (krQz2)

84 Don't you just love how Dems can turn a functioning society literally into a smoldering ruin and then, look at us palms upward and say "We're all in this together!"

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 06:45 PM (MeG8a)

85 Why tf does it take over a year for a “study” to determine that the only guy holding a gun was probably the one who made it fire, yet their are assholes handing out billions of dollars to people that claim they know what the temperature will be 100 years from now?

Is it just me, or has the entire world gone retarded?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2023 06:45 PM (b4o9z)

86 Geraldo should have been fragged in Iraq.

Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 06:46 PM (Srp34)

87 Even the wrigley field area is having a surge in violent crimes. And that is one of the few places anyone from the suburbs goes anymore

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:46 PM (33nmr)

88 BTW - on the Alec Baldwin thing, the shooting is ON FILM. Or disk. Or whatever. The camera was rolling. It was pointed at Baldwin. Whether he pulled the trigger or not has been known since day one.

Baldwin paid the right people off to get his charge dropped. They wont be coming back after him.

Posted by: blaster at August 17, 2023 06:46 PM (Jk9SN)

89 You mean zombie Erin Moran?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 06:46 PM (RIvkX)

90 You mean zombie Erin Moran?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 06:46 PM (RIvkX)
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She is mort?

Posted by: Axeman at August 17, 2023 06:47 PM (krQz2)

91 84. They can do it when a dem is in the white house. They f up and fed gubmint bails them out

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:47 PM (33nmr)

92 Alec Baldwin is allowed to kill a poor, silly.

He's allowed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 06:47 PM (RIvkX)

93 Yes, his reverence for water killed 100+ kids.

But does he need to be so smug about it?

sounds like he doesn't bathe.

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 06:47 PM (T4tVD)

94 You mean zombie Erin Moran?

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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She is mort?
Posted by: Axeman

Oh yeah - lived a very hard life.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 06:47 PM (Uh2jt)

95 And he practices what is being called "faith-based water management," insisting that water should not be used, only "revered."

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Shouldn't this guy now be reunited with the water he reveres?

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 17, 2023 06:48 PM (3JfbU)

96 FBI's July 2022 firearms testing report that said damage was done to internal components of the gun during the FBI's functionality testing

Maybe someone who knows more about guns could put me some knowledge here. WTF could they have done to it?
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I'm no lawyer or firearms expert, but I'm guessing any change to the weapon so that it was impossible to reproduce original conditions was the goal.

Probably damaged a spring. Without that specific spring the case was no longer viable. Which was the point.

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at August 17, 2023 06:48 PM (UTh9g)

97 One of the first stories I saw following the Maui fire was some dick head saying he did want stinkin' Haoles buying up the properties.

this kind of click-bait "story" diminishes the impact of what happened.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 06:48 PM (xPJvm)

98 Gosh, adding a layer of bureaucracy into an emergency response situation made things worse?

Color me shocked.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at August 17, 2023 06:49 PM (2YtOq)

99 76. Will not help, if the commie da releases them that night

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:49 PM (33nmr)

100 Story came out straight away Alec got hot headed and purposely fired at the woman whom his irate was aimed at.

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 06:49 PM (MOY79)

101 So the FBI BROKE the murder weapon Baldwin fired!? like with a hammer?

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 17, 2023 06:49 PM (eheVn)

102 "And he practices what is being called "faith-based water management," insisting that water should not be used, only "revered." "

Fremen?

Posted by: davidt at August 17, 2023 06:49 PM (SYTee)

103 Wait... how do you 'break a gun' during testing?

Oh... FBI lab... never mind.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2023 06:49 PM (oHd/0)

104 The state of New York is forcing school districts to take in illegal immigrants. They are using local tax money to print materials in various languages because the illegals can't speak English, nor can most of them operate at grade level. All of this is taking away teachers resources and dollars from American citizens using their tax money.

If there was ever a call for revolt, this is it. There is no way our families and children should be paying for Democrats deliberate destruction.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 17, 2023 06:50 PM (T9WMp)

105 Geraldo is asshoe.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 17, 2023 06:18 PM (u73oe)

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And like Biden, always has been one, it's just accentuated with age and dementia.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 17, 2023 06:50 PM (3JfbU)

106 You mean zombie Erin Moran?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 17, 2023 06:46 PM (RIvkX)

Well, yeah.

Aren't most of the readers of AOSHQ zombies?

I thought that was the demographic.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 17, 2023 06:50 PM (QzZeQ)

107 HAPPY MASSACHUSETTS DAY, EVERYONE!

Let's all Pahk the car in Harvaahd Yaaahd.

And greeting from our Lesbionic Governor Healey to all members of the Hordettes!

If you have State Police Dykes you can spare, please send them up this way to Governor Healey. She has to restock her brothel...

PS.: Geraldo lives on the waterfront in Marion, MA.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 17, 2023 06:50 PM (TGPs7)

108 Arec Barwin is on my admittedly short list of douchebag actors whom I will never see again.

He fucking killed a woman, and muttered "Oopsie!"

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Missing the Point at August 17, 2023 06:50 PM (xPJvm)

109 Shouldn't this guy now be reunited with the water he reveres?
Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 17, 2023 06:48 PM (3JfbU)
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Make him identify as a female virgin and let Hawaiians follow their ancient volcano ritual.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at August 17, 2023 06:50 PM (2YtOq)

110 102 "And he practices what is being called "faith-based water management," insisting that water should not be used, only "revered." "

Fremen?
Posted by: davidt at August 17, 2023 06:49 PM (SYTee)

So.... Showers are verboten? Glad he doesn't live in my neighborhood.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (oHd/0)

111 Baldwin paid the right people off to get his charge dropped. They wont be coming back after him.
Posted by: blaster

I'm pretty much done with the story no matter the outcome, but don't discount the 'Fellow Traveler' effect. All of the "above the line" H-wood is hard left and will protect the worst of the worst crimes no matter what. the only reason It's got this far, i suspect, is the "below the line" crew and workers are pissed beyond belief but are working quietly to get him convicted on some level.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (IG4Id)

112 Wait... how do you 'break a gun' during testing?

Oh... FBI lab... never mind.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2023 06:49 PM (oHd/0)
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Indeed.

Posted by: Axeman at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (krQz2)

113 We are held to long established standards that were established for us to be held to.

Posted by: FBI Lab Tech at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (vFG9F)

114 Yes, his reverence for water killed 100+ kids.

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The nights are cool and I'm a fool
Each star's a pool of water, cool water
And with the dawn I'll wake and yawn
And carry on to water
Cool, clear water

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (FVME7)

115 Erin moran, half the kids from eight is enough and different strokes were all hooked on heroin.

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (33nmr)

116 Wonder how much Baldwyn paid the FIB.

Posted by: Axeman at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (krQz2)

117 Oh no....please, PLEASE don't kill Western journalists....

My father was in Korea. He once said that when reporters visited the area, someone would make sure that they knew that holes from American bullets and holes from commie bullets were exactly the same size.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (NHoLP)

118 > Why tf does it take over a year for a “study” to determine that the only guy holding a gun was probably the one who made it fire, yet their are assholes handing out billions of dollars to people that claim they know what the temperature will be 100 years from now?

It is a legitimate question though. Some guns, even modern guns, have significant design flaws that cause them to fire unintentionally. Sig had a gun that fired if you dropped it wrong. Taurus had a gun that fired if you shook it. Plenty of guns have been made unsafe by idiot "armorers" who were trying to smooth a trigger or lighten the pull or whatever.

That said, it shouldn't take this long to figure out if this particular gun has a problem or not.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 06:51 PM (0N1h0)

119 Alec Baldwin shoots and kills someone and the FBI damages the evidence so he gets away scot free.

Aunt Becky pays someone to get her daughter into a college and the FBI gets her jail time.

Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 06:52 PM (Srp34)

120 All of this is taking away teachers resources and dollars from American citizens using their tax money.

If there was ever a call for revolt, this is it. There is no way our families and children should be paying for Democrats deliberate destruction.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 17, 2023 06:50 PM (T9WMp)

Uh, welcome to Calif for the last 30 years.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2023 06:52 PM (oHd/0)

121 @76 Pinch and Jon to the rescue!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 06:52 PM (Vnu5T)

122 "...the shooting is ON FILM. Or disk. Or whatever. The camera was rolling."

Probably had multiple cameras for angle options.
They were hoping we would all forget about that.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (MeG8a)

123 Ponch not Pinch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (Vnu5T)

124 I'm glad I'm not on the Baldwin jury, because I'd have to vote to acquit, due to the fact I find the FBI to be less trustworthy than Alec.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(2YtOq) at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (2YtOq)

125 Aren't most of the readers of AOSHQ zombies?

I thought that was the demographic.
Posted by: naturalfake

Well, I know I'm not a vmpire because I loves me some garlic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (FVME7)

126 JUST IN: White House Counsel Bails On Biden As Oversight Closes In On Bribery Scheme

What runs faster than a lawyer?

My bowels after eating at Taco Bell.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (/MvYl)

127 Aunt Becky pays someone to get her daughter into a college and the FBI gets her jail time.
Posted by: polynikes

There's a 'Pretty girl in jail with other women' movie in there somewhere.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (Uh2jt)

128 It's not true that Hawaiians threw virgins into volcanos. They banged them as soon as they could. Not many virgins around those islands.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (b4o9z)

129 I bet the Zombie Erin Moran is still hot and hasn't aged a day...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (TGPs7)

130 Fbi spends more time and resources monitoring sites like this, than fighting any city crime. Thie shemale agents carrying uzi’s into a ex president house. Scum

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:54 PM (33nmr)

131 BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is tripling the California Highway Patrol's presence in Los Angeles to help the city respond to a surge in organized retail theft

That means a crackdown on Sikhs and motorcades for the thieves back to their neighborhoods.

Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 06:54 PM (dNNCD)

132 Nah virgin sacrifices are passe to the demons these days. Late term abortion is their new fancy

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:55 PM (33nmr)

133 More trouble for Sundowner?
Guess #5 indictment for DJT will hit in a day or so
Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 06:25 PM (MOY79)

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They will indict him for wearing a red tie.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 17, 2023 06:55 PM (3JfbU)

134 MarcusT, didn't the SC OTUS tell us we had to,?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 17, 2023 06:56 PM (9JrBt)

135 "Nah virgin sacrifices are passe to the demons these days. Late term abortion is their new fancy"

... well... you can't get much more virgin than "hasn't even had contact with air"...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 17, 2023 06:56 PM (ou9hh)

136 The experts reconstructed the gun, which had been broken during earlier testing by the FBI, and concluded that it could only have been fired by a pull of the trigger.

We need one more look at that gun...

Posted by: The FBI at August 17, 2023 06:56 PM (dNNCD)

137 131 BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is tripling the California Highway Patrol's presence in Los Angeles to help the city respond to a surge in organized retail theft

That means a crackdown on Sikhs and motorcades for the thieves back to their neighborhoods.
Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 06:54 PM (dNNCD)

Uh, Highway patrol does not do normal patrol duties... they are the HIGHWAY Patrol. They don't respond to calls about theft, or normal crime.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 17, 2023 06:56 PM (oHd/0)

138 Newsome is Damien from Omen 3. Why bother to arrest , when DA lets them walk? How many cops die to arrest criminals that never see jail time?

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 06:57 PM (33nmr)

139 Baldwin is ruling class, not a subject. He goes to the special courts. He'll be fine.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 06:57 PM (0FoWg)

140 >>131 BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is tripling the California Highway Patrol's presence in Los Angeles to help the city respond to a surge in organized retail theft

I always liked the way Eric Estrada walked - Kevin McCarthy

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 17, 2023 06:58 PM (/MvYl)

141 Uh-Oh, Ponch and Jon!

Posted by: Cali Shoplifter at August 17, 2023 06:58 PM (SYTee)

142 Why tf does it take over a year for a “study” to determine that the only guy holding a gun was probably the one who made it fire

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Maybe it was a Manos: The Hands of Fate thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 06:58 PM (FVME7)

143 > Uh, Highway patrol does not do normal patrol duties... they are the HIGHWAY Patrol. They don't respond to calls about theft, or normal crime.

Maybe they didn't have enough Highway Patrol and other agencies were doing HP duties?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 06:59 PM (0N1h0)

144 meatball on a roll

my fav sammie

Posted by: Jared Fogle at August 17, 2023 06:59 PM (us2H3)

145 Newt says he got a tip (hearsay) that someone in DC (I wonder who...) called the Georgia prosecutor on Friday and told her to bring her indictment on Monday so as take the heat off the Weiss special counsel assignment. Get it off the front pages.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 06:59 PM (MeG8a)

146 Newsom calling in the CHIPS, is like the idiot in DC calling for the national guard. You could change the laws and prosecute criminals and throw them in jail. But that is counterrevolutionary and not cool

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 17, 2023 06:59 PM (Vnu5T)

147 "I've hated Fox for years for hiring this guy, just because he would hyperemotionally call Taliban jihadist "rats." That's supposed to make him acceptable for a "news" channel that allegedly provides pushback against leftwing media bias?"

Geraldo always felt performative to me. I remember when, after 9/11, they hired him and he had a bit on the channel (that ran over and over again) where he said he did love his country and... he reminded me of all of the 'Patriotism' that seemed to come out of the woodwork after 9/11- but disappeared as soon as it was convenient.

It is hard not to look back on that weird time (and it was odd) and compare it to Covid. The entire country stopped that day. It made sense at the time, but it is hard not to wonder about the parallels and wonder just how MUCH of the whole response was fabricated as Covid was.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:00 PM (ZtUfI)

148 126. Chipolte is the real rent a meal.

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 07:00 PM (33nmr)

149 why people wanna be cops when they are only props

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:00 PM (us2H3)

150 They will indict him for wearing a red tie.
Posted by: President Select Decaf

It's a signal. It means rise up and murder!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 07:00 PM (FVME7)

151 Huh. Spell check is calling Covid for Chinese Lung AIDS a misspelling. I usually always typed out Chinese Lung AIDS instead of Covid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:00 PM (ZtUfI)

152 149 why people wanna be cops when they are only props
Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:00 PM (us2H3)

Why do they want to be cops when instead of protecting the citizens, they are merely the enforcement arm for the state?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:01 PM (ZtUfI)

153 What runs faster than a lawyer?

My bowels after eating at Taco Bell.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

You ain't just whislin' Dixie whilst you're running.

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 07:01 PM (T4tVD)

154 >>148 126. Chipolte is the real rent a meal.
Posted by: Jonah

Chipolte is luxury.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 17, 2023 07:02 PM (/MvYl)

155 There's a 'Pretty girl in jail with other women' movie in there somewhere.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 17, 2023 06:53 PM (Uh2jt)

Heh. But she values education, see, so it turns out to be a heartwarming story of turning bad girls good (after the girl-fights in scanty jail gear, of course, no need to ruin the fun).

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 17, 2023 07:02 PM (OX9vb)

156 I thought Maui was surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.

How do you not release the water, unless you want a lot of innocents to die.

Virtue signaling has a price.

Posted by: Czech Chick at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM (/tqHO)

157 And his management resulted in hundreds of deaths? Who could have seen this coming?

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King Kameshaina's punishment would be slow Air Fryer Dehydration, until about 20% of him was left, to rid him of his reverence.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM (7f6JG)

158 Subway and Jack-In-The-Box have always been my most feared meals.

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2023 07:04 PM (v0R5T)

159 His biggest acting tough performance was when he interviewed Charles Manson.

Posted by: polynikes at August 17, 2023 07:04 PM (Srp34)

160 why people wanna be cops when they are only props
Posted by: REDACTED

CHiPs or CHUMPS?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 07:04 PM (FVME7)

161 104. Marcus, it is the punishment for a rational person living in a blue state. Red staters will tell you to shut up and move. I live in illinois, a marxist slum, due to a aging parent. But that is the reality. Grinor bear it, or leave. Blue states will never get better

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 07:05 PM (33nmr)

162 I thought Maui was surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.

Everybody knows salt water won't put out a fire. Duh.

Posted by: Mayor Kalikimaka at August 17, 2023 07:05 PM (v0R5T)

163 156 I thought Maui was surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.

How do you not release the water, unless you want a lot of innocents to die.

Virtue signaling has a price.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM (/tqHO)

True believers will do all sorts of stupid shit. They do not think the same way. The funny thig about environmentalism is: where does human life rank in your cosmology?

Is it:
1) Me
2) The environment (tie) 2) my comfort
4) Other people
?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:05 PM (ZtUfI)

164 Virtue signaling has a price.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM (/tqHO)

I got milk

Posted by: yeah at August 17, 2023 07:06 PM (us2H3)

165 "...prompting the company to reach out to the commission to request approval to divert more water from streams so it could store as much water as possible for fire control."

I want to know whether they could have diverted the water but didn't because they were waiting for approval.

I fear that may have been the case.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at August 17, 2023 07:06 PM (goJt/)

166 Subway always blew out my o-ring. Always. Every time. I think they put laxative in the bread.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 07:07 PM (0FoWg)

167 Black friday in the markets tommorrow. China is cratering in housing prices

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 07:07 PM (33nmr)

168 I thought Maui was surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.

How do you not release the water, unless you want a lot of innocents to die.

Virtue signaling has a price.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM (/tqHO)

I think they are talking about fresh water from a reservoir.

Posted by: Glenn John at August 17, 2023 07:07 PM (RilAR)

169 That chick has jacked-up eyebrows.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 17, 2023 07:07 PM (xaNfJ)

170 > Subway and Jack-In-The-Box have always been my most feared meals.

Because of the E. coli outbreaks?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 07:08 PM (0N1h0)

171 BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is tripling the California Highway Patrol's presence in Los Angeles to help the city respond to a surge in organized retail theft

It's all for show. The same laws that give thieves an automatic Get Out of Jail Free card are still in-effect, right? Along with the laws and the District Attorney that punishes police for excessive force and false arrest, right ? Why would Highway Patrol Officers do anything more to stop store robberies than LA cops and Sheriff's deputies are doing, on an individual basis?

Posted by: Gref at August 17, 2023 07:08 PM (AMIL/)

172 Uh, Highway patrol does not do normal patrol duties... they are the HIGHWAY Patrol. They don't respond to calls about theft, or normal crime.

Maybe they didn't have enough Highway Patrol and other agencies were doing HP duties?
Posted by: bonhomme

Texas DPS doesn't play. Stolen RV. Racing up US75 shooting out of the back window.

Most pd's would call off the chase. Nope. Not DPS. Trooper pulls up alongside of the rv and shoots the driver in the wrist. Chase over.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 07:08 PM (nW4TA)

173 They keep saying the election was fair and square in 2020. And the “proof” is there were a bunch of recounts.

Yeah you recounted illegal ballots. Count them 100 times and it doesn’t change the fact the ballots were illegal.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:08 PM (Oc5p4)

174 Federal Judge Dismisses Hunter Biden's Tax Charges

https://tinyurl.com/4wf3xeex

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Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty he's free at last!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 07:08 PM (FVME7)

175 There's a creature on Jeopardy Tournament of Champions who's a woman I think, very annoying and gores by the pronouns they/them. I hope it loses

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

176 166 Subway always blew out my o-ring. Always. Every time. I think they put laxative in the bread.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 17, 2023 07:07 PM (0FoWg)

Never had problems with Subway or Arby's (a couple food poisoning regulars.)

Taco Bell was the only one that ever gave me issues and it was usually after I got something with diced tomato...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:09 PM (ZtUfI)

177 Subway bread has too much sugar. So much the EU classified it as a "confection".

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 07:09 PM (MeG8a)

178 176 Every Subway smells the same. Like ass.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 17, 2023 07:09 PM (xaNfJ)

179 When Alec Baldwin found a tiki idol in a New Mexican desert, the entire crew knew bad shit was about to happen and they bailed on the DOOMED Rust production.

Montana tiki idols are a little more covert.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 17, 2023 07:10 PM (fY84s)

180 I thought Maui was surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.

How do you not release the water, unless you want a lot of innocents to die.

Virtue signaling has a price.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM (/tqHO)

I think they are talking about fresh water from a reservoir.
Posted by: Glenn John

How stupid do you have to be to not drop a hose into the ocean? Eventually ruining your pumps and salting the ground kinda pales in comparison to dying.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 07:10 PM (nW4TA)

181 What would hawaii do if they had a nasty tsunami like japan? Wait for fema to show up with giiligan 2 weeks later?

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 07:10 PM (33nmr)

182 I recorded pat garret and billy the kid a few days ago on tcm. Watching it now. Man the cast is awesome. My favorite James coburn movie. But I have always and continue to think Kris kristofferson was miscast.

Posted by: Blutarski at August 17, 2023 07:11 PM (Fwuhb)

183 177 Subway bread has too much sugar. So much the EU classified it as a "confection".
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 07:09 PM (MeG8a)

Jimmy Johns. Love that bread and their meats.

Firehouse is... ok. Their steak and cheese is not as good as Penn Station.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:11 PM (ZtUfI)

184 Piping in salt water from the ocean is white supremacy, h8ers.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:11 PM (Oc5p4)

185 "We've had conversations with mayors across not just Cook County but the surrounding counties, and we have had tremendous feedback,"

How much of that "tremendous feedback" was "FUCK YOU".

I'm trying to understand the sales pitch here. If illegal aliens are so great and swell, why doesn't Chicago selfishly keep them?

This isn't even close to a Tom Sawyer level of manipulation to get the surrounding communities to "paint the fence".

Going around screaming about how it is killing the budget and clogging up the system isn't exactly the sort of winning sales pitch I would be making unless I was dealing with sadistic sociopaths who absolutely hate their constituency and their own communities.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:11 PM (p8A+W)

186 Right . Naval ships have water systems that get rid of the salt

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 07:11 PM (33nmr)

187 I am sure that knowing that "equity" was considered when deciding when water would be released in Maui was a considerable comfort to those supremacist haole men as the watched their wives and children burn to death in their cars while trying to escape the inferno.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 17, 2023 07:11 PM (RLLZj)

188 > Subway always blew out my o-ring. Always. Every time. I think they put laxative in the bread.

Both Subway and Taco Bell serve their meals with quite a bit more veggie roughage than most US fast food consumers are used to.

My theory on why so many people complain about volcano craps after Taco Bell is they aren't used to having veggies.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 07:12 PM (0N1h0)

189 Gavin Newsome locking up the Dunkin Donuts endorsement!

Posted by: Regular joe at August 17, 2023 07:12 PM (nnp+f)

190 How ghetto. 6 different street taco vendors robbed last night by an armed crew of black men. Some TV editor slipped and allowed a victim to ID them, otherwise all other reports omitted that.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 17, 2023 07:12 PM (8Xfi1)

191 I want to know whether they could have diverted the water but didn't because they were waiting for approval.
posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at August 17, 2023 07:06 PM (goJt/)

Yes, gotc, from the article:
Instead of approving the request, CWRM asked the company whether the Maui Fire Department had requested permission to dip into the reservoirs and directed it to first inquire with the downstream user to ensure that his loi and other uses would not be impacted by a temporary reduction of water supply.

Criminal.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 17, 2023 07:13 PM (OX9vb)

192 Those 51 intel muthafu*kas can pucker up and kiss my ass. Whatever standing they had in the IC is gone as far as I'm concerned. Piss off assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2023 07:13 PM (hv9bm)

193 Barnhardt points out that the Maui disaster is the result of the worship of pagan gods.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (hAfUZ)

194 How stupid do you have to be to not drop a hose into the ocean? Eventually ruining your pumps and salting the ground kinda pales in comparison to dying.

There is no penalty for negligence, there is a penalty for willfully destroying government property.

The decision to let hundreds of people burn to death was a simple career preserving move.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (p8A+W)

195 The Maui fire just proves that progressives shouldn't be in charge of anything at any level, anywhere.

They would probably make shitting dogcatchers.

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I have a theory of progressives which includes BLM and Antifa stooges. They are the spoiled children of middle and upper classes, never wanted for anything except parental love. As a consequence they feel empty and unfulfilled. In retaliation they must reject the parents' culture* and civilization and even destroy it. In that quest they get sucked into every evil practice they can find.

*It is important to note that these parents never taught their children the most important parts of a culture or civilization, religion. It has been noted by many that those without a religion seek to replace it with something else, usually an ism that is opposed to it.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (3JfbU)

196 How ghetto. 6 different street taco vendors robbed last night by an armed crew of black men. Some TV editor slipped and allowed a victim to ID them, otherwise all other reports omitted that.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff

That's a good way to die. Now the taco vendors will have all their cousins providing overwatch.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (nW4TA)

197 174 Federal Judge Dismisses Hunter Biden's Tax Charges
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No one is above the law, MAGAts

Posted by: Have you figured out that the gay flag is a p3d0 flag? at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (6rX0z)

198 180 I thought Maui was surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.

How do you not release the water, unless you want a lot of innocents to die.

Virtue signaling has a price.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM (/tqHO)

I think they are talking about fresh water from a reservoir.
Posted by: Glenn John

How stupid do you have to be to not drop a hose into the ocean? Eventually ruining your pumps and salting the ground kinda pales in comparison to dying.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 07:10 PM (nW4TA)

See my comment 42.

Posted by: Gref at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (AMIL/)

199 Taco Bell has become insane expensive.
A Crunchwrap supreme is $7. Fuck that.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (Oc5p4)

200 Both Subway and Taco Bell serve their meals with quite a bit more veggie roughage than most US fast food consumers are used to.

My theory on why so many people complain about volcano craps after Taco Bell is they aren't used to having veggies.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 07:12 PM (0N1h0)

Warm, unwashed vegetables. Poor food hygiene.

You want fiber overload? White Castle cheeseburgers with extra onions. Does it to me every time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:15 PM (ZtUfI)

201 probably some pretty easy lays out in Hi

Posted by: Hank's johnson at August 17, 2023 07:15 PM (us2H3)

202 Subway explosive diahrrea
Jack-in-the Box projectile vomiting
Subway mayo at least made it past my stomach

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2023 07:15 PM (v0R5T)

203 And he practices what is being called "faith-based water management," insisting that water should not be used, only "revered."

Were the kids that had the water boiled out of their bodies after they burned to death not sufficiently reverent?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 17, 2023 07:15 PM (Bd6X8)

204 My theory on why so many people complain about volcano craps after Taco Bell is they aren't used to having veggies.

Or burro meat.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:16 PM (p8A+W)

205 199 Taco Bell has become insane expensive.
A Crunchwrap supreme is $7. Fuck that.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (Oc5p4)

we do

Posted by: Taco Bell at August 17, 2023 07:16 PM (us2H3)

206 > Every Subway smells the same. Like ass.

Subway smells like dirty dishwater or a damp sponge to me. Fresh baked bread smells amazing, and I find it amazing they can make bread that smells like THAT.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 07:16 PM (0N1h0)

207 Uh, Highway patrol does not do normal patrol duties... they are the HIGHWAY Patrol. They don't respond to calls about theft, or normal crime.

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I don't think Ponch and Jon ever fired a gun during that series.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 07:17 PM (FVME7)

208 My wife used to work with a woman whose son was deployed to Baghdad when Geraldo was there. The son said they used to watch his hotel. Whenever he'd stick his head out, they'd shoot into the air, and Geraldo would scurry back inside.

So I guess he contributed by entertaining the troops.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 17, 2023 07:17 PM (brAQZ)

209 199 Taco Bell has become insane expensive.
A Crunchwrap supreme is $7. Fuck that.
Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (Oc5p4)

Hell, just getting an extra sandwich anywhere gets you over $10.

.59 .79 .99

Anyone else remember that?

Mmmmm. Chili Cheese Burritos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:17 PM (ZtUfI)

210 A Crunchwrap supreme is $7. Fuck that.

Or for the same price I can have a pound and a half of succulent USDA Prime brisket smoked on the pellet grill.

Not much of a decision.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:18 PM (p8A+W)

211
That's a good way to die. Now the taco vendors will have all their cousins providing overwatch.

I wish. And some TV newsies pronounce it "taco bender".

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 17, 2023 07:18 PM (8Xfi1)

212 One time we visited Maui and the tsunami sirens went off about 1 am. I had to get some pants on roust the missus to get out of there. Our condo was right on the shore, I could hear the waves crash. Got in the car, high tailed it up country. Something about an earthquake in Central America. We spent the night in the car listening to the radio. Got back to the condo about 6am.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 17, 2023 07:18 PM (MeG8a)

213 Were the kids that had the water boiled out of their bodies after they burned to death not sufficiently reverent?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 17, 2023 07:15 PM (Bd6X

Out: Tossing babies into a volcano to appease the weather gods
In: Tossing babies into a wildfire to appease the weather gods.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 17, 2023 07:18 PM (RLLZj)

214 Ahh the days when you could walk into Taco Bell with $5 and walk out with several pounds of food.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:19 PM (Oc5p4)

215 Subway always blew out my o-ring.

That's hot.

Posted by: Hope's Rolo at August 17, 2023 07:19 PM (Xrfse)

216 "Hey, go over there and do nothing really hard like~!"

@emily_hoeven 2h
BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is tripling the California Highway Patrol's presence in Los Angeles to help the city respond to a surge in organized retail theft, per his office.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2023 06:41 PM (IG4Id)

I don't think the shoplifters operate on the highways.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 17, 2023 07:19 PM (eoQWY)

217 Ahh the days when you could walk into Taco Bell with $5 and walk out with several pounds of food.
Posted by: Montec

Six pack of soft tacos.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 17, 2023 07:19 PM (nW4TA)

218 206 Right?
That's exactly the smell. Every damn one of them!

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 17, 2023 07:20 PM (xaNfJ)

219 And some TV newsies pronounce it "taco bender".

Haven't heard that term since Papa Basura went one one of his rants.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 17, 2023 07:20 PM (Bd6X8)

220 167 Black friday in the markets tommorrow. China is cratering in housing prices
Posted by: Jonah

BLACK Friday, Jonah? BLACK? Racist. Do better, Jonah.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 07:20 PM (OTXUv)

221 199 And don't forget that they have always been the short route to an E Coli infection. Taco Hell. . . .for a reason

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 17, 2023 07:20 PM (/6bcX)

222 207 Uh, Highway patrol does not do normal patrol duties... they are the HIGHWAY Patrol. They don't respond to calls about theft, or normal crime.

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I don't think Ponch and Jon ever fired a gun during that series.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 07:17 PM (FVME7)

According to the net, they both carried Colt Pythons.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:20 PM (ZtUfI)

223 And he practices what is being called "faith-based water management," insisting that water should not be used, only "revered."

Looks to me that the Hawaiian government has instituted a state religion.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:20 PM (p8A+W)

224 > Or burro meat.

Nah, every mainstream fast food restaurant has terrible meat. Look at any McDonald's burger. That's rat meat with about four grams of iceberg lettuce strips on top. Few people complain about volcano craps after eating McDonald's. What's the difference? Taco Bell has more veggies.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 07:20 PM (0N1h0)

225 My favorite Geraldo story is from Desert Storm, when he was embedded with a unit entering Iraq, and on live TV he drew a diagram in the sand showing how different units were arrayed and advancing into Iraq.

He got yeeted out of the unit shortly afterwards.

Posted by: Military Moron at August 17, 2023 07:21 PM (NCgXW)

226 I thought out of control crime in blue city shitholes was just right wing lies. Why would Governor Hair send more police to combat right wing lies? Weird.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:21 PM (Oc5p4)

227 Haven't been to Taco Bell in over 10 years, one is 3 miles away

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 07:22 PM (MOY79)

228 I don't think the shoplifters operate on the highways.

It's racial profiling of the perps, assuming they don't live in the area and will have to take a highway back home.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 17, 2023 07:22 PM (Bd6X8)

229 According to the net, they both carried Colt Pythons.

Only the best for the State's highway bandits and ad hoc tax collectors.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:22 PM (p8A+W)

230 214 Shoplifter. You got home with the $5 still in your pocket, didn't you?

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at August 17, 2023 07:22 PM (/6bcX)

231 being an old fart, my fav hobby is going to the grocery store and finding stuff they have mismarked

gotta grab your jollies where you can get em

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:23 PM (us2H3)

232 My favorite Geraldo story is from Desert Storm, when he was embedded with a unit entering Iraq, and on live TV he drew a diagram in the sand showing how different units were arrayed and advancing into Iraq.

He got yeeted out of the unit shortly afterwards.

He's lucky. They should have shot him for giving intel to the enemy.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 17, 2023 07:23 PM (Bd6X8)

233 Uh, Highway patrol does not do normal patrol duties... they are the HIGHWAY Patrol. They don't respond to calls about theft, or normal crime.
Posted by: Romeo1

The thing is in many parts of SoCal without a local PD ( that's all of the many unincorporated areas), the Sheriff's Dept IS the police force. All emergency calls go to the Sheriff dispatch in those areas.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2023 07:23 PM (IG4Id)

234 Haven't been to Taco Bell in over 10 years, one is 3 miles away
Posted by: Skip

Stay away !

Something changed a few years back and now its like ex-lax.

Posted by: JT at August 17, 2023 07:24 PM (T4tVD)

235 CNN: Starbucks must pay another $2.7 million to employee who said she was fired for being White

The perSyn who wrote that headline must have been triggered bigly

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:24 PM (Oc5p4)

236 Haven't been to Taco Bell in over 10 years, one is 3 miles away

Ever worked yourself hard in the hot sun on a backbreaking task and were so tired, worn-out, semi-delirious and hungry you would eat that damned dog next door that has been barking at you for the last eight hours?

So you go to Taco Bell and order the Taco Party Pack rather than deal with the police.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:24 PM (p8A+W)

237 Ponch and John carried Pythons?
Sure.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 17, 2023 07:25 PM (glGDV)

238 in this area, we have one mickey d

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:25 PM (us2H3)

239 President Joe Biden.
Sure.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 17, 2023 07:25 PM (glGDV)

240 BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is tripling the California Highway Patrol's presence in Los Angeles to help the city respond to a surge in organized retail theft, per his office.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2023 06:41 PM (IG4Id)

So...big governor order. Headlines made. Mission accomplished.
Keep writing those speeding tixs boys. Its a huge revenue source.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 17, 2023 07:25 PM (hv9bm)

241 "after a forensic report released Tuesday found that his Colt .45 revolver would only fire if the trigger was pulled"

No shit, Sherlocks. Time to love the science, Arrec!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 17, 2023 07:25 PM (mga6V)

242 There are 3 Taco Bells in my burg. All 3 are packed every day, At all hours.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:25 PM (Oc5p4)

243 And he practices what is being called "faith-based water management," insisting that water should not be used, only "revered."
_______________

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2023 07:26 PM (YqDXo)

244 Haven't been to Taco Bell in decades. Lots of Hispanic joints around me and they are all very good. No reason to go to Taco Bell unless I'm constipated.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 07:26 PM (OTXUv)

245 I never cared what happened to me after Der Weinerschnitzel. I just loved to oink a couple of those chili cheese dogs with onions. Of course, whoever was in the car with me might have cared.

Posted by: wth at August 17, 2023 07:26 PM (v0R5T)

246 Uncovered emails?
Sure.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 17, 2023 07:26 PM (glGDV)

247 > I don't think Ponch and Jon ever fired a gun during that series.

According to Mental Floss, only three episodes showed a cop drawing their gun. Ponch and Jon never drew their gun.

Also, the two stars hated each other. Estrada wasn't invited to Wilcox's wedding.

https://is.gd/2B4BSz

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 07:26 PM (0N1h0)

248 Per a 14 things about chips page:
"For a cop show, CHiPs had a pretty conservative approach to ammunition. According to some fan tallies, a gun was drawn by police in just three out of 139 episodes—and never by Estrada or Wilcox. Estrada told ABC News that the show’s 8 p.m. family time slot contributed to the pacifistic approach. “It was about helping pedestrians, people in trouble, the young kids who are straying,” he said."

*sigh* Soy. In the 80's.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:26 PM (ZtUfI)

249 I found a bunch of lamb shanks at 3.99 a pound

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:27 PM (us2H3)

250 0 hedge has an article on Vivek Ramaswamy with a link to T. Carlson's interview with him.
Very interesting. He's a little young but there's a place for him in the coming administration.

He's no neocon, that's for sure

Posted by: Braenyard at August 17, 2023 07:27 PM (lCWOD)

251 "a letter signed by 51 former intelligence community officials which claimed Hunter Biden's Laptop from hell bore "all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.""

For me, that's among the most outrageous examples of evil govt fuckery I've witnessed.

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at August 17, 2023 07:27 PM (MvF+J)

252 BREAKING: @GavinNewsom is tripling the California Highway Patrol's presence in Los Angeles to help the city respond to a surge in organized retail theft, per his office.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 17, 2023 06:41 PM (IG4Id)

-----

And suddenly, a massive number of CHips retire.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 17, 2023 07:27 PM (RLLZj)

253 They refer to Bruce Jenner as 'Caitlyn' in that same article.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:27 PM (ZtUfI)

254 There were reports of the fire moving so quickly and at such temperatures that water was spewing out of melting pipes and depressurizing the lines that also supplied the fire hydrants.

i wonder if the fire asked the downstream users for permission

Posted by: anachronda at August 17, 2023 07:28 PM (oY6Yp)

255 Are all these Hawaiian kooks in charge gonna be charged with murder, or at least manslaughter?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 17, 2023 07:28 PM (mga6V)

256 CHiPs jumped the shark when scab Bruce Jenner replaced Eric Estrada.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 17, 2023 07:28 PM (xPl2J)

257 I thought Maui was surrounded by the Pacific Ocean.
How do you not release the water, unless you want a lot of innocents to die.
Virtue signaling has a price.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM (/tqHO)

He had one job. It was to only allow water to be released after he had all the paperwork completed. He never understood his job, and had no way to figure out how to determine himself how to determine if he was doing his job correctly, so he just went by procedure. The procedure was set up to be complicated and slow because the job is to never release water unless paperwork is completed.

This is why bureaucracy kill people. Bureaucracies only work as intended if they have a decent leavening of people who are willing to say "do / don't do this or I will beat you to death with your commemorative stapler" and are willing to take the consequences as a trade off for the death and destruction they will cause.
Such people, of course, are fired as soon as detected.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 07:29 PM (xhaym)

258 And his management resulted in hundreds of deaths? Who could have seen this coming?

sounds like he's due for a promotion

Posted by: anachronda at August 17, 2023 07:29 PM (oY6Yp)

259 https://tldavis.substack.com/p/elections-are-dangerous

Very good read

Posted by: Skip at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (MOY79)

260 255 Are all these Hawaiian kooks in charge gonna be charged with murder, or at least manslaughter?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

They're Democrats. No.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (OTXUv)

261 > Are all these Hawaiian kooks in charge gonna be charged with murder, or at least manslaughter?

*snerk*

A bureaucrat being charged by his own government for following the rules? Not ever.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (0N1h0)

262 Howzit goin' with our pagan overlords?
Gas prices
Criminal justice
Bums
Promiscuity
Abortion
Adult abuse
Child abuse
Theft
Water worship
devil worship
dogs and cats living together
mass hysteria

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (glGDV)

263 There are 3 Taco Bells in my burg. All 3 are packed every day, At all hours.

I take it your burg has a serious drub abuse problem among its population.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (p8A+W)

264 death and destruction that they will prevent, I meant.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (xhaym)

265 They refer to Bruce Jenner as 'Caitlyn' in that same article.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:27 PM (ZtUfI)

I was watching the Johnny Carson channel on Roku and they showed an old clip of Bruce Jenner from the 70s on the show. The chyron said Caitlyn Jenner.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (xPl2J)

266 Methinks "M. Kaleo Manuel" didn't want to ruin the soil with saltwater...

Think of the future Maui Wowie crops!!!

Or, maybe the fire started because of drooogwarz?

Meh. More than 10 miles away

Posted by: JQ at August 17, 2023 07:32 PM (Gkog9)

267 I was watching the Johnny Carson channel on Roku and they showed an old clip of Bruce Jenner from the 70s on the show. The chyron said Caitlyn Jenner.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (xPl2J)

It's sad, watching history being rewritten.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:32 PM (ZtUfI)

268 Virtue signaling has a price.
Posted by: Czech Chick at August 17, 2023 07:03 PM

$20, same as in town?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 17, 2023 07:32 PM (a3Q+t)

269 256 CHiPs jumped the shark when scab Bruce Jenner replaced Eric Estrada.
Posted by: Mark1971 at August 17, 2023 07:28 PM (xPl2J)

The one and only episode I ever saw had an old rusted out tow truck towing a Volkswagen out running the motorcycle cops.

Squealing on the corners of a gravel road.

Never watched another.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 17, 2023 07:33 PM (RLLZj)

270 And his management resulted in hundreds of deaths? Who could have seen this coming?

sounds like he's due for a promotion

To the Big Time! Biden's handlers will probably put him in a place of particular mischief in the Department of the Interior.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:33 PM (p8A+W)

271 The Hawaiian a**hole is.a babbling, useless upmarket

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at August 17, 2023 07:33 PM (2S53I)

272 255 Are all these Hawaiian kooks in charge gonna be charged with murder, or at least manslaughter?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 17, 2023 07:28 PM (mga6V)

They’re all democrats.
So, no.

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:33 PM (Oc5p4)

273 This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2023 07:26 PM (YqDXo)
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It's worse than that. He literally says, "water is life." Then implies we shouldn't ever use it, only revere it for its lifegiving powers.

Idiot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 17, 2023 07:34 PM (BpYfr)

274 so now the islanders will not vote dim, right ?

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:34 PM (us2H3)

275 Nood. Cafe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 17, 2023 07:34 PM (ZtUfI)

276 I take it your burg has a serious drub abuse problem among its population.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM

I've heard some Jamacian burgs have a serious dub abuse problem.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 17, 2023 07:34 PM (a3Q+t)

277 And suddenly, a massive number of CHips retire.

As someone above pointed out, CHP only works on the highways. "Tripling their presence" will ensure the getaway car doesn't speed if they use a freeway.

Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 07:34 PM (e2onP)

278 They should have shot him for giving intel to the enemy.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310

I've been reading A Tale Untwisted by Gene M. Thorp and Alexander B. Rossino which purports to be a defense of George McClellan during the Maryland campaign. (I'm a nerd, OK?) Rather than a legitimate defense, they blame everybody else. For example, their defense of McClellan moving too slow to prevent Harper's Ferry falling to the Confederates is that Miles, the commander at Harper's Ferry, should have been court martialed and shot for surrendering too soon.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 17, 2023 07:34 PM (FVME7)

279 One can always count on Jerry Rivers to seize the moment and draw attention to himself with made-up bullsh!t....

Posted by: TXMarko at August 17, 2023 07:34 PM (ACZeI)

280
I take it your burg has a serious drub abuse problem among its population.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at

Heh. Not really. It’s a lot of olds that frequent it from what I’ve seen. Nostalgia?

Posted by: Montec at August 17, 2023 07:35 PM (Oc5p4)

281 i wonder if the fire asked the downstream users for permission
Posted by: anachronda at August 17, 2023 07:28 PM (oY6Yp)
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That wildfire wouldn't have been that big a deal if someone on the spot there had exercised some judgment and some initiative. To hell with asking permission - this was a crisis, better to ask forgiveness than permission.

Instead 100+ people died. Sheesh.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2023 07:35 PM (YqDXo)

282 Going around screaming about how it is killing the budget and clogging up the system isn't exactly the sort of winning sales pitch I would be making unless I was dealing with sadistic sociopaths who absolutely hate their constituency and their own communities.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:11 PM (p8A+W)

These are not deep thinking people, these are people who have been lit on fire by their monied supporters and their family members who are afraid of being robbed and murdered. What is worse, these are people who see all their graft going away because the money is needed to feed illegal aliens, and they can't figure out what to do besides dump them on other communities that have less money.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 07:35 PM (xhaym)

283 273 This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever read.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2023 07:26 PM (YqDXo)

just hold on there

I working on some new stuff, so reserve judgement

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:36 PM (us2H3)

284 As someone above pointed out, CHP only works on the highways. "Tripling their presence" will ensure the getaway car doesn't speed if they use a freeway.
Posted by: t-bird at August 17, 2023 07:34 PM (e2onP)
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Nobody speeds on LA freeways. Most of the time you're lucky to move at walking pace.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2023 07:36 PM (YqDXo)

285 "after a forensic report released Tuesday found that his Colt .45 revolver would only fire if the trigger was pulled"

I'm guessing that the revolver would have needed to have the hammer cocked in addition to pulling a trigger.

If the trigger was known to be defective, what idiot other than Alec would think nothing of letting Chance decide when to release a cocked hammer?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:37 PM (p8A+W)

286 209 Hell, just getting an extra sandwich anywhere gets you over $10.

.59 .79 .99

Anyone else remember that?

'round my neck of the lack of woods, there used to a place called "the 25 cent hamburger stand" in the building that is now der wienerschnitzel. the name was accurate.

Posted by: anachronda at August 17, 2023 07:37 PM (oY6Yp)

287 Little did Elon suspect that the new name for "Twitter" would become "X, formerly known as Twitter."

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at August 17, 2023 07:38 PM (MvF+J)

288 I take it your burg has a serious drub abuse problem among its population.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 17, 2023 07:30 PM (p8A+W)

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I have a drub abuse problem whenever my right-brained wife comes from behind and beats my left-brained ass at chess.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 07:38 PM (JdE7W)

289 285 I'm guessing that the revolver would have needed to have the hammer cocked in addition to pulling a trigger.

well, he has said that he pulled the hammer back for the pictures and the gun went off when he was putting it back.

Posted by: anachronda at August 17, 2023 07:38 PM (oY6Yp)

290 Barnhardt points out that the Maui disaster is the result of the worship of pagan gods.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 17, 2023 07:14 PM (hAfUZ)

Barnhardt also thinks that all Masons are satanic pedophiles bent on global control, which is as unhinged as the KKK folk who claimed that all Catholics were in thrall to the Whore of Rome.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 07:38 PM (xhaym)

291 The Montana judge overseeing the Children’s Climate Trial ruled in favor of the 16 child plaintiffs who “challenged the constitutionality of the State’s fossil fuel-based state energy system.” The judge agreed with the plaintiffs that Montana’s energy system violated the state constitution, which includes environmental rights and a guarantee of equal protection.

everywhere

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:39 PM (us2H3)

292 Little did Elon suspect that the new name for "Twitter" would become "X, formerly known as Twitter."

Posted by: Please Place The gp In The Bag at August 17, 2023 07:38 PM (MvF+J)

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Yeah, for a genius he didn't really think that one through.

I would have went with "X: The Answer To Life, The Universe, and Everything."

/Although that phrase might be trademarked

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 07:41 PM (JdE7W)

293 we used to able to by a slider for a dime

now it's 20 bucks for a spinner

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:41 PM (us2H3)

294 104. This morning we saw an interview with a superintendent of a small school system in NYS that now has 1800 “migrants “enrolled into their 3,000 student district and he was assuring parents that their American children were safe and would be getting the same amount of attention and resources. I kept waiting for him to be struck by lightning.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 17, 2023 07:41 PM (Af769)

295 He's lucky. They should have shot him for giving intel to the enemy.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 17, 2023 07:23 PM (Bd6X

Should have kicked him out into the dunes and told him to wait for the next bus.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 07:43 PM (xhaym)

296 I shit the bed when I found out Elon didn't renamed Twitter for me

fuck him

Posted by: Amber Heard at August 17, 2023 07:43 PM (us2H3)

297 The Montana judge overseeing the Children’s Climate Trial ruled in favor of the 16 child plaintiffs who “challenged the constitutionality of the State’s fossil fuel-based state energy system.” The judge agreed with the plaintiffs that Montana’s energy system violated the state constitution, which includes environmental rights and a guarantee of equal protection.

everywhere

Posted by: REDACTED at August 17, 2023 07:39 PM (us2H3)

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So, the Montana state constitution has been ruled to actually BE a suicide pact ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 07:43 PM (JdE7W)

298 Uh, Highway patrol does not do normal patrol duties... they are the HIGHWAY Patrol. They don't respond to calls about theft, or normal crime.
Posted by: Romeo1

That should make the Guv extra popular with the troopers, being yanked off of highway patrol and investigative duties to stand in front of an IGA

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 07:44 PM (xhaym)

299 Nobody speeds on LA freeways. Most of the time you're lucky to move at walking pace.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 17, 2023 07:36 PM (YqDXo)

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The opening scene in the film "Office Space" -- stuck on the 405 as the old man with the walker passes you buy on the sidewalk -- is a classic.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 17, 2023 07:46 PM (JdE7W)

300 Damn, a Judge likening the Biden Administration to the Mafia yet it's Trump facing RICO charges. Only in Bizzaro world

Posted by: Gerry at August 17, 2023 07:46 PM (9qeAY)

301 Are all these Hawaiian kooks in charge gonna be charged with murder, or at least manslaughter?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 17, 2023 07:28 PM (mga6V)

they will be giving themselves commendations on how well they handled the emergency.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 17, 2023 07:48 PM (xhaym)

302 California Highway Patrol deployed to retail stores

- Driving left of the center of the isle
- Turning the cart without signaling
- Improperly secured load in the cart
- Failure to seatbelt child in cart
- Following to close to the cart in front of you
- Reckless carting
- Failure to yield to the cart on the right

Posted by: db (lowercase since 2008) back from a 2 year break at August 17, 2023 07:50 PM (wu87C)

303 Geraldo...what a marooooon. He's like Bill Maher. He says something conservatives agree with from time to time so suckers take him for an ally when he's not.

Also, can something be "ruthlessly pragmatic"? If it's pragmatic it makes sense so it isn't ruthless, bland or anywhere in between. If Tucker was only giving the audience what it wanted to hear that's not pragmatic, it's pandering. Pandering isn't pragmatic it's self interest. Self interest is rarely conflated with pragmatism. Some of my most liberal friends say they are not ideological, just pragmatic.

Is any book Geraldo writes and markets and tries to get people to read "ruthlessly pragmatic"?

Posted by: Lex at August 17, 2023 07:50 PM (QlUHh)

304 Forget COVID - tell me what purpose and point there was for the government to pressure social media on the Hunter Biden laptop?

I'm waiting....

Seems to me the government abused it's power, over and over again. Hence it cannot be trusted - minor flunkies in the government feel they have the power to force social media companies to do their bidding - and they are right, because not a single one was punished or fired for doing so.

So, sorry, but you blew it. As expected.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 17, 2023 08:04 PM (nJ1bF)

305 Yep

Posted by: Jonah at August 17, 2023 08:36 PM (33nmr)

306 halyna hutchins was married to a lawyer that worked for the same law firm that was defending michael sussman in the durham probe michael sussman was the only lawyer in hillary clintons 2016 campaign law firm that was indicted by durham so why would alec baldwin kill her: so an obama appointed judge would rule in his favor in a TWENTY FIVE MILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT check it out this is all well reported on nobody wants to connect the dots because they dont want to become the next halyna hutchins

Posted by: sound awake at August 17, 2023 08:53 PM (g7ym/)

307 oh yeah i forgot and after the obama appointed circuit judge let alec baldwin off the hook for his defamation case she was promoted to chief judge of the circuit nothing to see here move along

Posted by: sound awake at August 17, 2023 08:55 PM (XLKc7)

308 How the hell can Hawaii have a shortage of water? It friggin' rains every day...

Posted by: The Big Bang at August 17, 2023 09:17 PM (XMwZJ)

309 Have a great weekend everyone, oh and fuck Bonchie and RedState.com. That site is chock full of smug, self-important, NeverTrump assholes.

2020: NEVER FORGET, NEVER FORGIVE.

Posted by: Tracy at August 17, 2023 11:02 PM (hwyfH)

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