The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 9/22/23

Good morning, kids. Yesterday, I had a link in the Culture Wars section about flabby, late middle-aged over-the-hill thesp John Q. Sack, nee John Cusack, who went on an unusually brutal diatribe against his political allies. It probably got glossed over, considering the lead stories sucking out all the oxygen, and I did not see any mention of it in the comments. But all things considered, I find it worth a revisit:

“They have played a major part in creating the precise conditions for fascism to flourish – Obama corporatist democrats – are to the right of Richard Nixon on domestic policy – Don’t believe me – look it up – and Dems have sold out the working class for decades – and this kind of bought and paid-for betrayal of principals [sic], fairness – historical precedent -any sense of moral or intellectual honesty – The kind of brutal selfish horrific actions one only does – because they can get away with it,” he wrote in part on X, formerly Twitter, Monday.
The 57-year-old “Say Anything” and “High Fidelity” star’s lengthy post continued with a takedown of the party’s complacency with the wealthy, not-far-enough-left politics and neglecting certain principles.
He argued that the party elite’s trajectory has planted fertile ground for Republicans like Trump to win.
“All your Yale and Harvard buddies will tell you how great and smart you all are – and they are all in bed with all the same big , big money power players- And we run the world – right ? – this kind of staggering amoral bulls— is one of the main reason ( yes there are others ) Trump’s demagoguery works on people. The Democratic elite ARE full of s—,” he continued.
The lengthy statement came in response to an article from Jacobin Magazine which claimed some top Democrats seek to outlaw federal wealth taxes.
“Imagine what FDR would say about such a proposed law ?! Don’t worry fellas – the Democrats will save the .ooooooo1 % from paying tax – the hubris to do this – is staggering – it’s a sham and an insult to everyone’s basic intelligence – the contempt for people – To even attempt this … Unbelievable,” he continued.
He ended the spiel by accusing Obama’s famous “hope and change” slogan of becoming “another branded hustle.”
Cusack has been outspoken about his political stances in the past, slamming former President Donald Trump on multiple occasions, including by calling for an impeachment over his alleged mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We need strikes / and we need to remove Trump from power to save lives Impeach him again / Pressure for 25th,” he tweeted at the time.
Additionally, Cusack blasted the former president by comparing him to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler.
He also blasted Trump’s supporters for voting for, in his words, a “mentally ill, virus-spreading, child-abducting Nazi rapist.”

"Say Anything," indeed. What I find interesting, once you're able to wade through what amounts to a puerile, poorly written screed (what else is new with this guy and the majority of his comrades) is both the nuggets of truth of his rant in the first paragraph and salted here and there through the rest of it. The maddening thing is the complete cognitive dissonance. His pea brain can't put two plus two together to add up to four. The failings of his party that he rails against should cause him to wake the fuck up and smell the coffee, not go crazy with fear that they will give Trump a chance to win in 2024! This would be the same Trump whose actual policy achievements created the greatest economic boom since the 1920s and 80s which helped more minorities and heretofore "marginalized" groups lift themselves up than any other administration ever.

He just can't deprogram himself from the bullshit that Democrats good and Republicans “mentally ill, virus-spreading, child-abducting Nazi rapist[s].” Yeah, he knows how to make those intellectual arguments, doesn't he.

Still, for whatever it's worth, the criticism of his own party, especially some of his points which are surprisingly right on target, I think is something unexpected. At least I can't remember him being this bitter. And is his infantile attacks on Trump, or the couching of his attacks on his own party as a putative warning to same as shooting themselves in the foot to allow a MAGA win, just reflexive or is it self-preservation to avoid becoming an outcast with his peers? Either way, I think it's one of those signs, albeit anecdotal, that there is indeed trouble in lefty Paradise on Earth.

With that, I give you yet another example from a more mature quarter of the show biz set. And refreshingly minus the equivocation and poo-flinging at Emanuel Goldstein either:

Music icon David Foster’s daughters declared their “hate” for Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday, blaming the Democrat for the state’s deteriorating quality of life — and wondering if his goal is to have California “be a socialist state.”
Sara and Erin Foster detailed their growing bitterness against their home state amid news that the latter sister was moving into a new home in Nashville, Tennessee. “I’m jealous because — if anyone follows me, you know that I have a lot of complaints about the city we live in and the state we live in,” Sara Foster, 42, griped on their joint show, “The World’s First Podcast.”
“And people are always like, ‘Why don’t you just leave?’ Guys, it’s not that easy.” Other than leaving family and friends behind, the “90210” actress complained that she could be subject to a 10-year tax to the California government if she relocates to another state. The proposed exit law — introduced at the beginning of the year — would apply to the Golden State’s uber-wealthy who might be looking to avoid state taxes on billionaires by moving to states that don’t have income or wealth tax. Although the bill is still being considered by the state’s Assembly committee on tax and revenue, the Foster sisters aimed their ire at Newsom.
“I blame everything on Newsom. Newsom is, like, the worst,” Sara Foster said. “Yeah, I hate him,” her 41-year-old sister agreed, adding that they once met the governor in the Bahamas. Sara Foster said the proposed legislation is especially distasteful as California grapples with “crime through the roof.” In fact, the state will now spend $267 million to help local law enforcement fight brazen smash-and-grab robberies that have become commonplace across the Golden State.
Foster doubled down on Newsom’s leadership, who has been governor since 2019. “You are running the state and your policies are whack, therefore, I’m coming for you … it’s really f–ked up what’s happening here,” she said. “And I think that it’s like, is the goal to be Venezuela? Is the goal to be a socialist state? I don’t know.” The podcast rant was not the first time the actress targeted California leadership.
In April, she took to Instagram to blast San Francisco’s “liberal politicians” following tech mogul Bob Lee’s violent death in the city earlier that week. She shared a screenshot of The Post’s article about Lee’s final moments before his death on her Instagram Story, showing a smiling Lee with his two daughters. “I have no words,” she wrote. “SF is a complete s—hole. I am a registered Democrat and feel confident saying liberal politicians are ruining cities.” Disgusting. My heart breaks for this family,” she added.

No equivocation. No couching the blasting of Newsom and California pols to warn that their actions are paving the way for Trump and his white supremacist Nazi MAGA hordes to take over. In fact, Sara Foster specifically used the phrase "liberal politicians" to rip San Francisco's insane leaders. We shall see if she retracts what she said, but I think the bridge has been burned here.

Assuming the Fosters do stand by their words, the Cusack example is still the big question mark, vis a vis the mindset of run of the mill disaffected lefties and more crucially less insane lifelong liberal Democrats. The policies that they have supported by voting for Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants have destroyed their livelihoods, their cities and their sense of personal safety. Can they at least finally acknowledge that in no uncertain terms, to at the very least stay home during Election Season, if not make the great leap forward (pun intended) and vote for Republican candidates? Not just on the national level but crucially in the places where they live (assuming that the game isn't rigged, or at the very least vote in such numbers as to overcome the Dao-Min Yen factor) at the state and local levels?

From the half-full portion of the program we go to the half-empty:

Hollywood has been mostly silent on the wave of censorship washing over the culture. Consider the following examples in the arts alone.

“The French Connection,” an Oscar-winning classic, got snipped to remove an offensive word

Books by Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming got a sensitivity reader “upgrade”

Films and TV shows with problematic content have been erased in the public arena

Comedians fear the loss of their careers for telling the “wrong” jokes
It’s just a partial list, but it’s damning all the same. And that doesn’t include Big Tech censors restricting both comedy and free speech across YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and more. Celebrities routinely weigh in on subjects they have little to no expertise on, from border enforcement to gun control. Their livelihoods depend on free expression, yet most are stone silent on the subject.
The exceptions include: Bill Maher, Joe Rogan, Rob Schneider, John Cleese, Nick Searcy, and, to a lesser extent, both Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg.
Now, a gaggle of stars is skewering so-called “book bans” happening across the nation.

Upwards of 175 actors, musicians, authors, comedians, reality stars, models, media personalities, academics, activists and more have signed the open letter spearheaded by Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton and published Tuesday via public advocacy organization and political action committee MoveOn Political Action.
That’s your first clue the mission is politically motivated. MoveOn.org is a progressive body that promotes Democrat causes. Why make censorship a political matter? Here’s why.
One, many of the “book bans” in question involved sexually graphic tomes that have no business being in a school setting. Conservatives are trying to protect children from inappropriate material, while Democrats want this filth in schools nationwide.
Two, the conservative movement has embraced free speech as a core principle in the modern era. The Left, the former champions of free expression, now favors hate speech restrictions and looks the other way as the U.S. government censors American citizens.
A lot. The next time you watch college students shout down a conservative speaker consider which party they call home. There’s only one answer. And they’re proud of it. . .
. . . How many of those stars have spoken out against sensitivity readers? Big Tech censorship? The Biden [junta's] censorship regime? Attacks on comedians for telling the “wrong” jokes? . . .
. . . It’s one thing for Hollywood stars to remain silent on modern censorship. It’s gross, but we can’t force celebrities to speak out on every issue of the day, even one that directly impacts their art form.
For some of these same stars to rally behind a politically charged effort that ignores the larger, toxic threat to free speech is something far more insidious.

What friend of the blog Christian Toto notes above directly applies to John Q. Sack. Unless he's just reflexively brainwashed with Lefty Tourette's syndrome. But for sure, there's got to be a part of his mind that clearly understands that there is a line that he dare not cross. I think that both of those things are factors for him. He either was taught or deluded himself into "true believer" status of all these Leftist shibboleths that it's jarring for him to see the hypocrisy and bullshit of those he supported engaging in it. Then again, he also obviously still believes the rancid blood-libels against conservatives so there is that. I'd say he's a lost cause. But not the Sara Foster's of this world, and it is they that need to be embraced and encouraged.

Are there more of her than him? That remains to be seen. If we are ever to claw back from the abyss, it should be a mission to convert more Fosters to overcome the perpetually blinkered, unreconstructed, unsalvageable Cusacks.

How we do that when shit like this is going on is a good question:

Sometime during the summer of 2023, I posted a review of Elliot Page’s memoir Pageboy on Amazon. I take words seriously, even the words that constitute Amazon reviews. Language can convey truth; language can empower lies. The difference between truth and lies is the difference between life and death. In my faith, Satan is the father of lies. God is the logos, the Word; God is truth and the truth sets us free.
Elliot Page’s Pageboy is a poorly written book. I said so in my review. I said this because bad writing matters. “Writing clearly is thinking clearly.” Writing poorly underwrites destructive behavior. Identifying bad writing is a worthwhile use of time. . .
. . . In my review of Pageboy, mindful of current speech codes, I did not refer to Elliot Page as “she.” Rather, I focused on, as I said in the review, “sentence structure, punctuation, narrative flow, and coherence.” I received a cheerfully-worded email telling me that my review was up, thanking me for the review, and providing a link that allowed me to visit the review. I did so. I saw the review on Amazon.
A few days later I thought of the review again, clicked on the link Amazon provided, and saw an error message. “That page does not exist,” the message said, or words to that effect. I had received no notification from Amazon that the review would be removed. I received no explanation as to why it was removed. I received no warning telling me that if I posted another honest review of a poorly written book, I would be banished from Amazon forever. I received no instruction on how to write reviews that Amazon would not delete.
Perhaps a month after that, I again attempted to review a book on Amazon, Christian Cooper’s Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World. Again, I received a cheery notification from Amazon telling me that my review was posted. I clicked on the link Amazon sent and I saw the review. Again, a few days later, I clicked on that same link and got the same message. “This page does not exist.” Again, I received no notification, and no explanation. . .
. . . On September 7, 2023, weeks after the above events, my inbox was flooded with approximately one hundred emails from Amazon. The emails that I read before deleting them all said the same thing. “Thank you for reporting a fake review,” or words to that effect. This made no sense. I hadn’t been reporting fake reviews at Amazon. At the end of this avalanche of spam from Amazon came the final email. That final email informed me that all of my reviews, reviews going back almost thirty years, had been removed. I would never again be allowed to post reviews on Amazon, not for books or for anything else. If I bought a spatula that was a really good spatula, I could never say that on Amazon. . .
. . . I posted about the Amazon canceling on Facebook. A Polish friend said he couldn’t believe it. He knows I’m an honest person and would not make this up. He just couldn’t believe it. Another Polish friend said, “I’m so glad I’m not an American.” He believes he has greater freedom of speech in Poland than I have in the US.
Yes, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other sites are private entities and they can dictate whatever terms they want. But there’s more to the story than that simplistic analysis. Activists often sneer at any mention of the harassment and threats that JK Rowling has endured ever since she posted that women should not be fired for saying that “sex is real.” Some sniff that Rowling has Midas money and can hire all the security she needs. That’s true, but it misses the point. Most people are not JK Rowling. Most people observe the vitriol and death threats inundating JK Rowling and say to themselves, “I can’t afford to risk that. I’d never find another job. My kids’ safety is paramount. I need to keep my mouth shut.” Just so, when Amazon makes a decision about what can and cannot be said, it has far-reaching consequences.
Many people have sent me private messages on social media. “I agree with you. I can’t say so publicly. I can’t risk it.” My leftist, Atheist, and Christophobic social media contacts love to cite my church, the Catholic Church, as the epitome of the suppression of free speech and freedom of conscience. I ask them, are you aware of those who have had to go into hiding, who have lost jobs, who have lost access to their own children, because of something they said? It’s not conservatives squelching free speech. It is the Left. . .
. . . I just took a break from writing this essay to check my email inbox. A friend just wrote to tell me that he just finished a book on early Soviet Russia – and he he is now afraid to review it on Amazon.
And what does it say about the mindset of whoever it was who carried out the campaign against me? The spamming of my email inbox, which was confirmed by Amazon to be from them. Sending me a link that would damage my computer, again, confirmed by Amazon to be from them. The erasure of all of my reviews going back decades, with no explanation, no recourse. Whoever did this is no Stalin, but this person is surely a totalitarian. What does it say about America that people who cannot debate, but who can only destroy, wield any power at all? What is this anonymous and unreachable Amazon saboteur like as a spouse, as a citizen, as a friend? When corporations train their employees to be little Robespierres, they undermine society.

Corporations are now doing the oppression and persecution that the Junta can't. At least not openly. And then it can crow about how they are the protectors of "our precious democracy" (*vomits*) because they are merely allowing the free market to flourish unimpeded as our founding fathers meant in the Constitution, don't you know?!

Of course, John Q. Sack and his fellow travelers would concur. H8tr!

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"Everything before 2008 must go!" (Adolf builds a bonfire . . . - jjs)
Libraries Clearing Shelves Through ‘Equity-Based’ Book Weeding
Christian Toto: "Guillermo del Toro, Mark Ruffalo, Chelsea Handler attack straw men, ignore real threat."
Celebs Rally Against ‘Book Bans,’ Ignore Real Censorship
"Because I didn't like two hot books."
Amazon Manipulates Reviews and Sends Malware Link to Reviewer

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

"Garland’s testimony brought out significant revelations surrounding special counsel David Weiss and the refusal from Biden-appointed U.S. Attorneys in D.C. and the Central District of California to cooperate with Weiss on potentially charging Hunter Biden. However, the attorney general refused to elaborate on details of the Hunter Biden case and allowed Weiss to be defined by his appointment by former President Donald Trump." (In fairness, Harriet Hageman quite deftly shut his cake-hole on that - jjs)
These Were Republicans’ Biggest Missed Opportunities From Merrick Garland’s Testimony
"House Judiciary subpoenaed [Elvis] Chan on Sept. 15 to give an interview Thursday after a dispute between committee investigators and the DOJ derailed his scheduled interview"
Jim Jordan Issues Second Subpoena to FBI Agent Who Fled the Country After Interview Fell Through
"Regardless of his mode of appearance, Hunter intends to waive the reading of the indictment and plead not guilty to the charges."
No ‘Special Treatment’ – Hunter Ordered to Appear in Person for Gun Felonies Arraignment
"Future Forward may have illegally concealed donors from the public, watchdog says."
Amid Ethics Scandal, Biden's Favorite Super PAC Taps White House Staffers For Ad Blitz
It will last only as long as Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants is not a political liability for the party and movement - jjs)
The Left's Insane Dedication to Defending America's First Narcissistic Junkie Son Can't Last Forever
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Tell us again who the radicals are?"
Democrats Discover a New ‘Threat To Democracy’ — The U.S Constitution
"Lastly, Rasmussen asked whether those surveyed: 'Which political party is a bigger threat to basic liberties in America: Democrats or Republicans?' Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of both parties – 76 percent of Republicans and 65 percent of Democrats – told pollsters the opposition party was the greater threat. However, more Democrats believe their party is a bigger threat at 26 percent than Republicans at 20 percent."
Almost 3/4 of Americans Think The Nation is Becoming a Police State
“The white-hot nature of hyperpolitics probably doomed it to a short boom-and-bust shelf life.”
America’s New Politics of Nothing
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Of course it’s political."
The Truth About Brand
"So why is this happening? Either because the accusers' allegations against Brand are true, or because Brand has become a lightning rod through his podcast in the form of pushing against the establishment."
Rumble 'Emphatically Reject' Gestapo-Style Tactics by U.K. Parliament to Cancel Russell Brand
Karol Markowicz: "The point should not be whether we believe Brand or believe his accusers. It’s about a process we should have in our public life. An accusation should not automatically end a person’s career."
Russell Brand: Big Tech Plays Judge, Jury and Executioner Before a Trial Again
Daniel Greenfield: "Mega-donors monopolize Maine’s media with IRS complicity."
The IRS is Letting Leftist Nonprofits Buy 6 out of Maine’s 7 Daily Papers
"District of Louisiana Judge Terry A. Doughty’s injunction had not only prevented the administration from coordinating with social media companies to censor speech, but also barred the government from “collaborating, coordinating, partnering, switchboarding, and/or jointly working with” research groups and projects that advocate for censorship."
Biden Junta May Have Made a Huge Mistake in Asking SCOTUS to Take On Gov’t Censorship Case
In a letter to colleagues, Murdoch announced that his son, Lachlan, would become the sole chairman of both media companies. “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 wrote.
Murdoch OUT! News Corp, Fox Mogul Steps Down After Decades
"This woman has a lot of nerve."
‘We’re Moving On!”: Jean-Pierre Cuts Off Doocy After He Asks About the Border Crisis
In addition, our investigation showed that its executives rigged its “Media Bias Chart” to hide the disturbing fact that Ad Fontes exists to promote the left’s political agenda.
EXPOSED! Media Literacy Firm Rigged to Favor Left-Wing Media
"By treating Arkansas social media law as a restriction on speech in his injunction, Arkansas Judge Timothy Brooks made a key category error."
No, Big Tech Doesn’t Have a Right to Speak to Kids Without Their Parent’s Consent
"The crime is so violent, so nihilistic, one would expect a national spotlight on it. Yet that simply hasn’t happened in the month since the killing. The iNew York Times, Washington Post and CNN are all in the wind."
Andreas Probst Murder Shows Lefty Media's Willful Blind Spots
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Trump’s planned visit, according to Politico, has Democrats and [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s White House rattled, with one union adviser calling the move “kinda genius.” (He must've read the Morning Report! - jjs)
Report: Democrats Panic as Trump Plans to Visit Striking Auto Workers
"It’s dangerous to assume the U.S. can recover its industrial base in a pinch."
Steam and Ice
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
“Whatever you think about the policy, any agency disbursing $20 billion in taxpayer funds should have the humility to ensure that the process is above question. Holding a chummy meeting with special interest organizations with deep connections to political leadership isn’t a good look,” Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, said of the discovery.
‘Highly Irregular’: Biden EPA Invited Well-Connected Green Groups To Chat About $20 Billion Fund, Emails Show
"As if Prince Harry was not insufferable enough. Prince William is apparently in a snit. His Royal-Whatever-He-Is is miffed. According to Fox News, the heir (not the spare) is pouting because the peasants of the world are taking too long to get on board with whatever climate change policy he favors."
Prince William and the End of the World
"The real facts are not with California – but facts are sometimes not a part in court decisions."
California Sues ‘Big Oil’, Accusing the Companies of Downplaying Climate Risks
"Trying to kill what already works."
One, Two, Three Strikes for EVs
"A transition to an all-electric-car future won’t mean less labor but more—much of it overseas."
The EV Jobs Myth
"If a state can be a laboratory, then why not a county? City? District? How about AOC’s district?"
Giving NYC Greens What They Want (Good and hard - jjs)
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The scenes out of Eagle Pass, Texas, leave no doubt the actual policy of the Biden administration is uncontrolled mass illegal immigration."
It’s No Accident the Southern Border is Collapsing, It’s Intentional
“It’s a normalization of illegal immigration,” [former ICE official John] Fabbricatore said.
Report: Joe Biden’s DHS Plans Photo ID Cards for Illegal Aliens Freed into U.S.
"Joe Biden is trusting that all of these illegals are law-abiding citizens who don’t belong to drug cartels, aren’t carrying fentanyl or other drugs, and will obey the laws of the United States. That’s a lot to take on faith, isn’t it?"
Emergency Declared in Eagle Pass, Texas, as Thousands of Illegals Overwhelm the Small City
Victor Davis Hanson: "The American people must override the corrupt entities who profit from the border's human misery and chaos." (Override. Like, with a cloth? - jjs)
Our Self-Induced Catastrophe at the Border
“If you can get the work cheaper you are going to use those guys. You are not going to pay $200 when you can get [for] $40. Anything you give them, they’ll take it. “I’m an old guy…get the fuck out of here. I’m not taking it.”
Longstanding NYC Migrants Pushed Out of Jobs by Newcomer Invaders: "Get the Fuck Out of Here"
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
Notably, the results dispel the initial claim that the vaccine stays localized in the arm after vaccination and does not travel systematically throughout the body; on the contrary, the researchers found that mRNA vaccinations can spread from blood to milk. The [Chinese] COVID-19 vaccines have been similarly found to impact menstruation, with millions of women suffering menstrual disturbances after receiving the jab.
mRNA [Chinese] COVID Vaccine Found in Breast Milk
“The left-wing lunatics are trying very hard to bring back [Chinese] COVID lockdowns and mandates with all of their sudden fear-mongering about the new variants that are coming,” Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social in August, continuing:
The Election Variant: Biden Junta Offering Free Chinese Coronavirus Testing Kits Via Mail
"The only good that came from the pandemic lockdowns was that parents in great numbers finally began to learn what was going on in the public school system as the corrupt curriculum was inadvertently beamed into their homes."
Hands off Our Kids Comes of Age
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
“In order to achieve its stated goals, DEI cluster hiring must include a host of additional interventions—in particular, a heavy reliance on diversity statements and a narrow focus on ethnicity or the themes of identity politics.” (More like cluster effing - jjs)
Higher Education Reportedly Using Practice of ‘Cluster Hiring’ to Advance DEI Agenda
“Hey Randi, you forgot to turn off comments and you’re getting fact-checked & exposed for the shameless liar on which you base your entire platform.”
Randi Weingarten Gets Community Noted for Whopper About a Fired Texas School Teacher
Robert Zimmerman: "UNT is apparently a Stalinist institution, focused not on teaching critical thinking but on churning out social justice warriors, indoctrinated with racist Marxist teachings and prepared to commit violence to enforce them."
Pushback: Professor blacklisted by North Texas U wins in Federal court
ABORTION
"The VA’s pro-abortion propaganda is part of the Biden [junta's] ongoing push to use the military to further Democrats’ radical abortion agenda."
Biden VA Instructs Providers to Promote Abortion, Avoid Saying ‘Mother’ and ‘Baby’ in Leaked Video
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
The RNC alleges that New York’s new voting law ignores this provision by permitting “qualified voters to vote by mail rather than in person, even if they do not satisfy either of the two limited exceptions set forth” in the state constitution.
Lawsuit: Democrats’ No-Excuse Absentee Voting Law Violates New York Constitution
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"As the door was opened, an unknown student ran into the building. He stayed for less than a minute, and while he was in the building he knocked over several pieces of furniture, while shouting antisemitic obscenities about Jewish people."
Penn Jewish Center Vandalized Ahead of University Conference Featuring Anti-Semites
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“I mean, my view is that his [Political Action Committees] PACs have gone after conservatives for a long time, under the guise of being, you know, a PAC that goes after Democrats, but I don’t view him as an ally of Republicans,” Paxton said.
Paxton in Victory Lap Interview with Tucker Carlson Slams Establishment’s John Cornyn and Karl Rove
Lloyd Billingsley: "According to her city, rules that apply to the working class don’t apply to the ruling class."
San Francisco Values? Malig-Nancy Pelosi Explains It All for You.
"If leftists didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all."
A Tale of Two ‘Sex’ Scandals
POLITICS
"The press conference featured multiple awkward moments."
Biden Stumbles on Flag, Fiddles with Earpiece in Awkward Press Conference with Brazil’s President Lula
"Biden looked over to both sides of the stage after concluding his remarks, and he put his palms up as he appeared to ask someone off camera for directions on which way to exit the stage." (Here, put this rope around your neck and when the trap door opens, jump - jjs)
Biden Praises "Congressional Black Caucus" During Address to Congressional Hispanic Caucus in So-Called Quote-Unquote "president'" Latest Gaffe
"The story was one Biden has told numerous times in the past — about the 2017 riot in Charlottesville and how it had ultimately proved to be the inspiration behind Biden’s 2020 presidential run. (The story was one Biden has told numerous times in the past — about the 2017 riot in Charlottesville and how it had ultimately proved to be the inspiration behind Biden’s 2020 presidential run - jjs)
Biden Tells The Same Story, Almost Word for Word, Just Minutes After Telling It the First Time
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said members who opposed the new dress code rules are “the coalition of the rational,” according to the report. Forty-six Republican senators, led by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), have already signed a letter to Schumer demanding that he reverse his “misguided” decision.
Manchin Gathers Support To Reverse Senate’s ‘Fetterman Rule’ Dress Code
"If they did, the choice for GOP nominee should be clear." (It's not Trump, per the author - jjs)
Do Republicans Care About Winning Anymore?
"The campaign launch comes roughly one year after McCormick lost a contentious primary battle against celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz by less than 1,000 votes. While that race divided Republican leaders—former president Donald Trump backed Oz, while McCormick received endorsements from Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and former secretary of state Mike Pomepo—McCormick is entering his second Senate bid with widespread support from party leaders." (Meh, the fix is in in the Keystone state - jjs)
David McCormick Launches Pennsylvania Senate Bid. This Time, He’s Likely to Avoid a Messy Primary Battle.

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Daniel Greenfield: "Get your organs regenerated or your money back at the latest Clinton Foundation event."
The Clintons Welcome Trans Queens, Muslim Politicians, Foreign Oligarchs
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"The dam is breaking on unified Western support for Ukraine."
NATO Fractures: In U-Turn, Poland Announces It Will No Longer Arm Ukraine
Doug Bandow: "Washington’s involvement in the Russo–Ukrainian war is encouraging new and hostile combinations of powers."
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
"Guess who comes out smelling like a rose."
Eisenhower, Vivek, and the Neocons
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Chalk up another foreign policy failure."
Biden’s Globalist UN Address
"This week, Canada expelled an Indian diplomat in response to accusations over the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Vancouver."
India Expels Canadian Diplomat, Suspends Visas After Trudeau Accuses India of Involvement in Sikh Leader’s Killing
Why should Americans care about Canada going bolshie? Communism in the Northern Hemisphere and on our border, sets a perilous precedent, especially considering Trudeau’s obsequious feelies for China’s dictator Xi Jinping. When asked which nation’s administration Trudeau admires, he bent his weak knee and licked the ~~boot~~ cul of China’s leading tyrant.
The Battle for Canada Is Heating up, and Americans Need to Pay Close Attention
"The scandal illustrates how Western democracies are not prepared for China’s intelligence gathering and political interference operations."
While Western Leaders Look Away, China’s Spies Are Multiplying
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a Social-Democrat who served as foreign minister in Angela Merkel’s government (2013-2017), is now telling other European countries to exercise “stronger controls and surveillance at our external borders.” In 2016, Steinmeier told Americans that “building walls” to secure national borders was “a very bad idea.”
Germany Has Reached Its ‘Limit’ on Migration, Admits Left-Wing President
"Only in Gaza are huge bombs brought to a 'peaceful' march." (If only the march had been mostly peaceful - jjs)
A ‘Peaceful March’ in Gaza Kills Five
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Biden [junta] 'unable to protect the United States from CCP espionage.'"
Chinese Spy Ops on U.S. Soil Soar Under Biden, GOP Rep Says
". . . the problem is a lot of our leadership that’s coming out of the White House and from the old Obama administration, [and still running the show] they want to change our military to something that it’s never been. They want to involve politics in it. They want to indoctrinate people in socialism and something that we’re not familiar with at all. And so, that’s what we’re fighting with all these 300 nominees.”
Coach Tommy Tuberville Fights Pentagon Wokeness, Mainstream Media ‘Marketing Arm’
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
Robert Zimmerman: "The U.S. was founded as a nation of laws and limited government. It is that no longer. Instead, we are now a nation of unlimited government that no law controls."
FAA and FCC now competing for the honor of regulating commercial space more
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Like a zombie apocalypse . . . Fentanyl was involved in many of the deaths." ("They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls": Don Victor Stracci - jjs)
San Francisco Sees Record Drug Overdose Deaths In August
"Expanding the Culture of Death."
Canada Releases its First Accredited Assisted Suicide Training Curriculum
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
" . . . this canyon is part of one of Mars’ largest geological features, a crack that some scientists believe might have been caused by the giant impact that created Helas Basin on the opposite side of the planet."
A close-up of the giant crack that almost splits Mars
"That the development phase might be cost-plus allows a lot of room for budget growth, however, especially since the companies most likely to want such a contract are the old big companies (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman) that routinely go over budget and behind schedule."
NASA requests proposals from private industry for deorbiting ISS
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"After LGBTQ Democrat state legislators planned to introduce a bill that would have required parental notification only with a child’s consent, Newsom’s advisers intervened to block the bill’s introduction amid concerns that it would be poorly received by parents, Politico reported, citing two legislators who spoke anonymously."
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office Pressured Dems To Shelve Transgender Bill: REPORT
A spokesman from Tavistock responded: “We are grateful to all of the clinicians and academics who have contributed to this study over the years, and we welcome new peer-reviewed analyses of the evidence around how to support these young people.”
34% of Children Put on Puberty Blockers by UK Gender Clinic Suffered Mental Health Issues, New Findings Show
"Yes, Congress should repeal Title IX, a law that now does more harm than good."
Biden’s Title IX Rule Means More Due Process Nightmares
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"Is the Goal to be a socialist state?" (Unlike John Q. Sack, at least they didn't blast Trump and conservatives - jjs)
David Foster’s Daughters Blast Newsom’s Leadership in California
"Between 2021 and 2023 it provided $107,000 to Democratic campaigns and committees. Its spending was revealed amid speculation of an imminent deal to end the strike, with union negotiators and bosses from broadcasters, streamers and studios including Disney, Netflix and WarnerBros meeting in Los Angeles Thursday."
Striking WGA Union Spent Big on Sushi, 5-Star Hotels and Gas for Democrats — While Begging for Public to Give Them Money for Writers
Newt Gingrich: "Anti-war Democrats tore the party apart." (The party was anti-American since its inception - jjs)
American Despotism: How the ’60s and Early ’70s Ignited the Culture Wars
"Critics had mixed reactions to the revealing retrospective."
New Art Exhibit Allows People To Squeeze Through 2 Naked Models To Enter
"American society’s increasing moral laxity should worry us all."
Commerce Super Omnia?
"Even some priests are asking that question."
Is the Pope Catholic?
HITHER & YON
"The documentary could have given a better sense of Tom as a person."
Radical Wolfe: An Underwhelming Account of the Revolutionary Journalist
"The British did not acquire an empire through martial strength alone."
Britain’s Military Enlightenment

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1 Happy Freaking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 07:54 AM (BRHaw)

2 Thank you, JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2023 07:54 AM (1n+EO)

3 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 07:54 AM (Q4IgG)

4 We need common sense Question Mark control!!

Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 07:54 AM (x7plP)

5 Black diamonds are a girl's best friend!

Coocoo-cachoo!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 07:55 AM (krqg6)

6 Flipping heck, someone get J.J. the link to the quote un-fucker!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2023 07:55 AM (9UlRk)

7 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2023 07:56 AM (GYIa4)

8
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 22, 2023 07:57 AM (ENBF0)

9 New Art Exhibit Allows People To Squeeze Through 2 Naked Models To Enter

You can tell a lot about a person when observing which model they face as they pass through.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 07:57 AM (x7plP)

10 ~~Doh!~~ Doe! A deer!

Hot news @TheNewsTrending
Walmart employee tackles deer that ran into a Walmart.

https://tinyurl.com/548vp6e3
9 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 07:57 AM (krqg6)

11 Market predictions. Indexes up at the open, then back down by 11AMEDT. Then sideways all day. Then down in the last half hour.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 22, 2023 07:57 AM (aD39U)

12 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 22, 2023 07:58 AM (GIBR7)

13 A lot. The next time you watch college students shout down a conservative speaker consider which party they call home. There�s only one answer. And they�re proud of it. . .

It turns about 1 out of 3 college students think shoutdowns are ok to control speech.
PS It is 1 out of 5 for VIOLENCE.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 07:58 AM (BRHaw)

14 You can tell a lot about a person when observing which model they face as they pass through.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 07:57 AM (x7plP)

Everyone faces the female one, and then immediately they realize their mistake.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2023 07:59 AM (9UlRk)

15 10 Doh! Doe! A deer!

Hot news @TheNewsTrending
Walmart employee tackles deer that ran into a Walmart.

https://tinyurl.com/548vp6e3
9 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 07:57 AM (krqg6)

Ray, a drop of golden sun

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 07:59 AM (BRHaw)

16 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (Zz0t1)

17 How not to get shot by the cops...

Breaking911 @Breaking911 12h
WATCH: Grand Theft Auto suspect with an impressive exit from Mercedes following police chase in L.A.

https://tinyurl.com/427d45tn
15 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (krqg6)

18 The next time you watch college students shout down a conservative speaker consider which party they call home. There�s only one answer. And they�re proud of it. . .

It turns about 1 out of 3 college students think shoutdowns are ok to control speech.
PS It is 1 out of 5 for VIOLENCE.
Posted by: rhennigantx

These jackasses never heard of Mao or Pol Pot, amirite?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (x7plP)

19 "Equity based book weeding", huh. Sounds good. I'm doing "Equity based consumer product weeding", and any company that makes a stand for DEI is a company I want to avoid. No mas.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (YXtta)

20 The dirty little secret is the federal government is broke, bankrupt, in debt and all their "programs" are simple grift machines with nothing positive coming out of any out it.

No "Great Society" nowadays, more like Ass To Mouth Society.

Yet, greedy, selfish folks will go to work for them, take a check from them and sign up for anything they can get their grubby paws on because it's "free".

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (+wYFq)

21 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2023 08:01 AM (odaSt)

22 Q Sack can mulef*ck. He spews his gibberish, which is mostly correct, then turns around a trashes Trump with it. Not that Trump made the Dem Marxism yield or anything......It's their Marxism that gave Trump power.

What a maroon.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:01 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Breaking911 @Breaking911 12h
WATCH: Grand Theft Auto suspect with an impressive exit from Mercedes following police chase in L.A.

https://tinyurl.com/427d45tn
15 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (krqg6)
===================
Freed without charges an hour later?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:02 AM (YXtta)

24 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

Sorry JJ, that actor is a dope and his prose is incomprehensible.

Is your point, Maybe he's gone around the bend and met us on the other side?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

25 "House Judiciary subpoenaed [Elvis] Chan on Sept. 15 to give an interview Thursday after a dispute between committee investigators and the DOJ derailed his scheduled interview"
Jim Jordan Issues Second Subpoena to FBI Agent Who Fled the Country After Interview Fell Through

Elvis has reft the bildring.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 08:03 AM (BRHaw)

26 Read the write up and noticed no comments when I got to the bottom. How far away from 1st am I now?

Posted by: Doof at September 22, 2023 08:04 AM (2pH9T)

27 Yet, greedy, selfish folks will go to work for them, take a check from them and sign up for anything they can get their grubby paws on because it's "free".

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (+wYFq)

They'll sell their souls and destroy anything for a dollar, and then do literally nothing to make sure that dollar has any actual value.

They're every bit the unthinking feral animal that the free shit army is.

It's the same anti-ideology. The same worldview. Take take take until you die. And if you run out of things to take, smash.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 22, 2023 08:04 AM (9UlRk)

28 19 "Equity based book weeding", huh. Sounds good. I'm doing "Equity based consumer product weeding", and any company that makes a stand for DEI is a company I want to avoid. No mas.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (YXtta)

The problem arises when the products and services we need are made by over 50% of companies that embrace this crap.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:04 AM (x0n13)

29 It sounds to me like the sisters Foster would prefer to keep their wealth than remain in California.

This goes back to the idea that people will continue with their routines regardless of the social decay so long as they remain "comfortable." Sara Foster apparently is feeling a bit uncomfortable in the land of fruits and nuts.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 08:04 AM (Q4IgG)

30 John Cusack has an out-sized of his importance and thus his opinions- and I especially like this part: ' Don’t believe me – look it up'

like Rosie ODonnell on The View after 9/11 : 'google it, people'

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 08:05 AM (geLO8)

31 Q Sacks underlying message is beginning to resonate across the left to go after wealth.

This will be a common theme over the next 4 years that a wealth tax will increase equity and also help balance the budget.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 08:05 AM (BRHaw)

32 24 Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:02 AM (RIvkX)

You have to read between the lines. And yes, he is a sub-literate imbecile.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:06 AM (x0n13)

33
... any company that makes a stand for DEI is a company I want to avoid. No mas.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM

try looking for a job these days

any job posting what mentions "DEI" or any such boo-ship is a flaming red flag for "heterosexual white males need not apply"

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 22, 2023 08:06 AM (ENBF0)

34
the truth of his rant in the first paragraph and salted through the rest of it

The Democrats sold the working man down the river when they gave China 'Permanent' Most Favored Trade status. To be honest it was a Uniparty decision.

I look at the lack of even some level of 'proficiency' in our inner city schools and know that 'back in the day' they could still find meaningful and decent paying jobs in a factory. Every factory I ever had to visit as part of my employment was well staffed with AA males, people with minor disabilities, just the salt of the earth. Not brilliant people by any stretch but they knew their job well. Tis sad those jobs are now in China.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:06 AM (enJYY)

35 and was Cusack a 9/11 truther? I forget

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 08:07 AM (geLO8)

36 “I blame everything on Newsom. Newsom is, like, the worst,” Sara Foster said. “Yeah, I hate him,” her 41-year-old sister agreed

Yet, I'm betting you voted for him twice AND voted against his recall.

Sorry, reap it, bitches. Elections have consequences and you BEGGED for this 3 times.

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

37
Elvis 4-Chan . . .

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

38 Lower than whale shit, apparently...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
NEW - Researchers in Sweden have discovered large amounts of methane gas, a powerful planet-warming gas, leaking from unusual depths on the Baltic Sea seabed

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

39 John Q Sack…. You have a way with words, JJ! LoL

Also causing me to laugh: the snark back at moron David Brooks on X over his complaining tweet about his $78 hamburger…. Turns out $66 of that tab was alcohol.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2023 08:08 AM (xJnZb)

40 Is the Pope Catholic? As a Jesuit, that's was already in question, even before his communism clouds the issue. I always try to remember the Iowahawk rule, about the left:

they identify a respected institution.
kill it
gut it
wear its carcass as a skin suit while demanding respect

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:09 AM (n65KU)

41 The maddening thing is the complete cognitive dissonance. His pea brain can't put two plus two together to add up to four. The failings of his party that he rails against should cause him to wake the fuck up and smell the coffee, not go crazy with fear that they will give Trump a chance to win in 2024!
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This underscores the problem of ideological conformity.

Cusack (or some buddy of his - whatever) can see the problems. He can see how devastating the current junta is. He can see the dark road we're on and that it will get worse with each step we take and each day that passes.

But no viable alternative is a viable alternative. It just can't be helped that the "other side" are Nazis. It's really a shame, too, because if not for that, then they might be able to vote for someone from the "other side."

It doesn't matter how bad things are, or even how much they can see it. The alternative is Literally Hitler, so there's nothing to be done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:09 AM (t0OGg)

42 Breaking911 @Breaking911 12h
WATCH: Grand Theft Auto suspect with an impressive exit from Mercedes following police chase in L.A.

https://tinyurl.com/427d45tn
15 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:00 AM (krqg6)

He's completely yielding himself to police and they stand around......interesting tactic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:10 AM (Zz0t1)

43 David "Obama's creased pants are dreamy" Brooks posted on Twitter that he paid $78 for a cheeseburger and fries at the Newark airport and that must be why people think the Biden economy is bad.

The restaurant replied that the burger and fries was $17 and the rest was his bar tab.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 08:10 AM (P9pDS)

44 He just can't deprogram himself from the bullshit

Yep. and millions like him. It's really amazing.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at September 22, 2023 08:10 AM (iF0sF)

45 Wonderful mashup...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper NY Gov. Hochul in 2021: Come to New York

NY Gov. Hochul in 2023: If you’re going to leave your country, go somewhere else

https://tinyurl.com/4fet7ecd
1:00 minute

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:11 AM (krqg6)

46 36 Yet, I'm betting you voted for him twice AND voted against his recall.

Sorry, reap it, bitches. Elections have consequences and you BEGGED for this 3 times.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

Momma Sefton said "You attract more flies with honey than with vinegar."

People like that are now amenable to being persuaded and ultimately won over. You can rip them a new one if they stay and vote for him a fourth time, or if they move to Nashville and support Steve Cohen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:11 AM (x0n13)

47 He's completely yielding himself to police and they stand around......interesting tactic.

It's LA, if they touch a black person they're getting fired.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 08:11 AM (P9pDS)

48 g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 22, 2023 07:57 AM (ENBF0)

How's the job search going?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:11 AM (Zz0t1)

49
It's LA, if they touch a black person they're getting fired.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 08:11 AM (P9pDS)

Your point is sadly incredibly valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:12 AM (Zz0t1)

50 John Cusack has an out-sized of his importance and thus his opinions-

I met him on vacation once. I was non-impressed.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at September 22, 2023 08:12 AM (45fpk)

51 And Elliot Page, what a sad pathetic creature. I feel sorry for her.. him… it… whatever.

Speaking of people ruined by Hollywood, I see Charlie Sheen’s oldest daughter with Denise Richards is openly talking about how she needs to stop vaping so she can get a boob job. And she has an onlyfans page because of course

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2023 08:12 AM (xJnZb)

52 Biden admin’s National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy says “climate change is “the most significant public health challenge of our time.”

Dont show her the vax and lockdown deaths!

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (BRHaw)

53 He just can't deprogram himself from the bullshit

Now ask yourself, how much deprogramming have we had to do ourselves, here, in the last fifteen years. From Back to the Blue to Freedom Isn't Free. Then ask, just how much in common do the people here have in common anymore with the Republican Party.

We just had a head start of the deprogramming, and were able to do it ourselves. Most of politics, since at least W, has been two sides of the UniParty playing two programmed sides against each other.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (HCAuk)

54
People like that are now amenable to being persuaded and ultimately won over. You can rip them a new one if they stay and vote for him a fourth time, or if they move to Nashville and support Steve Cohen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:11 AM (x0n13)

They will be back on the lib train in 5 years, especially if they move to a conservative state. It's a disease which is rarely cured.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

55 “I’m jealous because — if anyone follows me, you know that I have a lot of complaints about the city we live in and the state we live in,” Sara Foster, 42, griped on their joint show, “The World’s First Podcast.”
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You will. Maybe try - I dunno - *not* mentioning it. Try to blend in. Learn the place names and pronunciations (the local news is helpful). Don't ever compare your home state favorably to your new one. If you must bring up your old state, do so in the context of how much worse it is, and imply that you're doing your bit to *not* reconstruct it in your new state. But it's better to just shut up about it entirely unless directly asked.

People despise colonists and you should expect it. Are you a colonist? Did you leave a shit hole, but do not understand that it isn't Gavin Newsom's fault that it's a shit hole? Do you understand that it's the entire progressive ideology that is to blame? Do you want to guard against that ideology where it has not yet destroyed everything, or do you just think it was "done wrong?"

Don't be a colonist. Make an effort to fit it. Understand that people will be suspicious of you for a goodly while. They have reason to be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

56 41 It doesn't matter how bad things are, or even how much they can see it. The alternative is Literally Hitler, so there's nothing to be done.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:09 AM (t0OGg)

One of the hardest things anyone can do is to look in the mirror and admit to themselves that everything that they believed in - their entire worldview - is wrong. Harder still to state it publicly.

"When the truth is found to be lies,
And all the joy within you dies . . . "

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (x0n13)

57 No video, for those who could stomach it anyway, but Mush-brain Joe repeats the "fine people" lie... twice.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
NEW - Joe Biden repeated the same story, word for word, minutes apart at a private fundraising event in New York, sparking further concerns about his age. He told a story -- twice -- about how Charlottesville inspired him to run in 2020.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:14 AM (krqg6)

58 He's completely yielding himself to police and they stand around......interesting tactic.
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I bet he didn't even call the cops "mo-fos".

Clearly, a Chris Rock fan.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:15 AM (krqg6)

59 52 Biden admin’s National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy says “climate change is “the most significant public health challenge of our time.”

Dont show her the vax and lockdown deaths!
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (BRHaw)

She's right. Sort of. It's the greatest case of mass-brainwashing of all time.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:15 AM (x0n13)

60
The restaurant replied that the burger and fries was $17 and the rest was his bar tab.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 08:10 AM

I just paid $16.00 for a huge burger and fries yesterday. Yuengling was $4.50 though so I only had one.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:15 AM (enJYY)

61 "about the 2017 riot in Charlottesville and how it had ultimately proved to be the inspiration behind Biden’s 2020 presidential run."

It's a canned talking point that Joe uses frequently. Yesterday he did this spiel and then did it all over again, back-to-back.

Joe has always had a reptile brain. Now he has a goldfish memory.

Posted by: Ignoramus at September 22, 2023 08:16 AM (K6vwr)

62
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
NEW - Joe Biden repeated the same story, word for word, minutes apart at a private fundraising event in New York, sparking further concerns about his age. He told a story -- twice -- about how Charlottesville inspired him to run in 2020.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:14 AM (krqg6)

He knows the people are sheep and will believe most of what he tells them. He's been lying so long, he believes everything that comes out of his mouth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:16 AM (Zz0t1)

63 > People like that are now amenable to being persuaded and ultimately won over. You can rip them a new one if they stay and vote for him a fourth time, or if they move to Nashville and support Steve Cohen.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
____________

Nashville is pretty much a low budget, Hicksville version of San Francisco.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

64 No equivocation. No couching the blasting of Newsom and California pols to warn that their actions are paving the way for Trump and his white supremacist Nazi MAGA hordes to take over. In fact, Sara Foster specifically used the phrase "liberal politicians" to rip San Francisco's insane leaders. We shall see if she retracts what she said, but I think the bridge has been burned here.
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I fear otherwise. She is blaming the people, and that isn't really an awakening. It might be on the road to one, but it isn't there yet. California isn't Newsom's fault. He is a powerful man who does great damage, but he is, like the rest, chance riders on the infernal machine. He didn't build it. He and the others have, at most, turned a bolt on that machine. Yet they ride it nonetheless and help it to accelerate.

That machine - the progressive ideology and all that it stands for - is the problem. The chance riders who happen to have their hands on the controls are the wrong target of her hate. They deserve it, of course, and it is right to hate them for the parts of this mess that they have amplified or created - but it is wrong to blame to them for the mess itself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:17 AM (t0OGg)

65 It's National Ice Cream Cone Day. 🍦

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2023 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

66
I just paid $16.00 for a huge burger and fries yesterday. Yuengling was $4.50 though so I only had one.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:15 AM (enJYY)

Which would've cost you $8 5 years ago......Yuengling likely still $4.50.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:17 AM (Zz0t1)

67 >Biden admin’s National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy says “climate change is “the most significant public health challenge of our time.”

does it kill more people than heart disease or cancer?
rhetorical, of course

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 08:17 AM (geLO8)

68
How's the job search going?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:11 AM

slow motion...nothing is gonna move in automotive until the UAW strike thingy is settled

that, and all the recruiter calls I get (from the call center in Mumbai) don't know the difference between "cost estimating" (what I do) and "cost accounting" (what I do not)

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 22, 2023 08:18 AM (ENBF0)

69 One of the hardest things anyone can do is to look in the mirror and admit to themselves that everything that they believed in - their entire worldview - is wrong. Harder still to state it publicly.

Exactly. And not just because it simply requires an admission of error. That's the easy part. We have generations now, raised in the black vs white paradigm of Democrats vs Republicans. Good guys and bad guys. That's a personal investment multiple decades in the making.

Very, very few people can simply throw that all away and say "nah, they're both crooked as a dog's hind leg". I honestly wonder, when people like me post UniParty, how many people even here just roll their eyes and move to the next comment.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 08:18 AM (HCAuk)

70 I still say: a plague upon the Big Three AND the UAW.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 08:18 AM (8sMut)

71
slow motion...nothing is gonna move in automotive until the UAW strike thingy is settled

that, and all the recruiter calls I get (from the call center in Mumbai) don't know the difference between "cost estimating" (what I do) and "cost accounting" (what I do not)
Posted by: AltonJackson at September 22, 2023 08:18 AM (ENBF0)

Godspeed, sir. I wish you luck and I hope the unions are broken soon.

They're asking for WAY too much this time.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

72 He just can't deprogram himself from the bullshit

Yep. and millions like him. It's really amazing.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at September 22, 2023 08:10 AM (iF0sF)
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This.

The fact some leftist has resolved a portion of their cognitive dissonance is not remarkable.

What would be remarkable is if any of them TOOK ACCOUNTABILITY for voting for this sh*t. And made amends. And started connecting policies to outcomes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:19 AM (RIvkX)

73 That final email informed me that all of my reviews, reviews going back almost thirty years, had been removed. I would never again be allowed to post reviews on Amazon, not for books or for anything else. If I bought a spatula that was a really good spatula, I could never say that on Amazon.
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I'm surprised their system bothered to inform the user at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:19 AM (t0OGg)

74 Another Polish friend said, “I’m so glad I’m not an American.” He believes he has greater freedom of speech in Poland than I have in the US.
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I don't live in Poland, so I don't know - but I have no trouble believing that assessment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:20 AM (t0OGg)

75 Louis CK: if we allow open borders, America is going to have a lot of problems… and that’s good. We should have problems. It’s not fair that life in America should be good while it being bad in third world countries

You cannot have them over here without them bringing there over here.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 08:20 AM (BRHaw)

76 67 >Biden admin’s National Climate Adviser Gina McCarthy says “climate change is “the most significant public health challenge of our time.”

does it kill more people than heart disease or cancer?
rhetorical, of course
Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 08:17 AM (geLO

Something no one can do a damn thing about.

Gina McCarthy needs to get to work on ending Death - or is she in the pockets of Big Death?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 08:20 AM (8sMut)

77 All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 10m
Carbon dioxide detected on Jupiter’s moon Europa comes from the vast ocean beneath its icy shell, research using James Webb Space Telescope data indicated on Thursday, potentially bolstering hopes the hidden water could harbour life.

Posted by: Stele! Stele!!! at September 22, 2023 08:21 AM (krqg6)

78 He just can't deprogram himself from the bullshit

Yep. and millions like him. It's really amazing.
Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at September 22, 2023 08:10 AM (iF0sF)

This is why I don't trust the libs that decide "F*CK this. I'm moving to a red state!"

They'll be voting lib again in 5 years.

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

79 Don't be a colonist. Make an effort to fit it. Understand that people will be suspicious of you for a goodly while. They have reason to be.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Here in Central TN, the CA transplants are quick to point out - "I'm a refugee and got my CCW!" They seem to be authentic.

The CA infected hate it here. They can't wait to go back.

Well, bye.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 08:22 AM (x7plP)

80 The Amazon thing is interesting. It is not interesting because it's new, but because it's the kind of thing that happens with monopoly power. One of the keys to Amazon's success - and the success of eCommerce more generally - is the user review. eBay was among the first to figure this out, with the creation of buyer and seller feedback systems.

eCommerce requires trust, especially distributed eCommerce (arbitrary buyers and sellers coming together - the eBay model). The review system, both for products and for people, is what helped build that trust. It was the key to the entire thing.

But the moment they got big enough and people got used to ordering sight-unseen, boom. The system was destroyed and converted to a political tool.

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

81 It's also,
Elephant Appreciation Day! 🐘

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2023 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

82 Child abducting Nazi rapist?

Boy that language is sure to turn off the moderates!

Weird how it never does.

Posted by: blaster at September 22, 2023 08:23 AM (dWjpk)

83 "Elvis Chan" is the perfect name for an FBI traitor to America.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:23 AM (lFCW3)

84 potentially bolstering hopes the hidden water could harbour life.
Posted by: Stele! Stele!!! at September 22, 2023 08:21 AM (krqg6)

We've got life here we can't maintain. Why are they hoping to find life elsewhere? Haven't f*cked life HERE up enough?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

85 > That machine - the progressive ideology and all that it stands for - is the problem. The chance riders who happen to have their hands on the controls are the wrong target of her hate. They deserve it, of course, and it is right to hate them for the parts of this mess that they have amplified or created - but it is wrong to blame to them for the mess itself.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
___________

You can't blame the dogshit on the floor when the dog is sitting "right there." Blame the people, not "the machine." Just sayin'.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 08:24 AM (Q4IgG)

86 Don't be a colonist. Make an effort to fit it. Understand that people will be suspicious of you for a goodly while. They have reason to be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (t0OGg)

The Left's "anti-colonialism" stance falls apart at the first hint of a breeze. If you think that your European ancestors shouldn't have come here, then go back to Europe. If you're all for people that have been living somewhere for hundreds of years not being displaced by another, then fight illegal immigration. If you bemoan culture disappearing, then don't bring your blue-state values to a red state. Of course, they don't actually want colonialism to go away, they just want to rail on their ancestors because nothing is ever, ever their fault.

Posted by: pookysgirl, of mixed enough heritage that she'd have to go back to two continents at September 22, 2023 08:24 AM (dtlDP)

87 @77 Venus has lots of carbon dioxide.

I am not sure how that means life.

Posted by: blaster at September 22, 2023 08:24 AM (dWjpk)

88 The Democrats sold the working man down the river when they gave China 'Permanent' Most Favored Trade status. To be honest it was a Uniparty decision.

I look at the lack of even some level of 'proficiency' in our inner city schools and know that 'back in the day' they could still find meaningful and decent paying jobs in a factory. Every factory I ever had to visit as part of my employment was well staffed with AA males, people with minor disabilities, just the salt of the earth. Not brilliant people by any stretch but they knew their job well. Tis sad those jobs are now in China.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:06 AM (enJYY)

Why should those business stick around this country and hire people when subject to governments that are absolutely hostile to business and are committed to churning out people who can identify 10,000 genders but cannot do basic math?

Oh, that's right. Patriotism. My bad.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 08:25 AM (8sMut)

89 Yuengling likely still $4.50.
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See? I am beating inflation, fat!

Posted by: joey biden at September 22, 2023 08:25 AM (krqg6)

90 Venus has lots of carbon dioxide.

I am not sure how that means life.
Posted by: blaster at September 22, 2023 08:24 AM (dWjpk)

I guess that means their climate is excessively warm and the planet is dying.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

91 We've got life here we can't maintain. Why are they hoping to find life elsewhere? Haven't f*cked life HERE up enough?

Classic higher education, my man. Everyone of them is an expert on their particular type of bark, or leaf. Higher up the chain, you've got true experts on the entire tree.

Not a damn one of them can see the forest, because that takes a completely different type of mind. A totally different perspective. Hence the problem with experts. Hence the problem with technocrats that's been pushed in the Western World since the 60s.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM (HCAuk)

92 87 @77 Venus has lots of carbon dioxide.

I am not sure how that means life.
Posted by: blaster at September 22, 2023 08:24 AM (dWjpk)

Lead would be liquid on the surface of Venus.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM (8sMut)

93 I wonder what the fish on Europa look like

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM (geLO8)

94 A wish upon the vile corporatist Left: A pox be upon them, upon their houses, and upon theirs

Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM (n6GO2)

95 In the article about censorship, The French Connection is said to have been snipped because of an offensive word. I watched it a few nights ago, and if it's the word I'm thinking of, Popeye still used it. Never trust....

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM (0EOe9)

96 One of the hardest things anyone can do is to look in the mirror and admit to themselves that everything that they believed in - their entire worldview - is wrong. Harder still to state it publicly. ...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (x0n13)
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It is. It can take years. It took years for me. I used to be a default free trader - the assumption that any free trade, even asymmetrical free trade, was a net good that must be pursued. Two things caused me to have to reassess that. One was living in Central New York, which was a post-industrial wasteland. The other was the 2006-2009 real estate crackup/financial crisis. Neither was supposed to be possible under the theory.

Thus began years of reading and learning. i wanted to understand how it happened. It turns out that my gut check was right - it wasn't supposed to be possible under the theories they were following. There were rationalizations but inadequate explanations. A lot of it was akin to arguments heard from socialists - that true free trade and financial regulation had never been tried, so we just need to go even harder.

The whole process took 3-5 years.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:27 AM (t0OGg)

97 Food in Nashville is teh awesome.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:27 AM (RIvkX)

98
I wonder what the fish on Europa look like

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM

hmmm...drop shot or Texas rig?

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 22, 2023 08:28 AM (ENBF0)

99 I’m finding it interesting that Poland and Ukraine are now bickering over Ukrainian grain imports; Ukraine has sued the EU (at first I thought how do you sue a country… in this case through the WTO) and now Poland has stopped giving certain weapons to Ukraine. It makes you think…. If Russia is the great existential threat, then why are they bickering about mere trivialities in the middle of a war of annihilation?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2023 08:28 AM (xJnZb)

100 But the moment they got big enough and people got used to ordering sight-unseen, boom. The system was destroyed and converted to a political tool.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Amazon is drifting as its service gets worse, the reviews for many products are fake, and the main reason that Amazon makes a profit nowaday is their massive AWS cloud and network services division. That is why Amazon is trying to pivot to services like medical care, entertainment, etc.

But the key sign that a company is on the downhill side is that it tries to diversify instead of remaining good at its one main job.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:28 AM (l7GJm)

101 It is. It can take years. It took years for me.

For me, it was a combination of events. An anecdotal study of those around me who reacted how to Waco and Ruby Ridge. Then, again, doing the same between 9/11 and the Patriot Act.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 08:29 AM (HCAuk)

102 $4.50 for a Yuengling?

Lowes Grocery store just had cases of bottles on sale, again.

$16.98 per case, limit of four.

Why yes, I did get four cases, why do you ask?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 22, 2023 08:30 AM (1n+EO)

103 Good morning.

It's rat bastard commies all the way down.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 22, 2023 08:30 AM (4I/2K)

104 Never give any weight to what actors say. We're talking about people whose entire existence is based on saying things they have been paid to say.

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 08:30 AM (geLO8)

105 Huck Follywood,

Dr. Taylor Marshall wrote a book about it. "Infiltration" "The Jesuits" by Malachi Martin also explains it.

But yes, wear the skinsuit.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at September 22, 2023 08:30 AM (JkeTM)

106 You can't blame the dogshit on the floor when the dog is sitting "right there." Blame the people, not "the machine." Just sayin'.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 08:24 AM (Q4IgG)
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The people are not blameless. They are evil to the core and need to be removed from power. But the individuals at the top calling the shots do so in accordance with a belief system that permits them no other shot to call. Any other person in those same positions and with the same ideology will make the same (or equivalently awful) choices. The particular bastard who got there isn't the core problem, the core problem is the ideological control system that delivered them to those positions and ensures nobody else can reach a control position.

It is why "fuck Newsom, I'm leaving" doesn't fill me with confidence. If you don't understand that Newsom as such is not the problem, but it's the ideological system that *demands* a Newsom and thus will always and without fail locate and elevate a Newsom - if you think it's the man that is the root problem, not the idea or the philosophy - then you will, like clockwork, find the next Newsom to ruin wherever you've moved.

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

107 >Good morning.

It's rat bastard commies all the way down.

Posted by: Count de Monet

and here I thought it was c*ck-biting MFers all the way down-
I learn so much here

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 08:31 AM (geLO8)

108 “When corporations train their employees to be little Robespierres, they undermine society.”

That’s a keeper.

Posted by: 7man at September 22, 2023 08:32 AM (qwO6y)

109 One of the hardest things anyone can do is to look in the mirror and admit to themselves that everything that they believed in - their entire worldview - is wrong. Harder still to state it publicly.
...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:13 AM (x0n13)
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One of my greatest regrets is not doing this before dad was of blessed memory. He debated with me his whole life why I shouldn't be a dirty commie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

110 I guess that means their climate is excessively warm and the planet is dying.
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It must be the CO2 and not being closer to some unknown heat source as it would take something on the magnitude of our own Sun to accomplish that!

Posted by: neil degrasse tyson at September 22, 2023 08:32 AM (krqg6)

111 "Paxton in Victory Lap Interview with Tucker"

This was favorite Tucker interview.
It is a must see and explains a lot about the obstacles we face when it comes to elections not just in Texas, but all states.

It also reveals that George Soros has his fingerprint on everything.

He figures out who to put in place and how much of a destructive impact that person will be able to make.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2023 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

112 97 Food in Nashville is teh awesome.

New Orleans has entered the chat.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 22, 2023 08:33 AM (NBVIP)

113 96 One of the hardest things anyone can do is to look in the mirror and admit to themselves that everything that they believed in - their entire worldview - is wrong. Harder still to state it publicly. ...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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Part of that is the cult of the midwit that demands certainty and absoluteness to be 'right'. In dealing with humans at the wholesale level via social sciences, you quickly realize that any analysis involving humans is by nature only able to give limited insights in how they behave.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:33 AM (l7GJm)

114 Amazon is drifting as its service gets worse, the reviews for many products are fake, and the main reason that Amazon makes a profit nowaday is their massive AWS cloud and network services division. That is why Amazon is trying to pivot to services like medical care, entertainment, etc.

But the key sign that a company is on the downhill side is that it tries to diversify instead of remaining good at its one main job.
Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:28 AM (l7GJm)

You never go full Enron.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 22, 2023 08:34 AM (4I/2K)

115 Not a damn one of them can see the forest, because that takes a completely different type of mind. A totally different perspective. Hence the problem with experts. Hence the problem with technocrats that's been pushed in the Western World since the 60s.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert
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Cue three blind men analyzing an elephant.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:35 AM (l7GJm)

116 But the key sign that a company is on the downhill side is that it tries to diversify instead of remaining good at its one main job.
Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:28 AM (l7GJm)

Didn't they start out as a book-seller?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at September 22, 2023 08:35 AM (45fpk)

117 It is why "fuck Newsom, I'm leaving" doesn't fill me with confidence. If you don't understand that Newsom as such is not the problem, but it's the ideological system that *demands* a Newsom and thus will always and without fail locate and elevate a Newsom - if you think it's the man that is the root problem, not the idea or the philosophy - then you will, like clockwork, find the next Newsom to ruin wherever you've moved.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:31 AM (t0OGg)

I’m not so sure, Joe. You’re smarter than me…. But your thinking seems opposed to something I’ve seen in my reading of history which seems true: the indispensable man. George Washington was one; Abe Lincoln another. Individuals do matter… they’re more than just cogs in a machine. I know the skinsuit machine is operating, but I still believe individuals and individual agency matters…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2023 08:35 AM (xJnZb)

118 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 08:36 AM (xTRSc)

119 95 In the article about censorship, The French Connection is said to have been snipped because of an offensive word. I watched it a few nights ago, and if it's the word I'm thinking of, Popeye still used it. Never trust....
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM (0EOe9)

Unless they reversed course when caught.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 08:36 AM (8sMut)

120 ALX @alx 19h
Democrats on the Border crisis:

“The border is not open”

“What you see is different than what happens in actuality”

'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.'

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:37 AM (krqg6)

121 Classic higher education, my man. Everyone of them is an expert on their particular type of bark, or leaf. Higher up the chain, you've got true experts on the entire tree.

Not a damn one of them can see the forest, because that takes a completely different type of mind. A totally different perspective. Hence the problem with experts. Hence the problem with technocrats that's been pushed in the Western World since the 60s.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 08:26 AM (HCAuk)
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It's why software developers are often poor are troubleshooting problems in the final product. The guy who wrote the block data subsystem knows that system tremendously well - but he has no idea how devices show up, for example. They have gaps because of the laserlike focus on the one particular thing they have to produce.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:37 AM (t0OGg)

122
I wrote an Amazon review on a sous vide that had a dangerous feature which could easily start a fire. Amazon did not publish it, but the product is no longer for sale.

All the people who purchased the sous vide may someday discover what I discovered without the manufacturer notifying them, 'DO NOT DO THIS!'

You see the sous vide has a (+) and a (-) button. If you want to take the temperature from the default 130 F to 204 (the highest) you can press the (+) key and hold it down. Or, you can press the (-) key a couple of times and it will roll to the highest setting. But it's not really 204 degrees, it is much higher and will eventually boil all the water out of the machine, ignite the plastic, and probably set the food ablaze.

Amazon review of reviews suck.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:38 AM (enJYY)

123 You never go full Enron.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Other examples as well Sears, GE, ITT, ATT, IBM, and so on. Investors are more adept at diversifying revenue streams than are giant corporations but executive compensation and stroking ego is often based on idiotic bold new initiatives and growing the size of the corporation.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:38 AM (l7GJm)

124 Cue three blind men analyzing an elephant.

Today's the day for that!

It's also,
Elephant Appreciation Day! 🐘
Posted by: redridinghood

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:38 AM (krqg6)

125 *But the key sign that a company is on the downhill side is that it tries to diversify instead of remaining good at its one main job.*

Fun UToob channel: The Company Man.

https://tinyurl.com/mvz5w2hs

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 22, 2023 08:39 AM (NBVIP)

126 I’m not so sure, Joe. You’re smarter than me…. But your thinking seems opposed to something I’ve seen in my reading of history which seems true: the indispensable man. George Washington was one; Abe Lincoln another. Individuals do matter… they’re more than just cogs in a machine. I know the skinsuit machine is operating, but I still believe individuals and individual agency matters…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2023 08:35 AM (xJnZb)
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The more I have learned, the more I think that the "the times make the man" or similar. Key men are real, and pop up like clockwork at vital points throughout history. During the transitions, they key men are exactly that. After the transition, the key men tend to become less key.

But what makes for a transition, and how do you detect that you're in one? If you do think you're in one, how do you select the right key man? Those are very serious problems to which I don't know the answer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:39 AM (t0OGg)

127 61 "about the 2017 riot in Charlottesville and how it had ultimately proved to be the inspiration behind Biden’s 2020 presidential run."

It's a canned talking point that Joe uses frequently. Yesterday he did this spiel and then did it all over again, back-to-back.

Joe has always had a reptile brain. Now he has a goldfish memory.
Posted by: Ignoramus at September 22, 2023 08:16 AM (K6vwr)

Charlottesville is a FBI program just like the original White Nationalist founders.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 08:40 AM (BRHaw)

128 Amazon review of reviews suck.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

The Three Wolf Moon tee review (by non-customers) remains epic.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 08:40 AM (x7plP)

129 Didn't they start out as a book-seller?
Posted by: grammie winger
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Yes, but now that book reading is declining, they are pivoting to other things. Ironically, you can make good money as a company in a declining industry if you concentrate on being the best that you can be at it. Barnes and Noble seems to be turning a corner in renewing its focus on books and the bookstore atmosphere rather than toys R Us, Nook, or other non-sense.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:41 AM (l7GJm)

130 The Election Variant: Biden Junta Offering Free Chinese Coronavirus Testing Kits Via Mail

Mail In Voting

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 08:41 AM (BRHaw)

131 Their hatred of Trump likens to a group piranha attacking a leg of lamb.

Posted by: sidney at September 22, 2023 08:42 AM (Uy/WF)

132 But what makes for a transition, and how do you detect that you're in one? If you do think you're in one, how do you select the right key man? Those are very serious problems to which I don't know the answer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Embrace the wisdom of crowds and a wee bit of the Lord offering redemption for lost souls.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:43 AM (l7GJm)

133 Food in Nashville is teh awesome.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:27 AM (RIvkX)

Concur. Some of the best BBQ I have ever put in my mouth was in Nashville. Jack's I think it was on Broadway.

Memphis BBQ is good too. Got all that Fat Elvis vibe too.

More coffee..

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 22, 2023 08:43 AM (+wYFq)

134 *Cue three blind men analyzing an elephant.*

This is a great version:

https://tinyurl.com/bdd4xzve

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 22, 2023 08:43 AM (NBVIP)

135 If it weren't for yeast infections Democrats would have no culture at all.

Posted by: Ciampino - Be scared Hydrogen, Helium has a contract out. Oxygen is gunning for you. at September 22, 2023 08:44 AM (qfLjt)

136 New Art Exhibit Allows People To Squeeze Through 2 Naked Models To Enter

You can tell a lot about a person when observing which model they face as they pass through.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 07:57 AM (x7plP)

I have no doubt that 10-15 years from now, some visitor will be accused of having sexually harassed one, or both, of the models.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2023 08:44 AM (GYIa4)

137
The $4.50 Yuengling was 16 ounces from the bar tap at a mid-level restaurant at a very scenic location. In my area, mere miles from where it is produced, a case goes for about $22.00 now.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:44 AM (enJYY)

138 'The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.'
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:37 AM (krqg6)
===
Debbie Dobermann Schmutz said "What you see is not what is really happening!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:44 AM (RIvkX)

139 Daniel Greenfield: "Get your organs regenerated or your money back at the latest Clinton Foundation event."
______

The Clintons are back in business? Haven't we suffered enough?

Posted by: Haiti at September 22, 2023 08:45 AM (fs1hN)

140 The slow upward trend on the pre-market NASDQ seems to be petering out. I am taking my .36% morning profit and will wait to see what the FOLO/FOLA balance is at the open.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 22, 2023 08:45 AM (aD39U)

141 Has anyone heard from Jane D'Oh recently?

I hope her husband and son are well too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:45 AM (4nh7V)

142 Debbie Dobermann Schmutz said "What you see is not what is really happening!"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:44 AM (RIvkX)
++++
That blunt?

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

143 Texas BBQ is best.

Eastern NC is right behind.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 22, 2023 08:46 AM (ovV/V)

144 Memphis BBQ... ribs at the Rendezvous. Those were awesome.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 08:46 AM (Q4IgG)

145 FOMO

dammit.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 22, 2023 08:46 AM (aD39U)

146 Biden praises ‘Congressional Black Caucus’ during address to Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:46 AM (krqg6)

147 133 Food in Nashville is teh awesome.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:27 AM (RIvkX)

Concur. Some of the best BBQ I have ever put in my mouth was in Nashville. Jack's I think it was on Broadway.

Memphis BBQ is good too. Got all that Fat Elvis vibe too.

More coffee..
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
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A lot of the best bbq is at roadside shacks that the local know about only. Same as in New Orleans or other places. There is pretty much good food anywhere in the US if you look around for it and will take local guidance on the subject.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (l7GJm)

148 Borders was the best bookstore chain on the planet, bar none.

Stupid, lazy millennials who have to do everything online in their pajamas drove it out of business.

Fuck Amazon.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (xTRSc)

149 126 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:39 AM (t0OGg)

Gotcha. I believe 2016 had the potential to be one of those transition points and Trump one of those indispensable men…. But then covid and he didn’t rise to that occasion (alas…. I don’t think anyone on the scene now would’ve). So we had a pivot in the wrong direction in 2020…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (xJnZb)

150 Masculinity and Chivalry on display in Pennsylvania High School -

(LifeSiteNews) — Pennsylvania high school students on Friday took part in a large-scale walk-out to protest the school district’s decision to allow boys to use girls’ bathrooms.

On September 15, more than 300 students from the Perkiomen Valley School District in Pennsylvania walked out to protest the school board’s decision not to pass Proposed Policy 720, which would have barred gender-confused boys from using girls’ restrooms, Fox News reported.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (fs1hN)

151 Concur. Some of the best BBQ I have ever put in my mouth was in Nashville. Jack's I think it was on Broadway.

Memphis BBQ is good too. Got all that Fat Elvis vibe too.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Texas BBQ is best.

Eastern NC is right behind.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

The BBQ Wars - They have begun.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (x7plP)

152 141 Has anyone heard from Jane D'Oh recently?

I hope her husband and son are well too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:45 AM (4nh7V)

Jane's husband passed away a couple months ago. I've been communicating with her on and off and she's having a tough go of it adjusting.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (x0n13)

153 Morning all, thx JJ. The ODs in SF seems to be a simple albeit tough way to solve a problem. Given the open sores of tranq addicts it's a surprise to me that diseases haven't broken out which would wipe people out quicker. The illegals will certainly replace those who die. Maybe that's the plan

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2023 08:48 AM (YdEHa)

154 hope her husband and son are well too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:45 AM (4nh7V)

Sadly, her husband died. It was some months ago and then she took a break from the board.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2023 08:48 AM (RSbhh)

155 Democrats Discover a New ‘Threat To Democracy’ — The U.S Constitution

Without irony, too. They love to pick a clause in the BOR and explain pedantically why that right is a "threat to democracy". Hell, my law professor brother bitches anytime the never mentioned Administrative State is checked by any actual Constitutional branch.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:48 AM (4nh7V)

156 TonyPete,

That is to the entrance to an exhibit of Marina Abramović of spirit cooking infamy. No thanks.

Toxic evil person carrying on the best traditions of Babylonian Mystery cult practices.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:49 AM (l7GJm)

157 Gotcha. I believe 2016 had the potential to be one of those transition points and Trump one of those indispensable men…. But then covid and he didn’t rise to that occasion (alas…. I don’t think anyone on the scene now would’ve). So we had a pivot in the wrong direction in 2020…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (xJnZb)
++++
Or he was. Key men can fail. COVID was where the fully-corrupted progressive system and all of its various operators at all levels showed their true colors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:49 AM (t0OGg)

158 On September 15, more than 300 students from the Perkiomen Valley School District in Pennsylvania walked out to protest the school board’s decision not to pass Proposed Policy 720, which would have barred gender-confused boys from using girls’ restrooms, Fox News reported.

I'm super-proud of these kids!

we have some terrible freaking Karens running everything in the Philly burbs

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 08:49 AM (AcWfM)

159 If Paxton runs against Cornyn, I just might have to move back to Texas to vote for Paxton.

Posted by: greg at September 22, 2023 08:49 AM (KtqAF)

160 Safa reports, “Five young men were martyred and 25 others were injured this evening, Wednesday, as a result of an explosion during a peaceful march in Malka camp on the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.”

Mostly peaceful bombing

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

161 *Kansas City BBQ has entered the chat.*

Posted by: Ahem at September 22, 2023 08:49 AM (NBVIP)

162 Jane's husband passed away a couple months ago. I've been communicating with her on and off and she's having a tough go of it adjusting.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (x0n13)

I wish she'd stop in for a minute so we could all give her a hug.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at September 22, 2023 08:50 AM (45fpk)

163 did you guys read the Sarah Hoyt essay MisHum posted last night? it was excellent

interesting perspective I thought; and I think she's right about most of what she said

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 08:50 AM (AcWfM)

164 RNC Research
@RNCResearch

Biden (heavily mumbling): "Mega Republicans in Congress and my predecessor spent four years gutting the immigration system under my predecessor and continue to undermine our border security today"

https://tinyurl.com/4h8c5hc2

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2023 08:50 AM (NpAcC)

165 Memphis BBQ... ribs at the Rendezvous. Those were awesome.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 08:46 AM (Q4IgG)

Corky's. Their dry rub was the bomb.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

166 Thanks to JJS and Fen for passing on the sad news. God bless the D'Oh family.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:51 AM (4nh7V)

167 That blunt?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:45 AM (t0OGg)
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The Fox chick stuck a mic in her face as she was coming down the Capitol steps. I saw it yesterday mid-day...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

168 159 If Paxton runs against Cornyn, I just might have to move back to Texas to vote for Paxton.

he came off I think better than any guest Tucker has had on yet.

really sharp guy, centered, impressive

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 08:51 AM (AcWfM)

169 Cusack is a dumb fish in a retarded pond. But he's finally figuring out what millions of people on both sides of the aisle already know: that our "parties" are a single political unit, and the enemy of the American people.

Mannix tells a story about how he learned to drive stick shift. There was a kid in our town who was so dumb, he likened him to a dog. When he saw him driving around a manual, he said "how can this dog know something I don't? Unacceptable," and learned to do it himself.

This is sort of like that. Whoever you are, whatever your beliefs may be... if Cusack can crack the code, then SO CAN YOU.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 22, 2023 08:52 AM (0FoWg)

170 Heh…. Brandon praising the congressional black caucus while speaking to the Hispanic caucus. His lizard brain is getting more lizardy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 22, 2023 08:52 AM (xJnZb)

171 Their dry rub was the bomb.
Posted by: Sponge

We talking BBQ here or that 'art exhibit' entrance?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 08:52 AM (x7plP)

172 There's fryers and broilers and Detroit barbecue ribs
But the treat of the treats
Is when they serve you all those fine eight beats
You'll want to spend the rest of your brights
Down at the house, the house of blue lights...

Posted by: Zombie Chuck Miller at September 22, 2023 08:52 AM (+wYFq)

173 Jane's husband passed away a couple months ago. I've been communicating with her on and off and she's having a tough go of it adjusting.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (x0n13)

I'd been wondering about them and had asked here a few times if anyone heard.

This breaks my heart. I knew things weren't going well, but was hoping that no news was good news.

God bless her and her family. May he provide peace and comfort in their time of need.

Please let her know we're thinking about her.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

174 If Paxton runs against Cornyn, I just might have to move back to Texas to vote for Paxton.
Posted by: greg at September 22, 2023 08:49 AM (KtqAF)
*********
You will.
He's fantastic!

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

175 The Fox chick stuck a mic in her face as she was coming down the Capitol steps. I saw it yesterday mid-day...
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:51 AM (RIvkX)
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Dang. Talk about quiet part out loud...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:53 AM (t0OGg)

176 163 did you guys read the Sarah Hoyt essay MisHum posted last night? it was excellent

interesting perspective I thought; and I think she's right about most of what she said
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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Sarah has an interesting blog as a writer that turned political and a few former AOS commenters there.

Good information for budding writers as well.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:53 AM (l7GJm)

177
We talking BBQ here or that 'art exhibit' entrance?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 08:52 AM (x7plP)

Dry rub, not pull and tug.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

178 Part of the great thing about BBQ is the regional variety; there s so much great BBQ. Th Rendezvous used to ship via FEDEX, years ago, but I think thy long since stopped. But getting hot ribs and brisket shipped and ready to eat was a huge treat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:54 AM (4nh7V)

179 169 This is sort of like that. Whoever you are, whatever your beliefs may be... if Cusack can crack the code, then SO CAN YOU.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 22, 2023 08:52 AM (0FoWg)

He's not there yet, by a long shot. As I said to admit to yourself that your worldview, especially your politics, is wrong is one of the hardest things you can do in this life.

I suppose if David Horowitz or David Mamet can do it, the former a bona fide red diaper baby and the latter very close to it, they so can Cusack. But they did it over time.

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

180 So is everyone still on Ukraine's side after their military that we're funding and supplying is issuing death threats to American citizens in the U.S.?

“This puppet of Putin is only the first of Russia’s war criminals. Propagandists will all be hunted down, and justice will be served. We in Ukraine are led on this mission by faith in God, liberty, and complete liberation.”

https://tinyurl.com/27fh9cl9

Stand with Ukraine or else!

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 08:54 AM (n/6gj)

181 > Memphis BBQ... ribs at the Rendezvous. Those were awesome.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 08:46 AM (Q4IgG)

Corky's. Their dry rub was the bomb.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)
_____________

Used to go there for lunch about 2-3 times a month. The pulled pork sandwiches were pretty tasty.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 08:54 AM (Q4IgG)

182 I bless the rains down in Africa.

Posted by: Christian Toto at September 22, 2023 08:54 AM (BMHsU)

183 Let’s be real: Tennessee bbq is terrible - the best bbq in Tennessee is at Buc’ees. That’s how good Texas bbq is - you can sell it at a gas station and it’s better than Tennessee bbq.

Posted by: greg at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (KtqAF)

184 We talking BBQ here or that 'art exhibit' entrance?
Posted by: Tonypete
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Just so you know, one of the naked models is male and the other is female and you have to enter sideways. Typical pervert stuff from Maria.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (l7GJm)

185 177 Dry rub, not pull and tug.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

Dry rub v. Dry hump. Discuss.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (x0n13)

186 I honestly wonder, when people like me post UniParty, how many people even here just roll their eyes and move to the next comment.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 08:18 AM (HCAuk)

I suspect that most of the people still here recognize the existence of the uniparty.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (GYIa4)

187 I thought Trump was the key man, I hope he still may yet be.

Many of you are youngsters apparently too young to remember how Reagan played this role 44 years ago. (In an entirely different situation.)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (RIvkX)

188 @RNCResearch

Biden (heavily mumbling): "Mega Republicans in Congress and my predecessor spent four years gutting the immigration system under my predecessor and continue to undermine our border security today"

-

The guy who was trying to increase enforcement and build a wall gutted the immigration system.

SCINESX!!

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (n/6gj)

189 Cusack wants to be / support the little man, if for no other reason than box office.

But at the end of the day, he knows where he lives and which side his bread is buttered on.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 22, 2023 08:56 AM (FxH7T)

190 Complaining dems will not vote Republican, they will be looking for a "better Democrat ". You know, in their minds it's like Clinton or Obama.

Posted by: runner at September 22, 2023 08:56 AM (t459v)

191 Please let her know we're thinking about her.

This. I think about her a lot.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at September 22, 2023 08:56 AM (iF0sF)

192
Dry rub v. Dry hump. Discuss.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (x0n13)

One leads to ecstasy and the other chaffing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

193
Key men can fail. COVID was where the fully-corrupted progressive system and all of its various operators at all levels showed their true colors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:49 AM

Key men can fail when lied to. Fauci knew that 20 years of research had failed to find an effective vaccine against corona type viruses. Fauci is the epicenter of everything that went wrong.

Should Trump had known he was dealing with a self-centered sociopath with a Napoleon complex?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:57 AM (enJYY)

194 @RNCResearch

Biden (heavily mumbling): "Mega Republicans in Congress and my predecessor spent four years gutting the immigration system under my predecessor and continue to undermine our border security today"
-
The guy who was trying to increase enforcement and build a wall gutted the immigration system.

SCINESX!!
Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (n/6gj)
++++
A perfect inversion.

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

195 @RNCResearch

Biden (heavily mumbling): "Mega Republicans in Congress and my predecessor spent four years gutting the immigration system under my predecessor and continue to undermine our border security today"

His Border Patrol is literally cutting the fence to let illegals in the country, but TRUMP undermined the immigration system.

Will someone PLEASE put this man out of my misery?

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

196 Key men can fail when lied to. Fauci knew that 20 years of research had failed to find an effective vaccine against corona type viruses. Fauci is the epicenter of everything that went wrong.

Should Trump had known he was dealing with a self-centered sociopath with a Napoleon complex?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:57 AM (enJYY)
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I think it became obvious. It was not obvious at the outset. By the time he figured it out - if he ever did - he had been outmaneuvered and neutralized.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 08:58 AM (t0OGg)

197 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 08:58 AM (u82oZ)

198 "Don’t believe me – look it up – and Dems have sold out the working class for decades –"

So pretty much everybody then, as only retirees and young children don't work. That leaves, what, 90% of the population?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 08:58 AM (8sMut)

199 Should Trump had known he was dealing with a self-centered sociopath with a Napoleon complex?

yeah, kinda. it was obvious.

how about, Trump should not automatically defer to "science types" or "military types"? to me that was his main problem. he had all of them up on this pedestal and wasn't evaluating any of them clearly at all.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 08:58 AM (AcWfM)

200 I suppose if David Horowitz or David Mamet can do it, the former a bona fide red diaper baby and the latter very close to it, they so can Cusack. But they did it over time.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:54 AM (x0n13)

I'm not even talking about figuring out that your worldview is totally wrong. Just figuring out that your political party is LYING to you about sharing your values... all of us can go back to our battles about ideology, but all of us need to recognize and eliminate that elephantine political problem first. No progress can be made toward his goals or mine, until the regime is toppled.

Recognizing the reality of the Uniparty is Step 1.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 22, 2023 08:58 AM (0FoWg)

201 I wish she'd stop in for a minute so we could all give her a hug.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at September 22, 2023 08:50 AM (45fpk)
==========================
[[[Jane]]]

In case she lurks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 08:58 AM (4nh7V)

202 Sponge, I talk to her frequently and she knows

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2023 08:59 AM (TQT9N)

203 The BBQ Wars - They have begun.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 22, 2023 08:47 AM (x7plP)

begun they have

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 08:59 AM (BRHaw)

204 he came off I think better than any guest Tucker has had on yet.

really sharp guy, centered, impressive
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 08:51 AM (AcWfM
*******
Definitely my favorite interview and needs to be shared by as many people as possible.

It was also nice to see the ratio Dade Phelan got on his X page-

https://tinyurl.com/42mkukcm

Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

205 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 08:59 AM (u82oZ)

206 Will someone PLEASE put this man out of my misery?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

You got your man in my misery!
You got your misery in my man!

Feces Penis Buttigieg Cups.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:59 AM (x0n13)

207 Sponge, I talk to her frequently and she knows

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2023 08:59 AM (TQT9N)

Good. Extra hugs from me next time you two speak.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

208 Thank you Senator Tuberville!!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:00 AM (4nh7V)

209 There IS plenty of good food in this country. Seriously, we need a database here of restaurants in this country that traveling Morons need to visit.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 09:00 AM (8sMut)

210 Concur. Some of the best BBQ I have ever put in my mouth was in Nashville. Jack's I think it was on Broadway.

Memphis BBQ is good too. Got all that Fat Elvis vibe too.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Texas BBQ is best.

Eastern NC is right behind.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

The BBQ Wars - They have begun.

Y'all have your BBQ wars, I have two 10# pork butts in the smoker Right Now for a mid-afternoon dinner with neighbors.

I can assure you, there will be no complaints.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 22, 2023 09:00 AM (p8A+W)

211
You got your man in my misery!
You got your misery in my man!

Feces Penis Buttigieg Cups.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:59 AM (x0n13)

*VERP*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

212 It was also nice to see the ratio Dade Phelan got on his X page-

what a TOOL that guy is, holy sheep

shameless

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 09:00 AM (AcWfM)

213 Dry rub v. Dry hump. Discuss.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 08:55 AM (x0n13)

One leads to ecstasy and the other chaffing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 08:56 AM (Zz0t1)

You put ecstasy in your dry rub??

Posted by: Doof at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (skX6a)

214
I can assure you, there will be no complaints.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 22, 2023 09:00 AM (p8A+W)

You rub, inject or just light fuse and get away?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

215 {{{grammie winger}}}

May you and the Rev be thriving!

No details, please. This is a family blog. Well, an Addams family blog, at least.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (u82oZ)

216
You put ecstasy in your dry rub??
Posted by: Doof at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (skX6a)

It's orgasmic.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (Zz0t1)

217 ey men can fail when lied to. Fauci knew that 20 years of research had failed to find an effective vaccine against corona type viruses. Fauci is the epicenter of everything that went wrong.

Should Trump had known he was dealing with a self-centered sociopath with a Napoleon complex?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:57 AM (enJYY)

It was common knowledge that retrovirus were mostly harmless until FauxChi creatred HIV.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (BRHaw)

218 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 10m
Carbon dioxide detected on Jupiter’s moon Europa comes from the vast ocean beneath its icy shell, research using James Webb Space Telescope data indicated on Thursday, potentially bolstering hopes the hidden water could harbour life.
Posted by: Stele! Stele!!! at September 22, 2023 08:21 AM (krqg6)

I don't understand. How can CO2 be coming from the world ocean and, yet, it has an icy shell? Why aren't the seas boiling?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (GYIa4)

219
Just sent Jane a note.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (x0n13)

220 It was also nice to see the ratio Dade Phelan got on his X page-

https://tinyurl.com/42mkukcm
Posted by: redridinghood at September 22, 2023 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

Dade "Let's work with Democrats! Hey guys, I'll give y'all key committee chairmanships!" Phelan, the Lush of the House.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (8sMut)

221 {{{Ben Had}}}

🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

222 Who would have predicted that Justin Castro would start a war with India?

Posted by: Place Yo' Bets! at September 22, 2023 09:02 AM (83IzV)

223
+++
Corky's. Their dry rub was the bomb.
+++

"Every butt deserves a good rub."

Posted by: The marque sign at my local BBQ joint at September 22, 2023 09:02 AM (NBVIP)

224 A shroud of suffocating censorship is being pulled over the entire West with frightening rapidity before our eyes. Our institutions and leaders, in the main, are betraying us with grimly determined acclamation.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 22, 2023 09:02 AM (Ht8Z0)

225 Should Trump had known he was dealing with a self-centered sociopath with a Napoleon complex?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:57 AM (enJYY)
===
Yes. We knew it. This was well-established for many years before COVID.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

226 Just sent Jane a note.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (x0n13)

*offers a hearty hand clasp and bat on the back*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

227 what a TOOL that guy is, holy sheep

shameless
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 09:00 AM (AcWfM)

Dade's got a primary challenger, last I saw, down in Beaumont (where his district is).

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 09:03 AM (8sMut)

228 Gotcha. I believe 2016 had the potential to be one of those transition points and Trump one of those indispensable men…. But then covid and he didn’t rise to that occasion (alas…. I don’t think anyone on the scene now would’ve). So we had a pivot in the wrong direction in 2020…

It's all a matter of perspective. If you were a white sharecropper in the 1860s Deep South, you were poor by definition. A second class citizen in a three tiered system. Yet to those people, Lincoln was not an indispensable man and the pivot was in the wrong direction for decades.

I don't believe in these inflection points based around great men. I do believe that is largely myth pushed by the men who claw to the top and win those moments. By and large, the history of man is a history of brutality and servitude. We enjoyed a little Golden Age here. It's rapidly coming to an end. Not because of a lack of great men. But because of the nature of man.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 09:03 AM (HCAuk)

229 All the lefty liberals noted above have two things in common :

The current D "leaders" are unliked because of the "result" of said policies

The current policies just haven't been implemented "correctly. "

Once they find the "right" person, all will be well.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (FxH7T)

230 *offers a hearty hand clasp and bat on the back*
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🦇

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (krqg6)

231 Just sent Jane a note.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 09:01 AM (x0n13)
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I miss seeing her around and she would get some moron comfort.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (RIvkX)

232 222 Who would have predicted that Justin Castro would start a war with India?
Posted by: Place Yo' Bets! at September 22, 2023 09:02 AM (83IzV)

The Indians are still ticked off at him for his cultural appropriation on his visit to India in 2016 or thereabouts.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (8sMut)

233 J.J. Sefton

Thank you. I met them at a MoMeet, and what a good couple they were.

I count his death as part of the COVID disaster.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (u82oZ)

234 *offers a hearty hand clasp and bat on the back*
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🦇
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (krqg6)

Well shit......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (Zz0t1)

235 I don't believe in these inflection points based around great men. I do believe that is largely myth pushed by the men who claw to the top and win those moments. By and large, the history of man is a history of brutality and servitude. We enjoyed a little Golden Age here. It's rapidly coming to an end. Not because of a lack of great men. But because of the nature of man.
Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 09:03 AM (HCAuk)
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The great men are in the position to make the story stick, mostly because they make it. Key man or great man does not mean good man. But they are pivotal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (t0OGg)

236 The city saw 84 accidental drug overdose deaths in August, or about five deaths every two days, according to preliminary city data.

August surpassed January’s 83 drug deaths for the deadliest month

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:05 AM (BRHaw)

237 But causality is still unknown. Do the key men create inflection points, or do they exploit them? I tend toward the latter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 09:05 AM (t0OGg)

238 Used to go to Moore's BBQ in Jville, North Cackalackee back in the day. Small place with a great white sauce and of course the vinegar sauce. Great eats.

All fancy nowadays I believe but back then in a small bunker like building.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 22, 2023 09:05 AM (+wYFq)

239
Andrew Collins
@AndrewBCollins
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2h
Integrated information theory in consciousness research has just been labelled as "pseudoscience" by 124 neuroscientists. Try to cancel something through academic suppression only tells you there has to be something here that orthodoxy is afraid of...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 22, 2023 09:05 AM (TGPs7)

240 ++++
The great men are in the position to make the story stick, mostly because they make it. Key man or great man does not mean good man. But they are pivotal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 09:04 AM (t0OGg)

Great men make good pussy do wet things.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

241 Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:05 AM (ZV+pB)

242 Should Trump had known he was dealing with a self-centered sociopath with a Napoleon complex?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 08:57 AM (enJYY)

Important question. It speaks to how he reads people and adjusts to new information and admits mistakes. I can excuse him for not knowing initially. But that he permitted Fauci's destructive reign of error for as long as he did is hard to overlook.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 22, 2023 09:06 AM (Ht8Z0)

243 NaCly dearest.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2023 09:06 AM (TQT9N)

244 how about, Trump should not automatically defer to "science types" or "military types"? to me that was his main problem. he had all of them up on this pedestal and wasn't evaluating any of them clearly at all.
Posted by: BlackOrchid
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Normal Americans were deferring to the generals and the scientists as well. Ronnie Reagan got rolled on Lebanon, GHWB as successor, and Immigration Amnesty and so on.

If you mixed Nixon and Trump you might have someone devious and cunning enough to cut out the Deep State but likable enough to keep from being removed from office.

But, personality traits generally rule out such combinations unless you get a genuine psychopath like Bubba Clinton.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 09:06 AM (l7GJm)

245 Wood or aluminum bat?

Posted by: Oh, wait... at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (NBVIP)

246 Place Yo' Bets!

The only problem with the Indian Army and Navy invading and taking over Canada is that darned Article 5 part of the NATO treaty.

Otherwise, I'd bet on India.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (u82oZ)

247 It's why software developers are often poor are troubleshooting problems in the final product. The guy who wrote the block data subsystem knows that system tremendously well - but he has no idea how devices show up, for example.

Which is why there are now dedicated software architects where all they do is keep an eye on how the components interact.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (FD5dr)

248 "Don’t believe me – look it up – and Dems have sold out the working class for decades –"

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There are many reasons Trump is hated, and this is a biggie.

He took office and, with both (R)s and (D)s fighting him every moment of his term, immediately accomplished - all by himself - what both (R)s and (D)s had been promising to blue collar workers for 40+ years.

That cannot be allowed to stand.

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (n/6gj)

249 146 Biden praises ‘Congressional Black Caucus’ during address to Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 08:46 AM (krqg6)

You ain't Black Hispanic, er, Black and Hispanic, uh Tacos, um you know the thing, if you don't vote for ME!

Posted by: GL at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (5fDan)

250 Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:05 AM (ZV+pB)

I was taken to the alleged "inventor of the Buffalo Wing" place outside of Buffalo, NY. I had the wings.

Later that evening, I was projectile vomiting all over my hotel room.

Do not recommend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

251 Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?

That involves giant rats, right?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (p8A+W)

252 Ben Had

Soon!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (u82oZ)

253 Nikki Hailey was just on Maria Bartiromo and said Trump has gone week of n the knees on Ukraine. This one worlder twit will fight to the last Ukrainian and US dollar

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2023 09:08 AM (YdEHa)

254 Fauci lied about heterosexual transmission of AIDS thirty years ago.

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

255 So now it’s a barbecue thread?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:08 AM (xTRSc)

256 New Jersey BBQ?

Ewwwww...

Posted by: Every Southeastern State at September 22, 2023 09:08 AM (NBVIP)

257
Soon!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (u82oZ)

SOOOOO looking forward to it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

258 Normal Americans were deferring to the generals and the scientists as well.

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It's easy to forget, but it wasn't too long ago that we - Trump included - were operating under the assumption that people in government loved America and Americans, and would be making decisions based on the best interests of the two. That was incorrect, and I'm glad we now know.

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:09 AM (n/6gj)

259 34% of Children Put on Puberty Blockers by UK Gender Clinic Suffered Mental Health Issues, New Findings Show

Putting children and a last chance palliative care drug for men with cancer does not seem to be working.

Who would have thunk that??

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:09 AM (BRHaw)

260 No school today, but have stuff to do.

Have a great day, everyone.

May storms wet your land, clear the pollen, and give you rainbows.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2023 09:09 AM (u82oZ)

261 Which is why there are now dedicated software architects where all they do is keep an eye on how the components interact.

Yep, and that is what I am supposed to be doing Right Now.

(checks clock)

L8R, all.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at September 22, 2023 09:09 AM (p8A+W)

262 I know far too many people who vote Dem because they still believe the ol' "Party of the working man" canard. As well as the ol' "Republicans are Mean Mr. Monopoly with a touch of Jesus Freak".

Posted by: Parsnip at September 22, 2023 09:09 AM (BMHsU)

263 "Sara and Erin Foster detailed their growing bitterness against their home state amid news that the latter sister was moving into a new home in Nashville, Tennessee."

From what I understand Nashville is also deteriorating blue shithole. I considered moving there but found you have get outside the city to red areas to be safe. Maybe that is her plan.

Posted by: Ripley at September 22, 2023 09:09 AM (JojsZ)

264 After all these years, 11 since the original post that so offended Non-Nobel Prize winning hockey stick author Michael Mann, Mark Steyn is finally heading to trial in DC Court on the Mann accusation of "defaming" him.

YAY! Go get 'em Mark.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:10 AM (24Zq+)

265 It's easy to forget, but it wasn't too long ago that we - Trump included - were operating under the assumption that people in government loved America and Americans, and would be making decisions based on the best interests of the two. That was incorrect, and I'm glad we now know.
Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:09 AM (n/6gj)

This.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

266 Hollywierd's mum on the subject of widespread censorship. Meanwhile, in the music biz, damn near every active rockerboy GenX and younger has released at least one pissed-off protest song about cancel culture. But then, they've always been more prone to speaking their minds.

Posted by: CppThis at September 22, 2023 09:10 AM (PZvjL)

267 Mark Steyn is finally heading to trial in DC Court on the Mann accusation of "defaming" him.

YAY! Go get 'em Mark.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:10 AM (24Zq+)

DC Court. I do not see this coming out well for Mr. Steyn.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

268 253 Nikki Hailey was just on Maria Bartiromo and said Trump has gone week of n the knees on Ukraine. This one worlder twit will fight to the last Ukrainian and US dollar
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 22, 2023 09:08 AM (YdEHa)

She has no problems seeing your sons and daughters come home with flags on their coffins. See Clintons, Bushes, Obamas, et al.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:10 AM (BRHaw)

269 One man's software is another man's nightmare.

Posted by: Been there, done that at September 22, 2023 09:11 AM (NBVIP)

270 Do not recommend.

Well, they were wings. The flip-flops of the food world.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:11 AM (xTRSc)

271
Well, they were wings. The flip-flops of the food world.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:11 AM (xTRSc)

I could not disagree with you more.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:11 AM (Zz0t1)

272 Dry rub v. Dry hump. Discuss.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Dry Hump is better than No Hump. That'll be $20.

-local tittie bar employee

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 22, 2023 09:11 AM (3CCua)

273 It's easy to forget, but it wasn't too long ago that we - Trump included - were operating under the assumption that people in government loved America and Americans, and would be making decisions based on the best interests of the two.

That's an improper use of "we". I can't be the only one that watched government under Clinton, W, and Obama. How much more evidence did anyone need to see ?

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 09:11 AM (HCAuk)

274 Which is why there are now dedicated software architects where all they do is keep an eye on how the components interact.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 09:07 AM (FD5dr)
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Yup. Gotta try to understand the interactions.

Or alternatively, acknowledge that you can *never* understand them adequately and design systems to try to accommodate that fact. This is the route that Netflix took, and it revolutionized large-scale software design. They have what they call (or used to call) a "chaos engineering" group that continuously tests systems by randomly breaking them. They wrote programs to do nasty things to the environment - randomly killing a service, corrupting a database, knocking a whole site offline, etc. - anything from big to small - so they could observe how the system managed and then go off and try to make improvements. Then they do it again. It's continuous. They set the software equivalent of an angry toddler loose in the system to throw a tantrum.

They know they don't know what will happen, because there's always *some* interaction that's unexpected. So they took a different approach toward validating and designing robustness.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 09:12 AM (t0OGg)

275 GenX and younger has released at least one pissed-off protest song about cancel culture. But then, they've always been more prone to speaking their minds.
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We grew up with artists who fought the PMRC. Many of those artists have now become the PMRC, unfortunately.

Posted by: Parsnip at September 22, 2023 09:12 AM (BMHsU)

276 There is no best barbeque, only what you enjoy, and most of the time that corresponds with where you grew up. I suspect "the water" mystery of New York bagels revolve around that same phenomenon. It's just what people grew up with and it's what tastes best to them.

I hope I'm not the only one here who ever had Whitt's in the late 70s and early 80s before they were bought out around the 90s or so. There were at least three locations around the Alabama-Tennessee line. That has never been matched in my lifetime. Again, I suspect it had something to do with growing up with it. It was fantastic, though.

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:12 AM (n/6gj)

277 Cincinnati chili contains cinnamon. Blech

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:12 AM (ZV+pB)

278 Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?

Manwich? Hunt's BBQ sauce on mashed potatoes? Hot dogs with spicy ketchup?

Posted by: GL at September 22, 2023 09:13 AM (5fDan)

279 There used to be Virgil's BBQ in Times Square in the Big Apple.

But since the Big Apple is all rotten now, I don't know if it's still there.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 22, 2023 09:13 AM (+wYFq)

280 Cincinnati chili contains cinnamon. Blech
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:12 AM (ZV+pB)
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I don't get Cincinnati-style chili. I never have. They like it. Cool. I don't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 22, 2023 09:13 AM (t0OGg)

281 242 I can excuse him for not knowing initially. But that he permitted Fauci's destructive reign of error for as long as he did is hard to overlook.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 22, 2023 09:06 AM (Ht8Z0)

Agreed. If The Don wants my vote again he's going to have to convince me that he's learned from the experience and has a plan to avoid letting it happen again.

Posted by: CppThis at September 22, 2023 09:14 AM (PZvjL)

282 *277 Cincinnati chili contains cinnamon. Blech*

Release the carrots!!

Posted by: Obligatory at September 22, 2023 09:14 AM (NBVIP)

283 That's an improper use of "we". I can't be the only one that watched government under Clinton, W, and Obama. How much more evidence did anyone need to see ?
Posted by: Spoiler Alert

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Fair point. I'd say there were outliers, but what we were exposed to with the Trump reveal is that it's the majority. One of the more disturbing ones for me was knowing without a doubt that the military is compromised. We had a general come out and say without shame that he would contact our enemy if he thought the president he didn't like was going to say pussy.

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:15 AM (n/6gj)

284 But it’s that 19 percent portion of respondents who see what Biden did as not illegal (including the 1 percent who think he did nothing wrong at all) who are particularly notable. This figure represents nearly one-third of the portion of respondents (61 percent) who believe that Biden had some involvement in Hunter’s doings. By saying that the president’s actions are “unethical but not illegal” they are, in effect, giving him a pass, since ethics/morals can be situational in practice, but laws are firm—and saying it’s not illegal is effectively saying that it’s okay. In the views of this cohort, we might perhaps see a reflection of contemporary mores.

Add to that 30 to 40 million people that live illegally as a way of life. They cheated their way into to country and rob taxpayers of schools, hospitals, welfare, and sometime even their lives.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:15 AM (BRHaw)

285 278 Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?

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We have some Pineys down in South Jersey that can grill up a mean squirrel.

Posted by: Parsnip at September 22, 2023 09:15 AM (BMHsU)

286 But your thinking seems opposed to something I’ve seen in my reading of history which seems true: the indispensable man. George Washington was one; Abe Lincoln another. Individuals do matter…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Absolutely right.

That is why the wine moms will swoon when Newsome is at the top of the ticket next fall. And will fall in line.

"He's the one we've been waiting for!!"

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 22, 2023 09:15 AM (FxH7T)

287 MD blue crabs steamed in beer with generous scoops of Old Bay on every crab. The ultimate food.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:15 AM (ZV+pB)

288 Get rid of the books, be less than you could have been. Your children will pull a plow

Posted by: Eromero at September 22, 2023 09:16 AM (gDx5p)

289 Agreed. If The Don wants my vote again he's going to have to convince me that he's learned from the experience and has a plan to avoid letting it happen again.

How do you take an almost 80 year old man, that's been a credentialist all his life, in a culture that prizes credentialism, and suddenly make him a skeptic ? This ties into the very topic at hand.

The vast majority of people don't change. They've got a worldview, and they pick their facts to fit that view. I've seen nothing to make me suspect Trump has the willingness or capability to change.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 09:16 AM (HCAuk)

290 Anyone want 2 tickets for the Texas race tomorrow and Sunday.

hit my nic at gmail

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:16 AM (BRHaw)

291 BehindTheBlack says NASA wants to deorbit the ISS, in hopes it will burn fully upon re-entry and not drop on anyone's head. The commentariat seems to want to move the station instead to lunar orbit, and try to keep using some part of it. Musk has not yet been heard from, but I would be surprised if Mars didn't enter the chat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (7Z8OX)

292 Cincinnati chili contains cinnamon. Blech
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:12 AM (ZV+pB)

That shit is NASTY.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

293 Has anyone seen polynikes ?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (TQT9N)

294 So is everyone still on Ukraine's side after their military that we're funding and supplying is issuing death threats to American citizens in the U.S.?

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 08:54 AM (n/6gj)

At least some of us here have, in fact, NEVER been on Ukraine's side. That is not to suggest that everyone in that category is on Russia's side, they're just not on Ukraine's.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (GYIa4)

295 It's easy to forget, but it wasn't too long ago that we - Trump included - were operating under the assumption that people in government loved America and Americans, and would be making decisions based on the best interests of the two. That was incorrect, and I'm glad we now know.
Posted by: Family members
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General Betray Us for example.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (l7GJm)

296 BehindTheBlack says NASA wants to deorbit the ISS, in hopes it will burn fully upon re-entry and not drop on anyone's head.

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That seems like it would release quite a few icky chemicals into the atmosphere.

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:19 AM (n/6gj)

297 Anyone want 2 tickets for the Texas race tomorrow and Sunday.

hit my nic at gmail
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:16 AM (BRHaw)

I drove by the track yesterday. I remember the time when the campground were full by now. There are PLENTY of wide open spaces there currently.

Offer is appreciated, but we're out of town this weekend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

298 Personally, I think barbecue is overrated. I like it well enough, but I never crave it.

Unpopular opinion, I know.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:19 AM (xTRSc)

299 Dry rub v. Dry hump. Discuss.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September

This is about me, isn't it.

Lauren Boebert

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at September 22, 2023 09:19 AM (FxH7T)

300 I don't think Donald Trump is a stupid man. He just wasn't part of DC politics and took advice from people he shouldn't have. I don't think he's naive and learned a lot over four years.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2023 09:20 AM (RSbhh)

301 Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?
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I believe that is McDonalds McRib

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:20 AM (7Z8OX)

302 292 Cincinnati chili contains cinnamon. Blech
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:12 AM (ZV+pB)

That shit is NASTY.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

they put it on spagehtti

WTFO

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:20 AM (BRHaw)

303 TGIF, horde!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2023 09:21 AM (izj35)

304 Fauci lied about heterosexual transmission of AIDS thirty years ago.

In 1988 the Village Voice dedicated an entire issue to slamming Fauci over AIDS because he prioritized wrong theories that would make Big Pharma a lot of money. Plus ca change…

Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 09:21 AM (FD5dr)

305 >>BehindTheBlack says NASA wants to deorbit the ISS, in hopes it will burn fully upon re-entry and not drop on anyone's head.

do they wanna crash it in one piece or cut it up into sections first

also, NASA is collecting a sample of asteroid material- I can't believe we have a spacecraft that can scoop up some asteroid stuff and bring it back to earth- scifi space plague to follow

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 09:21 AM (geLO8)

306 I believe that is McDonalds McRib
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:20 AM (7Z8OX)

McRibbed for her pleasure

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 22, 2023 09:21 AM (BRHaw)

307
MD blue crabs steamed in beer with generous scoops of Old Bay on every crab. The ultimate food.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:15 AM

Served on a paper table cover which is folded up and tossed after every use. Pitcher of beer.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 09:21 AM (enJYY)

308 How do you take an almost 80 year old man, that's been a credentialist all his life, in a culture that prizes credentialism, and suddenly make him a skeptic ? This ties into the very topic at hand.

exactly. can't happen.

for me, a) my dad was career military for a while and while he liked a lot of things about it he was always honest about the issues, so I had that; and b) I even worked for the govt for a little while. so add that to being Gen X and Skeptic's Your Uncle.

as the elders pass away this will be the common view. even Millies are not truly credentialist believers. they cling to things like that, like they cling to the support of their parents, but that time is ending.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 09:21 AM (AcWfM)

309 And I like Cincinnati chili, too. Cinnamon is awesome in anything.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:22 AM (xTRSc)

310 Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 09:16 AM (HCAuk)

Many people have the capacity to change. I did-Democrat for years, DINO for over 12. Now a Republican running for office.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2023 09:22 AM (RSbhh)

311 General Betray Us for example.

As far as I could ever tell, Petraeus' big selling point was COIN. A repackaged version of "hearts and minds". It worked so well in 'Nam that I guess we were destined to fail with it again.

We've talked all morning about programming. The right will be better off when they deprogram that automatic reflex to trust anyone in a uniform.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 09:22 AM (HCAuk)

312 That shit is NASTY.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (Zz0t1)

Friend of mine has a hot dog shop and serves Cincinasty chili with all the fixins over pasta too. It's pretty good but the next day make sure you keep a shitter close by as it will clean out your innards. Good for when you get all bound up.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 22, 2023 09:22 AM (+wYFq)

313 Brick Suit @Brick_Suit 12h
Biden forgets who he is pandering to.

Says, "The Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values" while speaking to the Congressional HISPANIC Caucus Institute.

https://tinyurl.com/36cdy2w6
7 seconds; also cites his dad teaching him those values.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 09:23 AM (krqg6)

314 Not specifically BBQ but there was this shack outside of Memphis up near Millington that served up the best fried catfish I've ever had.

When I say "shack" I mean it. Folding card tables inside. 4 of them. Get a "to go" box with 2 fillets, coleslaw, cornbread and fries for about $3 back in the day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 22, 2023 09:23 AM (Q4IgG)

315 310 How’s the campaign going, Fen?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:23 AM (xTRSc)

316 In a declining media environment, the sale of 22 newspapers in Maine should not have been big news. What made it interesting was that the buyer of the state's largest media group wasn't a hedge fund, it was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded by George Soros' Open Society, Pierre Omidyar's Democracy Fund, the Gates Foundation and many other major leftist donors.

The National Trust For Local News had done it before, buying up 24 newspapers in Colorado, and its portfolio now includes everything from the Bangor Daily News to the Englewood Herald to the Kennebec Journal.
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Paraphrasing Family Guy. this really grinds my gears. Using tax deductible contributions from Gates, Omidyar and Soros, lefties extend their monopoly on news into small towns. They control everything.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:24 AM (7Z8OX)

317 Personally, I think barbecue is overrated. I like it well enough, but I never crave it.

Unpopular opinion, I know.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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I think it's a regional thing like almost everything else. If you grew up somewhere with a strong presence it's good, if not it's no big deal. I have friends at the beach who couldn't really care less, but they'll almost come to blows discussing how best to open and eat oysters.

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:24 AM (n/6gj)

318 also, NASA is collecting a sample of asteroid material- I can't believe we have a spacecraft that can scoop up some asteroid stuff and bring it back to earth- scifi space plague to follow

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 09:21 AM (geLO

There's a fire, sir.

Posted by: Archer at September 22, 2023 09:24 AM (gmo/4)

319 MD blue crabs steamed in beer with generous scoops of Old Bay on every crab. The ultimate food.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 22, 2023 09:15 AM

Served on a paper table cover which is folded up and tossed after every use. Pitcher of beer.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 09:21 AM

Mmmm...summer in a meal.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 22, 2023 09:24 AM (aQy7p)

320 The bbq I get most often now is Korean, and I have no complaints.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 09:24 AM (RIvkX)

321 JJ the top meme is hysterical

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 22, 2023 09:25 AM (RIvkX)

322 294 At least some of us here have, in fact, NEVER been on Ukraine's side. That is not to suggest that everyone in that category is on Russia's side, they're just not on Ukraine's.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (GYIa4)

I'm in the category that doesn't like what Russia's doing but is quite sure that none of the Western meddlers have an actual viable plan for winning the proxy war. They baited the bear into a Ukrainian tarpit and now profit from shady deals, most of it just because they can.

Posted by: CppThis at September 22, 2023 09:25 AM (PZvjL)

323 300 I don't think Donald Trump is a stupid man. He just wasn't part of DC politics and took advice from people he shouldn't have. I don't think he's naive and learned a lot over four years.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Human failures are always can happen but in politics, we have made admitting failure almost impossible and for people with big egos that infest politics, that simply makes it easier to deny any fault.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 09:25 AM (l7GJm)

324 Fauci is a weaponized product of the , um, services.

Posted by: runner at September 22, 2023 09:25 AM (t459v)

325 Gotta go to work. Meeting Dell, yet again......Seems quality is not job one at whomever is making their drives.

Be excellent to each other. Screw Paul. He's a dick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 22, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

326 Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?
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I believe that is McDonalds McRib

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hahaha, someone should make a photoshop image compilation of all the different regional styles of barbeque and include that for New Jersey.

(goes to see how to do that sort of thing)

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:26 AM (n/6gj)

327 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:23 AM (xTRSc)

I'm supposed to be knocking on peoples' doors, but haven't done much because I haven't been feeling well. Did just have a great talk with a couple of men at the local deli and they said I could put campaign signs on their property. Thx for asking.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 22, 2023 09:26 AM (RSbhh)

328 Has anyone seen polynikes ?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (TQT9N)
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Too, too many good commenters have moved on.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:26 AM (7Z8OX)

329 >>34% of Children Put on Puberty Blockers by UK Gender Clinic Suffered Mental Health Issues, New Findings Show

Kids on hormones -- hello, puberty!? - have mental health issue. The normal, adolescence mood swings, identity-roulette, self-conscious kind. WTH would you want to add more fuel to that fire?! Let them get through that completely typical and predictably crazy time of life without permanent damage.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 22, 2023 09:26 AM (izj35)

330 They have what they call (or used to call) a "chaos engineering" group that continuously tests systems by randomly breaking them.

Right, so-called “fuzzing” but on a bigger scale.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 09:26 AM (FD5dr)

331 I had forgot that Cusack was in A Sure Thing. That was a fun movie.

And Daphne Zuniga was fine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:27 AM (xTRSc)

332 Gotta go to work. Meeting Dell, yet again......Seems quality is not job one at whomever is making their drives.

I got an RV to load, beer to drink once I'm there, and noon rapidly approaches. Enjoy your weekend. I will mine.

Posted by: Spoiler Alert at September 22, 2023 09:27 AM (HCAuk)

333 Love todays photoshop!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:27 AM (7Z8OX)

334 Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?

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I got a better one, anyone ever try the gas station sushi??

Posted by: runner at September 22, 2023 09:27 AM (t459v)

335 > child-abducting

LOLWUT?

Oh, the "kids in cages" thing. Someone should tell Johnny Boy (or Johnny Middle-Aged Ignoramus, whatever) that Dopey Joe currently has around 10x more "kids" in "cages" than Trump ever did. Also that the "cages" were built by...Obama.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2023 09:27 AM (Y6AXb)

336 Lots of leftists think Obama was too right wing. Cusak is by no means alone.

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:28 AM (bWsRe)

337 313 Says, "The Congressional Black Caucus embodies all those values" while speaking to the Congressional HISPANIC Caucus Institute.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at September 22, 2023 09:23 AM (krqg6)

Extra hilarious considering black and brown hate each other with ever increasing vigor.

Posted by: CppThis at September 22, 2023 09:28 AM (PZvjL)

338 331 I had forgot that Cusack was in A Sure Thing. That was a fun movie.

And Daphne Zuniga was fine.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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A lot of those teen actors were sexually abused by the casting couch. Would not take a bet that Cusack might have been one of them.

Posted by: whig at September 22, 2023 09:28 AM (l7GJm)

339 I never understood Cusack's appeal as an actor. He's not Kevin Bacon.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 22, 2023 09:28 AM (AMd6i)

340 G'morn y'all.

The edges of the leaves on the oak out front are turning. I saw one leaf completely brown already. We finally get a little cooler weather, and some rain, but the package includes incipient colder days ahead.

I'm glad our Daisy, the overly-affectionate Belgian Malinois, is not one of those water dogs. She doesn't splash through pools or drink from muddy puddles. She'll get wet a-plenty running around, though. She doesn't seem to understand why we don't play fetch first thing in the morning when it's wet out.

And now, I shall peruse that enormous Friday news dump JJ has cooked up for us today.

Have a day, Hordelings.

Posted by: mindful webworker - yeah, yeah, rose and shone already at September 22, 2023 09:28 AM (gL/LV)

341 What do they mean McCarthy stopped a Congressional address by Zelensky? I distinctly remember that happening, and the whole GOP jizzing themselves.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 22, 2023 09:29 AM (0FoWg)

342 Paraphrasing Family Guy. this really grinds my gears. Using tax deductible contributions from Gates, Omidyar and Soros, lefties extend their monopoly on news into small towns. They control everything.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 09:24 AM (7Z8OX)

In Amarillo, they have a newspaper I call The Community Calendar. All their headlines are devoted to such items. Do they report on the goings on of Amarillo city government, or Potter County government, or Randall County government, or school boards? From what I see, NO.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 09:29 AM (8sMut)

343 Better Off Dead is one of my all time favorite movies.

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:29 AM (bWsRe)

344 Huck, I'm concerned his might be health related.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2023 09:29 AM (TQT9N)

345 I'm in the category that doesn't like what Russia's doing but is quite sure that none of the Western meddlers have an actual viable plan for winning the proxy war. They baited the bear into a Ukrainian tarpit and now profit from shady deals, most of it just because they can.

They don’t want it to end, because the profit ends if it does. That’s yet another real reason they hate Trump.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 22, 2023 09:29 AM (FD5dr)

346 Autumnal Equinox arrives tonight in the US. UTC time Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 06:50:00. (2:50 AM EDT. I think)

Posted by: GL at September 22, 2023 09:30 AM (5fDan)

347 Should be first priority for DEA to keep both fentanyl and cinnamon out of the country.

Posted by: Be Gone Villain! at September 22, 2023 09:30 AM (83IzV)

348 Has anyone seen polynikes ?
Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2023 09:18 AM (TQT9N)

Ben Had, as long as you've been here, you should know his routine. Leave in a huff then show up under a different nic, almost immediately after.

Posted by: runner at September 22, 2023 09:30 AM (t459v)

349 Extra hilarious considering black and brown hate each other with ever increasing vigor.
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Blacks haven't figured out that they are the ones that will be replaced. When someone is soaping you up never bend over to pickup the dropped bar of soap. Situational Awareness 101. They should teach this in college.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 22, 2023 09:31 AM (AMd6i)

350 The one thing my wife and I really miss since we left new england, are the fall colors.

Posted by: Archer at September 22, 2023 09:31 AM (gmo/4)

351 Blacks and browns may hate each other but they both hate whitey exponentially more,

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:32 AM (bWsRe)

352 The local "newspaper" has a bunch of "reporters" who are funded by various lefty organizations.

One presumes the "newspaper" put them on because they work cheap.

This particular "newspaper" has gone broke at least three times in the past decade, but so far there's always been someone to buy the corpse and try again.

Perhaps eventually a buyer will realize that trying to run communist newspaper in a conservative/libertarian state is never gonna work.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2023 09:32 AM (Y6AXb)

353 339 I never understood Cusack's appeal as an actor. He's not Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 22, 2023 09:28 AM (AMd6i)

. . . but he did play him on television.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 09:33 AM (x0n13)

354 > I never understood Cusack's appeal as an actor. He's not Kevin Bacon.
Posted by: Puddinhead at September 22, 2023 09:28 AM (AMd6i)

He's not even Shemp Howard.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2023 09:33 AM (Y6AXb)

355 who's the middle guy in that p-shop up top

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 09:34 AM (geLO8)

356 No Art today ?

Posted by: JT at September 22, 2023 09:34 AM (T4tVD)

357 What could have happened since 2020?

Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis
@DrLoupis

“The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed a dramatic 143,233% rise in cases of turbo-cancers in America since the mRNA jab rollout in 2020”.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 22, 2023 09:34 AM (TGPs7)

358
Art is up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 22, 2023 09:34 AM (x0n13)

359 Spoilers: They hate everyone that isn't part of their tribe, but the darker you are the more it burns inside of them.

Same as blacks hating other blacks. The brown paper bag test exists at HBCU fraternities for a reason.

Posted by: Family members won't listen to Gandalf anymore at September 22, 2023 09:34 AM (n/6gj)

360 346 Autumnal Equinox arrives tonight in the US. UTC time Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 06:50:00. (2:50 AM EDT. I think)
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This means Puddinhead's Autumnal Bourbon Drink is now in season. Jigger of Bourbon, a tad of maple syrup, rocks, twist of lemon and fresh Apple Cider. Very Autumnal. If you wish to add a dash of cinnamon, have at it. Ground cloves is another option.

Posted by: Puddinhead at September 22, 2023 09:34 AM (AMd6i)

361 Cusack is the Shemp Howard of Kevin Bacons

(did I do that right?)

Posted by: DB - Nixon's The One at September 22, 2023 09:34 AM (geLO8)

362 I guess CBD’s too busy pulling carrots out of his chili to post the art.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 22, 2023 09:35 AM (xTRSc)

363 'morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

"But for sure, there's got to be a part of his mind that clearly understands that there is a line that he dare not cross..." IMO, bingo, JC is to-the-manner-borne; known for jealousy in craft; the "everyman" worth $50+ million; White, pushing 60, and (Looper, in part) "...John Cusack is acting in lots of movies...that go straight to video." iow, not of the In Crowd; things can get worse. (See J. Piven, former best friend.)

Millionaires+ rail against billionaires: B. Sanders: There should be no billionaires. Fetterman: As Senator, I want partners in government in Philadelphia & throughout our commonwealth who are champions in putting working families over billionaires and corporate donors. AOC: "...a system that allows billionaires to exist" is immoral.

The Artists & MoveOn, millionaires+. The Banned Bookmobile Tour: "Far-right politicians like Ron DeSantis are championing draconian laws to ban books and the teaching of accurate multicultural American history in favor of upholding a homophobic, transphobic, and white supremacist vision of our nation." FL,GA, IL, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, WI..

Theater. Where's Joe's & K's billionaire tax?

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemies at September 22, 2023 09:35 AM (GshMh)

364 Hot Tun Time Machine is a great movie too. Cusak was one of the writers on it.

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:35 AM (bWsRe)

365 runner, correct me if I'm wrong but polynikes is the painter and I don't remember him being contentious

Posted by: Ben Had at September 22, 2023 09:36 AM (TQT9N)

366 > Blacks haven't figured out that they are the ones that will be replaced.

Richard Pryor figured it out back in the '70s, in his bit about Vietnamese refugees.

(Pryor's "white dude" voice) Bring 'em over, bring all of 'em over. N****** won't mind.
(Pryor's normal voice)
They didn't ask us shit. We the ones who got to give the jobs up for 'em.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2023 09:36 AM (Y6AXb)

367 I can’t say I disagree with the “there should be no billionaires” train of thought. It is somewhat obscene to have Bezos worth more than the gdp of 1/2 the countries on the planet.

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:38 AM (bWsRe)

368 We all do know that Moe, Larry, and Curly are the only True Stooges, right? No others need apply.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 22, 2023 09:38 AM (Y6AXb)

369 {163} did you guys read the Sarah Hoyt essay MisHum posted last night? ...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 22, 2023 08:50 AM (AcWfM)

Are MisHum and WeirdDave the same person?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 22, 2023 09:40 AM (qPw5n)

370 My issue with Bezos isn’t so much him being a billionaire. It’s a system that allows him to own a Company that creates billions in wealth for him. Amazon is too fucking big and should have been broken up long ago. That’s the real issue. Same with Google and Facebook and the rest.

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:41 AM (bWsRe)

371 Sweet...

https://tinyurl.com/bdf6hmdj

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 22, 2023 09:42 AM (TGPs7)

372 Just before the "Doctor Jill" kerfluffle, Joseph Epstein had a new book come out, for which I left a favorable review. Once the "Doctor Jill" thing hit, the book was one-star bombed as were most of his others. As for me, I started getting unwanted merchandise, magazines, phone calls regarding my requests for information on this that or the other insurance policies and on and on. It was a year before it all died down. Can't prove somebody at Amazon shotgunned my name out to these places, but... What makes me sure of it is that during the "Doctor Jill" flap, Amazon removed the ability to comment on reviews -- nobody who left favorable reviews would be able to compare notes re junk calls etc.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 22, 2023 09:43 AM (a/4+U)

373 "No equivocation. No couching"

The oh so reasonable here love to couch and equivocate.

Posted by: DOYLE at September 22, 2023 09:44 AM (Z8Yh2)

374 367 I can’t say I disagree with the “there should be no billionaires” train of thought. It is somewhat obscene to have Bezos worth more than the gdp of 1/2 the countries on the planet.
Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:38 AM (bWsRe)

And people wonder why I say the country is increasingly Marxist. People wonder why I say that envy, hatred and resentment are seen as great moral virtues in America.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 09:47 AM (8sMut)

375
And people wonder why I say the country is increasingly Marxist. People wonder why I say that envy, hatred and resentment are seen as great moral virtues in America.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at September 22, 2023 09:47 AM (8sMut)

Ahh yes. The typical “fuck off commie” reply. 😂
It’s like Pavlov’s dog.

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:51 AM (bWsRe)

376 Billionaires have to corrupt politicians, if only in self-defense.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 22, 2023 09:52 AM (aD39U)

377 Doesn’t it get tired to parrot the same talking points about muhJobCretaors and freedom and ‘Murica in regards to billionaires? No they are not you friends. Stop sucking their dicks. And get out of the 2003 mentality where tax cuts for the top 0.01% is the most patriotic thing ever.

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:55 AM (bWsRe)

378
Let Bezos build a nationwide distribution system then break it up into parts hoping that somehow that will work better. More hundred millionaires is better then a billionaire - is that the argument?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 09:55 AM (enJYY)

379 Millionaire, billionaire 'debate' among the wealthy, elite = theater, diversion.

Perhaps "A short history of MoveOn," The Cloward Piven Strategy might be enlightening.

Posted by: L - Practice makes perfect. They know their enemies at September 22, 2023 09:56 AM (GshMh)

380 Defending monopolies like Amazon is somehow supporting capitalism. I guess.

Posted by: Montec at September 22, 2023 09:58 AM (bWsRe)

381
It's a Chesterton's Fence argument on my part. Why tear down the monopolistic fence until we know why there would be some benefit? I don't see any benefit any more then breaking up the Postal Service into regional entities. Are they going to compete against each other and lower costs? Hell no.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at September 22, 2023 10:03 AM (enJYY)

382 David McCormick running again in Pennsylvania is depressing news. Rich Men North Of Richmond was written about guys just like him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 22, 2023 10:20 AM (b9y9p)

383 #377
Montec is a goddam COMMUNISTA!!
The billionaires create jobs AND trickle down on us

Posted by: Paul at September 22, 2023 10:21 AM (XnFu/)

384 Look, how about putting a thick black box with a subtitle like "Hollywood Shit" around the Hollywood Shit content?! I am not interested in wasting my time in the morning with the farting of or about such idiots.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 22, 2023 10:29 AM (8Ta2Y)

385 The ONLY thing I have ever seen John Q Sack in was "Grosse Point Blank", and it was a very charming, funny, and worthwhile film. I am still content to watch it about once a year if I happen to see that it is on.
Has he even done ANYTHING since then?

Posted by: birddog at September 22, 2023 10:32 AM (1E8/t)

386 Of those concerned, 46 percent told pollsters that they were “very concerned” that the state is becoming tyrannical, with 26 percent answering “somewhat concerned.” Only 23 percent of Americans said they were not concerned, with less than one in ten Americans answering “not at all concerned.”

That's because those are the commies.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2023 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

387 “The country lags dangerously behind other modern democracies,” Acosta said in introducing the authors, “because it hasn’t taken any steps to eliminate minority rule that they say has allowed a minority to thwart the will of American voters.”

Why do minorities need, protection, Dems, right? I mean those protections of "natural" or "God-Given" rights are such impediments to "Democracy".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2023 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

388 Manchin Gathers Support To Reverse Senate’s ‘Fetterman Rule’ Dress Code

Republicans find their hill to die on?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2023 11:24 AM (ynpvh)

389 NASA requests proposals from private industry for deorbiting ISS

Crash in into Winnie the Xi's house? Oops, so solly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2023 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

390 389 NASA requests proposals from private industry for deorbiting ISS

Crash in into Winnie the Xi's house? Oops, so solly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2023 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

Or maybe their artificial Island in the Philippine Sea? Oops, so solly, again.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 22, 2023 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

391 "Anyone ever try the New Jersey BBQ?"

Matter of fact YES! My son and a friend quit their middle executive positions with a fortune 500 shoe company in NYC, and opened a BBQ in Kearny NJ. Coincidentally NJ Magazine was doing a "Best BBQ" edition that month and the reporter happened to drive by, see a line out the door and down the block...tried it, and waaaalla!, they were named Best BBQ in NJ.(since then they have been listed in "best BBQ in every state-Food&Wine magazine, Top 50 Restaurants in NJ-Yelp, Best BBQ Newcomer-NJ Magazine, Best BBQ in NJ-Thrillist, and Best BBQ in North Jersey 2018,2019,2021-NJ Monthly readers poll)
It is called "Red White and Q Smokehouse", USMC veteran owned, does catering to wounded warrior events, since expanded to several more locations, took in a "Partner" that wanted to take the brand National(a guy that owns the franchise spaces at dozens of airports). My son decided if he was going to go back to being 'Coporate' he'd rather do it in shoes...quit, rejoined his former company and was moved to their Nat Headquarters in Nashville. His partner kept ONE of the locations, 150-hwy22 Greenbrook NJ, and the partner took over the rest.

Posted by: birddog at September 22, 2023 11:32 AM (1E8/t)

392 I limoed over to try it while in NYC on Business, it was VERRRY Good, and My standards are based upon growing up in Texas, "The Blue room in Lake Jackson, Luling/Lockhart, Salt-Lick in Dripping Springs, Briskets at nearly every weekend gathering, backyards and ranches", living for a number of years in the Carolinas...pig picking, at all of those weekend gatherings/events.
I KNOW Q.

Posted by: birddog at September 22, 2023 11:39 AM (1E8/t)

393 what he said in his rant made no sense, he blames all the wrong people. But cut Cusack some slack --- there's a writer's strike.

Posted by: Susan D Harms at September 22, 2023 11:45 AM (FDFdw)

394 Saw these documentaries on The Chinese and Russian Revolutions and they are so on point to what you're talking about. . .

China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XrgTdRSH00

Russia: https://youtu.be/F0m6uKwobGQ

Posted by: Tyler McIntyre at September 22, 2023 12:04 PM (38M8h)

395 Maybe General Pinochet had a point.

Posted by: whitecollar redneck at September 22, 2023 12:54 PM (q0FB7)

396 Life is hard, especially when you're stupid: Gaige Grosskreutz (dude shot by Rittenhouse) gets hit by a car the other day.

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Funny, I thought this year was Year Zero.

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