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Batya Ungar-Sargon: The "Elites" Are Staging an Insurrection Against Democracy

She doesn't use those words but, as you'll see, that is certainly what she means.

From andycanuck:

Batya Ungar-Sargon
@bungarsargon


The problem with elite universities goes so much deeper than denying Jewish and white students safetyism. The Ivies represent the elite's belief that they should have absolute rule over the masses, who they have just endless contempt for. And that's how Trump was banned in CO:

Jason Willick
@jawillick

What predicts Colorado Supreme Court justices' vote on Trump disqualification? Not party--all are Democratic appointees--but law school. All Ivy League grads voted to disqualify. All Denver Law grads voted not to disqualify.

That last tweet is linked below the jump so you can see the supporting screencaps.

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Batya Ungar-Sargon
@bungarsargon
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The problem with elite universities goes so much deeper than denying Jewish and white students safetyism. The Ivies represent the elite's belief that they should have absolute rule over the masses, who they have just endless contempt for. And that's how Trump was banned in CO:
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Jason Willick
@jawillick
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5h
What predicts Colorado Supreme Court justices' vote on Trump disqualification? Not party--all are Democratic appointees--but law school. All Ivy League grads voted to disqualify. All Denver Law grads voted not to disqualify.
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Batya Ungar-Sargon
@bungarsargon
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Elite universities aren't institutions of learning but sites for reproducing status, elite belonging. These people truly believe they deserve to rule over average folks. Hence the Orwellian "We must protect the people from voting for their chosen candidate--to defend democracy!"

How can people say with a straight face they are defending democracy by barring the most popular candidate? The class divide in the US which apportioned over 50% of GDP to the credentialed elite convinced them they deserve to hoard not just the American Dream but the franchise.

We need less people trying to save the Ivy League and more people trying to save America.

She then links this observation she made last night:


I'm sorry but the people trying to save Harvard are part of the problem. Harvard isn't primarily an institution of learning. It's an institution of status conferring in which people who hate America gatekeep the American Dream by granting each other little honors and credentials

It's very hard to graduate from these institutions and still believe your fellow citizens have a right to disagree with you and--horror of all horrors!--a right to take the country in a direction you disapprove of if there are more of them than you, which by definition there are.

This is why America's liberal journalists are so gung ho for censorship and getting Trump off the ballot and other anti-American measures: Many went to elite universities, where they became convinced that their numbers were in inverse proportion to their right to rule the masses

There are only two options for people with views you don't like: convince them you're right with better ideas or silence them. To be an American is to choose the first option in nearly every case. Yet the vast majority of people in power went to schools that endorse the second.

Remember when ordinary Americans whose communities and wages were decimated by globalization and mass migration voted for the first guy to say NAFTA was a mistake and call for securing the border, and the entire liberal political caste said in unison, "IT WAS PUTIN!"

That was choosing the second option, which looks like it's about politics but is actually about class. They weren't silencing conservatives. They were silencing the working class who they have contempt for which curdles into absolute rage on the rare occasions that the masses win.

Not directly related, but last night, she also expressed an idea I think really has to be emphasized: the revolt against the Ivies has to be more about "Safetyism for Jews, too."

The lesson of this moment simply cannot be that Jewish Rhodes scholars need more codelling and protection from screaming 18 year olds. It absolutely has to be that we have broken the contract with the working class by buying into the corrupt mythology of Harvard et al

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Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:50 PM




Comments

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1 sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

2 They're still doing it?

Changing voting laws illegally, allowing ballot harvesting illegally, sending out illegal mail in ballots, and then ballot box stuffing on top of it wasn't the end of it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 03:51 PM (GBKbO)

3 Sauron?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 03:53 PM (di6C2)

4 I like Desantis. Wish he was my governor.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at December 20, 2023 03:53 PM (XMkZw)

5 Does the trigger warning make the triggering more or less likely?

Posted by: Kratwurst at December 20, 2023 03:53 PM (nIRE6)

6
Have no fear, Sargon is here.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 03:53 PM (MoZTd)

7 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 20, 2023 03:54 PM (T4tVD)

8 Hope they do pull Joey off the Florida ballot.

Game theory and Skinner boxes. Bad/evil behavior won't stop until they feel the pain of consequences.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2023 03:54 PM (GWDdy)

9 Does this mean we are all voting for DeSantis now?

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 03:54 PM (vFG9F)

10 Crenshaw is Sauron.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2023 03:54 PM (GWDdy)

11 The other gate keeper of elite hate is the Media.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 20, 2023 03:55 PM (pZ64F)

12 Trigger warning for some: Yes, he plugs his own candidacy here. I realize that some people react in outrage that Ron DeSantis dare compare himself favorably to His Blessed Majesty. How dare DeSantis repay Trump's repeated insinuations that he is gay, that he is an adulterer, that he is a groomer, that he shut down his state against Trump's wishes -- not to mention Trump's paid online minions calling his wife a Lady Macbeth and a "c*nt" -- with such conscienceless disloyalty.

Dayum I love a good taunt.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 03:55 PM (CsUN+)

13 9 Does this mean we are all voting for DeSantis now?
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 03:54 PM (vFG9F)

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I'm still a Kasich man.

He delivers!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

14 And red states should absolutely remove Biden from the ballot.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at December 20, 2023 03:55 PM (XMkZw)

15 Fuckin A YES!

Posted by: Pawn at December 20, 2023 03:55 PM (S/P56)

16 10 Crenshaw is Sauron.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2023 03:54 PM (GWDdy)

Considering the prologue of the Fellowship, I think Sauron lifted a lot more than Eyepatch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 03:56 PM (di6C2)

17 9 Does this mean we are all voting for DeSantis now?
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 03:54 PM (vFG9F)

If he gets the nod I will...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 20, 2023 03:56 PM (n2vyf)

18 14 And red states should absolutely remove Biden from the ballot.
Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at December 20, 2023 03:55 PM (XMkZw)

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The funny thing is, the CO ruling only applies to the primary ballot. If red states started doing the same thing, it'd greatly strengthen Biden's primary opponents to the point where the incumbent president was losing primary races. It'd be extremely embarrassing. Also amusing.

I deem it must be done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

19 "Trigger warning for some: Yes, he plugs his own candidacy here. I realize that some people react in outrage that Ron DeSantis dare compare himself favorably to His Blessed Majesty."

Lighten up Francis.

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at December 20, 2023 03:56 PM (SUc4N)

20 12
Dayum I love a good taunt.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 03:55 PM (CsUN+)

Yeeessss… It IS a good one…

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 03:57 PM (PCK5/)

21 I'm not too worried about Trump and gun rights. He's going to have a lot more important stuff to worry about.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 03:57 PM (vFG9F)

22 @2

>>They're still doing it?

Hey, Josh Shapiro just announced a software update for PA voting systems that was supposed to fix "some bugs." is behind schedule and will not be deployed before the 2024 election.

DEMOCRACY!!!! EXCELSIOR!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 03:57 PM (XV/Pl)

23 Changing voting laws illegally, allowing ballot harvesting illegally, sending out illegal mail in ballots, and then ballot box stuffing on top of it wasn't the end of it?


they won't stop until they're made to stop

right now they believe they are in absolute power

are they wrong? remains to be seen

also Gov DeSantis is great in that clip

Posted by: BlackOrchid, I meant to say at December 20, 2023 03:57 PM (AcWfM)

24 Ace chums the waters…

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 03:57 PM (PCK5/)

25 Ivy League delenda est.

Posted by: Methos at December 20, 2023 03:58 PM (Dnobf)

26 Buckle up. The elites are conspiring with China to give them Taiwan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided, according to three current and former U.S. officials.

~~CNBC report

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2023 03:58 PM (cpxq+)

27 If that is likely to set you off, don't watch the clip.
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I watched it and it set me off.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 20, 2023 03:58 PM (RIvkX)

28 She had me until "safetyism" . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

29 They hate democracy because "the people always get it wrong."

We are being re-enserfed.

Posted by: sven at December 20, 2023 03:58 PM (X0I7i)

30 "Batya Ungar-Sargon"

George Lucas still kicking himself that he didn't use that character name first.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (MvF+J)

31 Ace chums the waters…

Posted by: tubal


We're gonna need a bigger blog.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (CsUN+)

32 22 Hey, Josh Shapiro just announced a software update for PA voting systems that was supposed to fix "some bugs." is behind schedule and will not be deployed before the 2024 election.

DEMOCRACY!!!! EXCELSIOR!!!!
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 03:57 PM (XV/Pl)

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If I were running elections in a red county in PA, I'd say that the lack of update made the use of the machines unreliable and go back to paper balloting.

It wouldn't fix Philly, but it would create the kind of paper trail in my own election that would prevent centralized tomfoolery.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (GBKbO)

33 FIRST!
(plagiarizing Sponge again!)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (lb+Sl)

34 Batya Ungar-Sargon was magnificent on Greenwald's show.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (RIvkX)

35 @28

>>She had me until "safetyism"

This kind of jargon and babble is simply a form of academic Tourette's, they can't help themselves from marking their little screeds with this sort of effluent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)

36 The funny thing is, the CO ruling only applies to the primary ballot.

Get this ... I'm pretty sure the GOP isn't obligated to even hold a primary in Colorado. Or anywhere else. Or to give a damn about the results.

Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (BfpYS)

37 *Trigger warning ace*

DeSantis is bought and paid for by the GOPe and Nazis.

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (SUc4N)

38 Dayum I love a good taunt.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 03:55 PM (CsUN+)

Yeeessss… It IS a good one…
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 03:57 PM (PCK5/)

Really? It seemed a bit perfunctory to me. ace has done better.

Also, I am not sure the average Trump fan (especially the politically conscious fan you would find here) thinks of Trump the way you all seem to think we think of Trump. But, I am an all of the above kind of guy, so not my circus, not my monkeys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (di6C2)

39 34 Batya Ungar-Sargon was magnificent on Greenwald's show.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (RIvkX)

Wonder what her nickname is???

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:00 PM (PCK5/)

40 Jason Willick @jawillick
What predicts Colorado Supreme Court justices' vote on Trump disqualification? Not party--all are Democratic appointees--but law school. All Ivy League grads voted to disqualify. All Denver Law grads voted not to disqualify.

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They're garbage. The Ivy League, the "Justices," everyone. The Legal gymnastics is so shitty even dem talking heads think it will be struck down 9-0.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:00 PM (JeYYB)

41 Xi is waiting for Joey to stroke out and Kamala becomes President.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2023 04:00 PM (GWDdy)

42 I like DeSantis just fine. If he is the nominee, he has my vote. If Nikki is the nominee, I shall get quite drunk on election day and sleep it off the next, but I will not vote for Mitt wit tits.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 20, 2023 04:00 PM (pohLc)

43 People are reading too much into this. This isn't part of a concerted attack on democracy or even an attempt to stave off Trump (who's doomed anyway).

This is just a typical spasm of judicial activism.

Posted by: Amy at December 20, 2023 04:00 PM (59hru)

44 I'm sorry but the people trying to save Harvard are part of the problem. Harvard isn't primarily an institution of learning. It's an institution of status conferring in which people who hate America gatekeep the American Dream by granting each other little honors and credentials

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Spot on. It's no better than Northeast Western Bumfuck State Community College. It's just a multi-billion dollar frat house where spoiled, inbred nepots who while away their twenties chugging white claw, cock and monkeypox meds, waiting for the day when they receive a shred of parchment bestowing them with carte blanche to despoil the rest of us.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2023 04:00 PM (0FoWg)

45 I'm harder to trigger than I used to be. Candidates slinging mud is the American Way, after all.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (MvF+J)

46 42 I like DeSantis just fine. If he is the nominee, he has my vote. If Nikki is the nominee, I shall get quite drunk on election day and sleep it off the next, but I will not vote for Mitt wit tits.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 20, 2023 04:00 PM (pohLc)

========

"Wait...are you talking about me or her?"
-Chris Christie

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

47 Xi and Putin giggle themselves to sleep every night.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (R4t5M)

48 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

49 38

Really? It seemed a bit perfunctory to me. ace has done better.

Also, I am not sure the average Trump fan (especially the politically conscious fan you would find here) thinks of Trump the way you all seem to think we think of Trump. But, I am an all of the above kind of guy, so not my circus, not my monkeys.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (di6C2)

So… would you say that Ace was being rather pedestrian in his tauntage?..

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (PCK5/)

50 Calgon take me away.

Posted by: wth at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

51 37 *Trigger warning ace*

DeSantis is bought and paid for by the GOPe and Nazis.

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (SUc4N)

Counter chum.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (di6C2)

52 Really? It seemed a bit perfunctory to me. ace has done better.

Also, I am not sure the average Trump fan (especially the politically conscious fan you would find here) thinks of Trump the way you all seem to think we think of Trump. But, I am an all of the above kind of guy, so not my circus, not my monkeys.


Perhaps you should go away, or Ace shall taunt you a second time.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (CsUN+)

53 This kind of jargon and babble is simply a form of academic Tourette's, they can't help themselves from marking their little screeds with this sort of effluent.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)
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I believe her intent here is sarcasm.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (RIvkX)

54 "But, I am an all of the above kind of guy, so not my circus, not my monkeys."

Prime Directive: Don't vote D.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (MvF+J)

55 59hru seems

Unconcerned.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (GWDdy)

56 So… would you say that Ace was being rather pedestrian in his tauntage?..
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (PCK5/)

ace is a master of baiting.

This was a fairly banal effort.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (di6C2)

57 The lesson of this moment simply cannot be that Jewish Rhodes scholars need more codelling and protection from screaming 18 year olds. It absolutely has to be that we have broken the contract with the working class by buying into the corrupt mythology of Harvard et al
++++
So she's calling to break the university gatekeeping system altogether.

Cool. I'm down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (zxP/x)

58 54 "But, I am an all of the above kind of guy, so not my circus, not my monkeys."

Prime Directive: Don't vote D.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (MvF+J)

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"My man..."
-Karl Rove

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

59 DeSantis should switch parties.

Ha!

Posted by: pawn at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Y9wTk)

60 The Ivies have been a problem for decades. Frankly anybody who went to an Ivy League school in the past few decades should be suspect as to their loyalties to America.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (cMXNt)

61 Is Batya Sungar AArgona name I should know?

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (miT2W)

62 stave off Trump (who's doomed anyway).

Pretty sure De Santis won't do any better.. We know the fix is in

Posted by: It's me donna at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (n2vyf)

63 Harvard isn't primarily an institution of learning.

The entire Ivy League is nothing more than another of the many schemes the Northeast has implemented to assert influence of the rest of the country.

Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (BfpYS)

64 26 Buckle up. The elites are conspiring with China to give them Taiwan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided, according to three current and former U.S. officials.

~~CNBC report
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2023 03:58 PM (cpxq+)
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Yes, and that includes conspiring with Taiwanese elites. China has realized there is no need for military action to acquire Taiwan. China will buy it. China is spreading tons of money around Taiwan, buying up corporations and industries and Taiwanese politicians and decision-makers. Some top Taiwanese pols are in China's pocket already. Taiwan will eventually become a subsidiary of China, and eventually part of China. Without a single shot fired.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

65 60 The Ivies have been a problem for decades. Frankly anybody who went to an Ivy League school in the past few decades should be suspect as to their loyalties to America.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (cMXNt)

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Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale in 1951.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

66 Perhaps you should go away, or Ace shall taunt you a second time.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (CsUN+)

*sniffs*

Ain't no elderberries here, boy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (di6C2)

67 66 *sniffs*

Ain't no elderberries here, boy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (di6C2)

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Your mother was still a hamster, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

68 Hence the Orwellian "We must protect the people from voting for their chosen candidate--to defend democracy!"
---
Recall Bill Kystol's "obviously i prefer ordered democracy. But if it's a choice between Trump and the deep state, I choose the deep state" tweet?

Which he could not-- and will never--understand why it sounded so horrifying and offensive to the rest of us.
He is in that club, the one that just knows they are here to rule over us.
So, democracy is fine so long as it produces his policy preferences.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:04 PM (TzW+Y)

69 Your mother was still a hamster, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

What a thing to say.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:04 PM (di6C2)

70 David Hogg graduated from Harvard.

It should be razed, just for that. Everything else is gravy on the biscuits......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

71 Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (puDky)

72 The Ivy League doesn't care about their reputation anymore, you can insult them all you want, just don't talk about their endowments. They'll break your legs for that.

Posted by: Flyguy at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (OYxA4)

73 69 Your mother was still a hamster, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (GBKbO)

What a thing to say.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:04 PM (di6C2)

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What do you expect from someone with such an outrageous French accent?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

74
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What do you expect from someone with such an outrageous French accent?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (GBKbO)



We shall go to Camelot!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

75 Larry Hogan will pull us out of this morass

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (ZV+pB)

76 David Hogg graduated from Harvard.

It should be razed, just for that. Everything else is gravy on the biscuits......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Hank "Guam" Johnson waves hi.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (R4t5M)

77 Chum-chummery,
Chum-chummery,
Chum-chum, chumee,
This thing could get ugly,
As ugly can be!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (N3zMI)

78 35 @28

>>She had me until "safetyism"

This kind of jargon and babble is simply a form of academic Tourette's, they can't help themselves from marking their little screeds with this sort of effluent.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)
____________

Exactly. I agree with her points. But the use of cutesy, made-up, pretentious words like "safetyism" is an obsession of the left, and her use of one sadly signals an alignment with the left. Could she being doing this as parody? Maybe. But I don't think so.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (iFTx/)

79 Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale in 1951.

And I'm pretty sure Buckley considered the pot he pisses in to be just a little bit better than some knuckle draggers from flyover country. He, too, was Establishment.

Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (BfpYS)

80 74 We shall go to Camelot!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

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Careful, they have to push a pram a lot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (GBKbO)

81 If Ace shits on Euclid, that's my redline.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (MvF+J)

82 68 Hence the Orwellian "We must protect the people from voting for their chosen candidate--to defend democracy!"
---
Recall Bill Kystol's "obviously i prefer ordered democracy. But if it's a choice between Trump and the deep state, I choose the deep state" tweet?

Which he could not-- and will never--understand why it sounded so horrifying and offensive to the rest of us.
He is in that club, the one that just knows they are here to rule over us.
So, democracy is fine so long as it produces his policy preferences.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:04 PM (TzW+Y)

Kristol I would say is a bought and paid for shill. It is hard to tell how many of the GOPe are true believers because of cultural inculcation and which ones were always in it for the paycheck, or later became in it for the paycheck. I'd say at one point, Billy boy was a true believer, but took the offramp to Cuck Town a long time ago.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (di6C2)

83 Taiwan will eventually become a subsidiary of China, and eventually part of China. Without a single shot fired.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (iFTx/)
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Hong Kong didn't have guns. Taiwan probably has the bomb.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (RIvkX)

84 Is anyone on the right trying to "save Harvard"?

People wanted the black lesbian fired because she's a grotesque human being, not to save anything.

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (i7Q7S)

85 I read somewhere that once you're in Harvard, especially as an affirmative action entry, which most are now, you are not failing. You will get a pass.

Again, I'm sure this is just like Obama.

They had to lower the standard to get him on the Law Review.

Not surprising.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (JeYYB)

86 coddling not codelling

Posted by: The Grammar Police at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (qfLjt)

87 70 David Hogg graduated from Harvard.

It should be razed, just for that. Everything else is gravy on the biscuits......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Mmmm. Sausage Gravy and biscuits.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (di6C2)

88 We shall go to Camelot!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Eh, I dunno. I hear it is a silly place.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (T/Lqj)

89 I'm starting to just reflexively side with the working class.

I'm at the point where I will support things that will hurt me (or the working class) so long as it hurts the overclass more.

This is not a healthy way to run a democracy, but since the overclass seems determined to grind the working class into the ground, I don't want a working country. I don't want comity. I want them in pain.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (JMAcK)

90 If Nikki is the nominee, I shall get quite drunk on election day and sleep it off the next, but I will not vote for Mitt wit tits.

Someone on Twitter called her “Vaginal McCain”, like how Crenshaw is Eyepatch McCain.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (FD5dr)

91
Hong Kong didn't have guns. Taiwan probably has the bomb.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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Nice dam. Be a pity if something happens to it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:08 PM (MoZTd)

92 Counter chum.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (di6C2)

Just screw-in around. But I don't think DeSantisites see how an arrogant, larger than life, had his own TV show, married to a super model, unpredictable, harsh, vengeful Trump is seen by our enemies. He intimidates them...oh and they wish they were him. It gives him a yuuuge edge in negotiations. Just sayin.

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at December 20, 2023 04:08 PM (SUc4N)

93 Watching her lecture Tater on the subject of "Woke Media" is the only Stelter show ever made that is worth watching.

She just nails him to the wall.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2023 04:08 PM (cLVyI)

94 30 "Batya Ungar-Sargon"

George Lucas still kicking himself that he didn't use that character name first.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 03:59 PM (MvF+J)
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Batya is a popular Hebrew girl's name. It means "daughter of God."

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:08 PM (iFTx/)

95 "Safetyism"?

Posted by: Sharkman at December 20, 2023 04:08 PM (L/uj9)

96 We shall go to Camelot!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM


Don't bother. 'Tis a silly place.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2023 04:08 PM (jA9ul)

97 "People wanted the black lesbian fired because she's a grotesque human being, not to save anything."

I want her fired, and her degrees pulled, so that not every college student gets the message that plagiarism is OK. I don't care who she hates. I care that she's an academic fraud.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 04:09 PM (MvF+J)

98 We shall go to Camelot!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Eh, I dunno. I hear it is a silly place.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (T/Lqj)

It's only a model.

Posted by: Patsy at December 20, 2023 04:09 PM (4I/2K)

99 Exactly. I agree with her points. But the use of cutesy, made-up, pretentious words like "safetyism" is an obsession of the left, and her use of one sadly signals an alignment with the left. Could she being doing this as parody? Maybe. But I don't think so.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (iFTx/)

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+1.

I'm sick of safe shit anyway. If you're mentally fragile stay home, get help, STFU.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:09 PM (JeYYB)

100 Buckle up. The elites are conspiring with China to give them Taiwan.

Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided, according to three current and former U.S. officials.

~~CNBC report
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 20, 2023 03:58 PM (cpxq+)

We already did that a long time ago. Official US Policy is a One State one, details unstated. I was actually surprised when I learned that.

Since Biden took office we have done a number of irritating statements and acts in opposition to that to annoy China, and Taiwan even turfed out a lot of politicians last election to put people in office more acceptable to China IIRC. This is either neocon idiocy or normal Biden blundering.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 04:09 PM (eoQWY)

101 97 "People wanted the black lesbian fired because she's a grotesque human being, not to save anything."

I want her fired, and her degrees pulled, so that not every college student gets the message that plagiarism is OK. I don't care who she hates. I care that she's an academic fraud.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 04:09 PM (MvF+J)

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I want her to stay and cost Harvard another billion dollars.

It will entertain me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:09 PM (GBKbO)

102 96 We shall go to Camelot!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 20, 2023 04:05 PM

Don't bother. 'Tis a silly place

I fart in your general direction

Posted by: Snooty Frenchman at December 20, 2023 04:09 PM (n2vyf)

103 94 IDNKT.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 04:09 PM (MvF+J)

104 My son told me today he was sort of sorry he didn't go to Cornell or Stanford. I don't know if Stanford even has an agricultural schoo,l but he didn't apply to either of them. I gave him my opinion of Ivy League Schools including Cornell. He's getting. Fine education where he is where there were no anti Israel. anti semetic rallies and he doesn't have to worry about some diversity hire President suggesting that white people need to be less visible on campus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (SfO5n)

105
Remember when ordinary Americans whose communities and wages were decimated by globalization and mass migration voted for the first guy to say NAFTA was a mistake and call for securing the border

Sounds like Perot.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (63Dwl)

106 81 Ace shitting on Euclid? What's next, taking a dump on Solon or Shaker Heights?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (0EOe9)

107 We have concerns about this - Mike Johnson

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Eff the GOP at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (eYF7X)

108 They're garbage. The Ivy League, the "Justices," everyone. The Legal gymnastics is so shitty even dem talking heads think it will be struck down 9-0.
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Hey our names aren't on the ruling. It was Marc Elias who wrote it. You can't pin this on us. We're to smaaaht for that.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (fs1hN)

109 BTW, change your name to Betty Unger or something. I'm tired of being lectured by people with foreign names, even if I agree with them.

There was a time when a Vivek Ramaswamy would have changed his name to Vic Ramsay. That's why I have an Anglo name, instead of Zdorenko. My grandfather wanted to be American. Not some kinda weirdo whatchamacallit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (0FoWg)

110 ***ace is a master of baiting.****

This was a fairly banal effort.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (di6C2)

Nope, not sayin it.

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (SUc4N)

111 I'm sorry but the people trying to save Harvard are part of the problem. Harvard isn't primarily an institution of learning. It's an institution of status conferring in which people who hate America gatekeep the American Dream by granting each other little honors and credentials

Globally it is errrr, odd how the more an institution honours itself the more likely the graduates are to be complete cunts. Eg That Woman -Fuckstick Ardern is now at Harvard in a make-believe role of some sort.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (bgJ0E)

112 Batya is a popular Hebrew girl's name. It means "daughter of God."
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:08 PM (iFTx/)

I like that. I miss a lot of older woman names. Estelle, Astrid. Mary, of course. Elizabeth.

Of course, names such as Gertrude and Ludmilla should probably stay in the past. Maud. Mabel (who some friends used for their daughter.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (di6C2)

113 The Ivies represent the elite's belief that they should have absolute rule over the masses, who they have just endless contempt for. And that's how Trump was banned in CO:

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* "The Revolt of the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class" by José Ortega y Gasset (1932) -- mandatory historical reading -- has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (tZHZg)

114 Safetyism is safe spaces, micro-aggressions, restorative justice, cancel culture, equity, etc...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (RIvkX)

115 Sounds like Perot.

Perot is why we got McCain - Feingold. The UniParty in action.

Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (BfpYS)

116
You pay for the credential, not the education. In the end, you educate yourself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (MoZTd)

117 It would vitiate a fraud if Biden was on the 2024 ballot.

Posted by: torabora at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (OUiUM)

118 Stock market news today: Stock market rally stalls as S&P 500 post worst day since October

Dow down 475

Merry Christmas From The Biden's

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Eff the GOP at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (eYF7X)

119 Safetyism is like "physicality."

Some dumbass sports talker described a football player that way and now the rest of the dumbasses can't stop saying it.

I cringe every time Herbstriet (also known as Crybaby) says it which is about 20-25 times/college game.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (JeYYB)

120 Ace shitting on Euclid? What's next, taking a dump on Solon or Shaker Heights?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (0EOe9)

Somebody already did that to Steubenville and Youngstown.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (R4t5M)

121 109 BTW, change your name to Betty Unger or something. I'm tired of being lectured by people with foreign names, even if I agree with them.

There was a time when a Vivek Ramaswamy would have changed his name to Vic Ramsay. That's why I have an Anglo name, instead of Zdorenko. My grandfather wanted to be American. Not some kinda weirdo whatchamacallit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (0FoWg)

YD… saying the quiet things out loud (not a criticism BTW)…

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (PCK5/)

122 83 Taiwan will eventually become a subsidiary of China, and eventually part of China. Without a single shot fired.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:03 PM (iFTx/)
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Hong Kong didn't have guns. Taiwan probably has the bomb.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (RIvkX)
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I don't disagree. But the point of my full comment is that it won't matter. Taiwan is in the process of becoming bought and paid for by Chinese money. No need for kinetic military action.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (iFTx/)

123 The working class in this country outnumber the suburban Karen Winebox crowd by several factors.

But the GOPe, and their preferred candidate Nikkiii would rather eat a hot bowl of dog shit than appeal to those dirty, low-class people.

As I've said, this is one of the reasons that they hate Trump so much:
He's bringing far, far too many of those Unclean Castes into "their" party.
It's not Trump they hate, it's who votes for him they really, truly, with every fiber of their being hate. Literal physical revulsion at having to even be in the same room as some fucking welder from Iowa who doesn't even own a proper set of dessert spoons.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (TzW+Y)

124 "I care that she's an academic fraud.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy"

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But Harvard doesn't care. Their entire faculty does not care. Their student body does not care.

Academic integrity is for students at state schools and the meager grad students trying to get PhDs

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (i7Q7S)

125 85 I read somewhere that once you're in Harvard, especially as an affirmative action entry, which most are now, you are not failing. You will get a pass.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:07 PM (JeYYB)
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I remember when the Dean of the Law School proudly announced that the lowest grade handed out there was an A-.
Yeah, grade inflation, curves and skullduggery. No way that no one gets a B, C or F, unless those fellows are asked to resign from the class before they embarrass the school.

Posted by: Ciampino - We graded A, B, C, D, E, F at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (qfLjt)

126 >> >>It's very hard to graduate from these institutions and still believe your fellow citizens have a right to disagree with you and--horror of all horrors!--a right to take the country in a direction you disapprove of if there are more of them than you,


It is very hard to read the NYT and believe your fellow citizens have a right to disagree with anything you desire.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (WkHN1)

127 So I don't have to cook that spinach dish...

@Breaking911 1m
Fresh Spinach Recalled Across 7 States Due to Listeria Concerns

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2023 04:13 PM (IG4Id)

128 New law proposal:

Universities endowments that cover more than the operating costs of the university for one academic semester are taxed at 99% over that cost.

If a university wishes to receive federal funds, it must have a administrator to professor ratio of 1:15 or greater. If it goes lower than that, it must pay back all federal funds received over the previous three years from the budget lines dedicated to administration pay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

129
Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China

What, no two state solution?

Posted by: Alfred E. Oldman at December 20, 2023 04:13 PM (63Dwl)

130 I don't think Trump was the first guy to say NAFTA was broken. Good 'ol H Ross Perot rolled out the "giant sucking sound" campaign over NAFTA back in '92.

It was working until 41 got the spooks to put the psy-op on him .....

Posted by: pikkumatti at December 20, 2023 04:13 PM (LNiNn)

131 The lieutenant governor of California is now calling for Trump to get taken off the ballot there based on the Colorado ruling.

Posted by: Flyguy at December 20, 2023 04:13 PM (OYxA4)

132 There was a time when a Vivek Ramaswamy would have changed his name to Vic Ramsay. That's why I have an Anglo name, instead of Zdorenko. My grandfather wanted to be American. Not some kinda weirdo whatchamacallit.

Honestly I don't mind unexpurgated foreign names. I'd rather they be American than just adopt a signifier.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 20, 2023 04:13 PM (xlvhb)

133 There was a time when a Vivek Ramaswamy would have changed his name to Vic Ramsay. That's why I have an Anglo name, instead of Zdorenko. My grandfather wanted to be American. Not some kinda weirdo whatchamacallit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Your Grandfather was from Kyrgyzstan??

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at December 20, 2023 04:14 PM (bgJ0E)

134
There are only two options for people with views you don't like: convince them you're right with better ideas or silence them.


She's got it wrong, although she's on the right rack. The two options are: Peaceful persuasion, and sticking a pistol in their face and telling them to shut up and do what they're told.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2023 04:14 PM (n+4am)

135 Ace shitting on Euclid? What's next, taking a dump on Solon or Shaker Heights?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (0EOe9)

Ptolemy is right out.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:14 PM (di6C2)

136 115 Sounds like Perot.

Perot is why we got McCain - Feingold. The UniParty in action.
Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (BfpYS)

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?

Perot know about the Bushes and what utter scum they were, and he tried his best to thwart him. I used to hate him for it but now I understand Perot knew about the Bushes' neocon/globalism.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:14 PM (JeYYB)

137 131 The lieutenant governor of California is now calling for Trump to get taken off the ballot there based on the Colorado ruling.
Posted by: Flyguy at December 20, 2023 04:13 PM (OYxA4)

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A ruling that's already been stayed and will probably get overturned, if it sees SCOTUS at all.

The only way to ensure that SCOTUS sees the case is if more states try it.

Go ahead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:14 PM (GBKbO)

138 "Safetyism"


That is modern for pussy in the hq dictionary

Posted by: N at December 20, 2023 04:14 PM (8CI/h)

139 Kristol I would say is a bought and paid for shill. It is hard to tell how many of the GOPe are true believers because of cultural inculcation and which ones were always in it for the paycheck, or later became in it for the paycheck. I'd say at one point, Billy boy was a true believer, but took the offramp to Cuck Town a long time ago.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:06 PM (di6C2)

Kristol isn't in any club, he's hanging around the back of the club by the dumpsters hoping to get the food dropped on the floor by accident.

People in the club get appointments to Harvard President, not the pathetic Bulwark. He's just a former useful idiot who is no longer useful to anyone.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 04:14 PM (eoQWY)

140 Bringing up Perot reminds us that a majority of the electorate voted against Slick Willie twice. Dude was unbelievably lucky.

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2023 04:15 PM (i7Q7S)

141 But the GOPe, and their preferred candidate Nikkiii would rather eat a hot bowl of dog shit than appeal to those dirty, low-class people.

Tea Party Part Two. The GOP has shown, time and time again, that they'll lose elections rather than lose control of the party.

Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 20, 2023 04:15 PM (BfpYS)

142 110 ***ace is a master of baiting.****

This was a fairly banal effort.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (di6C2)
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"Ace gots to put more thrust into his anal efforts . . . I mean, banal efforts."

-- Aidan "Jaeger Hole" Maese-Czeropski

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:15 PM (iFTx/)

143
There was a time when a Vivek Ramaswamy would have changed his name to Vic Ramsay.

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All that stuff about immigrants getting their names changed by tone-deaf Irish agents at Ellis Island is bunk.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:15 PM (MoZTd)

144 There are only two options for people with views you don't like: convince them you're right with better ideas or silence them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 20, 2023 04:14 PM (n+4am)

3) Laugh and mock them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:15 PM (di6C2)

145 Batya Ungar-Sargon

Gesundheit!

Posted by: Dirty Frank at December 20, 2023 04:15 PM (JxGQc)

146 The Mudpants polling must be horrific.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (R4t5M)

147 The benefit of harvard and yale, since the 90s, has not been the great education but the networking

Posted by: N at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (8CI/h)

148 "The two options are: Peaceful persuasion, and sticking a pistol in their face and telling them to shut up and do what they're told."

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No, the third option, which the true believers are being less shy about saying aloud, is to kill those who disagree with you.

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (i7Q7S)

149
BTW, change your name to Betty Unger

Change your sex and your name to Felix Unger.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (63Dwl)

150 Tea Party Part Two. The GOP has shown, time and time again, that they'll lose elections rather than lose control of the party.
Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 20, 2023 04:15 PM (BfpYS)

This is true. Sad, but this is why the party should have been burned to the ground after 2016- and definitely after the shit show of 2020.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (di6C2)

151 H Ross was right... and also responsible for gracing us with Slick William

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (ZV+pB)

152 “ Mudpants”… hah!! Grandpa Mudpants!!!

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (PCK5/)

153 I read the Mannix update to the below post, and I think he is right, but incomplete.

What we are seeing is best explained in the behavior of girl cliques in high school. One they pick a target, they all attack. They attack in order to contribute to the clique and to show their ranking.
The head girl might pick on a girl's dress, but thereafter anyone who wants to be associated with the "cool kids" will search for other ways to denigrate the victim.

It is a practice of a society devoid of principles which only finds status in how well they snipe at enemies.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (WkHN1)

154 143 Yiddish joke about a guy now named Ferguson.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (0EOe9)

155 I'm harder to trigger than I used to be. Candidates slinging mud is the American Way, after all.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (MvF+J)

Yup. I've never understood why people get so upset over candidates slinging barbs at each other. It's the way of election politics.

Read some history. American elections are some of the most colorful of all "democratic" countries.

It's the lawfare and vote fraud that has me angry.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 20, 2023 04:17 PM (BdMk6)

156 122
Cannot compare Taiwan to Hong Kong. The latter was a 99 year lease and the lease was up. There was no question of fighting over it when legally it was cut and dried.

Posted by: Ciampino - Apply directly to the forehead? at December 20, 2023 04:18 PM (qfLjt)

157 Are the three women on the court Ivy League grads?

Posted by: Drive by at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (MNhXM)

158 138 "Safetyism"

That is modern for pussy in the hq dictionary
Posted by: N

Yeah, that bothered me. How is that different from "safety" other than to soften the harsh reality that the kids do not feel safe.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (WkHN1)

159 "The Ivies represent the elite's belief that they should have absolute rule over the masses, who they have just endless contempt for. "

AKA Nikki Haley's financial backers.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (ATSTk)

160 The left has completely abandoned the idea you should convince people who disagree with you.

A good example of that is Hillary's "deplorables" comment.

Trump voters were beneath contempt to her and she just wrote them off (ending up crying and drunk on election night).

The left's options are:

1. Repeat our mantras
2. When you do not, you are attacked via lawfare/prison/professional ruin
3. When #2 isn't enough, you die.

Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (i7Q7S)

161 Now that I relit the pilot on the water heater I'm going to have to shower and shave. Wife heated water on stove to wash her hair this morning. Overachiever.

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (SUc4N)

162 But Harvard doesn't care. Their entire faculty does not care. Their student body does not care.

Academic integrity is for students at state schools and the meager grad students trying to get PhDs
Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (i7Q7S)

Yeah, they still grade...for real...at state schools. It's not just an A for getting admitted to the school.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (exHjb)

163 Taiwan to Hong Kong. The latter was a 99 year lease and the lease was up. There was no question of fighting over it when legally it was cut and dried.



There was nothing the British were going to do to stop the chicom from annexing it if the wanted to anyway

Posted by: N at December 20, 2023 04:20 PM (8CI/h)

164 1. Repeat our mantras
2. When you do not, you are attacked via lawfare/prison/professional ruin
3. When #2 isn't enough, you die.
Posted by: Jay in PA at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (i7Q7S)

This as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:20 PM (di6C2)

165 The Donkey was the symbol of the Working Man's Party and they rode that to continuous victories for 150 years.
In about 2008, they cast aside that tired mule and hitched up with the Tesla-driving crowd.

The GOPe wants nothing to do with that huge, landslide-potential coalition:
Becky from Santa Monica wants to talk about protecting abortion, not protecting paychecks.
And here's an article in the NYT by David French that conservatives need to be more tolerant to homosexuals and let the experts in the NEA decide what libraries should stock.
Go away you Unclean and take Trump with you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:20 PM (TzW+Y)

166 UVa. not Ivy.

WTF is "codelling"? Sounds computery.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 20, 2023 04:20 PM (FCs/J)

167 Sargo? Sargon? Spock's dad?


Posted by: Archer at December 20, 2023 04:20 PM (gmo/4)

168 hah. the IDF has a bomb-sniffing dog named after Big Mo's first wife Aisha.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (R4t5M)

169 So, they did eventually tear down the Arlington National Cemetery reconciliation monument.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (0NYgd)

170 Trump would be an elite as you define it inherited wealth and UPenn Wharton School.
14 of the richest 20 American billionaires donate to GOP
Trump gave himself and the other super rich a 2 trillion dollar tax cut
Trump's cabinet was all elites

Posted by: Paul at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (NUiyq)

171 168 hah. the IDF has a bomb-sniffing dog named after Big Mo's first wife Aisha.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (R4t5M)

In dog years, she's older than Mohammed's wife.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (di6C2)

172 BTW, change your name to Betty Unger or something. I'm tired of being lectured by people with foreign names, even if I agree with them.
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Or, at least, add "of Akkad." That would be badass.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (ScR16)

173
I've never understood why people get so upset over candidates slinging barbs at each other. It's the way of election politics.

_________

LBJ on JFK: "Did you ever see his ankles? They're only this big around, and he's sickly, yellow, yellow, not a man's man."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (MoZTd)

174 169 So, they did eventually tear down the Arlington National Cemetery reconciliation monument.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (0NYgd)

Of course they did.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:22 PM (di6C2)

175 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 04:22 PM (R4t5M)

176 Posted by: Paul at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (NUiyq)

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And he did more to elevate the black population from poverty than any president over the past half century.

Because he's a racist who wants to put black people in chains, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

177 Sounds like KMart & JCPenny's

@BNONews 54s
Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global discussing possible merger, sources say - Axios

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2023 04:22 PM (IG4Id)

178 Forget the “20,000 dead children” and the 1200 Israelis, Thais and others raped, tortured and murdered Oct. 7 and the 240 hostages held by Hamas

Muslims worldwide are now freaking out over an Israeli Army video showing an IDF bomb-sniffing dog named “Aisha”, who was the Prophet Mohammed’s 9-year-old child bride.

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2023 04:22 PM (6HIFq)

179 Democrats don't want debate. They don't want real equality. They want power. It's really not that hard to understand. When you have power, corrupt elections, stack courts with your cronies and ignore the constitution, there is no debate necessary. We used to call that third-world dictatorship. Now Democrats call it America. Even the president of El Salvador was laughing and pointing at us over the Colorado decision.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (ATSTk)

180 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 04:22 PM (R4t5M)

I love that guy!

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (SUc4N)

181
Are the three women on the court Ivy League grads?
Posted by: Drive by at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (MNhXM)

__________

I think everyone on the court is either a Harvardhead or a Yalie.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (MoZTd)

182 @153

>>The head girl might pick on a girl's dress, but thereafter anyone who wants to be associated with the "cool kids" will search for other ways to denigrate the victim.

Speaking of Mean Girls, they are remaking it and none of the new girls can hold a candle to the girls in the original film.

It's bad, I mean, real bad.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (XV/Pl)

183 157 Are the three women on the court Ivy League grads?
Posted by: Drive by at December 20, 2023 04:19 PM (MNhXM)

No.

Alito - Yale
Barrett - Notre Dame (and a real Catholic woman - that's who we should always put on the court - a COMMITTED Catholic woman - they don't squish)
KBJ - Harvard
Gorsuch - Harvard
Kavanaugh - Yale
Kagan - Harvard
Roberts - Harvard
Sotomayor - Yale
Thomas - Yale

There's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (exHjb)

184 173
I've never understood why people get so upset over candidates slinging barbs at each other. It's the way of election politics.

_________

LBJ on JFK: "Did you ever see his ankles? They're only this big around, and he's sickly, yellow, yellow, not a man's man."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (MoZTd)

*The Daisy Girl has entered the chat*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (N3zMI)

185 Muslims worldwide are now freaking out over an Israeli Army video showing an IDF bomb-sniffing dog named “Aisha”, who was the Prophet Mohammed’s 9-year-old child bride.

I told you I love a good taunt, and that's an outstanding one.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:24 PM (CsUN+)

186
So, they did eventually tear down the Arlington National Cemetery reconciliation monument.
Posted by: banana Dream

_________

Coming up: Third Battle of Bull Run

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:24 PM (MoZTd)

187 Posted by: Paul at December 20, 2023 04:21 PM (NUiyq)

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And he did more to elevate the black population from poverty than any president over the past half century.

Because he's a racist who wants to put black people in chains, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

If Trump were a racist, he'd think he was cool like his Dem brothers. But be careful, Paul, your masters won't like you trying to co-opt Trump into their coalition.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 04:24 PM (eoQWY)

188 I cringe every time Herbstriet (also known as Crybaby) says it which is about 20-25 times/college game.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:11 PM (JeYYB)

Holy crap, you call him that, too? Hilarious! I thought I was so original.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 20, 2023 04:25 PM (XPM1I)

189 Speaking of Mean Girls, they are remaking it and none of the new girls can hold a candle to the girls in the original film.

It's bad, I mean, real bad.


That's because all the Mean Girls are actually trannys.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:25 PM (CsUN+)

190 185 Muslims worldwide are now freaking out over an Israeli Army video showing an IDF bomb-sniffing dog named “Aisha”, who was the Prophet Mohammed’s 9-year-old child bride.

I told you I love a good taunt, and that's an outstanding one.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:24 PM (CsUN+)

An Ace-worthy taunt???

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:25 PM (PCK5/)

191 Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (exHjb)

I’m talking the Colorado SC

Posted by: Drive by at December 20, 2023 04:25 PM (MNhXM)

192 120 Ace shitting on Euclid? What's next, taking a dump on Solon or Shaker Heights?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM (0EOe9)

Somebody already did that to Steubenville and Youngstown.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory



New Castle, Sharon, Johnstown, etc.

Posted by: Puddleglum, Rust Belt ex pat at December 20, 2023 04:25 PM (sAmhv)

193 Muslims worldwide are now freaking out over an Israeli Army video showing an IDF bomb-sniffing dog named “Aisha”, who was the Prophet Mohammed’s 9-year-old child bride.

I told you I love a good taunt, and that's an outstanding one.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:24 PM (CsUN+)


Hooooly shit. Epic.

Posted by: Eddie bag a' popcorn at December 20, 2023 04:25 PM (SUc4N)

194 There's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on...

Yup. Stanford should have lots more representation.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (CsUN+)

195 Not directly related, but last night, she also expressed an idea I think really has to be emphasized: the revolt against the Ivies has to be more about "Safetyism for Jews, too."

This is obvious, but I'm not sure the right, or at least certain segments of it, can hear or understand this. There are parts of the right that are as unhinged about Israel and all things touching upon Jewish people as the left, just in the polar opposite direction.

Posted by: Sacred Cow at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (ttzpt)

196 I told you I love a good taunt, and that's an outstanding one.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:24 PM (CsUN+)

An Ace-worthy taunt???
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:25 PM (PCK5/)

***

Very cruel

Posted by: VDH at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (ZV+pB)

197 There's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (exHjb)

We should put Ace on the Supreme Court. There's hardly ever any cruelty in the decisions.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (eoQWY)

198 191 Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (exHjb)

I’m talking the Colorado SC
Posted by: Drive by at December 20, 2023 04:25 PM (MNhXM)

Nope, the 4 Ivies were 2 girls and 2 white guys...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (exHjb)

199 194 There's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on...

Yup. Stanford should have lots more representation.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (CsUN+)

North Dakota State…

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (PCK5/)

200 Barrett has not exactly been as solid as I would have hoped.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:27 PM (di6C2)

201 Is there ever a skinny girl dating a fat guy.

There are skinny guys dating fat girls but never the other way rou d.

Posted by: N at December 20, 2023 04:27 PM (8CI/h)

202 So if Trump is removed form a ballot can you still write in his name? Or is that throw out too? Or if he wins in a state is that just negated because he is an insurrectionist?


Dems really are pushing us to make the choice between full tyranny or civil war.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2023 04:27 PM (PTDkx)

203 truth: miranda devine noted this at twixxer:

"@NikkiHaley on President Trump: "Rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. We all know that chaos follows him."

yes: biden followed trump, chaos ensued. i don't care for haley

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 20, 2023 04:27 PM (B1FKF)

204 Ace shitting on Euclid? What's next, taking a dump on Solon or Shaker Heights?
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 20, 2023 04:10 PM


This is a problem that could grow geometrically.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2023 04:27 PM (a3Q+t)

205 So, they did eventually tear down the Arlington National Cemetery reconciliation monument.

Was the stay lifted or did they ignore it?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (sNc8Y)

206 It's just like people waving around their dumbass flags. If Mexico or Ireland or Italy or whatever is so great, then go back.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (0FoWg)

207 This is not a spasm of judicial activism. This is a targeted attack by the same group of scumbags at the Brookings Institute that brought us Russia collusion, the Ukraine phone call hoax, and 2 impeachments along with embedding the word "insurrection" in people's minds when thinking about J6 precisely for what they did yesterday. No insurrection and none of this happens.

Norm Eisen and Noah Bookbinder primarily through CREW, Soros funded. Bookbinder was also appointed to some immigration board by Mayorkas meaning he works for the Biden administration.

They've been building this case and shopping it since last summer to various states. This is the first one that has decided in their favor.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (ZLI7S)

208 There's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on...

Yup. Stanford should have lots more representation.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (CsUN+)

North Dakota State…
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (PCK5/)
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The U. of S.N.D. at H.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (ScR16)

209 If China can bribe Taiwan to take it, then we can do the same to Canada and Mexico.

I've always wondered why stupid poo Tin didn't just bribe Ukraine. Now we know all the Russki comms and trick bags.

Posted by: torabora at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (OUiUM)

210 Was the stay lifted or did they ignore it?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (sNc8Y)

Lifted

Posted by: Snooty Frenchman at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (n2vyf)

211
There are skinny guys dating fat girls but never the other way round.
Posted by: N

__________

Because guys will nail damn near anything.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (MoZTd)

212 "here's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on..."

I agree. The M82a1, M107 and MK 22 are excellent rifles.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (ATSTk)

213 200 Barrett has not exactly been as solid as I would have hoped.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:27 PM (di6C2)

She's the best of Trump's picks...and the best woman ever...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (exHjb)

214 There are parts of the right that are as unhinged about Israel and all things touching upon Jewish people as the left, just in the polar opposite direction.
Posted by: Sacred Cow at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (ttzpt)

Just like all those right wing white supremacists that work for the FBI?

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (eoQWY)

215 209 I've always wondered why stupid poo Tin didn't just bribe Ukraine. Now we know all the Russki comms and trick bags.
Posted by: torabora at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (OUiUM)

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He'd sunk too much money into bribing Germany.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (GBKbO)

216 @200

>>Barrett has not exactly been as solid as I would have hoped.

She's a woman and a mother, so there are a lot of leverage points with her.

In the final analysis, she generic.

Certainly no Bork.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (XV/Pl)

217 Ivys do not get the credit they used to. It was that somebody with an ivy ed would come to interview and they would be given an advantage because of the school.

Now they are just another wannabe hire

Posted by: N at December 20, 2023 04:29 PM (8CI/h)

218 I would think it might be a complement to name a bomb sniffing dog Aisha except for the fact that Aisha is being compared to.a bitch. After all. a bomb sniffing dog saves lives and is courageous.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2023 04:29 PM (DWRqm)

219 If you write in Trump's name they will hunt you down as an accessory to insurrection.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:29 PM (vFG9F)

220 -----------
The U. of S.N.D. at H.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (ScR16)

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Yes! We need one of their alums on the Bench P.D.Q.!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2023 04:29 PM (N3zMI)

221 217 Ivys do not get the credit they used to. It was that somebody with an ivy ed would come to interview and they would be given an advantage because of the school.

Now they are just another wannabe hire
Posted by: N at December 20, 2023 04:29 PM (8CI/h)

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This is probably not true at Fortune 100 companies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:29 PM (GBKbO)

222 I have maintained for some time now that elite education had nothing to do with education or skills, it had everything to do with the children of the elite socialising with each other. It is a finishing school for the children of the upper classes.

Decades ago there were scholarships to the ivies for poor but gifted students yet these days you never hear about it. The only scholarships are awarded on the basis of DEI which is to tell the working classes they don't ever qualify.

Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 04:30 PM (3JfbU)

223 Barrett has not exactly been as solid as I would have hoped.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:27 PM


I don't pay a lot of attention, but I haven't heard anything about the quality of the rifles declining since he sold the company.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 20, 2023 04:30 PM (a3Q+t)

224 It's just like people waving around their dumbass flags. If Mexico or Ireland or Italy or whatever is so great, then go back.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (0FoWg)

***

Or you can change your flag to accommodate the newcomers

Posted by: Minnesomalia at December 20, 2023 04:30 PM (ZV+pB)

225 Clarence Thomas is the model we should be following. Sadly, there are few Clarence Thomases around.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 04:30 PM (ZLI7S)

226 This is probably not true at Fortune 100 companies.

It isn't, and it certainly isn't at top law firms.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (CsUN+)

227 There's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (exHjb)
++++
Meh. I kinda think that all the assumptions should be reconsidered. Why does it even need to be a lawyer? Any literate, intelligent adult should be able to do the job. Since the Court arrogated unto itself the right of judicial review and this is its primary job for decades, it requires little if any legal training at all.

Listen to the argument.
Read the Constitution.
Determine if the thing being argued is Constitutional or not.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (zxP/x)

228 @205

>>Was the stay lifted or did they ignore it?

Apparently the stay was lifted and before it could be appealed, it was taken down and whisked away.

I suppose it could still be appealed but it would probably be moot as I'm sure the statue will be smelted down and made into cock rings for the maniacs that run the world.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (XV/Pl)

229 is is probably not true at Fortune 100 companies.
Posted by: The


Ot is in the divisions that have to earn

Posted by: N at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (8CI/h)

230 Salad Bowl vs Melting Pot, YD….

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

231 Under the junta, there is not going to be any Civil War reconciliation.

The pardons Congress gave the Rebels will be voided.

Posted by: torabora at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (OUiUM)

232 I have maintained for some time now that elite education had nothing to do with education or skills, it had everything to do with the children of the elite socialising with each other. It is a finishing school for the children of the upper classes.

Decades ago there were scholarships to the ivies for poor but gifted students yet these days you never hear about it. The only scholarships are awarded on the basis of DEI which is to tell the working classes they don't ever qualify.
Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 04:30 PM (3JfbU)
++++
Those things still happen, but yes - Harvard is there to train those who will be taking over from their parents in the ruling class. That's it. That's the sole purpose.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (zxP/x)

233 In other news, a 24yo Debbie Reynolds is playing a 17yo in Susan Slept Here on TCM. She is a juvenile delinquent taken in by a writer for research on a movie over Christmas.

The cop says, "Don't lay a hand on her - she's under age!"

They had such nice ways of saying "Don't fuck her!" back in the day.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (ufFY8)

234 Barrett - Notre Dame (and a real Catholic woman - that's who we should always put on the court - a COMMITTED Catholic woman - they don't squish)

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She's already gone soft.

She's an effing disappointment.

Although it's hard to calculate how utterly important it was to shit on Roe vs Wade.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (JeYYB)

235 If China can bribe Taiwan to take it, then we can do the same to Canada and Mexico.

I've always wondered why stupid poo Tin didn't just bribe Ukraine. Now we know all the Russki comms and trick bags.
Posted by: torabora at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (OUiUM)

If they had given in, the Nazis in Ukraine would have to go, and they had too many arms. Plus, of course, the US and UK aborted any discussion of peace before the war, even when a preliminary treaty was signed one month in.

They assured the Ukes that they had infinite money and would win the war with sanctions and would go on to the end. Guess what, Ukraine, they didn't and they won't.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (eoQWY)

236 227 Meh. I kinda think that all the assumptions should be reconsidered. Why does it even need to be a lawyer? Any literate, intelligent adult should be able to do the job. Since the Court arrogated unto itself the right of judicial review and this is its primary job for decades, it requires little if any legal training at all.

Listen to the argument.
Read the Constitution.
Determine if the thing being argued is Constitutional or not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (zxP/x)

========

There's no constitutional requirement that justices need to be lawyers, but we're practically at the point where it's assumed that you need to be a lawyer to have almost any position in government.

Maybe having tens of thousands of federal rules is a bad thing?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (GBKbO)

237 Clarence Thomas is the model we should be following. Sadly, there are few Clarence Thomases around.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 04:30 PM (ZLI7S)

Alito don’t take no crap either. I wish we could clone both of them.

Posted by: Drive by at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (MNhXM)

238 The pardons Congress gave the Rebels will be voided.

I'm kind of surprised they haven't gone to the Fredericksburg and Gettysburg battlefields and dug up the Confederate dead.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (CsUN+)

239 I suppose it could still be appealed but it would probably be moot as I'm sure the statue will be smelted down and made into cock rings for the maniacs that run the world.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (XV/Pl)

Wasn't there a plan to move it to the New Market Battlefield or am I misremembering that? If it does get moved, it could always get moved back.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (N3zMI)

240 Salad Bowl vs Melting Pot, YD….
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (PCK5/)
++++
Or, more accurately, balkanization vs. cohesive society.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (zxP/x)

241 >>Barrett has not exactly been as solid as I would have hoped.

She's a woman and a mother, so there are a lot of leverage points with her.

In the final analysis, she generic.

Certainly no Bork.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (XV/Pl)

----------------

She is worse than generic, she is a non-entity that is easily manipulated by Roberts.

Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 04:33 PM (3JfbU)

242 Interesting. If you go to the "Colorado Suprreme Court" wiki page, only 3 of the justices attended Ivy League schools: Harvard Penn Yale. 3 graduated from the Denver school. One graduated from Virginia.

Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2023 04:33 PM (rj6Yv)

243 199 194 There's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on...

Yup. Stanford should have lots more representation.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:26 PM (CsUN+)

North Dakota State…
Posted by: tubal



Youngstown State!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, Rust Belt ex pat at December 20, 2023 04:33 PM (sAmhv)

244 The cop says, "Don't lay a hand on her - she's under age!"

They had such nice ways of saying "Don't fuck her!" back in the day.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (ufFY

Jailbait used to be a term you took seriously as a teenager.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 04:33 PM (eoQWY)

245 Those things still happen, but yes - Harvard is there to train those who will be taking over from their parents in the ruling class. That's it. That's the sole purpose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM


* smiles smarmy smile *

* flexes *

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (a3Q+t)

246 237 Clarence Thomas is the model we should be following. Sadly, there are few Clarence Thomases around.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 04:30 PM (ZLI7S)

Alito don’t take no crap either. I wish we could clone both of them.
Posted by: Drive by at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (MNhXM)

Scalia has a kid who is a Catholic priest...if we don't need lawyers...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (exHjb)

247 241
She is worse than generic, she is a non-entity that is easily manipulated by Roberts.
Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 04:33 PM (3JfbU)

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I get the sense that she's a lot like Kavanaugh: a big government Republican.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

248 225 Clarence Thomas is the model we should be following. Sadly, there are few Clarence Thomases around.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 04:30 PM (ZLI7S)

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100% Agree.

His intellect, his wit, his writings, everything. I respect that man.

Posted by: Seems Legit at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (JeYYB)

249 I am on a Teams meeting with a bunch of surveyors regarding CAD downloads to create surfaces. Dear Lord, this is tedious. But I can bill it. So there's that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (T/Lqj)

250 The Last Time Democrats Took a GOP Candidate Off the Ballot Was in 1860 – They Would Not Allow Abraham Lincoln’s Name on the Ballot in Their Slave States

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (6HIFq)

251 Youngstown State!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, Rust Belt ex pat at December 20, 2023 04:33 PM (sAmhv)

***

My daughter will graduate in MAy and then she'll never go back. Talk about a hollowed out town

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 20, 2023 04:35 PM (ZV+pB)

252 The pardons Congress gave the Rebels will be voided.

I'm kind of surprised they haven't gone to the Fredericksburg and Gettysburg battlefields and dug up the Confederate dead.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM (CsUN+)

They can't find them places on the map. It ends at the burbs.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 04:35 PM (eoQWY)

253 247 241
She is worse than generic, she is a non-entity that is easily manipulated by Roberts.
Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 04:33 PM (3JfbU)

=======

I get the sense that she's a lot like Kavanaugh: a big government Republican.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

I get that… and then I think about the abortion vote..

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:35 PM (PCK5/)

254 Scalia has a kid who is a Catholic priest...if we don't need lawyers...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (exHjb)

Used to be my priest. He rocks.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2023 04:35 PM (N3zMI)

255 3 of the CO Supreme Court justices are up for retention elections in 2024.

Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2023 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

256 re 208: i have that album.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 20, 2023 04:35 PM (B1FKF)

257
Why does it even need to be a lawyer? Any literate, intelligent adult should be able to do the job. Since the Court arrogated unto itself the right of judicial review and this is its primary job for decades, it requires little if any legal training at all.

___________

"My dear Smythe, what we do on our Court is unique, at least in the United States. A lifetime of study of the Supreme Court has left me unconvinced that lawyers are better qualified to staff such a tribunal than would be philosophers, historians, or litterateurs." - Walter Murphy, The Vicar of Christ. The words are spoken by a Supreme Court Justice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (MoZTd)

258 Maybe having tens of thousands of federal rules is a bad thing?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM


For you, maybe.

Posted by: Environmental Protection Agency at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (a3Q+t)

259 Salad Bowl vs Melting Pot, YD….

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (PCK5/)


And the Democrats are always tossing the salad.


Posted by: Archer at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (gmo/4)

260 Look at Sotomayor and that Jackson idiot. Read a few of their dissents or opinions. These are dumb people and they're not even embarrassed. That's because they're ideologues put there to corrupt the court and vote for their political cults agenda.

Funny thing is, I don't want that for conservatives. I simply want someone who reads and interprets the constitution fairly with deference to nothing else. That ultimately means some you win, some you lose. So long as it respects the constitution and doesn't corrupt it with things not present so be it.

The Left Wing doesn't want that because it won't give them dictatorial power over the people. They are authoritarians with no respect for the views of anyone else.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (ATSTk)

261 I am on a Teams meeting with a bunch of surveyors regarding CAD downloads to create surfaces. Dear Lord, this is tedious. But I can bill it. So there's that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (T/Lqj)

Damn, that sounds headache inducing.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (ufFY8)

262 The Clarence Thomas autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son should be required reading in every High School.

Posted by: Drive by at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (MNhXM)

263 "My dear Smythe, what we do on our Court is unique, at least in the United States. A lifetime of study of the Supreme Court has left me unconvinced that lawyers are better qualified to staff such a tribunal than would be philosophers, historians, or litterateurs." - Walter Murphy, The Vicar of Christ. The words are spoken by a Supreme Court Justice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (MoZTd)
++++
He's on to something.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:37 PM (zxP/x)

264 238 The pardons Congress gave the Rebels will be voided.

I'm kind of surprised they haven't gone to the Fredericksburg and Gettysburg battlefields and dug up the Confederate dead.
Posted by: Archimedes



Don't give them any ideas. A few years ago, I did a Civil War battlefield trip. Several around here in Babylon DC. Took a couple of days to spend some time at Appomattox NP. Beautiful part of VA. There was a small grave site with Confederate dead there. Surrounded by a large metal fence, probably to keep the hyper woke from desecrating it. I can't recommend visiting that park enough, while its still exists as our Betters are quickly erasing it all.

Posted by: Puddleglum, Rust Belt ex pat at December 20, 2023 04:37 PM (sAmhv)

265 No need to give a trigger warning for Mild-man Ron.

His campaign is stillborn and the GOPe ticks are crawling off the carcass to go feed on Nikkiii.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:37 PM (TzW+Y)

266 The Clarence Thomas autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son should be required reading in every High School.
Posted by: Drive




Would have to be audio books

Posted by: N at December 20, 2023 04:37 PM (8CI/h)

267 "I'm kind of surprised they haven't gone to the Fredericksburg and Gettysburg battlefields and dug up the Confederate dead.
Posted by: Archimedes"

They won't stop. I expect they will try to eliminate all Confederate monuments and grave markers. George Washington and TJ are targets too.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:37 PM (vFG9F)

268 But I can bill it. So there's that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (T/Lqj)

Damn, that sounds headache inducing.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (ufFY

What is the latest CAD software?

I remember AutoCAD v5467, LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2023 04:38 PM (ufFY8)

269 239 I suppose it could still be appealed but it would probably be moot as I'm sure the statue will be smelted down and made into cock rings for the maniacs that run the world.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 04:31 PM (XV/Pl)

Wasn't there a plan to move it to the New Market Battlefield or am I misremembering that? If it does get moved, it could always get moved back.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher



Yes. The VA Gov said as much.

Posted by: Puddleglum, Rust Belt ex pat at December 20, 2023 04:38 PM (sAmhv)

270 His campaign is stillborn and the GOPe ticks are crawling off the carcass to go feed on Nikkiii.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:37 PM (TzW+Y)

Looks that way

Posted by: It's me donna at December 20, 2023 04:38 PM (n2vyf)

271 I am on a Teams meeting with a bunch of surveyors regarding CAD downloads to create surfaces. Dear Lord, this is tedious. But I can bill it. So there's that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM


Have you asked HordeSource (tm) how you might enliven it

Posted by: Jeffrey "The Toob" Toobin at December 20, 2023 04:38 PM (a3Q+t)

272 @249

>> I am on a Teams meeting with a bunch of surveyors regarding CAD downloads to create surfaces. Dear Lord, this is tedious. But I can bill it. So there's that.

You ever try to review the entire functional design of production studio from an engineer that decided to put it all on one CAD Border?

PAN... PAN.. PAN.. PAN.. ZOOM IN... PAN.. ZOOM OUT...

ZOOM EXTENTS... HOLY F*********


IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 04:38 PM (XV/Pl)

273 His campaign is stillborn and the GOPe ticks are crawling off the carcass to go feed on Nikkiii.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:37 PM (TzW+Y)
++++
She sure is dumping money into ads on YouTube. She's the only political ads I've seen at all, and they're pretty common.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:39 PM (zxP/x)

274 Barrett has not exactly been as solid as I would have hoped.

Notre Dame grads have a high incidence of anti-semites and gun-banners. But hey, they are Catholic gun banners!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 20, 2023 04:39 PM (FCs/J)

275 >>> Batya Ungar-Sargon: The "Elites" Are Staging an Insurrection Against Democracy

Already done did that in 2020.
Now they gearing up for the mass killing and burning.
The sole desire is to destroy the middle class and rule over serfs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 20, 2023 04:39 PM (cOq4q)

276 JD Vance talks about the networking aspect. Still amazing that he got to attend Yale

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2023 04:39 PM (L8hCM)

277 Hong Kong was Brit territory. The New Territories (mainland expansion of the main island) were on the 99 year lease. Kowloon was more complicated, it was signed over in treaties, but China had a chip about them so I guess the best description was disputed.

Hong Kong proper - the main island, was dependent on the mainland for things like water, etc. They could have fought though. I think the brits got a raw deal - they built everything good and handed it over.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 20, 2023 04:39 PM (WkHN1)

278 I mentioned yesterday the Civil War Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington likely contains both Union and Confederate troops. I suspect that next, Democrats will pick through the bones to throw the Confederates out.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2023 04:40 PM (ATSTk)

279 Those things still happen, but yes - Harvard is there to train those who will be taking over from their parents in the ruling class. That's it. That's the sole purpose.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:32 PM

* smiles smarmy smile *

* flexes *
Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at December 20, 2023 04:34 PM (a3Q+t)

Not only train, but to marry. Codevilla's "America's Ruling Class - And the Perils of Revolution" is a must-must read. It's archived at the American Spectator website.

Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2023 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

280 150 Tea Party Part Two. The GOP has shown, time and time again, that they'll lose elections rather than lose control of the party.
Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 20, 2023 04:15 PM (BfpYS)

This is true. Sad, but this is why the party should have been burned to the ground after 2016- and definitely after the shit show of 2020.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2023 04:16 PM (di6C2)

I chalk this up as a Trump failing.
He could have flipped to a new party after Mitch publicly abandoned him and the senate races in GA.
This before the run off.. when Tuberville had a real legit gripe about not winning it outright.
In fact, my assumption is the polling turned so hard against the GOPe Mitch ended up walking it back fairly quickly.
This also coincided with several commentaries about 3rd parties having no chance... all published at the same time.. coincidentally of course.

Posted by: Inogame at December 20, 2023 04:40 PM (53oGX)

281 The Ivies represent the elite's belief that they should have absolute rule over the masses, who they have just endless contempt for

And here I thought secret university societies like Skull & Bones were just harmless drinking clubs.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 20, 2023 04:41 PM (o5xaO)

282 A lot of people here have faith in the SCOTUS, I do not. Roberts has sway over the newbies and he not only hates Trump but hates all conservatives. He is the swampiest of swamp creatures and therefore there will be no help from that quarter.

Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 04:41 PM (3JfbU)

283 Civil3D and Revit. That stuff is really complicated. A lot of that surface stuff is mapped with drones with lasers now.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:41 PM (vFG9F)

284 I remember a day when the elites were higher quality than they are these days.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 20, 2023 04:41 PM (miT2W)

285 251 Youngstown State!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, Rust Belt ex pat at December 20, 2023 04:33 PM (sAmhv)

***

My daughter will graduate in MAy and then she'll never go back. Talk about a hollowed out town
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report



Yes. I know. Haven't been to YTown proper in years. Usually visit Boardman (The Amish Market is GREAT) and some of the surrounding golf courses in that part of Ohio.

Posted by: Puddleglum, Rust Belt ex pat at December 20, 2023 04:42 PM (sAmhv)

286 On that plagiarism. Assuming her 'papers' were published in peer-reviewed journals, it means that an editor would look at the subject matter and then send the paper for review, to an established expert in the field - a referee in other words, who would accept it as is, or suggest corrections or even more work, or reject it as not worthy of publication for reasons (such as shoddy work; does not further the subject; it has all been covered previously; etc.)
I'm saying that the referees (usually more than one is used) did not read the papers or did so superficially and gave a pass without making an effort to grade the papers. An expert would pickup at least one or two cases off copying, i.e. "Where have I read this before?"

Posted by: Ciampino - I'm published & have reviewed at December 20, 2023 04:43 PM (qfLjt)

287 Before voting for Trump in 2016, I was a Cruz devotee. When it looked like Trump was a shoe-in, there was talk of Cruz rigging the delegates against Trump. The thought horrified me and the Cruz supporters I knew. If the people wanted Trump, they wanted Trump.

Posted by: Coki at December 20, 2023 04:43 PM (m+cWT)

288 Angelo Codevilla's prescient "The American Ruling Class - And the Perils of Revolution" can be found here:

LINK: http://tinyurl.com/4bcwbmjv

Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2023 04:44 PM (rj6Yv)

289 OK, look me in the eye and say that your immediate reaction to this is not "I gotta get one of those!"

https://instapundit.com/623085/

Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2023 04:44 PM (sNc8Y)

290 Thomas's autobiography IS an audio and he narrates it

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 20, 2023 04:45 PM (L8hCM)

291 I chalk this up as a Trump failing.
He could have flipped to a new party after Mitch publicly abandoned him and the senate races in GA.
This before the run off.. when Tuberville had a real legit gripe about not winning it outright.
In fact, my assumption is the polling turned so hard against the GOPe Mitch ended up walking it back fairly quickly.
This also coincided with several commentaries about 3rd parties having no chance... all published at the same time.. coincidentally of course.
Posted by: Inogame at December 20, 2023 04:40 PM (53oGX)

====

Agree 10000%

Posted by: Coki at December 20, 2023 04:45 PM (m+cWT)

292 The West losing Taiwan would be a disaster.
Hong Kong was mostly a financial and trading center and really not a big deal except the people and the loss of territory.

Taiwan is where we shipped all our chip fabs after all those regulations

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 20, 2023 04:45 PM (WkHN1)

293 "OK, look me in the eye and say that your immediate reaction to this is not "I gotta get one of those!"

https://instapundit.com/623085/
Posted by: Oddbob'

I've got one. It's got a little clip and 8 rounds too.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:46 PM (vFG9F)

294 I know that it considered bad to plagiarize other people, but can we still plagiar ourselves?

Asking for my 14-year-old self...

Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2023 04:46 PM (991eG)

295 Remember when ordinary Americans whose communities and wages were decimated by globalization and mass migration voted for the first guy to say NAFTA was a mistake and call for securing the border, and the entire liberal political caste said in unison, "IT WAS PUTIN!"

This all gets rather easy if you look at it from a pure benefits perspective.

The current elite in America runs the government, the FNM, the colleges, and most corporations. They make their money mostly by looting America - where do you think the $30T debt and 100% Biden-flation went? Yes they do give some to the FSA but mostly their own pockets.

You can't justify that from a traditional American or even a traditional leftist perspective so they have to demonize their opponents, who if you look at Trump for example, are extremely mild.

Because if the debate is Trump-Hitler or not Trump-Hitler they win. If the debate is continue looting the American people or stop looting the American people they lose.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2023 04:46 PM (XqcwY)

296 Damn, that sounds headache inducing.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 20, 2023 04:36 PM (ufFY

I have used CAD, LDD, Civil 3d for 30 years. I get it, but it would be like explaining baseball to a German (I tried that once - it didn't work). OJT FTW!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:46 PM (T/Lqj)

297 Dems really are pushing us to make the choice between full tyranny or civil war.
Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2023 04:27 PM (PTDkx)

Just observing the evidence I've seen so far, it'll be tyranny.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 20, 2023 04:47 PM (BdMk6)

298 I chalk this up as a Trump failing.
He could have flipped to a new party after Mitch publicly abandoned him and the senate races in GA.
---
I still don't think Trump fully grasps what he is in for.

But the, the left's skinsuit strategy is their strategy for a reason:
Far easier to take over an existing institution than build a competitor.

So, I don't know. He's taken over the party. The zombie limbs are still twitching under GOPe control.
Whether he can animate the corpse is well in doubt.
But if the lumbering beast don't start eating brains soon, it's gonna die for good.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:47 PM (TzW+Y)

299 OK, look me in the eye and say that your immediate reaction to this is not "I gotta get one of those!"

Posted by: Oddbob

I see problems: https://is.gd/IGNfdn

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 20, 2023 04:47 PM (UCiQg)

300 212 "here's not even diversity in the Ivys. Barrett should be our model from now on..."

I agree. The M82a1, M107 and MK 22 are excellent rifles.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2023 04:28 PM (ATSTk)

Ah.. I remember when it was just the Light 50...

Posted by: Inogame at December 20, 2023 04:47 PM (53oGX)

301 Conferate dead are largely in mass graves, like at Gettysburg you'll pass a marker and just says 100 CSA dead. Although there are individual grave sites, where ever the CSA were set to flight they didn't collect their dead. Union details dealt with them, often months later.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 20, 2023 04:48 PM (MeG8a)

302 282 A lot of people here have faith in the SCOTUS, I do not. Roberts has sway over the newbies and he not only hates Trump but hates all conservatives. He is the swampiest of swamp creatures and therefore there will be no help from that quarter.
Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 04:41 PM (3JfbU)

The thought of keeping Trump off ballots is just too delicious to too many in power.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 20, 2023 04:49 PM (L4Etu)

303 I went to harvard and I read the NYT. Your opinion can't possibly be more informed than mine.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2023 04:49 PM (NYzgN)

304 I'm saying that the referees (usually more than one is used) did not read the papers or did so superficially and gave a pass without making an effort to grade the papers. An expert would pickup at least one or two cases off copying, i.e. "Where have I read this before?"
Posted by: Ciampino


I don't think so. I don't think the stuff she was plagiarizing was particularly memorable. I think her whole field is a game of arranging buzzwords on a page and making it not look like the nonsense that it is.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at December 20, 2023 04:49 PM (WkHN1)

305 Has there ever been a nonlawyer on thre Supreme Court? If not, I'd think an uninterrupted practice of more than 200 years would be some evidence that it was assumed/intended lawyers would occupy court positions. Was there some common-law tradition of nonlawyers sitting as judges? (I'm not sure why people think this would make a bit of difference, as leftists would nominate leftists, whether lawyers or laymen.)

Posted by: whole debate seems kinda dumb at December 20, 2023 04:49 PM (ttzpt)

306 Civil3D and Revit. That stuff is really complicated. A lot of that surface stuff is mapped with drones with lasers now.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:41 PM (vFG9F)

Yeah. We are going to start LIDAR processing.

Super stoked about that. So glad I am old. *looks at watch*

Only seven years 'til retirement!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:49 PM (T/Lqj)

307 I've got one. It's got a little clip and 8 rounds too.
Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:46 PM


You'll hurt your thumb!

Posted by: Your teacher at December 20, 2023 04:49 PM (a3Q+t)

308 You can vote for any candidate you want off of my pre approved list of candidates.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2023 04:50 PM (NYzgN)

309 The thought of keeping Trump off ballots is just too delicious to too many in power.

Its funny everything we are supposed to hate Vlad for our own junta is doing here.

Though having people "fall" out of windows is a lot more believable then "murdered in a mugging gone wrong where nothing was stolen"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2023 04:50 PM (XqcwY)

310 Loading gun magazines??? One word… Uplula…

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:50 PM (PCK5/)

311 I see problems: https://is.gd/IGNfdn

Yes, that is a problem. Because now I want one of those too.

* checks exchange rate *

Holy crap!! That's a BIG problem.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2023 04:51 PM (sNc8Y)

312 You can vote for any candidate you want off of my pre approved list of candidates.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 20, 2023 04:50 PM (NYzgN)

---------------

Can we at least write-in Kim Jong Un?

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 20, 2023 04:51 PM (J+yxx)

313 In Soviet America the head of the executive branch molested his own daughter and took bribes from our enemies while the head of the judicial branch is probably an Epstein client.

But remember....Trump said "p*ssy" so we have to maintain decorum here after all.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2023 04:51 PM (XqcwY)

314 "Only seven years 'til retirement!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger"

That's a skill that's in demand. Do they let you work from home?

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:52 PM (vFG9F)

315 William F. Buckley:

“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory,” he said, “than by the Harvard University faculty.”

Posted by: mrp at December 20, 2023 04:52 PM (rj6Yv)

316 Salad Bowl vs Melting Pot

Posted by: tubal


********

We've moved on to restaurant back alley dumpster.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 20, 2023 04:52 PM (991eG)

317 But remember....Trump said "p*ssy" so we have to maintain decorum here after all.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2023 04:51 PM


Indeed! Decency was on the ballot in 2020, and may well be again in 2024!!!

Posted by: Dr. Jill at December 20, 2023 04:53 PM (a3Q+t)

318 STATES RIGHTS baby! You against states rights ???

Posted by: raimondo at December 20, 2023 04:53 PM (CfQwd)

319 Posted by: raimondo at December 20, 2023 04:53 PM (CfQwd)

========

Man, if only the requirements for the presidency were outlined in the constitution. That would certainly make life easier.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 20, 2023 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

320 You against states rights ???

You against punctuation?

Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:54 PM (CsUN+)

321 289 OK, look me in the eye and say that your immediate reaction to this is not "I gotta get one of those!"

https://instapundit.com/623085/
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2023 04:44 PM (sNc8Y)

I received one as a gift a few years ago. They are nice little display pieces. I got a non-blinged out AK.

Posted by: Inogame at December 20, 2023 04:54 PM (53oGX)

322 49
So… would you say that Ace was being rather pedestrian in his tauntage?..

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:01 PM (PCK5/)
----
Well, has he used a plethora of taunts?

(spoken in an El Guapo voice)

Posted by: Ciampino - The Three Sombreros at December 20, 2023 04:55 PM (qfLjt)

323 So she's calling to break the university gatekeeping system altogether.

Cool. I'm down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 20, 2023 04:02 PM (zxP/x)
==
Given our demographic issue - and the soon coming end of Affirmative Action - the University gatekeeping system is about to get shredded anyway. Might make her calls a little more useful. Timing is everything.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 20, 2023 04:56 PM (GZYu7)

324 As an amusing way back experiment...when there was an open debate if Barky was a natural born American or not there was some discussion as to whether states could keep him off the ballot if they didn't believe he was eligible.

The answer then was not just no, but "hell no you democracy hating bastard".

Posted by: 18-1 at December 20, 2023 04:56 PM (XqcwY)

325 The Harvard University staff would also be worthless at digging canals.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:57 PM (vFG9F)

326 I don't disagree. But the point of my full comment is that it won't matter. Taiwan is in the process of becoming bought and paid for by Chinese money. No need for kinetic military action.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 20, 2023 04:12 PM (iFTx/)
==
At which point Taiwan's usefulness disappears, because the problem in global supply chain is China. Making Taiwan China just crosses one more country off company supplier lists.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 20, 2023 04:57 PM (GZYu7)

327
I think raimondo just gave our resident expert in apostrophe's a coronary.

CLEAR!!!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 20, 2023 04:58 PM (enJYY)

328 "Only seven years 'til retirement!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger"

That's a skill that's in demand. Do they let you work from home?

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 04:52 PM (vFG9F)
--
I am at home right now. Kitty is old, and I might have to sign for a package soon.

My company let me work remotely (and had the recourses) in Montana when my Dad was ailing in 2020.

Generally, though I prefer to work at the office. But also, I love the company I work for.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:59 PM (T/Lqj)

329 I received one as a gift a few years ago. They are nice little display pieces. I got a non-blinged out AK.

I think I saw NZFrank upthread so I'm writing this in a whisper but I'm something of a Garand fanboi myself and I probably wouldn't have bothered linking the article if not for the pic.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2023 04:59 PM (sNc8Y)

330 298 I chalk this up as a Trump failing.
He could have flipped to a new party after Mitch publicly abandoned him and the senate races in GA.
---
I still don't think Trump fully grasps what he is in for.

But the, the left's skinsuit strategy is their strategy for a reason:
Far easier to take over an existing institution than build a competitor.

So, I don't know. He's taken over the party. The zombie limbs are still twitching under GOPe control.
Whether he can animate the corpse is well in doubt.
But if the lumbering beast don't start eating brains soon, it's gonna die for good.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 20, 2023 04:47 PM (TzW+Y)

I agree that he had a choice and seems like skin suit was the direction. GOPe was at a low and they had just devastated the base by declaring the election over before any shenanigans were even fake investigated. It was tone deaf and in my opinion the perfect time to split... I believe he'd have gotten some elected officials to switch with him as well.
This is why the walk backs happened... the base had their torches fired up and the pitchforks sharpened...

Posted by: Inogame at December 20, 2023 04:59 PM (53oGX)

331 Ace, el Jefe, es muy malo, muy cruel….

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 04:59 PM (PCK5/)

332 recourses = resources

Pudgy Fingers

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 05:00 PM (T/Lqj)

333 My opinion. The dems would love for red states to do a tit for tat...we love Joke but those evil Republicans are thwarting democracy.by keeping off the ballot
Fuck em, they can do their own dirty work.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 20, 2023 05:01 PM (a0370)

334 332 recourses = resources

Pudgy Fingers
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 05:00 PM (T/Lqj)


Who opened for???

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 05:01 PM (PCK5/)

335 Still torn on whether Raimondo is a troll or just really stupid. He has the spelling and grammar skills of a Nigerian email prince but that level of dumb is hard to fake. He clearly reads DU because he's up on the latest idiot rantings, but he could be just reading it for the laughs.

Posted by: Wally at December 20, 2023 05:02 PM (hqVaF)

336 Someone should do a supercut video of every time a Democrat or establishment Republican insisted we use the term insurrection when talking about January 6th. Not riot, not protest that got out of hand, insurrection.

At first it seemed they were doing it just to make J6 sound worse and that was a small part I'm sure but the bigger reason is the wanted the specific term insurrection used so they would have it available for the very thing it was used for in Colorado yesterday.

Leftists definitely play the law fare game better than we do.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 05:02 PM (ZLI7S)

337 I would love a site to do a “ Best of Biden Follies” video montage.. for the laughs and mockery..

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 05:04 PM (PCK5/)

338 Pudgy Fingers
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 05:00 PM (T/Lqj)


Who opened for???
Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 05:01 PM (PCK5/)

It was a lesser known alternate lyric for "Monkey Business" by Skid Row

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 05:04 PM (T/Lqj)

339 But also, I love the company I work for.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:59 PM (T/Lqj)

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That makes you a 1%-er.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 20, 2023 05:04 PM (J+yxx)

340 Maybe the poison iveys need classes such as "Leaky Faucets and Squeeking Wheels: what to do 101," "Where Electricity Comes From -- 101, and "No More Arugula at Whole Foods: next steps [remedial].They can have a Semester Abroad like "Mining Cadmium" and "Semester at an Oil Refinery."

Maybe Bloomberg could guest teach the arugula class.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 20, 2023 05:05 PM (Rbu5d)

341
It's tough for someone 'living in the shadows' to see the keyboard and punctuate properly.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 20, 2023 05:07 PM (enJYY)

342 >>>STATES RIGHTS baby! You against states rights ???

Posted by: raimondo
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I don't believe you're the real raimondo

Posted by: Don Black at December 20, 2023 05:08 PM (geLO8)

343 Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell cited his own wife while pushing back against former President Donald Trump's remarks claiming that migrants are "poisoning the blood" of Americans.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2023 05:09 PM (eYF7X)

344 "But also, I love the company I work for.
Posted by: Pug Mahon"

That good. Tell 'em you want to fly the drone.

Posted by: fd at December 20, 2023 05:09 PM (vFG9F)

345 But also, I love the company I work for.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 04:59 PM (T/Lqj)

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That makes you a 1%-er.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 20, 2023 05:04 PM (J+yxx)

I really consider myself lucky. I actually came back after being laid off during the JEF staycation years.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 20, 2023 05:10 PM (T/Lqj)

346 Someone should do a supercut video of every time a Democrat or establishment Republican insisted we use the term insurrection when talking about January 6th. Not riot, not protest that got out of hand, insurrection.

At first it seemed they were doing it just to make J6 sound worse and that was a small part I'm sure but the bigger reason is the wanted the specific term insurrection used so they would have it available for the very thing it was used for in Colorado yesterday.

Leftists definitely play the law fare game better than we do.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 05:02 PM (ZLI7S)

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I also believe they began using that term because many of us were calling on Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act during the 2020 summer of love to put down the Leftist domestic terrorist Burning, Looting, and Murdering.

I've noticed after we have tagged him as a Death Cult, they're now turning around and accusing us of being that very thing.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 20, 2023 05:10 PM (J+yxx)

347 Maybe the poison iveys need classes such as "Leaky Faucets and Squeeking Wheels: what to do 101," "Where Electricity Comes From -- 101, and "No More Arugula at Whole Foods: next steps [remedial].They can have a Semester Abroad like "Mining Cadmium" and "Semester at an Oil Refinery."

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Oil refinery? Make them work on the drilling floor of an oil rig.....in the winter in the TX panhandle.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 20, 2023 05:10 PM (BdMk6)

348 Someone should do a supercut video of every time a Democrat or establishment Republican insisted we use the term insurrection when talking about January 6th. Not riot, not protest that got out of hand, insurrection.

At first it seemed they were doing it just to make J6 sound worse and that was a small part I'm sure but the bigger reason is the wanted the specific term insurrection used so they would have it available for the very thing it was used for in Colorado yesterday.

Leftists definitely play the law fare game better than we do.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 05:02 PM (ZLI7S)

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The next move should be to primary every Republican who is identified as having participated in this persecution.

Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 05:10 PM (3JfbU)

349 I will terrorize Ivy Leagues with wild mountain cat, and then punch myself in the chest, and it will disappear.

Posted by: Tarbash at December 20, 2023 05:11 PM (DZrNt)

350 Funny Ice-Age adjacent.

https://is.gd/5pBvRn

Posted by: Ciampino - The Three Sombreros ... at December 20, 2023 05:11 PM (qfLjt)

351 I think I saw NZFrank upthread so I'm writing this in a whisper but I'm something of a Garand fanboi myself and I probably wouldn't have bothered linking the article if not for the pic.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 20, 2023 04:59 PM


No need to whisper. NZFrank does have a certain admiration for the Garand.

Posted by: Dr. Jill at December 20, 2023 05:11 PM (a3Q+t)

352 @343

>>Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell cited his own wife while pushing back against former President Donald Trump's remarks claiming that migrants are "poisoning the blood" of Americans.

Elaine Choe was the first Fang-Fang.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 20, 2023 05:11 PM (XV/Pl)

353 Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell cited his own wife while pushing back against former President Donald Trump's remarks claiming that migrants are "poisoning the blood" of Americans.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 20, 2023 05:09 PM (eYF7X)

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Are we sure he even recognized her?

Posted by: Decaf at December 20, 2023 05:12 PM (3JfbU)

354 I don't believe you're the real raimondo
Posted by: Don Black at December 20, 2023 05:08 PM


It's amazing how a few of us get socked repeatedly here.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at December 20, 2023 05:14 PM (a3Q+t)

355 Is McConnell's wife a "migrant"??

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2023 05:15 PM (V13WU)

356
Many critics and commentators have likened Trump’s rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler, who suggested in his fascist manifesto “Mein Kampf” that Jews and immigrants were poisoning the purity of German blood.

Sneaky little bastids at Yahoo added the word 'immigrants' to the sentence.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 20, 2023 05:15 PM (enJYY)

357 Elaine Chao went to Harvard and worked for both Bushes. Yeah Mitch, she's one of us!

Posted by: Bill Kristol at December 20, 2023 05:15 PM (hqVaF)

358 Our self-annointed elites truly think they're the smartest people in the room and would probably have a stroke if they found out the guy remodeling their house has an IQ of 130 but eschews office work.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at December 20, 2023 05:15 PM (tT6L1)

359 > Is McConnell's wife a "migrant"??

Posted by: runner
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Geisha

Posted by: Don Black at December 20, 2023 05:15 PM (geLO8)

360
No need to whisper. NZFrank does have a certain admiration for the Garand.
Posted by: Dr. Jill at December 20, 2023 05:11 PM (a3Q+t)

Yes. They make excellent stakes for growing tomatoes.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at December 20, 2023 05:16 PM (bgJ0E)

361 Prolly willowed but just found out I may not be able to put off replacing the roof very much longer. Sigh. I suppose twenty-five years was a pretty good run.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 20, 2023 05:16 PM (N3zMI)

362 You against states rights ???

You against punctuation?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 20, 2023 04:54 PM (CsUN+)

Confederate General States Rights Gist (yes, that was his real name) did not use an apostrophe. So at least for his dad, It was States Plural Rights plural not State Possessive Rights Plural.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 20, 2023 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

363 yahoo is Aidan Maese-Czeropski of news

Posted by: runner at December 20, 2023 05:16 PM (V13WU)

364 Nood queers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 20, 2023 05:17 PM (R4t5M)

365 That divide is about the only thing that shocks me--not because it wasn't predictable, but because it is so stark.

Posted by: John Roberts, recalling the photos of him and the sexy nine year old boy at December 20, 2023 05:17 PM (KSNKu)

366 >>Sneaky little bastids at Yahoo added the word 'immigrants' to the sentence.

And left off the word "illegal" which is exactly what Trump was talking about. And he was right.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2023 05:17 PM (ZLI7S)

367 337 I would love a site to do a “ Best of Biden Follies” video montage.. for the laughs and mockery..

Posted by: tubal at December 20, 2023 05:04 PM (PCK5/)
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Here you go, it's almost what you want
https://is.gd/I78vL5

Posted by: Ciampino - A plethora of bidenisms at December 20, 2023 05:21 PM (qfLjt)

368 179 Democrats don't want debate. They don't want real equality. They want power. It's really not that hard to understand. When you have power, corrupt elections, stack courts with your cronies and ignore the constitution, there is no debate necessary. We used to call that third-world dictatorship. Now Democrats call it America. Even the president of El Salvador was laughing and pointing at us over the Colorado decision.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2023 04:23 PM (ATSTk)

We have a winner, folks. What the Left cannot control it seeks to destroy. Remember doing away with the 100-member Senate, stacking the USSC, and direct presidential elections? You may have forgotten, but the totalitarian pigs who floated those abominable ideas are in wait to implement them.

Posted by: John Roberts, recalling the photos of him and the sexy nine year old boy at December 20, 2023 05:21 PM (KSNKu)

369 Great article, Ace. That was an interesting read, especially for a smart military blog.

Posted by: Advo at December 20, 2023 06:00 PM (VHN21)

370
What's going on with Newsweek? They've had some good reporting lately. Did they get bought?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 20, 2023 06:33 PM (n7rxJ)

371 Face it Ace, the elites have a point. The last thing America needs are fucking retards like you and CBD putting a cucked meatball on stilts in the White House.

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