The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/21/23

Good morning, kids. Despite being downgraded to a tropical storm, Hillary nevertheless has slammed into the southern California region bringing flooding and mudslides. On top of that, a 5.5 quake hit northwest of L.A. with an epicenter near the beautiful town of Ojai. Prayers for all affected. It used to be when natural disasters hit, one would expect officials to be prepared and display a level of competence that would mitigate the pain and suffering of the citizenry.

Of course "used to be" predates the complete clusterfuck in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. When competence runs a distant second, or perhaps lower than that, to malfeasance, corruption, greed and racialism as was amply demonstrated in the personages of Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin and Kathleen Blanco, the result was what would've been merely a very bad storm turned into an abject catastrophe. Naturally, the ensuing death, misery and destruction were used by the Left and their media propagandists to bash Dubya and white people in general. The most horrific example was the blood libel that Bush intentionally dynamited the levies so as to depopulate New Orleans of its black people. The decades-long goniffing of funds from the Army Corps of Engineers to bolster said levies was conveniently left out of the narrative.

In any case, what happened down in the Big Sleazy was merely a foretaste of what was to come in places like East Palestine, OH and now in Maui, HI.

Kaleo Manuel, the now-"redeployed" Hawaiian state water commissioner who delayed the release of water for five hours to Lahaina's firefighters as the town burned, is no ordinary bureaucrat.
He's got "supporters" . . .
. . . What kind of bureaucrat has "supporters"? Politicians have supporters, but bureaucrats? And why are they stepping up to the plate now, particularly with news coming out that he delayed the release of water to save Lahaina. Are they happy he apparently stuck it to Lahaina? This doesn't seem to be the time to applaud this guy, let alone shower him with leis and dance the hula in his honor. But they are.
And that suggests that reforming the system in Hawaii that created the conditions for the incineration of Lahaina, is going to very tough job to uproot. Politics is at work here.
After all, here's what he did to get himself "redeployed" as deputy director of his agency, the Hawaiian Commission on Water Resources Management, according to Honolulu Civil Beat, which broke the story:

With wildfires ravaging West Maui on Aug. 8, a state water official delayed the release of water that landowners wanted to help protect their property from fires. The water standoff played out over much of the day and the water didn’t come until too late.
The dispute involved the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ water resource management division and West Maui Land Co., which manages agricultural and residential subdivisions in West Maui as well as Launiupoko Irrigation Co., Launiupoko Water Co., Olowalu Water Co. and Ha’iku Town Water Association.
DLNR delayed releasing water requested by West Maui Land Co. to help prevent the spread of fire, sources familiar with the situation said.
Specifically, according to accounts of four people with knowledge of the situation, M. Kaleo Manuel, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and DLNR’s deputy director for water resource management, initially balked at West Maui Land Co.’s requests for additional water to help prevent the fire from spreading to properties managed by the company.
According to the sources, Manuel wanted West Maui Land to get permission from a taro, or kalo, farm located downstream from the company’s property. Manuel eventually released water but not until after the fire had spread. It was not clear on Monday how much damage the fire did in the interim or whether homes were damaged.
Seems the taro farmer (or farm collective) he had to get permission from first needed five hours to make up his mind about whether to save Lahaina.
And based on what's known about Manuel, given his youthful age of 39, his involvement with Native Hawaiian "collectives," as well as his statements about water "equity," he seems to have thought he only represented Native Hawaiian activist groups in his state job, and not the county of Maui or the entire state of Hawaii. . . Manuel's background seems to be distinctly political.
First, he's an Obama Leader, and not just any Obama leader, but one of two leaders who were designated the leaders of the leaders in 2019. His bio reads:

Kaleo is passionate about elevating native and indigenous ways of knowing in all spheres of discourse and dialogue.
His mentor, who promoted him to water commissioner, was one Suzanne Case, head of the powerful Department of Land and Natural Resources, who went to Punahou school, same as Obama, and only a few years apart.
His connection to Vicki Holt, the hula master who danced for him, seems obvious enough -- she runs the Pa'i Foundation and has Manuel on the board of directors.
His qualification for job seemed to be his activist background. After all, the education portion of his resume reads that he's got a major in Native Hawaiian culture, another in Urban and Regionall Planning, plus a certificate in Native Hawaiian historical preservation, which is quite a credential for the guy who let Lahaina burn.

A water commissioner who knows nothing about water except perhaps that it's wet. Sort of like a transportation secretary who know nothing about transportation except that he travels first class and where the nearest luxury chest-feeding lounge is located. And on and on and on. If you think Kaleo Manuel and Mayor Buttplug are bad, here's a foretaste of who's going to be in the on-deck circle in the coming years.

Portland Public Schools is workshopping new "equitable grading practices" that bar teachers from assigning "zeros" to students who cheat or fail to turn in assignments.
The district's initiative aims to address "racial disparities" and "inequities" in grading and instruction, a "journey" that the district began "during the pandemic," a handout reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon says. "Grading for equity," the handout states, includes eliminating "zeros" as a grade—even when a student cheats or fails to turn in a test or assignment. It also calls for no penalties for late work and no grades for both homework and "non-academic factors," such as "participation, attendance, effort, attitude, [and] behavior."
The new grading practices, which are expected to be implemented districtwide by 2025 after some classrooms adopted them last year, reflect left-wing efforts across the country to achieve "equitable outcomes" among all students. In California, for example, new equity-focused math curriculum guidelines aim to narrow the gap between gifted and non-gifted learners by abandoning "student tracking" practices that help accelerated learners access more advanced instruction. . .
. . . The district's new "bias-resistant" grading initiative argues that teachers should assign grades "based on valid evidence of a student's content knowledge, not on evidence that … is likely to be influenced by a teacher's implicit bias or reflect a student's environment." Teachers who offer extra credit, give zeros for cheating, penalize late work, and dock students for poor attendance or classroom behavior may be guilty of such bias.
The initiative also calls to only "base grades on summative assessments, instead of classwork, homework, formative assessments, etc." Should a student cheat or fail to submit an assignment on time, teachers should provide a grade of at least 50 percent, the district handout outlining the initiative says. The initiative also calls to replace the typical "0-100" grading scale with a "0-4" scale.

This is how you get a water commissioner who "is passionate about elevating native and indigenous ways of knowing in all spheres of discourse and dialogue."

Wait until these degreed dolts are not just working as governmental apparatchiks, but as doctors and engineers and scientists. Not to mention . . . the military:

On Thursday, The Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey reported that Col. Benjamin Jonsson, who is “currently awaiting promotion to brigadier general,” penned an article in the Air Force Times weeks after George Floyd’s death lamenting his fellow white airmen don’t go along with leftist talking points about so-called “racial injustice” in the U.S. armed forces.
“As white colonels, you and I are the biggest barriers to change if we do not personally address racial injustice in our Air Force. Defensiveness is a predictable response by white people to any discussion of racial injustice. White colonels are no exception,” Jonsson wrote. “We are largely blind to institutional racism, and we take offense to any suggestion that our system advantaged us at the expense of others.”
Jonsson went on claim he “drew attention” to the notion that “racial tension remains an important issue to address” while speaking with two white colonels. According to Jonsson, his “introduction of race into the conversation created social discomfort,” allegedly causing both service members to “ameliorate” the situation “with humor.” He furthermore admonished a fellow white colonel who purportedly expressed the meritocratic sentiment that “when anyone joins the Air Force, they need to adopt the culture of the Air Force [and] that [the branch] should not make cultural accommodations.”
. . . Jonsson wasn’t quite finished demanding his fellow service members view the world through a racial lens. At the end of his article, the Air Force colonel recommended airmen develop a “game plan” to break so-called “invisible barriers” in the military by reading Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, a book that promotes divisive ideologies such as critical race theory (CRT).
“Dear white colonel, it is time to give a damn. Aim High,” he added.
The Air Force Times article is hardly the only incident in which Jonsson has pushed the military to adopt ideas saturated in so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), a poisonous left-wing framework that dismisses merit and instead discriminates based on characteristics such as skin color and sex.
In a December 2020 video commemorating the service of a Tuskegee Airman, Jonsson said the celebration gives the Air Force a chance to “acknowledge that there’s still progress that we need to make as a service.”
“There’s still barriers, more invisible barriers, that some of our airmen from underrepresented groups … still feel in their service,” Jonsson claimed. “We’re aggressively knocking down those barriers.”
Jonsson’s apparent infatuation with CRT and DEI ideologies further highlights the importance of Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s ongoing bid to force individual votes on Biden’s military appointees. Using his role on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Tuberville has been slowing down military personnel moves that require Senate confirmation to protest the Pentagon’s use of taxpayer money to cover service members’ travel expenses to get abortions.
To be clear, Tuberville is not blocking votes, but is forcing the Armed Services Committee to vote on each nomination individually rather than voting “en masse on large numbers of nominations.” The Alabama senator has since faced numerous attacks from Democrats and establishment Republicans, many of whom have baselessly claimed his protest is harming “military readiness.”

Yay! Bipartisanship! People talk about "draining the swamp." This isn't a swamp. It's an ocean the size of Jupiter and it's infecting not just government but every level of our society. Even unrigged elections for the next 100 years won't begin to make a dent in this. This cancer demands radical surgery. Now.

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A couple of things noted at press time. First, Donald Trump has decided to skip the debates because in his words:

“The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had, with Energy Independence, Strong Borders & Military, Biggest EVER Tax & Regulation Cuts, No Inflation, Strongest Economy in History, & much more. I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!”

Well, this is either a brilliant move or he's shooting himself in the foot. In any case, considering my contention that the 2024 election outcome is already predetermined, what does it matter anyway?

Second, perhaps I was too quick in handing out the moniker "Red Meat" to Vivek Ramaswamy. After what was a really impressive interview with Tucker Carlson on his "X" Twitter feed, he steps on his dick:

The 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur and self-proclaimed political "outsider," has raised eyebrows for his shifting positions on U.S. military aid to Israel, which he now says he wants to cut off in 2028.
While anti-Israel activists have long lobbied for ending U.S. military funding to the Jewish state, Ramaswamy said he supports Israel’s continued security.
The candidate’s stance on the military aid—$3 billion a year, which Israel is largely required to spend on U.S.-manufactured equipment—has changed several times over the past few months. This week, he told the Washington Free Beacon that he supports ending the military funding once the current package passed by Congress expires in 2028, arguing that the aid will be unnecessary after he successfully negotiates new peace treaties between Israel and its Arab neighbors during the first year of his presidency.
"If we’re successful, the true mark of success for the U.S., and for Israel, will be to get to a 2028 where Israel is so strongly standing on its own two feet, integrated into the economic and security infrastructure of the rest of the Middle East, that it will not require and be dependent on that same level of historical aid or commitment from the U.S.," Ramaswamy told the Free Beacon on Saturday. . .
. . . Conservative pundit Mark Levin questioned Ramaswamy’s position in a message to the candidate on Twitter.
"We need Israel as a counterweight to Iran, Syria, terrorist organizations, etc. You seem oblivious to America’s need to have strong and reliable allies throughout the world to help our own security needs," wrote Levin. "I’m all for outsiders. But, respectfully, you need to bone up a bit on this subject."
Ramaswamy has acknowledged that he is a newcomer to some of these foreign policy debates. He noted that he "didn’t know much of this six months ago," in an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt about Taiwan this month, adding that the "only difference between me and the other candidates is I’m the only one actually willing to admit that."
This could also explain his shifting positions as he attempts to grapple with these issues on the national stage.
Ramaswamy's latest stance on Israeli military funding comes two months after the candidate told the Free Beacon that he supported continuing aid to Israel. The Free Beacon asked Ramaswamy to clarify his position in June after he was videotaped telling a small campaign gathering that he would consider ending military financial support to the Jewish state.
"That's not what I said," Ramaswamy told the Free Beacon, when asked if he supported cutting aid to Israel at the time. "When someone asked about aid to Israel, I said we can’t narrowly criticize our financial aid to Israel in isolation when our other policies of engagement in the Middle East have indirectly contributed to the threats that Israel faces."

"Bone up" indeed. Look, I get the anger about sending dollars abroad especially to shit-hole kleptocracies, China to fund bio weapons, Iran to fund nukes, Ukraine to fund the Bidens, Haiti the Clintons and on and on and on. That said, about the only place on the planet where foreign aid IS a real investment in our national security and economy is the State of Israel.

If Trump's Abraham Accords do indeed foster a new era where our aid is no longer needed, entirely or to a significant extent, then maybe Ramaswamy has a point. If Israel is taken down from within by globalist Leftists and traitors, then the point will be moot.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Richard Fernandez: "Bryan Caplan writes, 'Perhaps an eternity of totalitarianism would be worse than extinction.' Only for those without power — and nobody cares for them."
Runaway AI Train
"If C40 Cities’ climate aims are carried out, people will die." (Let's hope the first to go are the environmentalists before they can put it in motion - jjs)
These 14 American Cities Have a ‘Target’ of Banning Meat, Dairy, and Private Vehicles By 2030
"The closure of Nigel Farage’s Coutts account for political reasons should worry not just conservatives but anyone concerned with society’s general welfare."
Debunking De-banking
Dennis Prager: "As long as the ideological heirs of the 1960s provide the reasons and the solutions, things will only get worse."
Why Are More Americans Than Ever Committing Suicide?

TROPICAL STORM HILLARY UPDATES

"A 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon while Southern California experiences a historic tropical storm from Hurricane Hillary."
Hurri-Quake: 5.5 Magnitude Earthquake in Los Angeles During Historic Tropical Storm
This was before it made landfall, but So Cal got hit pretty hard and on top of it there was an earthquake near Ojai - jjs
Gov. Gavin Newsom Declares State of Emergency as Hurricane Hilary Approaches California
"The historical storm, previously classified as a hurricane, put millions under flash-flood watches and warnings as the heavy rain trapped dozens of cars in rising floodwaters in Palm Springs and the surrounding communities."
Center of Tropical Storm Hilary Moves into California as Storm Wreaks Havoc with Flooding, Mudslides
"Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall on the Baja California peninsula in northwestern Mexico on Sunday afternoon as officials warned of dangerous flooding in the area and the Southwest United States. Lombardo’s office said current forecast models predict severe weather across the state of Nevada."
Nevada Governor Declares State of Emergency Due to Tropical Storm Hilary
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"The Times reported that not only did the whistleblowers stop the cover-up, but that Hunter Biden’s lawyers now want them to be prosecuted for speaking out against his special treatment — a violation of [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s promise to protect whistleblowers:"
NYT: DOJ Planned to Let Hunter Biden Off the Hook Until Whistleblowers Emerged
"The threat worked. Weiss and his team offered Hunter Biden the pretrial diversion. This appears to be proof that the Department of Justice gave Hunter the sweetheart plea deal after the threat of getting Joe Biden involved. Did this situation impact Weiss’ choice? This revelation adds yet another layer to the question of why Attorney General Merrick Garland violated DOJ regulations to appoint Weiss as special counsel."
HUGE: Hunter Biden’s Legal Team Used Joe Biden to Blackmail DOJ
“Then-Vice President Biden emailed Hunter under the aliases ‘Robin Ware,’ ‘Robert L. Peters’ and ‘JRB Ware’ between 2014 and 2016, keeping his son abreast of scheduled talks with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Kyiv Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman”
Report: As VP, Joe Biden Used Email Aliases To Loop Hunter In On Ukraine, Government Business
Daniel Greenfield: "Did the Big Guy help provide a loan to a Hunter-backed car company?"
Hunter Biden’s Broken Car Cost Taxpayers $139 Million
"Future Forward's reporting errors are 'beyond troubling,' watchdog says."
Legal Experts Call For Investigation Into Biden's Favorite Super PAC Over 'Serious' Financial Discrepancies
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Thad McCotter: "Ambitious charging, indeed, by local District Attorney Willis."
Trump Isn’t Just the Target, He’s the Pretext
"The success of the strategy of immediately going to federal court and ultimately on a Supreme Court track is dependent on judges who believe in the rule of law and are disposed to act on it. It’s clear there are many judges and prosecutors willing to indulge the left’s lawfare, but they can’t do it forever, Davis reasons. And he believes that every lawless move strengthens Trump in the court of public opinion."
Here's How Trump Beats the Georgia Indictment
"Whatever a criminal statute says, it cannot mean that it is illegal to do things the Constitution guarantees that you be allowed to do."
The Corrupt DoJ has Charged Trump with a Fake Crime
Roger Kimball: "Trump is an existential threat to their continued existence."
Uniparty’s Plan to Save ‘Our Democracy™’ Unfolds
“They aggressively targeted & harassed me with the goal of me committing to being 1 of the 37 ‘Faithless Electors’… […] My personal info was posted and I received tens of thousands of letters to my mailbox, emails, and calls/texts at all hours of the night for weeks.”
Flashback 2016: Democrats Pressured Trump Electors to Flip to Hillary
"The Rule of Law cannot embrace question-begging trial strategies or adjudication without destroying itself."
Reasonableness and the Trump Indictments
"Depression will set in when Trump, even if convicted of something, lives free for the rest of his life while his appeals against the bogus convictions succeed one at a time."
Why Democrats’ Get-Trump Crusade Will End In Disappointment, Not Delight
"The American people need the truth, not political theatre." (We need a revolution, but truth helps - jjs)
The FBI as Grand Inquisitor
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Robert Spencer: "Why are the feds coming down so hard on Pascale Ferrier?"
Woman Sends Ricin to Trump, Gets No Award
"Corporate media and the Democrats are fixated on the so-called 'insurrection' on Jan. 6, 2021, so much so that they are attempting to imprison a past and potentially future president over supposedly causing it."
The Real Insurrection Began with an Escalator Ride
"In sum, Hillary Clinton’s use of the title 'The Weaponization of Loneliness' is beyond weird. It transcends academic theft because she has such a mammoth censorship-industrial complex at her disposal. This gives her and her base a good chance to drown out a thesis that I believe can really help Americans build the awareness they need to escape that trap."
Hillary Clinton Just Gave Away fhe Left’s Playbook for Censorship and Oppression
"The remnants of the old country are now facing obsolescence." (I admire Matthew Boose, but he, too, "pensa antica" as Solozzo would say - jjs)
The Right Can’t Beat the Left at Its Own Game
"Democrats are constantly pointing out the [mythical] violent tendencies of the right, but they are just as violent, if not more so." (Total bullshit; political violence is the sole purview of the anti-American Left and always has been - jjs)
Left-Wing Rage: Don’t Pretend It Doesn’t Exist
“ProPublica’s claim that Justice Thomas was a passenger on any yacht owned by Tony Novelly, including the Le Montrachet, is completely false. He has never ever laid eyes on this boat. Moreover, Justice Thomas has never been in the Bahamas with Tony Novelly.”
Justice Clarence Thomas Says 'Unreported' Yacht Trip With Oil Baron Seized On By Liberal Media... Never Actually Happened
MAUI WILDFIRE DISASTER & DISASTROUS GOVT. RESPONSE
"Seems the water commissioner who delayed distribution of water for five hours as Lahaina burned has quite a few political connections."
Buried News: What was With That Hawaii Water Official Getting Showered with Leis from "Supporters?"
Clarice Feldman: "The citizens of Hawaii, a solidly Democrat one-party state, are learning what those of similarly governed urban centers are learning: elect incompetents who forget their first duty is to protect their constituents and you will suffer."
Green Policies and Government Incompetence Led to the Tragedy of the Maui Fire
"The response to the wildfires on Maui will likely be studied for years as an example of what not to do."
Maui Wildfires Can Be Classified as First Woke-Caused Disaster
"Green said that there are going to be people that will never be found because of how intense the fire was but he assured viewers that state officials were doing everything they could with the FBI to try to identify any remains they happen to find."
Hawaii Governor Josh Green: 1,000+ People Still Unaccounted For After Devastating Maui Fire
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“Everybody just saw there that there was a cut. You cut from the beginning of that quote to the ‘listless vessels.’ You just did what the problem is. So everybody who just watched that understand go read the transcript,” Cuccinelli said.
CNN ~~Anchor~~ Wanker Shocked When Ken Cuccinelli Calls Her Out For Allegedly Deceptively Editing DeSantis Clip
"It appears that Chinese propaganda is succeeding, with the help of subversives working here in the United States."
How China is Winning the Narrative War, and Who's Helping
The job postings have been promoted through DisinfoDocket.com, a site affiliated with “anti-disinformation” groups with ties to federal cybersecurity agencies. These developments raise questions about the true intentions behind the creation of these positions and how they align with the concept of free speech.
X is Hiring Staff To ‘Combat Election Disinfo’
"How you can easily tell which side the 'objective media' is on."
Presenting Trump’s Democrat Prosecutors as Nonpartisans
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Remember how depopulation was called a right-wing conspiracy theory? Things have changed, and ‘population collapse’, which can no longer be denied, is now good for us!"
Population Collapse “Good for the Planet”, WEF Adviser Prof Sarah Harper Explains
"The taboo little problem of the battery fire hazard."
Is It Time to Ban Electric Vehicles?
"The Biden [junta's] total and hypocritical, if not illegal, disregard for the welfare of whales is consistent with the regulatory and financial favoritism it extends to foreign green energy companies who are industrializing America’s coasts. The government’s many accommodations to these entities puts the lie to claims that wind energy is good for the environment."
The Biden Junta Can't Ignore This Whale of a Problem Any More
"All this ruling did was add to the pot of anxiety our children already have about their futures."
Children’s Climate Crusade Victory in Montana Likely a Very Hollow One
Clarice Feldman: "Do it for the children."
Montana Judge Flunks Science Test
"Steven Guilbeault's net-zero plan is laughably impossible."
Say Goodbye to Canadian Oil and Gas
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The Daily Caller cited Fox News China expert Gordon Chang for a similar warning. “When I first saw that [sic] the surge in Chinese migrants, that’s the thought that came to my mind that these are either Ministry of State Security agents or Chinese military, who are coming to this country to commit acts of sabotage against the U.S.,” Chang said, noting the security risk.
National Security Risk? 800% Surge in Illegal Chinese Migrants
"Prior reports suggest that the young migrant arrived via various loopholes in the border that are being held open by [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas."
AP: Cops Arrest Teen Migrant for Alleged Child-Murder
"The mobile app entices foreign nationals in Mexico who are pregnant, mentally ill, elderly, disabled, homeless, or crime victims to schedule an appointment with DHS officials at the border in the hopes of being released into American communities."
Biden’s Migrant Mobile App Frees 200,000 Foreign Nationals into U.S. — Exceeding Population of Springfield, Missouri
"Now Adams is touting the glory of potentially hosting the World Cup—but he can't even host the children of the city."
New York City Kids are Being Screwed by Eric Adams' Migrant Crisis as Ball Fields are Turned into Tent Cities
"At what point do New York City's workers and taxpayers push back by refusing to pay these costs?"
New York City's Self-Made Migrant Crisis
"Some of the protesters told Fox 5 they're sympathetic to the migrants, but feel that the location of the center doesn’t make sense and could be dangerous."
ENOUGH: Hundreds of New Yorkers Protest Migrant Tent-City Opening Near Elementary School
Deroy Murdock: "Comparing the plight of these pampered illegals and the legal, but spurned, H-1B lottery loser, America clearly has devolved into Upside-downia."
Our Upside-Down Immigration System Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Illegals While Booting Skilled Workers
“I believe that the GOP’s policies of law and order protecting safety, and backing the blue best align with my values and the values of the citizens of Kleberg County.”
Democrat County Official in Texas Switches to GOP Citing ‘Unprecedented’ Border Crisis
"On Tuesday officials sold over 700 28ft hollow beams in five separate lots for $212 each. Over a dozen are also up for grabs at auctions over the next two Tuesdays. It comes despite the Democrat-led Senate voting through part of a Republican-sponsored bill that would bring about extending the wall."
Joe Biden is Quietly Selling Off Turmp's Boder Wall as Unused Parts are Sold at Auction for MILLIONS of Dollars in Profit
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“If we don’t do something now, I’m sure that so many people will be impacted directly, and many innocent people will be hurt.”
Another California Nazi Collaborator Soros-Backed DA is Potentially Facing a Recall Vote
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"One question remains: how many people suffering from [Chinese] COVID-19 and desperate for help, whose stories may never surface inside of a courtroom, were denied their legal ivermectin prescriptions, went home, and died quietly so they could become another statistic to use to propagandize the public into catatonic fear? It’s certainly, it appears the court agrees, within any pharmacy’s purview to deny therapeutic medication with a decades-long history of safe use to its customers, but let’s make sure the public knows who’s doing it: Walmart and Hyvee."
Lawsuit Against Pharmacies That Refused to Fill Ivermectin Prescriptions Tossed Out
"If we truly want to safeguard our freedoms and our republic, it’s critical we remember what really happened in 2020." (I could argue he was more a victim of naivete than an agent of malice, but that's not necessarily a disqualifier either - jjs)
Trump Doesn’t Deserve A Second Term For How He Mismanaged Chinese COVID
SECOND AMENDMENT
The case centers on Zackey Rahimi — an individual who is “hardly a model citizen,” as the Fifth Circuit acknowledged while siding with him — and his constitutional challenge to the statute he was convicted under, which bars subjects of domestic violence restraining owners from possessing firearms.
The Supreme Court Is Taking Up Another Major Second Amendment Case. Here's What You Need To Know
"This clownish lawsuit, if successful, will barely put a dent in the problem of Philly’s turkey shoot. It may result in three gun stores going out of business, and that is their likely Mao-ish goal, to stop selling guns to law-abiding Philadelphians. Yet 98.8% of thugs committed to perforating their fellow Santa-bashing yayhoos will continue to blaze away. Again, the black community pays the highest price."
Liberties Under Assault: 2nd Amendment Edition
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Academia and venomous lies."
Will Princeton Remove a Jew-Hating Blood-Libel Text From a Syllabus?
"Which school district in America would pass up the opportunity to have a globally acclaimed Black American neurosurgeon kick off the school year right with an inspirational assembly? Who would forgo the chance to have this historic figure inspire young minority students with tales of his transformative journey from poverty to becoming a revered figure in pediatric neurosurgery? Step forward, Anchorage, Alaska School District, and take a bow."
One Of America's Greatest Role Models Snubbed By Woke School District
"All schools in Portland system are expected to implement the new guidelines by 2025."
Portland School District Workshops 'Equitable Grading Practices' That Outlaw Zeros for Cheating, Missing Work
ABORTION
"Ohio voters will vote on an amendment this fall that would make abortion legal up to birth if a physician determines it is necessary to protect the life of the mother, and activists in states like North Dakota, Oklahoma and Montana are in the early days of getting a draft amendment approved for a ballot vote."
'Extreme Agenda': Activists Are Turning To Constitutional Amendments To Enshrine Abortion Into Law In These States
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Value the Vote is a new Democrat-backed nonprofit aimed at providing ‘private security’ to election offices and fighting so-called ‘disinformation.’"
Democrats Want Their Private Security Looking Over GOP Poll Watchers’ Shoulders
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"By the narrowest margin, the Court has paved the way for Catholics to begin practicing their faith in earnest."
Catholic Victory in Maryland Supreme Court
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"[Filthy sub-literate shit-whore Cori] Bush’s campaign spending on security predates her 2021 arrival in the House of Representatives. Since she first ran for Congress in 2019, she’s paid $736,748 for security services, records show."
‘Defund the Police’ Fans Titty-Caca AOC and "Squad" Pals Blew $1.2 Million in Campaign Cash on Security
“Given her past statements, participation in this film, and her child’s active role in lobbying against oil and gas development in the region, reasonable observers could question Secretary Haaland’s impartiality in the matter,” wrote PPT.
Haaland Hit With Ethics Complaint After Stripping Oil and Gas Opportunities From Navajo Nation
POLITICS
“The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had, with Energy Independence, Strong Borders & Military, Biggest EVER Tax & Regulation Cuts, No Inflation, Strongest Economy in History, & much more. I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!” Trump announced on Truth Social. (It's either a brilliant move or a shot in the foot; not that it makes much difference considering our elections have been pre-rigged anyway - jjs)
Trump Confirms He Will Skip GOP Debates
"His top rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has fallen farther back from earlier this summer, the poll showed, to 16 percent. The other candidates are in the single digits, with third runner up Vivek Ramaswamy at seven percent."
Poll: Trump Posts Biggest Lead Yet over DeSantis, Other 2024 Rivals
"Trump's people and DeSantis's people can't tear each other apart and allow Biden to skate back into the White House."
We Need a Truce
"Republican voters want someone who will fight for them."
GOP Primary Obviously Isn’t Over, but the First Debate Is Crucial
“No one trusts our institutions, no one trusts Congress, no one trusts any of us, because all they do is attack our families do those types of things.” (Typo or Tim Walz belching up non-sequiturs? - jjs)
Democrat Gov. Says Trump, Republicans Have ‘Poisoned’ the System, Responsible for Low Biden Support
"Beshear narrowly won his seat in 2019 against then-Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, who drew criticism from many Republicans over his leadership. State Republican operatives are optimistic that, despite Beshear’s formidable polling advantage and relative popularity, Cameron can take advantage of recent obstacles that have beset the governor’s reelection campaign to win in November."
As Kentucky Gov Race Heats Up, GOP Operatives See Openings To Take Down Dem Incumbent
"Nikki Haley has microwaved Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and made her own all about being a woman, as if Republicans care."
Nikki Haley is Hillary 2.0
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Presidential hopeful has repeatedly shifted position on aid to Jewish state." (Annnnd. . . goodbye! - jjs)
Ramaswamy: Cut Off Aid to Israel After 2028
Trump NSC big-wig Fred Fleitz: "The Biden [junta] manufactures 'wins' to bolster its abysmal foreign policy record."
Smoke and Mirrors Middle East Diplomacy
The Times of Israel: “Pro-Palestinian protesters injured a university employee while demonstrating against a lecture speaker who heads the Brazilian chapter of a pro-Israel advocacy group.”
Brazil: BDS Mob Attacks Students, Faculty Over Pro-Israel Event on University Campus
Briones was killed a week after the daylight assassination of Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate and “fearless whistleblower.” Villavicencio was killed after holding a political rally in the Ecuadorian capital city, Quito, despite being surrounded by security guards and police officers. His campaign focused on tackling the country’s problems with corruption and organized crime.
Political Assassinations Hang Over Ecuador as Country Goes to Polls
"He has no problem demonstrating that the economic theories of the left are both ruinous and immoral."
Milei Has the Answer for Argentina
"While Tusk abandoned his post as Polish Prime Minister for a better-paid position as President of the European Commission shortly before this electoral disaster, he is now attempting a comeback in his native country. Conservatives are attempting to preempt the possibility of Tusk reviving the quotas if he wins the election by asking the public their view directly."
Poland is Planning a Referendum on EU’s Illegal Migrant Demands
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Col. Benjamin Jonsson penned an article weeks after George Floyd’s death lamenting that his fellow white airmen don’t go along with leftist talking points about ‘racial injustice’ in the U.S. military." (Another rancid disgrace to the uniform - jjs)
Biden Air Force Nominee Claimed ‘White Colonels’ are the ‘Biggest Barriers’ to Change in the Military
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Beware the spread of Islamic da'wah from the world's largest Muslim country."
Indonesia Wants to Export ‘Moderate Islam’
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Los Angeles County beaches are increasingly contaminated with bacteria—are homeless encampments and illegal RV dwellings to blame?"
Toxic Tides
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"A 2021 law has increased pressure on the state’s hospice programs to provide assistance in dying."
Assisted Suicide Surges in California
"The government shouldn't use the coercive threat of snooping to further a hidden agenda." (What a quaint idea - jjs)
Biden’s Drug Price ‘Transparency’ Rule Is Just Back-Door Price Controls
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"This is a tragedy for Russia, as this mission hoped to re-establish it as one of the major players in the exploration of the solar system. Instead, we once again have a data point suggesting significant quality control problems within Russia’s aerospace industry."
Luna-25 lost after crashing on Moon
"The attack has shut down ten telescopes entirely, some of which are the largest in the world, while other telescopes are operating but only allowing in-person operations."
Hacker attack on Gemini North telescope in Hawaii shuts down many U.S.-run telescopes
“He is aggressive, he is fast, he is an animal of unacceptable intelligence. We fight this blue crab, but he is stronger than us, there are so many of them,” said Mario Giudici, a concerned Italian fisherman, to AP. (Blue crabs are native to Maxine Waters' merkin - jjs)
'An Animal of Unacceptable Intelligence': Alien Marine Life Plagues Country's Seas, Jeopardizes Key Produce
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
In his trip to Anchorage, Levine visited Identity Alaska, a non-profit that aims to “advance Alaska’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, asexual, two-spirited + community through advocacy, education, health care, and connectivity.” Levine applauded the clinic’s efforts, stating that it is providing “lifesaving medical care for LGBT individuals.”
Tranny Pervert Sicko "Rachel" Levine praises clinic that pushes the term ‘Egg Producers’ for MOTHERS
"There's something to be said here about the 'chicken and egg' riddle."
Some Advice for the T in LGBT
"Welcome to the brave new world of gender hybrids."
The Gender Revolution Dehumanizing Our Kids
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Elder then noted that 20% of black men voted for Donald Trump in 2020. “Are they not black now? So only 80% of black people, black men walking around are really black; 20% are not because they voted for Donald Trump. How insulting is that? How condescending is that?” Charlamagne had no words. “Mmm. You’re probably right. But I didn’t take it that way.”
Larry Elder Schools Charlamagne Tha g0d on Joe Biden’s Racism
"I'm afraid of what they're going to do with the early films," continued Hand. "Their thoughts are just so radical now. ... They change the stories, they change the thought processes of the characters, they just aren't the original stories any more. They're making up new woke things, and I'm just not into any of that.”
1937 Snow White Director's Son Says His Dad & Walt Disney are "Turning in Their Graves"
"Zegler would benefit from listening to the classics rather than jumping to critique them, starting with Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women."
Snow White’s Rachel Zegler Needs a Lesson from the Little Women School of Being a Female Role Model
"Two dramatic works have manifested, one rooted in reality and the other in fantasy, but they’re both saying the same thing: the days of the far-left fascists are numbered."
The Rich Men North of Richmond Are the Baddies
Christian Toto: "Academy museum fetes filmmaker with drag queen story hours and more."
Why Are Children Being Exposed to John Waters Films?
HITHER & YON
Robert Zimmerman: "In every single one of these four films, the scripts describe human beings acting with intelligence and care. Each shows us people who are not only smart, but work hard to use their brains, not their emotions, to figure out the best most rational choices to make . . . What is most amazing is that all these films are remarkably entertaining."
Movies When Our Culture was Not Run by Barbarians
"Robertson was one of the greatest lyrical storytellers of the last hundred years."
In Mourning for Robbie Robertson
"Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust and created a new psychology in which the search for meaning—not pleasure or power—is mankind’s central motivational force."
Yes to Life
For a reminder of the surprises politics can hold even in hyperliberal New York, look no further than Jim Buckley’s victory in the 1970 US Senate race on the Conservative Party line for the seat once held by liberal icon Bobby Kennedy. It wasn’t just the first third-party Senate win in decades, it was a shocking right-wing victory in a state whose top Republican officeholders (then-Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, then-Mayor John Lindsay) were left-of-center. (He passed away last week at age 100. RIP - jjs)
Sen. Jim Buckley Set an Example of the Excellence America Always Needs

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2023 07:41 AM (BRHaw)

2 Missed it by that much

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 21, 2023 07:43 AM (RqMSv)

3 Good morning horde! Does this link make my ass look big?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2023 07:44 AM (GYIa4)

4
Despite being downgraded to a tropical storm, Hillary nevertheless has slammed into the southern California region bringing flooding and mudslides.

OMG!!!1! It's the greatest catastrophe in history!!

It never ceases to amaze me that weather people in the middle of the country have to shrug off becomes apocalyptic when it hits NY or LA.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 07:45 AM (MoZTd)

5
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 21, 2023 07:45 AM (ENBF0)

6 I’m feeling quite wide this morning

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 07:46 AM (hVHZW)

7 Don’t think that what is happening in Portland can’t happen in your neighborhood.

When I turned in my “fail list” to the counselor’s office last school year the counselor there was clutching her pearls and hand wringing about how many failures I had. The problem is that those poor dears didn’t do jack in my class other than live to be distractions. I probably failed about a fifth of my students, but all deserved it. Had they signed their names to paper I could have graded SOMETHING but even that was beneath their dignity. I’ll continue…

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 21, 2023 07:46 AM (lE1L7)

8 Incompetency is a virtue.

Said some bureaucrat, probably.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 07:47 AM (Q4IgG)

9 Morning horde.
Infusion day.... again. Lots of time to read the content!

Posted by: Mpfs at August 21, 2023 07:47 AM (NkSw3)

10 Why Are More Americans Than Ever Committing Suicide?

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White privilege.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 07:47 AM (CYgrT)

11 Good morning again dear morons and thanks JJ

G O O D. M O R N I N G wide load!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

12 Because big storms rarely hit SoCal, Hurricane Hilary will be used to tout that Climate Change is an existential threat. But shit happens, especially with weather.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 21, 2023 07:49 AM (RqMSv)

13 Word is that they have identified Beau Biden's body in Maui. ‪It is just sad that Joe lost Beau, who was bravely fighting the fires on Maui. Saved many lives while sacrificing his own. Few parents know the pain of their son coming home in a flag draped coffin twice. ‬

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 07:49 AM (3CVIc)

14 Too bad SoCal doesn't have more reservoir capacity to top off.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 07:50 AM (3CVIc)

15 I had decided to leave for a whole host of reasons but this attitude of coddling students was what I found off-putting. We were exhorted to give 50s for missing work because it is hurtful and won’t allow them a chance to get their grades up to passing if we issue zeros. To which I argued “I remember when I got a 29 in English my freshman year for the six weeks, and you know why I got it? We read Great Expectations and it sucked so I read The Odyssey instead and didn’t do my work. But I DID get the grade I deserved.” See, they steadfast refusal to hold students and young people accountable in myriad ways will lead to the downfall of society. Sometimes those kids need to fall flat on their face so they can learn the hard way. But too many educators and, sadly, parents do not get this.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 21, 2023 07:51 AM (lE1L7)

16
A 2021 law has increased pressure on the state’s hospice programs to provide assistance in dying.

O youthful hearts for gladness born,
Treat not this Arab lore with scorn.
To evil habits earlier wile,
Lend neither ear, nor glance, nor smile.
Choke the dark fountain ere it flows.
Nor e'en admit the Camel's Nose.

Hard cases of a genuine moral dilemma eventually become normalized by evil people. Today you're helping a poor soul in unutterable agony, tomorrow you're lethally injecting someone inconvenient.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 07:52 AM (MoZTd)

17 8: more like a limiting factor.

Posted by: Laurence J. Peter at August 21, 2023 07:52 AM (lE1L7)

18 Portland Public Schools is workshopping new "equitable grading practices" that bar teachers from assigning "zeros" to students who cheat or fail to turn in assignments.

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The upcoming #Woke Animal House reboot hardest hit.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 07:52 AM (CYgrT)

19 >Ramaswamy has acknowledged that he is a newcomer to some of these foreign policy debates. He noted that he "didn’t know much of this six months ago,"

this young man has upper management written all over him

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 07:53 AM (geLO8)

20 J.J.: Cyclone Hilary (the archaic out-of-use male version of the name), not Hillary.

Otherwise I'd have to ask if Southern California had evidence that could be used to convict the Clintons?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2023 07:53 AM (qPw5n)

21 The fiasco we see unfolding in Maui is coring the pineapple and letting us see what we feared for years about the Big Lazy: that it is so corrupt and Leftist that it will obviously serve as a landing stepping stone when China starts its Eastward invasion. No doubt that Barack Insane Odildo's and Big Mike's compound will be their embassy.

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards at August 21, 2023 07:53 AM (5uy7A)

22 Uh, Vivek…. I’ve never been a candidate for any office and have never studied foreign policy but it’s obvious to me that we need to continue to support Israel. You know, the only democratic government in the Middle East which is surrounded by hostile enemies who want to utterly destroy her? A measly $3B a year compared to the money we’ve poured and continue to pour down the Ukrainian black hole…. Disappointing. An example of why it’s hard to get emotionally invested in newcomers.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 07:54 AM (hVHZW)

23
What if no one commented on a formatting error in a post? Would it just be perpetuated or would Ace or the Cobs catch it?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 07:54 AM (MoZTd)

24 Also, I didn't know we had 'white colonels'

we should just have colonels

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 07:54 AM (geLO8)

25 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2023 07:55 AM (orrYN)

26 16: in other words, murder.

Acronyms like MAID are used to disguise acts we all know are wrong by making them sound SO nice.

I went through this with my father recently. It sucks, but at least The Supreme Arbiter of the Destinies Of Us All (h/t, TX Dec. of Ind., 1836) made the call, not any of us.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 21, 2023 07:55 AM (lE1L7)

27 Wait…Vivek is just now coming to the realization that foreign policy might be important to the role of President?

If so, he’s out in my book.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 21, 2023 07:57 AM (lE1L7)

28 Tuberville is obviously trying to prevent the total destruction of military readiness and cohesion. Stopping the promotion of political commissars is the highest and best duty of a Senator who truly cares about military defense. What Senators could possibly object to that?

Posted by: Boneless Pork Rectum (Uniparty-Utah) at August 21, 2023 07:58 AM (RcFD6)

29
Ramaswamy

He just needs some more research on the topic. I don't see anything too malign in what he said. The middle east topic is one that he should not come out of the gate with limited knowledge of and express an opinion on.

I think the 'aid' to Israel is simply loan guarantees so they can buy American military equipment.

I can't say I'm a fanboy yet for him at the top spot. But number two looks promising.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2023 07:58 AM (enJYY)

30 This cancer demands radical surgery. Now.

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Second look at Directed-Energy Space Lasers?

[Envisions Musk incinerating commie & fascist totalitarians worldwide with his 42,000 Starlink space laser satellites ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 07:59 AM (CYgrT)

31 10 Why Are More Americans Than Ever Committing Suicide?

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Climate change.

Posted by: Karen down the street at August 21, 2023 07:59 AM (NBVIP)

32 Ramaswamy is not 78 years old. That alone is a big plus for me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 07:59 AM (RcFD6)

33 As we gather this morning-- the proud crew of the USS Listless Vessel plying the turbulent No Hope Sea--we pause and give thanks that daily the Orange Man rises in the east to lead us to ultimate victory and redemption for past ballot manufacturing deficiencies. Amen.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 21, 2023 08:01 AM (GLmqS)

34 At this point, despite my own time in the army I would do anything in my power to dissuade my own kids from joining. They show zero interest so that’s good. But it’s a shame because my own experience (back in the Reagan years) while not exactly fun was definitely edifying… I would’ve recommended that experience but if the colonel talking about “white colonels” is at all typical of today then stay away from that!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:01 AM (hVHZW)

35 The Maui fire was tragic, but I can't help but be astounded by the fact the island, surrounded by water, has a water problem.

In the 21st century.

Yea, I realize what the issue is here, but still...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)

36 As a concerned Conservative I am extremely concerned about formatting errors and would be devastated by uncorrected loose shit perpetuating in perpetuity.

Posted by: Ritt Mumbley at August 21, 2023 08:02 AM (dBg/M)

37 33 As we gather this morning-- the proud crew of the USS Listless Vessel plying the turbulent No Hope Sea--we pause and give thanks that daily the Orange Man rises in the east to lead us to ultimate victory and redemption for past ballot manufacturing deficiencies. Amen.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 21, 2023 08:01 AM (GLmqS)

Well played.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 08:02 AM (zZu0s)

38 Good morning.

Haven't heard from the LA kid, so we're assuming everything is okay with them.

There's a post over at 1Peter5 about overconsumption of news and its affect on the spirit. He's being mis-represented and accused of effeminacy by some but he has a point.

The great thing about the Morning Report is its digest form- we can read the articles most pertinent to our "state in life" and avoid overload.

So, thanks JJ, as always.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 21, 2023 08:03 AM (hAfUZ)

39 Of course "used to be" predates the complete clusterfuck in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. When competence runs a distant second, or perhaps lower than that, to malfeasance, corruption, greed and racialism as was amply demonstrated in the personages of Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin and Kathleen Blanco, the result was what would've been merely a very bad storm turned into an abject catastrophe.
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Competence and long-term leftist governance are mutually estranged concepts. The "right" is by no means universally (or even uniformly) competent, but the opposite *is* true - the "left" is uniformly incompetent.

Katrina was an unmitigated disaster in the hardest of the long-term left-controlled areas (New Orleans)
Maui was an unmitigated disaster in a long-term left-controlled state (Hawaii)
Hurricane Sandy was a worse problem in the leftier areas like Washington, DC and NYC
The SoCal disasters are likely to be comparatively bad

Disasters like Hurricane Ian have seen fairly competent response. Major western wildfires - except, notably, in California - are generally handled well (though that will change as the colonization runs its course).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:03 AM (kBSKe)

40
The Maui fire was tragic, but I can't help but be astounded by the fact the island, surrounded by water, has a water problem.

"Putting salt water on the fire will irreversibly affect the island ecosystem. Better that houses burn and people die." - Modern Environmentalist

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 08:03 AM (MoZTd)

41 >The Maui fire was tragic, but I can't help but be astounded by the fact the island, surrounded by water, has a water problem.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

it'll be interesting, and revealing, watching who loses their job over this

assuming anyone loses their job over this

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 08:03 AM (geLO8)

42 I went through this with my father recently. It sucks, but at least The Supreme Arbiter of the Destinies Of Us All (h/t, TX Dec. of Ind., 1836) made the call, not any of us.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 21, 2023 07:55 AM (lE1L7)

I read that as “The Supreme Arbiter of the DeSantis Of Us All” and wondered what Governor Ron had to do with it….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:04 AM (hVHZW)

43 I've been watching short videos of people who are quite upset about the cost of...everything.

Seems to me that people are starting to wake up to the fact that everything is gay and retarded.

Makes me wonder what's going to happen next.

https://tinyurl.com/4y7sepeu

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:04 AM (8P2/j)

44
assuming anyone loses their job over this
Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 08:03 AM (geLO

No one goes into government in order to be held responsible for anything.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 08:05 AM (MoZTd)

45 "This cancer demands radical surgery. Now."

Relatedly, Queens "Fat Bottom Girls" has been canceled from a new best hits compilation because it hurts peoples feeling or something. Supposedly the music industry is all abuzz with complaints about "woke gone mad"

I'm going to guess these are mostly Dems/leftists who have helped create this monster. A little late to complain. Welcome to our world, enjoy your struggle sessions.

Posted by: Ripley at August 21, 2023 08:05 AM (KrJTL)

46
Seems to me that people are starting to wake up to the fact that everything is gay and retarded.

And those same people will blame "corporate greed" because of some meme they saw on Facebook. Because most people are stupid.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 08:06 AM (MoZTd)

47 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2023 08:06 AM (xTRSc)

48 “The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had, with Energy Independence, Strong Borders & Military, Biggest EVER Tax & Regulation Cuts, No Inflation, Strongest Economy in History, & much more. I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!”

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He doesn't have to be there.

People haven't realized it yet, but this election will be about Trump one way or the other. Even the primaries will be "are you Trump, or are you not Trump?"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:06 AM (QsOFZ)

49 Robert Spencer: "Why are the feds coming down so hard on Pascale Ferrier?"
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Anti Canadian racism!!!

40 million hosers; 40 million American blacks.

Coincidence?? I think not!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:06 AM (krqg6)

50 Italian waters are being invaded by blue crabs?!

Quick, let's send them Old Bay foreign aid!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 08:06 AM (wfvFY)

51 >No one goes into government in order to be held responsible for anything.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

there was that one guy who quit right away, for 'health reasons', but I think everyone else will be okay, as long as they embrace indigenous ways of knowing

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 08:07 AM (geLO8)

52 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 07:49 AM (3CVIc)

Excellent.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 21, 2023 08:07 AM (hAfUZ)

53 Lots of music is being cancelled now, notably by Sirius XM and other outlets. When not canceled, Bowdlerized…

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:07 AM (PCK5/)

54 According to the sources, Manuel wanted West Maui Land to get permission from a taro, or kalo, farm located downstream from the company’s property. Manuel eventually released water but not until after the fire had spread. It was not clear on Monday how much damage the fire did in the interim or whether homes were damaged.
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As I mentioned last week, the delay in the release of water is, in my opinion, the secondary problem. The primary problem is that this bottleneck exists at all. Active fire is an exigent circumstance. It's an emergency. Centralized bureaucratic control of resource deployment for local disasters is a serious problem and is the main issue at play. Why was this Kaleo Manuel character involved in the authorization process at all for emergency response? What are the legal consequences shouldered by local commanders if they either proceed without authorization or violate orders that are compounding the emergency (if, say, Manuel had denied the request rather than merely delayed)?

It is a failure at all levels, and is an indictment of the entire system. Manuel himself dropped the ball, but he also should never had possession of it in the first place.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:08 AM (kBSKe)

55
It's not all bad. I'm recording the 2nd Piano Concerto by Nikolai Medtner. Really beautiful.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 08:08 AM (MoZTd)

56 When I turned in my “fail list” to the counselor’s office last school year the counselor there was clutching her pearls and hand wringing about how many failures I had. The problem is that those poor dears didn’t do jack in my class other than live to be distractions. I probably failed about a fifth of my students, but all deserved it. Had they signed their names to paper I could have graded SOMETHING but even that was beneath their dignity. I’ll continue…
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 21, 2023 07:46 AM (lE1L7)
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I have TWO RULES for success in the class I'm teaching: 1) Show up and 2) Do the work.

Everyone--and I mean EVERYONE--who has followed these two rules has passed my class with a B or better. And not because I'm an easy grader.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (YIVH2)

57 The thing about 'Listless vessels' is ... that is not normal parlance. It feels like someone plugged 'npc' 'mindless follower' or something into a synonym generator.

Also, attacking Trump is fine. He's a big target and should be able to fence back and so on- it is how the game is played. That D then took it against Trump's supporters is... well it's worse than the statement itself by what it implies.

There is a sense and has been for the past 6 years among the NTers, GOPe types and consultants that the rabid Trump fan is a distinct minority. That he is merely hoodwinking his consituents and the people who show up for rallies are either ghosts, paid, or again 'cultish followers.' That D decided to take this tack says he is either listening to the same asshats who gave us Romney and McCain or... he is listening too much to that brand of GOP.

It's sad because Desantis has become a front runner because of his near pitch perfect, no nonsense style of communication.

I guess this is why we have primaries.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (zZu0s)

58 "His top rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has fallen farther back from earlier this summer, the poll showed, to 16 percent...."

"Trump's people and DeSantis's people can't tear each other apart and allow Biden to skate back into the White House."

If these are true, then I think DeSantis needs to pull back. If he is falling further behind, all it does is help the evil party to continue attacks. Focus should be on his own plans, not talking about Trump or his supporters. Maybe he should have waited until 2028.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (Angsy)

59 "If Israel is taken down from within by globalist Leftists and traitors," then our foreign aid will immediately double or triple!

G'mornin' Horde!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (vbuLV)

60 if the colonel talking about “white colonels” is at all typical of today then stay away from that!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:01 AM (hVHZW)

They would rather we lose the next war with a Woke army than win it with a bunch of white men from the south and west.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (/5P9N)

61 The C40 cities article is disturbing: reducing or getting rid of meat and dairy for consumption in 14 cities? The use of weight loss drugs to reduce food consumption, as well as "inoculating" people with viruses that cause them to become allergic to meat gives a far more sinister shroud to Ozempic and tick bites. And completely anecdotally, I've noticed more and more videos on the tube of you about "a week on WWII rations," in which people get by on the British ration amounts - 4 oz cheese, 8 oz meat, 12 oz butter/margarine per week. Every one has comments that people were thinner and "healthier" back then.

Posted by: Moki at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (JrN/x)

62 Trump’s statement about why he won’t be at the debate isn’t wrong. I think his interview with Tucker will draw more eyeballs anyway and I’m glad he’s dissing faux news

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (hVHZW)

63 The Redeployed Bureaucrats are the best slack-key group in Hawaii. They regularly open for touring big acts there.

Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2023 08:10 AM (SYTee)

64 7 Don’t think that what is happening in Portland can’t happen in your neighborhood.
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These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030

Fourteen major American cities are part of a globalist climate organization known as the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,” which has an “ambitious target” by the year 2030 of “0 kg [of] meat consumption,” “0 kg [of] dairy consumption,” “3 new clothing items per person per year,” “0 private vehicles” owned, and “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person.”

https://tinyurl.com/2y927eey

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:10 AM (krqg6)

65 And those same people will blame "corporate greed" because of some meme they saw on Facebook. Because most people are stupid.
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Corporate greed is only a small part of it.

Most people, even on this blog, have a difficult time when it comes to evil, and that there are entities out there that relish destruction because it gives them joy to see others in pain.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:11 AM (8P2/j)

66 >Focus should be on his own plans, not talking about Trump or his supporters. Maybe he should have waited until 2028.

Posted by: OrangeEnt

I told him to stay home and let Trump/2024 play itself out, but he wouldn't listen

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 08:11 AM (geLO8)

67 >Relatedly, Queens "Fat Bottom Girls" has been canceled from a new best hits compilation

"Rockin' world" hardest hit.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 21, 2023 08:11 AM (hAfUZ)

68 It's National Spumoni Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

69 People who's homes didn't burn down are being evicted in Lahaina, and other places on Maui.

There's some real evil shit going on.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:12 AM (8P2/j)

70 Da joos have got da bomb, so the Farsis should have da bomb!
-the junta including especially ratface Valerie Jarrett

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

71 "Grading for equity," the handout states, includes eliminating "zeros" as a grade—even when a student cheats or fails to turn in a test or assignment. It also calls for no penalties for late work and no grades for both homework and "non-academic factors," such as "participation, attendance, effort, attitude, [and] behavior."
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If I am reading this correctly, it translates as "a student's grade should be calculated solely based on the assignments handed in, with no other factors including the number of assignments or classroom presence and participation."

So if I am a student in this "equity grading" system, I can go to a couple of classes and turn in a single assignment that gets a "C+" and then walk away from the class at the end of the semester with a "C+" final grade.

Or I can not go at all, and not turn in anything at all, and walk away with ... what? It's essentially 0/0, which is (depending on your perspective) either 0 - a fail - or undefined. Do I get no grade at all? Is it interpreted as "average" (that is, a "C")? Is it interpreted as full completion (after all, I did nothing and the grading standard is that nothing is acceptable) and I therefore get an "A?"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:12 AM (kBSKe)

72 *waves to Moki*

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:13 AM (8P2/j)

73 What if no one commented on a formatting error in a post? Would it just be perpetuated or would Ace or the Cobs catch it?
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If a loose tag shits in the woods with no moron around to see it, does it make a sound??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:13 AM (krqg6)

74 According to the sources, Manuel wanted West Maui Land to get permission from a taro, or kalo, farm located downstream from the company’s property. Manuel eventually released water...
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I just heard someone discussing this on the radio. There were four entities total, and three of them had no quarrels or issues. They simply refused to release the water because of the one.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:14 AM (QsOFZ)

75 Isn't the story of Lahaina the plot of CHINATOWN? Who controls water, controls life.

Posted by: Lex at August 21, 2023 08:14 AM (QlUHh)

76 I’m kinda surprised that the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” hasn’t been cancelled yet… the version I remember from college, played constantly on the radio and MTV had the f-word in the lyrics at least twice maybe 3 times (… that little f-word, he’s a millionaire…

. Great song. Maybe it’s already been canceled and I didn’t notice, but it’s on my iTunes playlist and it still plays there with the offending word

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (hVHZW)

77 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

78 I told him to stay home and let Trump/2024 play itself out, but he wouldn't listen

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 08:11 AM (geLO

(sigh)
Kids never learn, do they.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (Angsy)

79 Hey Sponge.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (8P2/j)

80 5.5 earthquake on top of a tropical storm/hurricane is very Gomorrah-like.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2023 08:17 AM (ufFY8)

81 Or I can not go at all, and not turn in anything at all, and walk away with ... what? It's essentially 0/0, which is (depending on your perspective) either 0 - a fail - or undefined. Do I get no grade at all? Is it interpreted as "average" (that is, a "C")? Is it interpreted as full completion (after all, I did nothing and the grading standard is that nothing is acceptable) and I therefore get an "A?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:12 AM (kBSKe)
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It's all a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact that students are not learning any valuable skills, knowledge, or abilities at all. By design.

Where I work, we are attempting to influence faculty from being "grade focused" to being "outcome focused," where the true measure of a student passing the course is whether or not they've mastered key skills, knowledge, or abilities and can demonstrate their mastery.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2023 08:17 AM (YIVH2)

82 Bone Up!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

83 64
Fourteen major American cities are part of a globalist climate organization known as the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group,” which has an “ambitious target” by the year 2030 of “0 kg [of] meat consumption,” “0 kg [of] dairy consumption,” “3 new clothing items per person per year,” “0 private vehicles” owned, and “1 short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every 3 years per person.”

https://tinyurl.com/2y927eey
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:10 AM (krqg6)

After looking at the link, I could not find what cities they were talking about..

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

84 Hey Sponge.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (8P2/j)

*waves*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (Zz0t1)

85 Bryan Caplan writes, “Perhaps an eternity of totalitarianism would be worse than extinction.”

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"Give me extinction, or give me death!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (CYgrT)

86 The initiative also calls to only "base grades on summative assessments, instead of classwork, homework, formative assessments, etc." Should a student cheat or fail to submit an assignment on time, teachers should provide a grade of at least 50 percent, the district handout outlining the initiative says. The initiative also calls to replace the typical "0-100" grading scale with a "0-4" scale.
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Blah blah blah. It's all the same crap. When I was in elementary school in the early 90s during the height of the "self esteem movement," schools did this crap all the time. My second elementary school got rid of traditional letter grades. Instead of the standard 5 grades (A-D plus F), we had a mere 3 grades: "H" (high quality), "S" (satisfactory) and "N" (needs improvement).

Everyone - even little kids - knew the score. "H" was the old "A," "S" was the old "B" and "C" and "N" was the old "D" and "F." All the new system did was cheat the "B" students and elevate the "F" students. It, in effect, used the second tier to subsidize the bottom tier. And even the third graders had figured that out. Why should a middling student strive for a "B" when it doesn't exist and they can coast?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (kBSKe)

87 I've noticed more and more videos on the tube of you about "a week on WWII rations," in which people get by on the British ration amounts - 4 oz cheese, 8 oz meat, 12 oz butter/margarine per week. Every one has comments that people were thinner and "healthier" back then.
Posted by: Moki at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (JrN/x)

Now do 3" of bathwater twice a week.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (hAfUZ)

88 I’m kinda surprised that the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” hasn’t been cancelled yet… the version I remember from college, played constantly on the radio and MTV had the f-word in the lyrics at least twice maybe 3 times (… that little f-word, he’s a millionaire…. Great song. Maybe it’s already been canceled and I didn’t notice, but it’s on my iTunes playlist and it still plays there with the offending word
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (hVHZW)
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They do tend to skip over that word (or even the entire stanza) when the song plays on the radio.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (YIVH2)

89
I’m kinda surprised that the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” hasn’t been cancelled yet… the version I remember from college, played constantly on the radio and MTV had the f-word in the lyrics at least twice maybe 3 times (… that little f-word, he’s a millionaire…. Great song. Maybe it’s already been canceled and I didn’t notice, but it’s on my iTunes playlist and it still plays there with the offending word

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM

I've heard it on over-the-air radio and the word 'faggot' is gone.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (enJYY)

90 These 14 American Cities Have a ‘Target’ of Banning Meat, Dairy, and Private Vehicles By 2030

Austin is on that list... lol.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2023 08:19 AM (GYIa4)

91 76 I’m kinda surprised that the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” hasn’t been cancelled yet… the version I remember from college, played constantly on the radio and MTV had the f-word in the lyrics at least twice maybe 3 times (… that little f-word, he’s a millionaire…. Great song. Maybe it’s already been canceled and I didn’t notice, but it’s on my iTunes playlist and it still plays there with the offending word
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (hVHZW)

They take out the “ little faggot” part…

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:19 AM (PCK5/)

92 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (hVHZW)

Their 'Sultans of Swing' song has the f-word muted while playing in grocery stores.

Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2023 08:19 AM (88xKn)

93 After looking at the link, I could not find what cities they were talking about..
Posted by: tubal
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Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:19 AM (8P2/j)

94 I told him to stay home and let Trump/2024 play itself out, but he wouldn't listen
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Me too. I told him not to go but would he listen to me?!

No.

Posted by: zombie mrs julius caesar at August 21, 2023 08:20 AM (krqg6)

95 “ Hit Me with Your Best Shot” by Pat Benatar is gone on Sirius…

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:20 AM (PCK5/)

96 Happy Monday, everyone. Regarding Trump skipping the debates. We all know that there is an entire Division of lawyers that will use everything he says in the kangaroo courts. So I don't blame him too much.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 21, 2023 08:20 AM (4olE8)

97 Jonsson wasn’t quite finished demanding his fellow service members view the world through a racial lens. At the end of his article, the Air Force colonel recommended airmen develop a “game plan” to break so-called “invisible barriers” in the military by reading Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, a book that promotes divisive ideologies such as critical race theory (CRT).
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There are *many* invisible barriers which which the military needs to concern itself.

The sound barrier.
Undersea pressure barriers.
The horizon.
The edge of the planet's gravity well.
Etc.

You know - real shit that matters to tactics, strategy, power projection and the like.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:20 AM (kBSKe)

98 .' That D decided to take this tack says he is either listening to the same asshats who gave us Romney and McCain or... he is listening too much to that brand of GOP. '

I'll take 'listening to the same assshats who gave us Romney and McCain' for a trillion dollars Alex.

Posted by: Voter theater. at August 21, 2023 08:20 AM (AaY3Y)

99 >After looking at the link, I could not find what cities they were talking about..
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

I know Austin (duh!) and Portland were two of them.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 21, 2023 08:20 AM (hAfUZ)

100 After looking at the link, I could not find what cities they were talking about..
Posted by: tubal

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That's a link to a link to a link. Here's the plan/paper:

https://tinyurl.com/26wnmhbr

Here's the federalist link discussing it.

"Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle."

https://tinyurl.com/28vu2397

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:21 AM (QsOFZ)

101 George Carlin's list of 'Seven Words' has been greatly expanded

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 08:21 AM (geLO8)

102
These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030

How about banning shoplifting, street crime and potholes first?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 08:21 AM (MoZTd)

103 After looking at the link, I could not find what cities they were talking about..
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

Houston is there.

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

104 It's all a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact that students are not learning any valuable skills, knowledge, or abilities at all. By design. ...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2023 08:17 AM (YIVH2)
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I don't think so, at least not in K-12. I think there it's to get rid of anything approaching an objective standard for comparison between students or districts.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:21 AM (kBSKe)

105 [Bryan Caplan writes, “Perhaps an eternity of totalitarianism would be worse than extinction.” ]

Interesting.

Posted by: Zombie Frank Herbert at August 21, 2023 08:22 AM (SYTee)

106 https://tinyurl.com/2y927eey
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:10 AM (krqg6)
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I'm no expert but this sounds like a blueprint for crimes against humanity.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 08:22 AM (RIvkX)

107 >."Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include...

huh- really thought Denver would make the list

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 08:22 AM (geLO8)

108 Have we heard from Ofuckstick about his idiot home state, since he comments on everything else, or nah bro

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2023 08:23 AM (896Tz)

109 I'm no expert but this sounds like a blueprint for crimes against humanity.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 08:22 AM (RIvkX)
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Have history's great humanitarians ever done anything else?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:23 AM (kBSKe)

110 100
Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle."

https://tinyurl.com/28vu2397
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:21 AM (QsOFZ)

Thanks!!

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:23 AM (PCK5/)

111 How about banning shoplifting, street crime and potholes first?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 08:21 AM (MoZTd)
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The City & County no longer fills potholes

It installs what it calls "speed cushions"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

112 "U.S. NEWS Joe Biden is quietly selling off Trump’s border wall as unused parts are sold at auction for MILLIONS of dollars in profit"

This alone should motivate our side to try and save our country from more Democrat control.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

113 Just imagine the hate that would be being thrown a Republican's way if he was president for any one of these current natural disasters. Not that you have to imagine it.

Are Republicans leveling all the same shit and worse at Biden and Kamala or are they all about comity, cowardice and good will?

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2023 08:24 AM (896Tz)

114 Public schools and the charter school my kids went to for a while are already incredibly slack and undemanding regarding handing in assignments and and make-up work and retaking tests (although not officially racial equity based). I find it incredible anybody gets less than a B average, yet many still manage to do a lot worse than that. And still they are promoted and moved through the system to the next level. Silver lining is this will bring on the Bunring Times much sooner.

Posted by: Ripley at August 21, 2023 08:24 AM (KrJTL)

115 I just heard that the UAW is going to strike for better hours, working conditions, and a 40% pay increase.

You know. Because their short days and cake jobs aren't easy enough.

But they accidentally admit something there, and they literally say it in the articles. The 40% raise is to keep up with inflation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:24 AM (QsOFZ)

116 Would it just be perpetuated or would Ace or the Cobs catch it?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 07:54 AM (MoZTd)

Ace likes to resave his formatting errors, so often we will fix them then he will bring them back from the dead!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2023 08:25 AM (/5P9N)

117 After looking at the link, I could not find what cities they were talking about..
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It was a courtesy link to the source that I saw first and its link to the original source was hotlinked in the last word -- person.

Here is the direct link to the Federalist:
https://tinyurl.com/4z6cs2y6

"Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:25 AM (krqg6)

118 Now do 3" of bathwater twice a week.
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Shower with a friend!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:26 AM (krqg6)

119 did nothing and the grading standard is that nothing is acceptable) and I therefore get an "A?"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at

There will be no math or logic on this thread.

You disappoint me.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2023 08:27 AM (ufFY8)

120 i mean, Vivek DID couch his Israel aid with the caveat that IF the peace deal is done then they could stop the funding. I think that's reasonable.

other than that, there are a NUMBER of easier places to cut overseas funding first.

morning horde.

Posted by: Talcum X at August 21, 2023 08:27 AM (KZaqS)

121 It's insane how driven they are to erase everything Trump accomplished, down to the $4000 in your household income (turns out that that was a piece of cake)

Remember when Biden immediately reversed Trump's insulin price reductions before reducing the price in exactly the same way and the same amount and claiming credit for reducing the price of insulin?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:27 AM (QsOFZ)

122 Circle and square comics:

https://tinyurl.com/578u6vcv

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:28 AM (8P2/j)

123 Equity means everyone gets an A, h8ers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 08:28 AM (RIvkX)

124 There is a sense and has been for the past 6 years among the NTers, GOPe types and consultants that the rabid Trump fan is a distinct minority. That he is merely hoodwinking his consituents and the people who show up for rallies are either ghosts, paid, or again 'cultish followers.' That D decided to take this tack says he is either listening to the same asshats who gave us Romney and McCain or... he is listening too much to that brand of GOP.

It's sad because Desantis has become a front runner because of his near pitch perfect, no nonsense style of communication.

I guess this is why we have primaries.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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GOPe has had the same playbook since GHWB in 1988 and it is simply not relevant to voter's lives anymore.

You see echoes of it here from certain commenters that can't seem to realize that most of the people voting right are hostages to the left, not willing voters and when voting for GOPe candidates yields leftist social policies but with a tax cut, these voters quit the party.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:28 AM (gQdmS)

125 Morning all. WASTF.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:28 AM (G8h7g)

126 there are a NUMBER of easier places to cut overseas funding first.

Posted by: Talcum X at August 21, 2023 08:27 AM (KZaqS)

I agree.

Let's start with all of NATO.

Negotiate treaties with Canada and the UK. That's it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2023 08:29 AM (/5P9N)

127 88, 89, 91, 92 - Too bad they’re messing with Dire Straits lyrics although I can’t say I’m surprised. The Sultans of Swing is one of my favorites; the guitar work on that song is out of this world

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:29 AM (hVHZW)

128 The GOP is molding DeSantis into exactly what the GOP thinks a GOP candidate should be. His staff seems to be full of Bush era advisors, or advisors who learned from them. He did start out with a pretty good message, but you can tell somewhere along the way his staff/advisors changed.

I don't think it matters either way with regards to Trump or DeSantis. Neither will assume the White House. Both of their political careers are effectively over.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 08:30 AM (Q4IgG)

129 Did you know that a head of cabbage and one potato will feed twenty people? Throw in a 16 hour work day and you will be slim and fit in no time.

KZL Obersturmbanfuhrer Karl Schmidt

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 21, 2023 08:30 AM (0EOe9)

130 BTW when they say "no meat, no dairy, no whatever..." they mean YOU not them.

They will enjoy it in abundance, h8ers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

131 I think Vivek may have showed his ass on that one.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (TZ75n)

132 After looking at the link, I could not find what cities they were talking about..

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

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Per Wikipedia, there are apparently 96 cities worldwide.

In North America:
. 3 Canadian (Montreal, Toronto, & Vancouver);
. 2 Mexican (Guadalajara & Mexico City); and
. 14 American (Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, & Washington, DC).

All blue shitholes, unexpectedly ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (CYgrT)

133 It is getting summery on the Gulf Coast. Like an August day.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (aD39U)

134 Austin is on that list... lol.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2023 08:19 AM (GYIa4)

UT Athletic program will no like that one bit.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

135 Robin Ware
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ware - noun
Manufactured or other goods

This motherfucker actually had an alias that bragged about his crimes. Unfuckingreal. What was his other alias, Rapin Kids?

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (896Tz)

136
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt the Younger

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (MoZTd)

137 JJ knows that there is very little taro grown in that area
The lack of water is caused by it being diverged to resorts golf courses and McMandion subdivisions.

Posted by: Paul at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (mb0Pz)

138 Public schools and the charter school my kids went to for a while are already incredibly slack and undemanding regarding handing in assignments and and make-up work and retaking tests (although not officially racial equity based). I find it incredible anybody gets less than a B average, yet many still manage to do a lot worse than that. ...
Posted by: Ripley at August 21, 2023 08:24 AM (KrJTL)
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I thought the same when I learned that it was possible to fail the ASVAB. I am convinced that the people who manage it are doing it on purpose.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:32 AM (kBSKe)

139 The Democrats are doubling down on blaming the Maui fires on climate change.

They're betting that they will have cover from the MSM that it was the Dem policies that led to this disaster

"Hawaii governor agrees climate change ‘amplified the cost of human error’ on Maui fires"

https://tinyurl.com/4zj23dj6

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

140 https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/vivek-ramaswamy

Soros group paid for his law school. Look at the rest of it too.

Posted by: Gwenn at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (9Gr7n)

141 Don't miss this from the same "no meat" cities plan:

Page 91

"1 (one) short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every
2 years per person"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (QsOFZ)

142 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (TZ75n)

143 Too bad they’re messing with Dire Straits lyrics although I can’t say I’m surprised. The Sultans of Swing is one of my favorites; the guitar work on that song is out of this world
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:29 AM (hVHZW)
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Nothing is immune to the subversion of history.

And Mark Knopfler is a top-category guitar player.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (kBSKe)

144 Posted by: Paul at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (mb0Pz)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

145 Maui

https://twitter.com/i/status/
1692144951990034802

Posted by: Gwenn at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (9Gr7n)

146 Thanks JJ

Posted by: Sock Monkey * clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (ZFd/h)

147 The Democrats are doubling down on blaming the Maui fires on climate change.

They're betting that they will have cover from the MSM that it was the Dem policies that led to this disaster

"Hawaii governor agrees climate change ‘amplified the cost of human error’ on Maui fires" ...
Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 08:32 AM (NpAcC)
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Given that Governor ProgBot blamed climate change before the fire was even fully contained said all that needed to be said.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:34 AM (kBSKe)

148 "Hawaii governor agrees climate change ‘amplified the cost of human error’ on Maui fires"

--

It's exactly like COVID.

Everything was caused by the government in pursuit of a goal. All the deaths, all the media promotion, everything is the same playbook.

I no-joke expect climate lockdowns in the next three years.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:35 AM (QsOFZ)

149 That rich DEMOCRATS own, shit-for-brains Pawl.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:35 AM (krqg6)

150 Kaleo is passionate about elevating native and indigenous ways of knowing in all spheres of discourse and dialogue.

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If indigenous ways of knowing were so great then why was white man's modern technology needed to build the world? Their ways have been superseded by something better and they cannot get over it. It used to be called progress.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 21, 2023 08:35 AM (3JfbU)

151 87 I've noticed more and more videos on the tube of you about "a week on WWII rations," in which people get by on the British ration amounts - 4 oz cheese, 8 oz meat, 12 oz butter/margarine per week. Every one has comments that people were thinner and "healthier" back then.
Posted by: Moki
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Bullshit. People that consume videos instead of actually cracking a book or two are easily prone to being misled.

In theory, Britain tried to preserve the health of their children first such as milk rations and so on and tried to make sure that their soldiers/sailors/airmen got what they needed. The workers, however, were overworked and underfed to the extent that it affected their future lifespan. Tobacco and booze probably did not help.

But, there was an extensive black market and those on farms were probably the best fed. I suspect if you take a gander at children born about 1939 and traced their health versus a generation born in 1969, you would find that growth was stunted and probably some other issues involving malnutrition and class standing.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:35 AM (gQdmS)

152 And Paul comes in with his 'eat the rich' solution to things.......

F*ck off, Paul. You're stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

153 California flood. 7 hour rain in an empty river bed.

https://twitter.com/i/status/
1693454078926606745

Posted by: Gwenn at August 21, 2023 08:35 AM (9Gr7n)

154 Let's update the list:

Government defers maintenance of lines, poles, grounds, and infrastructure in pursuit of "green" transition

Government officials don't tend to non-native grasses on their property.

Government employees arrive to put out a fire, don't put it out, leave.

Government officials don't sound alarm warning residents of emergency.

Government closes schools, abandons children without guardians to return home

Government employees blockade road and prevent escape from fire.

Government shuts down 911 calls

Government employee (official?) shuts off water to put out fire.

Government officials block food, clothing, and other relief efforts from groups other than FEMA and Red Cross

Government sends "relief" checks for $700 per person to people whose bill for Ukraine is $900 per person.

Government official who was head of Maui Emergency Management Agency was a lawyer with no background in disaster preparedness or response and had never held a full time job in the field, and his main qualification was being chief of staff to then-mayor Alan Arakawa.

Government officials resign with benefits.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:36 AM (QsOFZ)

155 All blue shitholes, unexpectedly ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (CYgrT)

They bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into.

I say, "Let em starve!"

Posted by: Jack Kirkpatrick at August 21, 2023 08:36 AM (ufFY8)

156 Good morning SMH!!!

Happy Monday to you and may the Lord bless and keep you and yours!!

Posted by: Moki at August 21, 2023 08:36 AM (JrN/x)

157 128 The GOP is molding DeSantis into exactly what the GOP thinks a GOP candidate should be. His staff seems to be full of Bush era advisors, or advisors who learned from them. He did start out with a pretty good message, but you can tell somewhere along the way his staff/advisors changed.

I don't think it matters either way with regards to Trump or DeSantis. Neither will assume the White House. Both of their political careers are effectively over.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Bushies need to become Democrats, both the GOP and the Dems would benefit.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:36 AM (gQdmS)

158 "1 (one) short-haul return flight (less than 1500 km) every
2 years per person"
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"... except on business of the State."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:36 AM (krqg6)

159
Posted by: Paul at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM

Good work! Now get down on your knees and face away.

:: Blam ::

Posted by: True Communists at August 21, 2023 08:37 AM (enJYY)

160 Global fire incident reports.

https://fires.globalincidentmap.com/

Posted by: Gwenn at August 21, 2023 08:37 AM (9Gr7n)

161 there are a NUMBER of easier places to cut overseas funding first.

Posted by: Talcum X at August 21, 2023 08:27 AM (KZaqS)

I agree.

Let's start with all of NATO.

Negotiate treaties with Canada and the UK. That's it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2023 08:29 AM (/5P9N)

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Defund the UN, the WHO, the WTO, everything.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 21, 2023 08:37 AM (3JfbU)

162 Maui

https://twitter.com/i/status/
1692144951990034802
Posted by: Gwenn at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (9Gr7n)

Necessary sacrifices to the gods for the good of the climate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

163 But, there was an extensive black market and those on farms were probably the best fed. I suspect if you take a gander at children born about 1939 and traced their health versus a generation born in 1969, you would find that growth was stunted and probably some other issues involving malnutrition and class standing.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:35 AM (gQdmS)
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And there's the fact that there was a non-black-market way around rationing, but it didn't apply to the poor: restaurants. The Brits made an effort to keep restaurants open to act as a relief valve, and they were another way around the rationing system. If you had the money, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:37 AM (kBSKe)

164 Sorting through my boxes of CD's the other day I came across several Dire Straits albums; Brothers In Arms, Making Movies, Love Over Gold and On Every Street.

Tossed all into the multi-player and let 'em rip.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 08:38 AM (Q4IgG)

165 "Hawaii governor agrees climate change ‘amplified the cost of human error’ on Maui fires"

Soon the, "Human Error," and, "Amplified," parts of this will disappear.

Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2023 08:38 AM (SYTee)

166 Defund the UN, the WHO, the WTO, everything.
Posted by: President Select Decaf

To start.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2023 08:38 AM (TZ75n)

167 If C40 Cities’ climate aims are carried out, people will die." (Let's hope the first to go are the environmentalists before they can put it in motion - jjs)
These 14 American Cities Have a ‘Target’ of Banning Meat, Dairy, and Private Vehicles By 2030

I expected Austin to be prominent on that list, what surprised me is that Houston, the home of the major petroleum producers, is also on that list.

My how the people of Texas have fallen into stupidity and depravity.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 21, 2023 08:38 AM (p8A+W)

168 Water water everywhere but nor a drop to put on the fire

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2023 08:38 AM (orrYN)

169
I suspect if you take a gander at children born about 1939 and traced their health versus a generation born in 1969, you would find that growth was stunted and probably some other issues involving malnutrition and class standing.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:35 AM (gQdmS)

Recruiting in the Boer War showed that much of British youth were hopelessly sick and malnourished.

The Depression kids who went into the US Army in WWII were amazingly fed compared to what they had been eating. Despite the training, most gained 10 or 20 pounds.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (MoZTd)

170 Great stuff top to bottom - thank you! Javier Milei is an interesting phenomenon and I eagerly opened the American Spectator article. What a mess. Barely cogent, it describes Milei as a Libertarian. Hmmm, a libertarian who is stridently pro-life and who describes himself as a Rothbardian ancap. I only yesterday read Angelo Codevilla's classic American Spectator article from July 16, 2010 and there is a jarring difference in quality between then and now.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (ogTiX)

171 Ramaswampy is a Deep State VAXX Groupie.

Don't get injected.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (Ndje9)

172 Let's update the list:

Posted by: Moron Robbie

It's almost as if they are trying to get lynched.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (G8h7g)

173 Huge backlog of 200 ships are stuck trying to enter the Panama Canal as they wait WEEKS amid slowed traffic due to drought: Delays set to wipe $200M off profits and cause spike in US grocery and parcel prices

https://tinyurl.com/59493mp9

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (8P2/j)

174 I think Vivek may have showed his ass on that one.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2023 08:31 AM (TZ75n)

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He is just a slick blowhard.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (3JfbU)

175 Kaleo is passionate about elevating native and indigenous ways of knowing in all spheres of discourse and dialogue.

Who talks like this? I expect such plonking prose from Norks or other non-native English speakers with a bent for totalitarianism, but what's this guy's excuse?

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (I/Qkd)

176
My how the people of Texas have fallen into stupidity and depravity.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 21, 2023 08:38 AM (p8A+W)

Not Texas......just infiltrated blue shitholes. They won't be able to pull that shit off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

177 And there's the fact that there was a non-black-market way around rationing, but it didn't apply to the poor: restaurants. The Brits made an effort to keep restaurants open to act as a relief valve, and they were another way around the rationing system. If you had the money, anyway.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Some interesting anecdotes regarding Britain's finest hotels and dining and that of commoners. Before the Soviet Union was invaded, the RHIP system was being challenged such as common people turning up at the luxury bomb shelters at prominent hotels and businesses.

The Commies and their agit prop publications quit agitating once the Sov Union was invaded in WWII.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:40 AM (gQdmS)

178 Ciampino's Rescue kitties

There's another more extensive photo update #153 at the link.
Take a look if interested. Make sure to click on
"See Older Updates" as well if it's your first time.
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Posted by: Ciampino - names can be funny under different circumstances .. at August 21, 2023 08:41 AM (qfLjt)

179 The cocksucker troll's comment is fairly interesting, actually (though I am sure he didn't intend it to be so).

The argument is "the problem isn't agriculture, it's the rich-guy oases like golf courses that caused the water management problem." Okay. Let's take that at face value. It leads to two obvious conclusions:

1. The resource management system in Hawaii is completely unfit for purpose in case of an emergency (this is my general opinion - see #54).
2. The unfit resource management system in Hawaii - a hardcore "blue state" that is probably the closest state in the union to actual implemented socialism - is geared entirely toward the elites, even to the point that it lets normal people die in a fire rather than divert resources from the elites' playgrounds like golf courses.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:41 AM (kBSKe)

180 Kaleo is passionate about elevating native and indigenous ways of knowing in all spheres of discourse and dialogue.

Who talks like this? I expect such plonking prose from Norks or other non-native English speakers with a bent for totalitarianism, but what's this guy's excuse?
Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (I/Qkd)
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He's a post-modern academic, even if he was a bureaucrat. They ALL talk like that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 21, 2023 08:41 AM (YIVH2)

181 Note to Italy: You can eat the invasive blue crabs

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2023 08:41 AM (xTRSc)

182 Let's update the list:

I was looking for this list the other day, brilliant work.
Thanks for reposting and amending it.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 21, 2023 08:41 AM (p8A+W)

183 76 I’m kinda surprised that the Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” hasn’t been cancelled yet…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:16 AM (hVHZW)

Happened here in Canada in January 2011. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruled that the unedited version of the song was banned from airplay on Canadian radio stations because the lyrics offended their sensibilities and feelings, or some such nonsense.

This was reversed later because the CRTC (having received a bunch of complaints about this, even though they had nothing to do with the original decision) requested the CBSC to review their decision. It was reversed, leaving it up to the radio stations which version they wanted to play.

Can you imagine if this had played out in 2023 rather than 2011? I don't think you'd get that reversal.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2023 08:42 AM (qPw5n)

184 Good morning Horde, thx as always JJ. All those cities that want to ban dairy , meat and private vehicles by 2030 might actually achieve their goal. They are all being hollowed out by policies which are driving rational people away. After all the normal people are gone the social experimenters can do what they want.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2023 08:42 AM (BqPUE)

185
Climate change brought down poles carrying electricity because a hurricane was in the area, but there were no hurricane force winds on Maui. Not even close.

Point your finger at lack of maintenance. With socialists that is always the first budget item underfunded to fund the latest pet project.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)

186 Recruiting in the Boer War showed that much of British youth were hopelessly sick and malnourished.

The Depression kids who went into the US Army in WWII were amazingly fed compared to what they had been eating. Despite the training, most gained 10 or 20 pounds.
Posted by: Hadrian
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True but height stats on US soldiers over time shows the dip in nutrition. Ironically, during WWI, the Euros considered comparatively well fed US troops as giants.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:42 AM (gQdmS)

187 If indigenous ways of knowing were so great then why was white man's modern technology needed to build the world

Go get your coconut shine box and puddle of poi, you grass-skirt wearing volcano loving stone age dumbfucks, and head into the hills to live in your imaginary paradise, if you can get off your fat asses and tear yourselves from your damned cellphones and Door Dash deliveries.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2023 08:43 AM (ufFY8)

188 Huge backlog of 200 ships are stuck trying to enter the Panama Canal as they wait WEEKS amid slowed traffic due to drought: Delays set to wipe $200M off profits and cause spike in US grocery and parcel prices

https://tinyurl.com/59493mp9
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:39 AM (8P2/j)
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How are weeks of delay at the Canal cheaper than an extra week or so of transit around the tip of South America and back up?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:43 AM (kBSKe)

189 The troll provides fascinating and useful insight into the leftists' single-order thinking.

In this case, "the enemy class stole our wa-wa!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 08:43 AM (RIvkX)

190 Went to Saratoga yesterday. Gave back all of the money I had won a week and a half ago. That is why it is called gambling . Still a beautiful day

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2023 08:43 AM (BqPUE)

191 If C40 Cities’ climate aims are carried out, people will die." (Let's hope the first to go are the environmentalists before they can put it in motion - jjs)
These 14 American Cities Have a ‘Target’ of Banning Meat, Dairy, and Private Vehicles By 2030

I expected Austin to be prominent on that list, what surprised me is that Houston, the home of the major petroleum producers, is also on that list.

My how the people of Texas have fallen into stupidity and depravity.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

The Keep Austin Weird people will go along with it.

Houstonians won't.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:44 AM (G8h7g)

192 Point your finger at lack of maintenance. With socialists that is always the first budget item underfunded to fund the latest pet project.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)

To be fair, all of the projects that do not line their pockets are the first ones to get cut.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 08:44 AM (zZu0s)

193 Note to Italy: You can eat the invasive blue crabs
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Pack them up and sell them to the Chinese.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:44 AM (krqg6)

194 @124 whig-"You see echoes of it here from certain commenters....."

It started here the day after mid-terms.

Posted by: JROD at August 21, 2023 08:45 AM (IlL6s)

195 1. The resource management system in Hawaii is completely unfit for purpose in case of an emergency (this is my general opinion - see #54).
2. The unfit resource management system in Hawaii - a hardcore "blue state" that is probably the closest state in the union to actual implemented socialism - is geared entirely toward the elites, even to the point that it lets normal people die in a fire rather than divert resources from the elites' playgrounds like golf courses.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Twas always thus. Been reading Book of Joel and Joel condemns the northern kingdom (Israel) for the wealthy grinding the face of the poor in the dirt and corrupting the legal process to produce injustice.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:45 AM (gQdmS)

196 "a week on WWII rations," in which people get by on the British ration amounts - 4 oz cheese, 8 oz meat, 12 oz butter/margarine per week. Every one has comments that people were thinner and "healthier" back then.
Posted by: Moki at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (JrN/x)

yeah, they also forget many of those same people did a lot more MANUAL work so they were skinnier.

second look at dignity canals?

Posted by: Talcum X at August 21, 2023 08:45 AM (KZaqS)

197 Normal people should start a

KEEP TEXAS WIRED

working-electricity campaign

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 08:45 AM (QsOFZ)

198 damnit,

off moldy grey sock....

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 21, 2023 08:45 AM (KZaqS)

199 "Kaleo is passionate about elevating native and indigenous ways of knowing in all spheres of discourse and dialogue."

I'm curious what is the native and indigenous way of knowing is about space travel and particle physics? Or are those just relics of white racism and irrelevant anymore?

Posted by: Ripley at August 21, 2023 08:46 AM (KrJTL)

200 Negotiate treaties with Canada and the UK. That's it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2023 08:29 AM (/5P9N)
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But who would defend France??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 21, 2023 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

201 "...M. Kaleo Manuel, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner ..."

Does that translate as "I don't want to seem like a nasty whi'pipo?

I dunno, seems like it does.

"Summarizer
Lahaina, a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaii, has a population of 9,118 as of 2023, with a growth rate of 0.05% annually. The median household income in Lahaina is $105,540, with a poverty rate of 11.84%. The median age in Lahaina is 38.2 years, with males aged 38.5 years and females aged 37.8 years.1 ...The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Lahaina, HI is White, followed by Hispanic..."

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 08:46 AM (Rbu5d)

202 I saw Coconut Shine Box open for Candlebox at the Civic Arena in '94.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (TZ75n)

203 The Big Texan steak house in Amarillo, raided by the Federal Department of Meat and Dairy Consumption. No more 72 oz steak for free if you can finish it. And then the shootin' began.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (0EOe9)

204 The GOP primary is becoming a clown show… when it started I liked Trump (of course) and RDS. I began to take a shine to Vivek a few months ago. As time has gone by, RDS has been greatly reduced in my eyes; he’s taking bad advice and I wished he’d fire all his Bushie advisors. Now Vivek is saying stupid stuff. The rest? Haley/Scott are pure GOPe. So is Pence but he’s especially perfidious. Bergum is buying radio commercials here in DFW. Why?? Asa, governor sponsored by Walmart… fat Chris Christie

It’s no surprise that Trump is destroying this field

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (hVHZW)

205 Huge backlog of 200 ships are stuck trying to enter the Panama Canal as they wait WEEKS amid slowed traffic due to drought: Delays set to wipe $200M off profits and cause spike in US grocery and parcel prices

https://tinyurl.com/59493mp9
Posted by: SMH

How are weeks of delay at the Canal cheaper than an extra week or so of transit around the tip of South America and back up?
Posted by: Joe Mannix

They're not.
I thought only a certain sized ship can go thru the canal?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (G8h7g)

206 Also, I didn't know we had 'white colonels'

we should just have colonels

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 07:54 AM (geLO

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"Anti-racist" racism is tight!

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (CYgrT)

207 Despite all the sacrifices made by the poor and middle-class, the climate change caused disasters of both a hurricane and earthquake still affected California. I feel bad for the non-rich citizens of that state that they didn't sacrifice enough and will have to sacrifice much, much more to prevent future climate disasters in the future. Best of luck to them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 21, 2023 08:48 AM (fs1hN)

208 Bergum? I missed that one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 08:48 AM (zZu0s)

209 I saw Coconut Shine Box open for Candlebox at the Civic Arena in '94.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (TZ75n)

LOL.

I am smiling that someone noticed my rant.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2023 08:48 AM (ufFY8)

210 Trump's absence from the debate is smart for him, and a boon to Ramaswamy. Look for the latter to leap ahead of DeSantis.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2023 08:48 AM (hNi4N)

211 Should be interesting to watch Joey in Maui. Will he bring up Beau's death, his first wife and daughters death, climate change or MAGA? Probably all of the above

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2023 08:48 AM (BqPUE)

212 Disclose.tv @disclosetv August 20
JUST IN - Two athletes die while swimming in Ireland Ironman competition on Sunday — ITV

Cardiac arrest and a drowning? Water conditions were bad one replier claims but was there an event initiating the drowning? A Canadian and a Brit, BTW.

Press release screencap:
https://tinyurl.com/5c43yhkn

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:49 AM (krqg6)

213 They might as well put a crown on that little fruit Kaleo Manuel, and make him Emperor of the Sham Republic. Someone just like him - a faceless, dishwater-dull, manifestly unqualified bureaucrat who nobody's heard of, let alone voted for - runs every damn thing in this joke of a country.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2023 08:49 AM (0FoWg)

214 And Puddle of Poi opened for Puddle of Mud at Sunken Dardens Theater in '03.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2023 08:49 AM (TZ75n)

215 Sadly hilarious.

And Democrat NPCs will keep voting for their own misery and subjugation:

Via The Federalist

These 14 American Cities Have A ‘Target’ Of Banning Meat, Dairy, And Private Vehicles By 2030

Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle

......
Plan accordingly.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2023 08:50 AM (QzZeQ)

216 They're not.
I thought only a certain sized ship can go thru the canal?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (G8h7g)

Yeah, "panamax" sized ships?
There is a term specifying the max size.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 21, 2023 08:50 AM (ufFY8)

217 "...Jonsson wasn’t quite finished demanding his fellow service members view the world through a racial lens."

The only equitable thing to do is Jonsson to resign from his commission (stop waiting for the promotion, ahole) and give his place to another, more melanized candidate.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 08:50 AM (Rbu5d)

218 It’s no surprise that Trump is destroying this field
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (hVHZW)

We keep saying how great our fields are for the past... 24 years? With successful governors, senators and other 'luminaries' to choose from.

And yet, most are mediocrities that when the sun shines on them, they melt away.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 08:50 AM (zZu0s)

219 It’s no surprise that Trump is destroying this field
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
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The GOPe playbook has been to spread the field with paid no hopers in order to prevent the candidate they fear most threatening to their power in the party. Been that way for decades now even at the local level. Essentially, the GOPe campaign consultants believe in divide and conquer via expensive media campaigns stirring up pointless shit.

If the GOP candidates actually produced policies that people wanted, people would flood the polls voting for the GOP. Instead, the consultant class acts for donors rather than its voters.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:51 AM (gQdmS)

220 My how the people of Texas have fallen into stupidity and depravity.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

The Keep Austin Weird people will go along with it.

Houstonians won't.
Posted by: rickb223

Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity argues otherwise.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right at August 21, 2023 08:51 AM (ZFd/h)

221 Climate change brought down poles carrying electricity because a hurricane was in the area, but there were no hurricane force winds on Maui. Not even close.

Point your finger at lack of maintenance. With socialists that is always the first budget item underfunded to fund the latest pet project.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2023 08:42 AM (enJYY)

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I believe it was shoddy maintenance that led to Chernobyl though I think that if it happened today they would blame it on climate change.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 21, 2023 08:51 AM (3JfbU)

222 The Big Texan steak house in Amarillo, raided by the Federal Department of Meat and Dairy Consumption. No more 72 oz steak for free if you can finish it. And then the shootin' began.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (0EOe9)

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The Chop Heard 'Round the World.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 08:52 AM (CYgrT)

223 RNC Research @RNCResearch Aug 19
Joe Biden and Jill, Ed.D., arrive in Nevada for his second weeklong vacation in the past month.

Biden has spent 374 days — 39.7% of his presidency — on vacation.

https://tinyurl.com/2z8pkp6p

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:52 AM (krqg6)

224 Point your finger at lack of maintenance.

Hold my beer.

Posted by: Flint MI water system at August 21, 2023 08:52 AM (ufFY8)

225 Happy Monday!
Scores of crows are circling outside, no doubt in pursuit of a hawk or owl. After reading the intro, more coffee and maybe a long dog walk are in order. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2023 08:52 AM (avru5)

226
...Hillary nevertheless...bringing flooding and mudslides...

Why all the news?

Sounds like the average Depends changing time at Hillary!'s home.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (QzZeQ)

227 President Mudpants is staying at Tom Steyer's pad.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (TZ75n)

228 And yet, most are mediocrities that when the sun shines on them, they melt away.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Credentialism is not accomplishment. Politicians almost always are mediocre because in good times, in a republic, politics are superfluous to life. The 90's are a perfect example--Bubba Clinton survived because politics at teh time was simply not existential to survival.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (gQdmS)

229 They're not.
I thought only a certain sized ship can go thru the canal?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (G8h7g)
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Sure, anything bugger than "Panamax" can't go through the Canal.

But the article says ships are piled up waiting to make it through, with a delay running into weeks. I'm just wondering why they don't reroute and go around South America instead. I don't understand how weeks of delay are cheaper than the extra time and fuel to go the long way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (kBSKe)

230 The Democrats are doubling down on blaming the Maui fires on climate change.

That statement alone should completely disqualify a Democrat from ever holding a position of power and responsibility - its a statement of perpetual helpless victimhood.

They have been screaming some variation of "Climate Change" since the mid twentieth century, they claim to know that Climate Change Is Real.

If you live in a high crime area, do you strip yourselves of any means of defense, increase your vulnerability and hope that by crying "I AM A VICTIM" you will be left unmolested? Do you demand that people remove locks from their doors and leave the keys in the car ignition?

Because that is what the Democrats are doing in terms of Climate. Chindia is adding a coal plant to their respective grids each week and the rest of us our supposed to strip ourselves of the ability to survive extreme weather, impoverish ourselves and make ourselves physically weaker to reduce resilience even further to weather events.

Democrats are akin to standing in the street yelling "Shoot this person right here and take his wallet! - I AM A VICTIM"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (p8A+W)

231
Anybody else notice that Biden's e-mail addresses include "Robert Peters"... which probably goes a long way towards explaining the whole "Pedo Pete" thing that we know from Hunter's laptop.

Posted by: American Hawkman at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (skAOD)

232 I believe it was shoddy maintenance that led to Chernobyl though I think that if it happened today they would blame it on climate change.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at August 21, 2023 08:51 AM (3JfbU)

Chernobyl was not really shoddy maintenance as much as insane ways of carrying out a fit test. Delayed. Then the test was done under really retarded and dangerous conditions.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (zZu0s)

233 "a week on WWII rations," in which people get by on the British ration amounts - 4 oz cheese, 8 oz meat, 12 oz butter/margarine per week. Every one has comments that people were thinner and "healthier" back then.
Posted by: Moki

Thinner? Yes. Healthier? No.
That's starvation levels of food.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (G8h7g)

234 Andy McCarthy says that once Trump is the nominee, he won't be able to withstand the democrat attacks. Does someone want to tell him?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (O1z4v)

235 Portland Public Schools is workshopping new "equitable grading practices" that bar teachers from assigning "zeros" to students who cheat or fail to turn in assignments.

0.0001 grade assigned. It's not zero.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 21, 2023 08:54 AM (qPw5n)

236 Mc Carthy:

Very simple: Trump can’t win. 65% already against him. That’s before Dems launch barrage after getting him nominated. If we finally grasp that, his support will collapse. If not, we lose everything, and Dems use majorities to remake Supreme Court. Nominate him if you want, but that’s reality.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 08:54 AM (O1z4v)

237 There are ships too large to use the Panama Canal. What they use in fuel and crew expenses is made up by the tonnage they carry.

Shipping companies that rim the Pacific will typically use these "Panamax" cargo vessels to hit US west coast ports. Then the cargo which is usually already containerized will go east via rail or truck.

Same for the Atlantic ports... stuff goes west then.

Not many cargo ships go around South America anymore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 08:54 AM (Q4IgG)

238 Plan accordingly.
Posted by: naturalfake

Reinforced steel gate at the top of my driveway was added to my project list several weeks ago.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right at August 21, 2023 08:55 AM (ZFd/h)

239 There is only ONE ISSUE: WHO RULES?

We already re-elected Actual President Trump. Nothing else until that is honored. Not to mention all the stolen federal, state and local races--even primaries.

NO. HELL, NO.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 21, 2023 08:55 AM (Ndje9)

240 I don't understand how weeks of delay are cheaper than the extra time and fuel to go the long way.
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There are no hookers and blow available and they'd have to work.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 08:55 AM (yRved)

241 One thing you will find with leftists is that they do not care what happens to anyone that is not them.

So the Hawaiians who had family die? They will (probably) vote against at least their local D office holders.

But the rest of them? Publicly they'll say something about global warming, privately they'll argue "THOSE people deserved it"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 08:55 AM (lc5cP)

242 233 "a week on WWII rations," in which people get by on the British ration amounts - 4 oz cheese, 8 oz meat, 12 oz butter/margarine per week. Every one has comments that people were thinner and "healthier" back then.
Posted by: Moki

Thinner? Yes. Healthier? No.
That's starvation levels of food.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:53 AM (G8h7g)

They want us on WW2 rations -- the ones the Germans and Japanese gave to prisoners and what you got in the gulag.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 08:55 AM (x0n13)

243 RNC Research @RNCResearch Aug 19
Joe Biden and Jill, Ed.D., arrive in Nevada for his second weeklong vacation in the past month.

Biden has spent 374 days — 39.7% of his presidency — on vacation.

https://tinyurl.com/2z8pkp6p
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:52 AM (krqg6)
*****
Joe and Jill will be cutting their vacation short to visit Maui today.
Probably to push the climate change narrative.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 08:55 AM (NpAcC)

244 210 Trump's absence from the debate is smart for him, and a boon to Ramaswamy. Look for the latter to leap ahead of DeSantis.
Posted by: Ordinary American
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Weirdly enough, DeSantis met with Kemp just yesterday and was on the Erick Erikson show in Atlanta.

Neither are examples of people you would want to be seen with.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:56 AM (gQdmS)

245 If you cheat to get ahead, you are still ahead.

If you cheat to make $1 million, you are still a millionaire.

Future politicians in Portland.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 08:56 AM (O1z4v)

246 236 Mc Carthy:

Very simple: Trump can’t win. 65% already against him. That’s before Dems launch barrage after getting him nominated. If we finally grasp that, his support will collapse. If not, we lose everything, and Dems use majorities to remake Supreme Court. Nominate him if you want, but that’s reality.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 08:54 AM (O1z4v)

That guy is an idiot. NRO.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 08:56 AM (zZu0s)

247 If the GOP candidates actually produced policies that people wanted, people would flood the polls voting for the GOP.

Sooo.....DeSantis produced policies people wanted? He moved that state from purple to bright red.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 08:56 AM (I/Qkd)

248 They're not.
I thought only a certain sized ship can go thru the canal?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:47 AM (G8h7g)
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Sure, anything bugger than "Panamax" can't go through the Canal.

But the article says ships are piled up waiting to make it through, with a delay running into weeks. I'm just wondering why they don't reroute and go around South America instead. I don't understand how weeks of delay are cheaper than the extra time and fuel to go the long way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

That what I clumsily meant. Why are they still using limited sized ships? Double your cargo and go around.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 08:56 AM (G8h7g)

249 Because that is what the Democrats are doing in terms of Climate. Chindia is adding a coal plant to their respective grids each week and the rest of us our supposed to strip ourselves of the ability to survive extreme weather, impoverish ourselves and make ourselves physically weaker to reduce resilience even further to weather events.
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Exactly. This is known as "Equity". Suck it, America.

Posted by: Democrats at August 21, 2023 08:56 AM (fs1hN)

250 TBH I think we need to cut aid to Israel...because we need to end all foreign aid.

We simply don't have the money. The government has us $30T in debt and we are still giving money to other people deserving or not?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 08:57 AM (lc5cP)

251 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 21, 2023 08:57 AM (T4tVD)

252 Since it appears that Trump is inevitable for 24, it frees my time up for not paying attention to any of the Primaries stuff… now.. what to do with all this spare time????

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:57 AM (PCK5/)

253 They want us on WW2 rations -- the ones the Germans and Japanese gave to prisoners and what you got in the gulag.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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The Germans > than the Japanese rations. Geneva Conventions probably made the difference as Japan was not a signatory. The Red Cross system in Europe probably saved a lot of GI's in Axis prison camps though as well.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:57 AM (gQdmS)

254 Andy McCarthy is a perfect example of a smart, credentialed person turning into a drooling idiot when the topic turns to Trump

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:58 AM (hVHZW)

255 RNCResearch Aug 19
Joe Biden and Jill, Ed.D., arrive in Nevada for his second weeklong vacation in the past month.

Biden has spent 374 days — 39.7% of his presidency — on vacation. ...
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 08:52 AM (krqg6)
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As always, the Republican propagandists deliberately suppress context, making statements like this one straightforward examples of malinformation.

Let's compare the presidency to other highly-skilled professional lines of work in a traditional setting. There are 104 weekend days per year, and most skilled, experienced professionals receive at least three weeks of paid vacation - another 15 days. That's 119 days per year off work, or 32.6% of all days in a year, not counting sick time, half-days for errands, etc.

Joe Biden has not taken appreciably more time off than his skilled and experience counterparts in other professions. As the presidency is a 24/7 job, the time off is just broken up and distributed differently. Not to mention, of course, that the president is never actually on vacation. Like major executives in the private sector, every "vacation" is really a "working vacation" anyway.

Posted by: Your Kid's Mass Communications Professor at August 21, 2023 08:58 AM (kBSKe)

256 C40 cities:

"The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle."

All the usuall suspects. Since banning guns has worked out so well for them all, I guess this is the next step: ban people!

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 08:58 AM (Rbu5d)

257 Your rations can be supplemented by bugs. And you can consume any rats you catch without it affecting your ration amount for now.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 08:58 AM (O1z4v)

258 If the GOP candidates actually produced policies that people wanted, people would flood the polls voting for the GOP.

Consistently when I talk with LIVs they bring this up. Nothing changes if they vote for GOPe or Dem. And they aren't wrong in general.

Imagine McVain or Romneycare win their elections. Does much change besides which clients are getting paid off? Not really.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 08:58 AM (lc5cP)

259 My hunch is it would cost more in fees to insurance people and lawyers to re-route those vessels than the time saved is worth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2023 08:58 AM (APnMS)

260 DeSantis seems to have followed Hilary into blaming deplorables for his lack of success. Will he accuse of Trump of Collusion with some nefarious Bond Villain next?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 08:59 AM (DmtxH)

261 253 They want us on WW2 rations -- the ones the Germans and Japanese gave to prisoners and what you got in the gulag.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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The Germans > than the Japanese rations. Geneva Conventions probably made the difference as Japan was not a signatory. The Red Cross system in Europe probably saved a lot of GI's in Axis prison camps though as well.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 08:57 AM (gQdmS)

I meant the rations in death camps and death marches.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 08:59 AM (x0n13)

262 @57 Aetius451AD-"There is a sense and has been for the past 6 years among the NTers, GOPe types and consultants that the rabid Trump fan is a distinct minority."

Two separate articles over a month ago at your usual GOPe sites said this very thing, basically never mind the Cult Of Trump people, they're an insignificant minority. Even seen a comment here eluding to the same thing last week during a T vs D dust up. Between what DeSantis said(listlesss vessels) and what you point out, nothing like giving a block of voters reason(s) to not turn out and vote for a candidate. I believe DeSantis will be the nominee, will go down in flames to whoever the D is, and mark my words, Only Trumpers will be blamed for the loss because they didn't turn out.

Posted by: JROD at August 21, 2023 08:59 AM (IlL6s)

263 Very simple: Trump can’t win. 65% already against him. That’s before Dems launch barrage after getting him nominated. If we finally grasp that, his support will collapse. If not, we lose everything, and Dems use majorities to remake Supreme Court. Nominate him if you want, but that’s reality.

That guy is an idiot. NRO.

That's just a personal attack, not a refutation.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 08:59 AM (I/Qkd)

264 Andy McCarthy is a perfect example of a smart, credentialed person turning into a drooling idiot when the topic turns to Trump

People in his line of work will say, and even try to believe, what they are paid for.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 08:59 AM (lc5cP)

265 @29

>>He just needs some more research on the topic.

Vivek is not going to be President, yet.

He's simply auditioning for VP, he'll be fine.

And in many respects, Trump not doing the debate is going to help flush out and flush down the toilet a lot of the effluent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 08:59 AM (pvv6Z)

266 I've seen what the rich are up to, I'm not really all that against feeding them to their own.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2023 09:00 AM (896Tz)

267 That's just a personal attack, not a refutation.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 08:59 AM (I/Qkd)

This is Abuse. Argument is down the hall to the left.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2023 09:00 AM (APnMS)

268 Ramaswamy actually had a pretty thoughtful plan on Israel. But that doesn't fit into a click bait headline.

This is why the GOP loses. Nothing like doing the propaganda work for the other party.

Posted by: Observations at August 21, 2023 09:00 AM (TkpK/)

269 Sooo.....DeSantis produced policies people wanted? He moved that state from purple to bright red.
Posted by: Archimedes
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And DeSantis, for whatever reason, is not succeeding at the national level because promising Trump policies without Trump and better management is not really an inspiring message.

You can get so far with criticism but taking on your own whale donors and your campaign staff is not what most candidates are prepared to do. Right now, the Murdochs themselves are running critical stories about DeSantis in their empire and pleading with Youngkin to get in the race.

Watch Youngkin especially if the GOP wins the state races coming up in 2019.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:00 AM (gQdmS)

270 Lincoln Jay @lincolnmjay Aug 20, 2023
MAUI FIRE: I have been trying to get our drone up in the air for a few days now.

Seems that you need an authorization code to fly near the destruction in Lahaina.

For more http://TheTruthAboutMaui.com

Alexandra Lavoie @ThevoiceAlexa
MAUI WILDFIRE UPDATE:
Roads are blocked, special authorization is required for media to visit the town or even fly a drone.

The police headquarters nearby is surrounded by a black fence.

MontanaGal @RealMontanaGal
They're prepping for biden's visit tomorrow. That's the excuse. But then they'll continue to keep the fences up and the reporters out. IMO.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:00 AM (krqg6)

271 254 Andy McCarthy is a perfect example of a smart, credentialed person turning into a drooling idiot when the topic turns to Trump
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:58 AM (hVHZW)

And he will keep saying he was right all along about Trump as drones hunt the survivors, piloted by tranny operators. 'If you just had not elected Trump- this would not have happened with a Jeb! presidency!'

Hmmm, save that last bullet?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:01 AM (zZu0s)

272 The elite won't give us WWII rations they will just feed us Keto Gummies. We'll eventually starve to death ending our carbon footprint , but we'll look marrrvelous

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2023 09:01 AM (BqPUE)

273 ...put millions under flash-flood watches and warnings as the heavy rain trapped dozens of cars in rising floodwaters in Palm Springs and the surrounding communities...

I guess those drivers didn't think the warning applied to them? [facepalm-springs]

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 09:01 AM (Rbu5d)

274 Sooo.....DeSantis produced policies people wanted? He moved that state from purple to bright red.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 08:56 AM (I/Qkd)

The problem is he seems to be pivoting (with a big “assist” from his Bushie advisors) away from what’s made him successful in FL. He was a MAGA guy and you’d hardly know that now watching him campaign since May… he’s taking bad advice

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 09:02 AM (hVHZW)

275 @264

>>People in his line of work will say, and even try to believe, what they are paid for.

Exactly, the dude wrote a book called, Ball of Confusion, which was about the efforts to get Trump but yet this same putz gives credence to the new and improved efforts to get Trump.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:02 AM (pvv6Z)

276 "The Democrats are doubling down on [fill in the blank]."

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2023 09:02 AM (hNi4N)

277 The Democrats are doubling down on blaming the Maui fires on climate change.

If there was an opposition party they would grab these clips and say something like;

The next time your town, county, or state has a natural disaster do you want someone that will spend hours writing talking points about why it isn't their job to handle the issue or someone who will get water, aid, or emergency services out to your family immediately?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (lc5cP)

278 Sooo.....DeSantis produced policies people wanted? He moved that state from purple to bright red.
Posted by: Archimedes
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And DeSantis, for whatever reason, is not succeeding at the national level because promising Trump policies without Trump and better management is not really an inspiring message.

I'll ask it again. If DeSantis is so uninspiring, how do you explain his success in FL? Oh, that's right, he had a compliant legislature, or something.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (I/Qkd)

279 I meant the rations in death camps and death marches.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Considering the collapse of our food system if they take full power, what they want us is dead because our share of the food will be given to their client groups.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (gQdmS)

280 229 Mannix, aren’t the Cape Horn and Strait of Megellan routes much more stormy and dangerous?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (xTRSc)

281 We are failing to position Ronda Santis for the presidency.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (O1z4v)

282 Conservative War Machine
@WarMachineRR

Michael Bloomberg is funding and co-opting progressive state Attorneys General offices to promote ESG and sue energy companies for “climate denial.”

https://tinyurl.com/mt46xrbz

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (NpAcC)

283 >>Climate change brought down poles carrying electricity because a hurricane was in the area, but there were no hurricane force winds on Maui. Not even close.

Point your finger at lack of maintenance. With socialists that is always the first budget item underfunded to fund the latest pet project.
- - - -
I am noticing a new trend of blame/demonize/sue the electric company for wildfires, and while I don't think they are blameless it's starting to nag on me. Whenever there is a new enemy we're all supposed to now hate I wonder who's behind it/what the agenda is.
Yes, in Hawaii (and CA) they postponed maintenance that caused a fire to start -- but many of the agencies/people in charge made the key decisions that allowed it to rage and kill. What an easy scapegoat!

In Colorado we had the deadly and destructive Marshall fire that 1 1/2 years later the commission has decided to blame the local electric company. This is total BS, there's always been underground fires there, which is why home hadn't been built there until recently. It's the government people who allowed the building there that are to blame, not Xcel Energy - but it's a coverup.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (avru5)

284 The situation on Maui is beginning to resemble the situation in the Capitol City back in 2020.

Fencing, limited access, etc.

It's an op.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (Q4IgG)

285 Very simple: Trump can’t win. 65% already against him.

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Ha. Trick question. No (R) can win.

Trump, however, can get the most votes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:04 AM (QsOFZ)

286 C40 cities:

"The organization is headed and largely funded by Democrat billionaire Michael Bloomberg. Nearly 100 cities across the world make up the organization, and its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle."

All the usuall suspects. Since banning guns has worked out so well for them all, I guess this is the next step: ban people!

Posted by: Question Authority

Bwahahahahahahaha!
No. Wait.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!

I see maybe four cities that will even try.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:04 AM (G8h7g)

287 That's just a personal attack, not a refutation.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 08:59 AM (I/Qkd)

Actually it is. NRO means a mealy mouthed, corporate, eternal loser GOPe mouthpiece in my parlance.

As someone noted above, he toes the line when he needs to and will talk about ethics with his rock ribbed, principled pals like David French.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:04 AM (zZu0s)

288 "He's simply auditioning for VP...."

I keep hearing this. But I don't believe he thinks this at all.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2023 09:04 AM (hNi4N)

289 Naomi Wolf: Pfizer docs show the COVID jab ‘murders babies in the womb’
Naomi Wolf emphasized that the CDC promoted the COVID jab as 'safe' for pregnant women even after knowledge of multiple mRNA shot-induced deaths to unborn babies.

https://tinyurl.com/y899k7yv
(link to LifeSite news reporting on her appearance on Bannon's show)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 21, 2023 09:04 AM (fs1hN)

290 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (xTRSc)

Some of the toughest sailing on the planet.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2023 09:04 AM (/5P9N)

291 I've been watching short videos of people who are quite upset about the cost of...everything.

Seems to me that people are starting to wake up to the fact that everything is gay and retarded.

Makes me wonder what's going to happen next.

https://tinyurl.com/4y7sepeu
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 08:04 AM (8P2/j)

Vote for more Democrats. They always help "people like me".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2023 09:05 AM (GYIa4)

292 The problem is he seems to be pivoting (with a big “assist” from his Bushie advisors) away from what’s made him successful in FL. He was a MAGA guy and you’d hardly know that now watching him campaign since May… he’s taking bad advice
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 09:02 AM (hVHZW)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:05 AM (zZu0s)

293 Illegal immigration is going to be the real issue. Wait until most people get their kids back in school only to find illegals are taking up all the resources taxpayers paid for. That's before they realize local social services are also being completely used for illegal immigrants, state budgets are taking a hit, and crime is demonstrably going up.

The GOP ignores this at their peril.

Posted by: Observations at August 21, 2023 09:05 AM (TkpK/)

294 Watch Youngkin especially if the GOP wins the state races coming up in 2019.
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My view is Youngkin is running for the Senate seat occupied by the Hilary foot warmer named Kaine. Taking out hilary foot warmer McAwful was step one.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:05 AM (yRved)

295 >>Climate change brought down poles carrying electricity because a hurricane was in the area, but there were no hurricane force winds on Maui. Not even close.

Point your finger at lack of maintenance. With socialists that is always the first budget item underfunded to fund the latest pet project.
- - - -
I am noticing a new trend of blame/demonize/sue the electric company for wildfires, and while I don't think they are blameless it's starting to nag on me. Whenever there is a new enemy we're all supposed to now hate I wonder who's behind it/what the agenda is.
Yes, in Hawaii (and CA) they postponed maintenance that caused a fire to start -- but many of the agencies/people in charge made the key decisions that allowed it to rage and kill. What an easy scapegoat!

Both can be right. From what I've read, the power company in Maui spent maintenance money on climate change. So, in a sense, climate change is responsible, as is the power company.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:05 AM (I/Qkd)

296 Vivek Ramaswampy AmIRight?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 21, 2023 09:06 AM (flINI)

297 In terms of the '24 election all that matters is who has a plan to beat The Steal and will execute on it.

Is suspect Trump, RDS, Indian dude, or really any non-GOPer that wins the nomination will get the most votes from living American citizens - we are living in the worst peacetime economy since at least the Great Depression.

But the way to beat The Steal would likely involve things Trump and other R pols have refused to do before.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:06 AM (lc5cP)

298 Your rations can be supplemented by bugs. And you can consume any rats you catch without it affecting your ration amount for now.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 08:58 AM (O1z4v)

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"Save a tree, eat a gopher."

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:06 AM (CYgrT)

299 I'll ask it again. If DeSantis is so uninspiring, how do you explain his success in FL? Oh, that's right, he had a compliant legislature, or something.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Whatever your accomplishments are as a governor, even of an important state, does not make one a good candidate for presidency. Arguably, recently senators becoming president have been horrendous in governance but the last governor for the Dems as a candidate was Bubba Clinton.

Scott Walker is a living testament to that recently but throughout history you can find widely praised governors that accomplished a lot in their states but they fail miserably if they try to run for president.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:07 AM (gQdmS)

300 Idiots and Liars, all. Fox News anchor (don't judge) says over video of the Los Angeles River rushing down its concrete channel, "That is the LA River raging, we haven't seen this in many decades."

Wut? The LA River was sending more water through its channel about 7 months ago, during the heavy winter rain. I saw the video!

Idiots and Liars, all.

Posted by: Gref at August 21, 2023 09:07 AM (AMIL/)

301 I'll ask it again. If DeSantis is so uninspiring, how do you explain his success in FL? Oh, that's right, he had a compliant legislature, or something.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (I/Qkd)

Because then he did one thing, and now seems to have decided his fortunes are above those supposed principles.

Unless they were never really principles to begin with. Just convenient.

Note: I don't think they were just conveniences then, but I think he is being an idiot now. Or turning his coat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:07 AM (zZu0s)

302 @278

>> Oh, that's right, he had a compliant legislature, or something.

Uhm, yeah. Otherwise he would be pissing in the wind as he fought his legislature.

As has been noted, DeSantis has preformed adequately as Governor, there was not rationale for a run in 24.

This is being born out as time goes on.

He'll be doing the equivalent of giving out handys under a bridge in a few years.

He's a political opportunist who chose poorly.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:07 AM (pvv6Z)

303 229 Mannix, aren’t the Cape Horn and Strait of Megellan routes much more stormy and dangerous?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (xTRSc)
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I *think* so - but I'm going of off vague memory that could be wrong anyway. That's why I asked. There must be a reason to sit idle instead of going the long way 'round, I just don't know what that reason is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 09:07 AM (kBSKe)

304 Seems to me that people are starting to wake up to the fact that everything is gay and retarded.

I've had people in the grocery store walk up to me and say things like, "The prices have to stop going up at some point right?"

My stock response? The people raising the prices in DC are still there aren't they?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (lc5cP)

305 No billionaire becomes Governor or Senator to help others.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (O1z4v)

306 296 Vivek Ramaswampy AmIRight?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 21, 2023 09:06 AM (flINI)

Heh.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (zZu0s)

307 Democrats are hoping to cream the Republicans in down ballot races.

I am looking at the big picture as the
Democrats are just waiting to add 2 more states which will erase any chance of the Right ever winning back the House or the Senate.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (NpAcC)

308 e problem is he seems to be pivoting (with a big “assist” from his Bushie advisors) away from what’s made him successful in FL. He was a MAGA guy and you’d hardly know that now watching him campaign since May… he’s taking bad advice

He has certainly had his share of missteps, but I'm not one to dismiss candidates because that's how you end up with no candidates. He has a very strong track record of accomplishments, and that's a big help in getting past messaging problems.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (I/Qkd)

309 Did everyone hear about the wealthy white woman who got in an argument with someone who didn't like her Gay Buttsexxx flag and he shot her?

https://tinyurl.com/2cyo8l9f

Some fashion and Hollywood bigwig. Paul Fieg (the guy who destroyed Ghostbusters) and a bunch of others tweeted out their "healing energy" or whatever.

Weird part? No ID of the shooter, even though the police shot him not too far down the street.

"Laura Ann “Lauri” Carleton, 66, was found suffering from a gunshot wound Friday evening at her store Mag.Pi in Cedar Glen, just east of Lake Arrowhead, a news release from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The suspect, who hasn’t been identified by investigators..."

Wonder why that is?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (QsOFZ)

310 Gov. Gavin Newsom Declares State of Emergency as Hurricane Hilary Approaches California:
"The historical storm, previously classified as a hurricane, put millions under flash-flood watches and warnings as the heavy rain trapped dozens of cars in rising floodwaters in Palm Springs and the surrounding communities."

This so damned predictable. Get a quarter inch of rain, a dozen cars "trapped" whatever the hell that means, and now it becomes a federal emergency requiring untold billions in aid.

They know that this is insulting so they pump up the I AM A VICTIM status by referring to the tropic storm as "previously classified as a hurricane"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (p8A+W)

311 Trump, however, can get the most votes.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:04 AM (QsOFZ)

He needs more 'ballots' than Biden. It's that simple.

Posted by: dantesed at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (88xKn)

312 Some of the toughest sailing on the planet.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2023 09:04 AM (/5P9N)

Use submarines. Duh!

Posted by: Blonde at August 21, 2023 09:09 AM (Angsy)

313 Well, according to sources 20 years ago, the arctic should be ice free by now. They could always go that way.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:09 AM (O1z4v)

314 If I was Donald Trump, why would I debate? They'll ask incriminating questions, then he'll be charged with something his said off-the-cuff during the debate ! F#ck that!

Posted by: Unkaren at August 21, 2023 09:09 AM (LPkjK)

315 DeSwamptis?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:10 AM (zZu0s)

316 "The citizens of Hawaii, a solidly Democrat one-party state, are learning what those of similarly governed urban centers are learning: elect incompetents who forget their first duty is to protect their constituents and you will suffer."
____

Yes, this really sucks. I'll guess we'll just have to suffer then.
*pulls lever for "D"*

Posted by: Democrat voter at August 21, 2023 09:10 AM (fs1hN)

317 "And DeSantis, for whatever reason, is not succeeding at the national level because promising Trump policies without Trump and better management is not really an inspiring message."

Too bad he's not actually doing that. Instead he's casting passive-aggressive aspersions at Trump and his supporters while offering watered-down MAGA. He should have come out strong in moral support of Trump and itemized how he would appoint the people and make the moves to actually "drain the swamp." That would have been inspiring. But Ramaswamy instead is the one who stepped up with that populist message.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2023 09:10 AM (hNi4N)

318 From what I've read, the power company in Maui spent maintenance money on climate change. So, in a sense, climate change is responsible, as is the power company.
Posted by: Archimedes

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I haven't read anything about it, but I'm willing to be $100 right now that it was motivated by government tax cuts, fines, or other incentives.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:10 AM (QsOFZ)

319 Wut? The LA River was sending more water through its channel about 7 months ago, during the heavy winter rain. I saw the video!

Idiots and Liars, all.

I'm always remind of an incident a few years ago. The FNM wanted to play up some flooding and so they sent a reporter to somewhere downtown and put her in a canoe.

And so they had dramatic coverage of her and the flooding. Until some ultra-chad WALKED in front of their camera showing there was about 3 inches of water.

Now, obviously there was flooding - but the FNM had to play it up because if you see people in a canoe you think it is several feet deep.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:10 AM (lc5cP)

320 The biggest part of how DeSantis made Florida red was election reform.

Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2023 09:10 AM (SYTee)

321 My view is Youngkin is running for the Senate seat occupied by the Hilary foot warmer named Kaine. Taking out hilary foot warmer McAwful was step one.

That's the traditional path in VA, but I doubt that's what Youngkin plans. He might be on a ticket in '24, but will certainly be on one in '28.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:10 AM (I/Qkd)

322 We need $1 billion in federal aid to free the trapped cars and provide transition care to children. Now! No time to debate!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:11 AM (O1z4v)

323 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 9h
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📌#Bartlett | #Texas
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https://tinyurl.com/yuy6m6k6
No violence; kids' colour commentary!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:11 AM (krqg6)

324 Since when is fire climate?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:11 AM (yRved)

325 > I *think* so - but I'm going of off vague memory that could be wrong anyway. That's why I asked. There must be a reason to sit idle instead of going the long way 'round, I just don't know what that reason is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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It's probably cheaper for the shipping company.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 09:11 AM (Q4IgG)

326 We are failing to position Ronda Santis for the presidency.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (O1z4v)

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Ronda Romney McDaniel Santis.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:11 AM (CYgrT)

327 320 The biggest part of how DeSantis made Florida red was election reform.
Posted by: davidt at August 21, 2023 09:10 AM (SYTee)

This as well.

And yet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:11 AM (zZu0s)

328 303 229 Mannix, aren’t the Cape Horn and Strait of Megellan routes much more stormy and dangerous?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (xTRSc)
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I *think* so - but I'm going of off vague memory that could be wrong anyway. That's why I asked. There must be a reason to sit idle instead of going the long way 'round, I just don't know what that reason is.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 09:07 AM (kBSKe)

The Horn is legendary for its’ danger and unpredictability… also the route is Thousands of miles longer… the cost and time involved with rounding the Horn cut into profitability… that is why they dug the Canal…

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 09:12 AM (PCK5/)

329 299 Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:07 AM (gQdmS)

I think the common perception is that governors, because of their administrative abilities are supposedly more suited to being president than senators.

Not an endorsement of DeSantis, but merely stating what is the accepted political wisdom.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:12 AM (x0n13)

330 @324

>> Since when is fire climate?

Climate is now the meteorological equivalent of a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (pvv6Z)

331
Less meat for cities = More meat for me

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (bNOU+)

332 321 My view is Youngkin is running for the Senate seat occupied by the Hilary foot warmer named Kaine. Taking out hilary foot warmer McAwful was step one.

That's the traditional path in VA, but I doubt that's what Youngkin plans. He might be on a ticket in '24, but will certainly be on one in '28.
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Possibly. Better to own a Senate Seat than lose a Prez Election. This is very important to Virginians. I can be very happy with Senator Youngkin and Governor Sears.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (yRved)

333 It's probably cheaper for the shipping company.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 09:11 AM (Q4IgG)
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Possibly, but I am curious as to how/why it would be cheaper. Your men are sitting in a ship at full pay but doing nothing, versus sitting in a ship at full pay but making progress.

My guess - but it is just a guess - is that it comes down to insurance (they don't have coverage if they break out and go the long way 'round) or a contractual obligation with Panama. I dunno.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (kBSKe)

334 326 We are failing to position Ronda Santis for the presidency.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:03 AM (O1z4v)
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Ronda Romney McDaniel Santis.
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:11 AM (CYgrT)

You seem to forget it was Trump who endorsed her as RNC chair.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (x0n13)

335 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 11h
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📌#Ventura | #California
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no violence; 25 seconds, skipping the site's logo at the end.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (krqg6)

336
I really don't get out much but this summer I've seen and been re-routed around at least half a dozen utility poles which were being replaced. It's quite a process, no doubt expensive.

Once they start leaning they're a huge potential problem.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (enJYY)

337 The Horn is legendary for its’ danger and unpredictability… also the route is Thousands of miles longer… the cost and time involved with rounding the Horn cut into profitability… that is why they dug the Canal…
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 09:12 AM (PCK5/)
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Right, but the Canal is causing the backups measured in weeks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (kBSKe)

338 Mr Trump, do you regret not walking back your orders to violently overthrow the government sooner?

Do you have anything to say to the family of officer Sicknick, who was violently murdered by your supporters?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (O1z4v)

339 Did everyone hear about the wealthy white woman who got in an argument with someone who didn't like her Gay Buttsexxx flag and he shot her?

Realistically if you want competent local officials you are going to have to be willing to vote them out and vote for the other party occasionally.

Since lefty LIVs, like those that dominate the HI electorate, don't actually associate their votes with the policies they get* though they will get more pain.

*I voted for the guy who is more compassionate and wants to save the earth. I don't see how that could lead to any bad outcomes!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (lc5cP)

340 >>The problem is he seems to be pivoting (with a big “assist” from his Bushie advisors) away from what’s made him successful in FL. He was a MAGA guy and you’d hardly know that now watching him campaign since May… he’s taking bad advice

This. And Trump also has the equivalent NeverDeSantis-ers and both sides are going scorched earth. I would say more than a few within this mix really hate the GOP and want to destroy both of them.

Exhibit A: https://tinyurl.com/yjm8ctuf

Posted by: Lizzy at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (avru5)

341 You seem to forget it was Trump who endorsed her as RNC chair.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (x0n13)

I thought he didn't chose either and said they were both good ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (bs+z0)

342 And DeSantis, for whatever reason, is not succeeding at the national level because promising Trump policies without Trump and better management is not really an inspiring message."

Too bad he's not actually doing that.

Would you guys please settle on a narrative.

Instead he's casting passive-aggressive aspersions at Trump and his supporters while offering watered-down MAGA.

Yes, Trump's a victim. A big old victim.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (I/Qkd)

343 337 The Horn is legendary for its’ danger and unpredictability… also the route is Thousands of miles longer… the cost and time involved with rounding the Horn cut into profitability… that is why they dug the Canal…
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 09:12 AM (PCK5/)
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Right, but the Canal is causing the backups measured in weeks.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (kBSKe)

So the accountants have to make the call.

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

344 Climate is now the meteorological equivalent of a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Also lube!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjizz at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (lc5cP)

345 Trump keeps getting suckered into the "If I back them, they will back me" trap.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:15 AM (O1z4v)

346 tRump said p*ssy! Orangeman Bad!!

Posted by: NPC_11101000 at August 21, 2023 09:15 AM (a3Q+t)

347 Governor's have previous administration's of people they know and have worked with who they appoint to carry out their wishes. Senators only have political machines. Real estate developers got nothin'.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2023 09:15 AM (i9ffA)

348 @334

>>You seem to forget it was Trump who endorsed her as RNC chair

If memory serves me correctly, Trump made no endorsement and said either Harmeet or Ronda Rousey McDaniels would be fine.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:15 AM (pvv6Z)

349 341 You seem to forget it was Trump who endorsed her as RNC chair.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (x0n13)

I thought he didn't chose either and said they were both good ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (bs+z0)

IIRC, he did endorse her over what's-her-name the real conservative lawyer.

And if he did say that, "splunge" is not a good position to take.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:15 AM (x0n13)

350 344 Climate is now the meteorological equivalent of a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Also lube!
Posted by: Pete Bootyjizz at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (lc5cP)

We're certainly getting reemed by it

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2023 09:15 AM (bs+z0)

351 Vivek Ramaswampy

Grassy knoll.

Connect the dots

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 21, 2023 09:16 AM (flINI)

352 @342

>>
Yes, Trump's a victim. A big old victim.

I see we have reached the bargaining stage, that's some progress.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:16 AM (pvv6Z)

353 If memory serves me correctly, Trump made no endorsement and said either Harmeet or Ronda Rousey McDaniels would be fine.

I've seen Ronda Rousey strip down for a weigh in....and McDaniels is no Rousey

Posted by: Joe Rogan at August 21, 2023 09:16 AM (lc5cP)

354 I can be very happy with Senator Youngkin and Governor Sears.

Ditto, I just don't think that's what's going to happen. I would view Senator Youngkin as a lost opportunity.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:17 AM (I/Qkd)

355
I'm not going to get into a pissing contest over either Trump or DeSantis. Both have strong points and weak points.

The issue is the rigged election which neither is likely to overcome.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:17 AM (x0n13)

356 I loved the part where Death Valley, that gets 0.01" of rain per year has already gotten almost 2" .. two centuries of rain

If you're interested in rare flowers, there ought to be a real crop out there when the sun comes back out

Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2023 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

357 The issue is the rigged election which neither is likely to overcome.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:17 AM (x0n13)

This

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2023 09:17 AM (bs+z0)

358 Yes, Trump's a victim. A big old victim.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (I/Qkd)

Never suggested that. Merely pointed out why DeSantis is fizzling.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2023 09:17 AM (hNi4N)

359 Do you have anything to say to the family of officer Sicknick, who was violently murdered by your supporters?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Don't want none, don't start none.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:18 AM (G8h7g)

360 @320 davidt-gotta give DeSantis credit for "election reform" and clearing them voter rolls in Florida. Given that the Trump endorsement got him in the first time and the fact he can't campaign worth a shit it was an astute move on his part. Now we just need to figure out why he has had to change out campaign staff given that his supporters guarantee THIS IS THE GUY THAT WILL MAKE BETTER ADMIN PICKS THAN TRUMP DID.............oh really? The guy can't even pick the right people to man up his campaign staff!!!

Posted by: JROD at August 21, 2023 09:18 AM (IlL6s)

361 He has certainly had his share of missteps, but I'm not one to dismiss candidates because that's how you end up with no candidates. He has a very strong track record of accomplishments, and that's a big help in getting past messaging problems.
Posted by: Archimedes
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We are in the invisible primary now and it is ALL about messaging. Screw it up and you're a dead candidate walking regardless of how much money and insider support you have. Problem is that DeSantis has had several reshuffles and budget cuts already and firing his messaging team is unlikely to benefit him.

I think the GOP race is capable of having a challenger beat Trump but so far DeSantis is simply not showing it and inevitably that support will go to another candidate. I think even the NTers in GOPe realize that Pence is a no sale, GOP Senators are largely crap, but you might get a governor in like Youngkin, Noem, etc. as a dark horse late entry if DeSantis continues to flounder nationally. That Not Trump support is going to go somewhere in 2024.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:18 AM (gQdmS)

362 Honestly, at this point the best thing that could happen, politically speaking, would be for Trump to pull in more ballots than whomever the GOP runs. No Republican will win, but if the GOP candidate is a distant 3rd......

I presume Trump will run regardless of his legal situation, the GOP won't endorse him under any circumstances and the fraud will be sufficient to put whichever stooge the left has lined up for the White House.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2023 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

363 Are we at the 7 Stages of Primary Grief already???? Seems kind of early….

Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 09:18 AM (PCK5/)

364 We get it. Trump is a god. He's bright, articulate, makes great personnel choices, is laser focused on real electoral reform and is a team layer who is going to help all the down ticket races. Nobody can hold a candle to him, that's why he needs to torch all the GOP candidates. I mean, look who he chose to lead the GOP- Rona McRomney, a proven genius.

Posted by: Sarcasm Man at August 21, 2023 09:18 AM (MQDRU)

365 Do you have anything to say to the family of officer Sicknick, who was violently murdered by your supporters?

Hey if Mittens can cause cancer with his eyes why can't Trump cause strokes in people just with his mind?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:18 AM (lc5cP)

366 356 I loved the part where Death Valley, that gets 0.01" of rain per year has already gotten almost 2" .. two centuries of rain

If you're interested in rare flowers, there ought to be a real crop out there when the sun comes back out
Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2023 09:17 AM (RHGPo)

The other issue is the rank incompetence of California government in not having the infrastructure to capture the record rainfall to save it for non rainy days. Instead, high speed rail and woke bullshit.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:19 AM (x0n13)

367 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4 minutes
NEW: Biden heads to Hawaii and will arrive nearly two weeks after ferocious, wind-whipped blazes ripped through the historic town of Lahaina, Maui, claiming at least 114 lives — and likely many more as over 1,000 people are still missing

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:19 AM (krqg6)

368 Trump’s statement about why he won’t be at the debate isn’t wrong. I think his interview with Tucker will draw more eyeballs anyway and I’m glad he’s dissing faux news
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2023 08:09 AM (hVHZW)
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It also stands a 50/50 shot of being more challenging for him, and a 100% chance of being more interesting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 09:19 AM (kspHF)

369 Could someone who knows or is in contact with David Horowitz and let him know his site is garbage. His banner covers the whole page.
Maybe my shit is F'ed up but I can read every other link except Frontpage.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (B705c)

370 I loved the part where Death Valley, that gets 0.01" of rain per year has already gotten almost 2" .. two centuries of rain

I love the part where the highest temperature was waaaaay back in 1913.

With less mechanization & 6 billion less people on earf.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (G8h7g)

371 I thought he didn't chose either and said they were both good ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (bs+z0)

He's been wishy-washy on some of these swamp creatures to the point of idiocy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (hNi4N)

372 367 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4 minutes
NEW: Biden heads to Hawaii and will arrive nearly two weeks after ferocious, wind-whipped blazes ripped through the historic town of Lahaina, Maui, claiming at least 114 lives — and likely many more as over 1,000 people are still missing
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:19 AM (krqg6

Haven't those people suffered enough...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (bs+z0)

373 You seem to forget it was Trump who endorsed her as RNC chair.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (x0n13)

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I actually was gonna -- but was too lazy to -- add "Can't believe Trump endorsed her for RNC chair" ... so Touché.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (CYgrT)

374 "Climate is now the meteorological equivalent of a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Posted by: Thomas Bender"

You would think the idiot lemmings would notice that ALL the effects of climate change are bad. (I imagine places like Russia might actually welcome little global warming) So the climate was so perfect, so well balanced pre-fossil fuesl that any change is a disaster that calls for mass panic and end the the world-ism.

Pure insanity.

Posted by: Ripley at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (KrJTL)

375 BREAKING:
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 35 minutes
WATCH: 'Prosecute Hunter Biden' banner towed by a plane spotted over his father’s Delaware beach house

https://tinyurl.com/ym74f4eb
35 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (krqg6)

376 Isn't "Rods From God" a high-speed rail project ?

Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2023 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

377 I love the part where the highest temperature was waaaaay back in 1913.

In most of the US, and probably most of the world, the highest temperatures *recorded* were in the 30s.

And yes, before all those cars and such the FNM tells us is causing global melting.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:21 AM (lc5cP)

378 Did everyone hear about the wealthy white woman who got in an argument with someone who didn't like her Gay Buttsexxx flag and he shot her?

https://tinyurl.com/2cyo8l9f

Some fashion and Hollywood bigwig. Paul Fieg (the guy who destroyed Ghostbusters) and a bunch of others tweeted out their "healing energy" or whatever.

Weird part? No ID of the shooter, even though the police shot him not too far down the street.

"Laura Ann “Lauri” Carleton, 66, was found suffering from a gunshot wound Friday evening at her store Mag.Pi in Cedar Glen, just east of Lake Arrowhead, a news release from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The suspect, who hasn’t been identified by investigators..."

Wonder why that is?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:08 AM (QsOFZ)

yeah, mrs. showed me that story yesterday, i'm of the opinion that it was unrelated to the pride flag, as the news was indicating.

seeing as how they aren't releasing the perps name, maybe it was, and he's one of those religion of peace types...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 21, 2023 09:21 AM (KZaqS)

379 369 Could someone who knows or is in contact with David Horowitz and let him know his site is garbage. His banner covers the whole page.
Maybe my shit is F'ed up but I can read every other link except Frontpage.
Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (B705c)

Looks fine for me on Safari.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:21 AM (x0n13)

380 I would say more than a few within this mix really hate the GOP and want to destroy both of them.

Posted by: Lizzy
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I hate the national GOP too and to some degree having Trump as the nominee will force some of the GOPe Bush in campaign staffs retreads to the Dems. It would actually improve both parties if they leave. The Dems might have a glimmer of sanity and the GOP might finally turn away from whale donor politics.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:21 AM (gQdmS)

381 NEW: Biden heads to Hawaii and will arrive nearly two weeks after ferocious, wind-whipped blazes ripped through the historic town of Lahaina, Maui, claiming at least 114 lives — and likely many more as over 1,000 people are still missing
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:19 AM (krqg6

Haven't those people suffered enough...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2023 09:20 AM (bs+z0)

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"Stand up, Lahaina! God love ya ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:22 AM (CYgrT)

382 According to the sources, Manuel wanted West Maui Land to get permission from a taro, or kalo, farm located downstream from the company’s property. Manuel eventually released water
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There once was a day when incompetence, especially when it killed innocent citizens, would have resulted in severe, or even brutal, lessons.

Now he is redeployed and has "supporters". Who speaks for his victims?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 09:22 AM (kspHF)

383 Interesting that Biden is spending a week at Tom Steyer's house

maybe we'll see that guy on the Dem/2024 ticket
at least, his money

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 09:22 AM (geLO8)

384 376 Isn't "Rods From God" a high-speed rail project ?
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Yes. Yes it is. They can put a rod within 12 inch Circular Error Probable anywhere on earth. Science!

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:23 AM (OTXUv)

385 4...It never ceases to amaze me that weather people in the middle of the country have to shrug off becomes apocalyptic when it hits NY or LA.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 21, 2023 07:45 AM (MoZTd)

I get a big kick out of snow storms that hit the upper midwest and great lakes region, then travel to the NE. OMG!!! awful snow, apocalypse heading toward NYC!!! But the just shrug and dig out.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 09:23 AM (Rbu5d)

386 @358

>>Never suggested that. Merely pointed out why DeSantis is fizzling.

The fundamental reason The Meatball is fizzing is..

A. There was no rationale for him to run while anyone with a functioning synapse knew Trump was going to run.

B. While he had preformed adequately as Governor, his Florida is Where woke goes to Die, schtick, does not make for national policy.

C. He has less charisma than a potted plant.

D. Endless Triangulation.

E. Silly and inane digs at Trump ostensibly while defending him.

DeSantis simply irritates me now. He'll be gone soon enough or fighting Scott or Rubio for a Senate seat.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:23 AM (pvv6Z)

387 378 Posted by: SturmToddler at August 21, 2023 09:21 AM (KZaqS)

Crazed driver mows down pedestrians in NYC yesterday night.

No ID on the driver.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:23 AM (x0n13)

388 My first thought was "It wasn't about the pride flag"

They are trying to frame it as a gun toting MAGA who walked into the store and shot the owner because she had a pride flag.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:23 AM (O1z4v)

389 The MSM is repeating "114 dead" ; in fact 1400 people, 8% of the population of Lahaina, is missing and unaccounted for. Ashes.

Police cars were set up blocking people from leaving town as it burned.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (i9ffA)

390 BTW Archimedes is not worth talking to. Resorts to dumbass insults when he's got nothing else.

And I love dumbass insults but in certain situations they are pathetic.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (896Tz)

391 Reporter: “How many children are missing?”

Maui Mayor: “I guess we can end this right now, if you want”

Translation:
They know and it is real fucking awful.

I mean BAD BAD. 100s and 100s.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (BRHaw)

392 malfeasance, corruption, greed and racialism as was amply demonstrated in the personages of Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin and Kathleen Blanco, the result was what would've been merely a very bad storm turned into an abject catastrophe

.. we have the same thing playing out in Maui. The local government officials who allowed the disaster to happen, are now trying to cover their butts .. hoping to blame the feds, who aren't really showing up to take the blame.

You can imagine what SoCal will be like. There are already boulders on some freeways from rock slides. Some spot flooding.

Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

393 211 Should be interesting to watch Joey in Maui. Will he bring up Beau's death, his first wife and daughters death, climate change or MAGA? Probably all of the above

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2023 08:48 AM (BqPUE)

Joe and DOCTOR Jill will be on Maui for six hours today, late afternoon to early evening for us in the Lower 48. I wonder how many Hawaiian words and phrases Joe and DOCTOR Jill mangle in their attempt to pretend to be Hawaiian for six hours? I also wonder what fake connection to Hawaii Joe will come up with? Beau visited once before he died in combat in Iraq?

Posted by: Gref at August 21, 2023 09:25 AM (AMIL/)

394 389 The MSM is repeating "114 dead" ; in fact 1400 people, 8% of the population of Lahaina, is missing and unaccounted for. Ashes.

Police cars were set up blocking people from leaving town as it burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (i9ffA)

There were 480 bodies at morgue on Friday.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 21, 2023 09:25 AM (BRHaw)

395 In the Washington DC region they have started naming rain storms and will shut everything down if the winds reach 30mph. I wish I was kidding.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 21, 2023 09:25 AM (flINI)

396 Yes, Trump's a victim. A big old victim.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (I/Qkd)

And by the way, yes, he is. It would be hard to come up with a political figure in our history more victimized.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 21, 2023 09:25 AM (hNi4N)

397 Would you guys please settle on a narrative.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (I/Qkd)

Maybe because there is no narrative. We are a collection of varied assholes, each as unique in our goals, message and style as the next.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:25 AM (zZu0s)

398 No word on cannibalism ... yet...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
WATCH: Dodger Stadium flooded in Los Angeles after Tropical Storm Hilary slams California

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:25 AM (krqg6)

399 Rod of God is a telephone pole sized tungsten spear that is launched out of a satellite and hits a city at Mach 20 or some shit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:26 AM (O1z4v)

400 So are the strikers in L.A. being affected by the flooding?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 09:26 AM (8P2/j)

401 Crazed driver mows down pedestrians in NYC yesterday night.

No ID on the driver.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 21, 2023 09:23 AM (x0n13)

***

Did he leave it at home?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (flINI)

402 Climate is now the meteorological equivalent of a floor wax and a dessert topping.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:13 AM (pvv6Z)
++++
Back when the "TV Land" channel got started, they did parody retro-themed commercials for fake products called "Twip." Twip did *everything.* One variety of it was both pomade and a chip dip:
https://youtu.be/4rWVKASbiMM

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (kBSKe)

403 Republicans rob the middle class and despise the poor. Democrats also rob the middle class and despise the poor - but they still offer the poor a cut of their take, anyway. It's literally the only difference between the two parties.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (0FoWg)

404 How are weeks of delay at the Canal cheaper than an extra week or so of transit around the tip of South America and back up?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 08:43 AM (kBSKe)

I suspect the Tierra del Fuego passage in winter would be unpleasant.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (GYIa4)

405 Maybe because there is no narrative. We are a collection of varied assholes, each as unique in our goals, message and style as the next.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Narratives are for leftists, not for anyone that can actually understand the Aristolian rhetoric/dialectic distinction.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (gQdmS)

406 Hey the people in California wanted Hillary in 2016 didn't they?

Its a little late but...enjoy.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (lc5cP)

407 And I love dumbass insults but in certain situations they are pathetic.
Posted by: ... at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (896Tz)

Dammit, ellipsis. You messed up my 'unique assholes' analogy!

I was going to wax rhapsodic on the unique qualities embodied by all the brown starfish in the sea.

Maybe I should have used boobs as my analogy. Closer to my heart. Nipples come in all shapes and sizes and all are, in their own way, beautiful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (zZu0s)

408 https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/vivek-ramaswamy

Soros group paid for his law school. Look at the rest of it too.
Posted by: Gwenn at August 21, 2023 08:33 AM (9Gr7n)
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First off, troll, it isn't the hedge fund Soros you think it is (George). It's the Constitution-loving estranged engineer brother (who died a long time ago) and his widow. Second, the fellowship didn't "pay for his law school", because the foundation just isn't that big.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 09:28 AM (RcFD6)

409 I also wonder what fake connection to Hawaii Joe will come up with? Beau visited once before he died in combat in Iraq?

Posted by: Gref at August 21, 2023 09:25 AM (AMIL/)

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"Barack invited me over to his estate once. I was surprised at how -- for a black dude -- articulate, bright, clean, and a nice-looking the place was."

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:28 AM (CYgrT)

410 >I also wonder what fake connection to Hawaii Joe will come up with? Beau visited once before he died in combat in Iraq?

Posted by: Gref

Beau was probably killed in Hawaii too at some point
he's died many ways

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 09:28 AM (geLO8)

411 Police cars were set up blocking people from leaving town as it burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo

All of those cars driving across the island would have released so much carbon! If the evacuees had chosen a more mahalo mode of evacuation they would have been allowed to leave.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (O1z4v)

412 'chocolate starfish'?

You know what I mean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (zZu0s)

413 malfeasance, corruption, greed and racialism as was amply demonstrated in the personages of Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin and Kathleen Blanco, the result was what would've been merely a very bad storm turned into an abject catastrophe

.. we have the same thing playing out in Maui. The local government officials who allowed the disaster to happen, are now trying to cover their butts .. hoping to blame the feds, who aren't really showing up to take the blame.

You can imagine what SoCal will be like. There are already boulders on some freeways from rock slides. Some spot flooding.
Posted by: SMOD

Now, if you can, imagine the "Big One" that separates LA from CONUS, dwarfing the San Francisco earfquake.
And what their response would be.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (G8h7g)

414 I also wonder what fake connection to Hawaii Joe will come up with? Beau visited once before he died in combat in Iraq?

Hunter's third favorite hooker lived there for a while?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (lc5cP)

415 Maybe I should have used boobs as my analogy. Closer to my heart. Nipples come in all shapes and sizes and all are, in their own way, beautiful.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I refute thee with Nanzi Pelosi's rack today.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (gQdmS)

416 "Barack invited me over to his estate once. I was surprised at how -- for a black dude -- articulate, bright, clean, and a nice-looking the place was."
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:28 AM (CYgrT)

'I hear he rented the place out to a guy named Thomas Magnum...'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (zZu0s)

417 Did he leave it at home?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (flINI)
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Terrorism without a license! There oughta be a law against that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (RcFD6)

418 REDUXX @ReduxxMag Aug 19
The New York City Commission on Human Rights has been requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to submit workers to annual "gender" training.

The training includes a mandatory video which teaches that biological sex can be changed.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (krqg6)

419 $10 says Biden says 'aloha' and grins most inappropriately

come on, pudding brain- don't disappoint

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 09:30 AM (geLO8)

420 Yes, Trump's a victim. A big old victim.

Posted by: Archimedes
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And by the way, yes, he is. It would be hard to come up with a political figure in our history more victimized.

Posted by: Ordinary American

--

This is probably a decent tool for sorting out the candidates and supporters of candidates.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:30 AM (QsOFZ)

421 I refute thee with Nanzi Pelosi's rack today.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (gQdmS)

If boobs are not observed, do they exist in our lexicon for analogy? I'd say no.

Unless we are discussing bars of soap in a gym sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:30 AM (zZu0s)

422 "Why Are More Americans Than Ever Committing Suicide?"

Partial answer to be found reading JJ's editorial, then the "above the fold" headlines.

Horde morning, good.

Posted by: mindful webworker - in sunny Oklahoma at August 21, 2023 09:30 AM (houjH)

423 @ReduxxMag Aug 19
The New York City Commission on Human Rights has been requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to submit workers to annual "gender" training.

The training includes a mandatory video which teaches that biological sex can be changed.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (krqg6)
++++
And commissar is assigned to ensure compliance, I assume?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 21, 2023 09:30 AM (kBSKe)

424 The training includes a mandatory video which teaches that biological sex can be changed.

Not this shit again.

Eat me...fine.

But using me this way? NOT OKAY MAN.

Posted by: Some Tilapia at August 21, 2023 09:30 AM (lc5cP)

425 @406 18-1 Hillary.......youre spelling it wrong, it's HILARY with one L!!!

So we Californians don't know who the hell you're talking about. I mean, who spells Hilary with two L's?

Posted by: JROD at August 21, 2023 09:31 AM (IlL6s)

426 $20 says Biden sniffs, nibbles on, and gropes a Hawaiian kid inappropriately while there.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:31 AM (lc5cP)

427 'chocolate starfish'?

You know what I mean.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:29 AM (zZu0s)

***

*fish bump*

Posted by: Vivek Ramaswampy at August 21, 2023 09:31 AM (flINI)

428 I refute thee with Nanzi Pelosi's rack today.
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Nancy's rack must be on the floor.

Nancy's rack must be on the floor.

Nancy's rack must be on the floor.

Posted by: an old priest and a young priest at August 21, 2023 09:32 AM (krqg6)

429 The MSM is repeating "114 dead" ; in fact 1400 people, 8% of the population of Lahaina, is missing and unaccounted for. Ashes.

Police cars were set up blocking people from leaving town as it burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (i9ffA)
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Good lord in heaven.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 09:32 AM (RcFD6)

430 $20 says Biden sniffs, nibbles on, and gropes a Hawaiian kid inappropriately while there.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:31 AM (lc5cP)

If there are any kids left......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

431 Malaria looks to be making a comeback in multiple U.S. states

https://tinyurl.com/mryrdc6p

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (8P2/j)

432 Nancy's rack must be on the floor.
Posted by: an old priest and a young priest at August 21, 2023 09:32 AM (krqg6)

Her rack followed the direction of her soul.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (zZu0s)

433 If boobs are not observed, do they exist in our lexicon for analogy? I'd say no.

Unless we are discussing bars of soap in a gym sock.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I simply refuse to search for evidence online confirming my thesis that exposure to Nanzi's rack would drive a grown man to PTSD. Thus, not every boob is beautiful in its own way. In our gender fluid world, that would mean comparing Nadler's moobs with Pelozi for how low can they go.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (gQdmS)

434 425 @406 18-1 Hillary.......youre spelling it wrong, it's HILARY with one L!!!
__________

Take off the second "L" for Likma.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (lf83v)

435 Thanks JJ !

Posted by: JT at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (T4tVD)

436 "Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:23 AM (pvv6Z)"

Face it. You'd have your mouth on Trump's dick and a digit up his ass if you could get that close. It's ok, you can say it. Everybody knows it.

Posted by: Sarcasm Man at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (jJpEM)

437
"$10 says Biden says 'aloha' and grins most inappropriately "

I'm betting on something involving a lei and a very young girl.

Posted by: Ripley at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (KrJTL)

438 I suspect the Tierra del Fuego passage in winter would be unpleasant.

Sitting on anchor is easier on the crew, the ship, the fuel and the insurance.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (p8A+W)

439 'Ramaswammy guys make this rotten world go round!'.

Posted by: Eromero at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (z3WCn)

440 Police cars were set up blocking people from leaving town as it burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (i9ffA)
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Good lord in heaven.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

--

Same as COVID.

They wanted people to die. They need it for what's coming next. I'm certain Biden's visit will involve it in some way. Some Executive Order or such.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (QsOFZ)

441 Yo mama sews socks that smell!!

Posted by: nancy's rack at August 21, 2023 09:34 AM (krqg6)

442 Police cars were set up blocking people from leaving town as it burned.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 21, 2023 09:24 AM (i9ffA)
===============
Good lord in heaven.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 09:32 AM (RcFD6)

Yeah, hmmm. Reminds one of a couple things. For some reason, the Holodomor popped into my head.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:34 AM (zZu0s)

443 I'm betting on something involving a lei and a very young girl.

I didn't know you weren't supposed to tweak a girl's nipples when you put a lei on her. My word as a Biden!

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:34 AM (lc5cP)

444 Face it. You'd have your mouth on Trump's dick and a digit up his ass if you could get that close. It's ok, you can say it. Everybody knows it.

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 21, 2023 09:34 AM (p8A+W)

445 It's always funny how when weather attacks a red area, it's karma, but when it attacks a blue shithole, it's climate change.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

446 Face it. You'd have your mouth on Trump's dick and a digit up his ass if you could get that close. It's ok, you can say it. Everybody knows it.

Is it...getting hot in here?

Posted by: Mayor Pete Bootyjizz at August 21, 2023 09:35 AM (lc5cP)

447 @436

>>Face it. You'd have your mouth on Trump's dick and a digit up his ass if you could get that close. It's ok, you can say it. Everybody knows it.

You sir, are not a great American, may G-d have mercy on your soul.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 21, 2023 09:35 AM (pvv6Z)

448 CBD fall asleep?

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2023 09:35 AM (orrYN)

449 FIIIIIIIGHT!!!!! Kick that mincy little f*gs ass Thomas Bender!!!!!!!!

Posted by: JROD at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (IlL6s)

450 Change your style when you change socks and use a VPN.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (QsOFZ)

451 I simply refuse to search for evidence online confirming my thesis that exposure to Nanzi's rack would drive a grown man to PTSD. Thus, not every boob is beautiful in its own way. In our gender fluid world, that would mean comparing Nadler's moobs with Pelozi for how low can they go.
Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (gQdmS)

I would point to the body of work that I have linked in these pages as truth that many boobs are wonderful.

The exception does not disprove the rule.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (zZu0s)

452 Republicans rob the middle class and despise the poor. Democrats also rob the middle class and despise the poor - but they still offer the poor a cut of their take, anyway. It's literally the only difference between the two parties.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 21, 2023 09:27 AM (0FoWg)

Stealing this- thank you!

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (hAfUZ)

453
Same as COVID.

They wanted people to die. They need it for what's coming next. I'm certain Biden's visit will involve it in some way. Some Executive Order or such.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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Modern gubmint and its ensuing bureaucracy do act like they despise their citizenry and wish them dead for Gaia or some other nutty reason.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (gQdmS)

454 Theory: Biden spends a week at private home in Lake Tahoe so a team of doctors and scientists can perform extended & experimental medical procedures on him to restore some of his lost functions

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (geLO8)

455 Justin Trudeau's Ego @Trudeaus_Ego 12h
Update: My Government will match every dollar donated to help fight the wildfires in BC.

We're asking Canadians to fund 50% of this effort because I've already sent most of Canada's money to Ukraine.

British Columbia is simply asking for more than I can give.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (krqg6)

456 61...a far more sinister shroud to Ozempic and tick bites. ...
-moki

agreed.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ygdxz057KM0?feature=share

Anything (especially these days) touted as a 'wonder drug' shold be rejected, imo.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (Rbu5d)

457 It's always funny how when weather attacks a red area, it's karma, but when it attacks a blue shithole, it's climate change.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)
*****
Yep.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (NpAcC)

458
They wanted people to die. They need it for what's coming next. I'm certain Biden's visit will involve it in some way. Some Executive Order or such.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 21, 2023 09:33 AM (QsOFZ)

He will declare it proof positive of climate change and outlaw energy production in the state of Texas to ensure thousands more die of heat exhaustion to further his cause.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

459 448 CBD fall asleep?
Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2023 09:35 AM (orrYN)

He may want us to work out our T v D shit before the wok gets up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (zZu0s)

460 Democrats are super duper good at handling emergencies.

New Yorkers dying in their cars in a 2023 Buffalo snowstorm.

School buses sitting idle in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

People incinerated in their homes in Hawaii in 2023.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (lf83v)

461 CBD fall asleep?

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2023 09:35 AM (orrYN)

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Did I miss Daylight Savings Time (which we don't care much about here in AZ)?

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (CYgrT)

462 @Joe Mannix...

I'm unable to connect to the system....can you post the art for me?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (/5P9N)

463 This no grading shit is infuriating because it puts kid in red states at a huge disadvantage. They have to compete with Portland kids. Portland kids get straight As for doing nothing though.

Posted by: Montec at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (wsGq+)

464 Thomas,
Projection is a thing. To write it, you have to visualize it and only someone disturbed would visualize that sentence. Says more about the insulter than the insultee.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (gQdmS)

465 >Thus, not every boob is beautiful in its own way.

visualize a couple of bananas gone bad

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (geLO8)

466 Theory: Biden spends a week at private home in Lake Tahoe so a team of doctors and scientists can perform extended & experimental medical procedures on him to restore some of his lost functions
Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (geLO

maybe we get lucky and when they go to reset him by unplugging, then plugging him back in, they forget to plug him back in....

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (KZaqS)

467 In before the Trump Wars!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (aD39U)

468 Reporters aggressively confront the mayor of Maui for not divulging the number of children missing due to wildfires: "You know!"

https://tinyurl.com/325rd7d5

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (8P2/j)

469 I complained I had no Art Thread, then I met a man whose family Rembrandt had been downgraded to "School of" by the Rembrandt Commission.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (krqg6)

470 Democrats are super duper good at handling emergencies.

New Yorkers dying in their cars in a 2023 Buffalo snowstorm.

School buses sitting idle in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

People incinerated in their homes in Hawaii in 2023.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (lf83v)

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Nursing home residents being intentionally murdered in 2020.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (CYgrT)

471 Did I miss Daylight Savings Time (which we don't care much about here in AZ)?
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (CYgrT)

Nah. Not yet. Think it is in... November now? October?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (zZu0s)

472 394 389 The MSM is repeating "114 dead" ; in fact 1400 people, 8% of the population of Lahaina, is missing and unaccounted for. Ashes.
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There are bones and hunks of flesh still available for snuffing out. The DoD Corpse ID Guys are stationed in Oahu. They can figure out whose bones they find in Vietnam, Burma and elsewhere just through DNA. They don't need much DNA to do it with, either.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:39 AM (OTXUv)

473 344 Climate is now the meteorological equivalent of a floor wax and a dessert topping.

Also lube!
Posted by: Pete Bootyjizz at August 21, 2023 09:14 AM (lc5cP)

Spokesman: Hey, hey, hey, calm down, you two. New Shimmer is both a floor wax and a dessert topping! Here, I’ll spray some on your mop.. ..and some on your butterscotch pudding.

Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2023 09:39 AM (RHGPo)

474 @Joe Mannix...

I'm unable to connect to the system....can you post the art for me?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Didja tell 'em who ya were ?

Posted by: JT at August 21, 2023 09:39 AM (T4tVD)

475
https://youtube.com/shorts/ygdxz057KM0?feature=share

Anything (especially these days) touted as a 'wonder drug' shold be rejected, imo.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 09:36 AM (Rbu5d)

Ask Sharon Osborne how Ozempic works for weight loss......

She spent an entire month on the toilet as you would the night before a colonoscopy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

476 In before the Trump Wars!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (aD39U)

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LOL.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:39 AM (CYgrT)

477 467 In before the Trump Wars!
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (aD39U)

Boy, is he going to be disappointed when he reads the rest of the thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:39 AM (zZu0s)

478 Did I miss Daylight Savings Time (which we don't care much about here in AZ)?
Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:37 AM (CYgrT)

Nah. Not yet. Think it is in... November now? October?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:38 AM (zZu0s)

i thouhgt we were officially done with that crap now and it was just going to stay like this for good now?

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 21, 2023 09:40 AM (KZaqS)

479 @Joe Mannix...

I'm unable to connect to the system....can you post the art for me?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Didja tell 'em who ya were ?
Posted by: JT at August 21, 2023 09:39 AM (T4tVD)

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CBD's been fired?

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:40 AM (CYgrT)

480 462 First YD, now CBD.

Mannix is the go-to guy for guys locked out of their offices, seems like.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 21, 2023 09:40 AM (xTRSc)

481 maybe we get lucky and when they go to reset him by unplugging, then plugging him back in, they forget to plug him back in....
Posted by: SturmToddler

Plug him back in and get Microsloth's blue screen.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:40 AM (G8h7g)

482 visualize a couple of bananas gone bad
Posted by: DBvisualize a couple of bananas gone bad
Posted by: DB
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Dammit, that visualization was just not on dude. Did not need mind bleach so early in the day.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:40 AM (gQdmS)

483 Wake up Pixy!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

484 463 This no grading shit is infuriating because it puts kid in red states at a huge disadvantage. They have to compete with Portland kids. Portland kids get straight As for doing nothing though.
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The answer is simple, don't accept Portland students to red state colleges.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:41 AM (OTXUv)

485 maybe we get lucky and when they go to reset him by unplugging, then plugging him back in, they forget to plug him back in....
Posted by: SturmToddler

Plug him back in and get Microsloth's blue screen.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:40 AM (G8h7g)

bargined well and done.

I'll accept this answer

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 21, 2023 09:41 AM (KZaqS)

486 Seven stages of the so-called “nude Tour de France” were banned for public indecency in restrictions which climate activists said was “state intimidation”.

The cyclists are taking part in the World Naked Bike Ride, an annual event launched in 2004 in London and which last year crossed the capital without raising eyebrows. However, since the tour kicked off in Nantes, western France, on Aug 8, local authorities have prohibited seven stages by decree.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:41 AM (krqg6)

487 83...After looking at the link, I could not find what cities they were talking about..
Posted by: tubal at August 21, 2023 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

second paragraph of the link from JJ:
"...its American members include Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle."

Implies international participation.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 09:41 AM (Rbu5d)

488 Nood art.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 21, 2023 09:42 AM (zZu0s)

489 476 In before the Trump Wars!

Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Eh, a minor scuffle and a couple of parting insults. Kind of like a virtual bar fight without an actual fight.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:42 AM (gQdmS)

490 I'm unable to connect to the system....can you post the art for me?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Connectivity in the Maple Syrup rehab facility must suck.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 21, 2023 09:42 AM (a3Q+t)

491 NOODlum.

NOODlum, literally.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

492 Implies international participation.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 21, 2023 09:41 AM (Rbu5d)

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Per Wikipedia, there are 96 cities worldwide.

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:43 AM (CYgrT)

493 Ask Sharon Osborne how Ozempic works for weight loss......

She spent an entire month on the toilet as you would the night before a colonoscopy.
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She could have done that with spoiled chicken wings or a tuna sandwich left in a hot car for a few hours.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:43 AM (OTXUv)

494 >>Dammit, that visualization was just not on dude. Did not need mind bleach so early in the day.

Posted by: whig

shake it off

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 21, 2023 09:44 AM (geLO8)

495 @Joe Mannix...

I'm unable to connect to the system....can you post the art for me?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
******
So, does this mean we can party on the Art thread with french toast and maple syrup?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 09:44 AM (NpAcC)

496 All Americans will be urged by the Biden administration to get a coronavirus booster shot this autumn ahead of earnings calls for Big Pharma, a White House official said Sunday.

Posted by: SMOD at August 21, 2023 09:44 AM (RHGPo)

497 Nood Was there and now gone like the wind.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:44 AM (gQdmS)

498 @489 whig-nobody knows how to have good friendly violent fun anymore. Sad.

Posted by: JROD at August 21, 2023 09:45 AM (IlL6s)

499 AND ... i'ts gone!

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (CYgrT)

500 Lost like watercolours in the rain.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (krqg6)

501 Good lord......now all art is gone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (Zz0t1)

502 All Americans will be urged by the Biden administration to get a coronavirus booster shot this autumn ahead of earnings calls for Big Pharma, a White House official said Sunday.

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hahaha, stolen

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (Oto6+)

503 Monday. Complete with disappearing art.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (G8h7g)

504 We went from old fisherman to naked beach babe?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (lc5cP)

505 The Nood blew up. WTF?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (DmtxH)

506 Lost like watercolours in the rain.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (krqg6)

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"... like boobs in rain."

Posted by: ShainS -- Misinflation, Disinflation, & Malinflation Researcher at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (CYgrT)

507 See you later -- the shower is calling.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:46 AM (krqg6)

508 498 @489 whig-nobody knows how to have good friendly violent fun anymore. Sad.
Posted by: JROD
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Eh, the Brits, Irish, and Scots still have that going for them.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:47 AM (gQdmS)

509 No time to rub one out.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 21, 2023 09:47 AM (DmtxH)

510 BRING BACK THE TITTIES!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 21, 2023 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

511 Poof it's no more.
Now post an art worthy ette painting.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 21, 2023 09:47 AM (NpAcC)

512 All we are is boobs in the rain
All we are is boobs in the raaaaaainn!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:47 AM (krqg6)

513 Ask Sharon Osborne how Ozempic works for weight loss......

She spent an entire month on the toilet as you would the night before a colonoscopy.
----------------
She could have done that with spoiled chicken wings or a tuna sandwich left in a hot car for a few hours.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Gas station sushi.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:47 AM (G8h7g)

514 No time to rub one out.
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Speak for yourself!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 21, 2023 09:48 AM (krqg6)

515 NOODlum

*******

Lately I don't know if I'm coming or going.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 21, 2023 09:48 AM (991eG)

516 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J.

Sadly, it looks like a big opening for understanding & debating water as both a private and public good. The more dominant progressive NGOs have been hankering for it under this administration.
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The Hindustan Times, 08/20/23: (In small part)
"Joe Biden and family have started their weeklong vacation at a $18 million waterfront mansion near Lake Tahoe. The mansion belongs to billionaire Tom Steyer* who is the co-founder of the Galvanize Climate Solutions investment fund." (*See NextGen America founder's* presidential run '19-'20.)

Aside from keeping up with the family's "billionaire" vacations...

WH Face Sheet Today, Monday, August 21, President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will travel to Maui to meet emergency responders, survivors, community members, as well as federal, state, and local officials, and survey the area devastated by the deadly wildfires. The President and First Lady will affirm that our entire nation stands with Hawaii in this time of grief and recovery.

And also, Just the News, yesterday, "If Biden declares climate emergency, experts worry how wide the scope of his powers would be"

Peace.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 21, 2023 09:48 AM (GshMh)

517 We went from old fisherman to naked beach babe?!?
Posted by: 18-1

Lizard man > nekkid ginger > nothing.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:49 AM (G8h7g)

518 During this brief glitch I recommend that you be working on your fish puns.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 21, 2023 09:49 AM (991eG)

519 Fact Sheet

but who cares

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 21, 2023 09:49 AM (GshMh)

520 Nude nood back up.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2023 09:49 AM (G8h7g)

521 My xray glasses keep fogging up and that girl keeps disappearing with all the comments.

Posted by: whig at August 21, 2023 09:51 AM (gQdmS)

522 What in the wide world of sports is going on around here?!?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 21, 2023 09:52 AM (aD39U)

523 If we truly want to safeguard our freedoms and our republic, it's critical we remember what really happened in 2020.
================
It may take an entire generation to overcome the destruction of "two weeks to flatten the curve"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 21, 2023 09:53 AM (z0PWU)

524 I big fart generates a 5.5 on the Richter scale.

Posted by: Fisht at August 21, 2023 10:02 AM (ZRarh)

525 Israel is a first-world country, they don't need our money, what the fuck is wrong with you?

Posted by: OvenCleaner at August 21, 2023 10:03 AM (YU16D)

526 67 >Relatedly, Queens "Fat Bottom Girls" has been canceled from a new best hits compilation

"Rockin' world" hardest hit.

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thankfully, i continue to fly under the radar.

Posted by: Illegal Alien by Genesis at August 21, 2023 10:10 AM (3h7O+)

527 Why is foreign aid to Israel considered sacrosanct? I mean, I get that better them than a lot of the other countries we firehose our tax dollars at, but still. Honest question, because what the hell do I know about geopolitics, but is this about an actual need Israel has for our tax dollars, or more about keeping them on our side of the geopolitical isle? Or is it just taken as a given that our firehose of money stays on and they deserve a gulp or two because why not?

Posted by: Handshakes at August 21, 2023 10:23 AM (dX2K6)

528 Why is foreign aid to Israel considered sacrosanct?

Sacrosanct, no. I support them because they are an ally in a difficult region for us with an excellent intelligence network. Most of the money we give them comes back to support our MIC, and they have many defense products and concepts on the cutting edge that we can use for in exchange for what is a trivial amount of money.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 21, 2023 10:46 AM (aD39U)

529 The Supreme Court Is Taking Up Another Major Second Amendment Case. Here's What You Need To Know

Restraining orders are given out like candy in Kalifornia. I was peripherally involved and was accused of harrassment because I was involved in a legal case. I did not contact the individual except in court. Yet that other individual lied about it. Fortunately, it was not immediately put in place on me until it could be decided at the hearing two or three weeks later, but is not the case for many.
As for the restraining order hearing? The other person did not show up. Was there any punishment of that other person and those that pushed for it? Absolutely not. And even though there was no restraining order in place for me, I had to declare any weapons, under penalty of purjury, I had at MY home.

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at August 21, 2023 01:52 PM (o/F3C)

531 I haven't listened much to the campaign for anyone but was shocked to see Ramaswamy cheerfully presume that the Ukraine War can be stopped by us 'promising to not allow Ukraine into NATO'

No mention of the fact that we promised no eastward expansion in 1992 to Yeltsin, and again near 2000, and in the Istanbul accords and lied each time. No mention of the fact that the cease fire accords in 2014 when Ukraine's army was surrounded were subverted by Ukraine, France, Germany and the US all the way up the start of the war, as Ukraine and France and Germany have all publicly admitted was just a ruse to allow Ukraine to be rearmed to finish the ethnic cleansing of Russians in Ukraine.

The last time I heard someone so shockingly ignorant was when I heard Jimmy Carter in 76.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 21, 2023 02:37 PM (eoQWY)

532 "Trump Doesn’t Deserve A Second Term For How He Mismanaged Chinese COVID"

This is unbelievable. YOU allowed your state governments to shut you down. YOU wanted an excuse to re-open in the form of a treatment.

Yet, YOU allowed your beloved gummint to penalize real doctors presciribing cheap, effective treatments.

Get over yourselves.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 21, 2023 02:46 PM (ryUqI)

533 "I haven't listened much to the campaign for anyone but was shocked to see Ramaswamy cheerfully presume that the Ukraine War can be stopped by us 'promising to not allow Ukraine into NATO'"
======

Bit more to it than that. Certainly it *could* have been stopped by some concessions in the Donbas & a treaty keeping Ukraine out of NATO (or just keeping our early promises as you note.)

Ramaswamy has already offered very substantial concessions for starters (too many for good negotiation perhaps,) and I presume it would involve more than just promises at this point given that the next asshole could just shit on them.

Ramaswamy's not stupid you know. He's being overglib. So are you.

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