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State Department Memos Disprove the Cover Story Biden and the Democrats Have Been Telling About Ukraine's Corruption

Biden infamously bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor who was investigating, what was that again? Oh yes, he was investigating corruption and money-laundering at Burisma, which had hired Hunter Biden to help get Burisma cleared to do business in the US.

The claim from the Obama Administration and the Biden Crime Family is that it was necessary to to fire this prosecutor for Ukraine to prove it was complying with anti-corruption stipulations to receiving aid.

I know it doesn't make sense that you'd fire someone investigating corruption to prove you were fighting corruption, but that's the story this gang of criminals and thieves has been going with for years.

But now State Department records reveal that Ukraine had been certified as being adequately vigorous in their anti-corruption measures -- which suggests that Biden was conducting his own private, profitable foreign policy when he demanded that Ukraine fire the prosecutor who his son's paymasters wanted fired.


Just weeks before then-Vice President Joe Biden took the opposite action in late 2015, a task force of State, Treasury and Justice Department officials declared that Ukraine had made adequate progress on anti-corruption reforms and deserved a new $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee, according to government memos that conflict with the narrative Democrats have sustained since the 2019 impeachment scandal.

"Ukraine has made sufficient progress on its reform agenda to justify a third guarantee," reads an Oct. 1, 2015, memo summarizing the recommendation of the Interagency Policy Committee (IPC) -- a task force created to advise the Obama White House on whether Ukraine was cleaning up its endemic corruption and deserved more Western foreign aid.

The recommendation is one of several U.S. government memos gathered by Just the News over the last 36 months from Freedom of Information Act litigation, congressional inquiries and government agency sources that directly conflict with the long-held narrative that Biden was conducting official U.S. policy when he threatened to withhold a $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee to force Ukraine to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, the country's equivalent of the American attorney general.

At the time the threat was made in December 2015, Shokin's office was conducting an increasingly aggressive corruption investigation into Burisma Holdings, an energy firm the State Department deemed to have been engaged in bribery and that employed Hunter Biden and paid him millions while his father was vice president.

New details on the impact of that probe have emerged in recent days.

Shokin's pursuit was rattling Burisma, and the firm was putting pressure on Hunter Biden to deal with it, according to recent testimony and interviews with Devon Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner and fellow Burisma board member.

The memos obtained by Just the News show:

Senior State Department officials sent a conflicting message to Shokin before he was fired, inviting his staff to Washington for a January 2016 strategy session and sent him a personal note saying they were "impressed" with his office's work.

U.S. officials faced pressure from Burisma emissaries in the United States to make the corruption allegations go away and feared the energy firm had made two bribery payments in Ukraine as part of an effort to get cases settled.

A top U.S. official in Kyiv blamed Hunter Biden for undercutting U.S. anticorruption policy in Ukraine through his dealings with Burisma.

During Trump's first impeachment in late 2019, State officials testified that Hunter Biden's acceptance of a job at Burisma at a time when his father was vice president created the appearance of a conflict of interest but did not materially impact U.S. policy in Ukraine.

But in a private, classified email shared with Just the News, one of the top U.S. officials in the Kyiv embassy told then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch at the end of the Obama administration that Hunter Biden had, in fact, impacted the U.S. anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine.

"The real issue to my mind was that someone in Washington needed to engage VP Biden quietly and say that his son Hunter's presence on the Burisma board undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine b/c Ukrainians heard one message from us and then saw another set of behavior with the family association with a known corrupt figure whose company was known for not playing by the rules," embassy official George Kent wrote to Yovanovitch in the Nov. 22, 2016, email marked "confidential."


Posted by: Ace at 12:15 PM




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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 22, 2023 12:16 PM (Wnv9h)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Italicans!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 12:16 PM (vbuLV)

4 DAMN you grey Italicans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Ah! The Italicans are boldly attacking!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (Wnv9h)

6 Lamont you Big Dummy!

;-)

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (CYgrT)

7 Am I gray today...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (ynpvh)

8 We're greys, man. We're grays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

9 B0rked!

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (dWjpk)

10 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (Wnv9h)

11 Not surprisingly, Biden lied. I've lost count as to how many.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (ynpvh)

12 So Hunter was a private citizen, but he was CC'd on emails between Joe and Obama and Ukraine officials.

Because shut up, that's why.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (Oto6+)

13 Local story, more than 10 miles away and more than2 Yeats old.

Posted by: Msm at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (BRhwL)

14 Good thing Trump's a horrible judge of character or we'd be stuck with him in 2024.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

15 State Department Memos Disprove the Cover Story Biden and the Democrats Have Been Telling About Ukraine's Corruption

So this means there will consequences, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:18 PM (dWjpk)

16 8 We're greys, man. We're grays.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (Zz0t1)

I thought Brits used grey, us Americans use gray. I guess it's mostly interchangeable.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

17 LOL!

and nooded

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 12:18 PM (vbuLV)

18 SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (Wnv9h)



*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Interesting stuff Ace, if a little gray

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

20 Gray, and NOTHING will come of it. Laws/little people, some assembly required.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:18 PM (aGVn1)

21 7 Am I gray today...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (ynpvh)


Everybody is, at least a little bit. It's kind of a spectrum.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:18 PM (dWjpk)

22 So, you're telling me Biden is a corrupt motherpucker selling policy to foreign bidders?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (rm6WP)

23 HTML Tags.


HOW DO THEY WORK!??!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

24 State Department records reveal that Ukraine had been certified as being adequately vigorous in their anti-corruption measures

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LOLOLOLOL

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (0FoWg)

25 :::miming being trapped in a gray box:::

Posted by: Marcel Marceau at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

26 Grey is a nice calming color.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (DmtxH)

27 This is all very concerning, but Ukraine didn't say "pussy", while Putin shook hands with Orange Man Bad, so we have to defend Ukraine until the end. We found our hill to die on!

Posted by: Concerned True Conservatives at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (JCZqz)

28 [/blockquote]

That work?

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (dWjpk)

29 "Biden infamously bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine..."

iirc, it was $2billion.

Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (SYTee)

30 you're setting up those deck chairs all wrong, and they should be over there!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying liars have been lying for decades at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (vbuLV)

31 WHAT A SHOCK!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (N1DT3)

32 23 HTML Tags.


HOW DO THEY WORK!??!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (Zz0t1)

How would I know? I always rip off the tags.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

33 Though he's not going to be impeached and jailed. Laws are only tools be used against uppity people like Donald Trump.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (xcxpd)

34 Ace has a Doctorate in HTML Studies.

Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (FMGPM)

35 They're gonna say Biden was pursuing US Nat Sec during his malarkey and that it was all cleared at the highest levels.

And it will have been cleared at the highest levels. No other level. But at the appointment level.

The top of State, Intel, DOJ will be shown to have green lit Hunter and Joe.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (kCx1d)

36 24 State Department records reveal that Ukraine had been certified as being adequately vigorous in their anti-corruption measures
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Pretty sure Obama, Hillary and Victoria Nuland gave them two thumbs up, all.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (DmtxH)

37 We beat the Italicans but the Greys are still boxing us in on our way to the Mothership!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (krqg6)

38 So this means there will consequences, right?

Right?

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:18 PM (dWjpk)

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"It all depends upon what the definition of 'con' is ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (CYgrT)

39 ace, someone posted it in the last thread, but apparently Joe fell asleep during a ceremony for the victims of the wildfires in Maui.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (Oto6+)

40 I miss the days of fiscal conservatism when elected Republicans would actually make noises about limiting government spending instead of accusing me of being a Russian puppet because I didn't want to spend more money in support of Ukraine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

41 Ace has a Doctorate in HTML Studies.
Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (FMGPM)

Critical HTML Studies.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (kCx1d)

42 OMG! They were right! We are being invaded by the Gray aliens!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (FVME7)

43 So this means there will consequences, right?

Right?

___

lol

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (MqgM5)

44 36 24 State Department records reveal that Ukraine had been certified as being adequately vigorous in their anti-corruption measures
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Pretty sure Obama, Hillary and Victoria Nuland gave them two thumbs up, all.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (DmtxH)

Just adequate, e.g. fired Shokin. Not too much anti-corruption, just the right amount.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

45 "Biden infamously bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine..."

iirc, it was $2billion.
Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (SYTee)
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Pretty soon we will be talking about real money.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (rm6WP)

46 Oh boy oh boy, I'm so excited to vote very very very hard in November 2024. I'm gonna vote my harderest evah!

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

47 Damn.

Maria is lookin haggard.

Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (FMGPM)

48 i for one welcome our gray overlords...

Posted by: SturmToddler at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (nXhwP)

49 Biden infamously bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor who was investigating, what was that again? Oh yes, he was investigating corruption and money-laundering at Burisma, which had hired Hunter Biden to help get Burisma cleared to do business in the US.

The claim from the Obama Administration and the Biden Crime Family is that it was necessary to to fire this prosecutor for Ukraine to prove it was complying with anti-corruption stipulations to receiving aid.

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Trump asking about this was the basis for his first impeachment, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

50 Hi Ace
Would have been here sooner but text arguing about people willingly getting into the box cars....

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (t/2Uw)

51 Good look!

Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (SUc4N)

52 I miss the days of fiscal conservatism when elected Republicans would actually make noises about limiting government spending instead of accusing me of being a Russian puppet because I didn't want to spend more money in support of Ukraine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

I laughed.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (kCx1d)

53 Did Joe Biden just fall asleep during a ceremony honoring those who died in the Hawaii wildfires?

https://tinyurl.com/3fcsf9k3

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (MqgM5)

54 "Biden infamously bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine..."

iirc, it was $2billion.
Posted by: davidt

--

That's $5B in today's money.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (Oto6+)

55 Barak Obama dreamed of being gray.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (aGVn1)

56 This is my grey shocked face.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (ufFY8)

57 RGB(128,128,12

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (w9Wax)

58 That made my gray go away.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

59 Tucker is pretty much on board with the "everything is fake and gay" theme.

He states pretty flatly that everyone is lying to us. And Vivek is running for President on that theme.

The key is that everyone is lying, and there are no consequences for it. In fact, people are rewarded for it. You know what happens with stuff you reward.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (dWjpk)

60 If Joe Biden took millions of dollars for getting the prosecutor in Ukraine fired who was investigating Burisma, he needs to be impeached, removed from office, and thrown in jail.

Bribery is explicitly listed in the Constitution as an impeachable offense.

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Hold up all budgetary proceedings in the Senate by refusing unanimous consent, Ted.

Make them read the 10,000 page CR on the floor, object whenever there isn't a quorum. Stop the whole thing because the DOJ isn't going to do anything with the funds they have.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (LvTSG)

61 Look, fat, it's just like the time Beau died because Dr. Jill set the kitchen on fire.

Posted by: Boe Jiden at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (2ocoG)

62 This calls for a completely futile and desperate gesture of some sort. It will be ineffective but it's very important that we do it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (MeG8a)

63 How could Obama not know every single move VP Stinkfinger was making ? The VP has no line authority-- especially in Obama's White House. .......was the REALLY Big Guy' Obama ?

Expiring minds want to know.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (R3wFC)

64 15 Yes. To the whistle-blower, and also to Biden as while the DOJ won't touch it people will now know about (well, except for the vast majority who watch/read where wont be touched.

Posted by: Msm at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (BRhwL)

65 Trump asking about this was the basis for his first impeachment, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

UKR is the basis of all the anti-DJT stuff. On both sides.

The plan for UKR has pribably been in the works since just before the end of WWII.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (kCx1d)

66 61 Look, fat, it's just like the time Beau died because Dr. Jill set the kitchen on fire.

Posted by: Boe Jiden at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (2ocoG)

Beau must be like Kenny from South Park.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (ynpvh)

67 State Department records reveal that Ukraine had been certified as being adequately vigorous in their anti-corruption measures

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LOLOLOLOL

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (0FoWg)

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TBF, the standards they using were the anti-corruption measures of the U.S. feral government.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (CYgrT)

68 Ace combs Grecian Formula into his svelt pelt.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (w9Wax)

69 Gee, all these things I TOTALLY didn't already know!

And that the media is SURE to let the average voter know about!

The country will OF COURSE now clean out the corruption in Washington!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (N1DT3)

70 It's all lies, rape, smoke and mirrors, obfuscation, obstruction, half truths, story telling, bull shit, rape and more lies every day from these people in washington dc.

What Is Truth...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (ae93S)

71 39 ace, someone posted it in the last thread, but apparently Joe fell asleep during a ceremony for the victims of the wildfires in Maui.
Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (Oto6+)


IT'S A STUTTER!

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (dWjpk)

72 Did Joe Biden just fall asleep during a ceremony honoring those who died in the Hawaii wildfires?

He's looked terrible the entire Hawaii trip. I think they didn't pack his drug cocktail because it was supposed to be a vacation but the peasants got uppity.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (2ocoG)

73 But in a private, classified email shared with Just the News, one of the top U.S. officials in the Kyiv embassy told then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch at the end of the Obama administration that Hunter Biden had, in fact, impacted the U.S. anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine.
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It's gotten to the point where hearing an American official of *any* kind talk about "anti-corruption" should be - and behind closed doors, probably is - met with the same reaction one would have to hearing about the CCP engaging in "anti-corruption activities."

Like in Red China, our "anti-corruption" mission is about purging people who were once insiders but are now outsiders, and keeping the spice flowing to the top dogs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (t0OGg)

74 Biden wanted money, Nuland wanted a war (nuclear, if possible), and Zelensky wanted a bigger house in Florida.

I think there is a deal in here somewhere that can satisfy everyone....

Posted by: Satan's Minions at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (rm6WP)

75 Hold up all budgetary proceedings in the Senate by refusing unanimous consent, Ted.

Make them read the 10,000 page CR on the floor, object whenever there isn't a quorum. Stop the whole thing because the DOJ isn't going to do anything with the funds they have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (LvTSG)

That's not who Ted is. He will go along to get along.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (xcxpd)

76 That one time I tried to light a fart. It was just like Maui man. Almost lost my new Levis. Biden is assho.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (aGVn1)

77 34 Ace has a Doctorate in HTML Studies.
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From IKEA U.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (krqg6)

78 70 It's all lies, rape, smoke and mirrors, obfuscation, obstruction, half truths, story telling, bull shit, rape and more lies every day from these people in washington dc.

What Is Truth...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (ae93S)

You said rape twice

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (xcxpd)

79 Also Bo saved 850 kids from a grease fire in their house in Delaware, swear to Corvettes, fat.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (Oto6+)

80 75 That's not who Ted is. He will go along to get along.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (xcxpd)

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Posit:

Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Great for knocking down brainless lefties, but unable to find a way to use any of his time or resources to actually fight any battle worth having.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

81 We've got him This Time.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (Cus5s)

82 IT'S A STUTTER!

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hahahaha

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (Oto6+)

83 Norms status:

[X] Restored!
[ ] not restored

Posted by: National Review at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (2ABVC)

84 How would I know? I always rip off the tags.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
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Isn't that a federal crime?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (YIVH2)

85 so next friday another soros prosecutor will get a grand jury in, say, philly, to indicted trump on 30 or 40 counts of something? maybe not saying that fetterman really is doing fine?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (B1FKF)

86 No. No! This cannot be. To believe it would entail that we believe that not only Hunter (the smartest guy in the world), but even lovable Joe Biden is corrupt. And that cannot be true.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (brAQZ)

87 Trump asking about this was the basis for his first impeachment, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)

But he tweets in all caps...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (xcxpd)

88 79 Also Bo saved 850 kids from a grease fire in their house in Delaware, swear to Corvettes, fat.
Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (Oto6+)

========

Bo Jackson really did earn that MVP, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (LvTSG)

89 Barak Obama dreamed of being gray.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:22 PM (aGVn1)

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I think the Brits spell that as "ghey."

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (CYgrT)

90 Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Great for knocking down brainless lefties, but unable to find a way to use any of his time or resources to actually fight any battle worth having.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

Controlled opposition.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (kCx1d)

91 74 Biden wanted money, Nuland wanted a war (nuclear, if possible), and Zelensky wanted a bigger house in Florida.

I think there is a deal in here somewhere that can satisfy everyone....
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You're speaking about the CIA. When Trump called to find out Dems Impeached. This is an improvement on what happened to JFK and his brother.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (NsE9F)

92 If Weiss pushed Hunter's crimes aside to wait out the statute of limitations doesn't that make him liable for obstruction of justice charges?

It seems they are attempting to delay any accountability when facts are presenting themselves pretty clearly.

Posted by: DanMan at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (DB6tu)

93 How would I know? I always rip off the tags.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
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Isn't that a federal crime?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM

Trumps next indictment.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (aGVn1)

94 84 How would I know? I always rip off the tags.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
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Isn't that a federal crime?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (YIVH2)

I'm sure that'll be in Trump's next indictment.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (ynpvh)

95 "Biden infamously bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid to Ukraine..."

iirc, it was $2billion.
Posted by: davidt at August 22, 2023 12:19 PM (SYTee)



He said in the video, "if you don't fire him, you won't get the billion."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

96 He's looked terrible the entire Hawaii trip. I think they didn't pack his drug cocktail because it was supposed to be a vacation but the peasants got uppity.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (2ocoG)


Alternatively: they just don't care anymore. Is it going to affect Biden's popularity? He's been at 39% since he started. Hawaii is still going to vote for him. Probably the fires mean there will need to be a lot of mail-in ballots in Hawaii anyway.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (dWjpk)

97 13 Local story, more than 10 miles away and more than2 Yeats old.
Posted by: Msm at August 22, 2023 12:17 PM (BRhwL)
________

Does that mean that Biden is slouching toward Delaware to take a nap?

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (brAQZ)

98
93 & 94

Heh.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

99 Remember the eighties, when it was supposedly good guys (us) vs bad guys (the soviets) ? Turns out, that was bullshit.

In a way, I can't blame the rest of the world for doing everything they can to get rid of the last superpower. I'd like to turn in superpower status myself. A government less powerful would be a government with less power over me.

Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (O7H/9)

100 Looking forward to voting for Ted Cruz in 2024.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (AwUtb)

101 Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Great for knocking down brainless lefties, but unable to find a way to use any of his time or resources to actually fight any battle worth having.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

Yeah, about right. Ted is capable like baby Ben of debating his opponents into the dirt. But he's not a fighter, he wants his rice bowl to be filled. Actually both of them are like that. Baby Ben is notorious about tearing down actual Conservative speakers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

102 Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Great for knocking down brainless lefties, but unable to find a way to use any of his time or resources to actually fight any battle worth having.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (LvTSG)

I am afraid I agree. Ted is a porch pup.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (pohLc)

103 By and large, the clergy are the same as the rest of our institutional parasites. Corrupt, incompetent, dishwater-dull mediocrities who wouldn't stand out in a crowd of one, but presume to lecture the normies in the pews about how to #BeBetter. Fuck 'em.

They can't keep their flocks in the pasture, they can't resist intrusions by the State, they can't control their own heretical clerics, but damned if they won't hand ya a pamphlet about how sodomy is awesome.

Spare me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (0FoWg)

104 Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Great for knocking down brainless lefties, but unable to find a way to use any of his time or resources to actually fight any battle worth having.


Jim Jordan at least rolls his sleeves up though.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (aGVn1)

105 Also Bo saved 850 kids from a grease fire in their house in Delaware, swear to Corvettes, fat.
Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:24 PM (Oto6+)

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Bo Jackson really did earn that MVP, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (LvTSG)

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Out: Bo Don't Know Diddley.
In: Bo Was Likely Diddled By Daddy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (CYgrT)

106 Alternatively: they just don't care anymore. Is it going to affect Biden's popularity? He's been at 39% since he started. Hawaii is still going to vote for him. Probably the fires mean there will need to be a lot of mail-in ballots in Hawaii anyway.
Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (dWjpk)

Hawaii is "secure". They only went because of spillover into non-"secure" areas.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kCx1d)

107 101 Yeah, about right. Ted is capable like baby Ben of debating his opponents into the dirt. But he's not a fighter, he wants his rice bowl to be filled. Actually both of them are like that. Baby Ben is notorious about tearing down actual Conservative speakers.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

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The analogy probably falls apart once you bring sibling tatas into the conversation, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (LvTSG)

108 Has Sundowner said anything that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs?

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kXDwF)

109 You're speaking about the CIA. When Trump called to find out Dems Impeached. This is an improvement on what happened to JFK and his brother.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (NsE9F)


So far.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (dWjpk)

110 New York Post
@nypost
Dick’s Sporting Goods blames ‘organized retail crime’ for 23% drop in profits

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Well, they're all a bunch of dicks and where else are dicks going to shop?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (FVME7)

111 Bo Jackson really did earn that MVP, huh?
--

I readily admit that I spell it that way to make fun of the white trash mofos.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (Oto6+)

112 103
They can't keep their flocks in the pasture, they can't resist intrusions by the State, they can't control their own heretical clerics, but damned if they won't hand ya a pamphlet about how sodomy is awesome.

Spare me.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (0FoWg)

Worked for Sodom and Gomorrah, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (ynpvh)

113 wait a minute here. So Joe Biden is a lair? where's the fainting couch?

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (CIS44)

114 98
93 & 94

Heh.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM

Horde mind, it's real.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (aGVn1)

115 104 Jim Jordan at least rolls his sleeves up though.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (aGVn1)

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Ah, but Ted did grow the Civil War general beard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (LvTSG)

116 Alternatively: they just don't care anymore. Is it going to affect Biden's popularity? He's been at 39% since he started. Hawaii is still going to vote for him. Probably the fires mean there will need to be a lot of mail-in ballots in Hawaii anyway.

Oh, I don't disagree. But this crowd is super concerned about how things look (because that's how AWFLs judge everything) and they've gone to some effort to maintain appearances. So it's interesting when that effort isn't made.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (2ocoG)

117 Biden isn't running for reelection. They will him out for a younger candidate, they once Republicans commit to the aged, bloviating Trump. Then there will only be one old, meandering guy in the race.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (ZeDNp)

118 > "Tucker is pretty much on board with the "everything is fake and gay" theme.

He states pretty flatly that everyone is lying to us. And Vivek is running for President on that theme."--Posted by: blaster

Vivek is lying too, if only by omission, about his past associations and activities. He's already had information scrubbed from his Wikipedia page.

Posted by: Just reporting at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w7elb)

119 Jim, please stop copying off of Minnfidel's test paper!

Posted by: Mrs. Crabapple at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w9Wax)

120 Has Sundowner said anything that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs?
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kXDwF)



You misspeled "his entire life."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

121 Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Great for knocking down brainless lefties, but unable to find a way to use any of his time or resources to actually fight any battle worth having.

Jim Jordan at least rolls his sleeves up though.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:27 PM (aGVn1)

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Maybe if Jim Jordan grew a beard ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (CYgrT)

122 Trump asking about this was the basis for his first impeachment, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)
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It was right to impeach Trump for asking about this! Whether or not Biden did anything wrong - and it's unlikely that they really did, outside of the right-wing spin machine - the Trump's motivations and goals were illicit. Even if it all went down the way he asserted, his ambition was criminal and so the impeachment was appropriate.

Posted by: Some Prog at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (t0OGg)

123 Has Sundowner said anything that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs?
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM

Yes. One. Hunter Biden is the smartest man I know.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (aGVn1)

124 109 You're speaking about the CIA. When Trump called to find out Dems Impeached. This is an improvement on what happened to JFK and his brother.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (NsE9F)

So far.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (dWjpk)

What's being done to Trump is torture. A bullet is faster and less painful. Then again, sadism goes hand-in-hand with statism.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (ynpvh)

125 Vivek is lying too, if only by omission, about his past associations and activities. He's already had information scrubbed from his Wikipedia page.
Posted by: Just reporting at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w7elb)


At least he's walking the walk then!

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (dWjpk)

126
Trumps next indictment.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (aGVn1)

94 84 How would I know? I always rip off the tags.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (ynpvh)
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Isn't that a federal crime?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (YIVH2)

I'm sure that'll be in Trump's next indictment.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:26 PM (ynpvh)
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Heh. HORDE MIND!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (YIVH2)

127 Does that mean that Biden is slouching toward Delaware to take a nap?
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Nope. Back to the billionaire's home...

Breaking911 @Breaking911 13h
After spending a few hours in Hawaii, President Biden is headed to Lake Tahoe for his second vacation of the month

The Biden’s are staying at billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer’s $18M mansion

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (krqg6)

128 Maybe if Jim Jordan grew a beard ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM

Lindsay Graham?

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (aGVn1)

129 The analogy probably falls apart once you bring sibling tatas into the conversation, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (LvTSG)

Well, it's hard to compare hot sisters between the two of them. Miriam is dead and Roxana doesn't have Abby's rack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (xcxpd)

130 Trump. Then there will only be one old, meandering guy in the race.
Posted by: Marcus T at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (ZeDNp)

And he will carry Hawaii by a landslide.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (pohLc)

131 I'm sorry, I just can't seem to let go that likely 800 children burned to death, alone, scared, in their homes because school was closed due to power outage and Biden offers a story about a kitchen fire where he almost, almost lost his Corvette.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (t/2Uw)

132 122 It was right to impeach Trump for asking about this! Whether or not Biden did anything wrong - and it's unlikely that they really did, outside of the right-wing spin machine - the Trump's motivations and goals were illicit. Even if it all went down the way he asserted, his ambition was criminal and so the impeachment was appropriate.
Posted by: Some Prog at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (t0OGg)

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Obama's motives were pure when he murdered two Americans without judicial oversight using drones.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (LvTSG)

133
Yes. One. Hunter Biden is the smartest man I know.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (aGVn1)



Unpossible.

Biden knows Owebama and everyone knows Barack is a genius.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

134 uh...

"But in a private, classified email shared with Just the News, one of the top U.S. officials in the Kyiv embassy told then-Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch at the end of the Obama administration that Hunter Biden had, in fact, impacted the U.S. anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine."

didn't she say at the adam sclift impeachement hearings that she knew nothing of this until it had made the news very recently? like under oath to tell the truth? oops, washing to d c, no reasonable prosecutor rule applies

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (B1FKF)

135 Jim, please stop copying off of Minnfidel's test paper!
Posted by: Mrs. Crabapple at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w9Wax)
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I believe that's also a federal crime and will be in Trump's next indictment!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (YIVH2)

136 Alex Thompson
@AlexThomp
The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base.”

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What an original idea!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (FVME7)

137 Impeachment!? No, Ted. Impeachment should be safe, legal and rare. But mostly rare.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell (R - Terrapin) at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (pyXMr)

138 I'm beginning to think tis Joe Biden fella is not on the level.

Posted by: guy who's beginning to reach some tentative conclusions about Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (ppBhU)

139 Ah, but Ted did grow the Civil War general beard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

If someone actually showed up with some admiral burnsides type look or the chester a arthur, i think id have to vote for them.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (CIS44)

140 119 Jim, please stop copying off of Minnfidel's test paper!

Posted by: Mrs. Crabapple at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w9Wax)

The only time I cheated on a test was in 1st grade, and what I thought was the right answer was correct and what a copied from the other kid was wrong. Two lessons:
1) Don't Cheat
2) If you do, pick someone SMARTER than you to cheat from.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

141 Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Both of them are classic over-thinkers. Hit either one in the mouth, and what will they do ? First, they'll think. That's the wrong move.

I'm sure they're both good readers, great essay writers, and fair to middling chess players. But neither would be worth a damn on any crew, they're both fresh meat on a card table, and I'd rather have a loaded spare mag than either one of them in a foxhole or fist-fight.

They're both the kind of men that exist in luxury only because times are still relatively good.

Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (O7H/9)

142 The Biden’s are staying at billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer’s $18M mansion
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (krqg6)
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Which isn't a conflict of interest. Unlike Thomas taking fishing trips (or is it hunting? I don't remember) with an industrialist, which is clear-cut conflict and violation of oath.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (t0OGg)

143 The video of Biden asleep in the emergency meeting is on twitter (or X) posted by D C Draino.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (MeG8a)

144 137 Impeachment!? No, Ted. Impeachment should be safe, legal and rare. But mostly rare.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell (R - Terrapin) at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (pyXMr)

Not medium rare or well done?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (ynpvh)

145 136 Alex Thompson
@AlexThomp
The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base.”

-
What an original idea!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (FVME7)

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It's just so weak, but consultants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

146 Vivek is lying too, if only by omission, about his past associations and activities. He's already had information scrubbed from his Wikipedia page.
Posted by: Just reporting at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w7elb)

At least he's walking the walk then!
Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM

Vivek is shitting the bed. The left is starting to push this guy some props and his ratings bumped up. Vivek likes RFK Jr. Vivek has a few good points but I smell a rat with him.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (aGVn1)

147 Vivek is lying too, if only by omission, about his past associations and activities. He's already had information scrubbed from his Wikipedia page.
Posted by: Just reporting at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w7elb)



If damaging info was scrubbed from his Wiki page and the raging libtards running that site didn't immediately put it back tells you what you need to know about Vivek.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

148 Alex Thompson
@AlexThomp

The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base.”
per @playbookdc

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (AwUtb)

149 This is too depressing. I think I'll go back to the art thread.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 12:33 PM (brAQZ)

150 An internet commenter notes that the elite media is starting a new campaign.

The New York Times: "Elections Are Bad for Democracy".

The Atlantic Magazine: "Americans Vote Too Much".

Gosh, I wonder where this is going?

The NYT article talks about the wonders of Athens' random appointment of people to high-ranking jobs (since the vast majority of Athenians were slaves, only the elites got appointed).

The Atlantic article details the incredible burden of having to vote three times every two years, plus Americans (particularly in the West) have to vote for so gosh darn many positions - school boards, city councils, school boards, water district boards, cemetery district boards, and on and on. How burdensome!

Of course, the point behind voting for all these boards is that normally no one pays attention, and the incumbents are reelected, but if the organization screws up, there is a way of removing the people responsible for overseeing the organization.

Along with the WEF's Klaus Schwab's announcement that eventually we won't need elections, since we'll know who would have won anyway, it's pretty obvious that the elites are moving towards abolishing elections.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2023 12:33 PM (2tUFv)

151 OT - asking for prayers for my dad. He is going in this morning for heart valve surgery (TAVR) at Virginia Mason in Seattle. Wished Nurse Ratchet was here for his recovery. True professional.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at August 22, 2023 12:33 PM (vyYQR)

152 I did not think my analogy between Cruz and Shapiro would be so well received.

What should I do with my newfound respect from my peers?

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:33 PM (LvTSG)

153 This is too depressing. I think I'll go back to the art thread.

I can post in two windows at once. Prepare to be depressed in the old thread as well.

Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (O7H/9)

154 Not medium rare or well done?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM

Speaking of. Just had a ribeye from the cow we had butchered. Outfuckingstanding!

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (aGVn1)

155 Has Sundowner said anything that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs?

Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kXDwF)

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"You misspelled '73 years.'"

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (CYgrT)

156 So, as we've know for, uh, 10 years now, Biden was taking bribes from foreign countries and rewarding them using his power as VP and now president.

Is anyone going to DO anything about it?

Remember Trump was impeached for merely asking Ukraine to NOT stop investigating Biden.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (lc5cP)

157 90 Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Great for knocking down brainless lefties, but unable to find a way to use any of his time or resources to actually fight any battle worth having.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (LvTSG)


Comparing to Ben Shapiro, that's rude.

Cruz is doing positive things in the senate. He is one of the few, maybe two dozen who are not betraying their oath, who are not betraying their constituents.

He is one of the better members of the senate.
Pick a better target.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (xNhrN)

158 climate investor

How does that work?

Posted by: spindrift at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (pyXMr)

159 @AlexThomp
The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base.”
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What an original idea!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (FVME7)
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That's not catchy or effective. At all. And it's too long a message for a plane-towed banner. They really need to boil it down and make it memorable and a lot more shocking.

"GOP RACISTS KEEP YOU POOR!"
"DON'T LIVE IN FEAR! VOTE DEM!"
etc.

Those suck, too - but they suck less than what they're actually paying for.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (t0OGg)

160 153 This is too depressing. I think I'll go back to the art thread.

I can post in two windows at once. Prepare to be depressed in the old thread as well.
Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (O7H/9)
_______

Oh, I just look at the pictures. At least, the good ones.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (brAQZ)

161 All the bribery and corruption took place before Joe became resident. The current administration is squeaky clean.

-My word as Biden

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (2YtOq)

162 As true superpatriotic consaervatives, I believe we are contractually obligated to adore Vivek because he's: (1) brown; and (2) claims to be a conservative.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (ppBhU)

163 Ace, wrong think is not allowed. This is misinformation. Your social score will take a heavy hit.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (17s+e)

164 Vivek is shitting the bed. The left is starting to push this guy some props and his ratings bumped up. Vivek likes RFK Jr. Vivek has a few good points but I smell a rat with him.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (aGVn1)


His poll numbers are moving in the right direction.

Please note I am not shilling for him here, I am commenting on what is happening in the contest.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (dWjpk)

165 I vaguely recall George Kent being an impeachment witness for the Democrats.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (7B5FA)

166
An internet commenter notes that the elite media is starting a new campaign.

The New York Times: "Elections Are Bad for Democracy".

The Atlantic Magazine: "Americans Vote Too Much".

Gosh, I wonder where this is going?

Posted by: The ARC

+++++++++++++

Rush noted not long before he died that lefties are done with elections.

https://tinyurl.com/246dxmj8

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (lCaJd)

167 Killer idea on the plane banner,
That’ll show those MAGA Republicans… Trump won’t be there

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (AwUtb)

168 Jim, please stop copying off of Minnfidel's test paper!
Posted by: Mrs. Crabapple at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w9Wax)
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I believe that's also a federal crime and will be in Trump's next indictment!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM

Also saying p**y, that's actual in the federal penal code.
They got him this time! Walls, closing in,

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (aGVn1)

169
The Atlantic Magazine: "Americans Vote Too Much".


I've got an answer to this one. Take almost all power away from elected officials and fire almost all of the bureaucrats at all levels of government.

Go back to elections not mattering.

Oh...that's NOT what they want? Hmm I wonder why.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (lc5cP)

170 The only time I cheated on a test was in 1st grade, and what I thought was the right answer was correct and what a copied from the other kid was wrong. Two lessons:
1) Don't Cheat
2) If you do, pick someone SMARTER than you to cheat from.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (ynpvh)
___________

"But what if it's Hunter cheating and he's the smartest guy in the room?"

-- Joey Shitbrains Biden

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

171 @AlexThomp
The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base.”

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Well yeah. Otherwise it's going to be hard to win with 52M votes.

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (Oto6+)

172 "GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base."
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They missed, "... wearing wigs made of lace!"

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (krqg6)

173
Fake climate saving companies seem to be the Democrat go-to for graft these days. Why not? Pelosi and Granholm have admitted pocketing bankrupt company funds and nobody makes a peep.

The Ukraine Green Company will have the full faith and credit support of the USA, ASAP.

Posted by: Auspex at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (j4U/Z)

174 OT - asking for prayers for my dad. He is going in this morning for heart valve surgery (TAVR) at Virginia Mason in Seattle. Wished Nurse Ratchet was here for his recovery. True professional.
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at August 22, 2023 12:33 PM (vyYQR)



Godspeed to your father.

May the Dr. have steady hands and a sharp mind.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

175 Ted Cruz is just another balloon head who accomplishes absolutely nothing of value and loves running his mouth.

Fuck him.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (ae93S)

176 168 Jim, please stop copying off of Minnfidel's test paper!
Posted by: Mrs. Crabapple at August 22, 2023 12:29 PM (w9Wax)
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I believe that's also a federal crime and will be in Trump's next indictment!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM

Also saying p**y, that's actual in the federal penal code.
They got him this time! Walls, closing in,

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (aGVn1)

Wut?

Posted by: Tom Jones at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

177 airplane banner idea:

THEY ALL MAGA

Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (Oto6+)

178 Nothing will come of any of this. Kevin McCarthy will do absolutely nothing beyond Strongly Worded Letters and Tweets. Everybody here knows this, right?

Posted by: The Guy Who Always Says It's Gonna Get Worse at August 22, 2023 12:37 PM (PWI4f)

179 157 Comparing to Ben Shapiro, that's rude.

Cruz is doing positive things in the senate. He is one of the few, maybe two dozen who are not betraying their oath, who are not betraying their constituents.

He is one of the better members of the senate.
Pick a better target.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (xNhrN)

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Congressional theater does not move me anymore.

Any one Senator can grind the Senate business to a halt on the floor by denying unanimous consent. Any senator can demand entire bills (thousands of pages long) be read in full on the floor. That we all know the overstuffed CR that will definitely come when the House folds in the face of the Senate run by Chuck Schumer saying, "nah, bro" will not be read in full on the Senate floor, that Cruz won't be the architect of actual things that could kneecap the administrative state, that tells me he's purposefully limiting himself.

Instead, he will hoop and holler in committee hearings where news gets out about bad things in government, but, gosh darn it, we couldn't stop it because we don't have the votes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:37 PM (LvTSG)

180 What a fucking retarded jerkoff session this bullshit is! Holy fucking hell. Fifty years of Republicans being as useful as a limp dick on a honeymoon night and now, NOW they are finally accomplishing something going after a crooked Dem(Biden) with the DOJ cooperation? People are actually buying this shit?
Anyone actually buying this theater is a g-damn fool.

The fucking Uni-Party at work here, "hey Republicans we need to get rid of and replace the gimpy old fucker for 24', how about you give us a hand huh?"

Repubs; "No problem and thank you for taking care of our Trump issue!"

Posted by: JROD at August 22, 2023 12:37 PM (IlL6s)

181 Biden literally does not know the difference between truth and lies. They are the same to him. He is, after all, a drooling, senile, fucktard.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 12:37 PM (pohLc)

182 @AlexThomp
The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base.”

Maybe someone can borrow a stinger missle from Ukraine. I mean we own it anyway.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:37 PM (aGVn1)

183 Ace has a Doctorate in HTML Studies.
Posted by: garrett at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (FMGPM)

Critical HTML Studies.
Posted by: Thesokorus
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He studied under Dr. Fred Sanford.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (/gwdq)

184 The video of Biden asleep in the emergency meeting is on twitter (or X) posted by D C Draino.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (MeG8a)

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Deep Thoughts, like

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (CYgrT)

185 Pedo Biden has bad performance in Maui so time to give Z man another $50 billion to help Hawaii.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (17s+e)

186 Godspeed to your father.

May the Dr. have steady hands and a sharp mind.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

*fistbump* thanks brother

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (vyYQR)

187 @AlexThomp

The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base.”
per @playbookdc
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (AwUtb)



The Dems are running AGAINST making America great.

Remember that. They want you weak and powerless.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (Zz0t1)

188 ROBINSON: That is an incredible figure from that poll that people trust Trump over their clergy. And it does make you wonder, like what do you your how are you thinking of your Christianity? How are you thinking of your faith to get to that point?
Posted by: I identify as an Ultraterrestrial

Trust Trump over the Reverend Sharpton or the Reverend Jackson? ARE THEY CRAZY?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (FVME7)

189 The video of Biden asleep in the emergency meeting is on twitter (or X) posted by D C Draino.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (MeG8a)

Is it possible the old fart wasn't interested in anything they had to say?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (HfNu5)

190 164 Vivek is shitting the bed. The left is starting to push this guy some props and his ratings bumped up. Vivek likes RFK Jr. Vivek has a few good points but I smell a rat with him.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (aGVn1)

His poll numbers are moving in the right direction.

Please note I am not shilling for him here, I am commenting on what is happening in the contest.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (dWjpk)
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I'm not sold on him either. He's got that Bored Rich Kid vibe going on with a questionable background in some questionable industries. But he's a fighter. He can hold his own in an argument and doesn't immediately concede the leftist talking points. I like him. Not sold. But like.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

191 He studied under Dr. Fred Sanford.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (/gwdq)

Fred was a great man!

I wish he were here and our Caudillo.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (kCx1d)

192 Rush noted not long before he died that lefties are done with elections.

Start by banning individuals and political parties that the elites disapprove of.

Then announce that elections are unnecessary, since we already know who is going to win.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (2tUFv)

193 Did I ever tell you about the great toaster fire of '86? We lost our beloved goldfish and two potholders. No joke, man.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (v0R5T)

194 Pedo Biden has bad performance in Maui so time to give Z man another $50 billion to help Hawaii.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

Jack Smith superseding indictment in 3...2...1

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (CIS44)

195 I'm with Braenyard re: Cruz. I really don't like him anymore. But it's not fair to compare him to Baby Snark.

Shapiro is pure grifter, and Cruz, with his total lack of charisma, looks like Cool Hand Luke compared to that skeevy little weasel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (0FoWg)

196 Nothing will come of any of this. Kevin McCarthy will do absolutely nothing beyond Strongly Worded Letters and Tweets. Everybody here knows this, right?

Posted by: The Guy Who Always Says It's Gonna Get Worse at August 22, 2023 12:37 PM (PWI4f)
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Don't forget fundraising emails, letters, and texts.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (17s+e)

197 The video of Biden asleep in the emergency meeting is on twitter (or X) posted by D C Draino.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (MeG8a)

Is it possible the old fart wasn't interested in anything they had to say?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (HfNu5)
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They didn't bring that pudding he really likes...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (YIVH2)

198 The DNC banner assumes Milwaukee residents can read.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 22, 2023 12:40 PM (rJ48h)

199
His poll numbers are moving in the right direction.

Please note I am not shilling for him here, I am commenting on what is happening in the contest.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM

No I get what you mean. I mean if Bill effing Maher starts loving on you. There's a reason they are pushing him. He's a non starter for me. But he's getting attention from all the wrong people so folks hear his name and his numbers go up.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:40 PM (aGVn1)

200 His poll numbers are moving in the right direction.

Please note I am not shilling for him here, I am commenting on what is happening in the contest.

Posted by: blaster at August
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He will definitely enliven the debate tomorrow night.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2023 12:40 PM (xNhrN)

201 My well-balanced climate portfolio includes 10,000 shares of "tropical", 15,000 shares of "temperate", and 5,000 shares of "arid".

Posted by: spindrift at August 22, 2023 12:40 PM (pyXMr)

202 This busty brunette in short-shorts might enjoy Joe Biden's favorite food, but she doesn't enjoy his maddening corruption and incompetence:
https://is.gd/Fd7adC

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM (t0OGg)

203
I'm not sold on him either. He's got that Bored Rich Kid vibe going on with a questionable background in some questionable industries. But he's a fighter. He can hold his own in an argument and doesn't immediately concede the leftist talking points. I like him. Not sold. But like.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (iFTx/)

I have not been paying much attention yet but he appears to be everywhere all the time. Very energetic, if nothing else.

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM (oX3MH)

204 Is it possible the old fart wasn't interested in anything they had to say?

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When do the little hula girls start dancing, fat?
- President Joe Biden

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM (dGZeX)

205 I understand people who trust Trump over their clergy. so much Clergy is woke and serving Satan. My Ministers preach the bible, many others preach not the bible. Would I trust them. Hell no.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM (pohLc)

206 Vivek is consolidating GOP oppisiton to DJT. That's all. Someone will get the whole oppo vote.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM (kCx1d)

207 Don't forget fundraising emails, letters, and texts.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (17s+e)
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5x match!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM (t0OGg)

208 182 @AlexThomp
The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on

..

Booked a plane to drag a banner during our Climate Crisis?

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but... at August 22, 2023 12:42 PM (MITUm)

209 Trump yesterday, now Vivek today. ATTACK!!!!

Sorry you're candidate f'ing sucks and Haji from Johnny Quest is about to run circles around him in gathering support.

Posted by: JROD at August 22, 2023 12:42 PM (IlL6s)

210 It seems incredible to me someone like Joe has been allowed to lie, cheat and steal throughout his 40+ years in office with zero consequences.

Biden is corrupt to the core with no redeeming qualities yet continues. He's the Dorian Gray of politics.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 22, 2023 12:42 PM (2YtOq)

211 This busty brunette in short-shorts might enjoy Joe Biden's favorite food, but she doesn't enjoy his maddening corruption and incompetence:
https://is.gd/Fd7adC
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM (t0OGg)
.......

I think she might own a Thighmaster.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

212 So we're giving the Ukrainians billions to fight the Russians in the hope that all of the corrupt Ukrainians get killed. Makes sense, horrible and amoral but it just might work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2023 12:43 PM (BqPUE)

213 " DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base"

darn it, looks like those truck loads of faked ballots will be going 110% for Biden ... Again.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 22, 2023 12:43 PM (Cus5s)

214 That's not catchy or effective. At all. And it's too long a message for a plane-towed banner. They really need to boil it down and make it memorable and a lot more shocking.

"GOP RACISTS KEEP YOU POOR!"
"DON'T LIVE IN FEAR! VOTE DEM!"
etc.

Those suck, too - but they suck less than what they're actually paying for.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:34 PM (t0OGg)

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"THEY"RE GONNA PUT Y'ALL BACK IN CHAINS!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:43 PM (CYgrT)

215 141 They're both the kind of men that exist in luxury only because times are still relatively good.
Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 12:31 PM (O7H/9)

There is no "The Bloodthirsty Killer We Need" on the horizon.

Posted by: XTC at August 22, 2023 12:44 PM (UnA8+)

216 When do the little hula girls start dancing, fat?
- President Joe Biden
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM

For some reason this made me LOL. I can actually picture Joepedo saying this.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:44 PM (aGVn1)

217 So what is Trump jail worthy guilty of? And these clowns walk free as can be. Clownworld doesn't describe it.

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 22, 2023 12:44 PM (/6GbT)

218 The video of Biden asleep in the emergency meeting is on twitter (or X) posted by D C Draino.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 22, 2023 12:32 PM (MeG8a)

Is it possible the old fart wasn't interested in anything they had to say?
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 22, 2023 12:38 PM (HfNu5)
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They didn't bring that pudding he really likes...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 22, 2023 12:39 PM (YIVH2)
.......

I hear poi makes you sleepy.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

219 The DNC has booked a plane to fly around Milwaukee on Wednesday night dragging a banner reading: “GOP 2024: A Race for the Extreme MAGA Base.”
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Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper Aug 21
WATCH: 'Prosecute Hunter Biden' banner towed by a plane spotted over his father’s Delaware beach house
https://tinyurl.com/ym74f4eb
15 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (krqg6)

220 At least we know the Bidens are the only criminals in DC.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (psWlI)

221 The good old days, America at its peak(s):

https://images.app.goo.gl/krgPkkia7ycVMs6CA

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (ufFY8)

222 So we're giving the Ukrainians billions to fight the Russians in the hope that all of the corrupt Ukrainians get killed. Makes sense, horrible and amoral but it just might work
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2023 12:43 PM (BqPUE)

DC wants a naval base in Sebastopol.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (kCx1d)

223 We keep bringing up more and more evidence, when are the R's going to take up impeachment and finally take Biden off our hands?

Posted by: Democrat Party at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (2ABVC)

224 WATCH: 'Prosecute Hunter Biden' banner towed by a plane spotted over his father’s Delaware beach house
https://tinyurl.com/ym74f4eb
15 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (krqg6)

How about Prosecute Joe Biden

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (psWlI)

225 205 I understand people who trust Trump over their clergy. so much Clergy is woke and serving Satan. My Ministers preach the bible, many others preach not the bible. Would I trust them. Hell no.
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Yep. Bush's 1,000 points of light has coopted most all churches these days. They are nothing but Federal Assets these days.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (3FiQa)

226 So we're giving the Ukrainians billions to fight the Russians in the hope that all of the corrupt Ukrainians get killed. Makes sense, horrible and amoral but it just might work

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 22, 2023 12:43 PM (BqPUE)

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I'm guessing that the ones getting killed aren't the corrupt ones, who will eventually be enjoying their billions in U.S. Dollar grift at home and/or abroad.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (CYgrT)

227 157 90 Ted Cruz is the Ben Shapiro of the Senate.

Great for knocking down brainless lefties, but unable to find a way to use any of his time or resources to actually fight any battle worth having.

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 12:25 PM (LvTSG)
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Not really fair to compare Cruz to Shapiro. Ben Shapiro is the Dylan Mulvaney of media. Like Mulvaney, Shapiro has somehow built a successful brand despite being an annoying little queef who is wrong about almost everything.

Cruz is basically good guy who's in the wrong job. He should be a judge where his conservative intellect could be used to actually accomplish shit. In the Senate, he's just another impotent cog doing little but talking and tweeting.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (iFTx/)

228 There is no "The Bloodthirsty Killer We Need" on the horizon.
Posted by: XTC at August 22, 2023 12:44 PM (UnA8+)
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The blood thirsty killer is on the horizon. We just don't know who he is yet, because the burning times have yet to start.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (2YtOq)

229 I understand people who trust Trump over their clergy. so much Clergy is woke and serving Satan. My Ministers preach the bible, many others preach not the bible. Would I trust them. Hell no.

A gay flag flying over a church serves the same function as a German flag flying over a French building in 1941.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (lc5cP)

230 Look, Fat, I don't want poi, I want girl!

Posted by: Joe at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (SYTee)

231 Vivek Ramaswamy. Haven't listened to a word he's said. Probably will end up hearing some, if his candidacy drags on for a bit before dying on the vine, which it will, just like DeSantis'.

But then, I don't need to. He has an R next to his name. He's lying through his ghee-sucking teeth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (0FoWg)

232 DC wants a naval base in Sebastopol.
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So did London. That didn't work out.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (3FiQa)

233 No joke. Onetime Hunter was hiding out at our place and Doc, that's Jill, she's a doctor, gave him run of the house. Crazy kid stashed some Kruggerands and weed in the microwave. Went into the kitchen to heat up some Ovaltine, and it was like a lightning storm in the old Radar Range. I remember the smell quite well and was just kinda happy. Woke up the grand daughter for a shower, and was really glad the fire didn't spread to the 'Vette.

Don Retardo de Wilmington y Scranton, la marca de caca.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2023 12:47 PM (0EOe9)

234 How about Prosecute Joe Biden
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (psWlI)
++++
Make it inclusive

"PROSECUTE BIDENS"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:47 PM (t0OGg)

235 Vivek has flip flopped on a number of issues. Key one for me is his support for Israel. He thinks we should stop selling weaponry to them. The bottom line though is as soon as he gets traction, these things will come out and then the left will move to someone else to try and consolidate so that Trump remains the candidate. De Santis had to be destroyed first because he was the most likely. The left and the GOPehave the same goal and that is to makeTrump the candidate and assure that the Dems win.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 12:47 PM (t/2Uw)

236 They could speed things up if Joe81millionVotes had his cho-choo running to Hawaii

Posted by: I identify as an Ultraterrestrial at August 22, 2023 12:48 PM (RHGPo)

237 Rush noted not long before he died that lefties are done with elections.

There was a time, in the beginning, where I really liked Limbaugh. He was right up with there with Neil Bortz for me. Then there was a time, during the "W" years, where there was not a bigger shill than Limbaugh.

Then, towards his end, he kinda' got back right as far as I was concerned, at least regarding the duplicity of the GOP. Just the entire contrived weakness of the party.

It's not that the Dems are done with elections. Both parties are done with elections. That's the last pill to bitter to swallow around here.

Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 12:48 PM (O7H/9)

238 It seems incredible to me someone like Joe has been allowed to lie, cheat and steal throughout his 40+ years in office with zero consequences.

Biden is corrupt to the core with no redeeming qualities yet continues. He's the Dorian Gray of politics.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 22, 2023 12:42 PM (2YtOq)
**********
Just think of all the lies and scandals the MSM knows about the Democrats and have been covering for them and hiding everything from us for decades.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 12:48 PM (AwUtb)

239 CBS News is reporting that Ukraine forces have broken through and are approaching Tokmak.

From the spring counteroffensive starting point Tokmak is about 1/2 way to Melitopol. Melitopol's critical strategic highway intersections make it an important and attractive target. Just yesterday, US defense officials said Ukraine wouldn't be reach with this counter offensive

Washington Post may need to retract its Ukraine "Counteroffensive Stalled" headline from its repertoire. How quickly things change! Particularly when you encourage doom and gloom journalists to pound the keyboards. Slava Ukraini!

Nothing is stalled about it. They're just putting out little real information and quite a lot of disinformation. More Russian puppets!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 22, 2023 12:48 PM (0jAIg)

240 DC wants a naval base in Sebastopol.
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So did London. That didn't work out.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (3FiQa)

Same project. Same people.

That's why London has been so hell bent in escalating UKR and NATO advisors are pushing the Tokmak direction.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:48 PM (kCx1d)

241 202 This busty brunette in short-shorts might enjoy Joe Biden's favorite food, but she doesn't enjoy his maddening corruption and incompetence:
https://is.gd/Fd7adC
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 22, 2023 12:41 PM (t0OGg)
__________

They butchered that photoshop, bruh! It's almost like they took three different girls and tried to Frankenstein them together. That waist looks like it's from a totally different person. Pass on the bang.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023 12:48 PM (iFTx/)

242 They need a shorter, catcher banner. Fetterman wanted "Fire BAD!!!" But that's pretty much all he says. Hunter wanted "10% For All," but that got nixed, too.

Posted by: Wally at August 22, 2023 12:49 PM (VEm33)

243 the lifeblood of Liberal Interventionism is cold hard cash

yours preferably

yeah

Tori Nuland has entered the chat

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 12:49 PM (us2H3)

244 So what is Trump jail worthy guilty of? And these clowns walk free as can be. Clownworld doesn't describe it.

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 22, 2023 12:44 PM (/6GbT)

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Loving America and Americans ... and existing, but mostly existing.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:49 PM (CYgrT)

245 234 How about Prosecute Joe Biden
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 12:45 PM (psWlI)
++++
Make it inclusive

"PROSECUTE BIDENS"
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Prosecute Hunter and you have everything you want. Oh, I forgot, we don't run the Just Us Department.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:49 PM (3FiQa)

246 There was a time, in the beginning, where I really liked Limbaugh. He was right up with there with Neil Bortz for me. Then there was a time, during the "W" years, where there was not a bigger shill than Limbaugh.

Then, towards his end, he kinda' got back right as far as I was concerned, at least regarding the duplicity of the GOP. Just the entire contrived weakness of the party.

It's not that the Dems are done with elections. Both parties are done with elections. That's the last pill to bitter to swallow around here.
Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 12:48 PM (O7H/9)

100% agree. Esp last para.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:50 PM (kCx1d)

247 "But what if it's Hunter cheating and he's the smartest guy in the room?"

-- Joey Shitbrains Biden
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22, 2023


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Then you are scrooooed

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 22, 2023 12:50 PM (J2vNu)

248 No joke. Onetime Hunter was hiding out at our place and Doc, that's Jill, she's a doctor, gave him run of the house. Crazy kid stashed some Kruggerands and weed in the microwave. Went into the kitchen to heat up some Ovaltine, and it was like a lightning storm in the old Radar Range. I remember the smell quite well and was just kinda happy. Woke up the grand daughter for a shower, and was really glad the fire didn't spread to the 'Vette.

Don Retardo de Wilmington y Scranton, la marca de caca.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2023 12:47 PM

Well done. Well done!

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:50 PM (aGVn1)

249 Vivek used to be a libertarian. Not a deal breaker, and he is used to running big concerns so he clearly isn't some hate the hierarchy sort. His claim to have the way to fire large swaths of 3-letter agency critters tempting, as is his plan to consolidate a good number of those agencies he considers into other, more traditional agencies.

At this point in US history, everyone including Donald Trump has been considered a stalking horse, and a spoiler put up by a controlled opposition. I think the last Republican that wasn't considered to be some sort of fall guy for the Dems was McCaine, and we learned better quickly

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 12:50 PM (xhaym)

250 Gee Ted, thanks. I'm sure Mitch will get right on that.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 22, 2023 12:50 PM (xaNfJ)

251 240 DC wants a naval base in Sebastopol.
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So did London. That didn't work out.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:46 PM (3FiQa)

Same project. Same people.

That's why London has been so hell bent in escalating UKR and NATO advisors are pushing the Tokmak direction
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Let's redo the Crimean War. Why not? The Black Sea has the best slave markets in the world.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:51 PM (DmtxH)

252 about two weeks ago, I was reading a report from a person on the ground in Ukraine

stated that the Russia's Ukrainian front line was 15 miles deep

15 fucking miles

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 12:51 PM (us2H3)

253 Bribery is an Impeachable Offense in the U.S. Constitution? Is that the same U.S. Constitution used daily by the commies as toilet paper? Hahaha, file this under things that will never happen...ever. Nice try Teddy Canada.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 22, 2023 12:52 PM (yRved)

254 Vivek used to be a libertarian.

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And Trump used to be a Democrat. That was then, this is now. And now, they're Republicans. Deal breaker. Will not buy.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 12:52 PM (0FoWg)

255 Gee Ted, thanks. I'm sure Mitch will get right on that.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at August 22, 2023 12:50 PM

Posted by: Glitch McConnell at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (aGVn1)

256 Tori Nuland has entered the chat
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The Nigers told her to take her money and invest in a weight loss program. Love those guys.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (DmtxH)

257 Vivek is 38 years old.

I rest my case.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (t/2Uw)

258 223 We keep bringing up more and more evidence, when are the R's going to take up impeachment and finally take Biden off our hands?
Posted by: Democrat Party
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I swear I didn't read @180 before I posted.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (2ABVC)

259 I don't get the Cruz hate. It feels like the conservative treehouse in here.

What do y'all think about McCornyn?

Posted by: DanMan at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (DB6tu)

260 I saw Ghee-Sucking Teeth open for Bread at The Cow Palace in '82.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (CYgrT)

261 Is Ramasalmi "Romney" in Urdu? Why yes, I believe it is.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (nnp+f)

262 252 about two weeks ago, I was reading a report from a person on the ground in Ukraine

stated that the Russia's Ukrainian front line was 15 miles deep

15 fucking miles
Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 12:51 PM (us2H3)


Must be fake. They use kilometers in Europe.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (dWjpk)

263 The left and the GOPehave the same goal and that is to makeTrump the candidate and assure that the Dems win.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 12:47 PM

It's really a flawless strategy. Can't possibly fail.

Posted by: President Hillary Clinton at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (0jAIg)

264 So what is Trump jail worthy guilty of?
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He slightly pulled the curtain back briefly so that *maybe* 3-5% of the nation got a quick glimpse of what was behind it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 12:54 PM (dGZeX)

265 Vivek is 38 years old.

I rest my case.
__

So, what's your case?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 12:54 PM (MqgM5)

266 The funny part is that the GOP debate is being held in Milwaukee on the hottest day of 2023 (so far). The NWS has already posted Extreme Heat Warnings for tomorrow. Whether that’s because of the weather, or the hot air from the debate, or both, is an open question.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 22, 2023 12:55 PM (mNmNo)

267 ever since Joe fell for the first wad of cash from Hunter's sweaty hand, Hunter has been running Joe

he will turn on Joe and all the family if it comes to it

Hunter is exhibit #1 on why to never to get involved with any kind of crooked deal

they will never let you forget it

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 12:55 PM (us2H3)

268 The Nigers told her to take her money and invest in a weight loss program. Love those guys.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (DmtxH)

#MeToo.

My favorite political moment since Nadler shit in his sailcloth trousers on TV.

Long live Niger! Long live Tchiani!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 12:55 PM (0FoWg)

269 Tori Nuland has entered the chat
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The Nigers told her to take her money and invest in a weight loss program. Love those guys.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM (DmtxH)

Won't help, she'll still be fat and ugly. Always has been and always will be. But the comedy of that twittererer was appreciated.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 22, 2023 12:55 PM (yRved)

270 stated that the Russia's Ukrainian front line was 15 miles deep

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This has to be a mistake. Ukraine is winning and has been pushing forward to Moscow this entire time.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 12:55 PM (dGZeX)

271 Has the black, lesbian immigrant tried blaming Bob L. Peters for something stupid done by Biden?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at August 22, 2023 12:56 PM (HfNu5)

272 Is Ramasalmi "Romney" in Urdu? Why yes, I believe it is.
Posted by: Regular joe at August 22, 2023 12:53 PM

Man if there was one MFer in the GOPeee I could nuke, he'd be numero uno delecto. I hate that phony fuck as much as I did Johnny Wetstart McLame.

Posted by: Glitch McConnell at August 22, 2023 12:56 PM (aGVn1)

273 Off Glitch McConnel sock

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 12:56 PM (aGVn1)

274 Tucker Carlson Interviews Col Douglas Macgregor on Ukraine-Russia War

https://tinyurl.com/bdd7w6zw

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 12:56 PM (MqgM5)

275 Something will happen.

Posted by: That guy who always thinks something will happen at August 22, 2023 12:57 PM (OZjDX)

276 stated that the Russia's Ukrainian front line was 15 miles deep

15 fucking miles
Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 12:51 PM (us2H3)

Must be fake. They use kilometers in Europe.
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They call it a Royale with Cheese.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 12:57 PM (J7wri)

277 Senator Ted Cruz
@SenTedCruz
If Joe Biden took millions of dollars for getting the prosecutor in Ukraine fired who was investigating Burisma, he needs to be impeached, removed from office, and thrown in jail.

Bribery is explicitly listed in the Constitution as an impeachable offense.
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Just.

Do.

It.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 12:57 PM (adINt)

278 stated that the Russia's Ukrainian front line was 15 miles deep

15 fucking miles
Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 12:51 PM (us2H3)[/i[

They built those lines while the Ukranian army was focused on Wagner in Bakhmut, and hoping that Prigozhin was honest when he said he was being strangled for supplies and ammo.

I have come to one conclusion: Prigozhin is feinting, always. Currently he is making Wagner recruitment videos in Africa.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 12:57 PM (xhaym)

279 Won't help, she'll still be fat and ugly. Always has been and always will be. But the comedy of that twittererer was appreciated.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at August 22, 2023 12:55 PM (yRved)

well, I think she's hot and so does my bro

warmonger sammie

Posted by: Robert Kagan at August 22, 2023 12:57 PM (us2H3)

280
__________ They butchered that photoshop, bruh! It's almost like they took three different girls and tried to Frankenstein them together. That waist looks like it's from a totally different person. Pass on the bang.
Posted by: Elric Blade at August 22,

Liposuction
fat injections
implants
gym

photoshop unnecessary

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2023 12:58 PM (xNhrN)

281 If Joe Biden took millions of dollars for getting the prosecutor in Ukraine fired who was investigating Burisma, he needs to be impeached, removed from office, and thrown in jail.
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Pity that won't ever happen.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 12:58 PM (MqgM5)

282
What Is Truth...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 22, 2023 12:23 PM (ae93S)

Baby don't hurt me.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 22, 2023 12:58 PM (FCbAQ)

283 272 How can a State that has John Browning's US Model of 1911 as a State Pistol have Mitt Romney as a Senator? Oh, I just remembered something.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2023 12:58 PM (0EOe9)

284 remember what Henry said

"it's mine because I have my troops all over it "

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 12:59 PM (us2H3)

285 If Joe Biden took millions of dollars for getting the prosecutor in Ukraine fired who was investigating Burisma, he needs to be impeached, removed from office, and thrown in jail.

I will except hanged as a correct answer.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2023 12:59 PM (CIS44)

286 Me: From America, Fuck Yeah... to Yeah, Fuck America in just 20 years.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 12:59 PM (psWlI)

287 While Biden is chronic liar I beleive him when he proudly boasts of using $1B in taxpayer money to bribe/extort Ukraine. I beleive him when he said mafia style that he was going to blow a pipeline.

I also believe him when he says he had the largest vote fraud organization in history.

It is one thing to lie about petty non-criminal events that never happened. It is quite another to brag on about serious criminal events that certainly appear to have happened.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 22, 2023 12:59 PM (ga8qR)

288 They built those lines while the Ukranian army was focused on Wagner in Bakhmut, and hoping that Prigozhin was honest when he said he was being strangled for supplies and ammo.

I have come to one conclusion: Prigozhin is feinting, always. Currently he is making Wagner recruitment videos in Africa.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 12:57 PM (xhaym)

Agree.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 12:59 PM (kCx1d)

289 @SenTedCruz
If Joe Biden took millions of dollars for getting the prosecutor in Ukraine fired who was investigating Burisma, he needs to be impeached, removed from office, and thrown in jail.

Bribery is explicitly listed in the Constitution as an impeachable offense.


The first he's hearing of this, eh? Couldn't do anything about it the previous few years?

Posted by: President Hillary Clinton at August 22, 2023 01:00 PM (0jAIg)

290 The left and the GOPehave the same goal and that is to makeTrump the candidate and assure that the Dems win.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 12:47 PM


I don't buy into triple-bankshot theories. They both have the same goal which is to destroy Trump, and people who support him.

I mean, who there is thinking "if we just get a bunch of indictments from all kinds of jurisdictions together, they will HAVE to make him the candidate!" No one is thinking that. If so they would be happy to make the trial dates sometime in 2025 or 2026. But no, they are rushing them, and they have set things up so they will get convictions.

And I keep hearing that the GOPe is backing DeSantis or Ramaswamy or Christie so they can depose Trump, too.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 01:00 PM (dWjpk)

291 Damn.

Maria is lookin haggard.
Posted by: garrett

Rode hard and put up wet.

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2023 01:00 PM (T4tVD)

292 Now the Rooskies wanna put missiles in Nicaragua

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 01:01 PM (us2H3)

293 Man if there was one MFer in the GOPeee I could nuke, he'd be numero uno delecto. I hate that phony fuck as much as I did Johnny Wetstart McLame.
Posted by: Glitch McConnell at August 22, 2023 12:56 PM (aGVn1)

What am I, chopped liver!?

Posted by: Paul the fucking weasel Ryan at August 22, 2023 01:01 PM (FCbAQ)

294 Hey...

Sister Jean Schmidt
@SisterSchmidt

Aug 21
Today I celebrate my 104th birthday! It’s true, when I born the petrified forest was only mildly intimidated.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 22, 2023 01:01 PM (TGPs7)

295 Y'know who else...uh...I got nothing.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 22, 2023 01:01 PM (GFa1g)

296 Seems to me that the only thing folks like Cruz do is tweet.

Guess that makes for good soundbites but that's pretty much it.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 01:01 PM (MqgM5)

297 53 Did Joe Biden just fall asleep during a ceremony honoring those who died in the Hawaii wildfires?
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He needs Hillary's syringe guy.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 22, 2023 01:02 PM (sWM8x)

298 Cruz is the arguably best Republican I've ever seen.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 01:02 PM (dGZeX)

299 285 If Joe Biden took millions of dollars for getting the prosecutor in Ukraine fired who was investigating Burisma, he needs to be impeached, removed from office, and thrown in jail.

I will except hanged as a correct answer.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 22, 2023 12:59 PM

You want hanged.
You'd accept imprisoned.
You grudgingly accept resign and disgraced.
You won't even get a sternly worded letter.

Posted by: Moron Math at August 22, 2023 01:03 PM (0jAIg)

300 Oh, look, Ted Cruz is talking again, and he's outraged. It must be Tuesday.

Posted by: Orson at August 22, 2023 01:03 PM (dIske)

301 The first he's hearing of this, eh? Couldn't do anything about it the previous few years?
Posted by: President Hillary Clinton at August 22, 2023 01:00 PM (0jAIg)


If you want to know what Cruz thinks and when he starts talking about it, you could listen to his podcast, The Verdict.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 01:03 PM (xhaym)

302 Climate Investor?
Simple.

Set up 501c3. Get people to send you money. Spend money.

Posted by: Reforger at August 22, 2023 01:03 PM (hjthx)

303 246 I lost a lot of respect for Rush when the news came out about his drug abuse. But he seemed to have cleaned up nicely after that. He was the only one saying what needed to be said (or at least saying it loudest), so I was bound to forgive him at some point.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:04 PM (xTRSc)

304 Maria is lookin haggard.
Posted by: garrett

FOX expects her to save the meatball

sumptin she has never done

never

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 01:04 PM (us2H3)

305 Old news. What difference does it make at this point anyway.

Posted by: fd at August 22, 2023 01:04 PM (vFG9F)

306 Did they not impeach Trump specifically because his foreign policy was contrary to the policy of state?

Was that not the whole all and everything of Bearclaw's "whistleblowing?"

But here is Biden, publicly saying that Ukraine was not in compliance when State specifically said they were.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 01:04 PM (YxTcK)

307 Y'know who else...uh...I got nothing.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 22, 2023 01:01 PM (GFa1g)

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Y'know who else had a Russian Front?

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 01:04 PM (CYgrT)

308 The Russian front depth of 15 miles, hey fat that's just another $100 billion to us. I hope that idiot Streif at Red State is paying attention and stops his Ukrainian cheerleading..." they are winning, tide is going to turn any day now."

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 22, 2023 01:05 PM (rH1KZ)

309 Trump's BRFEATH STINKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (9e2kV)

310 When Joe finally disintegrates into total incoherence about a month from now, how much of this will stick to The New Candidate?

So yes he should be impeached, but I get a strong feeling this has all been gamed out to where JFB continues to draw all our fire until the last minute, then the GOP has lost months of pre election messaging that should have been/should be about:
--Restoring an actual border to stave off a tsunami of illegals, drugs and public assistance
--Stopping the insane trans-psychosis being foisted on kids by radicals. And yes the Feds are actively abetting it (intervening in every Court case, BS Medicare reimbursement for this etc) and the Feds can help reverse direction
-- etc.

Posted by: Zek at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (5FPX4)

311 From TASS:

"Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva slammed developed countries, saying they advance their own trade interests by pushing for measures to prevent climate change.

"We do not accept green neocolonialism, which builds discriminatory trade barriers under the guise of protecting the environment," he said at a meeting of the Business Council of BRICS, a group that brings together Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa."

Lula said this. I'm not a fan. But this us still powerful rhetoric.

And true. Like the best word magic.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (kCx1d)

312 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:04 PM (xTRSc)

people will do weird stuff when they are in pain

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (us2H3)

313 Get thee to the angry letter writing room, at once!!
- GOPe

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (BjVQC)

314 I think the last Republican that wasn't considered to be some sort of fall guy for the Dems was McCaine, and we learned better quickly.

Here it is. Trump's an asshole, but he's honest. Honestly out of his league, honestly got the attention span of a gnat, and honestly can't win a game of checkers against anyone with an average IQ or better. But honest. Last guy that was honest before him ? Ross Perot.

So the two parties agreed to shit-can Trump and pass Campaign Finance Reform over Perot. Presidenting simply isn't that hard. It takes a corrupt SOB to do what they do from the Oval Office. Our last honest guy, before Trump, was probably Ike. Yes, I skipped over Reagan.

Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (O7H/9)

315 This is misinformation/conspiracy theory. I know, because I'm well informed -- I read the NYT every day, listen to NPR on the way to and from work, and watch CNN and MSNBC every night, and they have said nothing about this. These are trusted sources.

Posted by: S. T. Ubbornlyignorant, Natick, MA at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (ik/65)

316 303 246 I lost a lot of respect for Rush when the news came out about his drug abuse. But he seemed to have cleaned up nicely after that. He was the only one saying what needed to be said (or at least saying it loudest), so I was bound to forgive him at some point.
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A number of the Sackler's should have hanged from lampposts. But that's not who we are!

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (DmtxH)

317 286 Me: From America, Fuck Yeah... to Yeah, Fuck America in just 20 years.
Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 12:59 PM

There were plenty of Americans on the Fuck Team America bandwagon 20 years ago...in the movie and reality.

Posted by: Moron Math at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (0jAIg)

318 If you want to know what Cruz thinks and when he starts talking about it, you could listen to his podcast, The Verdict.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 01:03 PM (xhaym)

Snark? Or is it worth listening to?

Is he a slightly less annoying voiced Ben Shapiro?

Who does not have a sister with an epic rack (he loses points here.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (zZu0s)

319 Whatever. Limbaugh got hooked on pills for awhile. Happens to a lot of people. He was never a fucking crook. One of the only public figures in modern history who didn't turn out to be a disgusting freak.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (0FoWg)

320 298 Cruz is the arguably best Republican I've ever seen.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 01:02 PM (dGZeX)

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Honestly, that's a sad statement on the state of the Republican Party.

Our best Republicans today should be unremarkable nobodies in a healthy Republican Party that was concerned with its base's policy preferences.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (LvTSG)

321 BTW did you all see the weird story over the weekend that Melania is threatening to leave Trump and take Barron back to NYC if Don doesn't stop involving him in his campaign?

1) he's like 17 now
2) I've not heard a peep about him but for this

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (YxTcK)

322 Y'know who else had a Russian Front?

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Anna Kournikova?

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (CYgrT)

323 284 remember what Henry said

"it's mine because I have my troops all over it "
Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 12:59 PM (us2H3)

Any country with even a single ethnic Russian in it is the rightful dominion of Putin, The Last Real Killer.

(source : Vladmir Putin)

Posted by: XTC at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (UnA8+)

324 309 Trump's BRFEATH STINKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (9e2kV)

not his breath, cornhole

try the other end

for once in your miserable fucking life

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (us2H3)

325 NYPost: 500,000 jobs could disappear in dramatic revision of US government data: report

However, Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan Chase, estimates that when the federal agency’s preliminary benchmark revision is released on Wednesday, it will be nearly half a million off from the level of total employment reported in the year through March, according to a report shared with The Post.

If Silver is correct, that would mean there are 40,000 fewer jobs per month over the 12-month period ended in March than the BLS originally reported.

.. Tyler Durden over at ZeroHedge has been reporting on some sort of trouble with the employment numbers for a while now

Posted by: I identify as an Ultraterrestrial at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (RHGPo)

326 Trump's BRFEATH STINKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (9e2kV)
.......

I told you to quit trying to kiss him.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (v0R5T)

327 My case:

He's 38 years old.
He is a billionaire.
He went to Harvard and then Yale.
Has he ever faced any adveristy in his life?
Has he ever had anyone try and thwart his endeavors?
Has he ever listened to anyone else's advice and changed his point of view?
What are his thoughts on foreign policy?
At this point, I know nothing about who this person actually is and what he is made of except that he is extremely wealthy and his background includes the elite Universities that have turned out some of the worst progressives this nation has ever seen.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 01:08 PM (t/2Uw)

328 322 Y'know who else had a Russian Front?

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Anna Kournikova?
Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (CYgrT)

That ... Simona Halep?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 01:08 PM (zZu0s)

329 the BLS could never be corrupted

NEVER !!!!!!!

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (us2H3)

330 Lefties: You must bow to SCIENCE~!

Reality: "Scientist falls 500 feet to his death after hiking app led him over cliff"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (IG4Id)

331 39...apparently Joe fell asleep during a ceremony for the victims of the wildfires in Maui.
Posted by: Moron Robbie found the recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at August 22, 2023 12:20 PM (Oto6+)

When he's asleep, at least he isn't insulting the victims.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (Rbu5d)

332 None of the party's want Trump.
He is a threat to them all.
Trump will end their way of life

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (xNhrN)

333 Lula said this. I'm not a fan. But this us still powerful rhetoric.

And true. Like the best word magic.
Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM

Translation: my commie country is broke, so you Western developed nations need to send me money before we start burning more coal and oil.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (0jAIg)

334 I lost a lot of respect for Rush when the news came out about his drug abuse. But he seemed to have cleaned up nicely after that. He was the only one saying what needed to be said (or at least saying it loudest), so I was bound to forgive him at some point.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:04 PM (xTRSc)


Don't be hard on Rush for that, he wasn't smoking meth and heroin to party. Oxy was sold as "non-addictive" and by the time I got Rx'd that was known at the street level to be a lie.
If you are on it long enough you need to wean off it, and mine was moderately interesting. It required spending a week on the sofa feeling like shit. It would have been much harder to do had I been working and expected to produce.
Sometimes it is good to have drug and alcohol counselors as personal friends.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 01:10 PM (xhaym)

335 I am Grey.
I stand between the Candle and the Star.

We are Grey.
We stand between the Darkness and the Light

Posted by: Satai Delenn at August 22, 2023 01:10 PM (fcvJg)

336 I don’t think Vivek is in the tres comma club.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (BjVQC)

337 274 Tucker Carlson Interviews Col Douglas Macgregor on Ukraine-Russia War

https://tinyurl.com/bdd7w6zw
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 12:56 PM (MqgM5)


Macgregor is kind of meh. I think the broad strokes of what he is saying are correct - that the path of supporting Ukraine ends with US troops there doing the fighting, and that we are not going to do a 4 day smash and grab like in Desert Storm.

But he also his own agenda, his push for diesel-electric tanks is a tell, its a specific technological answer (probably from a specific technology vendor). If we lose to Russia in a fight it wont be because we have turbine powered tanks first fielded in the 80s (note the 50 cal on top of those tanks was first fielded in 1918.) American tanks have been overmatching Soviet/Russian tanks forever. The other problems he points out are cultural, and worse than he describes.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (dWjpk)

338 I lost a lot of respect for Rush when the news came out about his drug abuse. But he seemed to have cleaned up nicely after that. He was the only one saying what needed to be said (or at least saying it loudest), so I was bound to forgive him at some point.

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My understanding is that it's not difficult to become addicted to opioids for pain (had a good friend of good, Christian character whom this happened to after a bad car accident).

And El Rushbo paid a stiff price, as I believe that it led directly to his loss of hearing.

Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (CYgrT)

339 Maria is lookin haggard.
Posted by: garrett

Tired out from avoiding Sniffy McSnifferson.

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (T4tVD)

340 When he's asleep, at least he isn't insulting the victims.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (Rbu5d)
........

I don't know. Were they downwind?

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

341 169
The Atlantic Magazine: "Americans Vote Too Much".


Vote early.
Vote often.

Having a 100%+ turnout in registered voters is one way to actually prove vote fraud. Precinct by precinct needs to be looked at.

When Delecto lost there were numerious precincts in Philly with 100%+ turnout with ZERO votes for the him. They should be tossed for 'no confidence' and if it turns the state as a whole, so be it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (ga8qR)

342 335 I am Grey.
I stand between the Candle and the Star.

We are Grey.
We stand between the Darkness and the Light
Posted by: Satai Delenn at August 22, 2023 01:10 PM (fcvJg)

Seasons 1-3: some of the best damn sci-fi ever.

Then it went stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (zZu0s)

343 So Ramaswamy isn't 140 years old, and he has his own money. Better than most of the GOP, right off the bat (they were all educated at Communist universities, so that doesn't count either way).

Problem is... he's GOP. Hard pass.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (0FoWg)

344 Reality: "Scientist falls 500 feet to his death after hiking app led him over cliff"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (IG4Id)



Lemmings.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

345 328 322 Von Finland bis zum Schwarzen Mer was a catchy tune until it wasn't. Eva gave it a 7, easy to dance to.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (0EOe9)

346 Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 01:08 PM (t/2Uw)
___

Thanks for clarifying.

I have no dog in this fight, was just curious.

He's just another rich, elitist kid running for president as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 01:12 PM (MqgM5)

347 somedays

I wish I had a maid that could score some OXC

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 01:12 PM (us2H3)

348 Translation: my commie country is broke, so you Western developed nations need to send me money before we start burning more coal and oil.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (0jAIg)

That's not what he is saying there. Not at all.

He correctly called Globohomo "Green Neo-colonialists".

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 01:12 PM (kCx1d)

349 9 I don't get the Cruz hate. It feels like the conservative treehouse in here.
********
Yeah, let’s just elect a Democrat in his place and turn Texas blue and have them vote to add 2 more states.
That’s just a fantastic strategy!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 01:12 PM (AwUtb)

350 What was Rush in pain for? The cochlea thing? I thought that was a result of his drug abuse, not the cause of it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:12 PM (xTRSc)

351 Climate Change alarmism is helping one country: China. They produce all the “green” energy products, and own the African mines that feed the manufacturing of said products.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (BjVQC)

352 He correctly called Globohomo "Green Neo-colonialists".
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Yes he did. Not bad for a mob boss.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (tiR3O)

353 344 Reality: "Scientist falls 500 feet to his death after hiking app led him over cliff"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (IG4Id)

who's your daddy ??

Posted by: Charles Darwin at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (us2H3)

354 Anna Kournikova?
Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 01:07 PM (CYgrT)


Among the futility-grade Russian former tennis players, Anna Chakvetadze >> Anna Kournikova.

https://tinyurl.com/3x47bz87

Posted by: spindrift at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (pyXMr)

355 Reality: "Scientist falls 500 feet to his death after hiking app led him over cliff"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (IG4Id)


Lemmings.
Posted by: Sponge
__

Yep.

Credentials don't exactly equal common sense.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (MqgM5)

356 Seems to me that the only thing folks like Cruz do is tweet.

Guess that makes for good soundbites but that's pretty much it.
Posted by: SMH

Trump should have put that guy on the DC Circuit court.
Even if one had an unexpected retirement.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (ga8qR)

357 Reality: "Scientist falls 500 feet to his death after hiking app led him over cliff"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM

Follow the science!

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (aGVn1)

358 American tanks have been overmatching Soviet/Russian tanks forever. The other problems he points out are cultural, and worse than he describes.
Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (dWjpk)

Wut?

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (kCx1d)

359 338 My understanding is that it's not difficult to become addicted to opioids for pain (had a good friend of good, Christian character whom this happened to after a bad car accident).

And El Rushbo paid a stiff price, as I believe that it led directly to his loss of hearing.
Posted by: ShainS -- Deplorable AND Listless Vessel at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (CYgrT)

They aren't. The big boss where I work was prescribed opiates after surgery, and she said after only taking one, she immediately called her doctor and demanded to be taken _off_ of them because she was afraid if she took a second, she'd be addicted.

Posted by: XTC at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (UnA8+)

360 Posted by: Moron Math at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (0jAIg)

Good for them. I grew up in a very prosperous time and believed a lot of lies.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (psWlI)

361 I don't get the Cruz hate. It feels like the conservative treehouse in here.

—-

IIRC it started when he gave a soccer ball to an illegal alien kid at the border.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (BjVQC)

362 350 What was Rush in pain for? The cochlea thing? I thought that was a result of his drug abuse, not the cause of it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:12 PM (xTRSc)

didn't anyone teach you not to speak ill of the med ??

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (us2H3)

363 355 Reality: "Scientist falls 500 feet to his death after hiking app led him over cliff"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (IG4Id)


Lemmings.
Posted by: Sponge
__

Yep.

Credentials don't exactly equal common sense.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (MqgM5)

Or being an idiotic retard. Neil Degrasse Tyson is theoretically a scientist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (zZu0s)

364 What was Rush in pain for? The cochlea thing? I thought that was a result of his drug abuse, not the cause of it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:12 PM (xTRSc)

I forget. It was something. An injury, IIRC. I don't think he set out to get high.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (0FoWg)

365 Here it is. Trump's an asshole, but he's honest. Honestly out of his league, honestly got the attention span of a gnat, and honestly can't win a game of checkers against anyone with an average IQ or better. But honest. Last guy that was honest before him ? Ross Perot.

Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (O7H/9)


I find it interesting that people claim Trump is an idiot or the like. I'm not claiming Trump is a genius, but if he's an idiot, I'd like to be so stupid that I have that kind of success. I'd wager that Trump is at least as smart as everyone commenting here - probably smarter.

As far as being "out of his league" - he has both parties and every arm of pretty much every state government and federal gov't trying to take him down and put him in prison, yet he remains free and remains the front-runner for the GOP nomination. Not sure how that makes him "out of his league".

Again, if anyone else in the world - particularly any dem or GOP politician, faced what Trump's been facing - they would have curled up and died already.

I don't agree with everything Trump says or does - but the man isn't stupid.

Posted by: I forgot my name b/c I haven't posted in 6 months at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (ky+MF)

366
He's just another rich, elitist kid running for president as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: SMH

Exactly.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (t/2Uw)

367 Chrystia Freeland is my kind of tyrannical, authoritarian babe!

Posted by: Satan at August 22, 2023 01:15 PM (tnipq)

368 Among the futility-grade Russian former tennis players, Anna Chakvetadze >> Anna Kournikova.

https://tinyurl.com/3x47bz87
Posted by: spindrift at August 22, 2023 01:13 PM (pyXMr)

Kirilenko ftw.

Posted by: Thesokorus at August 22, 2023 01:15 PM (kCx1d)

369 Anna Chakvetadze

The only way to properly pronounce her name is while motorboating her.

Just saying.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 22, 2023 01:15 PM (ufFY8)

370 I’ve taken some pain pills over the years after surgeries. And yeah man, I can see how easy it would be to get addicted. They make you feel soooooo good.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 01:15 PM (BjVQC)

371 9 I don't get the Cruz hate. It feels like the conservative treehouse in here.
********
Yeah, let’s just elect a Democrat in his place and turn Texas blue and have them vote to add 2 more states.
That’s just a fantastic strategy!
Posted by: redridinghood

If you ate more Spam, you would sound less bitter.

Posted by: JT at August 22, 2023 01:15 PM (T4tVD)

372 ush noted not long before he died that lefties are done with elections.

https://tinyurl.com/246dxmj8
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 22, 2023 12:35 PM (lCaJd)

Rush had been saying that years before he died. He said it during the 2000 election debacle in FL. And, as usual, Rush was right.

I really miss him.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 22, 2023 01:15 PM (BdMk6)

373 Snark? Or is it worth listening to?
Is he a slightly less annoying voiced Ben Shapiro?
Who does not have a sister with an epic rack (he loses points here.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (zZu0s)


Cruz is a lawyer and a politician, he moves glacially slow, and he does it to make sure all the i and t's are dotted and crossed, and that is why he won cases at the Supreme Court.
The replacement for Michael Knowles sounds like a wet-head scatterbrain, but Cruz is pretty good. Just, when he starts saying "look . . . " or starts doing the "it, it" I figure I need to start parsing his statements. Otherwise, he seems pretty solid.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 01:16 PM (xhaym)

374 "CBS News is reporting that Ukraine forces have broken through and are approaching Tokmak."


That is welcome news. Taking Tokmak has been very high on my list of concerns. No expense should be spared. The American people can breath a sigh of relief and sleep well at night.

Posted by: Ripley at August 22, 2023 01:16 PM (KrJTL)

375 108 Has Sundowner said anything that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs?
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kXDwF)

...60...

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 22, 2023 01:16 PM (Rbu5d)

376 Yeah, let’s just elect a Democrat in his place and turn Texas blue and have them vote to add 2 more states.
That’s just a fantastic strategy!
Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 01:12 PM

Yes, good...another "vote Red no matter who" Republican.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell, Pierre Delecto, et al at August 22, 2023 01:16 PM (0jAIg)

377 Harmeet K. Dhillon @pnjaban 12h
“Aloha”

When arguing in federal court in HI in 2020, I had to get permission from the governor to enter his precious state to argue that his silly COVID lockdowns violated the Constitution. I lost. This same state, in real life, has shown how little respect for life its leaders really have.

My perfectly healthy clients were not allowed to travel from one island to another to visit their own property. American citizens were turned away at the airport because they got the wrong COVID test on the mainland. The hotel gave me “parole” from the one way card key rule only to do my legal business and leave. I could not call an Uber or take a taxi at the airport. The National Guard met me at the gate to escort me to Hawaii COVID immigration to provide my information, which they verified with the hotel. I was to keep my phone on at all times so that they could track my location.

This same police state didn’t turn the water on in Lahaina, didn’t have sirens, can’t begin to tell you how many children died from their incompetence. Or begin to explain it.

Remember all this the next time you are asked to comply with farcical, unjust “laws” made by dictators.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)

378 Do people really still not "get" the hate for GOP?

Sorry that's not something to brag about at this point.

The GOP are marching behind the cattle cars that are carrying us to certain doom, expecting to be spared. By now it falls under the category of when someone tells you what they are, believe them.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (psWlI)

379 I am writing in "Augusto Pinochet" on my 2024 ballot.

You never know...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (tnipq)

380 He's just another rich, elitist kid running for president as far as I'm concerned.



1. 38 isn’t a kid.

2. So you want poor people instead running for president? I guess that rules out Trump.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (BjVQC)

381 I believe Rush had back surgery and Dr prescribed oxy for pain relief and things escalated.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (2YtOq)

382 "Daniel Silver, an economist at JPMorgan Chase, estimates that when the federal agency’s preliminary benchmark revision is released on Wednesday, it will be nearly half a million off from the level of total employment reported in the year through March,"

What? So we're human. Big deal.

Posted by: The Experts at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (vFG9F)

383 To the tune of Guantanamera.

Green globohomo
Oh he's a green globohomo
Green globohomo
Oh he's a green globohomo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (FVME7)

384 “Chakvetadze” is a Georgian (Stalin, not Oglethorpe) surname

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:18 PM (xTRSc)

385 If Ted Cruz isn’t pure enough, then nobody will ever be.

Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 01:18 PM (BjVQC)

386 Kulture ov Korrupzshion.

Posted by: runner at August 22, 2023 01:18 PM (+T4jH)

387 Has Sundowner said anything that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs?
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kXDwF)
-

"Repeat the line."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 22, 2023 01:18 PM (adINt)

388 But honest. Last guy that was honest before him ? Ross Perot.

Posted by: A Man Without a Party at August 22, 2023 01:06 PM (O7H/9)

Yup. Honest guys in American politics are rare as hen's teeth. Any politics, really.

As an aside, it's one of the distinguishing characteristics Adolf Hitler had. He lied like a rug to many idiots, from a tactical standpoint, but he was always stone-cold honest about his beliefs and objectives, and stuck to them through to the bitterest end. Extremely rare in politics since the ancient world. He was an odd duck.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 01:19 PM (0FoWg)

389 Translation: my commie country is broke, so you Western developed nations need to send me money before we start burning more coal and oil.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 22, 2023 01:09 PM (0jAIg)


Better translation: Petrobras has MAJOR oil reserves on the Continental shelf, an opportunity to sell it for BRICS Bucks, and I have a gaping hole in my national budget, screw off greenies.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 01:19 PM (xhaym)

390 377 Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (krqg6)
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Hawaii is an up-for-grabs naval base pretending to be American

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 01:19 PM (tnipq)

391 108 Has Sundowner said anything that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs?
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kXDwF)


"I want to buy you an ice cream cone, little beauty."

Posted by: Gref at August 22, 2023 01:20 PM (AMIL/)

392 Cruz is the arguably best Republican I've ever seen.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
========

Honestly, that's a sad statement on the state of the Republican Party.

Our best Republicans today should be unremarkable nobodies in a healthy Republican Party that was concerned with its base's policy preferences.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
--

Yeah, that was the joke.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 01:20 PM (dGZeX)

393 QuoteDigger @QuoteDigging Aug 20
BREAKING NEWS: FOX News reports Ca. Gov. Gavin Newsom is the first Governor to say Donald Trump is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California's State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trumps name on any future ballots.

DC_Draino @DC_Draino Aug 21
Why don’t Republican Governors do the same against Joe Biden?
Start removing him from state ballots
We have an unprecedented border invasion
Political enemies being indicted
Potential WW3 in Europe
Proof of $10M+ in Ukrainian bribes
“No comment” on Hawaii
Fight back!!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 01:20 PM (krqg6)

394 349 9 I don't get the Cruz hate. It feels like the conservative treehouse in here.
********
Yeah, let’s just elect a Democrat in his place and turn Texas blue and have them vote to add 2 more states.
That’s just a fantastic strategy!
Posted by: redridinghood a-
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He doesn't represent Texas well.
What Texas needs is another John Cronyn.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 22, 2023 01:20 PM (xNhrN)

395 Posted by: I forgot my name b/c I haven't posted in 6 months
.......

It might be on your drivers license.

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 01:20 PM (v0R5T)

396 I remember asking my wife before Rush got his cochlear implant, “Why does Rush sound like Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady?”

He sounded kinda singsongy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:20 PM (xTRSc)

397 127...The Biden’s are staying at billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer’s $18M mansion
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 22, 2023 12:30 PM (krqg6)

Of COURSE they are.
Billionaire climate investor...

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 22, 2023 01:21 PM (Rbu5d)

398 08 Has Sundowner said anything that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs?
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kXDwF)

...60...

Hunter Biden is the smartest guy I know. That was true.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 22, 2023 01:21 PM (aGVn1)

399 NOOD hot

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 22, 2023 01:21 PM (ufFY8)

400 I don't get the Cruz hate. It feels like the conservative treehouse in here.

I don't know if anyone hates Cruz. He's one of the better Senators, but I would not trust him as president not to be part of the GOPe. During his last run for president he was in the wrong on illegal immigration, border enforcement, and border control. He played word games with the concept of "amnesty" such that he's say he was against "amnesty" but if you paid attention to what else he said, he was favoring some form of legal status for all the illegals as part of "comprehensive immigration reform". So he was playing the game where "amnesty" meant something like immediate citizenship, whereas everyone else used "amnesty" to mean any form of legal status given to illegals. It's a game all the GOP people play and why I trust none of them other than Trump on the issue.

Posted by: I forgot my name b/c I haven't posted in 6 months at August 22, 2023 01:21 PM (ky+MF)

401 Nood. Biden in HI

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 22, 2023 01:21 PM (/iWhV)

402 USS Howard sustained ‘soft grounding’ near Bali ahead of port visit

The Japan-based guided-missile destroyer Howard, whose commanding officer was fired Saturday, suffered a “soft grounding” this month as it pulled into Bali for a scheduled port visit, according to Navy officials.

https://tinyurl.com/49nbfzv8

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 22, 2023 01:21 PM (MqgM5)

403 391 108 Has Sundowner said anything lucid that wasn't a lie in last 3 yesrs ?
Posted by: Skip at August 22, 2023 12:28 PM (kXDwF)
===============
here, lemme help out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 01:22 PM (tnipq)

404 When it comes to pain stuff, I guess I'm pretty lucky. I suppose I'm weak and could really learn to like 'em. However, I can look at a Tylenol 3 and not be able to take a dump for three days. I get all my pain relief from aspirin and that's about it. Even some NSAIDs will bind me up.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at August 22, 2023 01:22 PM (0EOe9)

405 I am writing in "Augusto Pinochet" on my 2024 ballot.

You never know...
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 22, 2023 01:17 PM (tnipq)
.......

MHGA
Make Helicopters Great Again

Posted by: wth at August 22, 2023 01:22 PM (v0R5T)

406 If you ate more Spam, you would sound less bitter.
Posted by: JT at August 22, 2023 01:15 PM (T4tVD)
*******
Spam is not going to happen.
I’m starving right now because I haven’t had any food since 6:00 yesterday as I am waiting to have bloodwork done.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 22, 2023 01:23 PM (AwUtb)

407 I don't get the Cruz hate. It feels like the conservative treehouse in here.

-

There's no hate. Just recognition of a very distilled Republican.

I lost interest when he blamed the Americans who got permits and marched peacefully per the law for the violence in Charlottesville instead of taking the opportunity to explain how freedom works even when someone believes in distasteful ideas.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Some comments were lost, so if you said something interesting, repeat it here. at August 22, 2023 01:24 PM (dGZeX)

408 Of course red states won't remove Biden from any ballots.

That's Not Who We Are™.

But it would be a yuuuuuge, luxurious step in the right direction.

If we had an election where two thirds of states had no Democrat option for President, and the other third had no Republican option, it would go along way toward doing the needful.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 01:24 PM (0FoWg)

409 384 “Chakvetadze” is a Georgian (Stalin, not Oglethorpe) surname
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 22, 2023 01:18 PM (xTRSc)

Any name is Georgian if you add "-shvili" to the end of it.

Posted by: XTC at August 22, 2023 01:25 PM (UnA8+)

410 I forget. It was something. An injury, IIRC. I don't think he set out to get high.
--------------
Oxycontin is synthetic heroine with a time elapsed release. They were marketed as the safest pain reliever evah. Then the doses started going up. The Sackler's made a yuge fortune killing people and only had to pay a fine to stay out of jail. Once again, Manhattan looks out for Manhattan.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 01:26 PM (DmtxH)

411 Problem is... he's GOP. Hard pass.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 22, 2023 01:11 PM (0FoWg)


Let me point something out, the name of politics nowadays is "Ballot Access" and it is something that has been keeping a lot of LP candidates off the ballot in larger states.
The GOP and DEM both act to prevent ballot access iand if you are not one of the two parties you don't get to play. NY is one of those states.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 22, 2023 01:26 PM (xhaym)

412 Posted by: Montec at August 22, 2023 01:14 PM (BjVQC)

Nah. It was when he said we were violent and deplorable and meanwhile it was Hillary/Bernie Shock Troops (which anyone with a brain knew) all along.

He should have stuck to insulting Trump, it was primary season after all. But going after us, admitting what he really thinks of us, seeding the lefty lie that we deserve to have our faces bashed in with locks by antifa? Fuck that shit.

Posted by: ... at August 22, 2023 01:26 PM (psWlI)

413 If Harvard and Yale are disqualifying, that puts DeSantis out, too.

Again, not shilling for Ramaswamy, just commenting on the race right now: he is moving his candidacy forward. He's been doing a lot of things to get "earned media" - he goes to where action is and makes a clear statement about it.

I think that he does a number of things that Scott Adams talks about on persuasion - AB testing of statements. He does calibrate what he says. I think there are some things that he as a strong core alignment on, and some things he doesn't.

He published "Ten Truths" - I don't disagree with any of this:

1. God is real.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border is no border.
6. Parents determine the education of their children.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.

Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 01:27 PM (dWjpk)

414 QuoteDigger @QuoteDigging Aug 20
BREAKING NEWS: FOX News reports Ca. Gov. Gavin Newsom is the first Governor to say Donald Trump is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California's State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trumps name on any future ballots.

What is a bill of attainder?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 22, 2023 01:27 PM (ga8qR)

415 Spam is not going to happen.
I’m starving right now because I haven’t had any food since 6:00 yesterday as I am waiting to have bloodwork done.
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Don't think about food and liquids. Think about bewbs and cooter. Hang in there.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 01:28 PM (OTXUv)

416 334. Rush became addicted to OxyContin after it was Rx for him to treat severe back pain. When he finally went for treatment, it was obvious at that point he had been doing his radio show high. ( I was a regular listener and noticed his increasing agitation and high speed talking. ) He came back from rehab off pain meds and as far as I know, stayed off until possibly the last few weeks of his life when cancer was advancing. Rush fell into the trap many patients do with pain meds, I was disappointed with him too until I learned how he became addicted. Then admired his strength and honesty in dealing with it.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 22, 2023 01:28 PM (Laj+w)

417 @407

>>There's no hate. Just recognition of a very distilled Republican.

People have to realize, the vast majority of politicians are kept men and women, there are only a handful that can stand on their own and are not beholden to anyone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 22, 2023 01:29 PM (XV/Pl)

418 413 He published "Ten Truths" - I don't disagree with any of this:

1. God is real.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border is no border.
6. Parents determine the education of their children.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.
Posted by: blaster at August 22, 2023 01:27 PM (dWjpk)

OK, but I don't see the word "YUUUUUUUUUGE" in any of that.

Posted by: XTC at August 22, 2023 01:29 PM (UnA8+)

419 414 QuoteDigger @QuoteDigging Aug 20
BREAKING NEWS: FOX News reports Ca. Gov. Gavin Newsom is the first Governor to say Donald Trump is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California's State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trumps name on any future ballots.

What is a bill of attainder?
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So we get to start shooting now? I'm asking for a friend.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 01:29 PM (OTXUv)

420 You will note that after they replaced Shokin with Lutsenko, Burisma only had a few small tax cases. Which they paid off.

So, even if Joe got Shokin fired, he may have also made sure the incoming guy knew who not to charge.

which is also corrupt.

Posted by: Harun at August 22, 2023 01:29 PM (Cg63x)

421 Lutsenko actually wanted to help this case, but couldn't get a US visa IIRC.

Isn't it weird how people with evidence against Joe can't get visas?

Posted by: Harun at August 22, 2023 01:30 PM (Cg63x)

422 419 So we get to start shooting now? I'm asking for a friend.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 22, 2023 01:29 PM (OTXUv)

That's Fed Talk, son.

Posted by: XTC at August 22, 2023 01:31 PM (UnA8+)

423 I find it interesting that people claim Trump is an idiot or the like. I'm not claiming Trump is a genius, but if he's an idiot, I'd like to be so stupid that I have that kind of success. I'd wager that Trump is at least as smart as everyone commenting here - probably smarter.

It's not as hard to get to home plate when you're born on third base. That's Trump.

And look, anybody here can beat Trump in checkers. Mostly because the old dude can't sit still and pay attention more than five minutes.

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at August 22, 2023 01:42 PM (/8HmR)

425 Joe's schemes to erode the #1 asset of the US government

student loans

I shit you not

Posted by: REDACTED at August 22, 2023 02:25 PM (us2H3)

426 No worries, the G.O.P. House will have more "hearings" to look into this and they'll holler louder than usual to give the base some red meat, all while they flip us off under the table.

Posted by: Tracy at August 22, 2023 06:10 PM (8xTKQ)

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