The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 9/5/23

Good morning, kids. The end of another Labor Day holiday, and another interminable year is now in the home stretch. Why is there a day set aside to supposedly celebrate the American worker anyway? Was it instituted as a means to blunt the influence of Communist May Day? In any case, why isn't there a holiday set aside for the American business owner? You know, the folks whose actual ideas and capital create the need for American workers in the first place?

Meh, all the questions are academic since the American business owner/entrepreneur is on the fast track to go the way of the dodo. I'm not necessarily a special pleader for corporate America. Certainly not the corporate America of the 21st century which, hand in hand with government (or with a gun to its head in many instances) helped sell out the American worker and the American dream and ship it overseas. There's a lot of blame to go around, but at the end of the day it's the average American small business owner who took it in the neck. And the American labor movement, that is the unions, sold their souls to the Democrats for votes in what is proving to have been merely a temporary alliance of convenience. Millions of foreign invaders who are "doing the jobs Americans refuse to do" (how I loathe that bromide) are proof positive that union card-carrying Joe Sixpack was sold down the river ages ago.

Speaking of Joes, there's old Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants hopped up on Aricept and prune juice spritzers Q6H out in Pennsylvania bashing Trump, probably the only president in modern American history (now concluded) who actually did create thousands of jobs via his entrepreneurship, as well as his presidency via his energy, tariff and regulatory policies, instead of the phantom ones that politicians and political parties boast about, claiming Trump "didn't build a damn thing." I'll not excerpt any pull quotes to spare you, gentle reader, from boiling your blood so early in the morning.

The unmitigated gall of this shambling perverted criminal maniac is just something to behold, especially in context to his bringing the entire weight of the national criminal justice apparatus to bear on Trump, in an effort to wipe him out politically, financially and personally.

Meh. Bleating vegetable's gonna bleat, right? The tragic truth is that the American economy is circling the bowl if it hasn't been flushed down the shitter completely by now. And that is a direct result and sole responsibility of the illegitimate occupant of the White House and the evil bastards who installed him in it via the madness of "green energy," "modern monetary theory" and "open borders."

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” UAW President Shawn Fain discussed endorsing a candidate in the 2024 presidential race and stated that there are issues with workers possibly being left behind in the transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, and stated that “20% of the powertrain workers in the Big Three stand to lose their jobs down the road” if that transition occurs. He also argued that “you can’t call this a just transition if you’re going to go from $32 an hour wages down to $16 an hour.”
Host Bianna Golodryga asked, “So, is an endorsement contingent upon a deal with the administration on these specific asks that you have?”
Fain answered, “We’ll see. It’s — there’s a lot of work to be done still. But, I mean, naturally, all of these things are a big part of it. Again, workers can’t be left behind in this transition. When we talk about the EV transition, you’re talking about 20% of the powertrain workers in the Big Three stand to lose their jobs down the road if we go from [internal combustion] engines to the battery power. And you can’t call this a just transition if you’re going to go from $32 an hour wages down to $16 an hour.”

Meh. He'll endorse him, or whoever the ham sammich-du-jour will be put in Biden's place should political expediency dictate he be ejected from the top of the ticket. As far as the constituents are concerned, at some point they're going to have to understand the classical definition of insanity, vis a vis, voting straight ticked Democrat every two to four years and what it has meant to them and their families in real terms, not the bullshit being shoved into their ears and eyeballs from CNN, their shop stewards and union bosses.

Not that even a sudden and massive shift, welcome as it might be, from traditional Democrat voters suddenly having the scales fall from their eyes and being completely deprogrammed from the "progressive" death cult will have an effect. Not if elections remain "fortified" to produce the "correct" outcome. And as of this writing, I see nothing on the horizon to indicate that that situation will fundamentally or even marginally change. Even if it did, and by some miracle Trump (the likely nominee as of this writing) or any other GOP candidate were to actually win the general election, the fist inside the illusory glove of American government, the Deep State bureaucracy, still dictates policy and law.

So here we are, not even three years into a nightmare that actually began nearly four years ago with the lockdowns – and you better believe they're angling for that yet again.

Victor Davis Hanson has an extensive, and depressing, recap of the action so far. Here's the gravamen of his discourse, but do read the whole thing for all the gory details.

. . . Obama’s unfufilled ambitions set the stage for the Biden administration—staffed heavily with Obama veterans—to complete the revolutionary transformation of the Democratic Party and country.
It was ironic that while Obama was acknowledged as young and charismatic, nonetheless a cognitively challenged, past plagiarist, fabulist, and utterly corrupt Joe Biden was far more effective in ramming through a socialist woke agenda and altering the very way Americans vote and conduct their legal system.
Stranger still, Biden accomplished this subversion of traditional America while debilitated and often mentally inert—along with being mired in a bribery and influence-peddling scandal that may ultimately confirm that he easily was the most corrupt president to hold office in U.S. history.
How was all this possible? . . .
. . . the revolution is not so much political as anarchist. Nothing escapes it—not ceiling fans, not natural gas cooktops, not parents at school board meetings, not Christian bakeries, not champion female swimmers, not dutiful policemen, not hard-working oil drillers, not privates and corporals in the armed forces, not teens applying on their merits to college, not anyone, anywhere, anytime.
The operating principle is either to allow or to engineer things to become so atrocious in everyday American life—the inability to afford food and fuel, the inability to walk safely in daylight in our major cities, the inability to afford to drive as one pleases, the inability to obtain or pay back a high interest loan—that the government can absorb the private sector and begin regimenting the masses along elite dictates. The more the people tire of the leftist agenda, the more its architects furiously seek to implement it, hoping that their institutional and cultural control can do what ballots cannot.

What to do, what to do. As bad as things are, they'r still going to have to get a lot worse before we get to Ceaucescu or Tahriri Square level of desperation. That's a testament in a way to how insulated and resilient our economy is despite the massive, multi-trillion-dollar hits on it. Worse in a way is our society and culture which in a sense have suffered even more than our economy by orders of magnitude. Maybe that is the collapse that sends ordinary people into the streets. Then again, the cadres of Antifa, BLM and the transexual-homosexual perverts with the impenetrable deflector shield of a weaponized criminal justice system on their side, giving them the green light to beat us senseless "until our morale improves."

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Automatic voter registration is a fast track to permanent Democratic power — so, naturally, activists are working around the clock to pass it."
With Automatic Voter Registration, Say Hello To Permanent Democrat Power
"And those who love freedom are all the worse for it."
The Neocons Are Back
Victor Davis Hanson: "Will their upheaval succeed?"
What the Left Did to Our Country

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

"Though the construction of Biden’s defense effort has been underway since Republicans took over control of the House early this year, the new reports from POLITICO and NBC News about its growing roster emerged after some lawmakers signaled that the impeachment process could soon begin and as the 2024 election cycle heats up."
Biden’s ‘War Room’ Takes Shape as Impeachment Probe Looms
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Adam Schiff of California and Tim Kaine of Virginia backed the idea that Trump could be blocked from the 2024 ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which maintains that anyone who 'engaged in insurrection' cannot hold elected office, according to Axios. Free Speech For People, a Democratic-aligned group, also sent letters to secretaries of state in key 2024 states last week claiming Trump should be removed from the ballot."
Top Democrats Back 'Dangerous' Legal Theory To Block Americans From Voting For Trump
"Two never-Trump law professors offer help to left-wing groups seeking to scratch Trump from the ballot."
Arming the 14th Amendment Against Trump Voters
Jeffrey Lord: "GOP legislators trying to halt Fascist Fani have been stymied."
Georgia’s Kemp Effectively Says Arresting Opponents Is Constitutional
"The mugshot, although it was meant to destroy Trump, may prove to be the shot that will definitively destroy the wall of Democrat propaganda." (The Berlin Wall came down and landed on our heads, evidently - jjs)
Donald Trump’s Mugshot and the Berlin Wall of Democrat Propaganda
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
Says populist leadership in U.S. would “undermine the progress…in Ukraine.”
Nazi Collaborator Soros’ Son Complains That Another “MAGA-style” Presidential Victory Would “Imperil” Globalist Vision (Please God - jjs)
"Even if we won all the battles, the engines at work behind the scenes would pull us right back to where we are today. We must also aim some monkey wrenches at those invisible engines to further strategic goals."
Two Strategic Targets for 2024
Star Parker: "60 years later, it's clear: the Left moved the nation in the opposite direction."
Our Sad Departure From Dr. King’s ‘Dream’
"The folly of picking one group over another."
Reparations for Everyone
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"At this point, it pays to strap your tinfoil hat on for a moment and question the official narrative. Why is the government pushing for mask mandates despite knowing they don’t do anything to stop the spread of [Chinese] COVID? What is it they have to gain from doing this? What does Fauci get out of all this now that he’s retired? Let all that marinate for awhile."
CNN Host Stuns Viewers by Doing His Job and Confronting Fauci on Mask Efficacy
The UK-based editor, 79, also used his editorial roles to try and kill major stories on pedophilia altogether, particularly those at care homes in Wales, exposed by investigative reporter Dean Nelson. Wilby – lauded by his leftist colleagues as an “old-fashioned socialist” – “used his position as an editor and columnist to create… a ‘hostile environment’ for victims of abuse,” reported Nelson, ironically in a comment piece published by the same Guardian newspaper that housed and nurtured the pedophile for decades.
REPORT: News Editor is Pedophile Who Covered-Up Abuse Reports & Attacked Victims
"Politico investigative reporter Heidi Przybyla appeared on ABC News’ ‘This Week” as part of a panel discussing the 2024 presidential election and former President Donald Trump’s legal battles. During the conversation, she weighed in with her thoughts on Congress’ plans after its summer recess concludes.
Liberal Reporter Falsely Claims Evidence Linking Joe Biden To Hunter's Business Dealings 'Doesn't Exist'
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"The American labor market’s failure to produce family-supporting jobs is fundamental to the nation’s problems."
Where Are the Secure Jobs?
"There is some growth in the economy; it’s just not growth benefitting Americans."
The Sad Truth Behind Job Growth in the American Economy
Biden was asked if he believed a strike was looming. The [so-called quote-unquote "president"] said that he did not. United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain said he was “shocked” by these comments from Biden and added the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] “must know something we don’t know.”
Biden Celebrates Creating Jobs ‘You Can Raise A Family On’ As Inflation Crushes American
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
". . . workers can’t be left behind in this transition. When we talk about the EV transition, you’re talking about 20% of the powertrain workers in the Big Three stand to lose their jobs down the road if we go from [internal combustion] engines to the battery power. And you can’t call this a just transition if you’re going to go from $32 an hour wages down to $16 an hour.” (Dems to UAW: LOLGF - jjs)
UAW President: 20% of Big Three Powertrain Workers Stand to Lose Jobs Under Electric Vehicle Transition
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
Daniel Greenfield: "Heatstroke is now the business of DHS, but border security isn’t."
While Millions Invade America, DHS Fights the Heat
"New Yorkers weren't expecting they'd have to make good on the promise of sanctuary."
Sanctimony City: NYC’s Illegal Immigration Failure
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Prosecutors said that in particular, Kruse is charged with a conspiracy to conceal potential listeria contamination in Blue Bell products from customers, including telling employees to say that products were removed because of a problem with manufacturing, not because of possible contamination." (hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
Paul Kruse, Ex Blue Bell CEO, Charged with Conspiracy for Listeria Outbreak
The ACLU’s suit continues by referencing WPATH treatment guidelines, which do not advise or require a thorough analysis of a person’s mental health and stability before recommending “gender-affirming” surgeries to patients. The complaint states that Richardson was able to “obtain bars [SIC], panties, make up, and form fitting clothing” to feel more feminine in a male prison.
ACLU now representing convicted baby murderer seeking taxpayer-funded sex change
Crime across the United States capitol has increased dramatically over the past year, with violent crime having gone up a whopping 39 percent, according to the city’s police. A recent drive-by shooting witness, an Iraqi Uber driver, said the city was a “war zone” worse than his home nation.
D.C. Will See Near 1,000 Carjackings in 2023, With Records Already Broken This Year
"Can you guess who's to blame?"
Austin’s Nightmarish Escalating Crime
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
“When you’re talking about a population level that the data is less strong than knowing that if you look on a situation as an individual protecting themselves or protecting them from spreading it, there is no doubt that masks work.” (Go to hell - jjs)
Fauci Worried the Public Won’t Comply With Masking Recommendations Over Chinese COVID
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.: "Just in time for the 2024 elections."
Masks – They’re Back!
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The unnamed victim complained to her mother of abdominal pains before disclosing the relationship to her. They subsequently found out after a trip to the hospital that he had infected her with chlamydia and gonorrhea."
TikTok influencer ‘Teacher Luke’ arrested in Bangkok for sexual abuse of minor after he allegedly gave a 16 year old an STD
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Muslim, Catholic, and Orthodox parents argue that the school board’s ‘no-opt-out’ policy violates their constitutional rights."
Biden-Appointed Judge Rules Religious Parents Can’t Opt Kids Out of Pro-LGBT School Lessons
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"[Ken] Paxton, a three-term incumbent, was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives in a bipartisan vote on May 27 on 20 counts relating to alleged misconduct while in office. Paxton, who is suspended from his duties until the trial concludes, and his allies have published attack ads critical of supporters of his impeachment, who have also made media appearances supporting the process, according to the NYT. "
Republicans Brace For Intra-Party Showdown as AG's Impeachment Trial Set to Begin
"'This would be a major breach of Senate ethics laws that must immediately be investigated.'"
Wife-Beating Slumlord Warnock Filed False Financial Disclosure In Violation Of Federal Law, Watchdog Charges
POLITICS
Alex Berenson: "The indictments have fueled him. If he wins in 2024, his second Presidency will marry that personal fury with a conservative attack on the administrative state to remake the government radically."
On the Coming Radicalism of Donald J. Trump
"It is not just former DeSantis supporters – turned detractors – like Rollins who are expressing a sense of inevitability regarding Trump winning the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Jeff Roe, chief strategist for the pro-DeSantis SuperPAC Never Back Down, was caught on a leaked audio recording telling donors the campaign was in desperate need of $50 million and that DeSantis only has 60 days to try and defeat Trump before the primary race is effectively over>"
‘Ready for Ron’ PAC Chief Admits: ‘Trump is Undefeatable’
"Ever since the Republican primary debate, the Florida governor's prospects seem less certain."
What to Make of Ron DeSantis?
"The divisions today on the American right cannot be papered over. They must be bridged."
Unhyphenated Conservatism
Meh. Barking vegetable's gonna vegetable - jjs
Biden Says Trump ‘Didn’t Build a Damn Thing’ in Labor Day Address
Pfft. When you can stuff ballot boxes at will, what does it matter? - jjs
Oye, Biden’s Numbers Are Really, Really Bad

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Lloyd Billingsley: "Insight on 'the disaster we are living in now.'"
The Obama Factor Revealed
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The poll did not specify what about his handling they disapproved of."
WSJ Poll: Majority of Americans Disapprove of Biden’s Handling of Ukraine
"It’s time to ignore the Bill Kristols, Max Boots, and David Frums of the political spectrum. They have been disastrously wrong for 30 years."
Ukraine Is Neocons’ Last Gasp
"U.S. lawmakers, who have approved multiple aid and assistance packages for Ukraine, have already been shown intelligence suggesting the counter-offensive will most likely fail."
Ukraine Tells West to ‘Shut Up’ on Failed Counter-Offensive
The oligarch has been wanted for fraud in the U.S. since 2021 and was placed under sanctions after it was discovered he was engaging in “ongoing efforts to undermine Ukraine’s democratic processes and institutions.”
Ukrainian oligarch who backed Zelensky's career arrested amid corruption crackdown
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
India’s Foreign Minister Jaishankar: “Making absurd claims does not make other people’s territories yours.”
India-China Tensions Flare as Beijing Releases Map Claiming Indian Territories
"Iran has roughly 268 pounds of uranium that have been enriched to 60%, indicating that the country’s fuel buildup is still growing at a slightly slower pace, according to the Associated Press. Iran’s stockpile was just over 250 pounds in May, and 192 pounds in February."
'No Progress' in Nuclear Talks With Iran as it Slowly Builds Uranium Stockpile: REPORT
"The timing issue and lessons not yet learned."
The Gathering Middle Eastern Storm: Israel’s Dilemma — Part Four
"On Sept. 15, 2020, President Trump ushered in a new era of peace and collaboration in the Middle East without a single bullet fired."
Three Years Later, Trump Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for the Abraham Accords
"Diversity for thee, not for me."
Israel to Deport All African Migrants and Build Huge Border Wall (deport all the "Palestinians" - jjs)
"Following the revelation, Israel’s Civil Administration said that the construction vehicle operating on the site had been confiscated and that the archaeologist in charge of antiquities affairs in Judea and Samaria had opened an investigation."
Report: "Palestinians" Attempt to Raze, Build on Jewish Historic Site
"Today we have two ambitious empires: China and Klaus Schwab's globalist WEF for the Davos set."
Hanson Serves Up a Secret Sauce on Imperialism
"The American people’s interests require the dismantling of the American empire." (I don't necessarily agree with all of this, but there are some interesting points - jjs)
The Third World Revolt
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“They range from Chinese nationals found crossing into a U.S. missile range in New Mexico to what appeared to be scuba divers swimming in murky waters near a U.S. government rocket-launch site in Florida.”
Report: Chinese Nationals Posing as Tourists to Access U.S. Military Bases
"The presidential candidate has vowed to pardon the Wikileaks founder if elected."
Vivek Ramaswamy Seeks Meeting With Julian Assange
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
Robert Spencer: "In a healthy, functioning republic, the political and military officials responsible for what happened in Afghanistan two years ago would have been impeached or forced to resign in disgrace. But the U.S. is no longer a healthy, functioning republic, and so instead, they are more entrenched than ever."
Two Years Later, the Consequences of Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Are Still Unfolding
Back in Washington, D.C., according to Foer, veteran State Department employees fell into a deep depression, requiring the therapy dog to cheer them up as Afghanistan devolved into chaos under Taliban control.
State Department Sought to Ease Diplomats' Pain Over Afghanistan Withdrawal With Therapy Dog, New Book Says
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Do educational institutions really want to be associated with Naima Khan-Ghany?"
When a Jew-Hating Islamist Organizes Events for Broward Public Schools
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"The survey from Home Bay, a real estate education platform, asked people about the most desirable place to live based on crime rates, affordable homes, and cost of living." (And proximity to Dems and RINOs - jjs)
Survey: Washington D.C. Ranked Least Desirable Place to Live
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"SpaceX officials revealed they are presently building a fifth manned Dragon capsule to add to its fleet, and are also aiming to fly each as much as fifteen times. This suggests they are anticipating a lot of business hauling both NASA and commercial passengers into space."
Endeavour Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts safely splashes down
"Hubble investigated the aftermath of the supernova SN 2015ap during two different observing programmes, both designed to comb through the debris left by supernovae explosions in order to better understand these energetic events."
A triangular spiral galaxy
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"As tempting as it is to hate these LGBTQ+++™ alphabet people, who impose their ideological lunch on the rest of us via legal fiat, it’s just as true that they are victims of mass psychosis as that they are self-entitled narcissists in dire need of a reorientation into the real world."
'Trans' Man Who Invaded Wyoming Sorority Plays Violin for Himself on MSNBC
"Women aren’t discriminated against in twenty-first-century America—but men increasingly are."
The Misogyny Myth
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"A small ruling class excels at keeping America in a state of crisis and dismissing the needs of working folks."
The Class Divide Is Killing the American Dream
"Yeah, they had taken my show and I realized that on Labor Day, so I was like, Okay, well, here’s a tweet for you. And I woke up at 1 am, and … I felt like God was waking me up," Barr said.
Roseanne Reveals to Jack Posobiec that ABC Was Going to Fire Her BEFORE Tweet Controversy
"Dating and relationships are complicated for everyone, but especially for persons living with intellectual and developmental disabilities."
Netflix’s Down For Love is Exploitation, Not Entertainment
"America's narcissistic, fanatical, hypersensitive soccer 'star.'"
Megan Rapinoe: Symbol for Our Age
HITHER & YON
Robert Zimmerman: "Sadly, time moves on without mercy, and soon her space-faring husband, his two compatriots from Apollo 8, and their own courageous wives, will join her, all childhood sweethearts and still married. They had stood on the very edge of human existence, and proclaimed to all by the reading of the first twelve verses from Genesis from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve that there is a deeper meaning to life, even if we as humans can only struggle to perceive it."
Marilyn Lovell, Wife of Apollo Astronaut Jim Lovell, Passes Away at 93
"Recording as a solo artist, both 'Dream Weaver' and 'Love Is Alive' reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart." (RIP - jjs)
"Dream Weaver" Singer Gary Wright Dead at 80

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Posted by: J.J. Sefton at 07:36 AM

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 07:36 AM (BRHaw)

2 Thank you,JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 05, 2023 07:37 AM (1n+EO)

3 Good morning, kids. The end of another Labor Day holiday

thx for reminding me What the faux pau if I showed up to a project site in the white wool pants and matching sweater. The mexicans would have thought that quite funny.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 07:38 AM (BRHaw)

4 When we talk about the EV transition, you’re talking about 20% of the powertrain workers in the Big Three stand to lose their jobs down the road if we go from [internal combustion] engines to the battery power.

California claims 80% capture rate on a combined EV/PHEV. So that mean 1 out of 5 switch back to gas.

I bet it is double that in other states.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 07:42 AM (BRHaw)

5 Good morning dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2023 07:42 AM (RIvkX)

6 Good morning to all thee horde and may your week ahead be healthy and properous.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 05, 2023 07:43 AM (yRbrH)

7 Hey! The Unions built America. No kidding. They came over on the Mayflower.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at September 05, 2023 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

8 I'm not too worried about Trump getting tossed off ballots because of the 14th Amendment argument that he's guilty of insurrection over J6. There's time for a case to bubble up to SCOTUS.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 07:43 AM (RqMSv)

9 I missed most of the weekend threads. Did the horde comport itself with the class, élan and dignity that we have come to expect?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 07:44 AM (zZu0s)

10 Mornin'!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at September 05, 2023 07:44 AM (k6uu5)

11 Trump didn't launder beeelions of $ through ukraine, didn't commit biological warfare on America aided by chyna, didn't welcome howerver the hell many invaders to waltz across our borders, and he didn't hire every freak and idiot he could find. No, Trump didn't do a damn thing.

Posted by: Eromero at September 05, 2023 07:45 AM (z3WCn)

12 7 Hey! The Unions built America. No kidding. They came over on the Mayflower.
Posted by: Joe Biteum at September 05, 2023 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

*sotto voce* And the Muslims.

Posted by: Joe Biden's Earpiece at September 05, 2023 07:45 AM (PiwSw)

13 Demofascists being Demofascists: Keeping Austin weird means allowing free reign to migrant gangs.

"Austin's nightmarish escalating crime"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 05, 2023 07:47 AM (yRbrH)

14 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2023 07:48 AM (Q4IgG)

15
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2023 07:49 AM (ENBF0)

16 Has the irony of President Trump being impeached for seeking to investigate Biden/Ukraine now obviously corrupt payments completely eluded MSDNC and CNN news organizations?

Why, yes. Yes it has.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 05, 2023 07:49 AM (yRbrH)

17
"Recording as a solo artist, both 'Dream Weaver' and 'Love Is Alive' reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart." (RIP - jjs)
"Dream Weaver" Singer Gary Wright Dead at 80

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 05, 2023 07:50 AM (ENBF0)

18 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 07:51 AM (53oGX)

19 Kevin could start impechment hearings on his own given the precedent of Nancy doing so in Trump 2.0, but says he won't. What's he planning?

My bet is that he knows that there will be more revelations of what we Morons already know. e.g., Joe and Jill took more money out of accounts commingled with Hunter than they put in. (Did they pay taxes on this "gift"?). And word is that Joe is on tape saying things that establish his guilt. So more tendentious denials of guilt by Media will get quashed.

Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 07:53 AM (RqMSv)

20 Happy Tuesday, one and all. It's a short week for me and I refuse to let anything drag me down because of that.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 05, 2023 07:54 AM (4olE8)

21 This is insanely cool. Guy flies an RC plane with a virtual reality setup from a camera inside the cockpit of the plane. Not sure on the plane. WWII looking bomber with dual engines.

http://tinyurl.com/3ynurt2n

Have to link this to anna next time I see her.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 07:55 AM (zZu0s)

22 @16 And the irony of Trump being impeached a second time by Nancy for an "insurrection" that Nancy herself orchestrated. You couldn't make this up.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 07:56 AM (RqMSv)

23 Morning, JJ.

Fauci Worried the Public Won’t Comply With Masking Recommendations Over Chinese COVID

Oh, stuff and nonsense. Watch and see - at least 70% of the country will mask up, churches will close and businesses will demand masks, while those that refuse will once more be shut down by the 'heroes' in blue. I am as certain of that as I have ever been of anything.

What to Make of Ron DeSantis?

As I've said before, I think DeSantis was told / believed Trump was too crippled to run, so it was his turn at bat. And that he thought that if he ignored the Trump persecutions, he could ride to the nomination without angering the MAGA base. But, having shown his true colors by issuing anodyne "let's move on" comments whenever Trump is raided or slapped with an indictment, the base now knows he's a GOP-e opportunist who despises MAGA as much as any Democrat.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 07:57 AM (AW0uW)

24 Immigrants are joining the U.S. workforce at much higher levels than normal.

They're likely to account for roughly half a million new jobs over the next three quarters, per a new report from Goldman Sachs.
Why it matters: As the U.S. continues to struggle with a historically-tight labor market, immigrants are coming to the rescue of desperate employers — while also creating new jobs themselves.

By the numbers: Between the pre-pandemic month of January 2020 and July 2023, the immigrant labor force grew by 9.5%. That compares to a tiny 1.5% growth rate among the native-born.

*waves hand*
This is not the Great Replacement Theory you are looking for.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 07:57 AM (BRHaw)

25 Things that make you say hmmmmm:

http://tinyurl.com/4bpdvmpx

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 05, 2023 07:58 AM (YRsIm)

26 My bet is that he knows that there will be more revelations of what we Morons already know.

With all due respect, my bet is he’s sitting around with his thumb up his ass (or Mitches hand) to scared to do anything.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at September 05, 2023 07:58 AM (6vqEw)

27 Developing ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 07:53 AM (RqMSv)

$100 MILLION

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 07:58 AM (BRHaw)

28 Congrats to SpaceX for another flawless return to earth last night.

The SpaceX "Endeavor" plasma trail across the skies last night, as it re-entered the atmosphere.

https://t.ly/OIOWU

...and the NASA splashdown video (3 mins)

https://t.ly/rQkyG

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 05, 2023 08:00 AM (bPzfW)

29 Only an idiot would buy an EV, vote democrat, wear a Chinese Flu mask or support the gangsters in Ukraine.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 05, 2023 08:01 AM (iw4IE)

30 And since it's Tuesday, here's a story from the 1933 book Coolidge Wit and Wisdom: 125 Short Stories About "Cal:"

After the Boston police strike, a magazine interviewer asked for a family picture of the Coolidges. Governor Coolidge fished in a desk drawer and handed the writer a photograph.

"This will do," said the interviewer, "but I'll get a print from the photographer. I don't want to take this from you."

Quoth the Governor: "Hadn't thought of giving it to you."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:02 AM (AW0uW)

31 Kevin could start impechment hearings on his own given the precedent of Nancy doing so in Trump 2.0, but says he won't. What's he planning?
_____________

He's probably planning his vacation.

TBH... McCarthy needs to be impeached.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2023 08:02 AM (Q4IgG)

32 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:02 AM (A6m7x)

33 VDH's latest may be the best at least that I can remember. Put into their larger sweep, the depredations of the Left are matched by derelictions of duty of the GOP. The combination has been devastating to America.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:03 AM (mMsvu)

34 30 And since it's Tuesday, here's a story from the 1933 book Coolidge Wit and Wisdom: 125 Short Stories About "Cal:"

We need more people like him in office.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 05, 2023 08:03 AM (4olE8)

35 I find it hard to believe that illegal immigrants are taking over quality jobs that Americans would do. Most of them can't speak English and their education is worse than ours. Sure they can pick your lettuce, vacuum your hotel room or watch your dogs but that should be about it.

Posted by: Jaimo at September 05, 2023 08:03 AM (DBrN4)

36 "will the Left succeed?"

They already have.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 05, 2023 08:04 AM (S6gqv)

37 and so, here we are ...

G'mornin' Horde!

Thanks for all your hard work, JJ! dunno how you keep your food down doing it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at September 05, 2023 08:04 AM (vbuLV)

38 We need more people like him in office.

How far MA has fallen, eh?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:04 AM (AW0uW)

39 Because, otherwise, it’s going to fall into further despair and, like Chacon before them, they might just pack up and look for greener pastures. And the city of Austin certainly deserves better.

No it does not, fuck Austin. They voted for it and deserve it up the ass.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

40 @36

>>They already have.

They are now roaming the battle field shooting survivors.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2023 08:05 AM (XV/Pl)

41 Hmm, the singer for Smash Mouth has died from liver failure at 56. Clot shot?

Yet another grim milestone for the Biden administration.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

42 Stranger still, Biden accomplished this subversion of traditional America while debilitated and often mentally inert — along with being mired in a bribery and influence-peddling scandal that may ultimately confirm that he easily was the most corrupt president to hold office in U.S. history.
_____________

VDH sort of misses the fact that *biden hasn't done shit. It's all the staffers and top tier bureaucrats that have subverted the country. *biden is incapable of doing anything. But the staff assigned to him, the cabinet members and FedGov movers and shakers certainly can... and did.

This is an important fact. *biden could be waterboarded at Gitmo and do nothing more than babble incoherently while shitting himself repeatedly. He knows nothing.

Get real. Go after his staff.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2023 08:07 AM (Q4IgG)

43 The singer from Smashmouth was apparently a bad drunk.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 05, 2023 08:07 AM (PCeFT)

44 41 Hmm, the singer for Smash Mouth has died from liver failure at 56. Clot shot?

It was climate change and alcohol abuse. But mostly alcohol abuse.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 05, 2023 08:08 AM (4olE8)

45 China reinforcing its territorial claims against India, after killing 20 Indian soldiers while fighting an armed conflict with them a few years back, just emphasizes again Chinese expansionism. China will not stop of its own volition.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 05, 2023 08:08 AM (2mH3U)

46 Hmm, the singer for Smash Mouth has died from liver failure at 56. Clot shot?

Yet another grim milestone for the Biden administration.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I read it was due to alcoholism.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:08 AM (jlbtb)

47 We have Labor Day because it is *not* May Day. May Day is commie bullshit, which is why our "Labor Day" is several months removed from it and in a different season.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:09 AM (t0OGg)

48 They are now roaming the battle field shooting survivors.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2023 08:05 AM (XV/Pl)

Affix bayonets' to save bullets and have less rifle cleaning.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:09 AM (BRHaw)

49 44 41 Hmm, the singer for Smash Mouth has died from liver failure at 56. Clot shot?

It was climate change and alcohol abuse. But mostly alcohol abuse.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 05, 2023 08:08 AM (4olE

*considers* Better safe than sorry.

*to minion* Add that to the list.

Posted by: Fani Willis at September 05, 2023 08:09 AM (PiwSw)

50 "Though the construction of Biden’s defense effort has been underway since Republicans took over control of the House early this year, the new reports from POLITICO and NBC News about its growing roster emerged after some lawmakers signaled that the impeachment process could soon begin and as the 2024 election cycle heats up."

--

Has it been mentioned yet that, come 2024, there's a 50/50 chance the Republicans will lose their tenuous hold on the House and all this impeachment talk will go right out the window?

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 05, 2023 08:10 AM (mupln)

51 @42

>>VDH sort of misses the fact that *biden hasn't done shit. It's all the staffers and top tier bureaucrats that have subverted the country. *biden is incapable of doing anything.

He can still spout vicious calumnies and lies in between the eating of pea soup and pants shitting.

The man and his entire family are scumbag animals and cretins.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2023 08:10 AM (XV/Pl)

52 I first became aware of VDH… oh, 20 years ago or more. He was a featured author on C-SPAN book TV and talked about several of his books. I love military history so I promptly went out and bought one and thoroughly enjoyed it. Learned about a farmer-yeoman warrior Epamamondos (I know I’m botching that name)…. Learned a bit about the Pelopennisian war (though probably not how to spell it right). VDH didn’t seem political that day but was very interesting and appealing in his soft spoken way…. “Just” a historian.

Times have sure changed

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2023 08:10 AM (xT8gx)

53 50 - Yes, they are aware and hoping they lose the house so they won't have to impeach the corpse.

Posted by: Jaimo at September 05, 2023 08:11 AM (DBrN4)

54 41 Hmm, the singer for Smash Mouth has died from liver failure at 56. Clot shot?

Yet another grim milestone for the Biden administration.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

RIP.

Also: oh no. Now we are going to hear 'Some body once told me, the world was gonna roll me!'

Dear Lord, that fired up as soon as Smashmouth was brought up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:11 AM (zZu0s)

55 "A small ruling class excels at keeping America in a state of crisis and dismissing the needs of working folks."

Because, remember, rich people DO NOT WORK.

America is becoming increasingly Marxist, and you can see it in language.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 05, 2023 08:12 AM (Q9bls)

56 "[Ken] Paxton, a three-term incumbent, was impeached by the Bushes.

I corrected the statement.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:12 AM (BRHaw)

57 Happy National Cheese Pizza Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 05, 2023 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

58 Get real. Go after his staff.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2023 08:07 AM (Q4IgG)

Thank you. It a personal peeve of mine when people say “Biden did”. He doesn’t do shyte. He at best was an incompetent, corrupt person, now he’s so mentally unstable he’s just corrupt. It’s his handlers that run everything, which is why FBJ was selected.

Posted by: Rufus T Firefly at September 05, 2023 08:14 AM (6vqEw)

59 56 "[Ken] Paxton, a three-term incumbent, was impeached by the Bushes.

He fought too hard and smartly. Can't have that.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:14 AM (mMsvu)

60 57 Happy National Cheese Pizza Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 05, 2023 08:13 AM (NpAcC)

yuk Thats just like a bun with a slice if cheese and no meat.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:14 AM (BRHaw)

61 Meh. Bleating vegetables gonna bleat, right? The tragic truth is that the American economy is circling the bowl if it hasn't been flushed down the shitter completely by now. And that is a direct result and sole responsibility of the illegitimate occupant of the White House and the evil bastards who installed him in it via the madness of "green energy," "modern monetary theory" and "open borders."
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Direct result? Yes, proximally. Exclusive responsibility? No, sadly not.

Trump was doing okay - just - on this front until the powers that be decided to destroy the world with COVID and its related policies. The core problem we now face is that Cheney was wrong, deficits *do* matter, and inflation cannot be contained until government spending is contained. For a long time we hid the problem by sequestering the consequences of our out-of-control spending in trade flows and by selectively inflating certain asset classes. That party is finally over. The spending has to be contained, or the inflation cannot be fought.

And the limitless spending of the United States government is not Joe Biden's fault. He is a mere cog in that infernal machine. Everyone in government is at fault.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:14 AM (t0OGg)

62 The first time I ever heard Smash Mouth was on some old compilation CD that had their 1997 song "Walkin' on the Sun."* I've only ever bought their album Astro Lounge.

The CD also had Reel Big Fish's "Everything Sucks," which would have been my theme song had it not been for Squirrel Nut Zippers' "Good Enough for Granddad."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:15 AM (AW0uW)

63 Mornin’, All. Happy Fall!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 08:15 AM (xTRSc)

64 Yes, JJ. The KoL (not a Marxist Union) started doing a Labor Day celebration in September, as it was about midway between other universal days off (Independence Day/Thanksgiving). Other unions lent support to that idea. When Congress decided to make a holiday for the working class, they explicitly demanded it *NOT* be on Communist Assrammer Day (May 1). So they just went with the existing, not-a-wild-eyed-dicklicker day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 05, 2023 08:15 AM (0FoWg)

65 yuk Thats just like a bun with a slice if cheese and no meat.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:14 AM (BRHaw)

Well done cheese pizza can be good- if they realize it is not just a pizza with no meat, but rather a pizza where cheese IS the main topping. It can be done.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:16 AM (zZu0s)

66 56: as a Texan, who is quite happy with the job Mr. Paxton is doing, sees this “impeachment” as complete bullshit.

The dummy Speaker needs to be tossed from the House and party. He’s got a primary opponent.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 05, 2023 08:16 AM (Q9bls)

67 I have been on the road back and forth between my house and my aged parent's house for the last two weeks so I taken the opportunity to angry up my blood by listening to the state media organ NPR during the drives.

Every word out of their whispery mouths is a lie, including and and the.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 05, 2023 08:16 AM (aD39U)

68 @59

>>He fought too hard and smartly. Can't have that.

They want to install a Bush in that job, it's a powerful position and a stepping stone to other offices.

The Bushes, Clintons and Obamas are like ticks on the body politic.

The need to be deloused.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2023 08:17 AM (XV/Pl)

69 Meh. He'll endorse him, or whoever the ham sammich-du-jour will be put in Biden's place should political expediency dictate he be ejected from the top of the ticket. As far as the constituents are concerned, at some point they're going to have to understand the classical definition of insanity, vis a vis, voting straight ticked Democrat every two to four years and what it has meant to them and their families in real terms, not the bullshit being shoved into their ears and eyeballs from CNN, their shop stewards and union bosses.
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There are no friends of labor in government. The Dems, the Repubs, the agencies, etc. - not a single person in government gives two shits about American labor. Not even the NLRB, which is a rotten borough completely owned by Big Labor. The NLRB does whatever the remaining big labor unions - themselves no friends of labor - tell it to do. You as a union member don't enter into even the NLRB's equation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

70 Leaking a phone call from his superpac.. I guess this means Ron won't be treated differently than Trump, eh?
I guess he also will be surrounded by traitors.

Couple more times and we can start blaming him right? Is that how this works?

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 08:18 AM (53oGX)

71 the revolution is not so much political as anarchist. Nothing escapes it—not ceiling fans, not natural gas cooktops, not parents at school board meetings, not Christian bakeries, not champion female swimmers, not dutiful policemen, not hard-working oil drillers, not privates and corporals in the armed forces, not teens applying on their merits to college, not anyone, anywhere, anytime.
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Which is the opposite of anarchism. Anarchism is statelessness (or some approximation of that condition). This ain't that. This is old-fashioned totalitarianism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

72 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:20 AM (Zz0t1)

73 Woof....what a weekend.

Some good, some not so good. Do have to get back to work to recover......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

74 Couple more times and we can start blaming him right? Is that how this works?
Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 08:18 AM (53oGX)

I am not sure we have established the rules really. It seems to be: if I don't like the guy, he does not get the benefit of the doubt.

That's just my view over here, rearranging these deck chairs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:21 AM (zZu0s)

75 That's a testament in a way to how insulated and resilient our economy is despite the massive, multi-trillion-dollar hits on it.
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Resilience comes from two places: good design and plenty of money. The former leads to the latter.

Good design is in short supply and money is burning fast. The appearance of resilience will continue until the money's all gone and there is still quite a bit of it. I can't wait to see how many new and clever mechanisms these people invent to extract more of it until I'm poor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:21 AM (t0OGg)

76 I voted for Ken Paxton last year in the primary and general. If the Texas GOPe removes him from office over these obviously BS charges I will be irate. Has Abbott commented at all?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2023 08:21 AM (Q/v9F)

77 My favorite Brandon moment WRT unions was when he claimed to be "a union man, from his belt to his shoes." Whatever the hell that means.

If he's union from his belt to his shoes, then he's a plutocratic swindler from his aviators to his diamond cufflinks, I suppose. A little of the graft makes it to the wallet in those pants, tho.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 05, 2023 08:21 AM (0FoWg)

78 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2023 08:21 AM (WSjkl)

79 New research from Japan claims covid variants now running through our population show signs of lab creation.

Are they still doing this? Someone with more knowledge than I have will hopefully look at this and give an opinion.

https://t.ly/Z9MY_

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 05, 2023 08:22 AM (MRUXb)

80 My favorite Brandon moment WRT unions was when he claimed to be "a union man, from his belt to his shoes." Whatever the hell that means.

If he's union from his belt to his shoes, then he's a plutocratic swindler from his aviators to his diamond cufflinks, I suppose. A little of the graft makes it to the wallet in those pants, tho.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 05, 2023 08:21 AM (0FoWg)
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He's saying that his cock is a Union Man. The ladies love that line!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

81 The cited VDH essay is one of his most most accurate I have read in sometime. I would add that part of the revolution has been to get the population sorted into urban vs. rural with the dynamic that the urban population has become more radical and often determines if a state vote states Democrat. I am of the mind that the push for green energy is not about green energy but the nationalization of our energy supply a strategic goal if achieved coupled to leftist political control is pretty much a lights out moment for the country literally and politically. In a similar light green lighting illegal immigration is about eventually flipping Texas and/or Florida in a generation or so. Flip those and any counterweight to New York and California is gone. The country has effectively been invaded by a hostile force who is waging a unrelenting campaign of Marxist/socialist revolution.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:23 AM (jlbtb)

82 Not a lot of love for Kevin here. I'm hoping that you're wrong.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:24 AM (RqMSv)

83 Morning Horde, hope you all had a great weekend. Thx JJ. I've been keeping up with the Ukraine war and I think we may be reaching the final stage. Ukraine is allowing people with disabilities, including TB and other diseases to enlist or be drafted. The Ukrainians have made minor headway in a couple of spots but the Russians pound the attackers with artillery , drones etc, the minute any objective is taken. The question for me is what impact a Ukraine collapse will have on US and our elections. My thoughts are that it will have very little as it is too remote for most voters. However international implications are huge

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2023 08:24 AM (43q0X)

84 "Dream Weaver" Singer Gary Wright Dead at 80

RIP

He was big buds with George and worked on many of his solo albums.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:24 AM (BRHaw)

85 My favorite Brandon moment WRT unions was when he claimed to be "a union man, from his belt to his shoes." Whatever the hell that means.

His balls carry a union label?

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:24 AM (jlbtb)

86 74 Couple more times and we can start blaming him right? Is that how this works?
Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 08:18 AM (53oGX)

I am not sure we have established the rules really. It seems to be: if I don't like the guy, he does not get the benefit of the doubt.

That's just my view over here, rearranging these deck chairs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:21 AM (zZu0s)

I like Desantis, he seems to be a great governor. What I understand is he was a good US Rep.
I just want folks to be consistent.
He's gonna get stabbed in the back, as much as Trump? remains to be seen - suppose it depends on how much he can take and how long he goes with the base against his party.

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 08:25 AM (53oGX)

87 TED-talking "scientist" Dan Ariely's fraud exposed:
youtube.com/watch?v=Q3tSG8h_O3A

Posted by: gp Declines 2024 Nomination at September 05, 2023 08:26 AM (MvF+J)

88 When he's talking to Unions, it's out of his ass, is what I take it to mean.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 05, 2023 08:26 AM (0FoWg)

89 Newt had an interesting insight. Trump isn't a regular politician. He's the leader of a mass movement.

Will we get to critical mass?

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:27 AM (RqMSv)

90 YD, how is your daughter doing?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 08:27 AM (xTRSc)

91 83 Morning Horde, hope you all had a great weekend. Thx JJ. I've been keeping up with the Ukraine war and I think we may be reaching the final stage. Ukraine is allowing people with disabilities, including TB and other diseases to enlist or be drafted. The Ukrainians have made minor headway in a couple of spots but the Russians pound the attackers with artillery , drones etc, the minute any objective is taken. The question for me is what impact a Ukraine collapse will have on US and our elections. My thoughts are that it will have very little as it is too remote for most voters. However international implications are huge
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2023 08:24 AM (43q0X)

My thought is that you haven’t a clue as to who the first casualty of the war was.

Posted by: The Truth at September 05, 2023 08:28 AM (Q9bls)

92 Well done cheese pizza can be good- if they realize it is not just a pizza with no meat, but rather a pizza where cheese IS the main topping. It can be done.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

A slice of pizza without meat is like doing a blow up doll.

Sure, you can. But why?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:28 AM (A6m7x)

93 Abbott Replaces Texas Attorney General Without Comment On Ken

Abbott is about 1 thing.

Abbott

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:29 AM (BRHaw)

94 A slice of pizza without meat is like doing a blow up doll.

Sure, you can. But why?

Because it's all you can afford?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:29 AM (AW0uW)

95 85 My favorite Brandon moment WRT unions was when he claimed to be "a union man, from his belt to his shoes." Whatever the hell that means.

His balls carry a union label?
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:24 AM (jlbtb)

Unions have had their day. RTW laws FTW.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 05, 2023 08:29 AM (Q9bls)

96 Sure, you can. But why?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:28 AM (A6m7x)

She was asking for it!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:29 AM (BRHaw)

97 "Dream Weaver" Singer Gary Wright Dead at 80

RIP

He was big buds with George and worked on many of his solo albums.
Posted by: rhennigantx

There's number three.
Buffett, Smash Mouth & Wright

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:30 AM (A6m7x)

98 89 Newt had an interesting insight. Trump isn't a regular politician. He's the leader of a mass movement.

Will we get to critical mass?
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:27 AM (RqMSv)

Let’s party like it’s 1989!

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 05, 2023 08:30 AM (Q9bls)

99 Abbott Replaces Texas Attorney General Without Comment On Ken

Abbott is about 1 thing.

Abbott
Posted by: rhennigantx

Fuck Hot Wheels.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:31 AM (A6m7x)

100 ... I would add that part of the revolution has been to get the population sorted into urban vs. rural with the dynamic that the urban population has become more radical and often determines if a state vote states Democrat. I am of the mind that the push for green energy is not about green energy but the nationalization of our energy supply a strategic goal if achieved coupled to leftist political control is pretty much a lights out moment for the country literally and politically. ...
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:23 AM (jlbtb)
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It's about control. Cities are fairly easy to control because people have fewer options in terms of living and transportation. Rural areas are more flexible. They want the countryside emptied and the cities filled - and expanded, with increased density. While these actions are about control (returning the masses to something like serfdom), in effect they are anti-rural/exurban policies. They need lower-density areas depopulated and the people funneled into high-density areas.

Their dream is something like a second-tier city in Red China: dense, poor (but not impoverished) and highly controlled.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:32 AM (t0OGg)

101 He's saying that his cock is a Union Man. The ladies love that line!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:22 AM (t0OGg)

Out on strike
requires time and a half to work on Sundays
forces you to buy his PPE

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:32 AM (BRHaw)

102 Don’t forget it was Ken Paxton who stepped up in the middle of the 2020 steal and brought a suit to SCOTUS to stop the unconstitutional (ie without state legislature approval) voting procedures… 16 or 17 other states joined. Of course “no standing” but I’m sure that’s why they’re after him…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Q/v9F)

103 It's happening! Today a big crane will set the two halves of my house on the foundation. Then the finish work gets started.

I hope they don't drop anything.

I'm seriously thinking I should start drinking RIGHT NOW!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Wy1BU)

104 100: and where does the food come from?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Q9bls)

105 Fuck Hot Wheels.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:31 AM (A6m7x)

A Matchbox or Johnny Lightning man huh?

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:33 AM (BRHaw)

106 Which is the opposite of anarchism. Anarchism is statelessness (or some approximation of that condition). This ain't that. This is old-fashioned totalitarianism.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

Yes, totalitarianism probably covers it. Most of these terms are either anachronistic, misinterpreted or even meaningless. They are particular to their time. Their best value is in a colloquial and referential sense. For example, "communist." The few actual communists that existed never acquired any power. But it's okay to call people "communists" for what it refers to in the popular lexicon.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:33 AM (mMsvu)

107 >>> Hmm, the singer for Smash Mouth has died from liver failure at 56. Clot shot?
~~~~~

Alcoholism. It's said that he started drinking very heavily after his 6-month-old son died of leukemia some years ago.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2023 08:33 AM (3ImbR)

108 @104 Soylent Green

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2023 08:33 AM (43q0X)

109 > Not a lot of love for Kevin here. I'm hoping that you're wrong.
___________

During the '22 "election" there was a lot of hype surrounding the "red wave" that failed to materialize. McConnell, McCarthy and Paul Ryan were primarily responsible for orchestrating the republican losses in vital races by withholding or redirecting funds for "candidates of questionable quality."

Specifically those that were endorsed by Trump, or otherwise allies of Trump.

McConnell's involvement is confirmed. It's presumed McCarthy closely coordinated with McConnell.

McCarthy hasn't demonstrated he's free from McConnell's influence.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2023 08:33 AM (Q4IgG)

110 @102

>>but I’m sure that’s why they’re after him

Paxton is not a company man and goes his own way, company can't have that, so they instigated a palace coup and at the end of the day want to install a Bush into that position.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2023 08:34 AM (XV/Pl)

111 Newt had an interesting insight. Trump isn't a regular politician. He's the leader of a mass movement. Will we get to critical mass? Posted by: Ignoramus

I see this as the Democrats have become the party of the coastal elite, the government dependent poor, and illegal immigrant while the Republican party is content to enjoy the largeness of their corporate donors and ignore that they have gutted the American economy by shipping manufacturing overseas while suppressing domestic wages by quietly cheerleading for more illegal immigration. This leaves labor in a tenuous place with the Democrats giving the lip service for the time being. Labor, or more accurately it seems the middle class, predominately white, has had but one actual political champion over the last 50 years, Donald J. Trump. It is without surprise that both are under unrelenting attack. The middle class as a social cancer for their white privilege, and Trump as threat who could unleash a political revolution that outlasts him and upend the Democrat-Republican oligarchy state that is well on its way to destroying the American experiment and the culture that made that possible.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:34 AM (jlbtb)

112 ~~~~~

Alcoholism. It's said that he started drinking very heavily after his 6-month-old son died of leukemia some years ago.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2023 08:33 AM (3ImbR)

He went out on his own terms.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

113 Well done cheese pizza can be good- if they realize it is not just a pizza with no meat, but rather a pizza where cheese IS the main topping. It can be done.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:16 AM (zZu0s)
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Plain cheese pizza is the distillation of the whole affair. If the pizza stands alone, with just cheese (or maybe extra cheese) and nothing else involved, it is properly good pizza. Heaping meat and peppers and the like onto a pie can hide a multitude of sins, but the plain version of that same pizza will be inferior. There is nowhere to hide.

A good, proper, plain cheese pizza is a beautiful thing and is often my preference, all other things being equal. A pizza should not *need* to be churched up to be good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

114
Paxton is not a company man and goes his own way, company can't have that, so they instigated a palace coup and at the end of the day want to install a Bush into that position.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2023 08:34 AM (XV/Pl)

This is why we must support DeSantis.

Bush knows best.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

115 100: and where does the food come from?

Feculent migrant workers and their overseeers.

Lab-grown 'food.'

'Deplorables' arrested and forced to farm at gunpoint.

I could go on. . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:35 AM (AW0uW)

116 Out on strike
requires time and a half to work on Sundays
forces you to buy his PPE
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:32 AM (BRHaw)
++++
*snort*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:36 AM (t0OGg)

117 Unreported by the press, so far this year more than 600,000 full time jobs have been lost, replaced by part time and second part time jobs.

Also, over a million Americans have lost jobs; those jobs being replaced by non Americans.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2023 08:36 AM (mCKw1)

118 Dr. Jill has Covid. Wear your mask!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2023 08:36 AM (63Dwl)

119 Because it's all you can afford?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:29 AM (AW0uW)
******
Or you have a house full of children for a birthday party.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 05, 2023 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

120
Escaped killer is on Longwood Gardens camera.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 05, 2023 08:36 AM (enJYY)

121 They need lower-density areas depopulated and the people funneled into high-density areas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:32 AM (t0OGg)

And turn the low-density areas into higher-density areas in such a way as to wreck the rural homeostasis. We know Obama was trying to do this. I see it happening where I live, a rural and traditionally agricultural area.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (mMsvu)

122
A good, proper, plain cheese pizza is a beautiful thing and is often my preference, all other things being equal. A pizza should not *need* to be churched up to be good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:35 AM (t0OGg)

I'm not a vegetarian, so pizza must have meat. It is all about the sauce, tho. Bad sauce, bad pizza.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

123 Their dream is something like a second-tier city in Red China: dense, poor (but not impoverished) and highly controlled. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

It seems we are a similar mind set trying to express complex situations in the limited framework of comments.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (jlbtb)

124 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (z99Zw)

125 88 When he's talking to Unions, it's out of his ass, is what I take it to mean.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 05, 2023 08:26 AM (0FoWg)

Belt to shoes is an odd phrase. Even belting like an old man just below the armpits, that is only maybe 60% of a man...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (zZu0s)

126 It's also,
National Cellulite Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

127 Dr. Jill has Covid. Wear your mask!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2023 08:36 AM (63Dwl)

Waiting room sofa's hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

128 I'm not a vegetarian, so pizza must have meat. It is all about the sauce, tho. Bad sauce, bad pizza.
Posted by: Sponge

Fistbump.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:38 AM (A6m7x)

129 Just get a bunch of tortilla chips, smother them with the cheese(s) of your choice, and nuke for 20 seconds or so in the microwave. Voila! Cheese pizza!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 08:38 AM (xTRSc)

130 It's happening! Today a big crane will set the two halves of my house on the foundation. Then the finish work gets started.

I hope they don't drop anything.

I'm seriously thinking I should start drinking RIGHT NOW!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2023 08:32 AM (Wy1BU)
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My parents have a piece of heirloom furniture. It's awkward in its dimensions, as it is 11' long. When they moved for retirement, the new house had a place for it (it was a requirement when they bough the house), but the doors into the house and the space didn't allow it to enter. Only one choice: it had to come in through the window.

My mom sequestered herself in the back, watching television and biting her nails while my brother and the movers did the tricky job of passing the damn thing through the window and getting it into place.

Which is a long-winded way of saying, I guess, that it's going to be a nail-biter until it's done, and try not to drink too much

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:38 AM (t0OGg)

131 105 Fuck Hot Wheels.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:31 AM (A6m7x)

A Matchbox or Johnny Lightning man huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:33 AM (BRHaw)

Wasn't the 'Adventures of Johnny Dollar' a radio show back in the day?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:39 AM (zZu0s)

132 and that DeSantis only has 60 days to try and defeat Trump before the primary race is effectively over>"
‘Ready for Ron’ PAC Chief Admits: ‘Trump is Undefeatable’

-

Imagine if Ron had come out and said" I stand with Trump and will be his vice president for 2024. Please help us save this country " right from the get go.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 05, 2023 08:39 AM (QCAe2)

133 the revolution is not so much political as anarchist. Nothing escapes it

The modern left has fully embraced neo-feudalism including sumptuary laws - restricting what the non-elites are allowed to have even when they can afford it.

The flip side of this is the Bidenflation which is nothing less then the theft of a significant portion of the productive class's wealth.

The end result? You'll own nothing and you'll like it. Well, you'll say you like it if you know what is good for you.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:40 AM (lc5cP)

134 A Matchbox or Johnny Lightning man huh?
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:33 AM (BRHaw)

I preferred the Corgi cars. My brother and I had quite a collection. Long gone now.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:40 AM (mMsvu)

135 It seems we are a similar mind set trying to express complex situations in the limited framework of comments.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (jlbtb)
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Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing just throwing in another perception on the same theme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:40 AM (t0OGg)

136 -

Imagine if Ron had come out and said" I stand with Trump and will be his vice president for 2024. Please help us save this country " right from the get go.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 05, 2023 08:39 AM (QCAe2)

That was before he realized that there is no future America without Bush.

Vote Ron. Because Trump isn't liked by Bush.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

137 Who is Paul Ryan (other than a 3:30 marathoner which is obvious)? And how did he acquire so much power in the GOP (remember when they begged him to be speaker? When does that happen??)? Actual journalists would ask these kinds of questions

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2023 08:40 AM (Q/v9F)

138 Why is Biden airing campaign ads already? His voice sounds like a 95 year old geezer.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at September 05, 2023 08:40 AM (45fpk)

139 Fuck Hot Wheels.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 08:31 AM (A6m7x)
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This attitude will not be conducive to the success of the "Mattel Cinematic Universe" that is planned. JJ Abrams is set to make the "Hot Wheels" movie.

No, not kidding.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:40 AM (t0OGg)

140 "Dream Weaver" Singer Gary Wright Dead at 80
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 05, 2023 08:24 AM (BRHaw)
===
I commented on this on ONT and hope mh will do a nice memoriam for him tonight. "My Love is Alive" has one of the best bass lines in rock music.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2023 08:41 AM (RIvkX)

141 Imagine if Ron had come out and said" I stand with Trump and will be his vice president for 2024. Please help us save this country " right from the get go.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 05, 2023 08:39 AM (QCAe2)

Exactly. Good old ego, it can be both a killer and a savior.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:41 AM (mMsvu)

142 Dr. Jill has Covid. Wear your mask!

*Another* round of COVID for the first floozie? Well, I guess we know she is up to date on her boosters then.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:41 AM (lc5cP)

143 " 16 or 17 other states joined. Of course “no standing” but I’m sure that’s why they’re after him…"

This lawsuit got special treatment by SCOTUS, remarkably so. It was purposefully drafted to have states suing other states so that SCOTUS would have original jurisdiction.

But then on a 7 to 2 vote it was barred before it could get inside the courthouse door. No filings were accepted, so all that evidence never made it on the record. And there was never a need to rule on standing. It's as if it never happened.

Can you guess who the two were?

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:41 AM (RqMSv)

144 One example of the pizza being a strong foundation and toppings can either gild the lily or be meh: Screaming Sicilian frozen pizzas.

I am not sure if this is just a me thing. I think the crust is meh, but there is an odd flavor to the cheese. The toppings are great for a frozen pizza and the sauce is a bit too sweet. I want to like it because they seem to be trying for a real pizza as frozen experience, but that's just my read.

Counter: Rao's. Tried one of these over the weekend. The crust was fantastic for a frozen. Topping pretty decent. Sauce bland as hell. Not $9 good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:42 AM (zZu0s)

145 "My Love is Alive" has one of the best bass lines in rock music.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2023 08:41 AM (RIvkX)

*Frank Zappa's Valley Girl has entered the chat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

146 This attitude will not be conducive to the success of the "Mattel Cinematic Universe" that is planned. JJ Abrams is set to make the "Hot Wheels" movie.

No, not kidding.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:40 AM (t0OGg)

Marvel really fucked a lot of people up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:42 AM (zZu0s)

147 It seems we are a similar mind set trying to express complex situations in the limited framework of comments.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (jlbtb)
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Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing just throwing in another perception on the same theme.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I caught that. There are so many complexities to these topics that this back and forth is useful sharpening ones thinking. Thank you.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:42 AM (jlbtb)

148 Who is Paul Ryan (other than a 3:30 marathoner which is obvious)? And how did he acquire so much power in the GOP (remember when they begged him to be speaker? When does that happen??)? Actual journalists would ask these kinds of questions

I've never met anyone excited about GOPers like McConnell or Ryan. I have talked with some career political types that tell me they are inevitable. But to your point how someone of this profile becomes "inevitable"?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:43 AM (lc5cP)

149 > Newt had an interesting insight. Trump isn't a regular politician. He's the leader of a mass movement.
___________

It's probably why the left wants him gone. Like yesterday.

If he's really "the leader of a mass movement" he oughta' start acting like the proverbial banana republic strongman and start making some noise about his accusers.

"Say the words." Tell the nation what you know about the state of affairs in the capitol city, Don. Do it. Wear the beret and sidearm.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2023 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

150 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2023 08:44 AM (T4tVD)

151 Best frozen pizza? IMO Newman's Own.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:44 AM (lc5cP)

152 "McCarthy hasn't demonstrated he's free from McConnell's influence."

We'll know in a month.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:44 AM (RqMSv)

153 "Newt had an interesting insight. Trump isn't a regular politician. He's the leader of a mass movement."

Insight? I thought we all knew that from the beginning.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:45 AM (mMsvu)

154 I'm not a vegetarian, so pizza must have meat. It is all about the sauce, tho. Bad sauce, bad pizza.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:37 AM (Zz0t1)

True. Shitty crust is shitty pizza, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 05, 2023 08:45 AM (PCeFT)

155 Can you guess who the two were?
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:41 AM (RqMSv)

Ima go out on a limb and say Thomas and Alito, the only 2 completely reliable constitutionalists on the court.

I guess I never realized it didn’t even get far enough to get no standing…sheesh

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2023 08:45 AM (Q/v9F)

156 This attitude will not be conducive to the success of the "Mattel Cinematic Universe" that is planned. JJ Abrams is set to make the "Hot Wheels" movie.

Can't wait for the follow up Uno and MegaBlocks movies.

And the lawsuits from Legos.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:45 AM (lc5cP)

157 I like Home Run Inn frozen pizza when I go the ghetto frozen pizza route.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 05, 2023 08:46 AM (iw4IE)

158 "McCarthy hasn't demonstrated he's free from McConnell's influence."

McCarthy is cloned from the same mold as The Bitch.

Though he does have Gaetz on him which makes him slightly better.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:46 AM (lc5cP)

159 "Newt had an interesting insight. Trump isn't a regular politician. He's the leader of a mass movement."

Insight? I thought we all knew that from the beginning.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:45 AM (mMsvu)

Newt isn't nearly as smart as he thinks he is. DC will do that to a person.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:46 AM (AW0uW)

160 >> Why is there a day set aside to supposedly celebrate the American worker anyway?

Last year, was laid off on Labor Day.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 08:47 AM (izj35)

161
Newt isn't nearly as smart as he thinks he is. DC will do that to a person.

If you compare him to your regular Rep leader though....

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:47 AM (lc5cP)

162 1995: Chris Farley does Newt Gingrich impersonation during House Republican meeting.

https://youtu.be/qlM_IFCNgKw

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:48 AM (jlbtb)

163
True. Shitty crust is shitty pizza, too.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 05, 2023 08:45 AM (PCeFT)

True.....but a good sauce can overcome a mediocre crust.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 08:48 AM (Zz0t1)

164 141 Imagine if Ron had come out and said" I stand with Trump and will be his vice president for 2024. Please help us save this country " right from the get go.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 05, 2023 08:39 AM (QCAe2)

Exactly. Good old ego, it can be both a killer and a savior.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 05, 2023 08:41 AM (mMsvu)

Eh,
I don't think that was necessary. I subscribe to the, primaries are good in the long run theory.
I also think they needed to have other real candidates run, because who know fair or not where Trump will be.
There needs to be a replacement planned in case the worst happens... otherwise it'll be a remake of the IL Senate Ras that Barry won. They set up the Republican at the last min and the GOP abandoned the candidate at the time was beating shit Midas.
The GOP didn't learn anything, they still abandon candidates, then lecture the base about needing to do better. No mirrors in those houses.

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 08:48 AM (53oGX)

165 >>Again, workers can’t be left behind in this transition.

Helloooo!
What color is the sky in your world -- where have you been the last few years?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 08:49 AM (izj35)

166 "My Love is Alive" live
Goes to yt
http://tinyurl.com/2hcnpa2s

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2023 08:50 AM (RIvkX)

167 "Insight? I thought we all knew that from the beginning. "

DeSantis didn't. He listened to consultants who wanted a pay day. Which is why he's in limbo.

Neither does Ace, based on his recent rants.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:50 AM (RqMSv)

168 They set up the Republican at the last min and the GOP abandoned the candidate at the time was beating shit Midas.

That election should have been a wake up call to all of us.

Sen Ryan was going through a bitter divorce with Jeri Ryan and neither one of them wanted the divorce claims made public.

But Obama, or more accurately the people behind Obama, could just demand those records and find a judge to do so.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:50 AM (lc5cP)

169 I had a couple of Hot Wheels cars before a long long time ago. I used to build a ramp from the bookcase in the hallway just to see far they go in the air.

Posted by: dantesed at September 05, 2023 08:52 AM (88xKn)

170 "Ima go out on a limb and say Thomas and Alito, the only 2 completely reliable constitutionalists on the court."

Spot on. Roberts scared the kids that it would mean the end of SCOTUS as we know it. Preserving SCOTUS prerogatives is Roberts' Prime Directive.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:52 AM (RqMSv)

171

The government runs out of money on September 30th, which means lawmakers must pass either a new long-term spending plan or a stop-gap measure to keep the government running and thus many services Americans rely on open.

If the government ends up shutting down come October, the U.S. economy may be in a world of hurt, says Paul Helmke, a professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University.

“If you’re dealing with the government for some reason, you need your passport renewed … you have questions about your taxes, or you plan on visiting a national park, all of those things will be impacted because all the people tasked with dealing with those things won’t be on the job,” he said on WISH-TV.

“If the shutdown goes more than a few days, it could severely impact the nation’s economy,” Helmke added. “It could impact the nation’s credit rating.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2023 08:52 AM (63Dwl)

172 168 They set up the Republican at the last min and the GOP abandoned the candidate at the time was beating shit Midas.

That election should have been a wake up call to all of us.

Sen Ryan was going through a bitter divorce with Jeri Ryan and neither one of them wanted the divorce claims made public.

But Obama, or more accurately the people behind Obama, could just demand those records and find a judge to do so.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:50 AM (lc5cP)

In many ways that was the end of the GOP in IL. It's its own banana republic now...

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 08:52 AM (53oGX)

173 I've never met anyone excited about GOPers like McConnell or Ryan. I have talked with some career political types that tell me they are inevitable. But to your point how someone of this profile becomes "inevitable"?
Posted by: 18-1
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The GOP establishment are not and never have been conservative. That was true even in the 50's with GOPe rigging the nomination race so that Taft Jr could not compete and then throwing the race when Goldwater ran in 64.

So, the ordinary circumstances of a Ryan, McConnell, etc. becoming a leader in Congress is slim to none. Newt only got it because no one really thought the GOP would ever capture the House back in the day. The get along, go along Bob Michels type were the norm.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 08:53 AM (o3VVz)

174 Sen Ryan was going through a bitter divorce with Jeri Ryan and neither one of them wanted the divorce claims made public.

But Obama, or more accurately the people behind Obama, could just demand those records and find a judge to do so.

Ryan should have marched over to the dog-eating crackhead's campaign HQ and given Barky the Joe McCarthy - Drew Pearson treatment.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:53 AM (AW0uW)

175 >>It was ironic that while Obama was acknowledged as young and charismatic, nonetheless a cognitively challenged, past plagiarist, fabulist, and utterly corrupt Joe Biden was far more effective in ramming through a socialist woke agenda and altering the very way Americans vote and conduct their legal system.

Uh, this assumes Biden is in charge, when it's far more likely that the Obama people on Biden's staff in coordination with Obama (and Jarrett? probably, right?) sitting ~1 mile from the WH in Kalorama calling the shots.

We can't assert sundowner is mentally incompetent AND credit him for all the damage the WH policies/actions intentionally wreaked on this country at the same time.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 08:54 AM (izj35)

176 The best answer for the upcoming budget fight are *massive* spending cuts. It is the only way to stop Bidenflation.

But the next best answer is a real "shutdown" which we haven't had - as in the fedgov workers don't get paid for the time the government is shut down.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:54 AM (lc5cP)

177 “If the shutdown goes more than a few days, it could severely impact the nation’s economy,” Helmke added. “It could impact the nation’s credit rating.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2023 08:52 AM (63Dwl)
++++
Okay.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 08:55 AM (t0OGg)

178 Neither does Ace, based on his recent rants.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:50 AM (RqMSv)

ace was never a fan of Trump. Considering he was just this side of NeverTrump in 2016, he has been remarkably even handed- but he never grew to love the man and no matter what Trump did, he still carries that animus towards him.

I don't pretend to understand it, I just note it is almost like a disease or having blue eyes. It just is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:56 AM (zZu0s)

179
"Hot Wheels" has JJ Abrams, who's a smarter/better filmmaker than the Where'smydickski Bros Things, however-

I expect a Hot Wheels movies to enjoy the same level of success and look much the same as the
"Speed Racer" failure.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2023 08:56 AM (QzZeQ)

180 “If the shutdown goes more than a few days, it could severely impact the nation’s economy,” Helmke added. “It could impact the nation’s credit rating.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2023 08:52 AM (63Dwl)
++++
Okay.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

It already has been down graded. The real fireworks begin if the Saudis start trading oil in Chicom bucks.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:56 AM (jlbtb)

181 One of the many elephants in the room is the looming retirement crisis for many Boomers. SocSec is poised to get cut, while the Left is pissing away trillions.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:57 AM (RqMSv)

182 Ryan should have marched over to the dog-eating crackhead's campaign HQ and given Barky the Joe McCarthy - Drew Pearson treatment.

I will say though as well this did show the naivety of the GOP voter as well.

Oh...in a divorce the wife said something bad about the husband? Oh NOES!

Man up Ill voters. You didn't know it at the time but Barry was working his way through the Chicago bathouses while supposedly married. Was that...better?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:57 AM (lc5cP)

183 @172

>>In many ways that was the end of the GOP in IL. It's its own banana republic now.

Illinois elections have been rigged harder than a Arena Lighting Crew.

The funniest thing to look at is a county map, blood red for presidential elections but yet the legislature has a Donk supermajority.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2023 08:58 AM (XV/Pl)

184 “If the shutdown goes more than a few days, it could severely impact the nation’s economy,” Helmke added. “It could impact the nation’s credit rating.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2023 08:52 AM (63Dwl)

Hahahaha...that old Helmke is a funny guy! Better than Soupy Sales even.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 05, 2023 08:58 AM (iw4IE)

185 181 One of the many elephants in the room is the looming retirement crisis for many Boomers. SocSec is poised to get cut, while the Left is pissing away trillions.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:57 AM (RqMSv)

What do you all think of 'WE HAVE TO SAVE UKRAINE!' now?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:58 AM (zZu0s)

186 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2023 08:58 AM (CJtAX)

187 *sigh*

"Hot Wheels" has JJ Abrams, who's a smarter/better filmmaker than the Where'smydickski ~~Bros~~ Things, however-

I expect a Hot Wheels movies to enjoy the same level of success and look much the same as the
"Speed Racer" failure.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2023 08:58 AM (QzZeQ)

188
Eh,
I don't think that was necessary. I subscribe to the, primaries are good in the long run theory.
I also think they needed to have other real candidates run, because who know fair or not where Trump will be.
There needs to be a replacement planned in case the worst happens

-

This pretends everything is normal and 2020 didn't happen.

That's sort of my point. Come right out and say "no, this can't stand". Instead we pretend that we can have primaries and vote and everything is 1996 and darn, we missed it by 40k votes again. We'll try again in 2028!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 05, 2023 09:00 AM (QCAe2)

189 >>This attitude will not be conducive to the success of the "Mattel Cinematic Universe" that is planned. JJ Abrams is set to make the "Hot Wheels" movie.

No, not kidding.
- - - -

Well, Peter Berg managed to make a fun "Battleship" movie. . .?

Nah, with JJ it will be awful. He's already ruined Star Wars and Star Trek, so now he's going to ruin Mattel, too.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 09:00 AM (izj35)

190 “If you’re dealing with the government for some reason, you need your passport renewed … you have questions about your taxes, or you plan on visiting a national park, all of those things will be impacted because all the people tasked with dealing with those things won’t be on the job,” he said on WISH-TV.

They do this EVERY SINGLE TIME.

And the Sheeple keep falling for it because We The People are terminally stupid.

The Politicians know exactly what are somewhat legitimate roles in government and that which is illegitimate. The trillions of dollars of debt didn't come from salaries and pensions of park rangers and passport clerks. It came from foreign wars, bloated and profoundly corrupt and unconstitutional EPA, Energy, OSHA, FBI, CIA, ATF, TSA, Education and a myriad of other communist deep state operations that are well funded. It is the hundreds of billions squandered on Moloch[//s] Climate Change worship.

Yet the things they promise to cut and end are only the legitimate functions. Not one dime will be cut for underwriting the massive graft and corruption in Ukraine and everywhere else Leviathan has no business to be in.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 05, 2023 09:01 AM (p8A+W)

191

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 05, 2023 09:01 AM (p8A+W)

192 One of the many elephants in the room is the looming retirement crisis for many Boomers. SocSec is poised to get cut, while the Left is pissing away trillions.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:57 AM (RqMSv)

Blah Blah says we could care less as long as we get our welf...err...social security money each month the younger folks can go piss up a rope. We paid into the ponz...err social security system all these years and we want our money now. We are so stressed we may have to vacay in the south of France this year.

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomers at September 05, 2023 09:01 AM (iw4IE)

193 I looked at JJ Abrams filmography and nothing really stands out.

Probably his best movie is Armageddon which he wrote but didn't direct.

But its mostly a bunch of below average movies that were way over-hyped.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:01 AM (lc5cP)

194 178 Neither does Ace, based on his recent rants.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:50 AM (RqMSv)

ace was never a fan of Trump. Considering he was just this side of NeverTrump in 2016, he has been remarkably even handed- but he never grew to love the man and no matter what Trump did, he still carries that animus towards him.

I don't pretend to understand it, I just note it is almost like a disease or having blue eyes. It just is.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Boswash Republican campaign circles are remarkably close knit and everyone knows everyone else. So Ace probably gets neg information about Trump from them that never sees the light of day. But there is also group think present in those circles with little introspection as essentially they view those outside the charmed circle as uninformed.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (o3VVz)

195 It already has been down graded. The real fireworks begin if the Saudis start trading oil in Chicom bucks.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:56 AM (jlbtb)
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They probably will, sort of. The Saudis don't want Yuan more than anyone else. But non-USD settlement is coming and coming soon. It's already started with some shipments of Russian oil. I strongly suspect that there will not be a new single settlement currency when the petrodollar fails. The USD will not be replaced with Yuan or Rupees or Rubles or Dinars or Yen or Euros. There will be many settlement currencies and a lot of transacting in various currencies. It will be akin to the "basket of currencies" concept that backs up (sort of) the IMF's "Special Drawing Right" (SDR) pseudo-currency - though it will not be SDRs. The IMF will also fail to survive the end of the petrodollar.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (t0OGg)

196 It already has been down graded. The real fireworks begin if the Saudis start trading oil in Chicom bucks.
Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 08:56 AM (jlbtb)
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Okay.

But the problem with the yuan is, it is worth only what the CCP says it is worth. It is not a freely-traded currency.

I can take my dollars anywhere in the world and trade them for local currency. For now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

197
Nah, with JJ it will be awful. He's already ruined Star Wars and Star Trek, so now he's going to ruin Mattel, too.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 09:00 AM (izj35)

Star Wars and Star Trek at least had the virtue of being established brands with a rich history. He managed to set both on fire so thoroughly that both will need to lie in the weeds for a decade or two. (Even though Star Wars just keeps pushing the shit out.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (zZu0s)

198 Spot on. Roberts scared the kids that it would mean the end of SCOTUS as we know it. Preserving SCOTUS prerogatives is Roberts' Prime Directive.

I'd have to say that's bullshit. Twice, Roberts has had the chance to demonstrate that SCOTUS is not a dependent of the legislative or the executive branch, and twice he has shirked his duty and failed the test. He twisted the logic to legalize Obamacare and he turned his back on the prime responsibility of the SCOTUS to be the arbiter between states when disagreements arise.

Roberts has demonstrated that the SCOTUS is nothing but a tool of tyranny. And let's not even bother to discuss the FISA courts.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (YRsIm)

199
Whatever happened to bloodhounds? They used to be a fixture of law enforcement in my youth - at least on television.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (enJYY)

200 >>“If the shutdown goes more than a few days, it could severely impact the nation’s economy,” Helmke added.

Wait -- shutdowns are bad?
I did not know that.

Posted by: Charles Gibson at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (izj35)

201 Eric Alper 🎧
@ThatEricAlper
Sad news in the world of music. Gary Wright, the musical genius behind hits like "Dream Weaver" and "Love is Alive," has passed away after a courageous battle with Parkinson's. His timeless music will forever live on, touching the hearts of generations.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (TGPs7)

202 41 Hmm, the singer for Smash Mouth has died from liver failure at 56. Clot shot?

Yet another grim milestone for the Biden administration.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 08:06 AM (AW0uW)

********

From what I understand, after his son died of leukemia, he really turned hard to drinking. I don't think he was particularly bad as a drinker before this, though I could be wrong.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (xxG/v)

203 Boswash Republican campaign circles are remarkably close knit and everyone knows everyone else. So Ace probably gets neg information about Trump from them that never sees the light of day. But there is also group think present in those circles with little introspection as essentially they view those outside the charmed circle as uninformed.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (o3VVz)

'Boswash'? Never heard the term. Hogwash or location?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:03 AM (zZu0s)

204 Quote for the Day:

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
–St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2023 09:03 AM (CJtAX)

205 Boston-Washington?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:03 AM (zZu0s)

206 183 @172

>>In many ways that was the end of the GOP in IL. It's its own banana republic now.

Illinois elections have been rigged harder than a Arena Lighting Crew.

The funniest thing to look at is a county map, blood red for presidential elections but yet the legislature has a Donk supermajority.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2023 08:58 AM (XV/Pl)

GOP in IL get paid to throw races. It's the WWE here.

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 09:03 AM (53oGX)

207 Well, Peter Berg managed to make a fun "Battleship" movie. . .? ...
Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 09:00 AM (izj35)
++++
I know a Peter Berg who also works in the TV and movie business. He is not THE Peter Berg, and so I always have to mentally correct myself when I see the name.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 09:03 AM (t0OGg)

208 Worldcoin, a crypto backed by the ChatGPT guy, is being set as the basis for a worldwide UBI.
if you have the token/coin, you'll get money from .... somewhere. But: Governments are being pushed to start setting up "displacement" funds.
Chuck Schumer has said AI regulations are the top priority when they come back.

First the carrot of free money, then the stick.

You could get your free token by scanning your iris. They expected 2 billion, but so far only 200 million have given them their eyes.
They should have sold it as a security measure, and people would not have hesitated...
Like fingerprints and facial recognition to open your phone, same level of personal data ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 05, 2023 09:04 AM (j/JYC)

209 Man, it was-

One-Hit wonder Wipe-Out Weekend

with the trifecta of

Jimmy Buffett
Steve Harwell(Smash Mouth)
Gary Wright

all checking out.

RIP

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2023 09:05 AM (QzZeQ)

210 And the Sheeple keep falling for it because We The People are terminally stupid.

Posted by: Reuben Hick
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They actually aren't and I suspect that elections have been rigged since 2000 or so after Motor Voter took full effect and voting machines took over from manual tabulation.

People have outcome preferences--low inflation, jobs available, and so on but don't really have policy preferences to get there. They can acquire them over time generally because they reject the current ones and the pols that push them.

In mass, the people often show a judgment lacking in our political leaders--it is not that the pols fool them but more as how do you stop the amorphous blob of DC from simply issuing a diktat on policy.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:05 AM (o3VVz)

211 Thank you, JJ.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at September 05, 2023 09:06 AM (gxokI)

212 One of the many elephants in the room is the looming retirement crisis for many Boomers. SocSec is poised to get cut, while the Left is pissing away trillions.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 08:57 AM (RqMSv)

What do you all think of 'WE HAVE TO SAVE UKRAINE!' now?

Boomers should have been pissed off that Leviathan made it far more important to continue to underwrite Ukrainian politicians and bureaucrats salaries, benefits and pensions with "foreign aid", also to pay hundreds of billions to feed, clothe, house, educate, medicate, entertain, provide utilities, courts, and additional infrastructure to the tens of millions of illegal aliens and "refugees".

Of course there is no money for We The People, the ones who have been packing money into that bullshit for our entire working lives. Its the grifters, cheats, swindlers, criminals and invaders who are making off with that bounty.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 05, 2023 09:06 AM (p8A+W)

213 lol, haven't heard "Boswash" in years!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at September 05, 2023 09:06 AM (vbuLV)

214 This pretends everything is normal and 2020 didn't happen.

That's sort of my point. Come right out and say "no, this can't stand". Instead we pretend that we can have primaries and vote and everything is 1996 and darn, we missed it by 40k votes again. We'll try again in 2028!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at September 05, 2023 09:00 AM (QCAe2)

I understand that.
And it's possible that if the worst happened in your scenario then Ron would have been the natural second choice.
Without a contest though it's hard to say and without a battle its even harder to see how the next person will react when the Never Trump machine turns they guns on them.
I don't know what the "correct" answer is, I'm just saying it doesn't offend me that people want to win a primary.

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 09:06 AM (53oGX)

215 Jimmy Buffett
Steve Harwell(Smash Mouth)
Gary Wright

all checking out.

RIP
-------------
Gary Puckett is still a thing, rite?

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:06 AM (8Sqzu)

216 Some detail on Jack Ryan v. Jeri Ryan. It was a child custody hearing in LA. Axelrod got the Chicago Tribune (where he once headed the City Desk) to reach out to a friendly judge in LA to get some salacious claims by Jeri released. She was on the defensive because she was shtupping her Star Trek prodcucer and generally not being a good mom.

This was over the objections of Jack, Jeri and the child. This never happens in a child custody case.

Jack had cultivated a Boy Scout image and couldn't survive the screaming tabloid covergage. I remember Jeri being on the cover of the NY Post.

And yes, it was preview of Trump's Pussygate.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 09:07 AM (RqMSv)

217 'Boswash'? Never heard the term. Hogwash or location?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Old Beltway term--Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Washington. Newer term Acela corridor. So the Boston to Washington corridor which has about one third of America's population--Boswash.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:07 AM (o3VVz)

218 or whoever the ham sammich-du-jour will be put in Biden's place should political expediency dictate he be ejected from the top of the ticket.

As a big fan of the French Laundry, I appreciate your slipping some French into that sentence.

Posted by: Gavin Newsome (D-CA) at September 05, 2023 09:07 AM (a3Q+t)

219 Boston-Washington?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:03 AM (zZu0s)
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Boston-NYC-Philadelphia-Washington

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 05, 2023 09:07 AM (RIvkX)

220 Star Wars and Star Trek at least had the virtue of being established brands with a rich history. He managed to set both on fire so thoroughly that both will need to lie in the weeds for a decade or two. (Even though Star Wars just keeps pushing the shit out.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:02 AM (zZu0s)

Supposedly the Trek series Strange New Worlds is supposed to be good, but the commercials I've seen only irritate me.

TOS and its dependent movies are the only Trek, IMO.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 09:07 AM (AW0uW)

221 So, Gary Wright will see you on the other side, no?

Posted by: dantesed at September 05, 2023 09:07 AM (88xKn)

222 209 Jimmy Buffett a one-hit wonder????

I think not.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 09:08 AM (xTRSc)

223 205 Boston-Washington?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

In a word, yes.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:08 AM (o3VVz)

224 222 209 Jimmy Buffett a one-hit wonder????

I think not.
-------------------------------
Come Monday deserves recognition. Great song.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:09 AM (8Sqzu)

225 In terms of musical ability and elevator music,
Gary Wright's songs were more listenable than Jimmy Buffett.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 05, 2023 09:09 AM (TGPs7)

226 People have outcome preferences--low inflation, jobs available, and so on but don't really have policy preferences to get there.

Exactly. You have described concisely the infantile mindset of the typical American.

Small children have an insatiable appetite for food and toys but have absolutely no idea how those things come about, unless maybe they sneak downstairs at night when mom and dad are fighting over the overdrawn checking account and max'd out credit cards - then they only have a vibe that something is wrong.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 05, 2023 09:09 AM (p8A+W)

227 They actually aren't and I suspect that elections have been rigged since 2000 or so after Motor Voter took full effect and voting machines took over from manual tabulation. Posted by: whig

The 2004 Washington State governors race (Rossi vs Gregoire) was a Democrat prototype for how to steal an election. It included Acorn ginning up ballots, King County finding magic ballots, court challenges, and so on. It is worth studying.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 09:09 AM (jlbtb)

228 They should have sold it as a security measure, and people would not have hesitated...
Like fingerprints and facial recognition to open your phone, same level of personal data
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 05, 2023 09:04 AM (j/JYC)
++++
Biometrics scare the living shit out of me and always have. Of the three authentication factors, it is the most secure but also the most dangerous.
Factor 1: something you know. (A password)
Factor 2: something you have. (Nowadays, this is usually your phone)
Factor 3: something you are. (Biometrics)

I can change what I know and replace what I have, but I cannot alter what I am. Biometrics are useful in this regard in that they are immutable, but they are exceedingly dangerous for the same reason. Who has your biometric data? What are they doing with it? Are they using it to spoof you? Can this happen in the future?

Given how sloppy everyone is with data, and how profound the consequences of misuse or mistreatment of biometric data are, the whole area has always given me the willies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 09:10 AM (t0OGg)

229 OK, work is coming in. See you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 09:10 AM (AW0uW)

230 224 222 209 Jimmy Buffett a one-hit wonder????

I think not.
-------------------------------
Come Monday deserves recognition. Great song.
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:09 AM (8Sqzu)

Think I read once that none of his songs ever made it to the top of the charts. His only No. 1 was "Five O' Clock Somewhere" with Alan Jackson.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 05, 2023 09:11 AM (N3zMI)

231 Come Monday deserves recognition. Great song.
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:09 AM (8Sqzu)

And cheeseburger in paradise

Posted by: It's me donna at September 05, 2023 09:11 AM (bs+z0)

232

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 05, 2023 09:11 AM (aD39U)

233 232

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 05, 2023 09:11 AM (aD39U)

Never not funny.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

234 TOS and its dependent movies are the only Trek, IMO.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 09:07 AM (AW0uW)

Of course! Though, some of the other programs weren't too bad. But nothing of the new stuff.

PS, sent you something.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 05, 2023 09:12 AM (Angsy)

235 >>Supposedly the Trek series Strange New Worlds is supposed to be good, but the commercials I've seen only irritate me.

Have not watched it, but Critical Drinker and several others have detailed how very bad that show is.
It's written by people who grew up watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (so the show is wriitten to be just like that). They've already had a musical episode.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 09:13 AM (izj35)

236 Exactly. You have described concisely the infantile mindset of the typical American.

Small children have an insatiable appetite for food and toys but have absolutely no idea how those things come about, unless maybe they sneak downstairs at night when mom and dad are fighting over the overdrawn checking account and max'd out credit cards - then they only have a vibe that something is wrong.
Posted by: Reuben Hick
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Not infantile. The media itself has acted as guardian of the left and unless you spend a lot of effort, you will be malinformed instead of not informed on policies.

Reagan, for example, came about because whatever the People wanted--it was not Carter policies at the time that resulted in high inflation, disgrace abroad, unhinged liberalism in society, and so on. So, Reagan proposed tax cuts, rebuilding the military, prudence based on America first at home, and so on. He won because people rejected Dem policy and he won reelection because the American people liked what they saw enough that Bush served Reagan's third term and pissed it all away.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:13 AM (o3VVz)

237 His only No. 1 was "Five O' Clock Somewhere" with Alan Jackson.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 05, 2023 09:11 AM (N3zMI)

I only cared for the Alan Jackson part.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at September 05, 2023 09:13 AM (45fpk)

238 And yes, it was preview of Trump's Pussygate.

Or the Sen election in Alabama...where the FNM made a bunch of claims against Judge Moore none of which ended up being true.

Actually wait, that's not quite true. He did like "younger women" as in he married a 24 year old when he was 38. OH THE HORROR.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:13 AM (lc5cP)

239 Let’s not forget “Why Don’t We Get Drunk and…?”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 09:13 AM (xTRSc)

240 The 2004 Washington State governors race (Rossi vs Gregoire) was a Democrat prototype for how to steal an election. It included Acorn ginning up ballots, King County finding magic ballots, court challenges, and so on. It is worth studying.
Posted by: Lost In Space
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Remember that atrocity.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:13 AM (o3VVz)

241 Who has your biometric data? What are they doing with it? Are they using it to spoof you? Can this happen in the future?

Given how sloppy everyone is with data, and how profound the consequences of misuse or mistreatment of biometric data are, the whole area has always given me the willies.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Chase had/has? a test program to read the map of your blood vessels in your hand to access ATM services.

I didn't trust them with my CC transaction data. You think I'm gonna trust them with my biometric info?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (CJtAX)

242 Ice-T did "Let's get buck naked and ****"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

243 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Historians will study pictures like this in horror & wonder how people did nothing

http://tinyurl.com/35r6fppp

Posted by: redridinghood at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

244 Come Monday deserves recognition. Great song.
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:09 AM (8Sqzu)

Think I read once that none of his songs ever made it to the top of the charts. His only No. 1 was "Five O' Clock Somewhere" with Alan Jackson.
---------------
Top 10 is a hard place to be over time. Buffett remained a SRO draw for, what, forty years? I am not a big fan of his but I recognize his accomplishment. It is a very rare one.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (8Sqzu)

245
I didn't trust them with my CC transaction data. You think I'm gonna trust them with my biometric info?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (CJtAX)

Just wait till you have no choice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (Zz0t1)

246 My favorite Buffett song is the one about the volcano.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 09:15 AM (xTRSc)

247 In mass, the people often show a judgment lacking in our political leaders--it is not that the pols fool them but more as how do you stop the amorphous blob of DC from simply issuing a diktat on policy.

People tend to think in terms of scapegoating. The way that it is put is always Trump destroyed the economy or Biden destroyed the economy.

Trump couldn't get anyone below cabinet level to listen to him and Biden can't even understand himself when he speaks. So why do people make these men deity with omnipresent and omnipotent powers to effect every day life?

We are just one graven image away from being a society steeped in pagan idolatry.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 05, 2023 09:15 AM (p8A+W)

248 @EndWokeness

Historians will study pictures like this in horror & wonder how people did nothing

http://tinyurl.com/35r6fppp
Posted by: redridinghood at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (NpAcC)

That makes me weep.

Humans are evil......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

249 227 They actually aren't and I suspect that elections have been rigged since 2000 or so after Motor Voter took full effect and voting machines took over from manual tabulation. Posted by: whig

Earlier, JFK won suspiciously, and it's possible Florida didn't entirely go to Bush. Many more in the past too, we just notice
it more these days, because the fraud is so rampant and we have instant access to reports of it.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 05, 2023 09:16 AM (TGPs7)

250 Top 10 is a hard place to be over time. Buffett remained a SRO draw for, what, forty years? I am not a big fan of his but I recognize his accomplishment. It is a very rare one.
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (8Sqzu)

Oh, agree. No knocking.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 05, 2023 09:16 AM (N3zMI)

251 BTW, people know that Soc. Security is in trouble, less so on the dire problems in Medicare. But, unless cuts are made across the board, many of which will piss off people on this board right here on govt retirement pay and such, the people are unwilling to have their benefits cut so that Export Import Bank can live.

Soc. Security can be fixed relatively modestly by raising the retirement age. Medicare though requires a fairly massive tax boost to stabilize.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:16 AM (o3VVz)

252 It's written by people who grew up watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer (so the show is wriitten to be just like that). They've already had a musical episode.

Buffy was an interesting show in that it started before the New New Left's complete conquest of mass media but as it was happening.

So a show about a woman who has magic powers to defeat vampires first adopted a minor feminist tack, which isn't surprising, but ended up pushing gay gay gay and religion is EVIL.

I do think seasons 2-5 are pretty good. Season 6 was lazy. The last season was leftist dreck that was painful to watch.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:16 AM (lc5cP)

253 They've already had a musical episode.
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COME INTO SHOP
LET CUT MOP I
SO DAINTILY

Posted by: the horta at September 05, 2023 09:16 AM (krqg6)

254 At the end of the day, I schtupped 7 of 9, and you didn't.

Posted by: JJ Abrams at September 05, 2023 09:16 AM (a3Q+t)

255 "he married a 24 year old when he was 38"

Violates the immutable "half your age plus seven" rule.

Only Leo D has the superpower to violate this rule without bringing down the wrath of the gods.

Or Epsteins's clients ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (RqMSv)

256 Jimmy Buffett got lucky. His record label also had Jim Croce in their stall and when Croce died, Buffett got his spot. Croce was a better all around singer and tunesmith.

He also made his fortune telling old guys, fat, bald and drunk at the beach was fun and exciting and they believed him

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (iw4IE)

257 227, 238, exactly.

tried out, succeeded, now nationwide

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (vbuLV)

258 Earlier, JFK won suspiciously, and it's possible Florida didn't entirely go to Bush. Many more in the past too, we just notice
it more these days, because the fraud is so rampant and we have instant access to reports of it.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

There has always been a degree of fraud in American elections going all the way back and it was that way in Parliamentary elections in merry old England. But, the guardrails have been stripped and fraud is probably closer to 20 percent nowadays in places that have mail in ballots.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (o3VVz)

259 At the end of the day, I schtupped 7 of 9, and you didn't.
Posted by: JJ Abrams at September 05, 2023 09:16 AM (a3Q+t)

"Women will let you grab 'em by the pussy....."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

260 Gotta go. Have fun storming the castle.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (o3VVz)

261 240 The 2004 Washington State governors race (Rossi vs Gregoire) was a Democrat prototype for how to steal an election. It included Acorn ginning up ballots, King County finding magic ballots, court challenges, and so on. It is worth studying.
Posted by: Lost In Space
------
Remember that atrocity.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:13 AM (o3VVz)

Al Franken v Norm Coleman in MN.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (x0n13)

262 Historians will study pictures like this in horror & wonder how people did nothing

http://tinyurl.com/35r6fppp
Posted by: redridinghood

Why it's as if stan and his minions are flaunting that whole "I made you in My image" thing. Isn't it?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2023 09:18 AM (CJtAX)

263 Best frozen pizza? IMO Newman's Own.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 08:44 AM (lc5cP)

Made with fifty eggs !

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2023 09:18 AM (T4tVD)

264 ace was never a fan of Trump. Considering he was just this side of NeverTrump in 2016, he has been remarkably even handed- but he never grew to love the man and no matter what Trump did, he still carries that animus towards him.

I don't pretend to understand it, I just note it is almost like a disease or having blue eyes. It just is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 08:56 AM (zZu0s)

There is a misunderstanding that stems from the fact that so many opponents personally dislike or even hate Trump, that if you criticize Trump it's because you hate him personally.

It's not animus or a personal grudge to point out that Trump had many, many failures and was ineffectual in many areas.

For instance, I love Trump as an individual, but I despise his courtship with the homo community. I think Trump's attack on media and fighting spirit are worthy, admirable qualities, but massive government deficit spending happened on his watch. I think Trump defiance and adversarial stances are great, but Trump's CDC issued a state of emergency that enabled state governments to upend the Constitutional freedoms of America.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at September 05, 2023 09:18 AM (/11g9)

265 I didn't trust them with my CC transaction data. You think I'm gonna trust them with my biometric info?

Look closely at your driver's license, does it have a gold star on it?

If yes, then your biometrics (face and fingerprints) are already in the system and available; you may or may not be surprised at how many venues are using that information Right Now to identify and track you real time.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 05, 2023 09:18 AM (p8A+W)

266
Only Leo D has the superpower to violate this rule without bringing down the wrath of the gods.

When I go to leftist/AWFL focused boards they do NOT like that Leo D does this but..."He's sooooo hot!" which I guess makes it ok.

Judge Moore was definitely not Wine Mom "hot"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:18 AM (lc5cP)

267 KILL DA
WABBIT
KILL DA
WABBIT

Posted by: the horta at September 05, 2023 09:18 AM (krqg6)

268 Supposedly the Trek series Strange New Worlds is supposed to be good, but the commercials I've seen only irritate me.

TOS and its dependent movies are the only Trek, IMO.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 09:07 AM (AW0uW)

*fistbump on TOS, series and movies*

I have heard Strange New Worlds is just more of the same shit. They keep saying they will be getting back to the original roots of the series (series after series) and yet they just keep repackaging the same old (and not the RIGHT old shit.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (zZu0s)

269
He also made his fortune telling old guys, fat, bald and drunk at the beach was fun and exciting and they believed him

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (iw4IE)

I blame him for making men believe wearing flipflops everywhere was perfectly acceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

270 Tony Orlando would like you to know that he is still rocking it at the Holiday Inn.

https://youtu.be/Z8fhciUojQ0

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (jlbtb)

271 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !!!

Posted by: JT at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (T4tVD)

272 Any conservative with half a brain would have ran far away from the Bushes and their lesser spawn of Ryans, Roves, Kemps and Ericksons.

Ron is not that smart.

That he still can't see the only reason they funded and pushed him was to destroy him and weaken Trump confirms his further stupidity.

If he was the back-up plan, "he must win at least 1 delegate to be the nominee,"-- he could have done that without them. Without even campaigning, he would have gotten at least 3 delegates. Worse: Those are GOP rules the GOP can change at any time-- no state law says the nominee must have won delegates.

There was never a rational for him to run, and there still isn't one.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (j/JYC)

273 We are just one graven image away from being a society steeped in pagan idolatry.
Posted by: Reuben Hick
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We already have that--money. That is why it can cause great evil because people with large amounts of it believe they are the ruling class.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (o3VVz)

274 "he married a 24 year old when he was 38"

Violates the immutable "half your age plus seven" rule.

Mein Fuhrer ... das Maths ..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) tugs collar at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (aD39U)

275 Hey, Sponge. How’s everyone’s favorite Poriferan today?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (xTRSc)

276 You know who else gave out 'gold' stars??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (krqg6)

277 I think why I like Buffett is cuz he was a musical incarnation of Travis McGee. Travis McGee is a very good role model. He would save maidens in distress, slay dragons and then kick back on the Busted Flush with adult beverages.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (8Sqzu)

278 Star Trek is Star Trek. Calling it "The Original Series" just lends credibility to the myriad of shit they've come out with since.

Star Trek, then there's everything else.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

279 Hey, Sponge. How’s everyone’s favorite Poriferan today?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 09:19 AM (xTRSc)

Tired and sunburnt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

280 My favorite Buffett song is the one about the volcano.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 09:15 AM (xTRSc)
-

"When Lavas Meet"?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 05, 2023 09:20 AM (fSdL0)

281 The Dems are starting to ramp up the COVID train again.

Why It Feels Like Everyone Suddenly Has Covid. Headline on CNN webpage...and they're reporting Jill Biden has it, too!!!

its been doubling every two weeks since June 24! Its spreading like wildfire, and instead getting out ahead of it - by encouraging masking, distancing, avoiding crowds, parties etc. We get a whole bunch of nothing followed by this kind of querulous article. Wear a mask - it might save a life, maybe even yours.

I only see a few masked people when I go out. And I often get looks like, "You poor deluded fool.," while wearing mine.

Fuck them, and keep wearing it. I haven’t entered a business or a customers home unmasked since the early days of the pandemic. I’ve grown to enjoy the low-grade hostility that this inspires in a certain breed of asshat.

The nurse I talked to said the strains going around now are 2.5x more contagious than the flu!

Transmission is up, reporting/surveillance is down. I'm seeing more employees coughing and a few more people wearing masks. Labor Day is going to spike cases.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 05, 2023 09:20 AM (JCZqz)

282 254 At the end of the day, I schtupped 7 of 9, and you didn't.
Posted by: JJ Abrams at September 05, 2023 09:16 AM (a3Q+t)

That may end up being your only lasting accomplishment, JJ.

Not nothing. Old school Jeri Ryan was a babe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:20 AM (zZu0s)

283 Look closely at your driver's license, does it have a gold star on it?

If yes, then your biometrics (face and fingerprints) are already in the system and available; you may or may not be surprised at how many venues are using that information Right Now to identify and track you real time.
Posted by: Reuben Hick

FBI has had my fingerprints and picture since I was 19. Downside of being a commissioned security guard.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2023 09:21 AM (A6m7x)

284 Hey, Tonypete! What’s up?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 09:21 AM (xTRSc)

285 Top 10 is a hard place to be over time. Buffett remained a SRO draw for, what, forty years? I am not a big fan of his but I recognize his accomplishment. It is a very rare one.
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (8Sqzu)
++++
It is. A "hit" is traditionally defined as "entered the Billboard Top 40." If your song lands on the Top 40, it's a hit. It can be a flash-in-the-pan minor hit (spent one week at 40) or a curb-stomping ultra hit (spent 12 weeks at number one), but they're both "hits" by the standard definition.

Buffett more than a half dozen Top 40 hits. He was not a one-hit wonder. Another big time, big name recognition band that *is* a one-hit wonder, though, is the Grateful Dead. Just one showing in the Top 40, and only six tracks ever hit the Hot 100 at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 09:21 AM (t0OGg)

286 one of the best bass lines in rock music.

I will happily take one large bite out of any bass instrument that appears on that track. That line is played on a mini-synthesizer by the pinkie finger of a tap dancer wearing sequins. A little short of notes, too. I don't have it in for Mr Wright, but you must have stayed too long at the Fair AYKWFIM.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 05, 2023 09:21 AM (4PZHB)

287 "@EndWokeness
Historians will study pictures like this in horror & wonder how people did nothing
http://tinyurl.com/35r6fppp
Posted by: redridinghood at September 05, 2023 09:14 AM (NpAcC)"

no kidding; much like someone in 1960s reading about Caligula ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at September 05, 2023 09:21 AM (vbuLV)

288 >>We are just one graven image away from being a society steeped in pagan idolatry.

"Hiya!"
-- Lady Gaga, Sam Smith

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 09:21 AM (izj35)

289 Any conservative with half a brain would have ran far away from the Bushes and their lesser spawn of Ryans, Roves, Kemps and Ericksons.

Do you think Trump's tenure in office would have been stronger if these people had supported him?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at September 05, 2023 09:21 AM (/11g9)

290 It's good to see VDH is FINALLY getting pissed enough that his rants don't sound like a bored narrator discussing western civilization.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 05, 2023 09:21 AM (pohLc)

291 278 Star Trek is Star Trek. Calling it "The Original Series" just lends credibility to the myriad of shit they've come out with since.

Star Trek, then there's everything else.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

'A line must be drawn. HERE! THIS FAR- NO FURTHER! And I will make them pay for what they've done!'
-Cpt Picard, ironically in a shitty Star Trek movie

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (zZu0s)

292 Al Franken v Ron Coleman in MN.
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The Buick Election.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (8Sqzu)

293 ST TOS was low budget and the acting was generally poor but it was entertaining.

After that it went mostly downhill though DS9 was watchable.

But the rest of it? Why the hell would you watch that crap?

Hell, Lexx* plays better even as serious SF then most of the later Star Trek series.

*Also who knew there were so many good looking Canadian actresses?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (lc5cP)

294 I blame him for making men believe wearing flipflops everywhere was perfectly acceptable.
Posted by: Sponge

Which lead directly to grown ass men wearing their PJ's down to the free breakfast at Hampton Inns.

We are doomed.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (CJtAX)

295 Star Trek, then there's everything else.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)
-

I believe it was Mad Magazine that nicknamed the show "Star Drek."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (fSdL0)

296 The 2004 Washington State governors race (Rossi vs Gregoire) was a Democrat prototype for how to steal an election. It included Acorn ginning up ballots, King County finding magic ballots, court challenges, and so on. It is worth studying.
Posted by: Lost In Space
------
Remember that atrocity.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:13 AM (o3VVz)

Al Franken v Ron Coleman in MN.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

2018 NM 2nd - Yvette Herrell vs Xochitl Torres Small

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (jlbtb)

297 277 I think my brother and my Dad read all of the Travis McGee novels.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (xTRSc)

298 Ok, only positive lasting accomplishment.

Although... Fringe is probably the best of the JJ shit, imo. Even it went bad eventually though.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:23 AM (zZu0s)

299 Have there been any elections where the R candidate won the election on "found ballots" after the normal vote count?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:23 AM (lc5cP)

300 There has always been a degree of fraud in American elections going all the way back and it was that way in Parliamentary elections in merry old England. But, the guardrails have been stripped and fraud is probably closer to 20 percent nowadays in places that have mail in ballots.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2023 09:17 AM (o3VVz)

Mail in ballots are like abortion, should only be limited to rare instances. That would cut down a goodly amount of the fraud.

Like that will ever happen...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 05, 2023 09:24 AM (TGPs7)

301 Why It Feels Like Everyone Suddenly Has Covid. Headline on CNN webpage...and they're reporting Jill Biden has it, too!!!

its been doubling every two weeks since June 24! Its spreading like wildfire, and instead getting out ahead of it - by encouraging masking, distancing, avoiding crowds, parties etc. We get a whole bunch of nothing followed by this kind of querulous article. Wear a mask - it might save a life, maybe even yours. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 05, 2023 09:20 AM (JCZqz)
++++
That meme about the Amish not being affected by COVID because they don't have TV was spot-on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 05, 2023 09:24 AM (t0OGg)

302 In our version of Star Trek, you can watch 7 of 9 get schtupped by a movie producer.

However, we had to rename her 8 of 10.

Posted by: Brazzers at September 05, 2023 09:24 AM (xxG/v)

303 'A line must be drawn. HERE! THIS FAR- NO FURTHER! And I will make them pay for what they've done!'
-Cpt Picard, ironically in a shitty Star Trek movie
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (zZu0s)

IMHO, that was the best of the TNG movies. Granted, it's not that high a bar.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 05, 2023 09:24 AM (N3zMI)

304 293 ST TOS was low budget and the acting was generally poor but it was entertaining.

After that it went mostly downhill though DS9 was watchable.

But the rest of it? Why the hell would you watch that crap?

Hell, Lexx* plays better even as serious SF then most of the later Star Trek series.

*Also who knew there were so many good looking Canadian actresses?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM (lc5cP)

Farscape.

*mic drop*

*goes back and pics up mic*

Season 1 is shit, but after it hit it's stride, I'd say it was probably one of the best pieces of ongoing narrative and character development EVER. For any show, drama or no. Puppets or no.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:24 AM (zZu0s)

305 Buffett more than a half dozen Top 40 hits. He was not a one-hit wonder. Another big time, big name recognition band that *is* a one-hit wonder, though, is the Grateful Dead. Just one showing in the Top 40, and only six tracks ever hit the Hot 100 at all.
------------------
Yep. The Dead is not music its a cult. My wife was into it and likes to listen to them while I'm in the car. I've learned to tune it out and read.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:25 AM (8Sqzu)

306 "(Biden)...impatiently checked his watch as he seemed bored with the commemoration of the fallen (13 Marines) and made no effort to hide his sense that the ceremony was tedious to him."

VDH reminded me of Mooch at a flag ceremony for US war dead, words sneered by Her Highness at the Hope&Change Pharaoh: "All this for a damn flag..."

http://tinyurl.com/2rry5kdj

I read that this multi-mansioned ingrate wants to plop her size 11 Jimmy Choo's on the oval office desk, like Barry before her...prepare to kneel at the altar of 'Fundamentally Transform America' again, you bitter clinger deplorables.

Haven't they 'made enough money' yet?

Posted by: Ju at September 05, 2023 09:25 AM (aTmM/)

307 > Soc. Security can be fixed relatively modestly by raising the retirement age.
____________

It needs more people in the workforce paying into SS more than it needs the retirement age raised. That's why the SS pot is being depleted faster than money is going in.

The percentage cuts to SS will keep increasing to prolong the availability of "some" SS funds, but it won't last forever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2023 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

308 >>*Also who knew there were so many good looking Canadian actresses?

*waves*
A lotta good-looking Canadian actors, too!

Posted by: SyFy & The Hallmark Channel at September 05, 2023 09:25 AM (izj35)

309 PS, sent you something.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 05, 2023 09:12 AM (Angsy)

Got it, thanks. I really have to get on the ball about the writers' group. Tomorrow, I hope, since I have the day off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 09:25 AM (AW0uW)

310 Yep. The Dead is not music its a cult. My wife was into it and likes to listen to them while I'm in the car. I've learned to tune it out and read.
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:25 AM (8Sqzu)
-

So you're a Tesla owner?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 05, 2023 09:26 AM (fSdL0)

311 I hated Buffet. Fucking commie bastard.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at September 05, 2023 09:26 AM (pohLc)

312 The Carpenters would like you to know they are starved for attention.

https://youtu.be/woKKnEn8h9w

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 09:26 AM (jlbtb)

313 Soc. Security can be fixed relatively modestly by raising the retirement age. Medicare though requires a fairly massive tax boost to stabilize.

Medicare will require more structural changes. I can think of quite a number of practical things, but the changes are too great and the people who would be effected are too stupid, innumerate and incapable of processing abstracts.

For example: take the health cost sharing programs. They tend to cherry-pick the best "insured" from the public pool by only allowing members to join who, in general, have a healthier lifestyle.

While that can't be copied directly into Medicare/Medicaid, the concept of benefits and costs directly related to lifestyle choices should be implemented. People would absolutely bitch and whine that the government shouldn't dictate their eating and exercise habits, while they don't seem to rise up w/r/t all the other draconian lifestyle changes that are being force fed them.

I'm thinking that it is a waste of time and effort to push EVs and banning gas appliances, when morbidly obese people should be directed into a pathway that at least slows down the descent into diabetes and heart disease.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 05, 2023 09:26 AM (p8A+W)

314 getting pissed enough that his rants don't sound like a bored narrator discussing western civilization.
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He learned cruelty... somewhere.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 05, 2023 09:26 AM (krqg6)

315 297 277 I think my brother and my Dad read all of the Travis McGee novels.
------------------
Why haven't you?

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:26 AM (8Sqzu)

316 Roddenbury's wife made a Star Trek rip off called Andromeda as well.

Its not great, but it is better then most of the formal Star Trek series. And again...hot Canadian actresses as the guest star in pretty much every episode (Kevin Sorbo you Kirk'd it better then Kirk)

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:27 AM (lc5cP)

317 Yeah, the biometric "security" is a fraud.

Why?

Because they could make all the "valuable" protected by security actually secure.
But that would cost them money.

Identity theft would not be possible if they actually had to pay for the consequences of not keeping good security.
Instead, it's the consumer who pays--because we're not the ones who funded the career of a Connecticut senator who is now president.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at September 05, 2023 09:27 AM (j/JYC)

318 >>Farscape.

*mic drop*

*goes back and pics up mic*

Season 1 is shit, but after it hit it's stride, I'd say it was probably one of the best pieces of ongoing narrative and character development EVER. For any show, drama or no. Puppets or no.
- - - -

THANK YOU
YES!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 09:27 AM (izj35)

319 IMHO, that was the best of the TNG movies. Granted, it's not that high a bar.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 05, 2023 09:24 AM (N3zMI)

REALLY low bar.

Generations: you kill Kirk by having him slip and fall.

Insurrection: A just odd movie that felt like a multipart episode of the show.

Nemesis: what the hell are you?

First Contact: I have always liked the line, but as with so many things, it gets worse with time rather than better.

I used to hate Star Trek III or the Motion Picture. They have improved as I have gotten older. V is still shit, but... Shatner.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:27 AM (zZu0s)

320
Al Franken v Ron Coleman in MN.
-----------------
The Buick Election.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:22 AM

It's nice to get some well-deserved recognition.

Posted by: Buick filled with ballots heading to Pennsylvania at September 05, 2023 09:28 AM (enJYY)

321 Nice meme, JJ.

Well done. And SOOO fitting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

322 Actually, the DU reference to CNN is the first I've heard about Jill Biden having COVID...tested positive Monday. Is this the start to removing Joe lol? And then justification for new COVID overreaction?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 05, 2023 09:29 AM (JCZqz)

323 The percentage cuts to SS will keep increasing to prolong the availability of "some" SS funds, but it won't last forever.

Well, it would help a lot if they didn't move recent immigrants fresh from emerging from the Rio Grande on to SSI entitlements.

I remember a case a while back when a young man with some terminal disease spooged in a test tube. He died and the spouse uploaded a baby from that sample for the specific purpose of getting at least eighteen years of SSI entitlements.

That kind of exploitation of the system should be criminalized.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 05, 2023 09:29 AM (p8A+W)

324 "Dear Gen Z,

At your current work rate, you'll be able to enjoy full Social Security benefits beginning at age 82.

Try to eat healthy if you want to see any of it."

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at September 05, 2023 09:29 AM (/11g9)

325 So while our medical community is busy chopping the gonads off our kids how many truly sick people are having their treatment delayed for months?

Posted by: creeper at September 05, 2023 09:30 AM (cTCuP)

326 SIXTY OF NINE
...
SLUT

Posted by: the horta at September 05, 2023 09:30 AM (krqg6)

327 326 SIXTY OF NINE
...
SLUT
Posted by: the horta at September 05, 2023 09:30 AM (krqg6)

*golfclap*

I can think of worse things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:30 AM (zZu0s)

328 Is this the start to removing Joe lol? And then justification for new COVID overreaction?

I did claim way back when I thought they'd get rid of Joe with COVID, but my argument was right after the 2022 elections - clear the path for someone else to run as the "incumbent" going into 2024 and allow for more COVID fear mongering.

Hell, all you have to do is put Joe near a tween with COVID and let him sniff and grope away.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2023 09:30 AM (lc5cP)

329 I hope there's a special place in hell for Jimmy Buffet and his horrendously shitty music. Cheeseburger In Paradise? What a f'ing ghey ass name for a shitty song.
For all of us Gen-X'ers whose Boomer parents got caught up in the thrall of Jimmy Buffets shitty music we had to listen to out camping in the summers of 77-78, the whir of mixers making margaritas all f'ing night and the smell of weed as we had to stay in our tents as if we didn't know WTF they were doing.........screw you in your dead neck Jimmy Buffet!!!

Posted by: JROD at September 05, 2023 09:30 AM (IlL6s)

330 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 05, 2023 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

331 If Dr. Jiggly is a PhD then Evita Peron was a Nobel Prize winner. Or was that Imelda Marcos? I get confused by all the corruption these days.

Posted by: Lost In Space at September 05, 2023 09:31 AM (jlbtb)

332 Nood. Art. Tonto.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 05, 2023 09:31 AM (zZu0s)

333 I think that one of the cleverest ops of the IC was the sudden introduction of all these 23&Me/Ancestry.com home DNA tests. They literally got Americans and others to send their DNA in to create a bioweapon database, and got them to pay for it to boot.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) The Income Tax is Chattel Slavery at September 05, 2023 09:31 AM (aD39U)

334 In our version of Star Trek, you can watch 7 of 9 get schtupped by a movie producer.

However, we had to rename her 8 of 10.
Posted by: Brazzers at September 05, 2023 09:24 AM (xxG/v)

Literotica already did a prOn story, "7 of 9 Does Seven of Nine," where she screws the starting lineup of the NY Yankees.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 05, 2023 09:32 AM (AW0uW)

335 SS and Medicare: Reasons 82748274 and 82748275 why one should own some land in the country with a good greenhouse and which is far enough away so that the zombies won't be too much of a bother in the upcoming Burning Times.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 05, 2023 09:32 AM (xxG/v)

336 Well, it would help a lot if they didn't move recent immigrants fresh from emerging from the Rio Grande on to SSI entitlements.
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They want to kill you and wear your skin. Totes Aztec.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:32 AM (8Sqzu)

337 >> Wear a mask - it might save a life, maybe even yours. ...

Again, I ask: Who is the mask for - the sick person to limit the range of exhalations/coughs/sneezes OR the healthy to stop germs from reaching them?

(I know, I know, the correct answer is "Yes" or probably "STFU AND WEAR THE MASK NOW! TO QUESTION IS TO SPREAD DISINFORMATION!!")

Posted by: Lizzy at September 05, 2023 09:33 AM (izj35)

338 *Also who knew there were so many good looking Canadian actresses?
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Only watched it as a kid in 1973; they had cool crossbow 'pistols'.

The Starlost

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069638/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starlost

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 05, 2023 09:36 AM (krqg6)

339 Yep. The Dead is not music its a cult. My wife was into it and likes to listen to them while I'm in the car. I've learned to tune it out and read.
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I hope to die like my uncle, reading peacefully in his car... and not screaming in terror like his three passengers!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 05, 2023 09:37 AM (krqg6)

340 314 getting pissed enough that his rants don't sound like a bored narrator discussing western civilization.
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He learned cruelty... somewhere.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 05, 2023 09:26 AM (krqg6)

If he writes his next column about a McGuffin you will know the last days are upon us.

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 09:40 AM (53oGX)

341 Republicans are indicted by the Democrats in Travis county TX every year. They have 0 convictions. They took a different route with Paxton - with the aid of the Bush Repubs they have impeached him. Of course they have no case - but impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one so they might actually win here.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 05, 2023 09:42 AM (CecP5)

342 341 Republicans are indicted by the Democrats in Travis county TX every year. They have 0 convictions. They took a different route with Paxton - with the aid of the Bush Repubs they have impeached him. Of course they have no case - but impeachment is a political process, not a criminal one so they might actually win here.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 05, 2023 09:42 AM (CecP5)

I'm told the TX Senate is actually conservative. (don't live there just reading)

Posted by: Inogame at September 05, 2023 09:44 AM (53oGX)

343 By the way, in TX you can't have mask mandates. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at September 05, 2023 09:45 AM (CecP5)

344 As usual, you're on-point, JJ. Thank you for what you do here everyday. I'll put a tenner in the ole Tip Jar. Best I can do under this booming Biden economy. Yeah. Booming as in being detonated to nothingness!

I think most decent, working Americans who still hold inherited culture and God based laws as cherished are keeping their heads down these days, lest the U.S. Stasi [also known as the FBI] kicks their doors in and shoots them in the middle of the night.
But I shouldn't worry, because I know the Republicans will be on the offensive, having endless hearings to snarl and yell and say "this time we're REALLY going to do something." So okay, I'll win the lottery before that happens.

Blessings to all this week and keep fighting the fight that Republicans won't.

Posted by: Tracy at September 05, 2023 09:47 AM (aZKD/)

345 (Dems to UAW: LOLGF - jjs)

Diesel Jones to UAW: LOLGF

Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist to the Stars at September 05, 2023 09:56 AM (Vu7A1)

346 Gary Puckett is still a thing, rite?
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 05, 2023 09:06 AM (8Sqzu)

As teens back in the 60's, we called his group, "Gary Fuckitt And The Union Clap". Heh.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at September 05, 2023 10:00 AM (Zvtjl)

347 309 PS, sent you something.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 05, 2023 09:12 AM (Angsy)

Got it, thanks. I really have to get on the ball about the writers' group. Tomorrow, I hope, since I have the day off.

There's a writers' group here? Where may I get more info?

Posted by: Concord at September 05, 2023 10:01 AM (L6oRJ)

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Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at September 05, 2023 10:17 AM (ToyCL)

349 Has it been mentioned yet that, come 2024, there's a 50/50 chance the Republicans will lose their tenuous hold on the House and all this impeachment talk will go right out the window?
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 05, 2023 08:10 AM (mupln)

Loss of the House-- Kevin McCarthy is doing ALL he can (Paul Ryan redux) to lose the House.
You are right on point--The House will be lost...partly legitimately because of McCarthy's weakness and sabotage but equally important key House races will be stolen. Not sure what happens if the DemCommies steal the POTUS election but they sure as hell can and will steal the few House seats needed for a majority. The House is is gong down.

Posted by: Voter theater. at September 05, 2023 10:18 AM (5xvZ1)

350 I wallow in the semen of strange diseased men. And my mother's crotch.

No wonder the suicide rate is so high

Posted by: Paul [Kurt, gargling the penises Kamala refuses] at September 05, 2023 10:39 AM (BP/Tm)

351 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 05, 2023 10:50 AM (aD39U)

352 "The tragic truth is that the American economy is circling the bowl if it hasn't been flushed down the shitter completely by now."

Do not EVER forget the republican establishment is prolly more culpable than any demonrat... George W and all of his cronies who are fueling RdS' campaign, fully cemented China's Most Favored Nation status and brought the communists into the WTO in 2001/2. TV's got cheaper while energy and food prices skyrocketed. Note the opposite happened under the very sound policies of Trump's team. Everyone constantly talks about Trump's bad hires but Bob Lighthizer and Wilbur Ross were outstanding on regulation and the economy.

Posted by: Danimal28 at September 05, 2023 11:20 AM (klw0w)

353 There are two ways during which this is useful. The genealogy researchers at Value and Associates
have all been carrying out genealogy and household historical past investigation for quite a while, most for over two many years.

Posted by: Normand at September 08, 2023 06:00 AM (hzjOA)

354 3. Keep essential paperwork like your birth certificate,
immigration documents and alien registration quantity someplace where a household member or pal can entry them if crucial.

Posted by: Bettie at September 09, 2023 11:10 AM (IxpYs)

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