Rupert Murdoch Retires, A Little Bit

What a bang-up job he's done in the past ten years.

He's "transitioning" to the position of Chairman Emeritus, which I assume means something like "he'll continue to have as much power as he wants at any given time, letting his useless liberal sons control things when he doesn't have the energy."

Kind of like things already were.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is transitioning from his roles as Chair of Fox Corporation and Executive Chairman of News Corp, he announced on Thursday.
Murdoch, 92, informed colleagues in a letter Thursday of his decision, noting he was in good health. He will officially make the transition in November, and his son Lachlan will become the sole chairman of both companies.
"I am writing to let you all know that I have decided to transition to the role of Chairman Emeritus at Fox and News," Murdoch wrote. "For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change. But the time is right for me to take on different roles, knowing that we have truly talented teams and a passionate, principled leader in Lachlan who will become sole Chairman of both companies...."

Murdoch went on to say the battle over freedom of speech and freedom of thought had never been more intense, and he said his family remained firmly committed to that cause.

Yeah, you showed that when you fired Tucker Carlson and then used the threat of lawsuit to keep him from going on television to express his opinions.

Don't weep the loss of Rupert Murdoch. Megyn Kelly, who certainly knows something about Fox, says that Rupert Murdoch was never, ever a "conservative." He's just a soulless moneywhore with fathomless appetite. (My words, not hers.)

The conservative leading Fox was Roger Ailes, and once Murdoch fired him, everything went to shit.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:35 PM

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1 FIRST!

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:35 PM (CIS44)

2 FOIST?

Posted by: The_Hoser at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (N66D6)

3 Hi Ace

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (t/2Uw)

4 I also nooded

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (CIS44)

5 His son has been an even bigger useless tit...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (zZu0s)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Bruce gets first 'Nood.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (zZu0s)

8 Hi Sharon!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (KRtlO)

9 And yet, the Democrats will still shut Fox News down when they take full control.

Serves them right.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (2tUFv)

10 Beaten by another Wayne!

And good riddance.

Posted by: The_Hoser at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (N66D6)

11 Oh thank heaven the bloody jeans are back!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (uDX8L)

12 Next he will transition to Socialist lackey

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (UbLDC)

13 It boggles the mind that Murdoch, Buffet, Carter are all alive and well.

Only the good die young.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

14 I don't know what to think without a poll on the matter.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (IG4Id)

15 YAY PAUL RYAN!

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (CIS44)

16 Does it matter? Isn't cable news done anyways?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (t/2Uw)

17 >>>FIRST!
Posted by: BruceWayne

Okay maybe I'm being Lamont the Big Dummy, but is this *the* Bruce Wayne, of the Wayne Foundation?

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

18 Top O tha Noon Thirty Ace!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Rupert will be off the planet soon anyway. His spawn can continue his legacy, such as it is. At this point, there are THOUSANDS of people who should be relieved I don't have a time machine so that I could go back and kill them in their cribs.

Posted by: kathysaysso at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (yACxx)

20 I watch Watters on occasion...that's about it.

Posted by: BignJames at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (AwYPR)

21 No one gives a rip about Fox News. Newsmax is doing a better job if you have to watch the boob tube.

Posted by: Ex GOP at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (qS8WV)

22 noting he was in good health.

Bcuz he has evidence that would put Hillary in prison?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (zLfni)

23 He's "transitioning" to the position of Chairman Emeritus, which I assume means something like "he'll continue to have as much power as he wants at any given time, letting his useless liberal sons control things when he doesn't have the energy."

So, like Bob Iger- but for Fox. Setting everything he built on fire as a sacrifice to... commie cocktail parties.

Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (zZu0s)

24 Hey, Ace.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (xTRSc)

25 >>>18 Top O tha Noon Thirty Ace!

I'm feeling so lazy you don't even know.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (KRtlO)

26 Bruce gets first 'Nood.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (zZu0s)

I even nooded before I got the first. That's being a team player.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (CIS44)

27 Does everyone else read "transitioning" and think, "He's cutting his balls off?"

Posted by: The_Hoser at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (N66D6)

28 To be fair, Iger did not build Disney, but he sure set it on fire.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (zZu0s)

29 hi bulga!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (KRtlO)

30 The Fox News talk-tards showed their conservative bona fides when not one took a righteous stance in defense of Tucker.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (KbCG3)

31 25 >>>18 Top O tha Noon Thirty Ace!

I'm feeling so lazy you don't even know.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (KRtlO)

I-G-G-Y

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (xcxpd)

32 I haven’t watch Fox in 10 years or more.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (Tbc2+)

33 BTW, the Tucker interview with Ken Paxton was quite good. I can't say I learned much that I didn't already know, but I got confirmation of my most cynical suspicions, which tells me I need to be even more cynical than I already am.
Paxton's mind is quick.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (MeG8a)

34 I watch clips of Kudlow and Bartiromo on YouSuck (with ads blocked). That's all I want of Fox.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (sWM8x)

35 I have no faith anymore, in anything but God, and certain people I personally, in the flesh, know…

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (PCK5/)

36 I even nooded before I got the first. That's being a team player.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (CIS44)

Hmmm, So 'Nooding' would be like an assist. You could get a 'Double, Double' by leading the day in both Noods and Firsts?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (zZu0s)

37 "Chairman Emeritus"

Is that the crap left in the chair at the head of the table when some old fart shits his pants?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)

38 Murdoch, 92, informed colleagues in a letter Thursday of his decision, noting he was in good health. He will officially make the transition in November, and his son Lachlan will become the sole chairman of both companies.

He's going to change into a wrinkly old broad with saggy tits?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

39 His son has been an even bigger useless tit...

One of the reasons why Fox and other Murdoch media properties have been moving Left is because Murdoch's children have been **so** embarrassed when they try to hang out with the Rich Cool Kids.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (2tUFv)

40 Newsmax is doing a better job if you have to watch the boob tube.

Less than 25 posts and the thread goes to boobs.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (zLfni)

41 Speaking of media bigshots, I'm watching "Succession".

It's kind of dull. Maybe it gets better. They got to do four seasons, that must mean something, right?

Posted by: spindrift at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (EGPRf)

42 And here, it's trash music but still kinda fun. Accidentally hilarious

https://youtu.be/O-zpOMYRi0w

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (xcxpd)

43 Our wizened elders tell us, no one is ever really gone.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (MCbzQ)

44 Fucker is 92? I had no idea he was that old. I thought more like 75.

Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (JM/bJ)

45 The Murdochs are all rich liars.

Everything they say is a lie.

Rupert got Fox News going because he saw a niche that could be exploited to make money. He has no serious ideological beliefs regarding conservatism, the truth, or anything like that.
Lachlan Murdoch is just as bad....OR WORSE! But not worse than Hitler. That's Trump, DeSantis, etc., etc.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (vcOmj)

46 20 I watch Watters on occasion...that's about it.
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I don't even do that and I like Watters, sort of.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (AMd6i)

47 14 I don't know what to think without a poll on the matter.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (IG4Id)

TELL ME WHAT I THINK!!!!!!!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (zZu0s)

48 Okay maybe I'm being Lamont the Big Dummy, but is this *the* Bruce Wayne, of the Wayne Foundation?
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at September 21, 2023 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

The one and only, you can call Lucious Fox to get ahold of me.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (CIS44)

49 We fixed this toilet,
We fixed this toilet on Viiiddeeooo.

Jefferson Starship, Airplane, Whatever the fuck is now remembered for fixing shitters. Good job.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (ovV/V)

50 So ol’ Rup’s kinda pulling a Pope Benedict thing here, sounds like.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (xTRSc)

51 I even nooded before I got the first. That's being a team player.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Well, somebody get that man a medal.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (TNFxq)

52 Who IS a conservative who is a multi Millionaire or Billionaire?They all think the next step after having all that money is being godlike and telling the whole world how they should live in every possible way. The only one who slightly veers from that seems to be Elon Musk who-while not a big C conservative is a Libertarian with some conversative sounding views.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (RSbhh)

53 How is this any different than the management and power structure already in place? I'm not being a dick. I honestly thought this was already in place.

I'm not sure there's any practical difference between "Executive Chairman" and "Chairman Emeritus." Both are usually reserved for aging powerful executives or founders who no longer have any daily role in the company, but who want to linger on as some kind of ghost with arbitrary veto power.

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

54 Speaking of media bigshots, I'm watching "Succession".

It's kind of dull. Maybe it gets better. They got to do four seasons, that must mean something, right?
Posted by: spindrift at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (EGPRf)

If you don't like S1 you won’t like 2-4. I thought S1 was great and then each subsequent season got a bit worse.

Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (JM/bJ)

55 So, Ace, if you do come to Texas incognito, you have to have a secret word that you can disclose if you want someone to know who you really are. Like "avocado". Don't knwo why that comes to mind but I think it was used in a show I watched recently.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)

56
I'm feeling so lazy you don't even know.
Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (KRtlO)

This is me most days lately.

It's starting to piss me off.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

57 He's going to change into a wrinkly old broad with saggy tits?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

That would be me.

Posted by: Steven Tyler at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (AiZBA)

58 I wonder what Murdoch thinks about what the Left thinks of him. I mean he's a devil of almost Trumpian scope. He is Faux News misinforming conservatives to believe bad thoughts.

Even though he's as Left as any of them.

He must wonder what more he can do.

Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (dWjpk)

59 30 The Fox News talk-tards showed their conservative bona fides when not one took a righteous stance in defense of Tucker.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (KbCG3)

Looking at you, Tick Dick Hannity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:42 PM (zZu0s)

60 It's kind of dull. Maybe it gets better. They got to do four seasons, that must mean something, right?
Posted by: spindrift

Ok, so shitty people being shitty with shitty amounts of money? Did I nail it or whut?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 12:42 PM (IG4Id)

61 I even nooded before I got the first. That's being a team player.
Posted by: BruceWayne

Well, somebody get that man a medal.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (TNFxq)

*Fetterman roars in ascent*

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:42 PM (CIS44)

62 Bruce gets first 'Nood.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:36 PM (zZu0s)

I even nooded before I got the first. That's being a team player.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (CIS44)

Just add Sponge and you have a Noodist Colony right there...

Posted by: Boswell at September 21, 2023 12:42 PM (K+UlC)

63 Watching TeeVee News is like watching endless reruns of the Oscars.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 21, 2023 12:42 PM (AMd6i)

64 sock no more

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (AiZBA)

65 I watch clips of Kudlow and Bartiromo on YouSuck (with ads blocked). That's all I want of Fox.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist

I still like Maria, but Larry... I don't know if I can trust him.
Used to be on a lot with Jim Cramer, so he can be a bad judge of character. And he was a coke-head at one time.
The Ramones wrote a song about Maria Bartiromo.

And another thing.....

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (vcOmj)

66 I haven't watched Fox since they dumped Tucker. I'm still amazed at how quickly things can go to shit. Look at how high Fox was flying just a few years ago. If you told me then that Fox would be in the dump and completely left, I would have said you are nuts.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (bNf8H)

67 I really should be day drinking on the waterfront.

Posted by: nurse ratched, sea otter Awareness WEEK starts Sunday! at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (9VasJ)

68 Who IS a conservative who is a multi Millionaire or Billionaire?They all think the next step after having all that money is being godlike and telling the whole world how they should live in every possible way. The only one who slightly veers from that seems to be Elon Musk who-while not a big C conservative is a Libertarian with some conversative sounding views.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (RSbhh)

Eric Roza and Greg Glassman

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (CIS44)

69 The Fox News talk-tards showed their conservative bona fides when not one took a righteous stance in defense of Tucker.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (KbCG3)

Gentlemen, we have to save out phony-baloney jobs!!!

*Harrumfing ensues*

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (wu87C)

70 The one and only, you can call Luscious Fox to get ahold of me.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (CIS44)

*makes note about BruceWayne liking wrinkled old black men*

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (zZu0s)

71 Fox/Kemp 2024!

Posted by: DOYLE at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (Z8Yh2)

72 I even nooded before I got the first. That's being a team player.
Posted by: BruceWayne

That's not ever REMOTELY how this works.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

73 He's "transitioning" to the position of Chairman Emeritus, which I assume means something like "he'll continue to have as much power as he wants at any given time, letting his useless liberal sons control things when he doesn't have the energy."
++++
That's more or less how it worked for Iger when he "retired" as Disney CEO but remained on as a "consultant" who retained the CEO's office.

Of course, that was the plan. Except it turned out that Chapek wasn't a total pushover as expected, so Iger had to execute a coup to be rid of him and ended up back as CEO again. But that wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to be more or less what you're describing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (t0OGg)

74 54 Speaking of media bigshots, I'm watching "Succession".

It's kind of dull. Maybe it gets better. They got to do four seasons, that must mean something, right?
Posted by: spindrift at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (EGPRf)

If you don't like S1 you won’t like 2-4. I thought S1 was great and then each subsequent season got a bit worse.
Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (JM/bJ)
___________

FUCK OFF!

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

75 Is it Friday? It feels like Friday.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

76 >>> 67 I really should be day drinking on the waterfront.
Posted by: nurse ratched, sea otter Awareness WEEK starts Sunday! at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (9VasJ)

Is that to celebrate sea otter week? I have lakes all around me...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (llON8)

77 I'm on the last episode of the second season of Foundation,...speaking of TV.

This show is far dumber than it needs to be, and it still irritates the shit out of me that the characters know about the Mule hundreds of years before he shows up.

I think a big part of the problem is this need for a recurring cast instead of treating each season or so as a chapter in the history of the fall of Empire and rise of Foundation with new personalities, more in line with the books.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

78 67 I really should be day drinking on the waterfront.
Posted by: nurse ratched, sea otter Awareness WEEK starts Sunday! at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (9VasJ)

Well we're not stopping you.

Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (dWjpk)

79 Ok, so shitty people being shitty with shitty amounts of money? Did I nail it or whut?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 12:42 PM (IG4Id)

Doesn’t mean it can’t be entertaining. Not every show has to be happy fun stories right?

Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (JM/bJ)

80 75 Is it Friday? It feels like Friday.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

True that

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:45 PM (xcxpd)

81 I really should be day drinking on the waterfront.
Posted by: nurse ratched, sea otter Awareness WEEK starts Sunday!

We're watching you.

Posted by: Otter 841 at September 21, 2023 12:45 PM (vcOmj)

82 Fox is just another gatekeeper. Murdoch and his family took the ticket along time ago. Actually surprised that Murdoch is still living, after seeing "beach" pics of him. Wow, once and always an ugly looking guy.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 21, 2023 12:45 PM (7Pnfz)

83 55 So, Ace, if you do come to Texas incognito, you have to have a secret word that you can disclose if you want someone to know who you really are. Like "avocado". Don't knwo why that comes to mind but I think it was used in a show I watched recently.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (t/2Uw)

"Ewok's the name. Hangin' shelves is my game."

Posted by: m at September 21, 2023 12:45 PM (SbC6h)

84 Apparently, Adam West was quite the ladies’ man.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 21, 2023 12:45 PM (xTRSc)

85
75 Is it Friday? It feels like Friday.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

Interesting… I thought every day was Monday now, by DC Decree…

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2023 12:45 PM (PCK5/)

86 Hilarious Ukrainian propaganda failure!

Zelensky's speech at the UN was poorly attended, which was embarrassing, so Ukrainian media inserted brief crowd shots from a better attended speech into Zelensky's speech.

The one slight problem was that one of the brief crowd shots showed Zelensky himself in the audience, apparently listening to his own speech.

https://tinyurl.com/muyr4ntc

Jack Posobiec is going to be put on the Ukrainian kill list a second time for publicizing this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2023 12:45 PM (2tUFv)

87 79 Doesn’t mean it can’t be entertaining. Not every show has to be happy fun stories right?
Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (JM/bJ)

=======

Lots of people like their entertainment to be light and fun exclusively.

I can't hate them for that. Light and fun is kind of fun.

Also, everyone should discover the British show Taskmaster. Hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:45 PM (LvTSG)

88 FUCK OFF!
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

????????
Da fuq?

Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (JM/bJ)

89 Elon Musk who-while not a big C conservative is a Libertarian with some conversative sounding views.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Elon is more normal and a lot of billionaires simply focus on their business and ignore the current world.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (Q9+wR)

90 Don't weep the loss of Rupert Murdoch. Megyn Kelly, who certainly knows something about Fox, says that Rupert Murdoch was never, ever a "conservative." He's just a soulless moneywhore with fathomless appetite. (My words, not hers.)
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He's also older than dirt and this kind of thing is long overdue, for the benefit of the shareholders if nothing else. Not that they care about stuff like that.

Murdoch - and folks like Bob Iger and Sumner Redstone, etc. - are the private sector equivalent of Congress. They hold on forever, long into what would be considered "retirement age" by anyone else. The position and its trappings is its own allure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (t0OGg)

91 I'm on the last episode of the second season of Foundation,...speaking of TV.

This show is far dumber than it needs to be, and it still irritates the shit out of me that the characters know about the Mule hundreds of years before he shows up.

I think a big part of the problem is this need for a recurring cast instead of treating each season or so as a chapter in the history of the fall of Empire and rise of Foundation with new personalities, more in line with the books.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

man that was on my list to check out. you try Silo yet?

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (CIS44)

92 What are these 'news' programs you speak of?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (H/XYA)

93 I still like Maria, but Larry... I don't know if I can trust him.
Used to be on a lot with Jim Cramer, so he can be a bad judge of character. And he was a coke-head at one time.
The Ramones wrote a song about Maria Bartiromo.

And another thing.....
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (vcOmj)

———-

One of the best things about the 2016 campaign was watching Maria laughing her ass off while Trump was going nuclear at Hillary and others at the Al Smith dinner. Trump was absolutely savage and nobody was laugh except her (and every true American watching on TV).

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (Tbc2+)

94 FUCK OFF!
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

????????
Da fuq?
Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (JM/bJ)

Quoting from season 3 maybe?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (9UlRk)

95 88 FUCK OFF!
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

????????
Da fuq?
Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (JM/bJ)
_____

Dude, the patriarch says that like a dozen times a show. There's entire youtube videos of nothing but him saying "fuck off" over and over.

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

96 ????????
Da fuq?
Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (JM/bJ)

I don't think he agrees with your review.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

97 91 man that was on my list to check out. you try Silo yet?
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (CIS44)

======

Not yet, but I've heard good things.

Another note about Foundation: I liked the first season more than the second, though the second apparently was better received by critics.

It was also the second season where characters started cursing...a lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

98 I think a big part of the problem is this need for a recurring cast instead of treating each season or so as a chapter in the history of the fall of Empire and rise of Foundation with new personalities, more in line with the books.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

I have mostly given up on screen presentations having any similarities to their texts. Except Dune there are high standards there.

But I read World War Z after seeing and Loki the movie a lot, but they share the title and literally 2 paragraphs of text.

Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (dWjpk)

99 82 Fox is just another gatekeeper. Murdoch and his family took the ticket along time ago. Actually surprised that Murdoch is still living, after seeing "beach" pics of him. Wow, once and always an ugly looking guy.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators
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Murdoch was the model of the BBC current era Sherlock Holmes villain. Think that character was in third season ending episode.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (Q9+wR)

100 Musk is an accomplished opportunist with real skills, who is less execrable than most rich people…

Posted by: tubal at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (PCK5/)

101 But I read World War Z after seeing and Loki the movie a lot, but they share the title and literally 2 paragraphs of text.
Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (dWjpk)

The book is actually good.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

102 The left hates Elon so I like Elon.
It’s like when I vote for local elections and have no idea who anyone is. If some progressive group thinks candidate X is worse than H!t l er then X gets my vote.

Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (JM/bJ)

103 Doesn’t mean it can’t be entertaining. Not every show has to be happy fun stories right?
Posted by: Montec

Not for 8 seasons. Tragedies need only one season. And the protag needs to die, dear Banquo.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (IG4Id)

104 94 FUCK OFF!
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

????????
Da fuq?
Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (JM/bJ)

Quoting from season 3 maybe?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (9UlRk)

Here's a video that I mentioned above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYl5NRAmjDE

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (iFTx/)

105 59 30 The Fox News talk-tards showed their conservative bona fides when not one took a righteous stance in defense of Tucker.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 12:39 PM (KbCG3)

Looking at you, Tick Dick Hannity.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:42 PM (zZu0s)

His interview with De Blasio was amazing. Super tough guy. So tough, in fact, that he only licked one of De Blasio's balls.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (KbCG3)

106 Speaking of media bigshots, I'm watching "Succession".

It's kind of dull. Maybe it gets better. They got to do four seasons, that must mean something, right?
Posted by: spindrift at September 21, 2023 12:40 PM (EGPRf)

I don't know about that. I rewatched Band Of Brothers, and it reaffirms my belief it's the best teevee show ever made.

Now I'm, I think, 3 episodes into The Pacific, and it is a noticeable dropoff in quality. In almost every way imaginable. Not least of which is the fact there were two firefights on Guadalcanal, that got less air time than the boys banging Aussie poon.

Now, I'm for Aussie poon as much as the next red-blooded American, but this is supposed to be about the war in the Pacific. How's some tramp dumping you, basically pulling a George Costanza on the poor sap, about the war??

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (hYVZU)

107 98 I have mostly given up on screen presentations having any similarities to their texts. Except Dune there are high standards there.

But I read World War Z after seeing and Loki the movie a lot, but they share the title and literally 2 paragraphs of text.
Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (dWjpk)

========

It's a safe assumption. I don't mind the changes for being changes. It's just that it turns Foundation into a space opera far more generic than its source material.

Also, Hari Seldon is in the whole damn show, and that just feels wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:49 PM (LvTSG)

108 I think a big part of the problem is this need for a recurring cast instead of treating each season or so as a chapter in the history of the fall of Empire and rise of Foundation with new personalities, more in line with the books.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

Most writers these days do not seem to want to write for the material they have been chosen to adapt. They have their own stories, so they brazenly modify the old thing to match their vision (or story idea they have been working on since high school.)

Most of the time, this sucks ass.

I have not watched One Piece (no Netflix), nor read the Anime (not a weeb), but I have heard people say that they love the show because it has stayed faithful to the characters and story ideas.

The only comment I can make except for vague happiness for a property that I am not invested in is that the redhead's boobs do not seem as large as the other material I have seen.

But I am happy the fans of this anime/manga actually got a good one. I wish I could say the same for the material I loved.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:49 PM (zZu0s)

109 Whatz Musk doin to da monkeys?

Posted by: Not really paying attention at September 21, 2023 12:49 PM (bhQTG)

110 Liked the movie a lot. Not Loki the movie. Autocorrect is a bitch.

Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:49 PM (dWjpk)

111 Elon Musk who-while not a big C conservative is a Libertarian with some conversative sounding views.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Elon is more normal and a lot of billionaires simply focus on their business and ignore the current world.
Posted by: whig

My own opinion, for as worthless as it is, is that Elon is just sort of a disruptive force. Maybe that's "libertarian", but he does a lot of strange things in his personal life. Like who he has married, and had kids with (not always married to).
Elon normal? Well, compared to who?

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 21, 2023 12:49 PM (vcOmj)

112 Not yet, but I've heard good things.

Another note about Foundation: I liked the first season more than the second, though the second apparently was better received by critics.

It was also the second season where characters started cursing...a lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (LvTSG)

I just finished 'The Afterparty" and while it falls into some annoying commentary I enjoyed that each and every episode is a different genre and had some good laughs.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:49 PM (CIS44)

113 Isn't Lachlan largely regarded as an even bigger douche than Rupert? So bad to worse?

Yes. Per Wapo: "Lachlan Murdoch is viewed as far more personally conservative than his father, who at times prioritized the finances and political influence of his media outlets rather than their ideology. Speaking at an event to launch a right-wing think tank in Sydney earlier this year, the son offered “a monologue that could have fit in seamlessly with the lineup of right-wing commentary served up every night by Fox News’s prime-time opinion hosts — including an obscure jab at the 1619 Project,”

The harm is already done. This monster will live in infamy. If we survive to put it in our grandchildren's textbooks.

The SOB did more to damage constructive communications/relations/politics among people than any person I can think of. Hearst was bad but I don't think he had the scale that Rupert has had for the last decades.

Good riddance Rupert. Thanks for helping to ruin democracy, you fucking asshole fascist.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (JCZqz)

114 Murdoch - and folks like Bob Iger and Sumner Redstone, etc. - are the private sector equivalent of Congress. They hold on forever, long into what would be considered "retirement age" by anyone else. The position and its trappings is its own allure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Murdoch at least fears what is coming for him as he dropped a Christian girlfriend and apparently that was one of the things that he hated about Tucker was his Christianity. Reportedly Murdoch is spooked by discussions of religion around him.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (Q9+wR)

115 Assent. Sorry, can't help myself. 61

Posted by: From about That Time at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (yrFRg)

116 @30

>>The Fox News talk-tards showed their conservative bona fides when not one took a righteous stance in defense of Tucker.

The prime time hosts make anywhere from 10 to 25 million a year, that's a lot of scratch to stick your neck out for.

Besides, Tucker getting fired was probably the best thing that happened to Tucker, he's free to do what he wants and seems to be building something with Musk.

Time will tell if it all pans out.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (IB0Lw)

117 65 The Ramones wrote a song about Maria Bartiromo.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 21, 2023 12:43 PM (vcOmj)

I want to know
I watch you on the TV every single day
Those eyes make everything okay
I watch her every day
I watch her every night
She's really outta sight
Maria Bartiromo

Posted by: m at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (SbC6h)

118 But I'm a Great American™.

Posted by: Shawn The Great American at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (bhQTG)

119 Where is Foundation aired?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

120 Maybe people look for what they don't have in their entertainment. Don't have mirth and levity in your day to day? You'll gravitate towards silly shows and movies. Don't have anything serious or important, just drudging though an autonomous life with no goals and no danger? You'll look for serious, weighty, *SQUONNNNNK* from the soundtrack so you know something Serious is happening kind of dramas. Not getting your bell rung enough? Trashy romance. Maybe. Maybe not.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (9UlRk)

121 Murdoch is (almost) Dead.

Long Live Murdoch.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (Cus5s)

122 Murdoch at least fears what is coming for him as he dropped a Christian girlfriend and apparently that was one of the things that he hated about Tucker was his Christianity. Reportedly Murdoch is spooked by discussions of religion around him.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (Q9+wR)
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Yeah, I heard those rumors as well. It would surprise not at all if it is true. Or false.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (t0OGg)

123 119 Where is Foundation aired?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

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It's an AppleTV+ show.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (LvTSG)

124 I have mostly given up on screen presentations having any similarities to their texts. Except Dune there are high standards there.

But I read World War Z after seeing and Loki the movie a lot, but they share the title and literally 2 paragraphs of text.
Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (dWjpk)
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Amazon's Wheel of Time has entered the chat...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (YIVH2)

125 Rupert! What a goofy name, amirite?

Posted by: Rupert Pupkin at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (MvF+J)

126 Former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war. Censorship is necessary to protect free speech.

I know NZ is a backward little island with more sheep than people, but a disturbingly high number of Americans believe exactly the same thing.

https://is.gd/ysrSrs

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 12:52 PM (0N1h0)

127 Yes. Per Wapo:

It is astonishing to me what WaPo has become. They've always been a lefty rag, but at this point, they're like a junior, and less polished version of The Nation.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2023 12:52 PM (I/Qkd)

128 Where is Foundation aired?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (t/2Uw)

AppleTV+

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:52 PM (CIS44)

129 Reportedly Murdoch is spooked by discussions of religion around him.

Posted by: whig

Stan cowers in fear when the Virgin Mary is invoked for her intercession.

Any similarities are purely intentional.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2023 12:52 PM (H/XYA)

130 The book is actually good.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

But in an entirely different way from the film. If I had read the book i would expected more of it in the movie but looking at them as standalone works they are two good pieces.

Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:52 PM (dWjpk)

131 I have mostly given up on screen presentations having any similarities to their texts. Except Dune there are high standards there.

Certainly true of Man in the High Castle - the whole point of the book was that the war had been over for twenty years. There was no "underground" - just ordinary people trying to make their way in a pretty miserable world.

The TV series threw all that out, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2023 12:52 PM (2tUFv)

132 104 94 FUCK OFF!
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

????????
Da fuq?
Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:46 PM (JM/bJ)

Quoting from season 3 maybe?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 12:47 PM (9UlRk)

Here's a video that I mentioned above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYl5NRAmjDE
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (iFTx/)

He seems nice.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2023 12:52 PM (SbC6h)

133 My own opinion, for as worthless as it is, is that Elon is just sort of a disruptive force. Maybe that's "libertarian", but he does a lot of strange things in his personal life. Like who he has married, and had kids with (not always married to).
Elon normal? Well, compared to who?
Posted by: A face in the crowd
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Normal in the sense that he is not a meglomaniac child molester like Bill Gates or a shitheel like the Googul founders.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (Q9+wR)

134 Amazon's Wheel of Time has entered the chat...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (YIVH2)

From what I heard, they do not even try to stay true to Jordan. Rand as a Mansel. I really do not want to know what they have done to Mat.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (zZu0s)

135 It's lonely being the world's pre-eminent voice of intellectual conservatism, man.

Posted by: Alyssa Farah Griffin at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (sWM8x)

136 Amazon's Wheel of Time has entered the chat...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (YIVH2)

Did you stay with that? I couldnt even finish the first season.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (CIS44)

137 Good riddance Rupert. Thanks for helping to ruin democracy, you fucking asshole fascist.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (JCZqz)

These people know seven words and by golly, they're going to use them!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (KbCG3)

138 "Ewok's the name. Hangin' shelves is my game."
Posted by: m

Hello!
My name is
KURT

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (kjOVp)

139 It’s like when I vote for local elections and have no idea who anyone is. If some progressive group thinks candidate X is worse than H!t l er then X gets my vote.
Posted by: Montec at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (JM/bJ

Part of my election research is to see what the teachers unions recommend. Then the issue or candidate gets a point in the opposite column. It's not the final say, but I usually end up voting the opposite of the teachers unions.

Posted by: Emmie at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (Sf2cq)

140 136 Amazon's Wheel of Time has entered the chat...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (YIVH2)

Did you stay with that? I couldnt even finish the first season.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (CIS44)

I bailed on the first episode.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (xcxpd)

141 Stan cowers in fear when the Virgin Mary is invoked for her intercession.

Any similarities are purely intentional.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Most definitely.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (Q9+wR)

142 Good riddance Rupert. Thanks for helping to ruin democracy, you fucking asshole fascist.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (JCZqz)

As if Biden and his DOJ aren't ruining democracy at a neck break pace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

143 Ahhhhhh, yessssssss.
This high-traffic area right in front of a doorway is the ideal place to flop down and take a rest from all that resting I was just doing on the printer.

Posted by: The Cat at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (t0OGg)

144 These people know seven words and by golly, they're going to use them!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM (KbCG3)

They know the words, not their definitions.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (CIS44)

145 Fox/Kemp 2024!

Posted by: DOYLE at September 21, 2023 12:44 PM (Z8Yh2)

Megan or Samantha?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (peNgU)

146 I watched a couple of episodes of One Piece and couldn't take anymore. I hated the main character. It seemed exactly the same as a show they did previously, Sinbad except the actors in the Sinbad series were more attractive.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (t/2Uw)

147 142 As if Biden and his DOJ aren't ruining democracy at a neck break pace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)

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Arresting bad people for bad thoughts is the epitome of democracy.

Also, vowing to violently overthrow the government of the United States and replace it with a communist dictatorship is democracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

148 Former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war. Censorship is necessary to protect free speech.

She's just serving as the face of the WEF.

Remember, Klaus Schwab said that elections would soon become unnecessary, because polling will tell you who would have won.

They are feeling less and less of a need to disguise their overt fascism.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2023 12:55 PM (2tUFv)

149 I watched a couple of episodes of One Piece and couldn't take anymore. I hated the main character. It seemed exactly the same as a show they did previously, Sinbad except the actors in the Sinbad series were more attractive.

I thought it was...okay. I also disliked the main character, but thought the girl was quite appealing. You may have different criteria.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2023 12:55 PM (I/Qkd)

150
Megan or Samantha?
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (peNgU)

Samantha. Epic tits for such a little woman.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:55 PM (Zz0t1)

151 Amazon's Wheel of Time has entered the chat...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 12:51 PM (YIVH2)

Haven't read it so the series stands alone for me. I guess people complained about how gay season one was so they haven't gated up season 2, yet.

Instead they just decided to make it even more complicated and add dozens more characters.

Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (dWjpk)

152 I watched a couple of episodes of One Piece and couldn't take anymore. I hated the main character. It seemed exactly the same as a show they did previously, Sinbad except the actors in the Sinbad series were more attractive.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (t/2Uw)

I didnt watch as I am not an anime person, but I have friends that thought it was great and stayed true to what they loved.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (CIS44)

153 Yeah, I heard those rumors as well. It would surprise not at all if it is true. Or false.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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That came out several places--first when Murdoch dumped his girlfriend several months ago. Now something similar is in the latest Wolff tome about Tucker.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (Q9+wR)

154 These people know seven words and by golly, they're going to use them!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 12:53 PM

We added Ukraine, Kiev, and Slava Ukraini in a patch update in February 2022!

Posted by: Brain dead Lefty NPCs at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (JCZqz)

155 Normal in the sense that he is not a meglomaniac child molester like Bill Gates or a shitheel like the Googul founders.
Posted by: whig

Bill Gates and the various founders of Google are certainly wicked people, but ...not to be pedantic, but you should spend some time reading up on Elon's personal life.
It's really weird. So while I can admire a lot of things that Elon has done, a lot of things about his life are also kind of disturbing.
I think he is an INTJ (personality theory), and does some really odd things (and according to personality theory, I am an INTJ too).

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (vcOmj)

156
I-uh, uh-I-uh,, l-l-like, like I-uh, Sesame, Sesame-uh S-S-Street

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (X4yCj)

157 I used to do things at a neck brace pace.

Posted by: Ted Kennedy at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (bhQTG)

158 They are feeling less and less of a need to disguise their overt fascism.

There was a disguise?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (I/Qkd)

159 As if Biden and his DOJ aren't ruining democracy at a neck break pace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:54 PM (Zz0t1)
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They're upholding justice.

Murdoch competently pretended not to gag on his own bile every time a "conservative" thing was mentioned so he could con the rubes and so permitted an extremely modest amplification of heterodox ideas in a couple of shows . As we all know, that's bad for democracy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (t0OGg)

160 Instead they just decided to make it even more complicated and add dozens more characters.
Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (dWjpk)

LOL. Well, that IS like the books...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:57 PM (zZu0s)

161 I saw Neck Brace Pace open for Behind the Wheel at The Hard Rock in '14.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 12:57 PM (Zz0t1)

162 I tried ep1 of Succession, and decided I couldn't binge a whole series with those characters. Do they at least start offing each other later on?

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at September 21, 2023 12:57 PM (MvF+J)

163 Oh, one other thing that was hilarious in Wolff's book is that Murdoch calls Hannity a moron.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:57 PM (Q9+wR)

164 I am to this day amazed that lefty shitweenies still think Fox is an extreme right wing ultra dark mega uber MAGA network.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at September 21, 2023 12:57 PM (VTu1l)

165 164 I am to this day amazed that lefty shitweenies still think Fox is an extreme right wing ultra dark mega uber MAGA network.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at September 21, 2023 12:57 PM (VTu1l)

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Well, they never watch it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

166 There was a disguise?

Openly denouncing free speech and democratic elections is new for them, as opposed to veiled hints.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2023 12:58 PM (2tUFv)

167 Murdoch at least fears what is coming for him as he dropped a Christian girlfriend and apparently that was one of the things that he hated about Tucker was his Christianity. Reportedly Murdoch is spooked by discussions of religion around him.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (Q9+wR)

The grim reaper visits everyone on this rock. Pretty arrogant to think that you are going to outrun the reaper?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 21, 2023 12:58 PM (7Pnfz)

168 " Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison "

They really do live in a different reality than we do, don't they.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (ou9hh)

169 Arresting bad people for bad thoughts is the epitome of democracy.

Also, vowing to violently overthrow the government of the United States and replace it with a communist dictatorship is democracy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:55 PM (LvTSG)

I know you're doing a bit but...that can be literally true. Democracy is not an inherently good thing, as the Greeks discovered. Repeatedly. (as did the Poles)
This is why Democracy is to be avoided. Go Republic or go home.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

170 161 I saw Neck Brace Pace open for Behind the Wheel at The Hard Rock in '14.

Mary Jo Kopechne unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Obligatory at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (bhQTG)

171 Elon is no Saint, but this is a time for the General Grants...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (TGPs7)

172 Well, they never watch it.

******************

this is true

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (VTu1l)

173 The grim reaper visits everyone on this rock. Pretty arrogant to think that you are going to outrun the reaper?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 21, 2023 12:58 PM (7Pnfz)

*Blue Oyster Cult has entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (CIS44)

174 I watched Waters last night. Maria Bartiromo was on looking particularly chesty.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (v0R5T)

175 165 164 I am to this day amazed that lefty shitweenies still think Fox is an extreme right wing ultra dark mega uber MAGA network.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at September 21, 2023 12:57 PM (VTu1l)
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Well, they never watch it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 12:58 PM

MSNBC tells us all the time, and they wouldn't lie to us!!!

Posted by: Brain dead Lefty NPCs at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (JCZqz)

176 Instead they just decided to make it even more complicated and add dozens more characters.
Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:56 PM (dWjpk)

I would recommend the series. I started reading it as a senior in High School (when the third book had just come out in hardcover.) Read the first two books in paperback. Bought the third in Hardcover. Went back and got the first two in Hardcover, then bought each one as it came out for the next... close to 20 years.

First five books are solid/awesome. Middle is a bit of a slog except for certain sequences. The end is strong and as well as could be expected since Jordan died and passed the series to someone else to finish.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (zZu0s)

177 >>> 167 Murdoch at least fears what is coming for him as he dropped a Christian girlfriend and apparently that was one of the things that he hated about Tucker was his Christianity. Reportedly Murdoch is spooked by discussions of religion around him.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 12:50 PM (Q9+wR)

The grim reaper visits everyone on this rock. Pretty arrogant to think that you are going to outrun the reaper?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 21, 2023 12:58 PM (7Pnfz)

I guess their daddy is a convincing liar, at least to stupid people.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (llON8)

178 So, like Bob Iger- but for Fox. Setting everything he built on fire as a sacrifice to... commie cocktail parties.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:38 PM (zZu0s)

Cocktail parties? HA! Look, champ, I'm 92. Not even gold-diggers will suck my shriveled wiener anymore. But... now that my network is transitioning - snort - to be just like every other leftist piece of shit, I get pussy. And the downside? My spawn end up with less? Like I give a shit. -- Rupert

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (zhLdt)

179 The book is actually good.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

But in an entirely different way from the film. If I had read the book i would expected more of it in the movie but looking at them as standalone works they are two good pieces.
Posted by: blaster at September 21, 2023 12:52 PM (dWjpk)

I couldn't really enjoy the film, because I'd read the book first, and it had me wondering why they even bothered using the same title.

It's not just that they changed "some" things, it's that they fundamentally altered the basic premise. It would be like making a movie about vegan vampires who can only come out in the day, and must sleep at night, because the moonlight kills them.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (vgiCf)

180 What's a shitweenie?

Posted by: Need some clarification at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (bhQTG)

181 169 I know you're doing a bit but...that can be literally true. Democracy is not an inherently good thing, as the Greeks discovered. Repeatedly. (as did the Poles)
This is why Democracy is to be avoided. Go Republic or go home.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

========

Why are you dissecting my bit?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (LvTSG)

182 > Bill Gates and the various founders of Google are certainly wicked people, but ...not to be pedantic, but you should spend some time reading up on Elon's personal life.

How many kids does Elon have now? Eleven? From three different women?

That ain't right.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (0N1h0)

183 Don't watch Fox anymore. So this news doesn't move the giveafuckometer one way or the other.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (BdMk6)

184 I managed to cheat death yesterday. Today I am figuring out whether it is dumb luck or maybe there really are such things as guardian angels.
If the latter, hey, thanks, I owe you one.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (MeG8a)

185 OT, but Tucker's interview with Ken Paxton is well worth your time.
===================

Rupert Murdoch was never, ever a "conservative." He's just a soulless moneywhore with fathomless appetite.

Great words.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (2aKiJ)

186 Fox News? Neeeever heard of it.

Posted by: Gen. Pinkney at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (7ycwL)

187 *Blue Oyster Cult has entered the chat*
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (CIS44)

Now I'm on Usetoobe looking for the SNL Christopher Walken skit. I need a few laughs today.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (7Pnfz)

188 Holy shit, I'm slightly older than Aetius451AD?

Huh.

I have all the Wheel of Time books in Hardcover.
I love the first 6 books, tolerate the last 3.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (xcxpd)

189 >>> 169
==
This is why Democracy is to be avoided. Go Republic or go home.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

"We TOLD you kids that..." -- Founding Fathers

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (llON8)

190 What's a shitweenie?
Posted by: Need some clarification at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (bhQTG)

Don't ask......

Posted by: Chasten Buttigieg at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

191 What's a shitweenie?
Posted by: Need some clarification at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (bhQTG)
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$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (ScR16)

192 Democracy doesn't have to mean universal plebiscite. It can just mean "This clique of tyrants rules everything... in the name of and in care of The People".

Therefore, the People are in charge. Simple. Now get on the train, zek. You're not The People.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (9UlRk)

193 What's a shitweenie?
Posted by: Need some clarification

$20 same as in townn

Posted by: Barry Sotero at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (TNFxq)

194 164 I am to this day amazed that lefty shitweenies still think Fox is an extreme right wing ultra dark mega uber MAGA network.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at September 21, 2023 12:57 PM (VTu1l)

Even funnier to think that they believe Trump's base watches it 24/7.

As if the Gorilla Channel doesn't even exist.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (KbCG3)

195 Now I'm on Usetoobe looking for the SNL Christopher Walken skit. I need a few laughs today.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (7Pnfz)

The part where farrell gets in parnells face and just taps the cow bell FRACKING kills me everytime. I dont know how he didnt break.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (CIS44)

196 I managed to cheat death yesterday.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (MeG8a)

I've watched Final Destination. Keep your head on a swivel.

Posted by: spindrift at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (EGPRf)

197 What's a shitweenie?
Posted by: Need some clarification at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (bhQTG)

I have no idea.

Posted by: Mayo Pete at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (v0R5T)

198 ========

Why are you dissecting my bit?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (LvTSG)

Nothing lasts forever.

Posted by: Chasten Buttigieg at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)

199 Why are you dissecting my bit?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (LvTSG)

I...take things too seriously sometimes. It's why I apparently don't like any movies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (xcxpd)

200 Strike one.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:03 PM (Zz0t1)

201 It's really weird. So while I can admire a lot of things that Elon has done, a lot of things about his life are also kind of disturbing.
I think he is an INTJ (personality theory), and does some really odd things (and according to personality theory, I am an INTJ too).
Posted by: A face in the crowd
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Read some about his upbringing which is enough to cause issues. But, my point is that Elon does not hate on humanity like Gates does in wanting to depopulate the world and Gates and Musk became enemies because Gates casually shorted billions of dollars in Tesla stock to Musk's ire. Then Gates could not understand why Musk refused to allow Gates to 'advise' him on philanthropy. Gates was also a 'friend' of Epstein and a known sampler of whores.

Buffet's wife picked out Buffet's mistress personally and his avuncular uncle act hides a real piece of shit familiar which how DC works (his dad was a congress critter) and uses that to his advantages in getting acquisitions dirt cheap or preventing pipelines from being built as it would his hurt railway revenue.

Read The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A. Heinlein and you will recognize Elon in it.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:03 PM (Q9+wR)

202 Perhaps Murdoch felt there was no need to manage the media empire he has anymore. Some people don't know when to quit, or they're paranoid about relinquishing command of their empire. They're really no different than feudal aristocrats.

Sometimes they know change is coming and they'd rather be out of the picture. Or they're being blackmailed.

People leave prominent positions for all sorts of reasons. It's certain (to me) he trashed FOX News at the behest of the junta. His departure may have part of that deal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2023 01:03 PM (Q4IgG)

203 Former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war. Censorship is necessary to protect free speech.
____

War is Peace!
Freedom is Slavery!
Ignorance is Strength!

Posted by: WEF Party at September 21, 2023 01:03 PM (fs1hN)

204 He can't depart this mortal coil fast enough.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at September 21, 2023 01:03 PM (qZdIZ)

205 Who the hell names their kid Rupert?

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (DsA2n)

206 199 Why are you dissecting my bit?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:00 PM (LvTSG)

I...take things too seriously sometimes. It's why I apparently don't like any movies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:02 PM (xcxpd)

=========

Well, you're gonna love The Kremlin Letter...

It even has an Ingmar Bergman reunion with Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow! I know you'll really appreciate that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

207 This sunny bikini brunette marvels at the lust for influence, since it makes these men hang on until they are moments from death:
https://is.gd/vxa5Vb

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (t0OGg)

208 I got a FEVAH! And the only prescription is MORE COWBELL!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (ScR16)

209 Who the hell names their kid Rupert?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (DsA2n)

*The Grints have entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (CIS44)

210 Former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war. Censorship is necessary to protect free speech.
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She's just serving as the face of the WEF.

Remember, Klaus Schwab said that elections would soon become unnecessary, because polling will tell you who would have won.

They are feeling less and less of a need to disguise their overt fascism.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2023 12:55 PM (2tUFv)

Someone was asking earlier, who's worse than Hilter. There must be someone in history who's worse than Hilter.

There's your worse than Hilter. Right there, the pinch faced fascist from New Zee.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (0m8j3)

211 @180 what's a shitweenie?
20 bucks, like in town

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (mCz8T)

212 207 This sunny bikini brunette marvels at the lust for influence, since it makes these men hang on until they are moments from death:
https://is.gd/vxa5Vb
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (t0OGg)

=======

Too tanned and obviously on the path towards skin cancer.

2/10

Would not bang.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (LvTSG)

213 >>I have all the Wheel of Time books in Hardcover.

Same here. But, I can't find where I stored the Dustcovers.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (YcYZY)

214 How many kids does Elon have now? Eleven? From three different women?

That ain't right.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (0N1h0)

Long as he's paying for them and I'm not... don't care. There will always be women who throw themselves at guys like him. He's tall, smart, famous, and rich.

It's not right but it's pretty far down my give-a-shit list.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (zhLdt)

215 No one watches the news anymore.

Posted by: Unless they're bedridden at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (bhQTG)

216 How many kids does Elon have now? Eleven? From three different women?

That ain't right.
Posted by: bonhomme
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We don't get to chose the vessels of who helps our side.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (Q9+wR)

217 I managed to cheat death yesterday. Today I am figuring out whether it is dumb luck or maybe there really are such things as guardian angels.
If the latter, hey, thanks, I owe you one.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (MeG8a)
================
My day was last Tuesday. Like you, I'm trying to understand my near escape.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (2aKiJ)

218 Former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war. Censorship is necessary to protect free speech.

Maybe that's why God told them to blow him.....

https://youtu.be/13fxgOooQrI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

219 From Instapundit:
I think Fetterman is analogous to Caligula’s horse. Suetonius relates that Caligula planned to appoint his horse Incitatus to the position of consul, but was assassinated before the appointment could be made. Why would Caligula name his horse consul? In order to insult and humiliate senators and other elites.

This is it. Biden, fetterman, Feinstein, McConnel, Garland, Hunter, the Border, Drag....it's all in your face. Why bother to even hide it.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 01:06 PM (t/2Uw)

220 What Karl Rove did to Ken Paxton s almost unbelievable.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2023 01:07 PM (2aKiJ)

221 "maybe there really are such things as guardian angels."

I suspect I have one, but I'm certain I don't deserve it.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at September 21, 2023 01:07 PM (MvF+J)

222 Democracy doesn't have to mean universal plebiscite. It can just mean "This clique of tyrants rules everything... in the name of and in care of The People".

Therefore, the People are in charge. Simple. Now get on the train, zek. You're not The People.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Tyrant is singular, as you know. Multiple assholes are an oligarchy, or in our case, a kleptocracy. And some point, it's just a Greek fustercluck.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 01:07 PM (IG4Id)

223 This sunny bikini brunette marvels at the lust for influence, since it makes these men hang on until they are moments from death:
https://is.gd/vxa5Vb
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

Crotch proud.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2023 01:07 PM (v0R5T)

224 The grim reaper visits everyone on this rock. Pretty arrogant to think that you are going to outrun the reaper?
Posted by: Ganowicz
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People like that would kill others so that they themselves could live a few more hours. Pretty horrible.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (Q9+wR)

225 I have all the Wheel of Time books in Hardcover.

Same here. But, I can't find where I stored the Dustcovers.
Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM (YcYZY)
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Same here, of course, though I recently had to re-purchase The Shadow Rising as it was falling apart...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (YIVH2)

226 Looks like the IDF smoked a man who was shooting at their people.

https://is.gd/ICfw9s

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (0N1h0)

227 Via Instapundit: Georgia researchers report rats carrying rat lungworm near Atlanta.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (TGPs7)

228 Tyrant is singular, as you know. Multiple assholes are an oligarchy, or in our case, a kleptocracy. And some point, it's just a Greek fustercluck.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 01:07 PM (IG4Id)

Proctarchy?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (9UlRk)

229 I managed to cheat death yesterday. Today I am figuring out whether it is dumb luck or maybe there really are such things as guardian angels.
If the latter, hey, thanks, I owe you one.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 21, 2023 01:01 PM (MeG8a)
++++
It has that effect, doesn't it? Very similar to the effect of narrowly avoiding causing great harm. That happened to me this week. Little kid riding her bike the wrong direction, which is an immediate red flag so I slowed down and I'm glad I did. She turned hard right and crossed in front of me. I came to a halt maybe a couple of inches from her. Had I been going even a little faster, it would have ended very differently.

There's more relief in one of those than in a near-miss to yourself, though, at least in my experience. I'd hate to have put a kid in the hospital or the grave.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (t0OGg)

230 This sunny bikini brunette marvels at the lust for influence, since it makes these men hang on until they are moments from death:
https://is.gd/vxa5Vb
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (t0OGg)

Tight and toned. Love it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (xcxpd)

231 * I'm certain I don't deserve it.*

Who does?

Posted by: I mean, seriously... at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (bhQTG)

232 228 Kakistocracy.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at September 21, 2023 01:09 PM (MvF+J)

233 Looks like the IDF smoked a man who was shooting at their people.

https://is.gd/ICfw9s
Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (0N1h0)

"The IDF should've shown restraint."

- - - The UN

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:09 PM (Zz0t1)

234 https://is.gd/vxa5Vb
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (t0OGg)

Mind the gap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (Zz0t1)

235 "Why would Caligula name his horse consul? In order to insult and humiliate senators and other elites."

That would be such a subtle and nerdy burn though.

Fettermonster speaks, and then the Republican who speaks in response just starts his rebuttal with "The representative from Pennsylvania, Incitatus..."

That has to be the smoothest way to call someone a horse's ass ever invented.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (ou9hh)

236 Why bother to even hide it.

TOGA!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff, striving to maintain Moron standards at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (zLfni)

237 Via Instapundit: Georgia researchers report rats carrying rat lungworm near Atlanta.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (TGPs7)

Public health emergency. Election is canceled.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (ga8qR)

238 We don't get to chose the vessels of who helps our side.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:05 PM

Absolutely wrong. We need to reject people with moral failings, and who are caughg acting in any way outside of our perfect moral expectations. Boebert, I'm looking at you (just your eyes, of course).

Posted by: Severely Conservative at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (JCZqz)

239 Well, you're gonna love The Kremlin Letter...

It even has an Ingmar Bergman reunion with Bibi Andersson and Max von Sydow! I know you'll really appreciate that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (LvTSG)

I don't like Bergman but I do like Max Von Sydow quite a lot.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (xcxpd)

240 What Karl Rove did to Ken Paxton s almost unbelievable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Read what he did to Greitens in Missouri--suborning perjury by paying for it, etc.

Karl Rove is a thoroughgoing piece of shit that deserves to be flushed. Any GOP candidate that even associates with that asshole deserves to lose.

He deserves to be dropped naked in the middle of Baghdad.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (Q9+wR)

241 Via Instapundit: Georgia researchers report rats carrying rat lungworm near Atlanta.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (TGPs7)

They've suggested that if it gets any more widespread that it could halt counting votes in several states in 2024.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (zhLdt)

242 Via Instapundit: Georgia researchers report rats carrying rat lungworm near Atlanta.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (TGPs7)

That will put a damper on the ratburger industry in the underworld.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

243 226 Looks like the IDF smoked a man who was shooting at their people.

https://is.gd/ICfw9s
Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (0N1h0)

good

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (xcxpd)

244 "The IDF should've shown restraint."

- - - The UN
____

How about your blue-helmets show some restraint around the children, ok?

Posted by: Haiti at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (fs1hN)

245 Absolutely wrong. We need to reject people with moral failings, and who are caughg acting in any way outside of our perfect moral expectations. Boebert, I'm looking at you (just your eyes, of course).
Posted by: Severely Conservative

I ain't no conservative--I am of the Right but reject conservatism as a failed ideology of doing nothing and praising and enriching oneself for it.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (Q9+wR)

246 If they lose the election...

Gerry Callahan
@GerryCallahan

By allowing in 7 million illegals, it seems Democrats have made a cynical and sinister political calculation.

They’re willing to risk losing the 2024 election to assure it will be the last one they ever lose.

And if it destroys the country in the process, all the better.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (TGPs7)

247 Pink house. Weird sunglasses.

Posted by: wth at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (v0R5T)

248 >>I managed to cheat death yesterday.

Was making a left as the Yellow turned to Red yesterday. Oncoming driver decided to shoot the light (Going maybe 55-60 in a 45).
He missed me, but completely destroyed the car behind me.
Everyone walked away. But it was a scene.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (YcYZY)

249 Megyn Kelly, who certainly knows something about Fox, says that Rupert Murdoch was never, ever a "conservative." He's just a soulless moneywhore with fathomless appetite.

Seems kinda like the pot calling the kettle black.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (YRsIm)

250 Is lungworm anything like that viral video of the bear with the 13' tapeworm hanging out it's ass?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

251 Was making a left as the Yellow turned to Red yesterday. Oncoming driver decided to shoot the light (Going maybe 55-60 in a 45).
He missed me, but completely destroyed the car behind me.
Everyone walked away. But it was a scene.
Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (YcYZY)
++++
Oy. Thank G-d for engineers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:12 PM (t0OGg)

252 If your plan includes a step labeled "shoot at IDF," then re-evaluate.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at September 21, 2023 01:12 PM (MvF+J)

253 That will put a damper on the ratburger industry in the underworld.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

Taco Bell hardest hit.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (CIS44)

254
good
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (xcxpd)

It's crazy they pulled the trigger for the neck shot while being so wobbly like that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)

255 237 Via Instapundit: Georgia researchers report rats carrying rat lungworm near Atlanta.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2023 01:08 PM (TGPs7)

Public health emergency. Election is canceled.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM

Nonsense! We can't allow that! However, we've reached a compromise with our Democrat friends, where we'll have unmonitored ballot drop boxes scattered throughout metro areas to help avoid close contact and spread of the disease. We'll also mail ballots to all registered voters, to make voting as easy as possible and encourage mail-in voting.

Posted by: Georgia Republican Leadership at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (JCZqz)

256 Is lungworm anything like that viral video of the bear with the 13' tapeworm hanging out it's ass?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
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I don't plan on looking for pics of either one, thanks...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (YIVH2)

257 @240 whig, Rove was on Bartiromo yesterday morning and said I"I'm a conservative, not a populist". I just about spit out my oatmeal. You're not a conservative Karl you're an asshole

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (mCz8T)

258 "Restraint".....

Why? How much restraint?

Shoot them in the toe to start, and work your way up until you find the "I'm not in danger anymore" threshold? What's the limiting principle?

Why does the instigator not get cautioned to "use restraint"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (9UlRk)

259 >>Oy. Thank G-d for engineers.

I thought the girl behind me was gonna be dead. Can't believe she walked away.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (YcYZY)

260 Tyrant is singular, as you know. Multiple assholes are an oligarchy, or in our case, a kleptocracy. And some point, it's just a Greek fustercluck.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 01:07 PM (IG4Id)

This is why I don't like the whole "murder of crows" concept. I mean, I see crows all the time. Usually one or two here or there. Is that a murder of crows? If there are half a dozen, is that not a cluster, or some other innocuous word?

If you have dozens, then call it a murder. More than 50, call that an oligarchy of crows, and if you go over 100 or so, then it can be a Greek fustercluck of crows.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (0m8j3)

261 This sunny bikini brunette marvels at the lust for influence, since it makes these men hang on until they are moments from death

With Biden it's the lust for flatulence.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff, striving to maintain Moron standards at September 21, 2023 01:14 PM (zLfni)

262
His successor is his son, Lackwit, you say?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 21, 2023 01:14 PM (xG4kz)

263 ---
I don't plan on looking for pics of either one, thanks...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (YIVH2)

I just happened to be looking when the wife pulled the bear vid up on facebook.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

264 Getting this in the name field

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 21, 2023 01:14 PM (+MSSo)

265 "Usually one or two here or there. Is that a murder of crows?"

An attempted one at any rate.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:14 PM (ou9hh)

266 This is why I don't like the whole "murder of crows" concept. I mean, I see crows all the time. Usually one or two here or there. Is that a murder of crows?

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Attempted murder.

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (+MSSo)

267 I just happened to be looking when the wife pulled the bear vid up on facebook.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)
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Somehow that makes it sound *worse.*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (YIVH2)

268 Rove was on Bartiromo yesterday morning and said I"I'm a conservative, not a populist". I just about spit out my oatmeal. You're not a conservative Karl you're an asshole
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (mCz8T)

I find it hilarious Paxton called him a liberal in the Tucker interview.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)

269 This sunny bikini brunette marvels at the lust for influence, since it makes these men hang on until they are moments from death:
https://is.gd/vxa5Vb
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (t0OGg)

I pondered making a comment but I'm far too homely to comment on her appearance.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (HfNu5)

270 Karl Rove should fall into a sinkhole....a deep sinkhole.

Posted by: BignJames at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (AwYPR)

271 Is lungworm anything like that viral video of the bear with the 13' tapeworm hanging out it's ass?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)
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I don't plan on looking for pics of either one, thanks...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Might be worth a look to see how they measured it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (ga8qR)

272 52 Who IS a conservative who is a multi Millionaire or Billionaire?They all think the next step after having all that money is being godlike and telling the whole world how they should live in every possible way. The only one who slightly veers from that seems to be Elon Musk who-while not a big C conservative is a Libertarian with some conversative sounding views.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 12:41 PM (RSbhh)

I think this is about right. Murdoch is a business genius, and probably the last of the great newspaper moguls. He grew a small fortune into a very big one, and for decades he was all conservatives had. Just his starting FOX (even though I can't stand it now) solidifies his standing on the Right as a giant.

We can't judge his conservatism by US standards. As an Aussie, who spent a lot of time in the UK, his conservatism is probably closest to Nelson Rockefeller's. He liked Reagan because he likes power.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (/iWhV)

273 A Charm of Finches.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff, striving to maintain Moron standards at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (zLfni)

274 Seems kinda like the pot calling the kettle black.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (YRsIm)

Megyn doesn't eat..... food.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (0m8j3)

275 249 Megyn Kelly, who certainly knows something about Fox, says that Rupert Murdoch was never, ever a "conservative." He's just a soulless moneywhore with fathomless appetite.

Seems kinda like the pot calling the kettle black.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM

No, she's always been a conservative, and only now is free to show it. She's turned over a new leaf? Dominate me, ice queen!!!

Posted by: Conservatives with Megyn's wool panties over their eyes at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (JCZqz)

276 Speaking of media bigshots, I'm watching "Succession".

Siobhan (Sarah Snook) has a big ass.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (ufFY8)

277
Might be worth a look to see how they measured it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (ga8qR)

The bear walks by a truck dragging it behind....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

278 "It has that effect, doesn't it?"

There are lots of kids in my neighborhood, and they don't always exercise good judgement. That is my personal nightmare, to cause injury or worse to any of them. I knew a woman who hit a kid chasing a ball, killed him. Police didn't hold her responsible for it. Called it a "dart out".
Anyway, she died young, drank herself to death. Couldn't live with it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (MeG8a)

279 hiya

Posted by: JT at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (T4tVD)

280 Siobhan (Sarah Snook) has a big ass.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (ufFY

She was in the Beanie Baby movie. This is the end of my knowledge of Sarah Snook.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (CIS44)

281 A Charm of Finches.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff, striving to maintain Moron standards at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (zLfni)
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Pffff.

Posted by: An Exaltation of Larks at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (ScR16)

282 276 Speaking of media bigshots, I'm watching "Succession".

Siobhan (Sarah Snook) has a big ass.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (ufFY

Mannix thread babe is way, way better.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (xcxpd)

283 Another day, another old, smelly liberal dbag that won't die.

Posted by: Joey bag a' donuts at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (9214m)

284
Mannix thread babe is way, way better.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (xcxpd)

*does image search*

Blech.

Agreed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

285 Poso reminds us how Howard Stern is a massive tankerload of shit.

Just after Columbine in 1999, speaking of the murderers, Stern said, "Did those kids try to have sex with any of the good-looking girls? They didn't even do that? At least if you're going to kill yourself and kill all the kids, why wouldn't you have some sex?"

https://is.gd/P2rH9C

And now he's a terrified Covidiot.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (0N1h0)

286 I thought the girl behind me was gonna be dead. Can't believe she walked away.
Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (YcYZY)
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The other driver needs to be removed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (RIvkX)

287 Meh, I think Murdoch became an Establismentarian swamp creature, but I think he started out as a center-rightish media mogul that at least tried to be an alternative to the dominant liberal media. Look at all of his media properties that usually have a conservative bent. The Left certainly doesnt believe he's a fellow traveler.

Posted by: Blago at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (15SVK)

288 13' tapeworm hanging out it's ass?

In many ways this is also the story of Jerrold Nadler.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff, striving to maintain Moron standards at September 21, 2023 01:18 PM (zLfni)

289 There are lots of kids in my neighborhood, and they don't always exercise good judgement. That is my personal nightmare, to cause injury or worse to any of them. I knew a woman who hit a kid chasing a ball, killed him. Police didn't hold her responsible for it. Called it a "dart out".
Anyway, she died young, drank herself to death. Couldn't live with it.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (MeG8a)
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Yeah. Lots of people on my street, and no sidewalks. Pedestrians galore. Half the grown-ups aren't too careful. Well under half the kids exercise a modicum of caution.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:18 PM (t0OGg)

290 Snook is a fish, so there's that.

Posted by: Joey bag a' donuts at September 21, 2023 01:18 PM (9214m)

291 She was in the Beanie Baby movie. This is the end of my knowledge of Sarah Snook.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (CIS44)

Isn't she the one who came up with the tariff legislation, with Josh Hawley?

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (0m8j3)

292 I gave up on Fox the day they hired the cheat Brazile

Posted by: Skip at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (cjaXC)

293 Not my near death experience, but the asshole who insists on riding his bike on a country, two-lane road, speed limit is 55MPH, with no shoulders and a dozen blind curves must have one every goddamn day, yet still rides.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (Q4IgG)

294 Snooker is a game in billiards.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

295 Murdoch's sale of 20th Century Fox pushed Disney over the edge he did some good

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (2v4qT)

296 I ain't no conservative--I am of the Right but reject conservatism as a failed ideology of doing nothing and praising and enriching oneself for it.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:11 PM (Q9+wR)

You can't have social liberty without the political/economic liberty which allows it. That's almost axiomatic. Conservatism was just the recognition that conversely you also can't have political liberty without the social liberty to form the kinds of associations and societies that foster political liberty and denounce and hinder attempts to destroy it.

It's not really an "-ism". And a slavish adherence to established political organizations and structures regardless of their merit is not even conservatism. It's.... i don't know. Something else. Toadyism?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (9UlRk)

297 Poso reminds us how Howard Stern is a massive tankerload of shit.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM (0N1h0)

He's terrified that there's no afterlife... or that there is.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 21, 2023 01:20 PM (zhLdt)

298 Isn't she the one who came up with the tariff legislation, with Josh Hawley?
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (0m8j3)

She was involved in some legislation due to Ty taking credit away from her daughters. I dont know if that was with Hawley or not.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:20 PM (CIS44)

299 It's crazy they pulled the trigger for the neck shot while being so wobbly like that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)

Can't always wait for a perfect shot. You just have to be accurate 'enough'.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:20 PM (xcxpd)

300 260 I mean, I see crows all the time. Usually one or two here or there. Is that a murder of crows? If there are half a dozen, is that not a cluster, or some other innocuous word?
Posted by: BurtTC

If there are half a dozen crows, they will be outside my window at 5:30am cawing their asses off.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at September 21, 2023 01:20 PM (lqvOK)

301 Fox News is dead to me. In the same category as CNN, MSNBC, etc. Haven't watched in 3 years, the future doesn't look promising either.

Posted by: TC at September 21, 2023 01:20 PM (FjlUt)

302 Not my near death experience, but the asshole who insists on riding his bike on a country, two-lane road, speed limit is 55MPH, with no shoulders and a dozen blind curves must have one every goddamn day, yet still rides.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (Q4IgG)
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The bicyclists around here have a, shall we say, reduced sense of self-preservation.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 21, 2023 01:20 PM (ScR16)

303 Might be worth a look to see how they measured it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (ga8qR)

The bear walks by a truck dragging it behind....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

I was imaging a couple of guys sneaking behind the walking bear with one holding the dummy end of a tape measure up to the bears a-hole and the other holding the loose end of the tapeworm up to the tape measure.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (ga8qR)

304 We can't judge his conservatism by US standards. As an Aussie, who spent a lot of time in the UK, his conservatism is probably closest to Nelson Rockefeller's. He liked Reagan because he likes power.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

___

That and look at the longtime posters even here. How many people here have done a complete 180?

I bet there's some embarrassing posts about how wonderful Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Dubya Bush were. And that anyone that had questions about the War in Iraq secretly supports Al Queda.

Posted by: Blago at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (15SVK)

305 OH MY GOD !!!!!!!!!!

What if THE REPUBLICANS Shut Down the Federal Government ???? What will I do, Who will take care of me, Who will protect me ?????????????

Please President Biden save me from REAL LIFE !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mr. Creosote at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (FBf3u)

306 273 A Charm of Finches.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff, striving to maintain Moron standards at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (zLfni)

An Atticus of Finches.

Posted by: m at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (SbC6h)

307 Not my near death experience, but the asshole who insists on riding his bike on a country, two-lane road, speed limit is 55MPH, with no shoulders and a dozen blind curves must have one every goddamn day, yet still rides.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (Q4IgG)
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That problem will sort itself out eventually.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (RIvkX)

308
I was imaging a couple of guys sneaking behind the walking bear with one holding the dummy end of a tape measure up to the bears a-hole and the other holding the loose end of the tapeworm up to the tape measure.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (ga8qR)

Someone should've done a solid and tossed the bear a rabbit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

309 The heart of the problem with everything is that money has become god, the ultimate all powerful final answer for anything in the human culture. Nothing overrides money in consideration.

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 21, 2023 01:22 PM (e3M0f)

310 "That problem will sort itself out eventually.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (RIvkX)"

But is the solution worth the trauma it will cause the motorist?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:22 PM (ou9hh)

311 295 Murdoch's sale of 20th Century Fox pushed Disney over the edge he did some good
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 21, 2023 01:19 PM (2v4qT)

Yes. He knew he had one of the last great media properties, and was always going to get more than top dollar for it. As soon as he got Disney's check, he laughed all the way to the bank to cash it. He knew that Disney couldn't really afford it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2023 01:22 PM (/iWhV)

312 240 What Karl Rove did to Ken Paxton s almost unbelievable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Read what he did to Greitens in Missouri--suborning perjury by paying for it, etc.

Karl Rove is a thoroughgoing piece of shit that deserves to be flushed. Any GOP candidate that even associates with that asshole deserves to lose.

He deserves to be dropped naked in the middle of Baghdad.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:10 PM (Q9+wR)

Was Greitens set up, or did they take something he did and turn it up to 11?

Posted by: Inogame at September 21, 2023 01:22 PM (53oGX)

313 >>Someone should've done a solid and tossed the bear a rabbit.

Or, just stepped on the tapeworm.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:23 PM (YcYZY)

314 The only comment I can make except for vague happiness for a property that I am not invested in is that the redhead's boobs do not seem as large as the other material I have seen.

But I am happy the fans of this anime/manga actually got a good one. I wish I could say the same for the material I loved.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 12:49 PM (zZu0s)

I just finished One Piece.
Orange hair chick is nice to look at.

Watched about half of the first episode of the anime version. Yeah, the live action seemed faithful. But it was typical goofy anime.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 21, 2023 01:23 PM (ufFY8)

315 Whenever you think you've had a really bad day...

A tragic incident unfolded on Monday, resulting in the death of a 59-year-old man who suffered multiple bee stings, a Kentucky coroner said.

The individual, whose identity remains private at this time, was in the process of moving an old bag of potting soil from his porch in Harlan County, Kentucky. According to Deputy Coroner John W. Jones, bees unexpectedly emerged from the bag, swarming and stinging the man.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2023 01:23 PM (Q4IgG)

316 Yeah. Lots of people on my street, and no sidewalks. Pedestrians galore. Half the grown-ups aren't too careful. Well under half the kids exercise a modicum of caution.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:18 PM (t0OGg)

We have a ton of leisure trails and I see people Jogging on the road instead of using the paved leisure trail

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 21, 2023 01:23 PM (2v4qT)

317 Meh, I think Murdoch became an Establismentarian swamp creature, but I think he started out as a center-rightish media mogul that at least tried to be an alternative to the dominant liberal media. Look at all of his media properties that usually have a conservative bent. The Left certainly doesnt believe he's a fellow traveler.

Posted by: Blago at September 21, 2023 01:17 PM

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I think that was strictly business. He saw a huge unfilled gap in the media market and got wildly rich filling it. Nothing to do with his personal views one way or the other.

Posted by: Bigsmith at September 21, 2023 01:23 PM (wrF++)

318 He knew that Disney couldn't really afford it.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2023 01:22 PM (/iWhV)

I am very eagerly awaiting the forced purchase of Hulu next year.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:23 PM (CIS44)

319 But is the solution worth the trauma it will cause the motorist?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:22 PM (ou9hh)
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Not in the slightest.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2023 01:23 PM (RIvkX)

320 "If there are half a dozen crows, they will be outside my window at 5:30am cawing their asses off."

Starts before dawn. One crow leads off a call, pauses, all the others call, pause. Repeat several times. I think it's kinda cool.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at September 21, 2023 01:24 PM (MvF+J)

321 "was in the process of moving an old bag of potting soil from his porch in Harlan County, Kentucky. According to Deputy Coroner John W. Jones, bees unexpectedly emerged from the bag, swarming and stinging the man.

Whoof. Talk about reasons to not leave potting soil laying around...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (ou9hh)

322 2 words, "Common Sense Bee Control"

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (FjlUt)

323 >>Not my near death experience, but the asshole who insists on riding his bike on a country, two-lane road, speed limit is 55MPH, with no shoulders and a dozen blind curves must have one every goddamn day, yet still rides.

I have to ride at least 2-5 miles of 60 mph rural highway to get to the safer paved roads that make up the majority of my Road Bike Rides.

Word is that you don't hear the one that gets you.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (YcYZY)

324 304 We can't judge his conservatism by US standards. As an Aussie, who spent a lot of time in the UK, his conservatism is probably closest to Nelson Rockefeller's. He liked Reagan because he likes power.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

___

That and look at the longtime posters even here. How many people here have done a complete 180?

I bet there's some embarrassing posts about how wonderful Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Dubya Bush were. And that anyone that had questions about the War in Iraq secretly supports Al Queda.

Posted by: Blago at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (15SVK)

True, that. I made my share of those, myself. And those I didn't post, I certainly thought.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (/iWhV)

325 My driving complaint is about bicyclists who use the pedestrian walk lanes when they should be obeying car rules. They move so much faster than pedestrians that when they come shooting off the sidewalk unexpectantlywhen one is already turning the corner thinking it is clear, forcing a stomping on the brakes. I stop in time but what about the person behind me?

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (t/2Uw)

326 Whoof. Talk about reasons to not leave potting soil laying around...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (ou9hh)
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Or to refrain from cleaning your porch.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (ScR16)

327
I'm on the last episode of the second season of Foundation,...speaking of TV.

This show is far dumber than it needs to be, and it still irritates the shit out of me that the characters know about the Mule hundreds of years before he shows up.

No, the books were dumb, too. Asimov was reveling in his "big braininess".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 21, 2023 01:26 PM (xG4kz)

328 In my defense, me twenty years ago was even stupider than me now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 01:26 PM (9UlRk)

329 278 "It has that effect, doesn't it?"

There are lots of kids in my neighborhood, and they don't always exercise good judgement. That is my personal nightmare, to cause injury or worse to any of them. I knew a woman who hit a kid chasing a ball, killed him. Police didn't hold her responsible for it. Called it a "dart out".
Anyway, she died young, drank herself to death. Couldn't live with it.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 21, 2023 01:16 PM (MeG8a)

That would be devastating.

Posted by: Inogame at September 21, 2023 01:27 PM (53oGX)

330 Derek Eugene Pettis was granted parole in CA on 9/6. He was previously sentenced to Life with chance of parole in 2034 for attempted murder of a cop ( shot him in the head) and murder of a volunteer chaplain in 1994. He was 24 years old at the time. He was paroled early based on another change in the youthful offender age requirement.

Insanity. Also good luck trying to find a photo of the guy.

Posted by: Drive by at September 21, 2023 01:27 PM (MNhXM)

331 "Or to refrain from cleaning your porch.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight"

... at least not before midwinter when you can be reasonably sure the bugs are dead.

Unlesss Kentucky doesn't have that kind of cold?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:27 PM (ou9hh)

332 I have to ride at least 2-5 miles of 60 mph rural highway to get to the safer paved roads that make up the majority of my Road Bike Rides.

Word is that you don't hear the one that gets you.
Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (YcYZY)

When I was about 10, was riding bikes at my friend's house. He lived on a rural road that people flew down. I darted left without looking and there was a car right there. Driver missed me and then slammed their brakes. They had to stop to catch their breath.

If I had darted out 2-3 seconds earlier, I'm probably dead.

I think about that a lot.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 01:27 PM (KbCG3)

333 296 I think of 'conservatism' as a preference for keeping old, tested ideas that work, rather than discarding them for new ideas that don't work, thought up by people who don't even know or understand the old ideas in the first place.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at September 21, 2023 01:28 PM (MvF+J)

334 "was in the process of moving an old bag of potting soil from his porch in Harlan County, Kentucky. According to Deputy Coroner John W. Jones, bees unexpectedly emerged from the bag, swarming and stinging the man.

Whoof. Talk about reasons to not leave potting soil laying around...
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (ou9hh)
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Can we be certain they weren't murder hornets?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023 01:28 PM (YIVH2)

335
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 01:25 PM (t/2Uw)
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How dare you walk. On the sidewalk.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2023 01:28 PM (RIvkX)

336 "Why would Caligula name his horse consul?"

He didn't. He named him Incitatus.
You guys, always "thinking about Rome."
You're thinking about porn movies and comic books.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 21, 2023 01:28 PM (4PZHB)

337 Ana Navarro Tweet - Neither of them are spring chickens. They both make verbal gaffes. What I don’t get is why people keep clutching their pearls about Biden’s age, but not about Trump’s who looks pretty out-of-shape and unhealthy.

Yes, they’re both old. But only one is impeached, indicted, immoral and a threat to democracy. I’m gonna vote for the old guy with a waist and a moral compass.

"They BOTH make verbal gaffes"????? WTF???? More whataboutism. No, ONE of them makes verbal gaffes talking about policy.

The other says ignorant, incomprehensible 2nd grader IMBECILIC rants EXCLUSIVELY about imagined grievances against himself, about himself, for himself. NEVER ABOUT SUBSTANCE.

The contrasts are striking. If only the media would report it as such.

Exactly! President Joe has battled stuttering his entire life. (and pretty successfully I might add..) While the treasonous PIG is a blithering idiot with the vocabulary of a 4th grader.

Tack on his on-set dementia, and you have a cesspool of verbal diarrhea coming out of a pigs anus shaped like a human mouth.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 21, 2023 01:28 PM (JCZqz)

338 >>My driving complaint is about bicyclists who use the pedestrian walk lanes when they should be obeying car rules.

Yep. Them and the people riding abreast instead of single file.

Posted by: garrett at September 21, 2023 01:29 PM (YcYZY)

339
I-uh, uh-I-uh,, like, l-like, uh-like licorice

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at September 21, 2023 01:29 PM (X4yCj)

340 The heart of the problem with everything is that money has become god, the ultimate all powerful final answer for anything in the human culture. Nothing overrides money in consideration.
=
*nods head yes like Jack Nicholson in the departed*
*giggles in anticipation *

Posted by: 33 trillion in debt and counting at September 21, 2023 01:29 PM (mZ3ss)

341 How dare you walk. On the sidewalk.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2023 01:28 PM (RIvkX)

Give the poor people some privacy while they're pooping, would ya?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 01:29 PM (9UlRk)

342 Insanity. Also good luck trying to find a photo of the guy.

Posted by: Drive by at September 21, 2023 01:27 PM (MNhXM)

*Raises hand*
oh I know, I know!

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:29 PM (CIS44)

343 The individual, whose identity remains private at this time, was in the process of moving an old bag of potting soil from his porch in Harlan County, Kentucky. According to Deputy Coroner John W. Jones, bees unexpectedly emerged from the bag, swarming and stinging the man.

ObBlueGrass: https://youtu.be/IPhR4c3jwl8?si=40KA6IcqlhcpFi0h

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2023 01:29 PM (nfrXX)

344 I find it hilarious Paxton called him a liberal in the Tucker interview.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)
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Rove/Bush Republicans seem to have made it impossible to prosecute voter fraud in Texas (according to Paxton). This, while suffering invasion along the southern border. Paxton had 900 active voter fraud cases going at any one time, on average, and this seem to be Rove's issue. He's trying to turn Texas Democrat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 21, 2023 01:29 PM (A6Tux)

345 "Can we be certain they weren't murder hornets?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 21, 2023"

I'd guess that they were actually wasps or yellowjackets. Maybe bumblebees, which are apparently mean little SOBs.

Probably not honeybees. Dirt is not their preferred nesting medium.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:30 PM (ou9hh)

346
When I was about 10, was riding bikes at my friend's house. He lived on a rural road that people flew down. I darted left without looking and there was a car right there. Driver missed me and then slammed their brakes. They had to stop to catch their breath.

If I had darted out 2-3 seconds earlier, I'm probably dead.

I think about that a lot.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 01:27 PM (KbCG3)

I lived in a subdivision as a yute. One day, I was heading home from a friend's house to see if my mom had left to go to the store. As I flew out of the driveway, mom was approaching, saw me and accelerated as I slammed into the side of the car and flipped over the top of it.

I landed and slammed the back of my arm on the road. That was the only real pain and managed to keep my head from bouncing off the pavement.

She got out, looked at me and yelled at me to go home.

The knobby marks down the side of the car were kinda cool, so there was that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

347 Some bumblebees nest underground.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Refreshment at September 21, 2023 01:31 PM (MvF+J)

348 I think that was strictly business. He saw a huge unfilled gap in the media market and got wildly rich filling it. Nothing to do with his personal views one way or the other.
Posted by: Bigsmith

_____

Donald Trump is now conservatism's "War in Iraq" where anyone that has a different take is labeled a Leftist.

We see the same thing with Megyn Kelly. She asked Trump some tough questions and was a closet leftist. Now she's a complete Trump cheerleader and is "back in the fold".

What's ironic is "Ruppy" and Trump were supposedly quite chummy at one time. He fully backed Trump's 2016 election bid. One the phone all night, celebrating with Trump and giving him updates that he was going to win.

FWIW, Fox News went off the rails when they lost Roger Ailes.

Posted by: Blago at September 21, 2023 01:31 PM (15SVK)

349 Was Greitens set up, or did they take something he did and turn it up to 11?
Posted by: Inogame

He was set up originally by the now exited POS St. Louis Soros prosecutor and her former FBI investigator who broke all sorts of laws to 'get em."

When Greitens was exonerated and running for office again, Rove then procured affidavits alleging the Greitens engaged in domestic violence from his ex wife and some other piece of trash. Turns out that Rove was paying for them in Texas in order to prevent Greitens from returning to office.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:31 PM (Q9+wR)

350 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:04 PM (t0OGg)

"Sunny Bikini". Well, at least the bikini is cheerful. The facial expression on the boobette likes like she would quite easily say, "Don't come within a mile of me unless you're very, very wealthy."

6/10 Would not bang.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 01:31 PM (RSbhh)

351 Exactly! President Joe has battled stuttering his entire life. (and pretty successfully I might add..)

oh the stutter is back again?

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:31 PM (CIS44)

352 That and look at the longtime posters even here. How many people here have done a complete 180?

I bet there's some embarrassing posts about how wonderful Mitt Romney, John McCain, and Dubya Bush were. And that anyone that had questions about the War in Iraq secretly supports Al Queda.

Posted by: Blago at September 21, 2023 01:21 PM (15SVK)

That's a pretty large distortion of reality. I don't believe anyone who truly supported either Romney or McCain is still hanging around here now. If they are, they keep awfully quiet.

And there's such a wide swath of territory between W and both of them, as there is between those who were willing to TRUST the Bush White House on Iraq, and those who supported Al Queda.

Bush BETRAYED whatever faction of conservatism one is going to find here now, and I don't know anyone here who doesn't realize that, as clearly as anything.

People often say, it's not that I left "the party," it's that the party left me. When in reality, it's more accurate to say, the party has not been what it claimed to be for quite some time, it just took most people longer than they like now to realize it.

In other words, F the Republican Party.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:32 PM (+RSLh)

353
6/10 Would not bang.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 01:31 PM (RSbhh)

One thing I never thought I'd see Fen post.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

354 Imagine reading this in 1984 - or 1994 - or - 2014 - or ...

@BIZPACReview 2m
US imports record amount of fertilizer from Russia, topping $900M http://dlvr.it/SwR6S9

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 01:33 PM (IG4Id)

355 I heard candidate Burgum on the radio - he said we can get to net-zero carbon by 2030 using the free market instead of govt coercion (I'm paraphrasing).

I will not vote for anyone who doesn't understand that net-zero means huge sacrifices by ordinary people (not the 'elites') for no benefit to the planet. He's probably a WEF plant.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2023 01:33 PM (fs1hN)

356 Going to try and get some Gainzzz.
Have a good afternoon people.
(still feels like Friday)

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 21, 2023 01:33 PM (t/2Uw)

357 240 What Karl Rove did to Ken Paxton s almost unbelievable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I just watched Tucker's interview of Paxton. Just incredible what they did to Paxton. He might as well have been operating in some third-world or Communist country. The drunken RINO snake who leads the House was Rove's accomplice.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 21, 2023 01:33 PM (uhwX5)

358 > He didn't. He named him Incitatus.

Heh.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 21, 2023 01:34 PM (0N1h0)

359 That's a pretty large distortion of reality. I don't believe anyone who truly supported either Romney or McCain is still hanging around here now. If they are, they keep awfully quiet.

And there's such a wide swath of territory between W and both of them, as there is between those who were willing to TRUST the Bush White House on Iraq, and those who supported Al Queda.

Bush BETRAYED whatever faction of conservatism one is going to find here now, and I don't know anyone here who doesn't realize that, as clearly as anything.

People often say, it's not that I left "the party," it's that the party left me. When in reality, it's more accurate to say, the party has not been what it claimed to be for quite some time, it just took most people longer than they like now to realize it.

In other words, F the Republican Party.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:32 PM (+RSLh)

I knocked on doors for Romney.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 21, 2023 01:34 PM (KbCG3)

360 Rove/Bush Republicans seem to have made it impossible to prosecute voter fraud in Texas (according to Paxton). This, while suffering invasion along the southern border. Paxton had 900 active voter fraud cases going at any one time, on average, and this seem to be Rove's issue. He's trying to turn Texas Democrat.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Cartel money and corrupt businessmen looking for money most likely despite how many hands it is launder through.

Developers, bankers, etc. rely on dirty money laundering to support their mistresses, drug habits, and spending. Reason why both TX and AZ have issues is that these are prime carter routes for human and drug trafficking and those pay enough to bribe as many officials as it takes.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:34 PM (Q9+wR)

361 We supported Mitt and McCain because the alternative was worse. For myself, there was no other reason, especially McCain. I almost didn't show up for him.

Posted by: fd at September 21, 2023 01:35 PM (vFG9F)

362 6/10 Would not bang.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

This place.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2023 01:35 PM (nfrXX)

363 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)

Why? I'm a heterosexual woman. It's also a take off on TJM's routine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 01:35 PM (RSbhh)

364 "US imports record amount of fertilizer from Russia, topping $900M http://dlvr.it/SwR6S9"

I don't think that's a large amount of fertilizer.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 21, 2023 01:35 PM (ou9hh)

365 guess i could watch the paxton interview, aint got anything else going on in class today. But then Ill miss all the posts. decisions decisions.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:35 PM (CIS44)

366 I pretty forcefully supported Romney. Not as much as Bush (*spit*).

I almost voted for Obama over McCain.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 01:35 PM (9UlRk)

367 Who the hell names their kid Rupert?
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at September 21, 2023
*
*The Grints have entered the chat*
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023

***
Ahem!

Posted by: Rupert Giles at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (J2vNu)

368 That's a pretty large distortion of reality. I don't believe anyone who truly supported either Romney or McCain is still hanging around here now. If they are, they keep awfully quiet.
Posted by: BurtTC
___

I would wager almost everyone here drank the Kool Aid in that era. I remember people thinking Paul Ryan was some sort of conservative savior. It's laughable now.

After some time passes, Trump will be lumped in the same batch of "Republicans I'm embarrassed I supported and defended"

Posted by: Blago at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (15SVK)

369
Why? I'm a heterosexual woman. It's also a take off on TJM's routine.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 01:35 PM (RSbhh)

Yeah, I get it, but it's funny coming from you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

370 I sincerely supported Mittens and W at one time.

I was lied to about what they really were.

Mea Culpa.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (xcxpd)

371 When Greitens was exonerated and running for office again, Rove then procured affidavits alleging the Greitens engaged in domestic violence from his ex wife and some other piece of trash. Turns out that Rove was paying for them in Texas in order to prevent Greitens from returning to office.
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:31 PM (Q9+wR)

Regardless, Greitens was/is a dirtbag. Good riddance.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (+RSLh)

372 We should shut the gov down unless they close tight the southern border and drop all the federal Prosecution of Trump. Simple as that.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (pVWRI)

373 >>> 352

==
People often say, it's not that I left "the party," it's that the party left me. When in reality, it's more accurate to say, the party has not been what it claimed to be for quite some time, it just took most people longer than they like now to realize it.

In other words, F the Republican Party.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:32 PM (+RSLh)

Longer to realize it, or to say it to others, or even to accept that 'asking nicely' isn't going to fix this...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (llON8)

374 I sincerely supported Mittens and W at one time.

I was lied to about what they really were.

Mea Culpa.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (xcxpd)

This. Same with McCain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)

375 LOL Fen

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (t0OGg)

376 370 I sincerely supported Mittens and W at one time.

I was lied to about what they really were.

Mea Culpa.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (xcxpd)

=======

I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

377 I don't think that's a large amount of fertilizer.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

"Ok, back 'er up and dump it raich 'ere."

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (IG4Id)

378 355 I heard candidate Burgum on the radio - he said we can get to net-zero carbon by 2030 using the free market instead of govt coercion (I'm paraphrasing).

I will not vote for anyone who doesn't understand that net-zero means huge sacrifices by ordinary people (not the 'elites') for no benefit to the planet. He's probably a WEF plant.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Ah yes, the ole cap and trade crap that enamors so many fiscal conservative types because they think trading those credits will make them rich.

Burgum is simply repeating what NR types were pushing for years ago. How about he give up traveling and run from his front porch for prezzie like presidential candidates used to do prior to T. Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (Q9+wR)

379 But I do agree that "bang" is a dumb word unless you're from the hood, and/or talking about a gun or just planning to slam, bang, thank you, Ma'.am, insert stick into slot and get the heck out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (RSbhh)

380 the party has not been what it claimed to be for quite some time, it just took most people longer than they like now to realize it.
____

How the R's treated the Tea party was eye opening

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (fs1hN)

381 >>> 372 We should shut the gov down unless they close tight the southern border and drop all the federal Prosecution of Trump. Simple as that.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (pVWRI)

Do we have to start it back up?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (llON8)

382 I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

*nods and hangs head*

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (CIS44)

383 Ok, so apparently I misjudged that a bit. Some people really did believe in Romney at the time.

I don't know how, but oh well.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (+RSLh)

384 365 guess i could watch the paxton interview, aint got anything else going on in class today. But then Ill miss all the posts. decisions decisions.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:35 PM (CIS44)

It's really great. I watched it last night, paused the video every 5 minutes or so, and read the new comments!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2023 01:39 PM (SbC6h)

385 The story Paxton tells about mail-in ballots and how the fraud works is disturbing.

We are well and truly fucked if things don't change.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 21, 2023 01:39 PM (Q4IgG)

386 382 I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

*nods and hangs head*
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (CIS44)

========

Ryan's betrayal under Trump did a lot in my journey.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:39 PM (LvTSG)

387 It's really great. I watched it last night, paused the video every 5 minutes or so, and read the new comments!
Posted by: m at S

Just fired it up.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:39 PM (CIS44)

388 Regardless, Greitens was/is a dirtbag. Good riddance.
Posted by: BurtTC
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How? By having an affair? If so, you will probably exclude most of them. Greitens was sandbagged by his own GOP which railroaded him via a rushed impeachment just like they tried to do with Paxton. Rove was involved in both efforts along with the repulsive J. Danforth groupies in MO.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:40 PM (Q9+wR)

389 >>I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.

Generally optimistic, good-hearted people tend to be the most gullible. We want to see the best in people. I am no longer such a person, and it took me far too long to get here.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 21, 2023 01:40 PM (bNf8H)

390 6/10 Would not bang.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
===
But would give wardrobe advice, casserole recipes and tips on deportment.

Posted by: UNSPOKEN FEN SPOKE at September 21, 2023 01:40 PM (mZ3ss)

391 I don't know how, but oh well.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (+RSLh)

Youth. Stupidity. "Anyone is better than a dog eating communist". Yay red shirt boo blue shirt.

It's embarrassing. But not a mystery.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 21, 2023 01:40 PM (9UlRk)

392 I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

Seems to me it should have been obvious when Ryan "debated" Biden. This guy was an empty suit, and everything he'd done up til then was just an illusion.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:41 PM (+RSLh)

393 I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

I believed a Republican congress was going to support a Republican president.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:41 PM (Zz0t1)

394 Generally optimistic, good-hearted people tend to be the most gullible. We want to see the best in people. I am no longer such a person, and it took me far too long to get here.
Posted by: Frasier Crane a

Im glad I became very cynical at a pretty young age.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:41 PM (CIS44)

395 Do we have to start it back up?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM (llON

Just so I can collect my unused 60 days of leave then we can shut it down forever

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 21, 2023 01:41 PM (pVWRI)

396 392 I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

Seems to me it should have been obvious when Ryan "debated" Biden. This guy was an empty suit, and everything he'd done up til then was just an illusion.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:41 PM (+RSLh)

=========

"He won on Queensberry rules!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:41 PM (LvTSG)

397 Hey remember when Fox News was new and tellin' it like it is and America F*** Yeah! conservatives finally have a news source?

good times, huh

Posted by: DB - Embrace The Horror 2024 at September 21, 2023 01:41 PM (geLO8)

398 I've been bashing that POS fraud and weakling Romney since the 90s. I never cared for McCain and his sucking up to the media. I defended Bush and, initially, the war in Iraq.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 21, 2023 01:41 PM (uhwX5)

399 Posted by: UNSPOKEN FEN SPOKE at September 21, 2023 01:40 PM (mZ3ss)

LOL. No; She probably wouldn't talk to me either unless I could get her a big gig modelling.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (RSbhh)

400 I assume TJM would not bang is because he's faithful to Dolly.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (HfNu5)

401 Ryan's betrayal under Trump did a lot in my journey.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:39 PM (LvTSG)
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Same. His betrayal, more than anything, opened my eyes to just how corrupt both parties are.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (2YtOq)

402 "Anyone is better than a dog eating communist".

I wasn't happy about voting for either McCain or Romney but that's probably still a true statement there.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (nfrXX)

403 Ryan's betrayal under Trump did a lot in my journey.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:39 PM (LvTSG)

It is something I first started to notice with W, but did not really crystalize until Trump- and the reaction to Trump. You can call it grifters or whatever, but it seemed like the salesmen got slicker and more and more obviously fake. I think that is part because of the progression and partly because of the experience being a teacher.

As it was, Trump did not package it particularly well, but he actually acted. Actions speaking louder than words is axiomatic, but still true.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (zZu0s)

404 382 I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

*nods and hangs head*
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:38 PM

He would have, but he didn't have the opportunity. We only controlled three thirds of the branches of government when Trump was elected. But, if you donate now, you can help us elect the strong majorities we need in 2024 to fight for your legislative priorities!!!

Posted by: RNC/GOP at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (JCZqz)

405 Regardless, Greitens was/is a dirtbag. Good riddance.
Posted by: BurtTC
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How? By having an affair?
Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:40 PM (Q9+wR)

No. He was a Democrat who put his finger to the wind, saw what the state was buying, and started making ads showing himself shooting guns.

The affair was just him being a "normal" politician.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (+RSLh)

406 believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

*nods and hangs head*
==
Ace said it first, but after he said I realized it was true. There is only one party and we aren't in it.

Posted by: After you see it you can't unsee it at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (mZ3ss)

407 402 "Anyone is better than a dog eating communist".

I wasn't happy about voting for either McCain or Romney but that's probably still a true statement there.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (nfrXX)

========

Eh. I don't see how the guy who helped craft McCain-Feingold would have been much worse than Obama.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (LvTSG)

408 I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

Same.

Remember the 'hey girl, it's Paul Ryan' memes?

I semi-blame Bill Whittle for my Romney vote. He was endorsing the guy hard, was really cheerleading for a victory over Barry. Heck, there's a non-zero chance the 2012 election was fraudulent too.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

409 Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (HfNu5)

Yes; Obviously.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (RSbhh)

410 Paxton has a sort of a speech impediment, which makes him swallow the last words of lots of statements, and when he talks really, really fast, I can't keep up. And even with all of that, it's still a great video!

Posted by: m at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (SbC6h)

411 406 believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:37 PM (LvTSG)

*nods and hangs head*
==
Ace said it first, but after he said I realized it was true. There is only one party and we aren't in it.
Posted by: After you see it you can't unsee it at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (mZ3ss)
____________

We aren't even invited!

Posted by: Elric Blade at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

412 People often say, it's not that I left "the party," it's that the party left me. When in reality, it's more accurate to say, the party has not been what it claimed to be for quite some time, it just took most people longer than they like now to realize it.

In other words, F the Republican Party.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:32 PM (+RSLh)

Yes, exactly. And even then as it was becoming clear, I still just COULD not vote for the third party for fear of the D win. The D's have been obviously evil and open about it for quite some time. Took me awhile to wake up to the full extent of the Uniparty.

Ryan helped.

Posted by: Iris at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (NaH5I)

413 I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
-

I believed a Republican congress was going to support a Republican president.

--

These things were the truly valuable part of the Trump presidency.

And why he is hated. (and us, too)

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (+MSSo)

414 He would have, but he didn't have the opportunity. We only controlled three thirds of the branches of government when Trump was elected. But, if you donate now, you can help us elect the strong majorities we need in 2024 to fight for your legislative priorities!!!
Posted by: RNC/GOP at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (JCZqz)

*Gets out credit card*

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (CIS44)

415 > I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.

I believed that Darrell Issa was gonna get the IRS lady her own prison cell

I believed Trump would be re-elected

I believed reindeer could fly

Posted by: DB - Embrace The Horror 2024 at September 21, 2023 01:44 PM (geLO8)

416
I believed that Darrell Issa was gonna get the IRS lady her own prison cell

I believed Trump would be re-elected

I believed reindeer could fly
Posted by: DB - Embrace The Horror 2024 at September 21, 2023 01:44 PM

Judges would've accepted 'turkeys' as well.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 21, 2023 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)

417 It's only a matter of time until the Democrats control all three branches of government in perpetuity. At which time they will begin propping up media outlets with financial grants (tax dollars) that will continue to flow as long of said outlets push the proper narrative. As it is now, they are reliant on the honor system to promote their unpopular positions. And, while that works, it isn't as solid. We've seen what they have had to resort to when someone goes off the reservation (Rowan Farrow is a good example).

Posted by: Orson at September 21, 2023 01:44 PM (dIske)

418 Case in point: Barry Goldwater. As a kid, I thought the packaging was his entire problem (looking back, he was before my time.) Firebreathing to no purpose.

Now, I realize I appreciate that more and more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 01:44 PM (zZu0s)

419 408 I semi-blame Bill Whittle for my Romney vote. He was endorsing the guy hard, was really cheerleading for a victory over Barry. Heck, there's a non-zero chance the 2012 election was fraudulent too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

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Since then, some modest efforts to clean up Ohio and Florida happened, and both are now deep red states.

Probably just a coincidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for more with John Huston at September 21, 2023 01:44 PM (LvTSG)

420 Yes, exactly. And even then as it was becoming clear, I still just COULD not vote for the third party for fear of the D win. The D's have been obviously evil and open about it for quite some time. Took me awhile to wake up to the full extent of the Uniparty.

Ryan helped.
Posted by: Iris a

AMEN

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:45 PM (CIS44)

421 I believed it when they stamped EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW on the edifice of the Supreme Court building

Posted by: DB - Embrace The Horror 2024 at September 21, 2023 01:45 PM (geLO8)

422 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 21, 2023 01:45 PM (zZu0s)

423 400 I assume TJM would not bang is because he's faithful to Dolly.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (HfNu5)

He has said that explicitly. Hence he only rates them, and always ends with "Would not bang."

Posted by: m at September 21, 2023 01:46 PM (SbC6h)

424 Heck, there's a non-zero chance the 2012 election was fraudulent too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:43 PM (xcxpd)

I would not be surprised at all. I feel like it was staged for the rubes to feel like we had a chance to actually get our "guy" but was carefully managed. Maybe just paranoid at this point. (Because if that was true why did Hillary lose? Or is it really a left on left thing where Obama's minions wouldn't support her?)

Posted by: Iris at September 21, 2023 01:46 PM (NaH5I)

425 I am very eagerly awaiting the forced purchase of Hulu next year.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 21, 2023 01:23 PM (CIS44)

It's a tax!

Posted by: Justice Roberts at September 21, 2023 01:46 PM (lR6tR)

426 "Anyone is better than a dog eating communist".
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I wasn't happy about voting for either McCain or Romney but that's probably still a true statement there.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 21, 2023 01:42 PM (nfrXX)

And really, I don't blame anybody for taking however long they did to realize any of these guys were sleazeballs.

If I were going to amend my comment before, it would be to more forcefully state that anyone NOW who sees those clowns for who they are, didn't DO a 180.

They/we merely recognize more fully what they were/are, and aren't falling for it anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 21, 2023 01:46 PM (+RSLh)

427 of course it's nood
I just commented

Posted by: DB - Embrace The Horror 2024 at September 21, 2023 01:47 PM (geLO8)

428 Sessions and Ryan were the 2 who really torpedoed Trump

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 21, 2023 01:47 PM (pVWRI)

429 394 Generally optimistic, good-hearted people tend to be the most gullible. We want to see the best in people. I am no longer such a person, and it took me far too long to get here.
Posted by: Frasier Crane
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Work long enough in politics, you realize pretty much all of them with rare exceptions either start as corrupt or end up that way if they are in office for long enough.

Politics is Hollywood for Ugly people and that is pretty much true.

Want a good show about politics in the raw--if you can, watch a Brit show called the Thick of It about British cabinet and department administration. Updated and far more savage version of Yes Minister.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:47 PM (Q9+wR)

430 I sincerely supported Mittens and W at one time.

I was lied to about what they really were.

Mea Culpa.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at September 21, 2023 01:36 PM (xcxpd)

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I believed that Paul Ryan was really going to cut the budget.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Anyone with any ounce of "conservatism" supported the opposition in that era. I'm in that group also (although I have hated McCain for a long, long time and that was the one I had the most resistance with). I also liked Palin for a hot minute.

I'm making the point that it's very easy to start into the the "you're with us or against us" because the goal posts are always moving.

Ace (and me and other posters here) have clearly soured on Trump and we look at Trump like many look at former loser Republicans. And now that type of posture is being lumped with NeverTrump in 2016, or closet Biden supporters, etc.

Posted by: Blago at September 21, 2023 01:47 PM (15SVK)

431 Since then, some modest efforts to clean up Ohio and Florida happened, and both are now deep red states.

Probably just a coincidence.
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*earnestly looks at the jm with puppy dog eyes*
We just need better candidates.

Posted by: After you see it you can't unsee it at September 21, 2023 01:48 PM (mZ3ss)

432 No. He was a Democrat who put his finger to the wind, saw what the state was buying, and started making ads showing himself shooting guns.

The affair was just him being a "normal" politician.
Posted by: BurtTC

Didn't see that from his policy proposals, it was more that the GOP has traditionally stank in Missouri with creatures like Roy Blunt and John Danforth.

Posted by: whig at September 21, 2023 01:49 PM (Q9+wR)

433 I would wager almost everyone here drank the Kool Aid in that era. I remember people thinking Paul Ryan was some sort of conservative savior. It's laughable now.

After some time passes, Trump will be lumped in the same batch of "Republicans I'm embarrassed I supported and defended"

Posted by: Blago

Voted for Palin, said Meh on Mittens and Ryan but voted against Obama, absolutely voted FOR Trump both times even though I never cared much for him personally (FNYC Blowhard).
Other than Reagan, only one I have actually voted for and never missed an election. Usually just vote agaisnt the commie.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2023 01:50 PM (ga8qR)

434 Sessions and Ryan were the 2 who really torpedoed Trump
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*guffaw*
He never had a chance. The op was comprehensive. Don't forget Pence. Doj FBI. Bearclaw.

Posted by: Q at September 21, 2023 01:52 PM (mZ3ss)

435 Sessions and Ryan were the 2 who really torpedoed Trump
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*guffaw*
He never had a chance. The op was comprehensive. Don't forget Pence. Doj FBI. Bearclaw.
Posted by: Q at September 21, 2023 01:52 PM (mZ3ss)

Yeah I do not disagree but Ryan sunk his legislative agenda and sessions gave in and condemned Trump to muller and weismann

Posted by: Nevergiveup at September 21, 2023 01:55 PM (pVWRI)

436 Do-nothing Abbot and His Strongly Worded Letter

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 21, 2023 04:41 PM (GD2xa)

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