The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 8/22/23

Good morning, kids. I find it rather ironic that the Cultural Revolution has taken Stalin's airbrush and wiped out Queen's classic "Fat-Bottomed Girls" from the collective memory. One lyric in particular is rather appropriate:

Left alone with big fat Fanny, She was such a naughty nanny, Hey big woman, you made a bad boy out of me.

Instantly, the porcine, plump punim of a certain Fulton County DA popped into my head.

And then, I thought of the Blob Who Ate Bergen County, aka Chris Christie, aka "Krispy Kreosote" who Crybaby Kinzinger claims Donald Trump is deadly afraid of. Newsflash for this fool: everyone is afraid of Krispy, mostly of not being able to escape the gravitational field he generates by being a halitosis and lipid gas giant, and being sucked into his maw. But I digress.

Last week, I wrote an essay critical of stalwart legal eagle William Jacobson's views on Donald Trump and the situation he faces. Yesterday, Ace vented his spleen and spilled a lot of pixels against the former (and deposed) president. Ditto today my friend and friend of the blog Michael Walsh.

In many ways, if not most, I agree with them insofar as being critical of candidate Trump. To be fair, his outstanding policy victories and successes contrast sharply with some of his more boneheaded moves, especially with regard to his last year in office; in particular the Chinese COVID debacle and how Fauci and Birx bamboozled him and all or most of us into masking up, locking down and allowing the waffer-theen fig leaf of an illusion of election integrity to be totally snuffed out. And the rest as they say is history, which, lookie here! Seems ready to repeat itself.

If we are all in agreement, which I believe we are, that this upcoming election is going to be rigged out the wazoo to prevent any GOP nominee from winning, then why in God's name are we wasting our breath railing against Trump the candidate in an election that will be next to impossible for him to win – regardless if he is languishing in a prison cell or not? Should we not be spending our time and energy rallying around Trump the political martyr?

Granted, he himself doesn't make it easy when he engages in petty politics and personal attacks on Ron DeSantis and others as if he too thinks this is all just slightly more rough and tumble than mere business as usual. Considering everything that happened to him since he came down the escalator in 2015, and will continue to be inflicted on him and his family until the end of time, surely he has to see that America as founded or at least as it operated at the bare minimum of how it was intended to operate has been snuffed out. Infuriating and frustrating to say the least.

So now, he's going to surrender to this Aunt Fanny fascist in Georgia and allow himself to be debased with mugshots as well as be muzzled, lest his bail be revoked and he gets chucked in a prison cell.

This is just regular party politics? This is business as usual? Meh, maybe the focus shouldn't be on what Trump should or should not do given these circumstances. Maybe we should start thinking about what it is that we should be doing. Because soon enough, we'll be looking back at the situation as it stands today as "the good old days."

I honestly don't think I've ever felt more helpless about things in my life. God forbid we get to the stage of feeling hopeless.

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And yesterday, Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants finally shows up in Maui and gives himself a hotfoot. The death toll here is going to possibly top 1,000 people and he's joking around? It's an horrendous tragedy, which is getting either zero press or otherwise is being blamed on "climate change" if not "haoli-supremacy." The stark truth is that every tragedy or catastrophe that has befallen the United States, it is the Democrats and Leftists that either caused it or exacerbated it.Yet, it's the people who have voted for this, time and time again, that in this case are suffering grievously. Along with the rest of us.

One day if they do wake up and try to vote their way out of it, they'll get a cold slap in the face when what happened on election night 2020 happens to them.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Michael Walsh: "You say you want a revolution."
"What Is to be Done?"
"Be prepared for disorder, persecution and chaos in the months ahead."
American Self-Government is Falling Apart
Naomi Wolf: "And on analyzing my own indoctrination."
On Hearing President Trump in Person — And Not Hating It

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

"Patrick Ho, the nominal leader of CEFC’s NGO, was convicted in 2018 for bribing a high-ranking Ugandan UN official for preferential treatment of CEFC in future Ugandan business dealings, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York."
Chinese Energy Firm That Paid Hunter Millions Also Funded NGO That Advised UN On Climate Change, Archives Show
Margot Cleveland: "The corruption has reached new depths, and impeachment inquiries are the only acceptable path forward."
Regime Media Launder Dirty Details of Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal and His Dad’s Filthy DOJ
"In their motion, the attorneys state that Hunter Biden has been informed of and consents to their withdrawal. They express confidence that it will not have any adverse effect on him and affirm their satisfaction with the continued representation of Messrs. Lowell and Jones. Abbe David Lowell of Winston & Strawn LLP will continue to represent Hunter Biden until the conclusion of the matter."
3 More Hunter Biden Lawyers Withdraw from His Case
"Capitol Hill should resist this lie with every constitutional power it can muster."
No, Appointing a ‘Special Counsel’ is Not a License for DOJ to Obstruct Congress
"It’s not some big mystery. The Bidens were selling access and taking bribes — and not even trying very hard to hide it."
Everyone Knows Why Joe Biden Used a Pseudonym: Corruption
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"The former president made his position known about turning himself in via a Truth Social post on Monday." (He should have told Big Fat Fanny to "come and get me." - jjs)
Trump Will Turn Himself in Thursday for Fulton County Charges
William Jacobson: No witness intimidation or communications with witnesses about the facts of the case including through “posts on social media or reposts of posts made by another individual on social media.”
What The Trump Indictments Are Really All About (Hint: Not What You Think)
"This move would not only dispose of Donald Trump, but it would also dispose of Joe Biden."
Can Democrats Constitutionally End Trump’s Campaign?
A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, handed down ten indictments on August 14, charging Trump and other associates over Trump’s efforts to contest the 2020 election results in that state. “If I were a defense lawyer in this case, I would start with that phone call. It’s the most exculpatory piece of evidence,” Dershowitz told Fox Business host Larry Kudlow.
Alan Dershowitz Says Trump Call To Brad Raffensperger Is 'The Most Exculpatory Piece Of Evidence'
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"The use of the term ‘far right’ and ‘populist’ is a defamatory tool meant to delegitimize certain political opinions."
The Specter of the Far Right and Its Hidden Asymmetry
Robert Spencer: "Philadelphia officials are insisting that their young terror suspect was “radicalized on the Internet” and that his plans had nothing to do with Islam, but is anyone there looking into the possibility that his determination to strike against America arose from sources closer to home? Or is such a suggestion so far out of the bounds of our leftist-dominated public discourse today that Philly officials wouldn’t dare even allow themselves to think it? Has no one considered the fact that all the hateful and divisive rhetoric pouring forth from the left, as well as from some Muslim leaders, is inevitably going to be taken seriously by someone?"
Far-Left Philly Lawyer Shocked, Shocked to Discover His Son Is Accused Terrorist
"More laws will not solve the real problem: the fundamental spiritual or moral decay in American society."
Weak Solutions for Government Corruption
“This raises serious fiduciary, antitrust, and conflict-of-interest concerns. As President I will cut off the real hand that guides the ESG movement – not the invisible hand of the free market, but the invisible fist of government itself,” said the tech entrepreneur, a previously unknown figure who has now pulled ahead of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in multiple polls.
BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street Are ‘Most Powerful Cartel in History’, Says Vivek
MAUI WILDFIRE DISASTER & DISASTROUS GOVT. RESPONSE
"The moment occurred on Monday as the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] mingled with a first responder, prompting laughter from people nearby." (Tell that to relatives of the 800-plus missing people - jjs)
Watch – Biden Jokes About the "Hot Ground" While Visiting Maui Wildfires: "You Guys Catch the Boots Here?"
Daniel Greenfield: "Instead of preparing for wildfires, Hawaii was busy going 'green.'"
Climate Change Didn’t Cause the Maui Fires, Environmentalists Did
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“As I have said numerous times in the last week, it is not a crime in America to be a reporter. These affidavits prove that the only so-called ‘crime’ Chief Cody was investigating was being a reporter.”
Police Chief Allegedly Identified Theft in Affidavits to Justify Marion County Record Raid
"This is a blatant example of an obstruction of first amendment rights."
Female Athlete Silenced at Library Event Space for Affirming Science
Doocy explained that “if Donald Trump says, ‘everybody knows me, I don’t need to do it’, then Joe Biden goes, ‘everybody knows me, I’m [fake] president’.” (Doocy has a point here, as Ace elucidated yesterday - jjs)
Fox News To No Longer Allow Trump Surrogates In Debate ‘Spin Room’ After Trump Refuses To Show Up
"It’s the dirty little secret of the modern internet age: Increasingly, advertisers are deciding which content you are allowed to read, listen to, and discuss."
The Top 3 Censored Topics in America in 2023
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Looking to dodge rampant crime, stiff taxes and an increasingly exorbitant cost of living, 158 fed-up financial firms representing a whopping $993 billion in assets have packed up and left the Big Apple, taking thousands of high-paid employees with them, the data shows."
New York Loses $1 Trillion in Wall Street Business as Firms Flee the City: Report
"What has become of USAA?"
The Decline and Fall of a Once Great Company
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"After test-driving one for an entire week, we learned we will never buy a Tesla or any electric vehicle as long as we have the option of gas-powered cars or even hybrids."
I Rented a Tesla for a Week and am Totally Sold on Gas-Powered Cars
"Regulators move to phase out gas furnaces for an electric-powered appliance that will raise costs, cause more climate damage per pound than carbon—and won’t even keep people warm."
California’s Heat-Pump Fantasy
Robert Zimmerman: "While computer models have some value in helping climate scientists understand how the climate functions, the models are not research. Each is simply a computer programmer’s attempt to create a model that simulates the atmosphere."
It is Time to Devalue the Software Research of Climate Models
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Welcome to Leftism."
New York Reform Laws Allow Illegal Alien to Brutally Rape Woman
The migrants didn't kill themselves . . . - jjs
NYC Wants To Shove Migrants In Shuttered Jeffrey Epstein Jail
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"The 29-year-old Honda Accord driver, whose name has not been officially released, is believed to have been suffering a mental-health episode at the time and has since been hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation, sources said." (Religion of Peace peacenik or random wackadoo? - jjs)
Hit-and-Run Driver Told Police "It's In God's Hands" After Hitting Seven Pedestrians in Midtown Manhattan and Crashing in Queens: Cops
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Lionsgate is requiring employees who physically work at its headquarters in Santa Monica to wear masks at all times when in the building, effective immediately, except when alone in an enclosed office or large open workspace. In addition, employees are required to submit to daily [Chinese] COVID testing and to report the results to the company, according to an internal memo obtained by Deadline."
Chinese COVID Mandates Return to Hollywood: Lionsgate Requires Employees to Mask Up, Submit to Daily Testing
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Labor union representing principals joins with CAIR in blasting school district, with principals union saying the school district was publicly claiming it wasn’t indoctrinating kids, then forcing staff to do it anyway and take the heat."
Muslim Group, Principals Union Say School System Lied To Stop Parents From Opting Their Children Out Of Transgender Lessons
"Several school districts within Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas will be operating on a four-day class schedule in an effort to retain and address a shortage of teachers within the education system and state. As of May 8, 850 school districts had moved to a four-day week or a later start time since 2019, a move intended to improve student’s mental health, cut spending and combat teacher shortages."
Schools Increasingly Shift To Four-Day Week To Appease Disgruntled Teachers
"A lot is riding on Gov. Ron DeSantis’ effort to transform a single, small state college into one that is not a bastion of leftist orthodoxy."
Lawsuit Against New College of Florida is About Maintaining Leftist Domination of Academia
"Chinese parents around the country are launching programs and schools to defend traditional values like hard work and meritocracy."
Forging Their Own Path
ABORTION
"The law also made it clear that abortions could only be performed at hospitals, not at abortion clinics, which naturally peeved Planned Parenthood. After all, the organization makes money by killing babies, so any limitations directly impact its revenue."
Leftists Melt Down Over Indiana’s Pro-Life Laws, While Pro-Lifers Rejoice
POLITICS
"Only a madman who’s up 41 points would risk that lead by participating in a debate with a half-dozen other candidates who—I’m sorry, but this is true—do not matter."
Donald Trump Is Wise to Skip the Fox News Debate
"The first Republican primary debate of the 2024 cycle will take place tomorrow in Milwaukee—without frontrunner Donald Trump." (I'm watching for the first person to unequivocally stand behind Trump the martyr, not necessarily the candidate, for what is being done to him and all of us - jjs)
What We’re Watching for in the First GOP Primary Debate
Victor Davis Hanson: "Here's a list of what he should actually apologize for."
Actually, Joe, All Your ‘Objectives’ Were Failures
"Even Democrats say new evidence of bribery, if true, should lead to the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] removal from office."
Half of Dems Want Biden Gone if Bribery Charges are True: I&I/TIPP Poll
"I’d rather lose this race and speak truth at every step than win by saying what I’m 'supposed to.'”
Vivek Ramaswamy Op-Ed: My 10 Truths for the 2024 Campaign
Trump campaign and influencers, who have called DeSantis and his supporters every vile term imaginable, are trying to stoke anger over this: “The movement has… gotta be based in principle. Because if you’re not rooted in principle, if all we are is listless vessels that [are] just supposed to follow whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”
Fake Outrage Over DeSantis “Listless Vessels” Comment
“Trump and I share something in common and that is that neither of us does well in a number two position.”
Video: Ramaswamy “Not Interested” In Becoming Vice President
“There is an unprecedented crisis at our southern border. 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.”
Another Texas Democrat Bolts From the Party to Join GOP Over the Border Crisis
Look, Crybaby, there isn't a person alive who isn't scared of being caught in his gravitational field and being sucked into his maw - jjs
Kinzinger: Trump Is "Scared to Death of Chris Christie"
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"Led by Aleksandr Lukashenko, Belarus is officially not a party the war in Ukraine – but it was used as a staging ground by Russian forces during the early stages of the invasion, and now hosts Wagner Group mercenaries who departed Russia following an abortive march on Moscow."
U.S. Orders Americans in Belarus to "Depart Immediately"
"While both sides have made good use of drones, they will likely not become the weapon that wins the Ukraine war."
The War in Ukraine Is No Game of Drones
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Arévalo, a 64-year-old former diplomat and son of former Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo (1945-1951), will succeed conservative President Alejandro Giammattei after his four-year term ends in January 2024, marking a pronounced ideological shift in the Central American nation."
Guatemala: Bernando Arévalo Wins Presidential Race, Swinging Country Hard Left
"Notwithstanding this uncertain future, the Guatemalan people’s victory over the maneuvers of the nation’s elites deserves celebration."
A Defeat for Guatemala’s Elites
"The country’s political mainstream is becoming increasingly authoritarian as it considers whether to ban the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party after it has surged to over 20 percent in the national polls."
Germany Building ‘Mass Surveillance Apparatus’ Similar to the Nazis & Stasi, Historian Warns
"The country’s ticking time bomb economy is nearing the point of detonation." (hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
China’s property crash is becoming more dangerous by the day
"While the Chinese authorities have a remarkable track record when it comes to containing economic crises, the challenges posed by a significant growth slowdown, combined with high debt levels – especially for local governments and the property sector – are unprecedented." (hat tip also to commenter MTF - jjs)
The Debt Supercycle Comes to China
"Now is the time for the United States to bring New Zealand into the fold of a regional alliance."
New Zealand Sobering Up to Chinese Threat
"Canary Island regional President Fernando Clavijo said on Sunday that investigations into the cause of the fire have been able to determine that someone started the blaze on purpose but there have not been any arrests made, according to CTV."
Arson Cause of Wildfires on Spain's Tourist Island Tenerife
"All Londoners are real Londoners, no matter their ethnicity, and Sadiq Khan needs to apologise and stop these desperate, politically-motivated attempts to divide people."
Mayor's Office Says White British Family "Not Really Londoners"
"India first faced Jihad as far back as the 8th century."
Will India Be Able to Withstand an Islamic Assault from Within?
Intervening would, presumably, have been tantamount to a “hate crime.” In such an instance, it’s probably for the best for all involved parties, for their own sake, to lie back and let him tire himself out. Those are Our Values™. This is Our Democracy™. (But "far right" parties must be outlawed? - jjs)
Afghan Migrant Sexually Assaults Incapacitated German Teen on Subway Platform 'for Hours'
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
“It's a moral disgrace for a [so-called quote-unquote "president"] not to have mercy on the people that he serves.”
Afghanistan Gold Star Mom: I Wept, Wanted Comfort From Biden. He Suggested a Photo With Him Instead.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
The Ministry of State Security identified the CIA spy as a 39-year-old named “Hao” and claimed that the case “is under investigation” without specifying if Hao was in police custody, what ministry Hao allegedly helped the CIA infiltrate, or whether or not the Chinese Communist Party believed Hao was the only Chinese national involved in the alleged espionage. The Chinese state newspaper Global Times appeared to identify Hao as a man.
China Claims CIA Infiltrated ‘Critical Unit’ of a Communist Government Agency
"While factors such as poor fitness levels among potential recruits could be contributing to the Pentagon’s recruiting crisis, another likely reason is the Biden [junta's] embrace of DEI ideology throughout the military."
Report: Pentagon To Make Entrance Exams Easier Amid Military Recruiting Crisis
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Robert Spencer: "A heartwarming story from our new America."
Utah Woman Attends Party Without Her Muslim Boyfriend. He Shoots Her in the Leg.
TROPICAL STORM HILARY AFTERMATH
"The storm, which made landfall on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Sunday, was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone but resulted in mass power outages and flooding across Southern California. Over 45,500 customers were without power across the state as of 1 p.m. Eastern, per Poweroutage.us. Over 10,000 of those outages are in Los Angeles County."
Flooding in ‘Cut off’ Palm Springs as Hilary Passes Through: Trapped Cars, Roads Washed Away
"The Los Angeles Times went right to the 'climate change' narrative as part of its storm coverage."
Tropical Storm Hilary Rolls into San Diego with Rain, Winds, and Media Hysteria
MAUI WILDFIRES DISASTER & DISASTROUS GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
"Hawaii governor is still trying to tie climate change into the cause of the wildfires."
Hawaii Wildfires: 114 Confirmed Dead, 850 Still Missing
As he drove toward downtown Lahaina, Biden passed signs that said “NO COMMENT,” “REALLY $7?, “ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS”, and “FJB,” as well as at least two flags promoting the 2024 candidacy of former President Donald Trump.
Angry Maui Residents Slam Biden as So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Brings Lectern and Tiny Table for Water to Hawaiian Rubble
"The false claim did not appear to be challenged by any of the corporate media in tow, traveling with the [so-called quote-unquote "president"]. Indeed since the start of the fatal fires, Joe Biden has actually taken two vacations; including a weekend at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware home, while most recently he has been relaxing at the luxurious home of the radical billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer."
3 Weeks Since Maui Fires Began, Biden Claims He’s "Been There From Day 1"
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The Caucus announced it would not support any funding bill that does not “include the House-passed ‘Secure the Border Act of 2023’ to cease the unchecked flow of illegal migrants, combat the evils of human trafficking, and stop the flood of dangerous fentanyl into our communities.”
House Freedom Caucus Throws Wrench Into Congress' Government Spending Fight
"State's unemployment fund already $20 billion in the red."
Paid to Strike: California Dems Push Unemployment Benefits for Striking Workers
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"To date, Aljazira Capital and Boryung Co., Ltd., have anchored the round, paired with support from an array of diverse backers that include deep-tech venture capital funds and strategic brand partners, positioning Axiom Space as second to SpaceX for the most amount of money raised by a private space company in 2023, based on available pitchbook data."
Axiom raises $350 million in private investment capital
"Of all many cool images I’ve posted, today might take the cake (pun intended) for the best illustration of the alien nature of Mars."
A Martian wedding cake surrounded by brain terrain
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"With so many strong relationships with gay and bisexual men throughout his formative years, it seems altogether likely that Obama did not restrict 'making love to men' just to his 'imagination.'”
Barack Obama’s Gay Fantasies and the Gay Men in his Life
Geraghty, who [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden appointed, blocked part of a state law prohibiting hormone replacement therapy in favor of four anonymous children and their parents who sued the state, arguing the law “is substantially likely to violate the Equal Protection Clause.”
Georgia Ban On Hormone Treatment For Minors Blocked By Federal Judge
"The LGBT movement’s long march through the institutions."
Celebrate Pride?
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
The greatest hit collection also has “We Will Rock You” and “Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy.”
Universal Music Cancels Queen’s Hit “Fat Bottomed Girls” but Keeps “Bohemian Rhapsody”
“It is the talk of the music industry, nobody can work out why such a good-natured fun song can’t be acceptable in today’s society.” (No fun of any kind! - jjs)
Amid Era of "Body Positivity" Queen’s "Fat Bottom Girls" Gets Cancelled
Christian Toto: "Club Random host brags about his political acumen … and then this happened."
Bill Maher’s Self Own Is One for the Ages
"The poli-cultural factors imposed by the left weigh heavily on young victims like Philip."
The Left’s War on Young People
"When little Johnny goes to school this fall, he may face another danger."
Why Johnny Cant Play Tag
"Waverley novels will help one grow up."
Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Inverse to Hollywood’s Barbie
"Sport imitates culture."
America’s National Women’s Soccer Team Reflects a Nation’s Decline
Lloyd Billingsley: "Crucial historical facts concealed."
The Oppenheimer File: Missing Cast and Forgotten Back Stories
HITHER & YON
"The conservative movement will miss him and his illustrious family."
James L. Buckley, 1923-2023, RIP
"The House UnAmerican Activities Committee may have pushed constitutional limits, but Hiss was guilty."
Nixon, Hiss, and the Red Hot Summer of 1948

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:38 AM

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 07:38 AM (BRHaw)

2 G'morning

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 22, 2023 07:38 AM (qPw5n)

3 Morning horde.

What do you bet when India lands on the moon ( maybe) they plant the 7/11 flag?

Posted by: Mpfs at August 22, 2023 07:40 AM (dq9vw)

4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 22, 2023 07:40 AM (ENBF0)

5 Trump is making a huge mistake surrendering to Georgia Stalin. Do not answer the charges, take your default conviction if you must, and if you can't get these charges removed to Federal Court, work the appeal.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 07:40 AM (isarr)

6
The stark truth is that every tragedy or catastrophe that has befallen the United States, it is the Democrats and Leftists that either caused it or exacerbated

A parking lot full of flooded school buses agrees.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2023 07:40 AM (MoZTd)

7 and Guten tag!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 07:41 AM (isarr)

8 Yonder Horde

"Excessive heat warning" here until Friday.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 07:41 AM (Q4IgG)

9
"The conservative movement will miss him and his illustrious family."
James L. Buckley, 1923-2023, RIP

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 22, 2023 07:42 AM (ENBF0)

10 The Left (and Media) can't stand the exposure of an impeachment inquiry. If McCarthy can get the votes for an inquiry, the Left will force Biden to resign now. The 25th is just too cumbersome. This would open up the D primaries.

Otherwise the Left will let Biden run in the primaries to rack up delegates to use to install someone like Gavin or Gretchen, after Biden quits for reasons of health.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 07:43 AM (RqMSv)

11 I just learned that Grover Cleveland's son, a prominent Washington lawyer, represented Whittaker Chambers in the Hiss matters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 07:43 AM (isarr)

12 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 07:43 AM (4oaQY)

13 Change Queen' s Fat Bottom Gjrls to Fat Bottom Trannies and it's a new Hit

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 07:45 AM (4oaQY)

14 Buckle up; apparently Resident Bubble Brain went to Lahaina and told a few jokes. The audience, concerned more with the thousand or so dead (and several hundred children in the group) confused him by not laughing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 07:45 AM (isarr)

15 Exactly, absolutely right, JJ! I wish more people would see it all as clearly as you.

positioning of the deck chairs, or how freshly they have been varnished matters not a bit.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 07:45 AM (vbuLV)

16 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2023 07:46 AM (T4tVD)

17 I honestly don't think I've ever felt more helpless about things in my life. God forbid we get to the stage of feeling hopeless.

I'm already there.

Trump is going to prison, likely to die there. 2024s fraud will be massive - bigly, even - and no-one will do anything about it except scream "Vote harder!"

I hate disagreeing with Ace, but I poked my head in on that awful Trump thread yesterday. He was virulently disagreeing with the thought that what is being done to Trump will be done to any other GOP candidate. And so far as the candidate might be Pence, he's correct.

The problem is, as ever, the precedent. If the left can indict, try and jail Trump on what are essentially nonsensical, invented charges, then they have set the stage to pre-emptively remove any GOP candidate other than the weakest, moistest Deep State stooge.

Donald Trump's indictment and arrest is the test case -the final probe by the left to see whether the right is anything more than bombastic 'muh guns!' nickelfuckers. And yet people continue to believe that once Trump is removed, all will be well.

I've heard of willful blindness, but that is deliberately blinding yourself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 07:47 AM (AW0uW)

18 USAA ain't all that with life insurance either. Per my sister, it takes forever and loads of phone calls from the funeral home to get them to payout.

They suck, lousy customer service.

Posted by: Mpfs at August 22, 2023 07:48 AM (3Bv5R)

19 Biden's handlers will never allow Biden to debate anyone, let alone Trump.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 07:48 AM (RqMSv)

20 I just learned that Grover Cleveland's son, a prominent Washington lawyer, represented Whittaker Chambers in the Hiss matters.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 07:43 AM (isarr)

If I could make every kid today read one book it would be Witness. Second 1984.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 07:49 AM (NxX5S)

21 Doocy explained that “if Donald Trump says, ‘everybody knows me, I don’t need to do it’, then Joe Biden goes, ‘everybody knows me, I’m [fake] president’.” (Doocy has a point here, as Ace elucidated yesterday - jjs)

Fuck debates. They've been a joke since 1960.

What interesting policy or thoughtful position have you ever heard come out of one of those fap fests? 'Debates' are nothing more than a canned event of dumbasses blathering anodyne nonsense until the moment for their 'zinger!' rolls around.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 07:50 AM (AW0uW)

22 Yes MP4, rarely has the ratchet let loose.

Well maybe not Nurse.

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 07:51 AM (wsHtO)

23 @17 Spot on. There's no one in the R field worth having as a nominee who won't get destroyed by Media and the Left. They'll only tolerate token opposition.

DeSantis should have seen this and waited. I'd have told him if he wanted to listen.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 07:51 AM (RqMSv)

24 Listening to Steve Gregory on KFI los Angeles last night. It appears our betters on Maui won't allow anyone but local yokel press to be on the ground now. If you aren't local you have to go to sensitivity training to learn how to be kind the "Hawaiian way."

They don't like the hard questions because they are completely incompetent. The spokeshole is as bad as the one at the WH. The chief of police used to be a Capt in the LVPD. He's a nasty piece of work.

Posted by: Mpfs at August 22, 2023 07:52 AM (3Bv5R)

25 Good morning again dear morons and spot on JJ

Ace venting his spleen his garden-variety elitism against people from the outer boroughs.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 07:52 AM (RIvkX)

26 Fortunately I have a CD of Queen’s greatest hits.

America’s capacity for self-government is falling apart, huh? Well, some Americans constantly acquiesce in the destruction on their liberty, and many people in this country are in fact unfit to be free. (H/t TX Declaration of Independence, 1836)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 22, 2023 07:53 AM (lE1L7)

27 The last debate that mattered was when Ford f'ed up and Jimmy went for the jugular.

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 07:53 AM (wsHtO)

28 Trump won in16 because of the debates. Smart for him to dodge them now.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 07:53 AM (NxX5S)

29 It's be easy to make debates have a topical format and just let the candidates talk. But that would take away the power of the moderators.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 07:53 AM (RqMSv)

30
Debates' are nothing more than a canned event of dumbasses blathering anodyne nonsense until the moment for their 'zinger!' rolls around.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 07:50 AM (AW0uW)

"Debates" are a kind of Nerd Prom for journalists to pretend they're intelligent, impartial and indispensable (none of which are true). Their sole purpose is waiting for a candidate to step on their equipment. They are utterly unilluminating and unnecessary. They should be abolished.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 22, 2023 07:54 AM (MoZTd)

31 Morning again all

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 07:54 AM (BRJFo)

32 Ace venting his spleen his garden-variety elitism against people from the outer boroughs.
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Like the Jersey Shore ladies and Salad Cat!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 07:56 AM (krqg6)

33 The last debate that mattered was when Ford f'ed up and Jimmy went for the jugular.
Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 07:53 AM (wsHtO)

Yep and Nixon sweaty with the five o'clock shadow.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 07:56 AM (NxX5S)

34 Also, they've run out of body bags on Maui. The death count isn't even close to the number they put out. It's forcing the locals to look for their loved ones remains.

This is disgusting on so many levels.

Posted by: Mpfs at August 22, 2023 07:58 AM (3Bv5R)

35 Christopher Roach is correct: boycott the election. Nonparticipation in government and boycotting elections is what led to our successful eviction of the regime of Nicolas Maduro, and now Venezuela is a beacon of freedom and free markets.

Posted by: Venezuelan opposition at August 22, 2023 07:58 AM (lE1L7)

36 [i[I find it rather ironic that the Cultural Revolution has taken Stalin's airbrush and wiped out Queen's classic "Fat-Bottomed Girls" from the collective memory.

$10 says the song "Baby Got Back" is still cool.

Good morning, one and all.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2023 07:58 AM (4olE8)

37 Yea, it honestly doesn't matter who the GOP offers up. They'll lose. With dignity.

Trump has a lot to overcome. IIRC California is going to attempt legislation to keep Trump off the CA ballot. Other states will follow. If Trump is not on the ballot what's his option? Write-in? What kind of numbers does he expect to get with that sort of effort?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

38 https://tinyurl.com/3uctvuty

Robert's Rules Of Order on debates

imagine if presidential 'debates' followed this format

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 07:59 AM (geLO8)

39 OK, all, I've got a training vid to watch. BBL.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 07:59 AM (AW0uW)

40 33: there you go again.

Posted by: Ronald Reagan at August 22, 2023 08:00 AM (lE1L7)

41 It was Mr Peacock, in San Antonio, with the bad employee morale.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 08:00 AM (BRHaw)

42 HOLY SHIT!

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 48 seconds
NOW - Biden appears to fall asleep during a ceremony in Hawaii honoring the Maui fire victims.

https://tinyurl.com/yckprk8e
31 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 08:01 AM (krqg6)

43 This country does not have debates. We could take a page from the real debates in the UK House of Commons, especially as the media is nothing more than an unreliable government mouthpiece.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 22, 2023 08:02 AM (lE1L7)

44 Hawaii is no different than any other democrat run shit hole.

It just looks prettier and smells nicer but death, despair, raycism, rape, hate, slothfulness, grift, rape and the drug fiend lean are all the rage just like Baltimore or New Orleans or Filthadelphia.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 08:02 AM (ae93S)

45 I looked at yesterday's thread. Ace really shat the bed.

Backing Trump is the only play right now. It will at least force the corruption into the open, and it may wake up enough of the nation. If I'm no longer a citizen, but only a subject. I'll know and act accordingly,

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:02 AM (RqMSv)

46 Nothing personal at you, brother JJ.

"MAGA supporters are listless vessels who follow whatever come down the pike on Truth Social.."

- Ron DeSantis

The UniParty, the entirety of our 'beloved' federal gummint and their globalist donors is against you. And Trump. You=Trump. Learn it. Live it. Organize against it.

BTW, there was nothing Trump could do against Covid. Nothing. When you have a majority against you... He fired Comey to start the Drain and here we are six years later with Lawfare. You know what needs to happen but we are too 'civilized' to mention it.

Posted by: Danimal28 at August 22, 2023 08:03 AM (klw0w)

47 Ford's gaffe re Poland was an indication that the public still had some level of understanding of international affairs. Today not so much.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:04 AM (NxX5S)

48 I honestly don't think I've ever felt more helpless about things in my life. God forbid we get to the stage of feeling hopeless.

I wouldn't say that we are "hopeless" in that there isn't a path out of this. We are indeed "hopeless" because no one wants to take that path we all know that needs to be taken.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:04 AM (p8A+W)

49 18: they have gone downhill in recent times.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 22, 2023 08:04 AM (lE1L7)

50 BTW, there was nothing Trump could do against Covid. Nothing.

He couldn't have replaced Fauci?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 22, 2023 08:04 AM (45fpk)

51 Debates are nothing more than the moderator spending 3 minutes accusing all conservatives of ____ and then demanding a yes or no answer before they insist time is up and move on.

Posted by: old chick at August 22, 2023 08:05 AM (sOete)

52 "Hopeless" implies that God's hands are tied. They are not.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 22, 2023 08:06 AM (45fpk)

53
SCIENCE: Women look at women’s breasts as much as men do.

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Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 08:06 AM (QzZeQ)

54 TELLS THE "HOUSE BURNED DOWN" LIE AGAIN...

Breaking911 @Breaking911 11h
BIDEN TO MAUI FIRE VICTIMS: "We have a little sense, Jill and I, what it's like to lose a home. [...] I almost lost my wife, my '67 corvette and my cat."

https://tinyurl.com/fcn2t6hh
1:02 minutes

And now he grew up across the road from a firehall so he's familiar with firemen talk. "... but all kidding aside..."

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 08:06 AM (krqg6)

55 "MAGA supporters are listless vessels who follow whatever come down the pike on Truth Social.."

- Ron DeSantis

Did DeSantis actually say that?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 08:07 AM (BRJFo)

56 I wouldn't say that we are "hopeless" in that there isn't a path out of this. We are indeed "hopeless" because no one wants to take that path we all know that needs to be taken.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:04 AM (p8A+W)
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Correct.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 08:07 AM (adINt)

57 Trump could have simply said, "No!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

58 55 "MAGA supporters are listless vessels who follow whatever come down the pike on Truth Social.."

- Ron DeSantis

Did DeSantis actually say that?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 08:07 AM (BRJFo)

I believe his words were butchered to make them sound worse than they were.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)

59 He couldn't have replaced Fauci?
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 22, 2023 08:04 AM (45fpk)
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Fauci has the worst characteristics of a tick, a bedbug, and a cockroach.

I'm not sure if napalm would have been enough to get rid of Fauci.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:09 AM (YIVH2)

60 I think Republicans should be highly critical of Trump, as his flaws are easily fixed, which will benefit the country, and most basically stem from one thing.

He is ruled by his ego. If someone, especially those who hate his guts, say even the slightest nice thing about him, he seems to fold. Kim Kardashian shook her giant ass at him and almost got him to agree to pretty much the BLM platform of releasing criminals because really their all just sweet old grannies. The same thing happened with the Pledge to Support the Nominee, where Trump said he'd only back Tim Scott, because in Trump's own words "he's said some nice things about me." Yet those who align 99% with Trump get nothing but his ire because they won't anoint him King.

This goes hand in hand with his second flaw, terrible personnel management. He surrounded himself with many of the worst, probably because they kissed his ass. In turn he left in leftist criminals at the head of every department, which is screwing us over. 1/2

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (mUOnp)

61 2/2

Last is prioritizing what to do. He'll have a great idea on things to get done to better the country, but then get distracted and focus something new and shiney. Focus on 2 or 3 issues that actually benefit America. Wanting to produce a lasting peace in the middle east is important, but when you're allowing cities to burn and peace to not exist here, you've lost the major point.

Fix these few issues, make sure to get a VP that fills your gaps and doesn't just mimic you, and dump your self serving son in law, and Trump becomes almost the perfect candidate, at least on paper. But if no one dares to criticize him and bring up these issues, we end up with the same president as last time, one who was good, but could have done a lot more not only policy wise, but when it comes to cleaning out and jailing the rot within the government.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (mUOnp)

62 I find it rather ironic that the Cultural Revolution has taken Stalin's airbrush and wiped out Queen's classic "Fat-Bottomed Girls" from the collective memory.

$10 says the song "Baby Got Back" is still cool.

Good morning, one and all.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2023 07:58 AM (4olE

It's not that good a song by Queen standards.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (NxX5S)

63 It's National Tooth Fairy Day. 🧚‍♀️🦷

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (NpAcC)

64 "Hopeless" implies that God's hands are tied. They are not.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 22, 2023 08:06 AM (45fpk)
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"And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Wherefore criest thou unto Me?! Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward." Exodus 14:15

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (adINt)

65 This country does not have debates. We could take a page from the real debates in the UK House of Commons...

What percentage of people in the FUSA even know the basic rules of debate? How many can even recognize common logical fallacies?

The Bible characterizes mankind as "lost sheep". The secular world describes the same that as Mimetic Theory.

Without a transcendent set of morals and values, society gets them from strong men and propagandists. This makes debating pointless in a post modern world where your truth is yours, and mine is mine.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (p8A+W)

66 It's National Tooth Fairy Day. 🧚‍♀️🦷
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (NpAcC)
-

If I had a quarter for every tooth that came out.

Oh wait. I do!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 08:11 AM (adINt)

67 For anyone keeping up at home:

"The letter warned the agency that misrepresenting data on trusted websites such as the CDC and the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network—jointly created by the CDC and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)—would “damage the credibility of science,” endanger public trust by “misrepresenting the evidence,” and give the public “false expectations” masking would protect them from the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19."

https://tinyurl.com/2brjqzvm

letter here:

https://tinyurl.com/2aeprtls

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:11 AM (dGZeX)

68 Re: Fauci. The Media can turn anyone into a saint. Like St George of Fentanyl. Joe is a great family man ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:11 AM (RqMSv)

69 Kinzinger: Trump Is "Scared to Death of Chris Christie"

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What a ridiculous, obtuse statement. Even from this POS.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2023 08:11 AM (mupln)

70 Possible Question: Are these books appropriate? What place do they have in the classroom?

These books have undergone a rigorous evaluation process conducted by a group of school-based and central office-based staff members, and are approved as instructional materials. All of the content within them is age and developmentally-appropriate. The texts are
directly connected to language arts standards and CASEL competencies, used for social and emotional learning lessons.

used for social and emotional learning lessons.

Translation: Feelings nothing more than feelings. And your kids will leave school as broken, dependent, immature sex toys.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 08:12 AM (BRHaw)

71 So now, he's going to surrender to this Aunt Fanny fascist in Georgia and allow himself to be debased with mugshots as well as be muzzled, lest his bail be revoked and he gets chucked in a prison cell. ...
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Trump is a man being persecuted for political crimes at all levels as a prong in the generalized attack on the remaining vestiges of the Republic, yet he flies his own plane to get indicted and voluntarily goes in to get arrested.

Trump's behavior on this is why he is not the right man for the job (not that it matters). He is too blindered when it comes to American systems. He still thinks that there are good people in government, or that fairness or justice are possible, and that the American Way still exists, and that American Government is something recognizable. Of all people, he should know better by now but he cannot give up the dream. He is a patriot, after all, and has great faith in America - likely, this is a foundational precept that he cannot abandon. I think he still thinks that he can win by continuing the follow the rules of order.

He can't, and neither can anyone else. America as it was is no more, and it shouldn't be thought of in legacy terms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:12 AM (t0OGg)

72 >>>BTW, there was nothing Trump could do against Covid. Nothing.
====================
Nothing was a much better policy choice. Unfortunately, he chose "Two Weeks!" and Fauciism. And "vaccines". Trump screwed the pooch, massively.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:13 AM (gjFWF)

73 Which brings up an interesting point that I hadn't considered.

The masks were part of it to intentionally help spread COVID to the elderly and other shut-ins.

The masks meant you could go and do things normally, remember? You could visit your dying family members without a care in the world so long as you wore that old Garfield t-shirt over your face.

It was a plan to SPREAD the virus.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:13 AM (dGZeX)

74 I've heard of willful blindness, but that is deliberately blinding yourself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 07:47 AM (AW0uW)

Ace has never liked Trump and I remember him going spastic over him in 2015-2016. That's fine and that is his choice. However, it is obvious that candidate quality is irrelevant. It is also apparent the any candidate not approved by the Uniparty is going to get the Trump treatment. Voting doesn't matter and getting in a fight over Trump is stupid. The only reason to vote for Trump is to stick a thumb in the eye of the Uniparty. Otherwise, I plan on only voting on state or lower races in 2014. No sense in playing in a rigged game.

Posted by: WOPR at August 22, 2023 08:13 AM (WFJRS)

75 Heck of a job, Brownie. - Used to kill GopE for 4 years.

No comment. Hot pavement, almost lost my Corvette. Local news story. As opposed to being run as ads to show what Bidet really is.

And you know the left is worried if in 24 they throw Big Pharma under the bus and start talking on how Trump pushed Operation Warp Speed that lead to all these negative health consequences. And given all the sound bites of him talking of wanting credit, that one will hurt with lots of people.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:14 AM (BRhwL)

76 What a ridiculous, obtuse statement. Even from this POS.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2023 08:11 AM (mupln)
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The only person whose political opinions America cares less about than Christie is Kinzinger.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:14 AM (gjFWF)

77 This let's mask up again and get boosted has nothing to do at all with health and safety, and everything to do with the politics of division.

It does two wonderful things for team Biden. It gives his base another sip of the sacramental wine, the Pfizer pfizzy, and the wearing of the mask is the long time you spend after the sacramental gulp praying to your god big guv bro who wants to keep you alive.

And it separates the good and righteous from the unwashed baying mob, who will certainly be acting out their part and saying no no no. The clerisy might even get to jail a few dissenters. Division is good.

Furthermore, it is a terrific distraction.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (nNjvS)

78 That Michael Walsh article is pretty weak sauce.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (f0C9m)

79 @71.

America is a fine place and worth fighting for. I used to believe the first part; I still believe the second.

I expect Trump would agree.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (RqMSv)

80 From the AmGreatness article on self-governance:
In a real sense, for Republicans at least, elections do not matter. A Republican president will not be able to govern if he aims to change business-as-usual in the slightest, even if he somehow wins. The military-industrial complex, the intelligence agencies, and the millions of federal workers, federal contractors, and beneficiaries will not let him make any meaningful changes. As repeatedly demonstrated in Russiagate and numerous other episodes during Trump’s presidency, the defiance of the permanent bureaucracy and its alignment with the narrow partisan ends of the Democrats visibly undermine the reality of self-government.
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Yes. The presidency is a false prize. It doesn't matter. A Republican president might - but only might - be able to retard the advance a little bit. He will not achieve his agenda, even if the agenda is good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (t0OGg)

81 Did DeSantis actually say that?
Posted by: rickb223

“A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual, if all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”

Posted by: old chick at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (sOete)

82 When, there's nothing to do but laugh, you laugh at the absurdity of life... or Taking Pole Dancing to a whole new level:

Instagram Supermodel Dies After Hitting A Lamp Post While Hanging Out Of Car Window Without Top On

A Russian woman, Natalia Bordodina, 35, who was from Moscow has passed away after she was hanging out of a passenger window naked while the driver recordered her on a phone. While she was doing that something shocking happened.

The mother of one let her body hang out and then she ended up hitting a lamp post and dying.

________

Well, she was actually wearing panties, so this part about her being naked is scandalous and scurrilous.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3f3z5y

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (TGPs7)

83 ...believed to have been suffering a mental-health episode...

*******

What does that even mean?

I want my language back!

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2023 08:17 AM (991eG)

84 Trump could have simply said, "No!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

Concur. Why does everything have to be a federal issue? The China Flu Scam should have been addressed State by State, with the looney tune democrat State's locking down and masking and arresting and the almost free but not really free republican States using common sense and ass washing to solve the problem.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 08:17 AM (ae93S)

85 I believe his words were butchered to make them sound worse than they were.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Ahhh. Found it:

“A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual,” DeSantis said.
“If all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”

Don't worry Ron. I won't be following you. Period.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (BRJFo)

86 "This is just regular party politics? This is business as usual? Meh, maybe the focus shouldn't be on what Trump should or should not do given these circumstances. Maybe we should start thinking about what it is that we should be doing. Because soon enough, we'll be looking back at the situation as it stands today as "the good old days."

oh, according to ace, absolutely nothing will happen if she even makes Trump get strip searched on live TV- because everyone hates Trump.

I really tried not to get too pissed off by that thread. Evidently I failed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (zZu0s)

87 Well, she was actually wearing panties, so this part about her being naked is scandalous and scurrilous.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3f3z5y

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (TGPs7)

***

Darwin works in mysterious ways...

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (flINI)

88 "Hopeless" implies that God's hands are tied. They are not.

You are conflating the Hope in the resurrection and the worldly hope that your culture and temporal existence is comfortable.

Furthermore, what is meant by "God's hands are tied"? How do you not know that God is ordaining the overthrow of the Pax Americana Order because of sin - or that it no longer serves His Pleasure?

How many people have already forgotten the Curse in the Garden and its comprehensive implications?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (p8A+W)

89 If I had a quarter for every tooth that came out.

Oh wait. I do!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 08:11 AM (adINt)
******
The average rate is now 6.23.
I know some parents who give 10.00 a tooth.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

90 Same article:
Family formation and total fertility are taking a nose-dive. Spiritual life and community involvement are at an all-time low. And these trends combine to enhance the relative importance of politics. Right now, neither the left nor the right are in the majority, and thus several close elections have fueled dueling narratives of election rigging and foul play.
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And? I'm not being obtuse, I just don't see why this matters. American politics no longer depend - even by mere expectation - on popular support of anything. The federal government is not by, for or of the people in any meaningful way. It's a bureaucratic tyranny now, and that transition was completed during the Trump administration (not that he did it, but that's when it happened or at least became entirely clear).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (t0OGg)

91 59
I'm not sure if napalm would have been enough to get rid of Fauci.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:09 AM (YIVH2)

Challenge accepted.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2023 08:19 AM (4olE8)

92 During Covid, I neglected getting care for some health issues, luckily stuff I got over. The reason for neglect? Covid "protocol" at both the VA and private sector facilities. I'm sure I'm not alone, just a pissed off stubborn old guy. Now, how many people neglected care where it was something serious and they didn't make it? Collateral damage.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2023 08:19 AM (0EOe9)

93 “A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual,” DeSantis said.
“If all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”

Don't worry Ron. I won't be following you. Period.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (BRJFo)

Better in context. Still feels like triangulating shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:20 AM (zZu0s)

94 62 It's not that good a song by Queen standards.
Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (NxX5S)

Perhaps. But their worst songs are still better than a lot of what is out there right now.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 22, 2023 08:20 AM (4olE8)

95 You are conflating the Hope in the resurrection and the worldly hope that your culture and temporal existence is comfortable.

Actually, I'm not.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 22, 2023 08:20 AM (45fpk)

96 Left alone with big fat Fanny, She was such a naughty nanny, Hey big woman, you made a bad boy out of me.

He's saying he was molested. Turned out homo.

Coincidence?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

97 The average rate is now 6.23.
I know some parents who give 10.00 a tooth.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (NpAcC)
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Even the Tooth Fairy is subject to Bidenflation...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:20 AM (YIVH2)

98 It's also,
National Pecan Torte Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:20 AM (NpAcC)

99 In addition, employees are required to submit to daily [Chinese] COVID testing

******

Speaking of suffering a mental health episode...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2023 08:20 AM (991eG)

100 >>>What percentage of people in the FUSA even know the basic rules of debate? How many can even recognize common logical fallacies?

Rules of debate are a vestige of Anglo cultures dating back many centuries ago and so inherently racist.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:20 AM (NxX5S)

101 why in God's name are we wasting our breath railing against Trump the candidate in an election that will be next to impossible for him to win – regardless if he is languishing in a prison cell or not? Should we not be spending our time and energy rallying around Trump the political martyr?

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I completely agree with you, JJ

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 22, 2023 08:21 AM (vHIgi)

102 It does two wonderful things for team Biden. It gives his base another sip of the sacramental wine, the Pfizer pfizzy, and the wearing of the mask is the long time you spend after the sacramental gulp praying to your god big guv bro who wants to keep you alive.

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There are border patrol and TSA whistleblowers who have released nearly identical masking requirements for the future per the feds.

https://tinyurl.com/29azcfm4

September will be the warm up, October will be mandatory. That long lead up is required so that Secretaries of State have time to make mail in voting and other rules to break election laws again.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:21 AM (dGZeX)

103 52 On the other hand, "hopeless" does exist if God decides to not bail out those who've abandoned his. Jerusalem fell, the Israelites had numerous other smakes to the hand when they strayed, and they are the choosen people. Given what the primarily Gentile USA has been up to, maybe all this madness is the punishment God choose after the promise of not using a word wide flood again.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:21 AM (BRhwL)

104 Did DeSantis actually say that?
Posted by: rickb223

“A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual, if all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”
Posted by: old chick at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (sOete)
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What is important is that the quote Old Chick included (and, especially, the video) makes clear his meaning is veery different than the abbreviated quote would have you believe.

IMO, this is just another attempt to manipulate people with fake accusations.

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

105 Not being a doctor or nuffin', but it is my opinion that Joe Biden meets the pure definition of being a pathological liar. It's compulsory for him. He must always be in a state of lying. About his current and past life, about his accomplishments, about his associations, about his family's lives. It's really a spectacle to behold.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (mupln)

106 "then why in God's name are we wasting our breath railing against Trump the candidate in an election that will be next to impossible for him to win – regardless if he is languishing in a prison cell or not? Should we not be spending our time and energy rallying around Trump the political martyr?"

It is normalcy bias. It is hard to admit something you loved, in this case a nation, is dead. The GOP as a party certainly should have been at the forefront of opposition to our descent into totalitarianism and stood against turning Trump into a political prisoner, but it was fully onboard with both. That was utterly predictable, too.

People in general will put up with a police state until it no longer keeps them fed and warm. The day it cannot is the day it is toppled or implodes, no sooner, no later. Given the ferocious level of looting by the hos and The Help in the Congress and Administrative State, it is pretty obvious they at least think that day draws nigh.

I'm appreciative of Trump but he arrived at least a generation too late.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (KSNKu)

107 The average rate is now 6.23.
I know some parents who give 10.00 a tooth.
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (NpAcC)
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It's not the parents. IT'S THE TOOTH FAIRY!!!!!

/gets string. ties tooth to door. puts tooth under pillow. waits for the jackpot prize tomorrow morning.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (adINt)

108 America is a fine place and worth fighting for. I used to believe the first part; I still believe the second.

Depends on the meaning of "fighting for" ? Because if "fighting for" means impotent whining and moaning on social media, I'm not sure who or what is being served.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (p8A+W)

109 "The federal government is not by, for or of the people in any meaningful way. It's a bureaucratic tyranny now"

Agreed. But it's in the open for anyone who's not blind. What the Left is building is not sustainable. We'll be a different country in five years. What that is I can only speculate.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (RqMSv)

110 Trump as a political martyr would be... interesting. He's playing by the left's rules, thus giving their illegitimacy a leg to stand on.

He'd be better off telling his enemies to pound sand.

Yes, that's dangerous. But it might (might) be the spark needed to stir the masses.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (Q4IgG)

111 Otherwise, I plan on only voting on state or lower races in 2014. No sense in playing in a rigged game.

Posted by: WOPR at August 22, 2023 08:13 AM (WFJRS)

Seeing this a lot, and it really is a loser's mentality, and to a lesser extent that of exactly the people we mock, never Trumpers.

Yes there will be a large push to steal the election, but with enough support there is there ability to overcome it, because Democrats will have to justify their extremely inflated numbers in a year when we won't have as much mass mail in balloting.

Following that up is this "I'm taking my ball and going home" rally of those who support Trump only. They scream "America First" but cry when they don't get "Trump First"

I wouldn't be surprised if most of this is an attempt of trolls to depress people who want to make things better. If not it's frankly pathetic and embarrassing how so many have decided they'll just give up already, especially those who always pretend to act like ther tough guy fighters.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (mUOnp)

112 “A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual,” DeSantis said.
“If all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”

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I'm still hung up on his "Biden won" statement.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:23 AM (dGZeX)

113 Same article:
No matter what political tactics make sense, all of us should be as prepared as possible for disorder, persecution, and chaos in the months ahead. Things are coming apart.
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The former is true. The latter might not be. There can be disorder, persecution, chaos and oppressive tyranny without things coming apart. The two cannot exist together forever - the means of maintaining power decay under such a force, and the difference is made up by consuming existing capital (both political and physical) - but the party can continue until the money (metaphorically) runs out.

Until people reach the more or less simultaneous conclusion of, "put out the fire and call in the dog because the party is *over,*" things do not come apart at wider levels. Individuals' lives will come apart, some areas might come apart, etc. - but the system itself persists until it absolutely *can't* anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:23 AM (t0OGg)

114 Ron DeSantis is becoming the Saturn car of candidates-- big promises of everything you want, none of the stuff you hate.

But, at the end of the day, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GOPE

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 08:24 AM (yREPa)

115 Given the ferocious level of looting by the hos and The Help in the Congress and Administrative State, it is pretty obvious they at least think that day draws nigh.

You, I and history are in agreement on this point.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:24 AM (p8A+W)

116 As was mentioned yesterday, this is as close to Hell as believers can ever get.

The other side of that coin is in effect, too. Hard to think that this is nearly Heaven.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:24 AM (dGZeX)

117 The average rate is now 6.23.
I know some parents who give 10.00 a tooth.

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My half brother gives his kids $20 a tooth. Insane. I remember getting a couple dimes, or a quarter. And being so excited to find that change under my pillow in the morning.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2023 08:25 AM (mupln)

118 The only person whose political opinions America cares less about than Christie is Kinzinger.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:14 AM (gjFWF)
*******
Yep.
Although, what's up with New Hampshire a recent poll has Christie in the #2 spot and DeSantis at #4?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

119 >>“If all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”

grammatical errors

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 08:25 AM (geLO8)

120 "Because if "fighting for" means impotent whining and moaning on social media,"

I am sensing a shift. e.g. Many in my family have been rabid Never Trumpers, which surprised me because they run right-of-center. They're grudgingly admitting that things are seriously wrong. It's a start.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:25 AM (RqMSv)

121 Individuals' lives will come apart, some areas might come apart, etc. - but the system itself persists until it absolutely *can't* anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:23 AM (t0OGg)

See also: Soviet Union

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:26 AM (zZu0s)

122 And yet people continue to believe that once Trump is removed, all will be well.

I've heard of willful blindness, but that is deliberately blinding yourself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 07:47 AM (AW0uW)

Scapegoat
"In the Bible, a scapegoat is one of a pair of kid goats that is released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities, while the other is sacrificed. The concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community."

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 22, 2023 08:26 AM (vHIgi)

123 As was mentioned yesterday, this is as close to Hell as believers can ever get.

The other side of that coin is in effect, too. Hard to think that this is nearly Heaven.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:24 AM (dGZeX)

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West Virginia is dangerously close to Washington DC

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 22, 2023 08:26 AM (flINI)

124 oh, according to ace, absolutely nothing will happen if she even makes Trump get strip searched on live TV- because everyone hates Trump.

I really tried not to get too pissed off by that thread. Evidently I failed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (zZu0s)

I was scrolling through the thread on my phone, which doesn't allow me to comment. It was. . .something else.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 08:26 AM (AW0uW)

125
My half brother gives his kids $20 a tooth. Insane. I remember getting a couple dimes, or a quarter. And being so excited to find that change under my pillow in the morning.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2023 08:25 AM (mupln)

Kids of the age of believing in the Tooth Fairy don't really understand the concept of money. A quarter means as much as a $20 in most cases. Giving a $20 devalues money to them and is a bad idea.

Either that or you'll start finding plyers in their toy chest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

126 >Not being a doctor or nuffin', but it is my opinion that Joe Biden meets the pure definition of being a pathological liar.

in which case, he chose the proper career: politics

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (geLO8)

127 ... People in general will put up with a police state until it no longer keeps them fed and warm. The day it cannot is the day it is toppled or implodes, no sooner, no later. Given the ferocious level of looting by the hos and The Help in the Congress and Administrative State, it is pretty obvious they at least think that day draws nigh. ...
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (KSNKu)
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Yes, the government and its officials are acting like they're in end-stage looting, but I don't assume that it represents the end of them per se. It certainly means the end of the fiction that this is a republic or that it is not a police state. It means the end of hidden (if only barely, and usually incompetently) tyranny. It means the end of American legacy stuff like free enterprise and dynamic business formation. It means the end of traditional notions of "property" and "association."

The end of the country as it still pretends to be is nigh. The end of the ruling power structure may not be, and they're just getting while the getting is still good. There will be a shake-up, of course, and the ruling class will probably shrink, but that doesn't mean they're finished.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (t0OGg)

128 oh, according to ace, absolutely nothing will happen if she even makes Trump get strip searched on live TV- because everyone hates Trump.

I really tried not to get too pissed off by that thread. Evidently I failed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (zZu0s)

I was scrolling through the thread on my phone, which doesn't allow me to comment. It was. . .something else.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 08:26 AM (AW0uW)
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Unfortunately for ace, that kind of ranting and venting is the type of thing that *WILL* turn away a lot of readers of his blog. I get that he doesn't like posting about Trump. However, when he does, he has a tendency to let it all hang out, which causes the intense friction in the comments that we've seen recently. I'm at the point where I really don't even want to read the thread if it's about Trump.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (YIVH2)

129 Morn' all... I see Joe went to Hawaii and made the tragedy all about his "sufferings".. I'm just surprised he didn't blame trump for the disaster

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (bs+z0)

130 Seeing this a lot, and it really is a loser's mentality, and to a lesser extent that of exactly the people we mock, never Trumpers.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:22 AM (mUOnp)

Vote Harder! is not a winning solution. Ballot harvesting is not a winning solution. Voting in Federal elections achieves nothing except wasting time, money, and energy. The Uniparty is going to do what it wants regardless of the result. That's assuming they do not rig the result. There is not going back to some glory days of Constitutional order. State and local now are all that matter as the top becomes increasingly repressive.

Ye gods, you pulled out the margin of fraud nonsense. There is no beatable margin. Head in the sand is a good description of your thinking.

Posted by: WOPR at August 22, 2023 08:29 AM (WFJRS)

131 The concept first appears in the Book of Leviticus, in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community."

Posted by: vmom

If only it worked that way.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 08:29 AM (BRJFo)

132 Although, what's up with New Hampshire a recent poll has Christie in the #2 spot and DeSantis at #4?
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:25 AM (NpAcC)
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Honestly, I can say I am completely off polls. I just do not care. If NH wants to eventually vote for Christie I'll scratch my head in confusion but won't care

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:29 AM (gjFWF)

133 Ace is a New Yorker. He can't help it.

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (wsHtO)

134 “A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual,” DeSantis said.
“If all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”

Don't worry Ron. I won't be following you. Period.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 08:18 AM (BRJFo)

Trump's big supporters are just becoming indistinguishable from MSNBC viewers, where they get a clipped soundbite and try to act like it's something so much more.

Being pissed about what Ron says basically admits that you don't actually care about the el being of there country, you just want Trump to win.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (mUOnp)

135
The Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
👀 Ted Nugent Challenges If Michelle Obama Is Really a Woman

"Show me a picture of Mike Obama pregnant and show the two daughters in their youth. Show me Mike and Barack snuggling their infants ... Those pictures don't exist."

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (TGPs7)

136 Kids of the age of believing in the Tooth Fairy don't really understand the concept of money. A quarter means as much as a $20 in most cases. Giving a $20 devalues money to them and is a bad idea.

Either that or you'll start finding plyers in their toy chest.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)
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An early South Park episode had a lot of fun with this idea, where the kids joined a "Tooth Fairy" cartel run by some other kids. There were coordinated efforts among them to maximize profit.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (YIVH2)

137 A lot of the anger on that thread, I think, is fear.
We are all afraid, and hurting, and lashing out.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (vHIgi)

138 ----
Unfortunately for ace, that kind of ranting and venting is the type of thing that *WILL* turn away a lot of readers of his blog. I get that he doesn't like posting about Trump. However, when he does, he has a tendency to let it all hang out, which causes the intense friction in the comments that we've seen recently. I'm at the point where I really don't even want to read the thread if it's about Trump.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (YIVH2)

I mean, we should really all turn against Trump. I mean, he's made poor personnel decisions in the past and for that, we should sacrifice the country and the entire f*cking world to show him how stupid he is. That'll work......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

139 Mornin’, All. Happy Tuesday, the worst day of the week.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (xTRSc)

140 I have to travel today so I’m in and out… but just one thought about Ace’s Trump criticisms (and Michael Walsh’s which I haven’t read; I did read the Ace thread but didn’t comment):

Blaming Trump for his legal problems with commies is like blaming the pretty girl with the short skirt for her rape. Why is anyone mad at Trump?? It’s insane! Should we be mad at a hot, mini-skirt-clad lady for getting raped?? This is all misplaced anger. Everyone here should be mad at the commie prosecutors and no one else.

The fact that Trump is imperfect (duh.. of course) is really beside the point. The totalitarian oligarchs are raping our country (Trump is a surrogate for us) and we complain about Trump’s imperfections and pretend we need more “quality” in our candidates. Like I said…. Insane

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 22, 2023 08:31 AM (xT8gx)

141 My half brother gives his kids $20 a tooth. Insane. I remember getting a couple dimes, or a quarter. And being so excited to find that change under my pillow in the morning.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 22, 2023 08:25 AM (mupln)
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I got a quarter under my pillow for each tooth. By the time the last tooth came out, I (like most kids, I reckon) knew it that the Tooth Fairy was actually my parents. When my last baby tooth came out, I got a good-condition Morgan silver dollar under my pillow - a real gift to mark the occasion since "last baby tooth is gone" is a pretty big symbolic event on the path to being a grown-up and deserved commemoration.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:31 AM (t0OGg)

142 @VigilantFox
👀 Ted Nugent Challenges If Michelle Obama Is Really a Woman

"Show me a picture of Mike Obama pregnant and show the two daughters in their youth. Show me Mike and Barack snuggling their infants ... Those pictures don't exist."
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (TGPs7)

He's not wrong.

There are no photos of such.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

143 I was tormented in to having to view a Chris Christie commercial as he waddles for President...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:31 AM (TGPs7)

144 And yet people continue to believe that once Trump is removed, all will be well.

I've heard of willful blindness, but that is deliberately blinding yourself.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 07:47 AM (AW0uW)
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Scapegoat

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 22, 2023 08:26 AM (vHIgi)
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More like guinea pig.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 08:31 AM (adINt)

145 IMO, this is just another attempt to manipulate people with fake accusations.
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If only DeSantis massive ego would stop him from speaking like a Professor Kingsfield Jr. to students whose heads are full of mush, maybe he wouldn't get caught saying stupid, twistable things?!

Gee. That was fun.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 08:32 AM (krqg6)

146 Ted Nugent Challenges If Michelle Obama Is Really a Woman
"Show me a picture of Mike Obama pregnant and show the two daughters in their youth. Show me Mike and Barack snuggling their infants ... Those pictures don't exist."
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (TGPs7)

Don't look for it, Ted. You may not like what you find.

Posted by: Dr. Zaius at August 22, 2023 08:32 AM (ae93S)

147 If only it worked that way.
Posted by: rickb223

They'll keep trying until they run out of goats

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 22, 2023 08:32 AM (vHIgi)

148 62 It's not that good a song by Queen standards.
Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:10 AM (NxX5S)

Queen, like the Beatles, manages to have dinner of the best songs ever, but many of the worst (We are the Champions, and We will Rock You)

Id say Fat Bottom Girls is on the better side.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:32 AM (mUOnp)

149 "but it is my opinion that Joe Biden meets the pure definition of being a pathological liar."

He's a narcistic sociopath of the highest order.

His father lost the family fortune, so they were reduced to living in a basement, and dad sold used cars. Mom was a crazy harpy. "Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse.”

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:32 AM (RqMSv)

150 114 While is why the big money donors want someone else in the debate. Seriously, look at his record. He was doing all sorts of red meat Conservative stuff for his careeand only after deciding to run for president was he suddenly Mitt Romney. I can get those who think he should have know it was Trump turn (which we all hate the GoPe for) but let's not pretend the GoPe wants DeSantis. He has a long track record of fighting for Conservative social issues that the GoPe wants to side with DeSantis on, but can't publicly say so until they capitulate enough to win over the non existing "New R voters".

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (BRhwL)

151 Trump is too old to be President, in my book, everything else aside. As we see with McConnell, Pelosi and (spit!), Biden, 78 is too damn old.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (gjFWF)

152 133 Ace is a New Yorker. He can't help it.
Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (wsHtO)

So am I. Or was.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (x0n13)

153 @VigilantFox
👀 Ted Nugent Challenges If Michelle Obama Is Really a Woman
"Show me a picture of Mike Obama pregnant and show the two daughters in their youth. Show me Mike and Barack snuggling their infants ... Those pictures don't exist."
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (TGPs7)
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The pictures might exist, and the traditional argument about demands like this is, "they're private pictures of my family and while I am a public figure, I am not public property."

But screw 'em. New rules. Michelle's a man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (t0OGg)

154 128 I'm at the point where I really don't even want to read the thread if it's about Trump.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (YIVH2)

I decided last night that I'm going to pass on Ace's two-minutes-of-Drumph-hate threads completely. The seasonal circular firing squads are substantially more depressing this time around.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 22, 2023 08:34 AM (DTX3h)

155 Joe Biden is one of the biggest liars in human history. He's lied so much, he honestly believes everything that comes out of his mouth because he's NEVER been taken to task for his lies.

He's the most powerful man on the planet, still telling lies. He's been rewarded for his actions.

We're f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

156 151 Trump is too old to be President, in my book, everything else aside. As we see with McConnell, Pelosi and (spit!), Biden, 78 is too damn old.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (gjFWF)

Makes no diff because a) rigged election, b) entire bureaucracy against him/whoever.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:34 AM (x0n13)

157 "Or was."

Exactly.

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 08:34 AM (wsHtO)

158 You had a pillow?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

159 Same article:
No matter what political tactics make sense, all of us should be as prepared as possible for disorder, persecution, and chaos in the months ahead. Things are coming apart.
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The former is true. The latter might not be. There can be disorder, persecution, chaos and oppressive tyranny without things coming apart. The two cannot exist together forever - the means of maintaining power decay under such a force, and the difference is made up by consuming existing capital (both political and physical) - but the party can continue until the money (metaphorically) runs out.

Until people reach the more or less simultaneous conclusion of, "put out the fire and call in the dog because the party is *over,*" things do not come apart at wider levels. Individuals' lives will come apart, some areas might come apart, etc. - but the system itself persists until it absolutely *can't* anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:23 AM (t0OGg)

The US might be the first perpetual motion machine. There is such stored wealth both cultural and financial that it could go on another hundred years.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:35 AM (NxX5S)

160 You had a pillow?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:35 AM (RIvkX)
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Straw man argument?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (adINt)

161 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??

Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)

162 The pictures might exist, and the traditional argument about demands like this is, "they're private pictures of my family and while I am a public figure, I am not public property."

But screw 'em. New rules. Michelle's a man.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (t0OGg)

THE BUSH GIRLS DRANK A MARGARITA!!!!!!!!

The rules only exist for one side.......Michelle has a cock that f*cks Barack. "She's" the only one he sucks off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

163 78 is too damn old.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (gjFWF)

'tis

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (45fpk)

164 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)
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Even if fridge date, they should be fine, let alone shelf date. Smell before scrambling.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 08:37 AM (adINt)

165 So am I. And am.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:37 AM (RqMSv)

166 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??

Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)

You'll be fine. Unless you're not.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 22, 2023 08:37 AM (45fpk)

167 Ace is a New Yorker. He can't help it.
Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (wsHtO)

So am I. Or was.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (x0n13)
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Brooklyn is a little less sus than Queens

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

168 Vote Harder! is not a winning solution. Ballot harvesting is not a winning solution. Voting in Federal elections achieves nothing except wasting time, money, and energy. The Uniparty is going to do what it wants regardless of the result. That's assuming they do not rig the result. There is not going back to some glory days of Constitutional order. State and local now are all that matter as the top becomes increasingly repressive.

Ye gods, you pulled out the margin of fraud nonsense. There is no beatable margin. Head in the sand is a good description of your thinking.

Posted by: WOPR at August 22, 2023 08:29 AM (WFJRS)

Your solution seems to be "just lay down and die"

As I said, pretty sure this is just troll level shit. Because it's hilarious how people say they love Trump ther fighter, but then willful surrender in a heartbeat.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:38 AM (mUOnp)

169 "of not being able to escape the gravitational field he generates by being a halitosis and lipid gas giant, and being sucked into his maw."

Thanks JJ. Its 5:30 here and I'm laughing. What a mind you have. Lol.

Posted by: Big Tuna at August 22, 2023 08:38 AM (SUc4N)

170 The end of the country as it still pretends to be is nigh. The end of the ruling power structure may not be, and they're just getting while the getting is still good. There will be a shake-up, of course, and the ruling class will probably shrink, but that doesn't mean they're finished.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (t0OGg)

The looters are middlemen and they will be finished as rulers when people are deprived of basic necessities. Yes, that may take a while and increased thuggery will precede it, but their voraciousness indicates they know their time is limited. Those they serve will bug out to Davos and New Zealand or wherever at a decent interval. "Ukraine aid packages" are a good tell--if they dramatically increase in size in the near term it will indicate an economic implosion looms on the horizon.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 22, 2023 08:38 AM (KSNKu)

171 I know 85 year old's that still work on cars and function just fine.

I also know 80 year old's that can't remember what they had for breakfast.

It's all about the man, not the age. Trump shows he's just fine, unlike Biden, who's a f*cking vegetable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

172 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??

Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)

EXPIRED! EXPIRED!! EXPIRED!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

173

"Bluto's right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now, we could fight 'em with conventional weapons. That could take years and cost millions of lives. No, in this case, I think we have to go all out. I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part."

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 08:39 AM (wsHtO)

174 Trump might chronologically be 78 but he presents like someone in his 60's. He is too fat though, he needs to lose weight

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 22, 2023 08:39 AM (flINI)

175 If the system is rigged, what's the best way to disrupt the rigged system?

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2023 08:40 AM (SYTee)

176 There is such stored wealth both cultural and financial that it could go on another hundred years.
Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:35 AM (NxX5S)
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I think lefties believe this, and that's why they happily pursue obviously destructive policies. But, of course, destroying America is sadly pretty easy, and they march to that job every day.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:40 AM (gjFWF)

177 I put my faith in God, not man. As far as this country goes - yes, it is hopeless. It's just too late to fix any of the evils that have happened, it has to be utterly destroyed and something new built from the ashes; but what we had will never come back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2023 08:40 AM (S6gqv)

178 The US might be the first perpetual motion machine. There is such stored wealth both cultural and financial that it could go on another hundred years.
Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:35 AM (NxX5S)
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There is a lot of ruin in a country, but I don't think there's a century's worth.

If shit goes *really* sideways, we might be looking at 10 years left, but I doubt it. I think it keeps lumbering along for longer than that. I'm more inclined toward a 30-40 year assumption for now. One of the things that keeps stuff together is the "glue" of tradition and national meaning and perceptions. Trump is a great example of this in that he *still* plays by the rules, even though his persecutors clearly do not. He does so because he has to - being a peaceable American and all that it implies is part of his identity.

This component of identity is less strong with each subsequent generation, but it's still there. It's weakest in the Zoomers, and will likely be *extremely* weak - maybe even gone - with their children. The final collapse may happen with the Zoomers, but I think it's more likely to happen with their kids. So 30-40 years before the echo-Zoomers are old enough.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:40 AM (t0OGg)

179 152 And now you get to vote for Robin Vos's GoP minor league. So, less chance of getting stabbed, fewer food choices in your area and while the Rs may win, it often doesn't feel like it.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:41 AM (BRhwL)

180 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??

Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)

They're good for another couple weeks.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:41 AM (NxX5S)

181 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??
Posted by: dantesed

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Eggs last a crazy long time, but I'm sure there are liability (as well as grocery store stocking and re-stocking contracts) that put the "use in one week" dates on them. Unwashed eggs in a cool, dry place can last for six or seven months.

Crack it into a separate cup if you're uncertain, but I wouldn't think twice about it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:41 AM (dGZeX)

182 "Brooklyn is a little less sus than Queens"

How about The Bronx?

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:41 AM (RqMSv)

183 "The Los Angeles Times went right to the 'climate change' narrative as part of its storm coverage."

I plowed through a book "Return of the Gods" by Jonathan Cahn. The premise is that since Christ's earthly ministry the traditional Ba'al, Morloch, Ishtar gods have been shelved, but (for unclear reasons) are returning in the form of social pathologies and dysfunctions. (e.g. sodomy, greed, pr0n, child exploitation, abortion, etc.)

I think that Cahn was reluctant to point to modern day actual temples of Isis and worshipping of physical idols, but with this clear and continued religious reference to "Climate Change" as an active, punitive, personal god of localized weather and calamity, it appears that we are just a carved image away from reconstructing those "This Age" (the age before 70AD) gods and orders of worship.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:41 AM (p8A+W)

184 NYC and its environs are an unexpected location for several conservative bloggers to have emerged from.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 08:42 AM (Q4IgG)

185 It's weird, but it's almost like eggs were a gift to us.

Nah, just kidding. Lightning struck a mud puddle and the chicken appeared.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:42 AM (dGZeX)

186 Put 'em in a bowl of water.

If they float, they're no good. If they sink, cook 'em.

At least I THINK that's the ole wives tale.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

187 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2023 08:42 AM (T4tVD)

188 Instagram Supermodel Dies After Hitting A Lamp Post While Hanging Out Of Car Window Without Top On

A Russian woman, Natalia Bordodina, 35, who was from Moscow has passed away after she was hanging out of a passenger window naked while the driver recordered her on a phone. While she was doing that something shocking happened.

The mother of one let her body hang out and then she ended up hitting a lamp post and dying.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3f3z5y
___________________________________

I'd hit it...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 22, 2023 08:42 AM (X4yCj)

189
How about The Bronx?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:41 AM (RqMSv)

No one gets out alive.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

190 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)
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Yes.

Eggs are awesome. If you keep the refrigerated, they will last a *long* time. More to the point, when eggs go bad, it's obvious. If you're remotely concerned, keep them separate. Crack it open and put them into separate bowls. Smell them before and after whipping them up (keeping them separate keeps a bad egg from contaminating the rest).

But being less than three months out of expiration isn't really a concern with eggs if they've been kept refrigerated appropriately.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:43 AM (t0OGg)

191 Thx JJ, Morning everyone. Yesterday I questioned prior to Biden landing in Maui, whether he would bring up climate change, Beau dying, MAGA, or his first wife and daughter dying. I was correct about the first wife and daughter but how long he babbled about that was astounding. I did not foresee him bringing up his minor house fire which in his addled brain has become the towering inferno. This man has to be removed via the 25th or Jill the horror show must convince him to resign. I realize this would leave the same murderous administration in place but at least the rest of the world could breathe a sigh of relief that Biden couldn't screw up worse

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2023 08:43 AM (BqPUE)

192 The US might be the first perpetual motion machine. There is such stored wealth both cultural and financial that it could go on another hundred years.
Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:35 AM (NxX5S)

I disagree. For example, organizations like Disney, Target, and FoMoCo look like they have huge amounts of stored wealth. In actual fact, all three are starting to collapse and are unlikely to exist 5 years from now. Many that are weaker will go before they do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2023 08:43 AM (S6gqv)

193 Damn, now I want scrambled eggs.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 08:43 AM (xTRSc)

194
The mother of one let her body hang out and then she ended up hitting a lamp post and dying.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3f3z5y
_________________________

Fake tits do NOT equal high intelligence in most cases.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

195 @184 And a POTUS to boot.

Bridge and tunnel people who couldn't get into Studio 54.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:44 AM (RqMSv)

196 Trump might chronologically be 78 but he presents like someone in his 60's.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 22, 2023 08:39 AM (flINI)
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When the Junta awarded Biden the job they told the world the same thing about him.

But we know for a fact now, 78 is too old for Biden, its too old for Mitch the Bitch, too old for Nanzi and too old for PDJT. The job is demanding; a younger person is required.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:44 AM (gjFWF)

197 I was getting some grocery supplies last night in the nearest market to me, a nine mile slide off the mountain, and a curvy six downstream along the river, to the tiny old tired mill town that was part of the ironmaking biz at the time of the revolution.

Included was a six pack of sour ale, and the young girl at checkout, she and I the only people in the store, asked my birthday. I told her, then looked her in the eyes, me smiling, her waiting, for a fun pause as she waited for the year.

I told her. It was the year of D-day, a month and a half after the big show at Normandy. I said it was a long long time ago.

She surprised me and said she thought it must have been a far better time than what we have now. I said yeah, I was far too young to realize it, but fighting two immense forces of evil, and realizing victory might really be possible, had the whole country thinking and acting together. No divisions. One huge common effort.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at August 22, 2023 08:44 AM (nNjvS)

198 One of the reasons often cited for "no" on Trump in 2024 is that even if he wins, 'they' won't let him do anything.

2016 was Nagasaki.
Trump winning in 2024 will be Hiroshima.

Which is to say, for Trump to win, there has to be complete and total destruction of the current order-- the red wave necessary to beat the fraud will wipe out all but the safest of safe Dems. They will literally be holdouts on remote islands of blue in an ocean of red.

Would it be the same if DeSantis wins? Of course. If you can locate the coalition of DeSantis voters animated enough to sweep up 82 million votes.... So far, DeSantis hasn't found them either ... in fact, he's actively--stupidly--antagonizing better than 30 million of those he desperatly will need.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 08:44 AM (yREPa)

199 It's weird, but it's almost like eggs were a gift to us.

Nah, just kidding. Lightning struck a mud puddle and the chicken appeared.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:42 AM (dGZeX)
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Chickens are proof that G-d loves us. They're dumb, nearly flightless meat melons that crap out eggs and reproduce with abandon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:45 AM (t0OGg)

200 189 Some do, though not all.

Posted by: Warriors at August 22, 2023 08:45 AM (BRhwL)

201 Pelham @Resist_05 Aug 21
UK citizens are furious Sadiq Khan is installing ULEZ (Ultra low emission zones) recognition cameras throughout London. Those who can’t afford electric or late model vehicles will be fined £12 pounds ($15) every time they drive past them.

Citizens are fighting back by taking out the wiring to disable them…

RESIST 🔥 🔥 🔥

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 08:45 AM (krqg6)

202 Included was a six pack of sour ale, and the young girl at checkout, she and I the only people in the store, asked my birthday. I told her, then looked her in the eyes, me smiling, her waiting, for a fun pause as she waited for the year.
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Every year!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:45 AM (dGZeX)

203 Dear Trump haters.

Name his replacement. He's yet to show he can't handle things, even at his age. But you provide the guy that will be better for America, I'll listen.

Shitting on the man for the sake of shitting on someone isn't going to fix a f*cking thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

204 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??

Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)
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Too old? This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Resident Brandon at August 22, 2023 08:46 AM (gjFWF)

205 Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (BRhwL)

No one is going to out Trump, Trump. It would have dumber for DeSantis to try, than to attempt to get some more center voters.

I think his biggest mistep was that he didn't expect Trump fans to be such crybabies that they'd exactly mimic the Never Trumpers.

The big problem is the party is in a tough spot because of Trump's legal troubles. If DeSantis didn't run, and Trump gets jailed or somehow barred from running, what were we going to do, elect Pence or Christie?

DeSantis needs to be in the race as a 2nd choice, as he needs convention delegates to justify being nominated if Trump can't run. Unfortunately Trump's deranged ego, and the somewhat growing disturbing trend of his supporters, can't see that, and are attempting to destroy the only viable Trump alternative incase things go bad before the primaries.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:46 AM (mUOnp)

206 How about The Bronx?
Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:41 AM (RqMSv)
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You mean North Harlem?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

207 Pelham @Resist_05 Aug 21
UK citizens are furious Sadiq Khan is installing ULEZ (Ultra low emission zones) recognition cameras throughout London. Those who can’t afford electric or late model vehicles will be fined £12 pounds ($15) every time they drive past them.

Citizens are fighting back by taking out the wiring to disable them…

RESIST 🔥 🔥 🔥
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 08:45 AM (krqg6)

Yet they'll overwhelmingly re-elect him........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

208 I used to think we still had 30 years - time enough for me to die before I have to live through it - but I've lost that hope as well. I think 5 at the most.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2023 08:46 AM (S6gqv)

209 Instagram Supermodel Dies After Hitting A Lamp Post While Hanging Out Of Car Window Without Top On

Then there were those kids whacking mail boxes w/a bat from a moving car...didn't end well.

Posted by: BignJames at August 22, 2023 08:47 AM (AwYPR)

210 I worked with a real honest to god, NASA moon rocket scientist who was still sharper than almost everyone else around who retired when he was 85 YO. The guy is still going strong.

Some people just don't degrade much.

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 08:48 AM (wsHtO)

211 Chickens are proof that G-d loves us. They're dumb, nearly flightless meat melons that crap out eggs and reproduce with abandon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:45 AM (t0OGg)
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And chicken meat goes well with just about any dish...

Almost as perfect as God's ~~greatest~~ most delicious creation...the humble pig.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:48 AM (YIVH2)

212 Pride book featuring men in bondage wear shown to four-year-olds in pre-school

Members of staff defended the decision after parents raised concerns, arguing that the children would not understand the images

https://tinyurl.com/5n9757js

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

213 We have a huge wave of retirees building and SocSec is about to pan out. Many blue cities will go broke. That will create a lot of pissed off people. Then they'll learn of all the looting that went on.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 22, 2023 08:48 AM (RqMSv)

214 A Russian woman, Natalia Bordodina, 35, who was from Moscow has passed away after she was hanging out of a passenger window naked while the driver recordered her on a phone. While she was doing that something shocking happened. ...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (TGPs7)
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SHE'S AS SMART AS HER BOSS DADDY VLADIMIR PUTIN!

Posted by: Knee-Jerk Prog Twitter at August 22, 2023 08:48 AM (t0OGg)

215 "
EXPIRED! EXPIRED!! EXPIRED!!!"

* Ding...Dong *

Aunt Joanie's here!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (1n+EO)

216 208 When my Oncologist gave me 50-50 odds on making ot 10 years, 4 years ago I thought I'd miss the collapse. Pretty sure I won't miss it now.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (BRhwL)

217 Well, she was actually wearing panties, so this part about her being naked is scandalous and scurrilous.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3f3z5y

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 08:15 AM (TGPs7)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbAJOGlrT2A

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (BRHaw)

218 I'm more inclined toward a 30-40 year assumption for now

I know that the Evangelicals firmly believe that almost all of the prophecy received by the prophets is a Day Planner for last stage America - so I like to mock that...

But hyper genius Sir Isaac Newton, known for his mathematics and physics, spent FAR more time in theology, and to some degree in eschatology. (predicting the return of Christ).

Back then, he put that Return of Christ date to what amounts to 30-40 years from right now.

(Some red meat for the Freewill / Premillennial Dysfunctionalists here)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (p8A+W)

219 Should the country collapse tomorrow I would personally breathe a sigh of relief.

For one, politics would no longer matter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

220 Fake tits do NOT equal high intelligence in most cases.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

She kinda resembles the tranny that did the same thing at the white house.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (mUOnp)

221 Chickens are proof that G-d loves us. They're dumb, nearly flightless meat melons that crap out eggs and reproduce with abandon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:45 AM (t0OGg)
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And great at checkers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

222 [ii] Not being a doctor or nuffin', but it is my opinion that Joe Biden meets the pure definition of being a pathological liar. It's compulsory for him. He must always be in a state of lying...
Posted by: Lady in Black

********

I looked for a code for that, closest I could come up with was:

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I48.0

A-fib; A-fib with rapid response; Chronic A-fib

😀

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (991eG)

223 And chicken meat goes well with just about any dish...

Almost as perfect as God's greatest most delicious creation...the humble pig.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:48 AM (YIVH2)
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Pigs are enormously useful animals. One of my greatest fears is that someone will one day prove that pigs are sentient and so I will have to stop eating them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (t0OGg)

224 Joking Joe again...

Greg Price @greg_price11 13h
Biden says to the Mayor of Maui County: "You look like you played defensive tackle for, I don't know who, but somebody good" and then says the wildfires are a "national travedy."

https://tinyurl.com/yxkykm3d
21 seconds
[Mumbling too.]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (krqg6)

225 178 The US might be the first perpetual motion machine. There is such stored wealth both cultural and financial that it could go on another hundred years.
Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:35 AM (NxX5S)

With the currency being destroyed —stored wealth isn’t what you think.

Posted by: 7man at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (qwO6y)

226 >>I used to think we still had 30 years - time enough for me to die before I have to live through it - but I've lost that hope as well. I think 5 at the most.

Posted by: Tom Servo

I think next year is going to be really f***ed up. Like 1968 squared.

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (geLO8)

227 The big problem is the party is in a tough spot because of Trump's legal troubles.

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I think this is a big part of the separation.

I suspect most Trump supporters recognize that the nation is in trouble because of what the sitting president, placed there in a coup, is doing to the president who won re-election in a landslide and who watched every failsafe fail in defense of the republic.

It has nothing to do with Trump, and candidates carrying on like it's 2004 or 2008 or 2012 and things are back to the rigged elections we were always spoon fed as "normal" is a big part of the disconnect.

I couldn't really care less about Trump (although I loved his booming economy and world peace), but mainly he's the only one who seems to even occasionally behave like the republic is at stake.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (dGZeX)

228 I looked for a code for that, closest I could come up with was:

ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code I48.0

A-fib; A-fib with rapid response; Chronic A-fib

😀
Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (991eG)
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LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:51 AM (t0OGg)

229 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??
Posted by: dantesed

I would. F'n corporate lawyers would slap an expiration date of 08-22 if the egg was laid on 08-21 if they could get away with it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 08:51 AM (BRJFo)

230 A Russian woman, Natalia Bordodina, 35, who was from Moscow has passed away after she was hanging out of a passenger window naked while the driver recordered her on a phone.

I wonder how that conversation goes before St Peter.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:51 AM (p8A+W)

231 A federal judge in Georgia temporarily blocked part of a new state law that bans medical providers from performing most sex-change procedures on minors after the legislation took effect last month.

U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Geraghty in the Northern District of Georgia granted a preliminary injunction on Senate Bill 140 that bans providing gender transition surgery and hormone therapy for people under 18.
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Sarah Geraghty is an ass.

She also is a federal judge intruding into a state matter, when obviously she has no legitimate say. What's the Constitutional question, Sarah? GFY.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:51 AM (gjFWF)

232 I hate the term “pass away.”

That stupid Russian boobette didn’t “pass away,” she “was killed” by her own stupidity.

And those who go nonviolently just “die.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 08:51 AM (xTRSc)

233 And chicken meat goes well with just about any dish...

Almost as perfect as God's greatest most delicious creation...the humble pig.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:48 AM (YIVH2)
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Pigs are enormously useful animals. One of my greatest fears is that someone will one day prove that pigs are sentient and so I will have to stop eating them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BZDZyRaGa8

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2023 08:51 AM (CIS44)

234 It's I interesting that young girls are told to look at penises so trans will be fine, but you mention a penies to the same Karen saying kids should be exposed and she hit the faintcouch before screaming for HR.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (BRhwL)

235 Pride book featuring men in bondage wear shown to four-year-olds in pre-school

Members of staff defended the decision after parents raised concerns, arguing that the children would not understand the images

If the children won't understand the images, why are you showing them in the first place, groomer?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (AW0uW)

236 167 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (x0n13)
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Brooklyn is a little less sus than Queens
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

Born and raised in Brooklyn. Resided in Queens and Manhattan, and for a few years in Los Angeles.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (x0n13)

237 I think next year is going to be really f***ed up. Like 1968 squared.
Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (geLO

I think next year is going to be 1932 squared, followed by 1861 squared.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (S6gqv)

238 Unfortunately for ace, that kind of ranting and venting is the type of thing that *WILL* turn away a lot of readers of his blog. I get that he doesn't like posting about Trump. However, when he does, he has a tendency to let it all hang out, which causes the intense friction in the comments that we've seen recently. I'm at the point where I really don't even want to read the thread if it's about Trump.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (YIVH2)

Eh. I like ace, but he is not God. He can be as much a retard as anyone else.

The thing about debate is that you can be passionate about a subject but you have to watch becoming emotionally engaged or the other side can use stupid statements to get your dander up and then you are merely reacting instead of arguing. ace and various others were using every snide, quippish arrow in their limited rhetorical quivers to intentionally make other people mad (both to sow discord- in the case of the pilers on- or because they were mad themselves- in the case of ace and probably Archimedes.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (zZu0s)

239 Has Biden asked to speak to Chin Ho ?

Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (88xKn)

240 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??
Posted by: dantesed
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Honestly, if it were me, I'd worry more about the expiration date of the milk I'm using to mix into the scrambled egg mixture...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (YIVH2)

241 "The use of the term ‘far right’ and ‘populist’ is a defamatory tool meant to delegitimize certain political opinions."

flip-side:

CNN: Republicans are masters of verbal jiu-jitsu. It’s a form of linguistic combat in which the practitioner takes a political phrase or concept popularized by their opponent and gradually turns into an unusable slur. Like the Japanese martial art known as jiu-jitsu, its devotees avoid taking opposing arguments head on and instead redirect their opponents’ momentum to beat them.

If this sounds abstract, consider the evolution of “ woke.” The word is defined as being “actively aware of social injustice.” But it has been transformed into a contemporary scourge, one that a politician compared to a “virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down.”

Mention almost any touchstone phrase adopted by the left in recent years — “critical race theory,” “diversity,” “global warming,” even the word “liberal” itself — and it has been redefined or tarnished by conservatives.

Posted by: 'Robert L. Peters', 'Robin Ware,' and 'JRB ware' at August 22, 2023 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

242 Good morning, JJ. Prescient as always.

There's one thing about our state of affairs going into 2024 that I believe you and nearly all commentators have not recognized, save one. John Daniel Davidson over at The Federalist put his finger on it, in an excellent article back on July 11 of this year. He addresses the Trump-Desantis divide and why this primary is not a business as usual affair, no matter how much the Republican Party wants it desperately to be.
Trump voters are still rightfully angry about the stolen election and all the related illegal activities that are still unpunished and most likely will remain unpunished, since so many Republicans seemed to have a hand in it and then did nothing to prevent it. This is what is impacting Desantis like a sledgehammer, as well as any other Republican candidate. They just can't keep saying "we'll get to the bottom of 2020" and then never make a damn effort to get to the bottom of it. On top of that, we get to see complicit Republicans advising, contributing and endorsing Desantis and view him (fairly or unfairly) as the bait-and-switch establishment candidate who insists we "move on" and forget what happened.
We won't forget. Ever.

Posted by: Tracy at August 22, 2023 08:53 AM (8G2gV)

243 Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:50 AM (dGZeX)
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With this, I can totally agree.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:53 AM (gjFWF)

244 The big problem is the party is in a tough spot because of Trump's legal troubles.

That the party actively helped foment. Fuck the "party".

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 08:53 AM (BRJFo)

245 EXPIRED! EXPIRED!! EXPIRED!!!"

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Back when I tried to watch the Walking Dead I always thought that would be a fun side plot. The country survivors opened cans and jars and ate almost anything they came across, and the city survivors slowly weakened, starved, and were eaten by zombies because they were so scared of a can of green beans that was two months out of date.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:53 AM (dGZeX)

246 Should the country collapse tomorrow I would personally breathe a sigh of relief.

For one, politics would no longer matter.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)
******
At this point, I am find with the asteroid.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 08:53 AM (NpAcC)

247 I'm at the point where I really don't even want to read the thread if it's about Trump.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:28 AM (YIVH2)

I've already chosen to drop out of all of the Trump threads. There's just no point to any of them. the same things get said over and over and everyone digs in to online trench warfare. Boring and depressing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (S6gqv)

248 "But hyper genius Sir Isaac Newton, known for his mathematics and physics, spent FAR more time in theology, and to some degree in eschatology. (predicting the return of Christ)."

It was a boring time back then without Twitter and the internet.

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (wsHtO)

249 It would be appropriate if a Brit Instagram model slammed into one of those ULEZ cameras in London

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (BqPUE)

250 " Has Biden asked to speak to Chin Ho ?"

Yeh...that goes back a ways.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (1n+EO)

251 "The moment occurred on Monday as the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] mingled with a first responder, prompting laughter from people nearby." (Tell that to relatives of the 800-plus missing people - jjs)
Watch – Biden Jokes About the "Hot Ground" While Visiting Maui Wildfires: "You Guys Catch the Boots Here?"

Only thing worse than a complete asshole is a complete asshole who's senile.

Posted by: What a total piece of shit he is. FJB. at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (fhX0j)

252 "The Los Angeles Times went right to the 'climate change' narrative as part of its storm coverage."

I plowed through a book "Return of the Gods" by Jonathan Cahn. The premise is that since Christ's earthly ministry the traditional Ba'al, Morloch, Ishtar gods have been shelved, but (for unclear reasons) are returning in the form of social pathologies and dysfunctions. (e.g. sodomy, greed, pr0n, child exploitation, abortion, etc.)

I think that Cahn was reluctant to point to modern day actual temples of Isis and worshipping of physical idols, but with this clear and continued religious reference to "Climate Change" as an active, punitive, personal god of localized weather and calamity, it appears that we are just a carved image away from reconstructing those "This Age" (the age before 70AD) gods and orders of worship.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:41 AM (p8A+W)

People have always needed something larger to find meaning. This has almost always taken horrific forms. Christianity has proven to be the most benign and beneficial system ever created. It led to the rise of the West. We see the effects of its ebbing now.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (NxX5S)

253 208 I used to think we still had 30 years - time enough for me to die before I have to live through it - but I've lost that hope as well. I think 5 at the most.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2023 08:46 AM (S6gqv)

Very same. While it speculative, that is exactly the same time frame I see shaping up, Tom. The five-year yield curve is screaming this.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (KSNKu)

254 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)

I used to rent a few places to a bunch of Mexicans who turned every hallway closet into a pantry, which is where they stashed their eggs. No refrigeration required.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (ae93S)

255

". . . two eggs left in the fridge."

Isn't this really the story of Michelle Obama?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:54 AM (x0n13)

256 230 That woman who was in half in the afterlife waiting room in Beetlejuice? Kind of like that I imagine.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:55 AM (BRhwL)

257 (Some red meat for the Freewill / Premillennial Dysfunctionalists here)

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:49 AM (p8A+W)

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at August 22, 2023 08:55 AM (45fpk)

258 If the children won't understand the images, why are you showing them in the first place, groomer?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (AW0uW)
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And if parents defend their children against this self-evident corruption and grooming, Garland will sic the Fibbies on them.

Disgusting. Just appalling.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 08:55 AM (gjFWF)

259 And yet people continue to believe that once Trump is removed, all will be well.

I've heard of willful blindness, but that is deliberately blinding yourself.
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Ace was (I think?) seriously arguing that yesterday.
He commented that he thinks Ron would get 75 million votes. From what coalition?

But the weirdest was that, against saint Ron, the pangs of their conscience would temper their cheating while the devil Trump gives them license to steal with abandon.
The petty thief that only steals from the greedy shopkeepers while the pensioner safely has him over for tea using the silver teapot and spoons.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (yREPa)

260 152 133 Ace is a New Yorker. He can't help it.
Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 08:30 AM (wsHtO)

So am I. Or was.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:33 AM (x0n13)

Different... culturally. I do not have quite the right word for it. There is something about a certain group of NE/wherever commenters. It is not just that they dislike Trump- they have a visceral hate on for him. It is emotion/gut based, from what I can tell. It is not just ace, moelane is like this as well.

For example, in one breath ace will say that the lawfare and persecution being turned against Trump is completely unprecedented dangerous and evil and in the next breath he will say that Trump was probably guilty of something and that leaves him vulnerable and therefore he should be jettisoned and left to the Stasi's tender mercies.

Really?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (zZu0s)

261
Regarding Maui, is it me or has there been absolute radio silence from Maizie Hirohito? Not hearing her is a blessing, but given the circumstances, strange.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (x0n13)

262 In the videos of Joetato yesterday in Hawaii, note how close to him Jill stands. In every frame, she is within a foot of him, there to grab him when he topples.

Is she the one who gives him the needle, either in the plane or in the limo, ten minutes before he steps out and into view, for these events? That magic cocktail of boost-juice that propels him?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (nNjvS)

263 Have you ever asked yourself while in the checkout line at Walmart if the cashier intended on doing this job when they were in high school ?

Posted by: 'Robert L. Peters', 'Robin Ware,' and 'JRB ware' at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (RHGPo)

264 Alexandra Lavoie @ThevoiceAlexa 13h
“I have no respect for the Democrat Party. I have not respect for the Republican Party. The whole system in place in our government in the USA is corrupt.”

Answer from the man that flipped off to the convoy of Joe Biden.

[An old white guy BTW.]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (krqg6)

265 Put 'em in a bowl of water.

If they float, they're no good. If they sink, cook 'em.

At least I THINK that's the ole wives tale.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

Isn't that witches?

Posted by: Big Tuna at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (SUc4N)

266 Expiration dates are merely a suggestion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

267 I support Trump 100%, because the Satanic establishment hates him 100%.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (xTRSc)

268 Almost as perfect as God's greatest most delicious creation...the humble pig.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 08:48 AM (YIVH2)
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Mom lives in a kosher community and she whines about "no bacon" all the time. She grew up kosher.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

269 ... If this sounds abstract, consider the evolution of “ woke.” The word is defined as being “actively aware of social injustice.” But it has been transformed into a contemporary scourge, one that a politician compared to a “virus more dangerous than any pandemic, hands down.”

Mention almost any touchstone phrase adopted by the left in recent years — “critical race theory,” “diversity,” “global warming,” even the word “liberal” itself — and it has been redefined or tarnished by conservatives.
Posted by: 'Robert L. Peters', 'Robin Ware,' and 'JRB ware' at August 22, 2023 08:53 AM (RHGPo)
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Hilarious. They "tarnished" those words themselves. They became epithets because of the actions and attitudes associated with them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (t0OGg)

270 I used to think we still had 30 years - time enough for me to die before I have to live through it - but I've lost that hope as well. I think 5 at the most.

Somewhere between that and Joe's "economic momentum" calculations.

I keep reading things like American oil production is higher now than it ever has been, and predicted to increase even further over the next few quarters.

There are TWO nuclear power plants expected to be on-line this year. One is already up, the sister expected before 2024.

Employers are having a hard time filling jobs.

These counter-narratives keep popping up - I'm hating all media for churning out lie after lie no matter from the propaganists of the Left, or the jingoists of the "Right".

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (p8A+W)

271
[An old white guy BTW.]
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (krqg6)

That means he's racist and shouldn't be listened to at any point.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

272 But the weirdest was that, against saint Ron, the pangs of their conscience would temper their cheating while the devil Trump gives them license to steal with abandon.
The petty thief that only steals from the greedy shopkeepers while the pensioner safely has him over for tea using the silver teapot and spoons.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (yREPa)

THIS is the point I was trying to make yesterday, but kept typing and deleting shit as being too inflammatory.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (zZu0s)

273 260For example, in one breath ace will say that the lawfare and persecution being turned against Trump is completely unprecedented dangerous and evil and in the next breath he will say that Trump was probably guilty of something and that leaves him vulnerable and therefore he should be jettisoned and left to the Stasi's tender mercies.

Really?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (zZu0s)

Yeah. Same deal with people like Jacobson. Walsh just ignores the persecution which is bad enough.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (x0n13)

274 Hey, remember the wealthy white Gay Buttsex lady in California who got shot and killed over an argument about her Gay Buttsex flag?

The authorities finally released the name of the shooter after four days. If you wondered why, wonder no more. You were right.

It was an evil white supremacist named Travis Ikeguchi, who changed his name from Timothy Yokohama in 2021.

Whoever had "Oriental" on their bingo card, please come to window #2 (get it?) for your winnings.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (dGZeX)

275 Trump's "legal troubles" are largely made up bullshit. It's not so much a prosecution as it is persecution. He's being hounded by the legal establishment because the left isn't quite ready to use deadly force on their opponents in the open.

But they're getting closer. In some cases, they've already crossed the line when they know they can get away with it.

A hill to die on? You're standing on it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (Q4IgG)

276 246 SMOD is the ultimate troll tease. Looks like it's going to show, then drops out. Wrote or out years ago as a fundraising scam.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (BRhwL)

277 Over/under on when Ace and his bloggers start using 'drumpf' unironically? My money's on sooner rather than later. They'll probably throw a link to the Bulwark on the sidebar as well.

Posted by: Ace dreams of felching Romney at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (82U+n)

278 Regarding Maui, is it me or has there been absolute radio silence from Maizie Hirohito? Not hearing her is a blessing, but given the circumstances, strange.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (x0n13)

Given the circumstances, completely predictable. Dems are trying to run their Palestine, Ohio playbook - say nothing, get the MSM to kill the story, and it will all go away. They don't need to worry about votes in Hawaii, those have all been fixed for a long time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2023 08:59 AM (S6gqv)

279 @261 JJ, Maizie mouth farted something about climate change , and has said not much else. Same with Schatz

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2023 08:59 AM (BqPUE)

280 The Trump Indictments are primarily electioneering for Democrats. There are other things like intimidation, stealing his money, etc, but what Democrats really want is to persuade voters.

All of it is free airtime to spill against Trump 24/7 on the cables with something that sounds legitimate, to freely talk about him as of he is a criminal, to avoid having to talk about all the failings of currently elected officials, and to never EVER let Trump set the Narrative.

How can anything he says - complaints about the border or jobs - carry weight when he is UP ON CRIMINAL CHARGES. And that's all it is. They did it with Russia and they're doing it now.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 08:59 AM (psWlI)

281
Mom lives in a kosher community and she whines about "no bacon" all the time. She grew up kosher.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

Then how does she know about the magnificence of bacon?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 08:59 AM (Zz0t1)

282 Regarding Maui, is it me or has there been absolute radio silence from Maizie Hirohito? Not hearing her is a blessing, but given the circumstances, strange.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (x0n13)

I thought she was one of the ones so stupid that it was surprising she remembered to breathe without someone to remind her?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:59 AM (zZu0s)

283 The entire public school system (except in many cities) has students in "luxury" buildings that only the government and insurance companies can afford. Even in college, this pattern continues. Finally, they graduate and their first job, more likely than not, looks like a slum.

Posted by: 'Robert L. Peters', 'Robin Ware,' and 'JRB ware' at August 22, 2023 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

284 Born and raised in Brooklyn. Resided in Queens and Manhattan, and for a few years in Los Angeles.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:52 AM (x0n13)

Well I'm New York City born and raised
But nowadays, I'm lost between two shores
L.A.'s fine, but it ain't home
New York's home, but it ain't mine no more

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:00 AM (BRHaw)

285 Expiration dates are merely a suggestion.

My favorite is the "Ancient Sea Salt" that comes with an expiration date of a year out.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 09:01 AM (p8A+W)

286 Global coal production will set another record in 2023. The climate loons are not just full of shit, they are completely incompetent.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 22, 2023 09:01 AM (JTwsP)

287 A hill to die on? You're standing on it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (Q4IgG)

This. The coup has already taken place. WE ARE ALREADY IN THE AFTER. WE ARE ALL STANDING AROUND ARGUING ABOUT SHIT THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CURRENT REALITY.

But your pony is shinier. And it is all Trump's fault.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 09:01 AM (zZu0s)

288 When Delaware’s acting U.S. attorney David C. Weiss celebrated a fraud conviction in 2010, he was joined by a key partner in the case: Beau Biden, the state’s attorney general.
Weiss worked with Joe Biden’s eldest son to hash out prosecution strategies. “We will continue to aggressively pursue all types of fraud in order to protect the public,” Weiss said in his part of a statement with Beau Biden on the fraud case.

Posted by: 'Robert L. Peters', 'Robin Ware,' and 'JRB ware' at August 22, 2023 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

289 Look How Google Shoos You Away From The Biden Family Biz And Other Big News

Google’s little ‘come back later’ message wasn’t an invitation to see the truth about the Biden family. It was an attempt to hide it.

https://tinyurl.com/mvnsyp8t

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

290 261
Regarding Maui, is it me or has there been absolute radio silence from Maizie Hirohito? Not hearing her is a blessing, but given the circumstances, strange.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (x0n13)
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Very strange. Yesterday a commenter made the point that the military, as close by Maui as they are, have not been helping at all. Not asked for.

Hearing that, I went checking and could not find either Hirono or Schatz asking, and I couldn't find anything othere than a local story quoting Hirono at all.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:02 AM (gjFWF)

291 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th.

*******

What is things Mona Lisa Vito may have said, Alex.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 22, 2023 09:02 AM (991eG)

292 Trump's "legal troubles" are largely made up bullshit. It's not so much a prosecution as it is persecution.

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I'm just glad they won't do that to any other candidates or Supreme Court picks or state senators or low-level state or county officials like that clerk in Kentucky who knew her office didn't hold the authority to change the verbiage on marriage forms.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:02 AM (dGZeX)

293 Mention almost any touchstone phrase adopted by the left in recent years — “critical race theory,” “diversity,” “global warming,” even the word “liberal” itself — and it has been redefined or tarnished by conservatives.
Posted by: 'Robert L. Peters', 'Robin Ware,' and 'JRB ware' at August 22, 2023 08:53 AM (RHGPo)
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Hilarious. They "tarnished" those words themselves. They became epithets because of the actions and attitudes associated with them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 08:57 AM (t0OGg)

We've been good at mockery. They change the words and move on.They're winning. We're losing.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 09:03 AM (NxX5S)

294
Google’s little ‘come back later’ message wasn’t an invitation to see the truth about the Biden family. It was an attempt to hide it.

https://tinyurl.com/mvnsyp8t
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Heh. Sorry, but if you're still using google, you're part of the problem.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

295 Expiration dates are merely a suggestion.
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And when I'm buying something online. How the frack do I know when I'm going to freaking die?!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 09:03 AM (krqg6)

296 Really?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (zZu0s)

Yeah. Same deal with people like Jacobson. Walsh just ignores the persecution which is bad enough.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Meh, vent spleening is a stupid way to support your own candidate. It is like negative advertising in campaigns--the partisans ignore it or are enraged by it and all it does is suppress the undecided vote--not persuade them to switch.

Ace, Michael, and even Prof Jacobson would do far better if they ever actually had to do a sales job successfully. Advocacy has its place as a rhetorical tool but people who overstate their case hurt it. Gotta have the milk of human kindness and recognize that every human has their flaws. Politicians have particular flaws but they gotta wanna win and that calls for a particular set of faults.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:03 AM (gQdmS)

297 The folks in Hawaii will not vote the incompetent out of office because that would imply an ability to learn from mistakes. One of the cardinal rules of the left is to find excuses for failure or to simply deny failure. Learning from it simply does not enter the leftard mind.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (pohLc)

298 China Evergrande has $28.1 billion of outstanding bonds as it files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy.

First I've ever heard of a chapter 15, which has to do with bankruptcy of a multi-national.

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

299 >Is she the one who gives him the needle, either in the plane or in the limo, ten minutes before he steps out and into view, for these events? That magic cocktail of boost-juice that propels him?

Posted by: Mr Gaga

I do agree that she stands next to him in case he tips over or has a brain freeze and needs to be fed the next line-
but I think the team of doctors & scientists that travels with the president* is responsible for injecting him with the various drugs and potions that help him walk upright and say words

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (geLO8)

300 I used to think we still had 30 years - time enough for me to die before I have to live through it - but I've lost that hope as well. I think 5 at the most.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 22, 2023 08:46 AM (S6gqv)

Very same. While it speculative, that is exactly the same time frame I see shaping up, Tom. The five-year yield curve is screaming this.
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Watching a financial podcast this am. Says it's historically 2 years from the 1st rate hike to the serious pain--Feb 2024 to as early as Oct/Nov 2023.
Someone was posting yesterday their prediction that Biden resigns next spring-- there is a "why"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (yREPa)

301 How can anything he says - complaints about the border or jobs - carry weight when he is UP ON CRIMINAL CHARGES. And that's all it is. They did it with Russia and they're doing it now.
Posted by: ...

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Ahem.

The Senate REPUBLICANS did it to him with Russia.

And had security clearances adequate to know that the entire thing was false from the get-go.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (dGZeX)

302 For example, in one breath ace will say that the lawfare and persecution being turned against Trump is completely unprecedented dangerous and evil and in the next breath he will say that Trump was probably guilty of something and that leaves him vulnerable and therefore he should be jettisoned and left to the Stasi's tender mercies.

Really?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 08:56 AM (zZu0s)

It is normalcy bias. We all suffer it. Ace and Co. want to think X would not be happening if Y were the case, i.e., if Trump were not Trump this would not be taking place. That is manifestly untrue but a horrible reality to face. There is no conventional fix. All we can do is ride down and when things get bad enough revolt. I had been lying to myself as well in thinking that day was further out than it is.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (KSNKu)

303 ================
Very strange. Yesterday a commenter made the point that the military, as close by Maui as they are, have not been helping at all. Not asked for.

Hearing that, I went checking and could not find either Hirono or Schatz asking, and I couldn't find anything othere than a local story quoting Hirono at all.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:02 AM (gjFWF)

The police were ordered to block the evacuation routes. The people were told to STAY IN THE BURN ZONE.

That should tell you everything you need to know.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

304 Very strange. Yesterday a commenter made the point that the military, as close by Maui as they are, have not been helping at all. Not asked for.

Hearing that, I went checking and could not find either Hirono or Schatz asking, and I couldn't find anything othere than a local story quoting Hirono at all.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:02 AM (gjFWF)
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Has the Hawaiian National Guard been mobilized? This seems like something they would be on the front lines for.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (YIVH2)

305 The entire public school system (except in many cities) has students in "luxury" buildings that only the government and insurance companies can afford.

A decade ago, I mistakenly took a "direct route" from Austin to Enchanted Rock park. The segment in question forded streams (no money for bridges) was largely unpaved and went by the most dilapidated housing not seen outside Indian reservations.

Upon emerging from the other side onto the highway, after driving mile after mile on beaten up rutted roads and seeing abject poverty, there was the best building in the entire county, with a paved parking lot - it was the local high school.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (p8A+W)

306 Racism at heart of US failure to tackle fiscal responsibility

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

307 292 The Supremes who voted "no standing" about election fraud issues? They sowed, and I'll have no fucks to give when that crop comes in.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 09:05 AM (BRhwL)

308 Has Barack the Great opined on Maui yet?

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2023 09:05 AM (SYTee)

309 "The whole system in place in our government in the USA is corrupt.”

-Old white guy in the ruins

Yes, but the US government didn't burn down your town. You and your "progressive" neighbors did.

Posted by: pawn at August 22, 2023 09:05 AM (wsHtO)

310 Expiration dates are merely a suggestion.
Posted by: Sponge

It's lawyer ass covering.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:05 AM (BRJFo)

311 So does ace and others now wish Hillary had won? Because that was the alternative.

Posted by: Big Tuna - if it wasn't Trump we would have had Hillary at August 22, 2023 09:05 AM (SUc4N)

312 Good morning! Running late, can't face the links (apologies, JJ!). Ugh. Sigh. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at August 22, 2023 09:06 AM (avru5)

313 The police were ordered to block the evacuation routes. The people were told to STAY IN THE BURN ZONE.

And the sheeple, not wanting to resist authority allowed themselves the reward of being burned to death.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 09:06 AM (p8A+W)

314 Why has DA Willis invoked Georgia’s version of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act ?

Because there’s a giant hole in her case: the lack of a clear crime to which Trump and his co-defendants can plausibly be said to have agreed.
“There must be a meeting of the minds about the crime that is the objective of the conspiracy.” If there does not exist an agreement regarding the crime, a conspiracy does not exist.
The constitutional process dictates that Americans cannot be charged with a crime and forced to stand trial unless probable cause exists that a crime has been committed.

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:06 AM (RHGPo)

315 Racism at heart of US failure to tackle fiscal responsibility

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I agree with this. Low expectations has cost us $30T outright over the last few decades, and the same low expectations in schools has destroyed the potential of entire generations.

So yeah, I'm okay with that assessment.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:06 AM (dGZeX)

316 THIS is the point I was trying to make yesterday, but kept typing and deleting shit as being too inflammatory.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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When virtual smiting is being done, you really cannot be too inflammatory unless you descend into personal insults of others.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:06 AM (gQdmS)

317 Authorities vowed to crack down on homosexuals who dance before being hurled to their deaths or hanged from construction cranes. “We will not tolerate such actions,” pronounced Basij paramilitary commander Attekit Azdipazakan. “Anyone who tries to dance in violation of the law and in contravention of Islamic sensibilities before we cast him off the upper stories of a building for immorality will find himself cast off the upper stories of a building for his immorality.”

Posted by: ImADinnerJacket at August 22, 2023 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

318 A decade ago, I mistakenly took a "direct route" from Austin to Enchanted Rock park. The segment in question forded streams (no money for bridges) was largely unpaved and went by the most dilapidated housing not seen outside Indian reservations.

Upon emerging from the other side onto the highway, after driving mile after mile on beaten up rutted roads and seeing abject poverty, there was the best building in the entire county, with a paved parking lot - it was the local high school.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

Funny what you can build when you steal money legally at the point of a gun.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:07 AM (BRJFo)

319 Everyone knows what Trump's many faults are. As a candidate and as a chief executive, his faults are legion. But to use that to justify, in any way, the cheap, bullshit, banana republic political vendetta being waged against him by the Democrat scum of the nation is a joke.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at August 22, 2023 09:07 AM (+Wap0)

320 Learning from it simply does not enter the leftard mind.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (pohLc)

I think they think that failure is PROGRESS. Failure can lead to PROGRESS if you learn a lesson but failure again and and again is just failure.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:07 AM (BRHaw)

321 Trump's "legal troubles" are largely made up bullshit. It's not so much a prosecution as it is persecution. He's being hounded by the legal establishment because the left isn't quite ready to use deadly force on their opponents in the open.

Exactly my point above.

Look, hate on Trump all you want. 'Pussy,' Roma Romney, Fauci, mean tweets, all of that. Fine. I'll give you that. But Trump's personality is not what is at stake here, for fuck's sake! The left is doing something that has never been done in the history of the Republic (with the exception of the Alien and Sedition Acts) - arresting and imprisoning the losing candidate of an election who is also the putative head of the GOP.

If you cannot see that this is NOT about Trump, but about judging exactly how close the left is to preemptively removing - by legal, extralegal or deadly means - any challenger deemed insufficiently worshipful of Big Brother, then frankly, there's no hope for you.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (AW0uW)

322
And the sheeple, not wanting to resist authority allowed themselves the reward of being burned to death.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 09:06 AM (p8A+W)

This is where I lose it......Human nature is survival. How broken are those that didn't fight their way out?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

323 RIP John Warnock, PDF guy.

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (MvF+J)

324 re: Trump

"Either we hang together or we hang separately" sums it up nicely.

Alas the 'conservative' chattering class are quite willing to feed Trump to the gator in the vain hope they won't be devoured next.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (3VTLq)

325 Walsh just ignores the persecution which is bad enough.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 08:58 AM (x0n13)
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If I were punditing for a living I probably wouldn't talk about it in every essay either. This is so apoplectic a travesty, one that calls for mediaeval punishments in retribution, that getting an essay out would be hard.

The subject overwhelms all other subjects, and if you want to talk about a variety of things that probably means you don;t always raise the persecution topic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (jKw3+)

326 Wonder when Ace will invite back those nevertrump cobloggers who fled in a huff during the 2016 campaign ...

Posted by: Ace dreams of felching Romney at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (82U+n)

327 Funny what you can build when you steal money legally at the point of a gun.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:07 AM (BRJFo)

The same guns used to steal money to build schools are used to force parents to send children to those same schools.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (BRHaw)

328 The funniest part of all this is that DeSantis is very obviously a *piece of shit*. Once you get away from his cultivated culture warrior branding, he even *seems* like Gen. Eric Republican. Like a more somber, less howdy doody version of Paul Ryan.

Watching people fawn over him because MUH FIGHT is hilarious if only because this is literally the 100th time in a row the same people have been fooled. They refuse to "get it". And I'm always an idiot for pointing it out. Every time.

And trust that when they are forced to confront this (again), they will take another quaalude and love the next owned and operated shiny new Republican asshole in the morning. MUH FIGHT

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 09:09 AM (psWlI)

329
The same guns used to steal money to build schools are used to force parents to send children to those same schools.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (BRHaw)

And have no say in their child's transition.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

330 Back to links. I'm not laughing anymore.

Posted by: Big Tuna - if it wasn't Trump we would have had Hillary at August 22, 2023 09:10 AM (SUc4N)

331 308. He said the pictures broke his and the worries heart, and Americans should open their wallets to help. Not him opening from his millionaire, Hawaii house owning, Hawaii memory touched heart. But still, mentioned.

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 09:10 AM (BRhwL)

332 Very strange. Yesterday a commenter made the point that the military, as close by Maui as they are, have not been helping at all. Not asked for.

Hearing that, I went checking and could not find either Hirono or Schatz asking, and I couldn't find anything othere than a local story quoting Hirono at all.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:02 AM (gjFWF)
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Has the Hawaiian National Guard been mobilized? This seems like something they would be on the front lines for.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

The military cannot act without orders from DC.
The NG cannot act without orders from the governor.

If the military or the NG isn't acting, it's because there have been no orders.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:10 AM (BRJFo)

333 When Donald J. Trump brought up how her Middle East donors throw gays off of buildings to their death, The Woman Who Would Be President, flashed the most evil of smiles ever seen before outright laughing.

Posted by: ImADinnerJacket at August 22, 2023 09:10 AM (RHGPo)

334 Meh, vent spleening is a stupid way to support your own candidate.

So is spleen venting.

Posted by: Vent spleening will clog the vent at August 22, 2023 09:11 AM (fhX0j)

335 Surprised this didn't get mentioned yet:

Austin TX police chief quitting next Monday

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 09:11 AM (geLO8)

336 This is where I lose it......Human nature is survival. How broken are those that didn't fight their way out?

Eloi anyone? Those trapped on an island with Brevik, did they fight back? Many of the murdered were found huddled in the tents.

Baa baa baa baa

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (3VTLq)

337 And yesterday, Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants finally shows up in Maui and gives himself a hotfoot. The death toll here is going to possibly top 1,000 people and he's joking around?

Leftists do not care about bad things happening to other people. At all. I've spoken with enough of them over the years.

Whatever the bad thing is, their takeaway is going to be the other person deserved it...even if publicly they say other things.

Someone was mugged? Well they didn't really need all that money they had and if they just gave it to the mugger they wouldn't have been beaten.

Natural disaster? Well maybe if they had been living in a more environmentally friendly lifestyle they'd still be alive.

And on and on. And Biden is deeply involved in this. How many Ukes are dead because of his family grift for example?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (lc5cP)

338 And the sheeple, not wanting to resist authority allowed themselves the reward of being burned to death.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 09:06 AM (p8A+W)

This is where I lose it......Human nature is survival. How broken are those that didn't fight their way out?
Posted by: Sponge

Psssst. 95% vote dem. By that very definition they are lemmings.

Apologies to actual lemmings.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (BRJFo)

339 311 So does ace and others now wish Hillary had won? Because that was the alternative.
Posted by: Big Tuna
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Nope, yesterday's spleen venting was all about rhetoric and not persuasion at all.

I have said before DeSantis is a bright, smart, disciplined politician that has done a very good job administering a major state. But, the dogs are not eating the dogfood that his campaign has put out. Essentially, DeSantis has the rationale that he will be Trump without Trump's flaws.

You can make that case but it is difficult and his donors/managers make it worse by muddying issues like Ukraine, trade tariffs, etc. Trans issues/CRT/etc are a path to a governorship--not the Presidency.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (gQdmS)

340 Austin TX police chief quitting next Monday
Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 09:11 AM

I didn't think Austin had any police left. Why have a chief of nothing?

Abbott has been using the state troopers there for quite a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

341 This is where I lose it......Human nature is survival. How broken are those that didn't fight their way out?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)
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As broken as those that still wear masks to this very day...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (YIVH2)

342 >>"The moment occurred on Monday as the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] mingled with a first responder, prompting laughter from people nearby."

[redacted]
#$%@ ^&*((%$* !!

I have to believe there is a special place in Hell for this man. He does this again and again, making jokes over the bodies to loved ones, etc..

Not only are they low-balling the number of missing, likely dead, they are not specifying that a lot of them are children.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (avru5)

343 ---
As broken as those that still wear masks to this very day...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (YIVH2)

Your point is valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

344 334 Meh, vent spleening is a stupid way to support your own candidate.

So is spleen venting.
Posted by: Vent spleening
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You got me kid.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (gQdmS)

345 Has the Hawaiian National Guard been mobilized? This seems like something they would be on the front lines for.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (YIVH2)
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they helped with helo transport to hospitals and some fire fighting, but I saw no reports they are involved in sifting the ashes and helping those refugees still nearby the town.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (jKw3+)

346 I have no intention of lending any aid to Hawaii. They hate me so let them do for themselves and rely on their heroes who give zero fucks about their situation.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (pohLc)

347 The military cannot act without orders from DC.
The NG cannot act without orders from the governor.

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Wouldn't DC only be able to order in the Navy by governor's request, anyway? Not sure if posse comitatus applies here, since it's not a policing action.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (0FoWg)

348 The same guns used to steal money to build schools are used to force parents to send children to those same schools.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (BRHaw)

And then sexually groom your kids with leather daddy fetish pictures, drag queen story hour, and child pr0n.

Posted by: Then use the guns to force you out of the school board meeting when you object to their foul shit at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (fhX0j)

349 Ahem.

The Senate REPUBLICANS did it to him with Russia.

And had security clearances adequate to know that the entire thing was false from the get-go.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (dGZeX)

You're preaching to the choir my friend. Republicans are Democrats without balls. They're all on the same team. I've not said otherwise for many many years.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (psWlI)

350 Desantis is an obvious decepticon that hates the base of "Listeless Vessels." He was always a tool just like Romney and Jeb! He just had slightly better packaging at the start.

Trump called him out and did the country a service. Thank god Desantis was too stupid to hide his true feelings and try to be VP. He would have been Pence 2.0.

He will never be the republican nominee and would probably lose Florida at this point.

Posted by: Achilles at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (bzsXQ)

351 A Chicago-area woman was arrested by Federal agents Monday on a complaint accusing her of sending email threats to shoot former President Donald Trump and his youngest son Barron, according to federal prosecutors and a criminal complaint. AP reports Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, was taken into custody on a charge of transmitting threats to kill or injure, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago. The case was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in southern Florida.

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

352 From Matt Walsh on Twitter:

By the way it’s literally a song about a nanny molesting a minor. Again I’m not sure why conservatives are panicking that this song WON’T be on a platform for kids. We’re really making ourselves look foolish on this one guys.

Posted by: IrishEi on phone at August 22, 2023 09:14 AM (pLXpK)

353 The top 1% was linked to more than of 17% of emissions, despite many celebrities and pols posing as loud voices

Top 5% somewhere north of 50%

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:14 AM (BRHaw)

354 Watching a financial podcast this am. Says it's historically 2 years from the 1st rate hike to the serious pain--Feb 2024 to as early as Oct/Nov 2023. ...
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (yREPa)
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It's started. If you want to see the leading indicators, look at the consequences of mortgage rates, auto loan rates and corporate credit.

It's going to get nasty. I will probably be laid off this year. I fully expect that if it happens, it will take me six months to find work, maybe a year. When I do, I will optimistically make 2/3 of what I make now. Probably closer to half. I will not be the only one. It's going to hit the "laptop class" very, very hard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 09:14 AM (t0OGg)

355 If the military or the NG isn't acting, it's because there have been no orders.
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This^

Dunno about the NG (beyond seeing some ranking uniformed NG personnel in a few video clips), active duty personnel from the various bases on Oahu have not been activated.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 09:14 AM (MqgM5)

356 254 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)

Yes... You can use them up to two weeks after sell by date

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 09:14 AM (bs+z0)

357 44 334 Meh, vent spleening is a stupid way to support your own candidate.

So is spleen venting.
Posted by: Vent spleening
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You got me kid.
Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (gQdmS)

Don't get me wrong - it's a great Spoonerism.

Posted by: The Lord is a shoving leopard at August 22, 2023 09:15 AM (fhX0j)

358
By the way it’s literally a song about a nanny molesting a minor. Again I’m not sure why conservatives are panicking that this song WON’T be on a platform for kids. We’re really making ourselves look foolish on this one guys.
Posted by: IrishEi on phone at August 22, 2023 09:14 AM (pLXpK)

Most people listen to the song's hook, learn the words and rocket the tune to #1 on the charts without paying a lick of attention to what the lyrics actually say.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

359 Wouldn't DC only be able to order in the Navy by governor's request, anyway? Not sure if posse comitatus applies here, since it's not a policing action.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

PC wouldn't apply in humanitarian situations. And it's only one word away.

DC to governor: Do you want our help?
Governor: yes.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:15 AM (BRJFo)

360 Desantis is an obvious decepticon that hates the base of "Listeless Vessels."

Like or hate DeSantis, but don't be fooled by the "Listeless Vessels" edited video.

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

361 Ramaswamy op-ed today
https://tinyurl.com/yc3ruk5t

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 09:16 AM (RIvkX)

362 Whenever there was a brush fire in the various training areas near Schofield Barracks when I was stationed there, a helicopter would dump buckets of seawater onto the fire.

The fact that this did not happen in Lahaina is more than a little sus to me.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 09:16 AM (MqgM5)

363 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (AW0uW)

My friend Poppins Johnson is right as usual.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 09:16 AM (psWlI)

364 You can make that case but it is difficult and his donors/managers make it worse by muddying issues like Ukraine, trade tariffs, etc. Trans issues/CRT/etc are a path to a governorship--not the Presidency.
Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:12 AM (gQdmS)
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DeSantis' only hope is if PDJT decides not to run, and I believe that's why he hangs around. But, other than that, I agree with you that trying to run as "Trump-like" against the genuine article standing next to you on the stage is a conundrum, and not destined to be politically successful.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:16 AM (jKw3+)

365 Weather-liars are cruelly teasing with a chance of scattered t-storms here this afternoon.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 22, 2023 09:16 AM (4I/2K)

366 President Joe Biden was widely panned for appearing to joke around during a visit to fire-ravaged Maui. Biden cracked a few jokes while visiting Maui for the first time since deadly wildfires pummeled the island. He expressed surprise over the Maui County mayor’s imposing physical appearance while making official remarks about the disaster. “You look like you played defensive tackle for, I don’t know who, but somebody good. But anyway, I want to thank you for your leadership during this unimaginable tragedy,” Biden said.

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:16 AM (RHGPo)

367 From Matt Walsh on Twitter:

Now do "WAP," you feckless homunculus.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 09:17 AM (AW0uW)

368 Breaking- Scott Hall is the first defendant to surrender in the Georgia indictment case.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 09:17 AM (NpAcC)

369 China Evergrande has $28.1 billion of outstanding bonds as it files for Chapter 15 bankruptcy.
First I've ever heard of a chapter 15, which has to do with bankruptcy of a multi-national.
Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:04 AM (RHGPo)

Good. More Please.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 09:17 AM (ae93S)

370 356 254 I have two eggs left in the fridge but they are dated August 18th. Should I chance it by making scrambled eggs??
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 08:36 AM (88xKn)

Yes... You can use them up to two weeks after sell by date
Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 09:14 AM (bs+z0)

I've cooked and eaten eggs way older than that without illness or death. I think as long as you keep them in the fridge they'll stay edible for a pretty long time.

Posted by: Plus the smell of a rotten egg will knock you on your ass when you crack it open at August 22, 2023 09:17 AM (fhX0j)

371 Here We Go: Lionsgate Studio Reinstates Employee Mask Mandate Despite Very Low COVID Cases

Strong with this one the virtue signal

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (BRHaw)

372 And the sheeple, not wanting to resist authority allowed themselves the reward of being burned to death.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 09:06 AM (p8A+W)
This is where I lose it......Human nature is survival. How broken are those that didn't fight their way out?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

From watching those horrible tsunami videos in Japan about 10 or so years ago,
I learned a valuable (and obvious once you think about it) survival lesson.
There were a lot of people trying to escape the areas where the tsunami was coming. The tsunami was as much as 10 meters or more in some areas. And -
as you might imagine the road away from the incoming tsunami was one big slow moving traffic jam.,

The road leading toward the tsunami was completely empty.

A few, very few, of the people driving away, jumped the median with their cars and drove away to safety on the in-going lane.

Minutes later the tsunami came in and probably killed every single polite, traffic law-abiding citizen in their cars.

That taught me that when survival is on the line. Fuck traffic laws/etc Priority one- getting your family out alive.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (QzZeQ)

373 A Chicago-area woman was arrested by Federal agents Monday on a complaint accusing her of sending email threats to shoot former President Donald Trump and his youngest son Barron, according to federal prosecutors and a criminal complaint. AP reports Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, was taken into custody on a charge of transmitting threats to kill or injure, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago. The case was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in southern Florida.
Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

Do you have any attribution for this?

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (NxX5S)

374 I started hearing rumors last week of a new round of Covid hysteria,masks and shutdowns. Incredibly it seems that is what is coming, or will be tried. I don't know what is worse, that we have a govt. trying to pull this shit or that half or more of the country will gladly go along with it. WTF is wrong with people that they can't see thru this BS?

Posted by: Ripley at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (KrJTL)

375 Heh. Meme is from the best Tom and Jerry episode ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

376 I think as far as FedGov help in HI is concerned... They're a political monoculture, and Dems aren't afraid of losing a single office over this, because they won't.

To make matters worse, they're a relatively unimportant province. They're not one of the imperial home islands like NY, CA, MA, or IL.

FedGov doesn't have a ton of motivation to put forth much effort there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (0FoWg)

377 Not long ago there were discussions here about the rise in "political violence." Mostly physical stuff being handed out to Republicans and their supporters in hotly contested or deep blue areas. Suffice to say it's gotten worse.

There is little-to-no pushback from the right.

Not long ago there were discussions here about the rise in "lawfare" and its use to punish and persecute political opponents. It is widely used by the left. It's SOP now.

There is little-to-no pushback from the right.

The same thing happened with regards to the p3do movement, the groomers and the alphabet people. They basically telegraphed their intentions and were promptly ignored. Society is now saddled with those contagions.

You'd have thought society would have learned something by now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

378 Joe Biden Comparing Maui Fires to Almost Losing His Corvette Sparks Fury

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:19 AM (RHGPo)

379 Hero FedEx driver kills rattlesnake on woman’s porch: ‘I hope you didn’t have a pet’

https://tinyurl.com/yp6cfxrw

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 09:19 AM (NpAcC)

380 Our Leader yesterday. Does anyone truly want this clown running the US? Even pretending to lead?

https://tinyurl.com/2n94mkxt

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2023 09:19 AM (AMIL/)

381 Breaking- Scott Hall is the first defendant to surrender in the Georgia indictment case.
Posted by: redridinghood

Im pretty sure Razor Ramon died a couple years ago.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2023 09:19 AM (CIS44)

382 If Gov. Josh Brown is like Gov. Kathleen Blanco and has not formally requested Federal help, nothing will happen.

This is what got Bush pilloried after Katrina, Blanco did NOT want to give up her power and 1,300+ died while all the Federal assistance sat there waiting.

But Joey Bidet won't be held to the same standard.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:19 AM (3VTLq)

383 A Chicago-area woman was arrested by Federal agents Monday on a complaint accusing her of sending email threats to shoot former President Donald Trump and his youngest son Barron, according to federal prosecutors and a criminal complaint. AP reports Tracy Marie Fiorenza, 41, was taken into custody on a charge of transmitting threats to kill or injure, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago. The case was filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in southern Florida.
Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:13 AM (RHGPo)

There's a woman going crazy in Chi-town.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 22, 2023 09:19 AM (4I/2K)

384 Ramaswamy op-ed today
https://tinyurl.com/yc3ruk5t
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 09:16 AM (RIvkX)
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thanks for that link

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:19 AM (jKw3+)

385 Yes... You can use them up to two weeks after sell by date
Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 09:14 AM (bs+z0)

I have an uncle that has that on his tomb stone

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (BRHaw)

386 >>Leftists do not care about bad things happening to other people. At all.

THIS. If you don't recognize this, then you can't even begin to stop them.

Biden in particular lets this show, whether it's joking about a dead Benghazi fighter's grave to his dad, or going on and on about losing Beau at a memorial service for soldiers he himself got killed in the Afghanistan pull-out. He's a ghoul.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (avru5)

387 Whenever there was a brush fire in the various training areas near Schofield Barracks when I was stationed there, a helicopter would dump buckets of seawater onto the fire.

The fact that this did not happen in Lahaina is more than a little sus to me.
Posted by: SMH

The whole thing is sus.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (BRJFo)

388 That taught me that when survival is on the line. Fuck traffic laws/etc Priority one- getting your family out alive.
Posted by: naturalfake
___

A Lahaina resident was blocked by police from escaping on a main road, so he drove through yards in his truck.

Hubby said if we're ever faced with that issue, we're shooting our way out.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (MqgM5)

389 Here We Go: Lionsgate Studio Reinstates Employee Mask Mandate Despite Very Low COVID Cases

Strong with this one the virtue signal
Posted by: rhennigantx

--

See comment #102

It's coordinated. The TSA and border patrol have released the timeline.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (dGZeX)

390 Thanks Horde for the comments about the eggs.

I just wished I had some hash browns to go with it.

Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (88xKn)

391 The whole thing is sus.
Posted by: rickb223
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Bigly.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (MqgM5)

392 That taught me that when survival is on the line. Fuck traffic laws/etc Priority one- getting your family out alive.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (QzZeQ

There is a term for this, it's called common sense.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (pohLc)

393 I have an uncle that has that on his tomb stone
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (BRHaw)

LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (bs+z0)

394 Yeah about the original cartoon

There was a Zoot Suit riot in Los Angeles during World War II.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:21 AM (3VTLq)

395 What a great set of links today!!

Like most days, I'll be reading these articles most of the day, when i get a chance.

Thank you JJS.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:21 AM (jKw3+)

396 I just wished I had some hash browns to go with it.
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (88xKn)

Got taters? Make your own

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 09:21 AM (bs+z0)

397 "Maybe we should start thinking about what it is that we should be doing."

What we should be doing now is calling out and shaming the Desantis supporters who are just being assholes at this point. Desantis was always a stalking horse for the Billionaires and was never meant to actually win the general election. There is no way a 60 million vote republican is going to win a national race. The democrats wouldn't even have to cheat to beat him.

There are 2 types of Cruz supporters from 2016:

1. The people that learned from their mistake and realized Trump was the best president this country had since Lincoln.

2. The dumb assholes that supported McCain in 2008, Romney in 2012, Cruz in 2016,(Biden in 2020) and haven't learned a goddamn thing from their mistakes their entire life.

Posted by: Achilles at August 22, 2023 09:21 AM (bzsXQ)

398
Hubby said if we're ever faced with that issue, we're shooting our way out.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (MqgM5)

Well, duh......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

399 Austin TX police chief quitting next Monday

Austin had its heyday in the late 1990s. There was a different kind of resurgence, tech and university growth, but when the big techs, Google, Apple and Facebook, decided to build monster campuses in Austin, the city council, like any organism, was effected by this homeostasis that prevents success from ever taking place and immediately went on a path of total destruction of Austin, starting by ruining SXSW and tolerating every social dysfunction and pathology.

I'm glad I left - the place is turning into Baltimore, Seattle or Portland.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (p8A+W)

400 Biden could show up in Hawaii and roast marshmallows on the burning corpses of children and the leftist media would applaud and the dipshit left his voters we keep voting for him. The left doesn't have to worry about optics anymore because they own all the mechanisms of government. The rich leftists of the world are probably happy for the fire because it's going to open up a bunch of new acreage for them to build 20 million mansions.

Posted by: Roc Doc at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (bkf/+)

401 That taught me that when survival is on the line. Fuck traffic laws/etc Priority one- getting your family out alive.
Posted by: naturalfake
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A Lahaina resident was blocked by police from escaping on a main road, so he drove through yards in his truck.

Hubby said if we're ever faced with that issue, we're shooting our way out.
Posted by: SMH

--

I'm always shocked at how closely people pull up to the car ahead of them each time they come to a stop. Little stuff like that is something that no one is taught or thinks of any longer, apparently. Always give yourself room to gun it and git gone is such a simple thing to do, but oh well.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (dGZeX)

402 DeSantis' only hope is if PDJT decides not to run, and I believe that's why he hangs around. But, other than that, I agree with you that trying to run as "Trump-like" against the genuine article standing next to you on the stage is a conundrum, and not destined to be politically successful.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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My guess is that Youngkin gets major pressure to run --the Murdochs and several other big donors are begging him to do it. Trump and his legal issues are likely to dominate news coverage throughout the fall at least which makes it hard for a breakthrough to become the Not Trump alternative in the invisible primary going on.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (gQdmS)

403 It's coordinated. The TSA and border patrol have released the timeline.

I and many others here predicted that. I also predict that a good 70% of the country will mask up again.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (AW0uW)

404 Thanks Horde for the comments about the eggs.

I just wished I had some hash browns to go with it.
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (88xKn)

Typical. You give a dantesed an egg, he's going to want some hash browns to go with it.

Posted by: Give him hash browns then he wants bacon. But you're out so you have to go to the store. at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (fhX0j)

405 The House Freedom Caucus issued a series of ultimatums Monday, outlining the demands it wants met before the right-wing group’s members will support a measure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and continue to fund the federal government. Among them: an end to the myriad criminal cases pending against former President Donald Trump (and the so-called “weaponization” of the Justice Department against conservatives), as well as ensured passage of a draconian immigration law and an amorphous demand to end “woke” policies in the U.S. military.

Sounds like more folks who should be worried about their own legal standing after aiding and abetting the attempted overthrow of our government.

What about the 14th amendment being applied to them? They are interfering with a government process. I also think that they should be indicted as co-conspirators with the criminal Trump gang.

They bitch about "weaponization of the FBI and DOJ"? But how much you are willing to bet they would do the same thing? Oh wait, they did when Trump was in power. So they should shut up!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (JCZqz)

406 Who da fuck thinks Biden has anything to do with Lahina and has any ability to help.

It is a local issue.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (BRHaw)

407 That taught me that when survival is on the line. Fuck traffic laws/etc Priority one- getting your family out alive.
Posted by: naturalfake
___

A Lahaina resident was blocked by police from escaping on a main road, so he drove through yards in his truck.

Hubby said if we're ever faced with that issue, we're shooting our way out.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (MqgM5)

You gotta go full Jackson in 2012.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 22, 2023 09:23 AM (4I/2K)

408 Ha ha ha. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of woke, gun hating asswipes.

CNBC: Dick’s shares fall 20% as retailer slashes outlook over theft concerns

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 09:23 AM (BjVQC)

409 The whole thing is sus.
Posted by: rickb223

Ahem...

Everything is rigged.
Everything is bullshit and lies.
Everything's a scam.
Everything's a rip-off.
Everything's an op.
Everything is fake and ghey.

Posted by: And there you have it at August 22, 2023 09:24 AM (fhX0j)

410 Someone posted that Joe no-joke made a comment about the small grease fire in his kitchen in his speech to the parents whose children had died in the Maui fires.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:24 AM (dGZeX)

411 Newsflash for this fool: everyone is afraid of Krispy, mostly of not being able to escape the gravitational field he generates by being a halitosis and lipid gas giant, and being sucked into his maw.

***
Does Christie have moons orbiting him?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2023 09:24 AM (J2vNu)

412
CNBC: Dick’s shares fall 20% as retailer slashes outlook over theft concerns
Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 09:23 AM (BjVQC)

Dick's. A company run by women. Enough said.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

413 I'm always shocked at how closely people pull up to the car ahead of them each time they come to a stop. Little stuff like that is something that no one is taught or thinks of any longer, apparently. Always give yourself room to gun it and git gone is such a simple thing to do, but oh well.
___

After driving in Iraq, I still maintain enough distance behind the car in front of me to be able to git gone in a jiffy.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 09:24 AM (MqgM5)

414 Always leave room.

How communists got a US State Department employee in Greece in the 1970s. Drone is literally stuck in traffic. Communist gunmen ride up on a motorcycle and hose him down before escaping.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:24 AM (3VTLq)

415 CNBC: Dick’s shares fall 20% as retailer slashes outlook over theft concerns

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 09:23 AM (BjVQC)

In my experience a dick can't afford to lose 20%

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (psWlI)

416 You gotta go full Jackson in 2012.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 22, 2023 09:23 AM (4I/2K)

Eee-hee! Whoo!

Posted by: Shamon! at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (fhX0j)

417 410 Someone posted that Joe no-joke made a comment about the small grease fire in his kitchen in his speech to the parents whose children had died in the Maui fires.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:24 AM (dGZeX)

And the suicide, I mean, death of his first wife and daughter and I believe he threw beau in there to... The man is brain dead

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (bs+z0)

418 I'm always shocked at how closely people pull up to the car ahead of them each time they come to a stop. Little stuff like that is something that no one is taught or thinks of any longer, apparently. Always give yourself room to gun it and git gone is such a simple thing to do, but oh well.

My concealed carry class taught me that. Always leave yourself an escape route.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

419 ... The road leading toward the tsunami was completely empty.

A few, very few, of the people driving away, jumped the median with their cars and drove away to safety on the in-going lane.
...
That taught me that when survival is on the line. Fuck traffic laws/etc Priority one- getting your family out alive.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 09:18 AM (QzZeQ)
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Which is why competent emergency managers close the roads to inbound traffic and use all available lanes for outbound traffic. It rarely happens.

But yes, emergencies call for a suspension of rules. Sort it out later. This is why the Hawaii water bureaucracy raises so many eyebrows for me. Yes, Maui was kept waiting for five hours (reportedly) to authorize distribution of water for fire fighting. But why did fire fighters have to call Honolulu for permission when there was an active emergency? Why did the local commander not grab the water authority dude by the lapels and tell him to release the fucking water and he'd take responsibility?

Organizational sclerosis is a dangerous thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (t0OGg)

420 There is little-to-no pushback from the right.

The same thing happened with regards to the p3do movement, the groomers and the alphabet people. They basically telegraphed their intentions and were promptly ignored. Society is now saddled with those contagions.

You'd have thought society would have learned something by now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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You can't fight lawfare without lawyers and lawyers will not work without compensation that often.

Most of the GOP donor dollars are for stupid shit like thinktanks that do not do much of anything regarding this. Lawfare itself originated at the Brookings Institute.

The only people on the right playing the lawfare game at all involve religious groups and 2A groups. And you have some minor involvement on eminent domain abuses etc.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (gQdmS)

421 Added benefit is that if someone rear ends your car you're less likely to smash into the car 1' ahead of you.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (dGZeX)

422 I think as far as FedGov help in HI is concerned... They're a political monoculture, and Dems aren't afraid of losing a single office over this, because they won't.

To make matters worse, they're a relatively unimportant province. They're not one of the imperial home islands like NY, CA, MA, or IL.

FedGov doesn't have a ton of motivation to put forth much effort there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

If Mazie Hirono was anything more than a whorehouse madam, heads would be rolling.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (BRJFo)

423 Beau Biden died in a Tragic kitchen grease fire incident.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 09:26 AM (BjVQC)

424 Do not travel to Belarus due to Belarusian authorities’ continued facilitation of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, the buildup of Russian military forces in Belarus, the arbitrary enforcement of local laws, the potential of civil unrest, the risk of detention, and the Embassy’s limited ability to assist U.S. citizens residing in or traveling to Belarus.”

Do not take Belarus if you are allergic to Belarus.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 22, 2023 09:26 AM (BRHaw)

425 The rich leftists of the world are probably happy for the fire because it's going to open up a bunch of new acreage for them to build 20 million mansions.
Posted by: Roc Doc at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (bkf/+)

Concur. With big, high fences and walls to keep the riffraff out and back entrances for the Big House servants.

Okrah Chinthree needs another house yo!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 09:27 AM (ae93S)

426 You bastard!

You killed my pet rattler, Shaky!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 09:27 AM (krqg6)

427 They bitch about "weaponization of the FBI and DOJ"? But how much you are willing to bet they would do the same thing? Oh wait, they did when Trump was in power. So they should shut up!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 22, 2023 09:22 AM (JCZqz)
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LOLOLOL. Whatever drugs this guy has, I hope he shares them.

The DoJ was weaponized as fuck under Trump - in the same direction it's weaponized now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 09:27 AM (t0OGg)

428 Why did the local commander not grab the water authority dude by the lapels and tell him to release the fucking water and he'd take responsibility?

Organizational sclerosis is a dangerous thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (t0OGg)

Not submitting to authority is one of the worst things you can do. Grievous sin. You get sent to hell or something.

Posted by: Obey! Obey! OBEY!!! at August 22, 2023 09:27 AM (fhX0j)

429 On the other hand, I can’t stand the people who leave a huge space between themselves and the vehicle ahead of them at traffic lights. Many times, you could fit an extra vehicle in the gap. Just makes the queue longer, decreasing the chances for the folks at the back to make it through the light when it turns green.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 09:27 AM (xTRSc)

430 Do not travel to Belarus

Darn... Now I have to cancel my vacay.. Maybe Syria ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 09:27 AM (bs+z0)

431 Do not travel to Belarus due to Belarusian authorities’ continued facilitation of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine

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Wait, when was that one?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:27 AM (dGZeX)

432 Hawai'i:

We can alert you about a phony missile attack
We can't alert you about a real firestorm.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:28 AM (3VTLq)

433 Alas the 'conservative' chattering class are quite willing to feed Trump to the gator in the vain hope they won't be devoured next.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:08 AM (3VTLq)

I think it is more than that, anna. I think they want Trump fed to the gator for their own personal bias- and to hell with what that MEANS.

Fucking hell. This is at the heart of my disgust with NT from 2016 on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 09:28 AM (zZu0s)

434 The zoot cat......

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37vfz5

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

435 Competent management of emergency resources is white supremacy. And no I’m not kidding. It’s what they keep telling us. Remember things like being in time, striving for perfection, etc are literally white supremacy according to them. So yeah, fuck off. You signed your own seat warrants.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 09:28 AM (BjVQC)

436 >>Okrah Chinthree needs another house yo!

She has already acquired 2000 acres since first buying a house there, maybe she wants to own most of the remaining parts.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 22, 2023 09:28 AM (avru5)

437 "You can't fight lawfare without lawyers and lawyers will not work without compensation that often."

And it seems that the majority of lawyers is leftist now.

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at August 22, 2023 09:28 AM (MvF+J)

438 384 Ramaswamy op-ed today
https://tinyurl.com/yc3ruk5t
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 22, 2023 09:16 AM (RIvkX)
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thanks for that link
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:19 AM (jKw3+)

Already have it in Politics via NY Post.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 09:28 AM (x0n13)

439 Do not travel to Belarus

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Ok so North Korea it is for summer vacation then.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 09:29 AM (BjVQC)

440 We're more like emergency monitors than emergency responders / service providers.

Posted by: Emergency Management Services Chief at August 22, 2023 09:29 AM (4I/2K)

441 Aetius

So the Russian model of revenge - as long as the guy I hate gets it I don't care what happens to me.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:30 AM (3VTLq)

442 I just wished I had some hash browns to go with it.
Posted by: dantesed at August 22, 2023 09:20 AM (88xKn)

Got taters? Make your own
Posted by: It's me donna at August 22, 2023 09:21 AM (bs+z0)

Yeah, you should always have multiple kinds of potatoes on hand. Spuds, fries and tots. He'll even the powder and box.

Posted by: JmT at August 22, 2023 09:30 AM (NxX5S)

443 Holy #$%@ it was worse:

https://tinyurl.com/ycxb7krr

Posted by: Lizzy at August 22, 2023 09:30 AM (avru5)

444 433 Alas the 'conservative' chattering class are quite willing to feed Trump to the gator in the vain hope they won't be devoured next.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I think it is more than that, anna. I think they want Trump fed to the gator for their own personal bias- and to hell with what that MEANS.

Fucking hell. This is at the heart of my disgust with NT from 2016 on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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It is a difficult task for people to admit that they are wrong and the world has changed. Some NT'ers are so devoted to particular policies or institutions that they simply cannot admit they don't work.

Others are simply Democrats that don't like taxes and maybe some nat sec issues.

Then there are the grifters.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (gQdmS)

445 Many times, you could fit an extra vehicle in the gap. Just makes the queue longer, decreasing the chances for the folks at the back to make it through the light when it turns green.

-

Not really. It comes down to driving, as it always does. I suspect there is no meaningful difference between people tailgating and creeping and tapping the brakes through the lights than there would be if people left a car length and all began and maintained a similar low-speed movement through the intersection.

Brake lights are *always* what kills momentum, and it reverberates three to five cars back. Stay of off bumpers, stay off of brakes, and things move.

It's all academic, though. You can change the color of the moon before you can easily change the way people drive.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (dGZeX)

446 But why did fire fighters have to call Honolulu for permission when there was an active emergency? Why did the local commander not grab the water authority dude by the lapels and tell him to release the fucking water and he'd take responsibility?

You are confusing Heritage America with Soviet America.

Yes, 50 years ago someone local would have done whatever needed to be done...screw the chain of authority.

But Soviet America works like, well, the Soviet Union. Failing while following orders is much much safer then risking resolving something on your own.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (lc5cP)

447 Hubby said if we're ever faced with that issue, we're shooting our way out.
Posted by: SMH

Amen. And if I'm ever on a jury and someone has done that, I'll hang it before I allow it to continue.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (BRJFo)

448 Never forget as much as the Democrats and the State (BIRM) wanted rid of PDT, the GOP wanted it *more.* Expecting them to defend Trump is like expecting ISIS to defend a church.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (0FoWg)

449 nood

Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (MvF+J)

450 Art repeat NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (qPw5n)

451 NOODlum.

Literally. Again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (Zz0t1)

452 I'm canceling today, tomorrow, and Thursday. I got up this morning about 7:30 and the windows were thickly fogged. The humidity is 92 and the high for the next three days is going to be a little above 100°. Mercifully, I had only one medical appointment this week, and that was yesterday.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- Persian cats are nothing more than 24/7 shedding machines. at August 22, 2023 09:32 AM (B7rlW)

453 Amen. And if I'm ever on a jury and someone has done that, I'll hang it before I allow it to continue.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (BRJFo)

Like with rope?

Posted by: Seems a tad draconian at August 22, 2023 09:32 AM (fhX0j)

454 I’d bet anything that the name of the cat Biden almost lost in the fire was something like “Stingray.”

Posted by: Rex B at August 22, 2023 09:32 AM (y72mI)

455 Joey Bidet talking about almost losing his SCIFvette to people who have lost loved ones...

It becomes very very hard not to start screaming to G-d about why can't you give this jerkwad a lightning enema.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:32 AM (3VTLq)

456 One of the best observations I've ever heard on driving:

If you notice that you change the way you drive when there's another car near you (especially a cop), then you probably need to think about how you're driving.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 09:33 AM (dGZeX)

457 >>Yeah, you should always have multiple kinds of potatoes on hand. Spuds, fries and tots. He'll even the powder and box.

Posted by: JmT

I was thinking of going to the fancy food store to buy beef tallow and do some french fries in that stuff

Posted by: DB - for what it's worth at August 22, 2023 09:33 AM (geLO8)

458 NUDE NOOD

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2023 09:33 AM (lc5cP)

459
What we should be doing now is calling out and shaming the Desantis supporters who are just being assholes at this point. Desantis was always a stalking horse for the Billionaires and was never meant to actually win the general election. There is no way a 60 million vote republican is going to win a national race. The democrats wouldn't even have to cheat to beat him.
Posted by: Achilles at August 22, 2023 09:21 AM (bzsXQ)
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Paid troll.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:33 AM (y0yar)

460 And it seems that the majority of lawyers is leftist now.
Posted by: Veni, Vidi, gp
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There is that as well. Whale donors on the right are more concerned with giving their money to the leftist institutions where they went to college than funding young conservatives to become lawyers.

Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:34 AM (gQdmS)

461 >> “she faced a police barricade. After running past officers, 1 responders told her the area had been cleared and no1 was there. When they were finally allowed to go to their house 2 days later, they found the body of their 14-year-old son, hugging the family's dead dog.”

https://tinyurl.com/2s3h27cu

Posted by: Lizzy at August 22, 2023 09:34 AM (avru5)

462 One thing te: driving that drives (get it) me crazy…

There’s an intersection near me that has two left l turn lanes. Yet for som reason 80% of cars go to the furthest left lane. And because of that there is a backup of cars causing people in the back to miss the green arrow and have to wait a full light cycle to turn.

Why? Why do people refuse to use the second turn lane? It’s very well marked so it’s not like they don’t know it exists. Like people what the fuck is wrong with you?

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 09:35 AM (BjVQC)

463 435 It's Hawaii. If more that 2 Dems lose seats I will be shocked. If the ave Dem has 5% fewer votes than in their last election, same. Most people will forget of they weren't directly affected and the media does make a huge continuous deal about it, and the vast majority of the media won't. Even the media that does is going to have far much to report on than cover Hawaii continuous enough to shake the Dem voters out of their "must vote D".

Posted by: Bete at August 22, 2023 09:35 AM (BRhwL)

464 September will be the warm up, October will be mandatory. That long lead up is required so that Secretaries of State have time to make mail in voting and other rules to break election laws again.

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I heard this the other day. I don't believe it, but then I couldn't believe we did it the first time, so anything's possible.

Posted by: SH (But Prefer Clark Griswold) at August 22, 2023 09:36 AM (sX1BW)

465 So the Russian model of revenge - as long as the guy I hate gets it I don't care what happens to me.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 22, 2023 09:30 AM (3VTLq)

Also the Jewish approach...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 09:36 AM (0FoWg)

466 Already have it in Politics via NY Post.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 22, 2023 09:28 AM (x0n13)
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Ha! Of course you do! Thanks, again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:37 AM (y0yar)

467 Others are simply Democrats that don't like taxes and maybe some nat sec issues.

Then there are the grifters.
Posted by: whig at August 22, 2023 09:31 AM (gQdmS)
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That pretty much covers the Senate GOPe caucus, maybe with three or four brave and noble xcptions.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:40 AM (y0yar)

468 Why? Why do people refuse to use the second turn lane? It’s very well marked so it’s not like they don’t know it exists. Like people what the fuck is wrong with you?
Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 09:35 AM (BjVQC)

From driving on the highways, I'm convinced that-

50%+ of the drivers don't think anything at all about exiting the road they're on until about ten seconds or so from the exit or street turn.

Oh, and have no ability to learn their route even with repeated drives over the same ground.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 22, 2023 09:41 AM (QzZeQ)

469 Why aren't Democrats going after the gun law that has Hunter in trouble?

The Democrats dumb down or erase all kinds of laws that get them in trouble.

FARA should be repealed too.
Why are Democrats so dumb?

Posted by: torabora at August 22, 2023 09:46 AM (XynZy)

470 Organizational sclerosis is a dangerous thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 09:25 AM (t0OGg)
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How any big organization gets anything done is kind of a miracle. But big government doesn't have the profit motive helping it along, only inertia, so many things only get done by criminals trying to beat the system. My view, anyway.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 09:52 AM (thmbI)

471 Michael Cohen, who served as former President Trump’s personal attorney, called. the former president an “idiot” for not paying his alleged co-conspirators’ legal bills in the Georgia election case. Cohen questioned Monday why Trump would not pay the legal bills for his other codefendants who were indicted in Fulton County, Ga. — such as attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis. “Donald’s an idiot,” Cohen told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.”

.. I believe it would be viewed as "witness tampering"
This guy is/was a lawyer ?

Posted by: SMOD at August 22, 2023 09:54 AM (RHGPo)

472 Ace and the Townhall Media gang are just having a hard time. Trump ducking the debate, which was sound strategy, was the straw that broke the camel's back.
DeSantis was a Twitter and right wing blog candidate - he never had a Base. And now he's also ruined his chances in 2028. Nice work all. Anyone with an IQ of 80 could have seen this coming.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 22, 2023 10:08 AM (xaNfJ)

473 "What is to be done"?

Federalism is the answer. With a little help from SCOTUS next term, I pray, the Congress must face up to the fact it created an illegitimate leviathan. The Administrative State is going to have to be sacrificed, and state governments will get larger in response. Taxes will need to stop being paid to Washington, and go to state legislatures instead.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 10:16 AM (eFDAz)

474 I agree that Trump should not be the candidate in 2024. The first two years of his presidency were great, the last two were an absolute disaster, in large part because of Trump's ego and poor staffing choices. He jumped onboard for the very Covid hoax that was used to destroy small business and set up mail-in voting on a major scale. He also, even after the DNC explained, publicly, how they were going to "fortify the election," spent his time basking in adulation at large rallies rather than doing the hard work of preparing for the battle. It was heartbreaking to see how helpless Trump was after the election, they were a deer in the headlights. Those two factors alone tell me it's time for a change.

Posted by: Wilber at August 22, 2023 11:29 AM (cT/LU)

475 I'm surprised it took this long to cancel Fat Bottom Girls. Shame, it is a good song. However, I wonder if they will cancel MJ's "Hey pretty girl" as he refuses to take no for an answer or Jimi's "Joe" where some guy blows his girlfriend away because she messed around with someone else. There's many a song in which a girl/woman is killed because of some guy's inability to cope with his emotions. We could stand to lose a few of those type songs.

Posted by: just saying at August 22, 2023 11:45 AM (Uy/WF)

476 Since the next election is going to be rigged against Trump, why give the Democrats what they want by nominating Trump? In 2016 he was an unknown quantity the Democrats didn’t know how to deal with. 8 years later, he’s worse than known, he’s utterly predictable. They’ve spent the last 8 years demonizing him so much that at least half the country would rather vote for a brain dead vegetable.

Whoever the GOP nominate is going to have an uphill battle. Why not try a fresh new face that hasn’t been demonized for 8 years? If the odds of Trump winning the general are 1%, surely a non Trump who was a successful governor with an outstanding resume has a greater than 1% chance?

You know that the Democrats down to the lowliest poll worker will be more motivated to cheat if Trump is on the ballot. If their cheating worries you (and it should), that alone should motivate you to nominate someone else.

We need to do everything possible to win in 2024. Do you want four more years of this? The country won’t survive it. Winning the next election needs to be our number 1 priority, not giving Trump a shot at revenge. If nominating a non Trump gives us a better chance, we must pursue it.

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at August 22, 2023 11:49 AM (1gif2)

477 Hi, all, and thank you, J.J.

This is it, the end, for conservative voters with the quest for time traveling backwards & pretending purity of party in thought, deed and, yes, membership. IMHO

Last night, MisHum put up the Politico article about crazy K's public image for 2024. Vox Dec '19, in part, "After a blockbuster debate performance in June, Sen. Kamala Harris shot up in the national polls, peaking at 15 percent voter support. Cut to five months later, and she’s announced her decision to drop out, after polling in the single digits....Harris didn’t do enough to fully capitalize on it." And yet, there she is - VP - going nowhere if not moved out with a nod from O.

The progressives need the Black vote - hell, conservatives need the Black/POC votes - and they'll twist 2020 & Trump and, yes, candidate DeSantis into anti-voting rights & race while using voting rights/race, healthcare, and what they also conjure up to give away or pretend they'll be doing (a tax on billionaires) 2024. "Bottom up, middle out" BS.

What's the plan? Debate Ron, Don, big Chris, and JFK Jr. ad nauseam? Get broader, deeper and friendlier & stop ignoring Vivek & some others.

Peace

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemy at August 22, 2023 11:53 AM (GshMh)

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