The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 12/21/23

Good morning, kids. Happy winter. So, on the granular level, the entire house of cards (which implies fragility, and what the Deep State is doing is anything but) being built to take down Donald Trump is predicated on one word: "Fight!" This is at the heart of the charge that on January 6th, 2021, Trump incited an "insurrection" at the Capitol merely by uttering that word.

Never mind the fact that Trump was at least a mile away, or that when he uttered that fateful word the melee and FBI/Capitol PD chaperoned guided tour had been going on for almost an hour, or more importantly the context of the word in relation to Trump's speech. He said "fight" and despite the fact that he clearly, and unambiguously meant in a nonviolent, political and peaceful sense, the all-knowing oracle that evidently is the Colorado Supreme Court, at least the four despicable mo-fo Leftists, deemed it a call to arms to overthrow "our precious democracy" (vomit).

If this isn't the lighting of the fuse that will set off a conflagration that tears us apart, it for sure is blowing hard on one that's already lit and burning down faster than you can say "I love Sarajevo."

The Colorado court ruling is sadly only the most recent in a long series of disastrous firsts that are slowly unwinding the republic and making a mockery of the rule of law. Remember the Russian collusion hoax and the 2016 Clinton/Fusion GPS effort to destroy a presidential candidate? Recall the 2020 Russian disinformation farcical claim concerning the genuine Hunter Biden laptop? Do not forget the precedent of impeaching a president twice and then trying an ex-president and private citizen in the Senate.
Then there was another first of raiding an ex-president’s private home over disputes about the removal of presidential papers that are typically solved bureaucratically and as a civil matter.
We are also witnessing ongoing lawfare waged by state and local partisan prosecutors to destroy the current leading presidential candidate. Their indictments either have no merit or would never have applied to liberal politicians or both.
What will be Colorado’s precedent? Will red-state courts now respond by erasing Joe Biden from their ballots on grounds that he is “guilty” of insurrectionary activity—by deliberately destroying the southern border, undermining U.S. security, sabotaging federal immigration law, and violating his oath of office? Will some states remove Vice President Kamala Harris from their 2024 ballots on grounds that in 2020 she deliberately incited insurrectionary protestors who had been engaged in riot, arson, looting, violent assaults on police, and attacks on federal properties?
So does the Left see where it is taking the country? It is destroying all the old parameters of accepted politics in using any means necessary to deny millions of citizens the right to elect their own highest official.
We have never seen anything like this before in American history. But it is only the latest chapter of an ongoing travesty that will not end well.

That's for sure. That's for dang sure. While speculating what some red states might do vis a vis doing unto Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants and his semen-gargling sidekick, I have my doubts this would come to pass. A) it presupposes that red state governors and legislatures have the balls to bring this kind of suit and that B) majority originalist state supreme courts would vote as Colorado did.

That said, the charges against Biden would be far from spurious. His willful erasure of our borders alone can reasonably be argued as either an egregious example of criminal malfeasance or in point of fact treasonous insofar as intentionally endangering the national security of the republic and safety of the citizenry. The distance between this and Trump uttering the word "Fight!" is measured in light years.

Assuming a scenario like this plays out, the other factor is having the spine, in the face of very real threats of violence, for the aforementioned theoretical judges to actually rule to remove Biden/Harris or whoever from the ballot. Of course, like everyone else allegedly on our side of the divide, there's always the issue of decorum and playing by rules. This, despite the fact that the other side has taken the Constitution and wiped its amoral, evil ass with it and has been shoving it in our face for years if not decades already.

As a nation we're gone. And probably the ultimate example of Iowahawk's brilliant observation is the Left's killing and gutting this nation, its heritage and culture, and now parading around wearing its moldering skin-suit and demanding respect. That to me is the most hateful thing of all; that those who have worked for generations now to destroy what was founded in 1789 and paid in the blood of actual patriots over the intervening years many times over, have completely usurped the mantle of righteousness and are dragging us down to Hell, all while declaring that they are the ones preserving "democracy."

If that doesn't make you vomit up your coffee, I don't know what will. Again, we're gone. There is no reconciliation possible because we now have zero grounds with which to come together. That used to be our history and heritage but they have deemed that to be illegitimate, evil, racist and a danger to the planet. Victor Davis Hanson is dead on when he states that this is not going to end well. As does Ben Shapiro (if I'm excerpting him, you know it's serious).

Trump, let us not forget, has not been charged with insurrection. He was not even convicted in his impeachment trial over Jan. 6. Yet the Colorado State Supreme Court says it can bar him from electoral eligibility anyway.
This is, to put it mildly, unbelievably dangerous. . .
. . . Meanwhile, the Colorado Supreme Court has now set up expectations for Democrats across the country that Trump can be legally barred from the presidency -- and when the Supreme Court overturns that Colorado Supreme Court ruling, they will claim that the Supreme Court itself is rigged.
All of which means that 2024 is going to be the most insane and ugly presidential election in American history. And that's saying a lot, since 1968 and 2020 are both years that existed. Under what circumstances, precisely, would Democrats accept the result of a Trump election? Under what circumstances, precisely, would Republicans accept the result of a Biden election?
The weaponization of the legal system creates an all-consuming fire, burning everything in its path. There is simply no 2024 result likely to result in anything but complete – and perhaps violent – chaos at this point."

Bingo. And note well Shapiro's comment about the Supreme Court. That's where the action is going to be, and "action" is certainly a word pregnant with meaning. As an aside, if SCOTUS tosses this crap, what effect will it have on Jack Smith's spurious charges? Imagine if all of those cases get tossed based on a potential or likely rejection of the CO court's ruling. Legal eagles please weigh in.

Whether intentional or merely accidental, and I believe it intentional, the Left have taken a hammer to every institution in and out of government as a means to declare them illegitimate, sow chaos and then move in to take control. When things don't go their way, they declare elections, the courts, laws they disagree with that pass and those they push that don't to be illegitimate outcomes and "threats to democracy," etc. etc.

If the Democrats do manufacture 85, 90 or even 100 million ballots to drag the drooling, criminal pervert across the line like they did in 2020, our side will scream bloody murder. That's probably about all we'll do but when, not if the economy collapses, then future actions are quite unpredictabe.

If by some miracle Trump (still the likely candidate) manages to legitimately beat the cheat, the Leftists will scream even louder by orders of magnitude – and burn, loot and murder to a degree that made the George Floyd Summer of Love and BLM Jihad look like a church picnic. And they won't limit themselves to the already burned out and abandoned blue shit-holes. They're heading for the burbs and red state America. I think you can figure out what would happen after that.

The bottom line, as I said, is we are now completely lined up and facing off against each other. Will someone on the other side give the order "Don't fire until you see the whites–"? Remains to be seen. But no doubt we are coming dangerously close to that for the first time in 163 years.

God help us. And God help them if they pull the trigger.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Victor Davis Hanson: "We have never seen anything like this before in American history. But it is only the latest chapter of an ongoing travesty that will not end well."
Will Partisan Lawfare Destroy Trump?
"What do you do when the worst stereotypes seem to be true?"
A Polish Politician Extinguishes a Hanukkah Menorah
"No more food for you. The Earth demands it."
The Globalist "Final Solution"
Kurt Schlichter: "They're not going to work out the way they think."
Leftists’ Civil War Fantasies

COLORADO'S DISGUSTING REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM 2024 BALLOT

“This is the way they’ve been treating him since 2015. It just shows you how much he loves the country. He’s willing to sacrifice every piece of his life, including his family, his businesses, for the sake of the country. So he’s strong.”
Trump Lawyer Alina Habba: Trump Not Shaken by Colorado Decision; He’s "Stronger Than Ever"
Jonathan Turley: "Justice Robert Jackson once observed that he and his colleagues 'are not final because we are infallible, we are infallible because we are final.' A decision on Colorado could put this theory to rest by the sheer finality of the appeal. However, it is not the finality that is needed at this moment. We need clarity. Clarity of purpose and principle."
SCOTUS Should Rule Unanimously That the Constitution Matters More Than Defeating Trump at Any Cost
Ben Shapiro: " . . . 2024 is going to be the most insane and ugly presidential election in American history. And that's saying a lot, since 1968 and 2020 are both years that existed. Under what circumstances, precisely, would Democrats accept the result of a Trump election? Under what circumstances, precisely, would Republicans accept the result of a Biden election? The weaponization of the legal system creates an all-consuming fire, burning everything in its path. There is simply no 2024 result likely to result in anything but complete - and perhaps violent -- chaos at this point."
Barring Trump From Ballots Is a Recipe for Violence
“The ruling sets up a dangerous new version of an all-too-familiar scenario.”
The Liberal Plot Against Democracy
"Bookbinder is a former trial attorney for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) public integrity section and former chief counsel for criminal justice for the Senate Judiciary Committee. He repeatedly donated to former President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign during his tenure with the Senate, Federal Elections Commission (FEC) records show. The DHS appointed Bookbinder and 32 other new members to HSAC in March 2022 ahead of the council’s first meeting under Secretary Mayorkas."
There’s a Direct Line Between Joe Biden’s Deep State and Trump Getting Removed From Colorado’s Ballot
“The decision to bar former President Donald J. Trump… by all accounts the current leading Republican presidential candidate (and reportedly the current leading overall presidential candidate) from Colorado’s presidential primary ballot flies in the face of the due process doctrine,” warned Justice Samour.
Dissenting Judge on CO Supreme Court Says Trump Denied Due Process, "Like Nothing I’ve Seen in 33 Years"
“Donald Trump thrives on negativity, he thrives on legal systems that try to hold him accountable, and I’m convinced that his polling numbers are going to go up,” Luntz told host Pamela Brown. The strategist cited a recent poll that shows the former president winning in seven crucial swing states, arguing that “the more that he is prosecuted, the more that he is condemned, the higher his numbers go as people rally around him.”
Pollster Frank Luntz: Donald Trump is "More Likely to Beat Biden" After Colorado Ballot Removal

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“You incorrigible idiots,” he starts his latest op-ed for Mediate, “You’re so sure that you were put on this Earth to save the country from Donald Trump that you’re willing to gamble it all to have the chance. And you’re going to lose.”
NeoCon NeverTrumper Isaac Schorr Says Lawfare and Ballot Bans Will Ensure His Re-Election
"Samour’s dissent therefore rests on the argument that Congress, and only Congress, has the authority to pass legislation enforcing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Congress did in fact do so when it enacted the 1948 criminal statute, which states only when someone is convicted under said statute can they be removed."
A Salvadoran Immigrant Who Fled Civil War When He Was 13 May Have Written Roadmap For SCOTUS To Overturn CO’s Ruling
"Trump leads [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden by 2.6% in the RealClearPolitics average of general election polls from Dec. 4 to Dec. 18."
Diseased Testicle Chris Coons Says "Any Action" to Stop Trump From Winning Should Be "Encouraged," Applauds Kicking Trump Off the Ballot (So, Coons is in favor of assassination - jjs)
There is one underappreciated aspect of this case in this chapter of post-constitutional America. Trump's supporters will not be allowed to write him in on their ballots because the court said he was "unqualified" to hold office and therefore can't be a write-in candidate.
Yeah, About That Write-In Idea for Trump in Colorado
"The Colorado Supreme Court rules Trump is ineligible for the presidency."
Banned from the Box
"The former president has been facing multiple legal challenges, including 91 federal and state criminal and civil charges across four states, potentially resulting in up to 700 years of imprisonment. These have been led by Democrat operative Jack Smith and the New York and Georgia Attorneys General. Despite these legal troubles, Trump continues to lead in the polls against Joe Biden in key battleground states for a hypothetical general election."
California Dems Conspire to Remove Trump From 2024 Ballot
The complaint filed in Maine claims that former President Trump “engaged in insurrection” on January 6 and is “now ineligible to hold any office, civil or military, under the United States.” “Trump is not eligible to hold the office of President of the United States, his declaration is false, and his consent and primary petitions are void,” it added.
California, Maine Exploring Options to Keep Trump Off Ballot Following Colorado Ruling
ISRAEL AT WAR
"‘Palestine Square’ was a center of Hamas’ military rule and is surrounded by buildings that served as command and control centers, terror tunnel shafts and strategic buildings belonging to the organization. This military infrastructure was located in the direct vicinity of commercial stores, government buildings, civilian residences, and a designated school for deaf children. The square is the center of the strategic tunnel network, of some of Hamas leadership’s strongholds and connects to the underground infrastructure in the area of the Rantisi Hospital and the Shifa Hospital."
WATCH: IDF Uncovers ‘Elite’ Tunnels Used by Hamas Leaders
"What genocide?"
Israel Treats Wounded Hamas Nazi in Hospital
"Israel’s PR blunders threaten its exceptional status among American allies."
Israel’s Borat Problem
"The roots of a death cult."
The Dark World of Hamas’ Sadism and Sexual Torture
"Rather than a sidebar to the debate about the war, the anger about the photos shows us just how deep intolerance for Israel and the Jews runs."
Why the Images of Hamas Prisoners Sparked Outrage

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"A petition creeps close to the language of anti-Zionists who have used the defense of free speech as a cover to call for Israel’s annihilation."
Wisconsin Professor Pushes Anti-Semitic Petition Under the Guise of Anti-Zionism
"Future physicians must support 'the resistance' or find another career field, first-year med student Nicole Olakkengil says." (So much for the stereotypical "nice Jewish doctor" - jjs)
At Georgetown Med, the Doctors of Tomorrow Aren't Hiding Their Support for Terrorism
"That figure is the smallest number since the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, but is still more than the amount of early applications Harvard received in 2017 through 2019."
Harvard Early Admission Applications Drop 17% Amid Anti-Semitism Scandal
"The school's DEI bureaucracy exposed its corrupt ideology when it immediately abandoned the Jewish minority in the face of antisemitic demonstrations."
A Letter To My Harvard Classmates
"Elite schools are increasingly monocultural institutions that reject free thinkers."
Why Universities Target Jews
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Humzah Mashkoor, 18, from Colorado, was arrested on Monday at Denver International Airport before he was able to get on a flight headed to “to the United Arab Emirates, where he intended to stay until he continued on to either Afghanistan or Syria to serve as a fighter for ISIS,” the Department of Justice said in a statement."
Son of Afghan Migrants Arrested In Colorado, Charged With Trying To Join ISIS: Report
"Prosecutors said they opened an investigation into the creche break-in and death threats based on 'race, ethnicity, nationality or religion'. It came just hours after a 12-year-old schoolgirl was restrained by staff and detained by police after threatening her English teacher with a knife during class at a school in Rennes." (Hat tip to commenter "MTF" - jjs)
France rocked by two Islamist horrors: Knifeman storms nursery and tells staff 'I'll rape you Jews and cut you up like in Gaza' as cops reveal schoolgirl, 12, who threatened to kill teacher was inspired by 'jihad' murderer
"Despite the constant hectoring about Islam being a religion of peace, a snapshot of Muslim conduct worldwide shows the claim is a lie as to the faith’s devout adherents."
Fear of Muslims is Rational; “Islamophobia” is a Myth
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Black and Jewish communities still have so much to gain from reviving the coalition of conscience."
Silence That Can Kill: Where Are the Black Friends Jews Need? (With very exceptions, they never existed - jjs)
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Their amicus (or “friend of the court” brief argues that Smith lacks authority to represent the United States by asking the Supreme Court to weigh in (called a petition for certiorari) because the office he holds has not been created by Congress and his appointment violates the “Appointments Clause” of the Constitution.
Jack Smith’s Special Counsel Appointment Is Unconstitutional, Former Attorney General Tells Supreme Court
"The justices will have to consider questions about Trump’s immunity from prosecution and an obstruction statute behind two of the counts in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of him for alleged efforts to interfere in the 2020 election, as well as, potentially, Trump’s eligibility for office under Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment."
Chief Justice John Roberts Has a Major Trump Problem on His Hands
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS
"[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden has spent his decades lambasting the rich who dodge taxes, targeting those who illegally own firearms and railing against those who use crack cocaine — all of which became pastimes for his son Hunter."
Joe Biden Spent Decades Villainizing People Like His Son
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"What happens when the loathed white majority views itself as a persecuted class?"
When White People Start Believing Critical Race Theory
“When the government discriminates based on race, it sows more division in our country and violates the Constitution in the process,” said WILL Associate Counsel Skylar Croy. “WILL is standing up against discrimination and holding the State Bar accountable to the rights of its due-paying members.”
Lawsuit: Wisconsin State Bar’s ‘Diversity Clerkship Program’ Discriminates Based on Skin Color
"FreedomWorks and Demand Progress have aggregated some of the most egregious instances of intelligence agencies abusing Americans’ privacy."
19 Recent Deep State Surveillance Abuse Revelations
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Had Rolling Stone magazine sent a reporter to cover the event, they might have seen a traditional Friday night Sabbath dinner, hosted by TPUSA and attended by founder Charlie Kirk and Jack Posobiec. . . While interviewing convention speakers, they would have seen a Jewish radio host Ari Hoffman wearing a yarmulka emblazoned with his radio station’s logo." Irrelevant Stoner Newsletter Rolling Stone calls TPUSA anti-semitic without even bothering to send reporter to AmFest
"Don’t you wonder why?"
Media Won’t Mention Democrat Gay Sex Video – Loved Non-Existent Trump ‘Pee Tape’
Robert Zimmmerman: "The Biden campaign against Musk proves the Democrats no longer care about America itself. To them, it is more important to maintain their power and squash their enemies politically, even if by doing so they shut down whole industries and put millions out of work."
The Biden War Against Musk is a War Against America
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"The fire is only the latest at EV plants across the United States. In February, Ford Motor Co. was forced to halt production at its Detroit, Michigan, plant when an all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck’s battery caught fire and spread to another vehicle."
Fire Shuts Down GM’s Electric Car Plant, Executives Blame "Battery Materials"
"Both energy industry officials and eco-activists are complaining."
Biden’s Department of Interior Offers Most Restrictive Offshore Oil Drilling Plan in US History
"To ignore geothermal would inflict a substantial wound, one that would be difficult to heal."
After Shale
"As one thumbs through the gibberish released at the conclusion of these proliferating multi-day climate events, it begins to look like 'economic and environmental cooperation' really isn’t among nations, but more likely between individuals and the companies from which they financially benefit."
'Climate Catastrophe' Makes Money for Some
"Maybe lab-grown meat is a good idea."
Why Do Conservatives Fear "Frankenflesh?"
"The Biden [junta] is more interested in pet projects, unsustainable green schemes, and ideological revenue redistribution than in the core functions of government."
Why Is Joe Biden Screwing Seniors To Subsidize Electric Vehicles?
"Global cooling is an infinitely more daunting reality than global warming."
Dreaming of a White Christmas?
Dennis Prager: "Everything the Left touches, it destroys – including joy."
Christmas Gifts: The Newest Target of Climate Change Thugs
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"Over 500 slipped through a border wall in Lukeville, AZ, with only a few agents on hand."
Biden Border Crisis: More Migrants Arrive as December is on Pace to Break More Encounter Records
"Remember, middle-class working folks like you and I aren't so easy to indenture, what with our jobs, homes, farms, and lack of social entitlements. But people who are handed their food, housing, medical care, and citizenship are easy to yoke. Obey or starve in the cold, nuevo Americano."
Yes, Americans, We're Being Replaced — ALL of Us
"You know, my mayor is blaming everyone except the person who needs to get the blame and that is [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who are responsible for protecting and securing our borders and for having a functional immigration system”
Raymond Lopez Says Party Has Lost ‘All Common Sense’ When It Comes To Border Crisis, Rips Brandon Johnson
"The finding comes just weeks after a video was released showing illegal immigrants disembarking a boat and fleeing after landing on the beach in Malibu, less than a mile from the home of celebrities like Barbara Streisand. Over two dozen illegal immigrants were reportedly on the boat and it is not clear if they were apprehended."
Coast Guard Suspects ‘Migrant Landing’ in Malibu, Second in Weeks on California Coast
"A Daily Wire investigation exposed the development's business plan, which has attracted a massive illegal immigrant population."
Biden DOJ Sues Colony Ridge for ‘Bait-and-Switch’ Sales, Predatory Financing
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"Kendall Stephens, a transgender woman - so a man - was just arrested with sexually assaulting two children. Stephens is a well-known LGBTQ+ activist in the Philadelphia area and has ties to many democratic leaders. He’s been charged with rape, indecent assault, endangering the welfare of a child, corruption of minors and other crimes with two boys under the age of 13, the court documents indicate."
Transgender Pervert Charged for Sexually Assaulting Children
"Doing harm to the victims of crime."
LA’s Soros-Backed D.A. Promotes Cop-Hater to Chief of Staff
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Rhode Island parents and the state government agreed to a settlement committing the state’s health agency to hold public hearings ‘on whether masking in schools is efficacious and safe.’"
Rhode Island Parents Score Major Legal Win Against the State’s School Mask Mandates
SECOND AMENDMENT
"I am currently banned from performing in venues across Germany, due to my political worldview that, according to one booking agent, is 'too pro-gun and pro-Trump.' Imagine the irony of a country once responsible for the murder of one out of every three Jews on earth, not allowing me, an orthodox Jew, inside their borders because of my belief in a policy that could have potentially saved my ancestors in 1940s Europe."
I Lost a Loved One in a School Shooting; Here's Why the Second Amendment Matters More Than Ever
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"We are not in any way trying to remove all signs of Christmas."
Pennsylvania School District Walks Back Telling Bus Drivers To Remove Christmas Decor For ‘Inclusivity’
“They have not one thing that they offer as a solution other than privatizing or voucherizing schools which is about undermining democracy and undermining civil discourse and undermining pluralism because 90% of our kids go to public schools still.” (Vapid and inchoate non-arguments, as usual - jjs)
Shrill Degenerate Commie Teacher Union President Randi Weingarten: School Choice "is About Undermining Democracy"
"Too many kids rotting away in teacher union-ruled schools."
Teacher Union Power is Still in Full Bloom
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
“The desk at which the videographer performed also held a branded congressional mouse pad,” the report added. “A screenshot of a second video obtained by Semafor shows two men engaged in a sex act in an office setting. The participants’ faces are not visible in any of the material viewed by Semafor.” (This time it's a Republican. How convenient! - jjs)
Second Gay Sex Tape Allegedly Filmed In U.S. Capitol: Report
POLITICS
"Oregon, California, Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, all states with Democratic governors and Democrat-controlled state legislatures, lost between 0.01% and 0.52% of their population between July 2022 and July 2023, according to the Census Bureau. Left-leaning states experienced similar declines in the lead-up to the 2020 Census, which led to them losing seats in the House of Representatives and votes in the Electoral College, an outcome that could occur again in 2030 if current trends persist."
The US is Undergoing a Massive Population Shift and It’s Bad News For Dems (Meh, it depends on who counts the census, and see related links in Domestic section - jjs)
"With voter concerns about immigration, trade, and the economy dominating much of the discussion heading in to the 2024 presidential election, it remains to be seen how Fetterman will balance his populist politics with the interests of the Democrat Party and [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden. But for now, the Pennsylvania Democrat is sounding more friend than foe to the America First philosophy."
John Fetterman Emerges as an "America First" Democrat
"Wait, where?"
Biden Has Another Senior Moment When Asked About Israeli Hostages
“Trump’s musical choices are much more simply American.”
The Meaning of Trump’s Rally Music
"If he’s really running for re-election, Biden should do himself and the country a favor, and pick a new No. 2." ("Number 2" indeed. That's what all Democrats are - jjs)
Kamala Harris’ Word Salad is One More Reason to Worry About [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden’s age
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Xi told Biden point-blank that Beijing "will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided." Xi also reportedly told Biden he would "prefer" to take Taiwan peacefully but, hey, sometimes amphibious and airborne invasions on a scale not seen since World War II happen. This is all according to three current and former U.S. officials who attended the "constructive and productive discussions" and spoke with NBC. While one of the unnamed officials claimed that Xi's "language was no different than what he has always said," it still stands in stark contrast to Biden's comments.
Biden Tried to Keep This Dirty Little Secret About His Summit with Xi
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
". . . these Gen Z recruits are an entirely different breed than their older brothers, fathers, and grandfathers who took out Saddam Hussein's army, defeated Communism, and pulverized Hitler's Panzer divisions. These are not them."
These Are the Soldiers Who are Going to Defend America if We Go to War?
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"You see, fool, people aren’t leaving Blue America because of high taxes, no housing, no jobs, violent crime, and increasing restrictions on freedom… No, no, it’s the unicorn of Climate Change that’s the culprit. What else could it be? And that means that these states are losing population because there’s not enough socialism. If we had more socialism, more people would move to blue cities and states."
Blue States Lose Population, Red States Gain Population
"Honey, they shrunk New York — and if the progs aren’t stopped, they’ll keep bleeding the state and city until they’ve sucked all the life out."
NY’s Exodus Won't Stop Until the State Reverses Its Ever-Leftward Course
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Not that this extension matters. It appears in the past two years that the regulators at the FAA have decided to ignore the law and make believe this learning period really doesn’t exist, based on how that agency has treated test launches by SpaceX and others."
Congress passes short term extension of commercial space regulatory “learning period”
"The many layers suggest many climate cycles on Mars, none of which were caused by SUVs or coal-firing electrical power stations."
Glacial layers in Mars’ glacier country
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"‘We want the bottom shelf to be accessible by littles,’ says the queer-supporting atheist working to share sex books with kids."
Queer Pervert Activists are Putting Pornographic Books in Little Free Libraries
"In a recent appearance on Fox Business, volleyball player Macy Petty spoke about her two biggest concerns regarding trans athletes, the first being a growing number of stolen opportunities for female high school athletes."
A New Voice Emerges in the Fight Against the Trans Invasion of Women's Sports
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"The pair were both recently removed from senior executive positions at Disney, where Mayer held roles such as Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Staggs, who was once viewed as the heir apparent to Iger, rose as high as Chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts."
Woke CoComelon Is Owned By Two Former Disney Executives
"Cultural trends made Harry and Sally go the way of the eight-track tape."
How the Sexual Revolution Killed the Rom-Com
"Thomas Bruce deserves to have his story told."
Can a White Alum Write About a Black Alum at a Liberal Arts College?
HITHER & YON
“It was a bloody great wing of a big jet airliner,” he told the outlet. “I’ve questioned myself; I’ve looked for a way out of this. I wish to Christ I’d never seen the thing … but there it is. It was a jet’s wing.” The wing was apparently bigger than anything off a small plane, and Oliver would know. He used to fly Cessnas when he was younger.
Remember the Malaysian Airlines Plane That Vanished Without a Trace? A Fisherman Claims He Found a Massive Clue

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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 07:43 AM (lwOKI)

2 Thank you, JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 21, 2023 07:45 AM (hH3Px)

3 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 21, 2023 07:45 AM (1Z8zZ)

4 Good morning, everyone. Oddly enough, I had "witness my country's collapse in real time" on my bingo card.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2023 07:46 AM (4olE8)

5 Lies, lies, lies everywhere. potatus is vigorous and his staff cannot keep up with him, the economy is vibrant, the fed will cut rates 3 times next year, PDT incited insurrection, if you don't allow your child to cut off their male/female bits they'll commit suicide, Claudine Gay is innocent of plagiarism, Ukraine is beating Russia, Israel is committing genocide. I could go on but ace has a limit on the number of words you can post. It's all crap.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2023 07:50 AM (2NHgQ)

6 The Colorado "judges" are an embarrassment to the legal profession, and just plain terrible Americans.

They should resign, to save the state the trouble of forcing them out. Even mainstream Propaganda News is uncomfortable with this despicable act.

Only far left idiots, like the Boston Globe, think this is a good thing.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 07:50 AM (kK66Q)

7 "And the more we learn about January 6, all the more it appears to have been a spontaneous riot, more buffoonish in nature than conspiratorial."

VDH, missing the boat again.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 07:51 AM (E8t1e)

8 Refusing to submit. That is what riles them up the most. They want submission, domination. The boot stomping on the face.

Posted by: davidt at December 21, 2023 07:51 AM (SYTee)

9 Good morning again dear morons and thank you JJ

Your essay is a bummer JJ. At least the days are getting longer now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

10 ….Im Spartacus….
Now content.
Thanks JJ

Posted by: Redenzo at December 21, 2023 07:52 AM (V/pbu)

11 Good morning JJ and thank you.

Posted by: Doof at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (eNASR)

12
and when the Supreme Court overturns that Colorado Supreme Court ruling, they will claim that the Supreme Court itself is rigged.

I think we can all agree on that.
Here's the thing...
We need to talk
Let me be perfectly honest with you
It's time for a conversation about

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (enJYY)

13 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2023 07:50 AM (2NHgQ)
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Good starter list. Those folks are in the "alternate reality" world.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (kK66Q)

14 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (53oGX)

15 Look at this way.

At least now we can dispense with the fiction that the Judiciary are non-partisan. Turns out, lawyers can be corrupted. Who knew?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

16 Yonder Horde

It's 'lawfare' now. What will it be later on?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

17 Good morning fine people. Also the not so fine. At least we'll be swinging on the upside, daylight wise.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 07:54 AM (SfhV1)

18 If this isn't the lighting of the fuse that will set off a conflagration that tears us apart, it for sure is blowing hard on one that's already lit and burning down faster than you can say "I love Sarajevo."

I hate to say it, but I hope it does. Let's get to it. The alternative is worse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 07:54 AM (zZu0s)

19 The FBI is still finding people to arrest for not having a hall pass on 1/06 but somehow they can't find the person who planted the bomb the night before despite having video. Identify this person as connected to the Deep State or Nancy and the whole fake narrative of an Insurrection collapses.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 21, 2023 07:55 AM (Gse2f)

20 So if the SCOTUS punted on 2020 out of fear and feckless, why should we expect any different result from the CO ruling. Hope I’m wrong,.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2023 07:55 AM (/HoHj)

21 15 Look at this way.

At least now we can dispense with the fiction that the Judiciary are non-partisan. Turns out, lawyers can be corrupted. Who knew?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

'You're not a Good Guy at all!'

'You idiot, I'M A LAWYER!'
-Rustler's Rhapsody

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 07:56 AM (zZu0s)

22 Hey, I know. Let's put our faith and trust in politicians. You know, people who lie for a living.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 21, 2023 07:56 AM (NBVIP)

23 The Colorado Supremes who conjured the legal reasoning were all a product of an Ivy League education.

Of course.

Of course of course of course of course.

A lobotomy would have been less expensive and cheaper.

Posted by: Minuteman at December 21, 2023 07:56 AM (LaNzR)

24 *feckless = fecklessness.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2023 07:56 AM (/HoHj)

25 The FBI is still finding people to arrest for not having a hall pass on 1/06 but somehow they can't find the person who planted the bomb the night before despite having video. Identify this person as connected to the Deep State or Nancy and the whole fake narrative of an Insurrection collapses.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Yep. They better find that fucker.

Posted by: Ray Epps at December 21, 2023 07:56 AM (R4t5M)

26 So does the Left see where it is taking the country? It is destroying all the old parameters of accepted politics in using any means necessary to deny millions of citizens the right to elect their own highest official.

We have never seen anything like this before in American history. But it is only the latest chapter of an ongoing travesty that will not end well.

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NORMZZZZ Status:

[ ] Trump said "Pussy"
[X] Restored!

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 07:57 AM (HBgiC)

27 here- have some feck

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 07:57 AM (geLO8)

28 “The decision is about honoring the rule of law in our country and protecting the fundamental pillars of democracy. California must stand on the right side of history,” Kounalakis wrote. She further pointed out that the constitution mandates presidential candidates to be a minimum of forty years old and devoid of insurrectionist activities.

forty is the new 35

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 07:57 AM (lwOKI)

29 So does the Left see where it is taking the country? It is destroying all the old parameters of accepted politics in using any means necessary to deny millions of citizens the right to elect their own highest official.
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We spend a lot of time repeatedly asking this question, when, by now, the answer is obvious. No. The Left is determined to drive our Republic into Marx's dustbin of history.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 07:58 AM (6A5fn)

30 20 So if the SCOTUS punted on 2020 out of fear and feckless, why should we expect any different result from the CO ruling. Hope I’m wrong,.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2023 07:55 AM (/HoHj)

I'm more concerned in a way about them not dismissing the Jack Smith charges.

Actually, I would think that if they do strike down Colorado, that might actually destroy the case by Smith.

Are they looking for a way to do that or to avoid that? Ugh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 07:58 AM (x0n13)

31 "[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden has spent his decades lambasting the rich who dodge taxes, targeting those who illegally own firearms and railing against those who use crack cocaine — all of which became pastimes for his son Hunter."
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TRANSLATION: "It's everyone else's fault that my son became a crack-addled, tax-dodging, whoremonger!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 07:58 AM (7fElN)

32 I think we can all agree on that.
Here's the thing...
We need to talk
Let me be perfectly honest with you
It's time for a conversation about

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (enJYY)

wut chu talkin bout

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 07:59 AM (lwOKI)

33 Look at this way.

At least now we can dispense with the fiction that the Judiciary are non-partisan. Turns out, lawyers can be corrupted. Who knew?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

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"But not judges, who all are always non-partisan because I said so."

-- Benedict Roberts, Chief POS

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:00 AM (HBgiC)

34 Democrats.

*spits*

Republicans.

*spits again*

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:00 AM (vFG9F)

35 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)

36 7 "And the more we learn about January 6, all the more it appears to have been a spontaneous riot, more buffoonish in nature than conspiratorial."

VDH, missing the boat again.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 07:51 AM (E8t1e)

Yeah, that was ridiculous, considering he actually cites the fact that the rioters were mostly FBI/Captiol PD confederates and stooges.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 08:00 AM (x0n13)

37 Thank You JJ !

AGAIN !!!

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2023 08:01 AM (T4tVD)

38 "targeting those who illegally own firearms"

You know, this is not what they do. They only target those who legally own firearms.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 08:01 AM (zZu0s)

39 B) majority originalist state supreme courts would vote as Colorado did.

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J.J., I think you meant "would NOT vote as Colorado did."

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:02 AM (HBgiC)

40 "And the more we learn about January 6, all the more it appears to have been a spontaneous riot, more buffoonish in nature than conspiratorial."

VDH, missing the boat again.
Posted by: Ordinary American"

If that's really what he thinks he has lost his credibility with me.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

41 My birdbath is frozen.

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2023 08:02 AM (T4tVD)

42 Apropos to our cultural marxist rot
http://tinyurl.com/3fycb4vt

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 21, 2023 08:03 AM (Oz76Y)

43 >Are they looking for a way to do that or to avoid that? Ugh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton
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CJ Roberts is on record saying he doesn't want a controversial Court, which to me means he doesn't want the Court involved in huge historic decisions if he can help it

some are saying SCOTUS will smack CO down in a slam dunk- I am less optimistic

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:03 AM (geLO8)

44 ...he thrives on legal systems that try to hold him accountable...

What an ass.

You're telling me, yum. -- McCarthy

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 21, 2023 08:03 AM (1Z8zZ)

45 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 08:03 AM (SfhV1)

46 Professor Mark W. Smith of the 4 Boxes Diner utube site discusses CO Supreme Court ruling, and cites two SCOTUS cases that invalidate it. He confirms my analysis from yesterday:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK7Mmz1G2Nc

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 21, 2023 08:04 AM (CecP5)

47 If that's really what he thinks he has lost his credibility with me.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

I look at VDH in much the same way as ace: they are both products of their particular societal and cultural bubble. So how they phrase things or even view things spring from that- even if they are contradicting it.

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

48 " he doesn't want the Court involved in huge historic decisions if he can help it"

What the hell are they there for anyway? This shit has pissed me off about him since he declared Obamacare a tax.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

49 The Colorado court ruling is sadly only the most recent in a long series of disastrous firsts that are slowly unwinding the republic and making a mockery of the rule of law. Remember the Russian collusion hoax and the 2016 Clinton/Fusion GPS effort to destroy a presidential candidate? Recall the 2020 Russian disinformation farcical claim concerning the genuine Hunter Biden laptop? Do not forget the precedent of impeaching a president twice and then trying an ex-president and private citizen in the Senate.
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Remember when Bush 43 created the DHS and signed the PATRIOT Act? Remember when Greenspan decided to bail out hedge funds in the late 90s? Remember when Bush 43 and Obama's administrations orchestrated phony bankruptcies and divestment of the auto industry? Remember when Obama nationalized student loans? Remember when the IC under at least five administrations began large-scale mass surveillance of Americans by tapping communications systems and using those taps for its own nefarious purposes? Remember the arms smuggling under Obama - and one of those deal resulting in the fall of Libya?

This ain't new, it's just getting faster.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:05 AM (zxP/x)

50 The American Conservative articles are usually good, but the one linked above is an exception. Basically the author is putting out a bunch of Peggy Noonan type handwringing about how Israel should run better PR and change its war policies in order to make liberals in America feel better. That's idiotic. This is a Real War, for survival, not a fake one. Anyone who can't wrap their mind around that can just blow it out their ass.

It sounds like it was written by Joe Biden's staff.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:05 AM (S6gqv)

51 43 Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:03 AM (geLO

Aside from the fact that he's all but admitting to not wanting to faithfully execute his oath of office, he's willing to sit on his hands even if it means tearing the country apart.

What a fucking loathsome asshole.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 08:05 AM (x0n13)

52 Thanks JJ

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (33nmr)

53 J Roberts is on record saying he doesn't want a controversial Court, which to me means he doesn't want the Court involved in huge historic decisions if he can help it

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:03 AM (geLO

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And EVERY time he passes on key cases, SCOTUS becomes mired in controversy....

It's not working out well for him. History will not look favorably at his stewardship as Chief Justice.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (7fElN)

54 Ace's bubble must be bigger than VDHs.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

55 29 No. The Left is determined to drive our Republic into Marx's dustbin of history.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 07:58 AM (6A5fn)

And they are sure that a beautiful utopia of sunshine and rainbows will emerge from the ashes where everything is perfectly fair.

Sure, history keeps showing examples of what really happens but that's because THOSE PEOPLE are to blame.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (4olE8)

56 So does the Left see where it is taking the country? It is destroying all the old parameters of accepted politics in using any means necessary to deny millions of citizens the right to elect their own highest official.
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The committed leftists see it and love it. The rest see it and will accept it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (zxP/x)

57 What the hell are they there for anyway? This shit has pissed me off about him since he declared Obamacare a tax.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

Which was itself controversial. As was Gay Marriage. As was any number of things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (zZu0s)

58 some are saying SCOTUS will smack CO down in a slam dunk- I am less optimistic
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:03 AM (geLO

As am I. Not confident they are willing to stand up to the potential mob action as a result of their decision. I believe some are, the majority not so much.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (/HoHj)

59 On a side note , the vote hackers at Dominion must have missed this one. GOP State Rep in Virginia wins recount

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:07 AM (33nmr)

60 When is SCOTUS expected to take up the case?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 08:07 AM (SfhV1)

61 some are saying SCOTUS will smack CO down in a slam dunk- I am less optimistic

I'm with you on that. I don't trust anyone there except Thomas and Alito.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at December 21, 2023 08:08 AM (iF0sF)

62 54 Ace's bubble must be bigger than VDHs.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

NYC as opposed to rural California. But they travel in the same social/work circles. So things get reinforced.

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

63 FreedomWorks and Demand Progress have aggregated some of the most egregious instances of intelligence agencies abusing Americans' privacy
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That language seems so much more benign than it should be. It should be more like "Outrageous Tyrannies Punishable By SuperMax Terms"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 08:08 AM (OWx2s)

64 Of course, like everyone else allegedly on our side of the divide, there's always the issue of decorum and playing by rules. This, despite the fact that the other side has taken the Constitution and wiped its amoral, evil ass with it and has been shoving it in our face for years if not decades already.
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In part, that's because there's a stacked deck. The GOP power structure are all worthless and wouldn't intervene to save their own lives (which, eventually, will be the conditions). The rest have no cover. The left has lots of cover. You can be sure that GOP activists menacing Sotomayor outside her house wouldn't have gotten the "Mickey the Dunce" routine from LE.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:08 AM (zxP/x)

65 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger -

Posted by: JT at December 21, 2023 08:08 AM (T4tVD)

66
We saved the country and our democracy.
And, by the way, we're heroes.

-The Colorado Supreme Court

Posted by: Auspex at December 21, 2023 08:08 AM (6ZtAH)

67 Can someone remind me who was President of the United States on 1/06/21?

Is it even possible to carry out an insurrection against a government of which you are the head?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2023 08:09 AM (991eG)

68 VDH, missing the boat again.
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And Michael Fumento [fake meat advocate] too.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:09 AM (2yu8s)

69 58. Even the Rino's like Bolton and Hugh Hewitt say it should be struck down.

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:09 AM (33nmr)

70 48 " he doesn't want the Court involved in huge historic decisions if he can help it"

What the hell are they there for anyway? This shit has pissed me off about him since he declared Obamacare a tax.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

That wasn't even him doing his job. He was doing CONGRESS' job!!! He literally took a pen to the law, crossed out mandate and wrote tax and voila, it was kosher.

All because he didn't want to declare the first sort of black president's signature law a ridiculous piece of shit and send it back to a now GOP controlled House where it would have likely died.

No wonder Scalia died young, the My Pillow notwithstanding. He must've went off on Roberts like we can't imagine.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 08:09 AM (x0n13)

71 As am I. Not confident they are willing to stand up to the potential mob action as a result of their decision. I believe some are, the majority not so much.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2023 08:06 AM (/HoHj)
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We are now living under "mob rule" if the people who are entrusted to make sound judgements are swayed by the *possibility* that a mob may start burning, looting, and murdering their families.

If SCOTUS is unwilling to do their job and the Executive Branch is unwilling to protect them, then we truly are doomed as a nation.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:10 AM (7fElN)

72 They're heading for the burbs and red state America. I think you can figure out what would happen after that.

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Tanned, rested, ready, prepped, and overwhelmingly well-armed and -armored over here in rural America, boss!

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:10 AM (HBgiC)

73 I like DeSantis as our second option, but really dissapointed with Ron on His CO response, about staying on the ballot there

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:10 AM (33nmr)

74 The thing the events of January 6 taught anyone who is paying attention is if your gonna do what needs to be done, then do it. Mr. Nice Guy walking around taking selfies with the Park PoPo only gets you 25 years in the joint while some of their fellow officers were gunning people down. Don't remember Max Robespierre telling the Frogs to take selfies before rolling out the National Razor.

Clown Show 101.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 21, 2023 08:10 AM (puDky)

75 Do I have this right? None of the hundreds convicted over 1/06 were charged with "insurrection" "rebellion" or even riot." The charges were for " obstructing an official proceeding."

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 21, 2023 08:10 AM (Gse2f)

76 Rural has all the food

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:10 AM (33nmr)

77 On a side note , the vote hackers at Dominion must have missed this one. GOP State Rep in Virginia wins recount
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:07 AM (33nmr)

So the much ballyhooed “smack down” of republicans in VA was maybe not really that big of a deal.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2023 08:10 AM (/HoHj)

78 The weaponization of the legal system creates an all-consuming fire, burning everything in its path. There is simply no 2024 result likely to result in anything but complete – and perhaps violent – chaos at this point."
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Like a darker counterpoint to the brilliant speech in "A Man for All Seasons"
https://youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:11 AM (zxP/x)

79 They have the perfect foil in Trump though. He propensity to only escalate (thereby, “lean into” every accusation they lay on him) is the utopian person.

This ruling is a very cynical one and will accomplish two goals: get the left screaming about the need to stack SCOTUS and solidify primary support for Trump (who will stick his dick into more senate races with his unvetted, fellating sycophants). They WANT him on the ballot. This is just misdirection.

The Achilles heel is Trump. Trump loves being the center of news, and if societal chaos and collapse is the bi-product, he doesn’t care. Trump loves it when the Nation has to choke down Trump Trump for an appetizer, entree , dessert and subsequent enema.

Biden wants Trump front and center. And both will get their wish.

And we get to be finsished because Trump has no honor. He could step down and kill the noise, and give them no tools.

Posted by: Marleysghost at December 21, 2023 08:11 AM (z7mIR)

80 Today is Winter Solstice Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

81 GopE knows that if SCOTUS allows CO to keep Trump off the ballot, the Marxists will do the same to any RINO in the future

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:13 AM (33nmr)

82 First, these schools aren’t admitting Jewish students at the rates they once did. Harvard used to be about 20 percent Jewish; today, it’s below 9 percent.

pssst It will be <2% within 10 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 08:13 AM (lwOKI)

83 VDH, missing the boat again.

He's typical. You can sum it up with the old line from "The Boxer" - a man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest.

VDH doesn't want to see an op, a conspiracy - because after all, educated mature men don't believe such tripe - so he doesn't see an op.

I don't care how smart, how right thinking some believe VDH to be. He's a purposeful fool. When things fall apart, he'll be slack-jawed and surprised. Because he's been conditioned to believe everything around him is too big to structurally fail.

Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 21, 2023 08:13 AM (BfpYS)

84 80 Today is Winter Solstice Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

Depends on your latitude.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 08:13 AM (lwOKI)

85 I like DeSantis as our second option, but really dissapointed with Ron on His CO response, about staying on the ballot there

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:10 AM (33nmr)

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DeStilletos destroyed his promising political career running against Trump this year instead of fully-supporting him and waiting to run in '28 (and garnering the support of the MAGA base); most of the MAGA crowd now loathe him.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:13 AM (HBgiC)

86 And we get to be finished because Trump has no honor. He could step down and kill the noise, and give them no tools.

Posted by: Marleysghost at December 21, 2023 08:11 AM (z7mIR)

Give them the victory, then.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 08:13 AM (SfhV1)

87 I'm not confident or optimistic about anything these days, but the biggest reason I believe the Court *should* overturn this is that it sets the precedent that a political opponent can simply be declared Guilty of some "crime" with no hearing, no due process. This isn't even a Bill of Attainder, this is pure Star Chamber stuff. It's what Venezuela has been doing ever since the communists took over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:14 AM (S6gqv)

88 Two clean cut White guys on the CO Supreme Court vote to bar Trump.

This may sound to extreme, but our real enemy in this country is not BLM or the Far left. It is White liberal men

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:14 AM (33nmr)

89 Trump is not real, to the left. They can't see him as a human, and they ignore the reality of his first term. PDJT is a mythic character to them, like Frankenstein.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 08:14 AM (4cFfb)

90 If the Democrats do manufacture 85, 90 or even 100 million ballots to drag the drooling, criminal pervert across the line like they did in 2020, our side will scream bloody murder. That's probably about all we'll do but when, not if the economy collapses, then future actions are quite unpredictabe.
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Unpredictable, other than "bad." An economic collapse will not happen in a vacuum because it will be essentially simultaneous with - if not actually causal of - the collapse of our empire and the international trade system on which it rests. The number of American men and assets that will be stranded abroad will be significant, and the breakage of trading systems will have fairly serious consequences on the domestic environment.

But that is the path we are on. Once the money fails, the FedGov will be hard-pressed to prevent dissolution under the sheer weight of it all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:14 AM (zxP/x)

91 Today is Winter Solstice Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 08:12 AM (NpAcC)

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I was told yesterday by Brave Search that it's tomorrow.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:15 AM (HBgiC)

92 HE WAS GUILTY OF RUNNING AS A REPUBLICAN.

Posted by: vic at December 21, 2023 08:15 AM (A5THL)

93 87. Yes Tom. If Scotus allows it, it will be used against Republicans in the future, Conservative or Moderate

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:16 AM (33nmr)

94 God help us. And God help them if they pull the trigger.
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I kinda doubt anyone "pulls the trigger" in some kind of formal new war. It could happen - and a nullification crisis could cause that, by permitting (demanding) that battle lines be drawn - but I think it's less likely than generally spreading chaos.

South Africa has arguably been in open internal war for several years now. It looks like rioting, looting and murder in progressively richer and wider areas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:16 AM (zxP/x)

95 some are saying SCOTUS will smack CO down in a slam dunk- I am less optimistic

I'm with you on that. I don't trust anyone there except Thomas and Alito.

Here is what is going to happen:

The Federal courts at the appellant level will use the two precedent cases cited by Professor Smith in my above post, to smack down the CO ruling, and the SCOTUS will refuse to hear the Colorado appeal. Case over.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 21, 2023 08:17 AM (CecP5)

96 Moreover, the brief argued that Smith has so much power, just like a U.S. Attorney, he is a “principal officer” under the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which means he must first be nominated by the president and then confirmed by a majority of the U.S. Senate.

“Improperly appointed, he has no more authority to represent the United States in this Court than Bryce Harper, Taylor Swift, or Jeff Bezos,” they write.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 08:17 AM (lwOKI)

97 CJ Roberts is on record saying he doesn't want a controversial Court, which to me means he doesn't want the Court involved in huge historic decisions if he can help it
***
He's a miserable coward.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:17 AM (E8t1e)

98 We lose because we don't want to fight. We want to roll over and not fight. It's too hard. We want a Paul Ryan or a John McCain who give in without a fight. We finally have someone who will fight in PDT, but no his fighting is character flaws. His ego, his conceit, wants to be the center of news. Good grief, let's just give up and let the marxists have what they want. We'll keep our dignity though.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 21, 2023 08:18 AM (2NHgQ)

99 "No more food for you. The Earth demands it."

The Globalist "Final Solution"

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"By 2030, your daily cricket rations will be increased from 10 to 5, and you will be happy."

-- Klaus "Barbie" Schwab

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:18 AM (HBgiC)

100 87. Yes Tom. If Scotus allows it, it will be used against Republicans in the future, Conservative or Moderate
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:16 AM (33nmr)
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How many GOP candidates in 2024 will be removed from ballots for merely voicing support of Trump?

The argument will be guilt by association. Trump's "guilty" of insurrection, so anyone running for office who also supports Trump must also be guilty of insurrection and therefore ineligible to be placed on the ballot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:18 AM (7fElN)

101 "He could step down and kill the noise, and give them no tools.

Posted by: Marleysghost"

Who is going to step in? Everybody else could step down too.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:18 AM (vFG9F)

102 As I said yesterday, Roberts is a clever little shit, who cares about the Rep of his so called court.

If they rule for Trump, the same people will hate the Court as always.

If they rule against Trump, then 50% more of the Country will hate them

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:18 AM (33nmr)

103 Leading Report @LeadingReport 13h
BREAKING: Tennessee has proposed a bill that would ban all public schools from displaying LGBTQ+ or trans flags in every public school in the state.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:18 AM (2yu8s)

104 And Kavanaugh and Barrett are right there with him.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:18 AM (E8t1e)

105 It's also,
National french fried shrimp. 🦐

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 08:19 AM (NpAcC)

106 In Houston, Texas, USA: Thursday, December 21, 2023 at 9:27 pm CST

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 08:19 AM (lwOKI)

107 Yes Tom. If Scotus allows it, it will be used against Republicans in the future, Conservative or Moderate.

Somebody smarten me up - so far, all I've seen is States barring Trump from a primary ballot, correct ?

Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 21, 2023 08:19 AM (BfpYS)

108
I was told yesterday by Brave Search that it's tomorrow.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:15 AM

They have the 'winter arrives today' and the 'first full day of winter' so you kinda have to know the difference between the two which is super critical to weather people but the rest of us... not so much.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 08:19 AM (enJYY)

109 I don't think Lauren Boebert wants to be in Congress any longer.

“This is extreme judicial activism that is designed to suppress the vote and voices of hundreds of thousands of Coloradans, which is absolutely unacceptable,” Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert said in a post to X.

Nice Sternly Worded Letter™! What are you going to do about it?

What do the words 'absolutely' and 'unacceptable' mean in this context?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2023 08:19 AM (991eG)

110 CJ Roberts is on record saying he doesn't want a controversial Court, which to me means he doesn't want the Court involved in huge historic decisions if he can help it
***
He's a miserable coward.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:17 AM (E8t1e)

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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."

-- Dante

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (HBgiC)

111 100. Right. they will go after House and Senate Candidates next.

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (33nmr)

112 @LeadingReport
BREAKING: Tennessee has proposed a bill that would ban all public schools from displaying LGBTQ+ or trans flags in every public school in the state.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:18 AM (2yu8s)
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Does it, or does it just state that the only flags to be flown at public schools are the flags of the country, state, county and district?

I dunno 'cause I haven't seen the law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (zxP/x)

113 More and more, I am becoming convinced that we are heading into a massive train wreck next fall that is going to rip this country to shreds. The conditions get worse and worse each day, not better. All sides now want open war with each other, and are working hard to bring it about. I don't know the form it will take, no one does. but it will be terrible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (S6gqv)

114 Breaking911 @Breaking911 11h
BREAKING: Federal judge blocks California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places - AP

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (2yu8s)

115 If the Court wants 1859, then they will rule against Trump

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (33nmr)

116 Somebody smarten me up - so far, all I've seen is States barring Trump from a primary ballot, correct ?
Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 21, 2023 08:19 AM (BfpYS)

Yes, but you know, they will follow it up for the General Election

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 21, 2023 08:21 AM (PQ4m2)

117 This would all go away if we just nominated a less polarizing candidate!

Has this not been the cry of ace, CBD, commenters runner, Nova Local and Kindltot?

This is all the "cULt Of TruMp" fault.......RIGHT?

We just need to acquiesce to the left a little. Run a vanilla candidate that does not bring them to wrath and presto it'll rally conservatives to the polls in droves and we'll slide right in for the win with a candidate that will GUARANTEED do everything that Trump didn't do. You know, a TRU-CON, that'll unite the establishment behind them(since the Republican Establishment has a long rich history rallying around and behind actual conservative politicians creating a united political front taking on the left) and dismantle the Deep State and every other political fantasy you can heap on them.

Right guys? RIGHT??? This is your formula?

Posted by: JROD at December 21, 2023 08:21 AM (IlL6s)

118 Somebody smarten me up - so far, all I've seen is States barring Trump from a primary ballot, correct ?
Posted by: 1s and 0s at December 21, 2023 08:19 AM (BfpYS)
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Yes, but that's because only primaries are coming up next. If Trump wins the primary and ends up as the nominee, then the same logic can be applied to the following election.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:21 AM (zxP/x)

119 ACCORDING TO NET ITS Friday, December 22, 2023 at 03:27 UTC

Posted by: vic at December 21, 2023 08:21 AM (A5THL)

120 What's the rumpus?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 21, 2023 08:21 AM (aD39U)

121 114. Wow Thanks Andy

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:21 AM (33nmr)

122 "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."

-- Dante
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (HBgiC)
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Zapp Brannigan knows how to deal with Neutrals...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:21 AM (7fElN)

123 I was told yesterday by Brave Search that it's tomorrow.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:15 AM (HBgiC)
*********
This year the Winter Solstice will occur on Dec. 21/22. 2023.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

124 Winter will come.

Posted by: Steiner at December 21, 2023 08:23 AM (aD39U)

125 What can we do to keep that infernal Lincoln off the ballot?

Posted by: 1860s Democrats at December 21, 2023 08:23 AM (NBVIP)

126 If the Democrats do manufacture 85, 90 or even 100 million ballots to drag the drooling, criminal pervert across the line like they did in 2020, our side will scream bloody murder. That's probably about all we'll do but when, not if the economy collapses, then future actions are quite unpredictabe.

Here's how I see it: this lawfare is an opening shot to keep Trump off the ballot. If, by some miracle, he goes on to get the GOP nod, that is when assassination will be the next play.

The killer won't be a professed leftist, I can assure you. He will be an Oswald - a CIA/FBI patsy with phony social media trail depicting himself as a "lifelong Republican" who is taking this desperate measure to "save our democracy from this nascent Hitler."

Any resistance to the Trump murder will be framed by the MFM as support for insurrection. Your local heroes in blue will be ordered to arrest or kill protestors or lose their pensions. And arrest / kill they certainly will.

And those mythical 'fifty million pissed off armed Trump voters' will do nothing except shrug their shoulders and mutter "well, we tried. Guess we have to vote harder next time."

Care to bet against me?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:23 AM (Q0kLU)

127 111 100. Right. they will go after House and Senate Candidates next.
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (33nmr)

Obviously Trump is the ONLY reason all this is happening. If he just goes away ('will no one rid me off this damnable man!?') everything will be fine.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 08:24 AM (zZu0s)

128 Does it, or does it just state that the only flags to be flown at public schools are the flags of the country, state, county and district?

I dunno 'cause I haven't seen the law.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:20 AM (zxP/x)
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These people are depressingly predictable. From the ABC affiliate in Chattanooga:
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — What kind of flags should be allowed in school classrooms in Tennessee?

One state lawmaker has proposed an answer: Nothing but the official U.S. and Tennessee state flags.

If passed, teachers and schools would be prohibited from displaying the Pride flag and Transgender flag, But it would also prohibit flags from other countries, city flags, confederate flags or flags that celebrate the thin blue line.

HB1605 says any local education agency or public charter school would have to abide by the law if passed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:24 AM (zxP/x)

129 113. Tom, my Grandpa use to say, sometimes you need an altercation to erase the bad blood.

A Alien invasion at this point, might unite us. Another 9/11 would be ignored by the Heartland at this point

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:25 AM (33nmr)

130 Why don't senators use bookmarks?

Posted by: They just bend over the pages at December 21, 2023 08:25 AM (NBVIP)

131 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
NEW: Texas Gov. Abbott for the first time has chartered a plane to fly migrants from his state to Chicago, marking an escalation after months of busing migrants to Democratic-run cities to protest Biden's border policies, NBC News reports

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:25 AM (2yu8s)

132 Care to bet against me?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:23 AM (Q0kLU)
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Depends on how clever they are. If they are clever then yes, I'd bet against you. There's a better way that solves a lot more of the problems.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:25 AM (zxP/x)

133 Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 diverted some $280 billion from Medicare’s prescription drug provisions to green tax credits and other leftist climate initiatives.

Killing two birds
1. old people die sooner
2. young people get big govt controlled transportation

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 08:26 AM (lwOKI)

134 Zapp Brannigan knows how to deal with Neutrals...
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Especially in the Gandhi Nebula!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:26 AM (2yu8s)

135 The Lt. governor of Texas floated the idea of removing Biden from their ballot for his Constitutional violations re: the border. He'll never do anything about it, of course, but this is in fact a brilliant and necessary move. It would demonstrate a serious intent to fight the Left, and the Left's "Reee!" response would only further highlight the disaster at the border. But, as mentioned, "it's not who we are."

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:26 AM (E8t1e)

136 124. Who will be our Jon Snow or Arya?

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:27 AM (33nmr)

137 South Africa has arguably been in open internal war for several years now. It looks like rioting, looting and murder in progressively richer and wider areas.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:16 AM (zxP/x)

Yes, I agree - more of a collapse of authority in all but the most protected areas. I'm surprised that in places like this, the rise of new leaders focused on self defense, no matter the cost, has been so slow. They will eventually come to power, they always do. In the Americas I believe Bukele is the first, and the model for what will come.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:27 AM (S6gqv)

138 Did someone say neuters?

Posted by: Cryin' John Boner at December 21, 2023 08:27 AM (r5BH7)

139 >Somebody smarten me up - so far, all I've seen is States barring Trump from a primary ballot, correct ?
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this is 'running it up the flag pole, to see if it flaps'
if it does, then comes the pile-on

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:27 AM (geLO8)

140 Paxton is great politically, but a scumbag outside of it

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:28 AM (33nmr)

141 Barring Trump from state primary elections is the first step. Other states are going to follow suit. The idea is to either keep his name off the official state ballot for the general or so hamstring Trump that his chances of carrying any of these state is essentially zero.

The J6 Committee that Pelosi rigged had just this sort of "remediation" for Trump (and by extension politicians that supported him as well.) I believe Liz Cheney herself used the language "make Trump ineligible" to run for office again.

I can see the states argue that they're free to run their elections without federal interference... that argument cuts both ways, depending on your own perspective. Whether it's a successful gambit is debatable.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2023 08:28 AM (Q4IgG)

142 Why Do Conservatives Fear "Frankenflesh?"

The author claims it's safer, demonstrating that he's either a liar or an idiot.

I can be safer, it could be safer, right up until they start modifying it... which they will. At that point, you can bet your ass that "safer" won't top their agenda.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 21, 2023 08:28 AM (1Z8zZ)

143 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

144 so far, all I've seen is States barring Trump from a primary ballot

Isn't that kind of enough?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 08:28 AM (SfhV1)

145 Yes, but that's because only primaries are coming up next. If Trump wins the primary and ends up as the nominee, then the same logic can be applied to the following election.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:21 AM (zxP/x)

yep, this is all about setting a precedent.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:28 AM (S6gqv)

146 "We must destroy democracy in order to save it."

- - - - Shit George W. Bush is saying right now

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 08:29 AM (Zz0t1)

147 The left has academia, the media, the Teachers union, and AWFL's.

From this base, they dominate our country and are killing civilization. It' totally weird.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 08:29 AM (X3mJX)

148 Posted by: Paul at December 21, 2023 08:25 AM (+aysO)
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Good morning, dickhead

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:29 AM (geLO8)

149 I look at VDH in much the same way as ace: they are both products of their particular societal and cultural bubble.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Ace's bubble was much crueller, however.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 21, 2023 08:30 AM (9yWhg)

150 Today is Winter Solstice Day.

********

Little-Known Muldoon Fact #4483:

That soft creaking sound you hear throughout the day today is the Earth's axis slowly grinding to a hat on its seemingly inexorable tilt away from the sun. At 8:37 pm (MST) today, if you listen closely you will hear a soft thud as it briefly hats, then a low groaning rumble as the gears begin moving it back the other direction. The gnome-like mechanical engineers at the Earth's core are hard at work today.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2023 08:30 AM (991eG)

151 Someone should ask non-Binary Ben if he's changed his mind on Trump now.

Also, if he can give me his sister's phone number

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2023 08:30 AM (XqcwY)

152 Abbot is putting his foot on the neck of the Chicago marxists. Brilliant. Chicago is a war zone already with the Blacks losing their gubmint cheese

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:30 AM (33nmr)

153 Biden DOJ Sues Colony Ridge for ‘Bait-and-Switch’ Sales, Predatory Financing

you cant bring them here without bringing there here

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 08:30 AM (lwOKI)

154 I'm not confident or optimistic about anything these days, but the biggest reason I believe the Court *should* overturn this is that it sets the precedent that a political opponent can simply be declared Guilty of some "crime" with no hearing, no due process. This isn't even a Bill of Attainder, this is pure Star Chamber stuff. It's what Venezuela has been doing ever since the communists took over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:14 AM (S6gqv)

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Heard a legal analyst on some talk radio show yesterday make the point -- and claim that the CO dissenting judges made it as well -- that in the very year that the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, Chief Justice Salmon Chase ruled that Section 3 is not self-executing in a case that has come to be known as In Re Griffin -- meaning that Congressional action is required to make Section 3 effective.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:31 AM (HBgiC)

155 113 More and more, I am becoming convinced that we are heading into a massive train wreck next fall that is going to rip this country to shreds. The conditions get worse and worse each day, not better. All sides now want open war with each other, and are working hard to bring it about. I don't know the form it will take, no one does. but it will be terrible.

I think you are right. Lets skip the war phase and just get on to the rebuild separately part.

Posted by: Ex GOP at December 21, 2023 08:31 AM (qS8WV)

156 Until Free Shit America and regular God fearing patriotic Americans can't put food on the table there isn't going to be any "war".

As long as stomachs are full people will just roll with this shit whether they like it or not.

Posted by: JROD at December 21, 2023 08:31 AM (IlL6s)

157 Yes, I agree - more of a collapse of authority in all but the most protected areas. I'm surprised that in places like this, the rise of new leaders focused on self defense, no matter the cost, has been so slow. ...
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:27 AM (S6gqv)
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South Africa is a small-scale example of what might happen here, which is one of the reasons I pay fairly close attention to it. ZA isn't desperate enough yet. They still have something approaching armed forces and they're still eating. Electrical and water infrastructure are collapsing at an alarming rate, but the lights are still on and the water still flows at least sometimes. Money still buys bread, and large chunks of the country are not in effective rebellion. The mines still operate at least somewhat and the ruling Party (the ANC) is still able to maintain the balance of graft for the most part, though time is running out. There as also an essentially - for now - healthy part of the country on the west coast.

This are bad. They need to - and will - get a lot worse before new strongmen rise and operate openly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:31 AM (zxP/x)

158 148. Left also has the Military, Huck

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:31 AM (33nmr)

159 And we get to be finsished because Trump has no honor. He could step down and kill the noise, and give them no tools.

Because the Dems would never cheat to steal an election from DeSantis or Christie or Haley.

Only Trump, right?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:31 AM (Q0kLU)

160 Major Tranny, Sir!

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:31 AM (33nmr)

161 From this base, they dominate our country and are killing civilization. It' totally weird.

In most societies in recorded history its some sort of male warrior elite that controls society.

But there are some indicators of matriarchal societies in many areas - organized around human sacrifice - before recorded history. Perhaps we are reverting to that mean?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2023 08:32 AM (XqcwY)

162 so far, all I've seen is States barring Trump from a primary ballot

Isn't that kind of enough?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 08:28 AM (SfhV1)

They said they just wanted the right to marry.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

163 "Jesus, knowing all that was going to happen to him, went out and asked them, “Who is it you want?”

“Jesus of Nazareth,” they replied.

“I am he,” Jesus said. (And Judas the traitor was standing there with them.) When Jesus said, “I am he,” they drew back and fell to the ground."

John 18:4-6

Posted by: Marcus T at December 21, 2023 08:32 AM (E08Up)

164 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
NEW: China the No. 1 country sending students to US, Data Show - Opendoors
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Screencap of stats...
http://tinyurl.com/279vp9x2
Red China 27.4%
India #2 25.4%
S. Korea 4.1%
Hockey scholarships 2.6%

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:33 AM (2yu8s)

165 Morning all.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 08:33 AM (lXVjD)

166 I saw Grinding To A Hat open for Joe Cocker at the Clam Rock Festival in 2013.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:33 AM (HBgiC)

167 New York Dems renew push to ban Trump from state ballot

http://tinyurl.com/eppzb4m5

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

168 >>Leftists’ Civil War Fantasies
They're not going to work out the way they think.

Yeah, apparently, they've learned nothing from the BLM riots and the current Palestinian protests.

They think they're worst enemy is Christians in rural areas and red states, but they'll learn that any civil unrest will create a wonderful opportunity for the domestic criminal class (repeat offenders who are terrorizing placed w/no cash bail), along with the untold millions of soldier-aged foreigners who have entered out country in recent years.

While they're mocking white normies about not being able to escape USmil drone strikes, local criminals, Somali warlords, cartel bosses, etc. will be taking over cities, creating their own empires. They will easily rob/rape/kill the local Lefty elitists who've spent so many years pretending that Christians were the biggest threat to the republic they've started to believe. You will beg for the "Jethros in Alabama" to come save you.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2023 08:34 AM (izj35)

169 I saw Grinding To A Hat open for Joe Cocker at the Clam Rock Festival in 2013.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:33 AM (HBgiC)
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:: channels Sponge ::

You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/hfgwrdYUQ2A

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:34 AM (zxP/x)

170 Paul, as usual, has his facts completely wrong. Hostettler was not accused of going into the Capital. He was convicted only of wrongthink while holding a bullhorn.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 08:35 AM (XJ3WL)

171 131. Paul, please return to your friends at Red Racing Horses. This is not a RINO Cuck site

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:35 AM (33nmr)

172 There's the Junta which is the Inner Inner Party and it has some central command and control, with Obama having outsized influence.

But the greater Borg is more like a jellyfish, made of many like-minded who believe that their life's mission is to independently find ways to advance The Cause. This includes the CO judges. There's millions.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 21, 2023 08:35 AM (Gse2f)

173 Hostetller is undercover FBI?

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:35 AM (33nmr)

174 New York Dems renew push to ban Trump from state ballot

They are so afraid of him.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

175 117 Yep, that's how it's worked for quite a long time. The swine at the trough don't put up with any upset to the system.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at December 21, 2023 08:36 AM (z+KLG)

176 Hockey scholarships 2.6%
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:33 AM (2yu8s)
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Cornell thanks Canada for it's contribution.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 08:36 AM (XJ3WL)

177 Shrill Degenerate Commie Teacher Union President Randi Weingarten: School Choice "is About Undermining Democracy"

Ever notice that Democracy is enforced at gunpoint?
Same guns used to collect taxes also force children of taxpayer to go to school built with their taxes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 08:36 AM (lwOKI)

178 "Trump has no honor"

There are so many lies about Trump.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:36 AM (vFG9F)

179 Paxton and Trump have become avatars of their movement, much like men like Biden and Newsome have become avatars for the left. What these men say, or do, no longer has any relationship to the support they receive from their respective sides. All that matters is what they represent, not what they actually are. I believe that's what makes this the most dangerous election season since 1860.

In the same way that Israel and Hamas have finally reached the point that only an actual, physical battle to the death can resolve the unresolvable problems, I feel more and more that left and right in this country are rapidly approaching the point where only an actual, physical, kinetic battle with a lot of death on both sides can resolve anything. In the process, the country itself will be destroyed, no matter who "wins".

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:37 AM (S6gqv)

180 Until Free Shit America and regular God fearing patriotic Americans can't put food on the table there isn't going to be any "war".

As long as stomachs are full people will just roll with this shit whether they like it or not.
Posted by: JROD at December 21, 2023 08:31 AM (IlL6s)

Exactly. It's why I have no faith that anyone is going to do more than take to the keyboards if Trump is murdered.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:37 AM (Q0kLU)

181 He could step down and kill the noise, and give them no tools.
***

This exhausted trope of appeasement-as-honor again?

Just like the noise was killed when Obama "the healer" took over from "dictator and village idiot" Bush?

I would suggest a remedial crash course in Leftism, but I doubt it would help.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:38 AM (E8t1e)

182 "Trump has no honor"

There are so many lies about Trump.
Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 08:36 AM (vFG9F)
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There are, but this one is particularly galling because it invites comparisons. Is Trump dishonorable? I dunno. I don't know the guy. But it is at least a question (for me, anyway). Who on the Left is honorable? Who is the "North Star" to whom Trump is being compared with these kinds of assertions? Joe Biden?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:38 AM (zxP/x)

183 Huh??

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 18h
BIDEN: “I come from a state that has the eighth-largest Black population in the country, and as they say the saying goes where I come, you brung me to the dance early on”

http://tinyurl.com/4ytxj8ye
11 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:38 AM (2yu8s)

184 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 3h
NEW: China the No. 1 country sending students to US, Data Show - Opendoors
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Screencap of stats...
http://tinyurl.com/279vp9x2
Red China 27.4%
India #2 25.4%
S. Korea 4.1%
Hockey scholarships 2.6%

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:33 AM (2yu8s)

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

Black Hockey scholarships 0.01%

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:38 AM (HBgiC)

185 Trump is the only one who can get rural whites, who never vote, to come out again like they did in 2016.

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:39 AM (33nmr)

186 In the same way that Israel and Hamas have finally reached the point that only an actual, physical battle to the death can resolve the unresolvable problems, I feel more and more that left and right in this country are rapidly approaching the point where only an actual, physical, kinetic battle with a lot of death on both sides can resolve anything. In the process, the country itself will be destroyed, no matter who "wins".
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:37 AM (S6gqv)

Once you pull the trigger, there is no way to know how things will turn out. It is a crap shoot.

I am thinking it is preferable to the alternative.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 08:39 AM (zZu0s)

187 That soft creaking sound you hear throughout the day today is the Earth's axis slowly grinding to a hat on its seemingly inexorable tilt away from the sun. At 8:37 pm (MST) today, if you listen closely you will hear a soft thud as it briefly hats, then a low groaning rumble as the gears begin moving it back the other direction. The gnome-like mechanical engineers at the Earth's core are hard at work today.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2023 08:30 AM (991eG)
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Freaking me out man.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 21, 2023 08:39 AM (RIvkX)

188 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:37 AM (Q0kLU)

Don't miss the Book Thread, MP4.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2023 08:39 AM (Angsy)

189 While they're mocking white normies about not being able to escape USmil drone strikes, local criminals, Somali warlords, cartel bosses, etc. will be taking over cities, creating their own empires. They will easily rob/rape/kill the local Lefty elitists who've spent so many years pretending that Christians were the biggest threat to the republic they've started to believe. You will beg for the "Jethros in Alabama" to come save you.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2023 08:34 AM (izj35)

Correia on twitter lately has been having a lot of fun ripping leftists who are incapable of understanding any of this. One popular topic has been leftists who say there can't possible be any worry about supply disruptions to major cities, because the US Army will protect them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (S6gqv)

190 > if you listen closely you will hear a soft thud as it briefly hats, then a low groaning rumble as the gears begin moving it back the other direction.
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"Engage the reversing engine!"

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (geLO8)

191 If the SC doesn't overturn the illegal ruling in Colorado then there is no law in this country. It's pretty much that simple. Even many Democrats, those who aren't woke morons, agree this ruling is complete garbage and takes the will of the people and the law and replaces it with the will of unelected judges.

This is not a controversial decision. It is a restoration of the rule of law.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

192
Care to bet against me?

Yes. Like all the other Eeyores in the USA you aren't paying attention when you say "Nothing is happening or will happen."

Washington DC lost a massive Class action lawsuit over its gun control law which it lost in Heller. They had no defense for their actions in court. I know for a fact that there are lawyers skilled in class action suits who are going to file against NY for the unconstitutional law is lost in Bruen. This will cost NY Billions. Illinois and California are going to be the next to lose their asses to civil judgements. When "Sovereign Immunity" is ruled to apply only to constitutional laws, the Democrat/Communist hacks are going to be personally liable for their unconstitutional actions.

That is not nothing.

By the way, did you notice that Kyle Rittenhouse defending himself ended the BLM/Antifa riots in 2020?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (CecP5)

193 Who is the "North Star" to whom Trump is being compared with these kinds of assertions? Joe Biden?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:38 AM (zxP/x)
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Our Intrepid AosHQ Liaison has brought to us many comments from DU where they truly believe FJB is the most honorable man who has ever lived, despite all evidence to the contrary. They've transferred all of their devotion from BHO to his heir.

It's obscene.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (7fElN)

194 Good morning to all 49 states and the Territory of Colorado!

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (Px5D+)

195 You can grind if you want to,
you can grind your friend's behind.
Cause your friends don't mind, and
if they don't grind,
Well they're no friends of mine.

Posted by: Men Without Grinding Hats at December 21, 2023 08:41 AM (r5BH7)

196 179. I agree Tom. Still believe, that when the DEMS went full Mengele on Abortion, they caused even more of a rift in the U.S. Dems use to have pro lifers in the party, but all pushed out.

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:42 AM (33nmr)

197 End Wokeness @EndWokeness 44m
New Zealand is set to end funding to all sporting bodies that don't crack down on trans players competing against women.

New Zealand was very recently one of the most woke places on earth.

The anti-woke movement is global.
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Let's hope it continues.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:42 AM (2yu8s)

198 I am thinking it is preferable to the alternative.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 08:39 AM (zZu0s)

In general, that's when things like civil wars and revolutions happen - when a critical mass of people decide that anything at all, even death, is better than continuing to put up with what they've been putting up with. An opponent who'd rather die than put up with your shit one more minute is the most dangerous opponent in the world.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:43 AM (S6gqv)

199 Correia on twitter lately has been having a lot of fun ripping leftists who are incapable of understanding any of this. One popular topic has been leftists who say there can't possible be any worry about supply disruptions to major cities, because the US Army will protect them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (S6gqv)
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Which is foolish in the extreme. The US Army cannot defend the entire rail and road network. A few blasted roads or railroads in the Midwest won't cut off the cities, but it will deprive a lot of them and cause serious delays. And damage is easy to cause and difficult to fix. Entropy's a bitch. The system is very efficient but the flip side to that is that it's *extremely* fragile. It cannot be adequately defended in a way that permits low disruption. Total cutoff is hard to achieve, but disruption isn't - and the margins are razor thin nowadays and disruption is a serious problem.

The supply shit show that happened during the disastrous COVID response is a small taste of what disruption would look like. Anyone shrugging it off as impossible or not a worry is a fool.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:43 AM (zxP/x)

200 191. Jack, Montana needs to be the next battle, if Scotus rules against Trump.

GOP runs everything there, and Tester the Molester is up for re-elect. Take Biden off the ballot there

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:43 AM (33nmr)

201 :: channels Sponge ::

You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/hfgwrdYUQ2A
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:34 AM (zxP/x)

Well done, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (Zz0t1)

202 They've transferred all of their devotion from BHO to his heir.

It's obscene.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (7fElN)

It's people. Why do you think there are imprecations in the bible saying not to worship false idols? Or 'common' wisdom that all idols have feet of clay?

People do that, or there would not need to be reminders that people shouldn't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (zZu0s)

203 Correia on twitter lately has been having a lot of fun ripping leftists who are incapable of understanding any of this. One popular topic has been leftists who say there can't possible be any worry about supply disruptions to major cities, because the US Army will protect them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (S6gqv)
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Leftists in general seem to lack fundamental understanding of logistics--how goods are manufactured and delivered from one location to another.

The U.S. Army isn't big enough to provide protection to all of the supply necessary to keep every city up and running. In the worst case scenario, the Army will be very hard pressed to maintain its own supply lines.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (7fElN)

204 This is not a controversial decision. It is a restoration of the rule of law.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

But it is a "controversial" decision, because the Left has made it one. And we can count on those obeisant to the Left and its cultural dominion to pay close heed to the costs of controversy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (E8t1e)

205 197. They just elected a conservative PM in NZ.

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (33nmr)

206 Peace on Earth, Goodwill to 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (4I/2K)

207 Don't miss the Book Thread, MP4.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 21, 2023 08:39 AM (Angsy)[/i

I won't. And thank you for your kind review; it's more than I deserve and I am glad you liked the book!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:45 AM (Q0kLU)

208 The filing essentially claims U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland improperly appointed Smith to an office that does not exist with authority Garland does not possess.

(Former AG Edwin) Meese, Steven Calabresi, the co-chairman of the Federalist Society, and Gary Lawson, a prominent constitutional law professor, first argue that only Congress can create federal offices such as Smith currently holds, which Congress has not done.
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Dismissed. No standing.

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts, "Epstein Who?" at December 21, 2023 08:45 AM (4cFfb)

209 Posted by: Men Without Grinding Hats

********

Hat = Halt. I need more coffee. So sue me!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2023 08:45 AM (991eG)

210 They just elected a conservative PM in NZ.
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (33nmr)

But he won't give them their guns back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 08:46 AM (Zz0t1)

211 I never operate my angle grinder without first donning my grinding hat.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:46 AM (zxP/x)

212 So True. Dems are the Borg

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:46 AM (33nmr)

213 210. Right. not perfect for sure

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:47 AM (33nmr)

214 [snip of excellent rant]

You will beg for the "Jethros in Alabama" to come save you.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2023 08:34 AM (izj35)

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

"Where have you gone Dear Christo-Fascists
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you ... woo, hoo, hoo"

"The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: 'But I didn't mean this!'" -- Ayn Rand

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:47 AM (HBgiC)

215 208. Who is the POS Retired Bush Judge , Luttig?

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:47 AM (33nmr)

216 Yes. Like all the other Eeyores in the USA you aren't paying attention when you say "Nothing is happening or will happen."

Are the CO justices pissing themselves in fear at the howling crowds outside their houses? Is the CO governor's phone line melting down? Are the phone lines of every GOP nickelfucker overloading? Please let me know when any of these clowns do more than huff and puff and send sternly worded letters.

I don't care if you think I am an Eeyore. I have lived long enough and seen enough to know that bleak cynicism is the only sane response to life.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:47 AM (Q0kLU)

217 "Section 3 is not self-executing in a case that has come to be known as In Re Griffin -- meaning that Congressional action is required to make Section 3 effective."

And Congress has acted, and limited Section 3 to Confederates as it was intended. The last thing Congress did with Section 3 was to posthumously "pardon" Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 21, 2023 08:48 AM (Gse2f)

218 . They just elected a conservative PM in NZ.
Posted by: Jonah

Always take with a pinch of salt.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 08:48 AM (R4t5M)

219 Red states need to start motions to remove Biden from their ballot, for itemized Constitutional violations. You want to play this game, let's play it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:48 AM (E8t1e)

220 Don't make us put you on the cart.

You know you meant hat.

Posted by: Men Without Grinding Hats at December 21, 2023 08:48 AM (r5BH7)

221 Total cutoff is hard to achieve, but disruption isn't - and the margins are razor thin nowadays and disruption is a serious problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:43 AM (zxP/x)
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This is also why I'm not too worried about rampaging hordes of Leftists storming my little town 100 miles from a city. There are only four main roads in and out of town. All of them are easily blocked/destroyed, preventing unauthorized vehicle traffic from entering town via the main roads. Any side roads then become perfect places for ambushes from the locals, many of whom are highly equipped for such tactics.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:48 AM (7fElN)

222 "Black and Jewish communities still have so much to gain from reviving the coalition of conscience."
Silence That Can Kill: Where Are the Black Friends Jews Need? (With very exceptions, they never existed - jjs)

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correct , with few exceptions, they are with their pali brothers

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2023 08:48 AM (V13WU)

223 When the Deep State went after Trump, not one Red State Attorney or DA, did tit for tat, and indicted a marxist

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:49 AM (33nmr)

224 >>Jack, Montana needs to be the next battle, if Scotus rules against Trump.

If SCOUTS rules against Trump and by extension us I don't think it will matter. This case isn't a close call. It is completely made up bullshit based on feelings not law.

There are honest lefties like Turley and Dershowitz who are openly saying this is the worst legal decision they have seen in their careers and they don't just want it struck down they want the decision to be unanimous to show just how bad this ruling is for the rule of law in this country.

If this stands the left can get away with anything.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)

225 Leftists in general seem to lack fundamental understanding of logistics--how goods are manufactured and delivered from one location to another.

The U.S. Army isn't big enough to provide protection to all of the supply necessary to keep every city up and running. In the worst case scenario, the Army will be very hard pressed to maintain its own supply lines.

Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (7fElN)
================
This argument is between people who think "the government will provide", and those who know individuals have to be responsible for their own lives.

May as well live on different planets.

Posted by: Chief Justice John Roberts, at December 21, 2023 08:49 AM (4cFfb)

226 In what appears to be a move of almost prophetic symbolism, the Biden Administration just successfully tore down the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:49 AM (S6gqv)

227 Joe Biden @JoeBiden 13h
Trump poses many threats to our country: The right to choose, civil rights, voting rights, and America’s standing in the world.

But the greatest threat he poses is to our democracy.

If we lose that, we lose everything.

Mollie @MZHemingway 12h
Disgusting rhetoric from the president, showing his complete support for his administration's authoritarian attack on Republicans, and his support for other Democrat Party attacks on the republic.

Cernovich @Cernovich 15h
Insurrections are good again - Democrats say.
http://tinyurl.com/y675ak9z
screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:50 AM (2yu8s)

228 This is also why I'm not too worried about rampaging hordes of Leftists storming my little town 100 miles from a city. There are only four main roads in and out of town. All of them are easily blocked/destroyed, preventing unauthorized vehicle traffic from entering town via the main roads. Any side roads then become perfect places for ambushes from the locals, many of whom are highly equipped for such tactics.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:48 AM (7fElN)
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That can also work against you, so be on the lookout if things move that way. Area denial cuts both ways. When South African raider gangs hit a more distant target, they do their own area denial because then they're not stuck inside the zone with you, you're stuck inside the zone with them.

A pile of burning tires across the road stops both ingress *and* egress.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:50 AM (zxP/x)

229 218 . They just elected a conservative PM in NZ.
Posted by: Jonah

Always take with a pinch of salt.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 08:48 AM (R4t5M)

it happened because the previous leftist government had gone Full Nazi over Covid.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 08:51 AM (S6gqv)

230 Rivers of Blood. Merry Christmas.

Posted by: Puddinhead at December 21, 2023 08:51 AM (4wWYn)

231 Red states need to start motions to remove Biden from their ballot, for itemized Constitutional violations. You want to play this game, let's play it.
Posted by: Ordinary American

Except most of them are GOPe.
The "Go Along, Get Along" group.

So they won't.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 08:51 AM (lXVjD)

232 I kinda like the Pontiac Solstice. It's a shame that Obama wiped out the company when he bailed, bought GM. Another reason to despise the Kenyan. Pontiac had been producing fine cars since 1926. Obama is a boil on the buttocks of USA.

Posted by: Discerning Chap at December 21, 2023 08:51 AM (V5BDR)

233 Once again, a perfectly cromulent comedy bit hamstrung by an unfortunate typo. Alas!

Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (991eG)

234 The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled it "defamatory" to label drag queens as "groomers" and using such terminology is not protected by Canada's free speech laws.

http://tinyurl.com/ye2as7jv

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

235 So they won't.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 08:51 AM (lXVjD)

I know.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (E8t1e)

236 Well, well. Great news for the holiday season.

"FedEx Loses $7.68 Billion Amid Plunging Holiday Shipping Demand"

Bidenomics - embrace the suck.

LINK: http://tinyurl.com/3ukuv3ac

Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (rj6Yv)

237 If this stands the left can get away with anything.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)

*looks around*

There is reason to believe this. You are right, but.....

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (R4t5M)

238 There are honest lefties like Turley and Dershowitz who are openly saying this is the worst legal decision they have seen in their careers and they don't just want it struck down they want the decision to be unanimous to show just how bad this ruling is for the rule of law in this country.

It's the worst legal decision they have seen in their careers, so far!

Posted by: Homer Simpson at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (4I/2K)

239
♪ We don't need no ~~education~~ reconciliation ♪

Posted by: The Who at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (enJYY)

240 If SCOUTS rules against Trump and by extension us I don't think it will matter. This case isn't a close call. It is completely made up bullshit based on feelings not law.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 08:49 AM (ZLI7S)
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Which is why Roberts prays a lower federal court will somehow get involved, and make the decision, so SCOTUS doesn't have to.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (4cFfb)

241 GOP has state control of Ohio and Montana. Both have incumbent Dem Senators up in 2024. Take Biden off the ballot due to dementia or Hunter

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (33nmr)

242 >the Biden Administration just successfully tore down the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington.
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The monument was removed on December 20, 2023 and is planned to be relocated to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:53 AM (geLO8)

243 In what appears to be a move of almost prophetic symbolism, the Biden Administration just successfully tore down the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington.

One would think that with all the Civil War re-enactors in this country, some of them would have massed up and gone to Arlington to surround the monument and dare the feds to remove it. You know, like Greenpeace does with trees or whaling ships?

Whatever. This country wants to die. In the words of Admiral Kirk, "Let them die."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:53 AM (Q0kLU)

244 ♪ We don't need no ~~education~~ reconciliation ♪
Posted by: The Who at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (enJYY)

The Who remade Pink Floyd's 'The Wall?'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

245 This way to the egress>>>>.

Posted by: PT Barnum at December 21, 2023 08:53 AM (V5BDR)

246 Jumbo shrimp > Canuck free speech laws

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 08:53 AM (R4t5M)

247 Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kav are used to marxist zombies in fornt of their homes every night. Do they want Conservative and Trumpers there too?

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:54 AM (33nmr)

248 Our Intrepid AosHQ Liaison has brought to us many comments from DU where they truly believe FJB is the most honorable man who has ever lived, despite all evidence to the contrary. They've transferred all of their devotion from BHO to his heir.

It's obscene.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 0

NPCs. Just as they can be made to blindly hate on command, they can be made to blindly adore on command. I'm old enough to remember the Obama years. All his supporters joined in the fun, making sport of ol' dumb Brandon for eight years.

Now, he's the stern but sensual captain of our mighty ship of state, navigating the rough seas of fascism, Russians, and a weak Republican economy that is also the strongest economy on record.

*snaps*

Just like that.

You call it obscene. I call it a triumph. Greatest propaganda machine ever built. They don't mouth these words from fear. 30% of this country - a hundred million people - believe whatever they're told to unquestioningly.

That day when Colbert berated Comey, only to find his audience had gotten the memo before him, and now loved Comey unconditionally, was when I realized their prowess. Amazing.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:54 AM (0FoWg)

249 It will never happen, of course, and it would probably be illegal but I wouldn't mind the SCOTUS ruling in favor of CO, but with a big asterisk.

Since the citizens are guaranteed a republican form of government, the CO decision can stand - but it will be able to seat no federal officers and it will be stripped of its electoral votes because they don't follow the rules of the game.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:54 AM (zxP/x)

250 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 55m
The dog that stopped barking is any Biden criticism of Trump on policy issues.

I'd call that a total surrender on policy.

Instead, the Biden campaign strategy against Trump has hardened into a three-legged stool of "end of democracy" hoaxes plus weaponizing the government:

End-of-Democracy Hoax Packet
1. He invokes Hitler (like the Fine People Hoax 2)
2. He's colluding with Putin (Russian Collusion Hoax 2)
3. He's an insurrectionist (Jan6 Hoax)

Those three tentpole hoaxes justify Biden's weaponization of government because if you thought any of that was true, you would favor taking out Trump any way that works.

If you were wondering which hoaxes will dominate 2024, now you know. Although there might be more.

The delivery system for Biden's persuasion will be the extended universe of fake fact-checkers, fake news (CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, etc.), and fake watchdog groups that Democrats assembled after losing in 2016.

Now the 2024 presidential race is a contest between Republican policies the public wants, according to polling, versus hoaxes and massive corruption of the justice assets of the country.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 08:55 AM (2yu8s)

251 Mom would have been 100 today. She left us in 2008 but I want you morons to know she raised two good sons. Ohio farm stock raised herself. Dad got lucky with her by his side.

Mom wouldn't have been at all a Trump fan but this son is solidly in the Trump wing. I'm a believer that America can be set right once our borders are secure. It's the single biggest American mistake of the still young century. Debt second and wars are third.
Remember Washington was losing until Yorktown. Keep the faith people. Winter will end soon enough.

Posted by: torabora at December 21, 2023 08:55 AM (OUiUM)

252 ... Now, he's the stern but sensual captain of our mighty ship of state, navigating the rough seas of fascism, Russians, and a weak Republican economy that is also the strongest economy on record. ...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:54 AM (0FoWg)
++++
* snort *

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:55 AM (zxP/x)

253 234. I heard a famous LGBT activist in Philly, was arrested for raping young boys yesterday

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (33nmr)

254
Talking about Bidenomics I have a much younger brother who runs a financial service business in Florida. He's always been a bit proud of himself and very upbeat. When I talked to him a couple days ago he was as bummed out they come.

The 'light at the end of the tunnel' is definitely a freight train.

Posted by: The Who at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (enJYY)

255 I don't care if you think I am an Eeyore. I have lived long enough and seen enough to know that bleak cynicism is the only sane response to life.

I'm a lot older than you are, and as a Veteran of an actual war, I know what Grim Reality looks like. We ain't there yet, but the closer we get the more people are waking up, a fact to which you close your eyes.

None are so blind as those who refuse to see.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (CecP5)

256 You call it obscene. I call it a triumph. Greatest propaganda machine ever built. They don't mouth these words from fear. 30% of this country - a hundred million people - believe whatever they're told to unquestioningly.

That day when Colbert berated Comey, only to find his audience had gotten the memo before him, and now loved Comey unconditionally, was when I realized their prowess. Amazing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:54 AM (0FoWg)
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Yup. Their machinery is astonishing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (zxP/x)

257 God, I've depressed myself and you all even more than usual. I'm an asshole.

Here's something cheery:

http://tinyurl.com/yxz97pum

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (Q0kLU)

258 247 Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kav are used to marxist zombies in fornt of their homes every night. Do they want Conservative and Trumpers there too?
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:54 AM (33nmr)

There has to be an actual credible threat of the latter happening. And as of now it doesn't exist. We just don't engage in that kind of thing. Maybe it's time we did.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 08:57 AM (x0n13)

259 It will never happen, of course, and it would probably be illegal but I wouldn't mind the SCOTUS ruling in favor of CO, but with a big asterisk.

Since the citizens are guaranteed a republican form of government, the CO decision can stand - but it will be able to seat no federal officers and it will be stripped of its electoral votes because they don't follow the rules of the game.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:54 AM (zxP/x)

But by singing the Tiger Song (all six verses) while hopping on one leg they can have all their federal rights restored.

Posted by: Hobbes, CalvinBall Head Judge at December 21, 2023 08:57 AM (4I/2K)

260 GOP has state control of Ohio and Montana. Both have incumbent Dem Senators up in 2024. Take Biden off the ballot due to dementia or Hunter
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:52 AM (33nmr)
******
These Democrat senators are just as responsible for the mess we are in as Biden.
They can BS all they want, but the policies that Biden supports are the ones they support and have allowed.
I hope people realize this.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 08:57 AM (NpAcC)

261 It should not be ignored that the last time Democrats kept a Republican off the ballot was just prior to the first civil war.

You'd think Democrats would be smarter than to put Donald Trump into the same position as Abraham Lincoln in 1860. That's quite a comparison they're setting up - both the men themselves and the situations

Posted by: deadrody at December 21, 2023 08:57 AM (OeYsY)

262 253 234. I heard a famous LGBT activist in Philly, was arrested for raping young boys yesterday
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (33nmr)

I think it's in the Crime section. Unless it's another pervert.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 08:58 AM (x0n13)

263 Just like the noise was killed when Obama "the healer" took over from "dictator and village idiot" Bush?

I would suggest a remedial crash course in Leftism, but I doubt it would help.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:38 AM (E8t1e)

Exactly. Remember Juan McCain was the darling of the media, the daring mustang, until he ran for president. Then he became a right wing extremist.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 21, 2023 08:58 AM (XuPWx)

264 Here's something cheery:

http://tinyurl.com/yxz97pum
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (Q0kLU)
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Very old-fashioned. Nice. Clearly they were channeling "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with some of the structure here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:59 AM (zxP/x)

265 This is not a controversial decision. It is a restoration of the rule of law.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

But it is a "controversial" decision, because the Left has made it one. And we can count on those obeisant to the Left and its cultural dominion to pay close heed to the costs of controversy.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (E8t1e)

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Which CongressCritter will call for the assassination of conservative SCOTUS Justices who overrule the CO "Supreme" Court?

And which MDM-MSM talking heads will beat them to the punch?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 08:59 AM (HBgiC)

266 What did LT Spears say in Band Of Brothers

'The best way to survive is to accept that you're already dead'

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:59 AM (geLO8)

267 You'd think Democrats would be smarter than to put Donald Trump into the same position as Abraham Lincoln in 1860. That's quite a comparison they're setting up - both the men themselves and the situations
Posted by: deadrody

The same dumbfucks that can't figure out what bathroom to use.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 09:00 AM (R4t5M)

268 "I have lived long enough and seen enough to know that bleak cynicism is the only sane response to life.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing"

I've sometimes said that you people are not cynical enough, but here's M4P showing the way. Pay attention folks.

Posted by: fd at December 21, 2023 09:00 AM (vFG9F)

269
The Who remade Pink Floyd's 'The Wall?'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 08:53 AM

Sorry, I got distracted looking for the giant hat in the sky which is going to make the days longer again.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 09:00 AM (enJYY)

270 266 What did LT Spears say in Band Of Brothers

'The best way to survive is to accept that you're already dead'
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 08:59 AM (geLO

Same thing Gregory Peck said to the men in "12 O'Clock High."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 09:01 AM (x0n13)

271 JROD, do not take my name in vain. First and last warning.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2023 09:01 AM (V13WU)

272 'The best way to survive is to accept that you're already dead'
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Then offer the Commie BLMs and white Maoists a joint and gun them down with your Thompson while they're lighting up.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:01 AM (2yu8s)

273 I'm a lot older than you are, and as a Veteran of an actual war, I know what Grim Reality looks like. We ain't there yet, but the closer we get the more people are waking up, a fact to which you close your eyes.

None are so blind as those who refuse to see.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (CecP5)

One common response I see, even in conservative people all around me, is that they are just dropping out of everything. I have long ago lost count of the people who, if some topic of current interest or some issue comes up, just say "well I don't watch the news anymore, I don't pay attention to any of that stuff." If you look at ratings and things like that, a great majority of people are just cutting off communications and either hunkering down in their bunkers or ignoring everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 21, 2023 09:02 AM (S6gqv)

274 An academic group in Britain has published a study arguing Climate Change is in part due to humans, breathing.

How long before learned lefties use this to again argue for human mass sacrifice, to save the planet?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (X2UBQ)

275 Sorry, I got distracted looking for the giant hat in the sky which is going to make the days longer again.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 09:00 AM (enJYY)
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Hat in the sky keeps on grindin'
I know it'll be colder tomorrow
Hat in the sky keeps on grindin'

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (zxP/x)

276 The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled it "defamatory" to label drag queens as "groomers" and using such terminology is not protected by Canada's free speech laws.

http://tinyurl.com/ye2as7jv
Posted by: redridinghood

The irony burns like a bad case of the clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (lXVjD)

277 270. Yes. Great movie Quotes. I am sure something similar was said in "Platoon"

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (33nmr)

278 Leftists in general seem to lack fundamental understanding of logistics--how goods are manufactured and delivered from one location to another.

The U.S. Army isn't big enough to provide protection to all of the supply necessary to keep every city up and running. In the worst case scenario, the Army will be very hard pressed to maintain its own supply lines.

Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 08:44 AM (7fElN)

Diesel is in everything. The Diesel taxes 20 years ago added 4 to 6% to groceries in about a month. I have seen shipping bills for large items where the fuel surcharge is greater than the bill itself.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (lwOKI)

279 >>But it is a "controversial" decision, because the Left has made it one. And we can count on those obeisant to the Left and its cultural dominion to pay close heed to the costs of controversy.

To the far left all traditional American values are controversial. But not all Democrats are woke let alone all Independents and Republicans.

This is an incredibly dangerous case. It basically says that American citizens no longer get to choose who they want to represent them, unelected judges get to make that decision. There is nothing more central to America that our right to choose our elected representatives. This will end America if it is allowed to stand.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (ZLI7S)

280 How long before learned lefties use this to again argue for human mass sacrifice, to save the planet?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (X2UBQ)
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When have they ever argued for anything else?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:04 AM (zxP/x)

281 What if SCOTUS rules in Trump's favor, but the Democrat run states refuse to abide by that decision?

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 09:04 AM (NpAcC)

282 And we get to be finsished because Trump has no honor. He could step down and kill the noise, and give them no tools.

Posted by: Marleysghost at December 21, 2023 08:11 AM (z7mIR)

I'm not going to say that you're an idiot.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (1Z8zZ)

283 Sorry, I got distracted looking for the giant hat in the sky which is going to make the days longer again.
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http://tinyurl.com/3xvba8kc

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (2yu8s)

284 263. Spot on Rufus

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (33nmr)

285 I'm so old I remember when Democrats said elections ought not be decided by the courts. And does anyone else find it suspicious that Nikki Haley is now receiving massive amounts of cash from wealthy Democrat donors? She is Liz Cheney with a tan.

Posted by: WarEagle82 at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (b5mAA)

286 The same dumbfucks that can't figure out what bathroom to use.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 09:00 AM (R4t5M)

Their "best and brightest" can't even explain to congresscritters what a woman is.

Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (rj6Yv)

287 IF the Earth actually did have a hat, what kind of hat would it be?

I vote for Popeye Doyle-style porkpie hat

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO8)

288 How long before learned lefties use this to again argue for human mass sacrifice, to save the planet?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (X2UBQ)

To save the planet for who?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (SfhV1)

289 aby, take off your coat
Real slow
Take off your shoes
I'll take off your shoes
Baby, take off your dress
Yes, yes, yes

You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on
You can leave your hat on

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (lwOKI)

290 What if SCOTUS rules in Trump's favor, but the Democrat run states refuse to abide by that decision?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 09:04 AM (NpAcC)
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Then we have a nullification crisis, and it will spread immediately with the first stop being the border states.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (zxP/x)

291 Think of the Colorado Supreme Court as staging a judicial insurrection … and it all makes sense

Posted by: SMOD at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

292 I'd like to see the fuel surcharge for each Class 1 RR.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (R4t5M)

293 To save the planet for who?
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (SfhV1)

Maybe the same 100k that get to go to Heaven.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (lwOKI)

294 Posted by: deadrody at December 21, 2023 08:57 AM (OeYsY)
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[Caught one of your comments yesterday that got willowed in Mannix's Morning Rant thread; Re-Quoted here For Truth:]

"What the actual fuck ? Name ONE [but a lot of conservative things happened in those 8 years in spite of the Left’s attempts to destroy him with lie] for fuck sakes.

I see a lot of memes around asking "Is Biden the worst President in history?"

Hell no - GEORGE W BUSH is. BY FAR. Good lord. Other people have pointed out the major fuck ups like Medicare and NCLB (the spiritual predecessor of Common Core) and the Patriot Act, but lets also not forget how much of an EPIC disaster the Iraq War was. And the best one of all ? John fucking Roberts who proceeded to pervert constitutional interpretation to uphold the blatantly unconstitutional Obamacare and all but rubber stamp everthing Obama did.

There was so much backlash against this disaster that his presidency led DIRECTLY to Obama, and therefore, Biden. There is no way either of them could be the "worst ever" considering they were directly a result of the actual "worst ever" - GWB.

Posted by: deadrody at December 20, 2023 12:19 PM (OeYsY)"

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 09:06 AM (HBgiC)

295 IF the Earth actually did have a hat, what kind of hat would it be?

I vote for Popeye Doyle-style porkpie hat
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO

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Probably one of those leprechaun hats with a buckle on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:06 AM (zxP/x)

296
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM

Rene Magritte I believe. A favorite of mine.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 09:07 AM (enJYY)

297 > I'm so old I remember when Democrats said elections ought not be decided by the courts.
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Leftists are amoral, and possess 'situational ethics'--
meaning, they fervently believe whatever works for them at any given time

Orwell called this 'doublethink'

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 09:07 AM (geLO8)

298 If Red States could start a conservative think tank, and focus on how to replace Gubmint checks like SS, Snap, Disability etc. then we can look at sucession. Which may the only non violent option this country has at this point

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:07 AM (33nmr)

299 "That's for sure. That's for dang sure."

Remember, "Battleground" (1949) is a Christmas movie. A gritty, patriotic, Christmas movie.

Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2023 09:07 AM (5fDan)

300 This is an incredibly dangerous case. It basically says that American citizens no longer get to choose who they want to represent them, unelected judges get to make that decision. There is nothing more central to America that our right to choose our elected representatives. This will end America if it is allowed to stand.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (ZLI7S)

I agree. I'm merely saying the Left has been very successful at scumbling the moral distinctions and terrorizing competing "conservative" authorities from acting on those distinctions.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 09:07 AM (E8t1e)

301 Old enough to remember when the Dems hated the FBI and DOJ

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:08 AM (33nmr)

302 From FBI:

Groomers placed themselves in roles that allowed them access to children, such as club leaders, carers and teachers. Investigators found that the grooming process involved “normal” adult-child interactions, such as playing games, buying gifts and trips to the park (which isolated victims). On the surface, these behaviours would not necessarily flag any concerns.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 21, 2023 09:08 AM (lwOKI)

303 256 You call it obscene. I call it a triumph. Greatest propaganda machine ever built. They don't mouth these words from fear. 30% of this country - a hundred million people - believe whatever they're told to unquestioningly.

That day when Colbert berated Comey, only to find his audience had gotten the memo before him, and now loved Comey unconditionally, was when I realized their prowess. Amazing.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 21, 2023 08:54 AM (0FoWg)
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Yup. Their machinery is astonishing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 08:56 AM (zxP/x)

I mostly still think they don't actually _believe_ anything, but instead just know what the "line of attack" is supposed to be, and project it as much as possible.

Posted by: XTC at December 21, 2023 09:08 AM (sm6Pk)

304 IF the Earth actually did have a hat, what kind of hat would it be?

I vote for Popeye Doyle-style porkpie hat
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO
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Probably one of those leprechaun hats with a buckle on it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:06 AM (zxP/x)

Nay, laddie. A Tam O' Shanter. A real man's headwear.

Posted by: Montgomery Scott at December 21, 2023 09:08 AM (4I/2K)

305 "they will go after House and Senate Candidates next."

Isn't that what Obama did in his early days? Find ways to disqualify his opponents? Or have spurious charges magically brought against them. ... Standard practice of the left for a long time.

Lois Lerner (with FEC then) did that to Durbin's opponent ... so he was charged while running for office. Removing opponents from the ballot is a next step, but post office workers have been destroying Republican area ballots for some time as well.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2023 09:08 AM (Cus5s)

306 Israel Advocacy Movement @israel_advocacy 22h
We asked Miko Peled why are there no Palestinian Jews?

He didn't like the question.

Full debate on @eli_hassell podcast.
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Some dick who claims Israel is an Apartheid state.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:09 AM (2yu8s)

307 Another bridge in the divide, is there is no hope for the Cities anymore. No dreams of a white knight like Gulianni coming to save them. If your lucky enough not have a job in the city, the thing the city provides to you is airport and a sporting field

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:10 AM (33nmr)

308 >the Biden Administration just successfully tore down the Reconciliation Monument at Arlington.
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The monument was removed on December 20, 2023 and is planned to be relocated to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.
Posted by: Don Black at December
*****
What, relocated? You would think that they would have melted it down and recasted it as say, that criminal George Floyd.

Posted by: torabora at December 21, 2023 09:10 AM (OUiUM)

309 F the Earth actually did have a hat, what kind of hat would it be?

I vote for Popeye Doyle-style porkpie hat
Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (geLO
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Probably one of those leprechaun hats with a buckle on it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:06 AM (zxP/x)

Nay, laddie. A Tam O' Shanter. A real man's headwear.
Posted by: Montgomery Scott

A fucking dunce cap at this point.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 09:10 AM (R4t5M)

310 I'm not going to say that you're an idiot.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 21, 2023 09:05 AM (1Z8zZ)

I thought it was understood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 09:10 AM (zZu0s)

311
It's a little known fact the song 'Don't walk away Rene' was written after the band saw a Rene Magritte painting of a man with an apple stuck to his face.

Posted by: Cliff Clavin at December 21, 2023 09:10 AM (enJYY)

312 What if SCOTUS rules in Trump's favor, but the Democrat run states refuse to abide by that decision?
Posted by: redridinghood

Kinda like they do now with 2nd Amendment decisions?

Nothing. Nothing. At. All.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 09:10 AM (lXVjD)

313 Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo 11h
Harvard is actually making the case that Claudine Gay unintentionally plagiarized 40 sections across 7 papers over a 30-year time horizon. I'm sorry, but even if that were true, it would be worse: gross incompetence that should flunk you out of community college.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:11 AM (2yu8s)

314 Since the escalator ride, I find myself more intolerant of uniparty deep state with each passing day.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at December 21, 2023 09:11 AM (gxokI)

315 Great monologue, brother JJ, but I repeat myself.

Do we now understand how NORMAL Trump is these days? Demonrats are led by the relative few communists and 'republicans', with the exception of a few, are simply controlled opposition. Both are tainted by Sodom on Potomac that the feckless billionaire's who pay them.

Even this a$$hole shows his globalist colors: http://tinyurl.com/5yb544x6

Positive note: I see hundreds of democrats changing their views every week now. They finally see what is going on.

Posted by: Danimal28 at December 21, 2023 09:11 AM (klw0w)

316 Another bridge in the divide, is there is no hope for the Cities anymore. No dreams of a white knight like Gulianni coming to save them. If your lucky enough not have a job in the city, the thing the city provides to you is airport and a sporting field
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:10 AM (33nmr)

Sounds like Mogadishu. Not a pleasant thought.

Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2023 09:11 AM (rj6Yv)

317 >What, relocated? You would think that they would have melted it down and recasted it as say, that criminal George Floyd.

Posted by: torabora
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I lifted that blurb from the Monument's wiki article

Posted by: Don Black at December 21, 2023 09:12 AM (geLO8)

318 Fulton Sheen was right. Paul Harvey was right. Joe McCarthy was right. All the discredited cranks of the 50s and 60s who issued the warnings about the Communist Left and its creeping takeover of our institutions were .

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 09:12 AM (E8t1e)

319 @realchrisrufo
Harvard is actually making the case that Claudine Gay unintentionally plagiarized 40 sections across 7 papers over a 30-year time horizon. I'm sorry, but even if that were true, it would be worse: gross incompetence that should flunk you out of community college.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:11 AM (2yu8s)
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Why? Gross incompetence doesn't preclude you from government "service" or employment in a staggering number of private business concerns.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:12 AM (zxP/x)

320 riff Jenkins
@GriffJenkins

NEW NUMBERS: Per CBP sources...

Since Dec 1st... 200,000+ migrant encounters at the southern border - w/ an average of more than 10,000/day...

Since FY24 began on Oct 1st... 686,000+ migrant encounters at the southern border...

Last 24 hrs... 11,600+
@FoxNews

Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

321 305. Yes my Friend. The marxist apparatus took out Obama's Senate primary opponent and GE opponent in 2004.

Blair Hull owned a thriving Financial Commodity brokerage, and had poll leads and his own fortune as a Dem. Then out of nowhere, his friendly ex wife accused him of hitting her. hmmm.

Jeri Ryan and Jack Ryan we all know

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM (33nmr)

322 The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled it "defamatory" to label drag queens as "groomers" and using such terminology is not protected by Canada's free speech laws.

http://tinyurl.com/ye2as7jv
Posted by: redridinghood

The irony burns like a bad case of the clap.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 09:03 AM (lXVjD)

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Heh.

"These are not the schizoids you're looking for."

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM (HBgiC)

323 Morning Horde , thx JJ. My local state senator Michelle Hinchey is one of the sponsors of the legislation requiring Chic Filet to stay open on Sundays at NY Thruway rest stops. Her father was Maurice Hinchey my former congressman who Bob Novak described as "unctuous". Statists one and all

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM (NcL9g)

324 Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello 17h
TSA just scanned my face to make sure it matched my ID.

Illegal migrants breaking into our country don’t have to prove they are who they say they are when they’re going through TSA.

They’re allowed to flash their unvetted DHS paperwork and off they go.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM (2yu8s)

325 Colorado is just the start. How many more states are already joining in? I read an article yesterday that claimed nearly half of the states in the Union have seen lawsuits filed to keep Trump off the ballot.

The reality is, like ending the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees, it won't end up working out like the left plans. And tragically, it will likely end in blood and tears.

At this point, it appears that the left is deliberately pushing to start a conflict. They want someone to act out so they can take the next step (martial law?). It is a testament to the patience and sanity of the right that even with all of the craziness, we haven't seen anyone actually use violence. Meanwhile, the left can burn and loot whole city blocks and it's peaceful protest. If the right tried it, we would all be in jail for years, if not executed. I wish that was sarcasm.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM (m0WlR)

326 312 What if SCOTUS rules in Trump's favor, but the Democrat run states refuse to abide by that decision?
Posted by: redridinghood

I'm not sure of the former, but if it happens, the latter is a foregone conclusion.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM (E8t1e)

327 Interesting revelation with the wife last night. She has discovered her younger brother is gay. Quite astonishing, really.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM (pZ64F)

328 All of a sudden I feel like there was more than one reason that rioters were allowed to menace the conservative SC justices that last time (IIRC it was over Roe v Wade).

There was a message intended to not stand in the way of future plans of the left.

Posted by: Emmie at December 21, 2023 09:14 AM (Sf2cq)

329 Trump should come out today, and say he will not nominate any Judges from Ivy League Law Schools if he becomes Prez

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:14 AM (33nmr)

330 Diesel is in everything. The Diesel taxes 20 years ago added 4 to 6% to groceries in about a month. I have seen shipping bills for large items where the fuel surcharge is greater than the bill itself.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I deal with those invoices daily. On most that I deal with, the added fuel surcharge is 1/4 to 1/2 of the total bill. Usually for under 200 miles. And our customers get recurring deliveries and see these bills weekly.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 09:14 AM (lXVjD)

331 "As an aside, if SCOTUS tosses this crap, what effect will it have on Jack Smith's spurious charges?"

Probably none. A USSC reversal will note that section 5 of the 14th Amendment grants Congress the power to enforce it, and they have in 18 USC. Colorado cannot claim supremacy over Congress.

If anything, this would slightly bolster the Smith effort because that is the appropriate avenue to take such matters (looking solely at process here, not merit). Look for liberal justice concurrences to point this out.

Look for the Thomas wing to note that the language of section 3 of the 14th conspicuously omits President or Vice-President from the list of offices. Because the list is otherwise very specific, we must assume the exclusion is by intent and regardless of any legal actions user 18 USC, a state court STILL could not exclude a Presidential candidate from a ballot under the 14th Amendment.

Posted by: can of spam at December 21, 2023 09:14 AM (7oNMO)

332 Another bridge in the divide, is there is no hope for the Cities anymore. No dreams of a white knight like Gulianni coming to save them. If your lucky enough not have a job in the city, the thing the city provides to you is airport and a sporting field
Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:10 AM (33nmr)

Sounds like Mogadishu. Not a pleasant thought.
Posted by: mrp

Preach it, brother.

*takes dump on the sidewalk*

Posted by: Urban Camper at December 21, 2023 09:14 AM (R4t5M)

333
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2023 09:15 AM (bEb2S)

334 At this point, it appears that the left is deliberately pushing to start a conflict.
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Where have you been since 2016?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 21, 2023 09:15 AM (pZ64F)

335 g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 21, 2023 09:15 AM (bEb2S)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

336 Albertarian @Veteran4Freedom 10h
The irony of Parks Canada culling the deer on Sidney Island at $834,000.

They were shooting from a helicopter using a — semiautomatic .223 firearm with extended 30 round magazine.

Trudeau - “Nobody wants assault-style weapons …you don't use them for hunting….”

PM is a 🤡.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:16 AM (2yu8s)

337 Israel Advocacy Movement @israel_advocacy 22h
We asked Miko Peled why are there no Palestinian Jews?

He didn't like the question.

==

brilliant

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2023 09:16 AM (V13WU)

338 Morning Horde , thx JJ. My local state senator Michelle Hinchey is one of the sponsors of the legislation requiring Chic Filet to stay open on Sundays at NY Thruway rest stops. Her father was Maurice Hinchey my former congressman who Bob Novak described as "unctuous". Statists one and all
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM (NcL9g)

Chick-fil-A should board up those NY Thruway rest stop establishments and terminate the contracts. I assume they are contracted locations.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 21, 2023 09:16 AM (4I/2K)

339 This will end America if it is allowed to stand.

Yes, I agree. However see my post #95 for my prediction on how it is going to turn out.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 21, 2023 09:16 AM (CecP5)

340 >>Authorities began monitoring Mashkoor in November 2021 after he reportedly expressed support online for ISIS and began to use social media to connect with ISIS supporters, according to Denver7 News.

The following year, he began communicating with multiple undercover FBI agents who were posing as supporters of the terrorist organization and expressed his “intent to join ISIS as a fighter, provide money to the organization and recruit other supporters,” the report said. He told them that he had been to Afghanistan before his family was forced to leave.

November 2021.
Biden's disastrous exit from Afghanistan was on 9/11/2021. Was his family part of the "refugees" Joe brought home with our military? Just imagine the FBI resources wasted on tracking this kid, all of the refugee resettlement resources/government handouts expended on him and his family. . .?

All so that he can be arrested in December 2023 for plotting war against us. No words.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2023 09:16 AM (izj35)

341 Dems are also desperate due to the Senate races for 2024. Their own people say the GOP Bottom floor is 50 after Manchin quit. No Pubbies are in tough races, but three Dems are. Fillibuster here to stay no matter what happens next year

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:16 AM (33nmr)

342 is the case even before SCOTUS ?? everybody is wringing their hands, but is SCOTUS even looking at it , or is it even on their calendar ? was there a motion that was filed ?

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2023 09:17 AM (V13WU)

343 338. Yes, Chick filet does not need Blue state money, anyways

Posted by: Jonah at December 21, 2023 09:18 AM (33nmr)

344 I think it's in the Crime section. Unless it's another pervert.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 08:58 AM (x0n13)
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Seems like there's no shortage of them these days.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 21, 2023 09:18 AM (7fElN)

345 What if SCOTUS rules in Trump's favor, but the Democrat run states refuse to abide by that decision?
Posted by: redridinghood at December 21, 2023 09:04 AM (NpAcC)
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Oh fine, go there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 21, 2023 09:18 AM (K3LI9)

346 "Maybe lab-grown meat is a good idea."
Why Do Conservatives Fear "Frankenflesh?"

Lab grown meat is a terrible idea for various reasons.

1) The Terror of Farting Cows! - in the not so distant past, the world's grasslands were covered with several million herbivores of the "cow variety". Why the vast numbers of America's bisons alone should've turned Earth into a Flaming Hell of Farting Doom. And yet...it did not. Farting Concern = FAKE!

2)Artificial processing of meat means that the processing of meat is in the hands of various human beings with various agendas. Humans need vitamin B-12 the source of B-12 for most is meat. Would you trust the makers of the covid vaccine to produce meat for "deplorables" that contained all necessary vitamins and nutrients ex necessary amino acids?
2b) About a decade ago, Chinese manufacturers of toothpaste used antifreeze as a "sweetener" in toothpaste. Antifreeze will kill your kidneys dead. Do you trust manufacturers not to add deadly compounds to your "meat"?
2c) The fragility of monoclonal cell lines - bacteria and viruses are everywhere. The easiest type of life to infect is one that is the same everywhere in (con't)

Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2023 09:18 AM (nFnyb)

347 I think the Democrats / leftists believe they've got the edge in their 'lawfare' campaign against the rest of the country.

I think they're correct. They will likely win on this front. Maybe not the current campaign against who gets to be on a state primary ballot for 2024 but I bet the rules will be significantly different in 2028.

Defeating Trump is the only goal right now. That the left, and by extension the majority of the political class is deathly afraid of him is telling.

Too bad most people either don't see it, or agree with the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 21, 2023 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

348
Interesting revelation with the wife last night. She has discovered her younger brother is gay. Quite astonishing, really.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 21, 2023 09:13 AM

Could be worse. Had a short conversation with a woman at the gym a couple of days ago where she was talking about someone 'transitioning' as if it's the most natural thing in the world. I walked away shaking my head.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 09:19 AM (enJYY)

349 it will be overturned, but the question is , will it be overturned in time. the plan is to keep it rolling long enough to not have him on the ballot, knowing full well that there is no constitutionality in their actions.

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2023 09:19 AM (V13WU)

350 I just got here so don't know if this has not already been said. The Supreme Court will not do anything, they will refuse to take the case. There is no Supreme Court, they have abdicated when they refused to do anything in 2020.

Posted by: Decaf at December 21, 2023 09:19 AM (3JfbU)

351 Try to imagine vote counting in a state that cast 3.3 million votes in 2020 but now having more than half of them being “write-in votes”.

Posted by: SMOD at December 21, 2023 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

352 *to their actions

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2023 09:20 AM (V13WU)

353 I see the CEO of Wayfair has a plan to address the company's woes.

He sent an email to the staff telling them to work harder.

I'm sure that will work.

Also, I looked up the guy and his wife is some alternative medicine freak from MA.

So remember - giving a patient IVM in MA will get your license pulled, but prescribing them acupuncture and herbs is...not only ok but your health insurance will pay for it...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2023 09:20 AM (XqcwY)

354 Leftists in general seem to lack fundamental understanding of logistics--how goods are manufactured and delivered from one location to another.

The U.S. Army isn't big enough to provide protection to all of the supply necessary to keep every city up and running. In the worst case scenario, the Army will be very hard pressed to maintain its own supply lines.

Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

There is a reason we were able to win world wars. Because we fought "over there" and knew our home front was safe.

Roll armor out of Ft. Hood to somewhere even vlose like Houston. Mama & the kiddies all live off base (because base housing isn't big enough) and go to civilian schools. They are now legitimate military targets and you will be thinking about that while you are buttoned up in your tank terrorizing Houston.

Kinda changes those schematics.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 09:20 AM (lXVjD)

355 Where have you been since 2016?

Posted by: Pudinhead

= =

Actually, I'd go back to 2003 when the left started blaming America for 9/11. Like I said, "A testament to the patience and sanity of the right..." If we were the nuts that the left wants to believe we are, we'd already be hip deep in the blood of a hot Civil War.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at December 21, 2023 09:20 AM (m0WlR)

356 >>If anything, this would slightly bolster the Smith effort because that is the appropriate avenue to take such matters (looking solely at process here, not merit). Look for liberal justice concurrences to point this out.

Smith would indict Trump for a traffic ticket if he could. He's been bending the law to indict Trump over and over and he has a completely compliant judiciary and jury pool in DC and even he hasn't charged Trump with insurrection or sedition or anything even remotely like it because there is no evidence. Congress failed to convict Trump for Jan 6th.

The Colorado SC charged Trump with insurrection based on nothing at all. Even if the law did apply to Trump there is no evidence he committed a crime which is why a number of states where the CREW clowns pushed this garbage already declined to pursue it.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 21, 2023 09:20 AM (ZLI7S)

357 Nice Sternly Worded Letter™! What are you going to do about it?

What do the words 'absolutely' and 'unacceptable' mean in this context?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 21, 2023 08:19 AM (991eG)

It's a state court, she's in the US Congress. What, exactly, would you have her do about it?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 21, 2023 09:21 AM (1Z8zZ)

358 Good morning all, and thank you for the excellent, if depressing and alarming essay, Mr Sefton.

A) it presupposes that red state governors and legislatures have the balls to bring this kind of suit

[voiceover]: They don't.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 21, 2023 09:21 AM (Rbu5d)

359 >>The monument was removed on December 20, 2023 and is planned to be relocated to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.

Who here thinks that they won't melt it down like the Lee statue?

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2023 09:22 AM (izj35)

360 Yes, Chick filet does not need Blue state money, anyways

Since their CEO said that whites needed to shine blacks' shoes, I have never given a damn about that company.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 09:22 AM (Q0kLU)

361 But fake meat is muh capitalism, naturalfake!
/sarc

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:22 AM (2yu8s)

362 Good morning horde

Whites are the new Kulaks

Posted by: Skip at December 21, 2023 09:22 AM (fwDg9)

363 Who here thinks that they won't melt it down like the Lee statue?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2023 09:22 AM (izj35)

I think it might make it. But I have been wrong before.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 09:23 AM (zZu0s)

364 Good solstice morning! Always pleased to see longer days arrive again.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 21, 2023 09:23 AM (MvF+J)

365 None of us have been batting .1000 in this brave new world of the past 8 years.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 09:23 AM (zZu0s)

366 Who here thinks that they won't melt it down like the Lee statue?
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A state government is moving it to another historical site.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:23 AM (2yu8s)

367 (con't)

a particular environment. IIRC, the John Brunner eco disaster novel, "The Sheep Look Up" postulates this very thing. The collapse of THE major food source because of infection in the factories. At the very least, artificial meat would require massive use of antibiotics and anti-virals in your meat. How does that sound to you?
Manufacturing meat concern - REAL! due to human incompetence/interference/malice.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 21, 2023 09:23 AM (nFnyb)

368 Clocking in at under 100 seconds of total runtime, "Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer)" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs is the shortest song to ever hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100:
https://youtu.be/o1Z_hskvz1M

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:24 AM (zxP/x)

369 Who else misses MSG?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 09:24 AM (zZu0s)

370 Good solstice morning! Always pleased to see longer days arrive again.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at December 21, 2023 09:23 AM (MvF+J)

And Leon's getting larger!

Posted by: Johnny at December 21, 2023 09:24 AM (4I/2K)

371 It is funny that the people terrified of GMOs line up to get their clot shots and eat fake meat.

Though...even when their are meat shortages I notice the fake meat section of the grocery store is always full.

So even in the blue area I live in people are not buying that shit. I assume the fake meat companies just get paid out by the government to keep making it.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 21, 2023 09:24 AM (XqcwY)

372 Remember, "Battleground" (1949) is a Christmas movie. A gritty, patriotic, Christmas movie.
Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2023 09:07 AM (5fDan)

That scene of the boots above the foxhole always gets me.

Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (rj6Yv)

373 50/50 the statue makes it to the said destination.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (P6aOE)

374 Winter Solstice ... yeah, today. I did see in a search yesterday, that it was the 22nd, but that was in England. idk detail, but perhaps it is today in the USA (that the exact "solstice" occurs)?

It occurs at 10:27PM, I guess that is Eastern time.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (Cus5s)

375 he monument was removed on December 20, 2023 and is planned to be relocated to the New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.

Who here thinks that they won't melt it down like the Lee statue?

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they did not accept it in Arlington, why would they accept it in some park ? why is it more protected in a state park I guess is my question

Posted by: runner at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (V13WU)

376 365 None of us have been batting .1000 in this brave new world of the past 8 years.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 09:23 AM (zZu0s)

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Nah. That seems to be my batting average.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

377 Who else misses MSG?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 09:24 AM (zZu0s)

Michael Schenker or Macauley Schenker?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

378 And Leon's getting larger!
Posted by: Johnny at December 21, 2023 09:24 AM (4I/2K)

*opens microwave door*

About four more minutes, chief!

Posted by: Radar Man at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (zZu0s)

379
I can recall many times on the Pennsylvania Turnpike where one fast food outlet or another was closed for the day. Big deal when there were so many choices? Not at all.

New York state is simply trying to punish a Christian organization - the 'Sunday People'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 09:26 AM (enJYY)

380 Clocking in at under 100 seconds of total runtime, "Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer)" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs is the shortest song to ever hit number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100:
https://youtu.be/o1Z_hskvz1M
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 21, 2023 09:24 AM (zxP/x)

One of my favorite songs.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 09:26 AM (Q0kLU)

381 Nah. That seems to be my batting average.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

Ok, fine MR MATH.

1.000

Posted by: Radar Man at December 21, 2023 09:26 AM (zZu0s)

382
*opens microwave door*

About four more minutes, chief!
Posted by: Radar Man at December 21, 2023 09:25 AM (zZu0s)

3,000 feet, 14,000 feet, 8,000 feet........what an asshole!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

383 Though...even when their are meat shortages I notice the fake meat section of the grocery store is always full.
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Fumento claims that that is vegetable-based fake meat and that does taste like crap but 'real' fake meat will be fine.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 21, 2023 09:27 AM (2yu8s)

384 Time for work.

See you all later.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 21, 2023 09:27 AM (Q0kLU)

385 All of which means that 2024 is going to be the most insane and ugly presidential election in American history. And that's saying a lot, since 1968 and 2020 are both years that existed.

Late to the party, but surprised Bush/Gore 2000 isn't also mentioned here. The Left still believes that election was stolen by an activist court and State-level election shenanigans.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 21, 2023 09:27 AM (JCZqz)

386 >>Though...even when their are meat shortages I notice the fake meat section of the grocery store is always full.

I've read that the fake meat companies pay grocers for the shelf space - that's how it remains there, month after month, despite not selling well.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2023 09:27 AM (izj35)

387 Ok, fine MR MATH.

1.000
Posted by: Radar Man at December 21, 2023 09:26 AM (zZu0s)
++++
It's MR MATHS!

Posted by: Englishman at December 21, 2023 09:27 AM (zxP/x)

388 "As an aside, if SCOTUS tosses this crap, what effect will it have on Jack Smith's spurious charges?"

Very little. However there is a case before the Supreme Court that will have a dramatic affect. That is the J6 defendant's appeal that the law being used to prosecute him is being used incorrectly, and does not apply. The law is the felony charge of interfering with a government proceeding. That is half of Smith's case against Trump, and the only felony charge used against the J6 defendants. Most legal observers think the SCOTUS will find for the J6 defendant, which will dismiss all the felony charges against the J6 prisoners, and gut the case against Trump.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at December 21, 2023 09:27 AM (CecP5)

389 3,000 feet, 14,000 feet, 8,000 feet........what an asshole!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 21, 2023 09:26 AM (Zz0t1)

Hah!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at December 21, 2023 09:28 AM (zZu0s)

390 Winter Solstice ... yeah, today. I did see in a search yesterday, that it was the 22nd, but that was in England. idk detail, but perhaps it is today in the USA (that the exact "solstice" occurs)?

It occurs at 10:27PM, I guess that is Eastern time.
Posted by: illiniwek

Yes. 9:27 pm Central time. 13 hours from now.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 21, 2023 09:28 AM (lXVjD)

391

Art is up.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 21, 2023 09:29 AM (x0n13)

392 Issac Schorr: "You incorrigible idiots"

Never were truer words written.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 21, 2023 09:29 AM (Rbu5d)

393 349 it will be overturned, but the question is , will it be overturned in time. the plan is to keep it rolling long enough to not have him on the ballot, knowing full well that there is no constitutionality in their actions.
Posted by: runner at December 21, 2023 09:19 AM (V13WU)

==

Two things -

1) the ruling is stayed already, pending appeal

2) Colorado GOP has already said they'll cancel the primary and go with a caucus is the ruling is enforced

Posted by: can of spam at December 21, 2023 09:30 AM (7oNMO)

394 "Biden Border Crisis: More Migrants Arrive as December is on Pace to Break More Encounter Records"

I believe this is, of course, an op. Last week it was rumored in DC that Biden's compromise offer on immigration is that if 5,000 asylum claimants are admitted during a day, no more asylum-seekers will be admitted that day. The ten thousand asylum seekers crossing the border daily the past week or more (arranged by the cartels and Mex Government) is intended to scare Republicans into buying Joe's compromise. IMHO.

Posted by: Gref at December 21, 2023 09:30 AM (5fDan)

395 >>they did not accept it in Arlington, why would they accept it in some park ? why is it more protected in a state park I guess is my question

And why would we trust a promise to do something with it later. They also said they'd never go after non-Confederates, yet sculptures of Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus have been removed since - and the march to keep removing continues.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 21, 2023 09:31 AM (izj35)

396 And we get to be finished because Trump has no honor. He could step down and kill the noise, and give them no tools.

Posted by: Marleysghost

Don't be a quitter. Quitters suck. And you may take that as you please.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 21, 2023 09:33 AM (b8J4P)

397 Ah the Winter Solstice.

Folks, let us pause for a movement and ponder our noble ancestors and the way the lived during the Winter Solstice. Let us follow the ancient rite of winter by armoring up at this festive time, go forth and massacre our enemies.

Posted by: Archer at December 21, 2023 09:33 AM (gmo/4)

398 the lighting of the fuse....

http://tinyurl.com/4kv5ex2m

Like the school yard bully, they will keep pushing. Like the school yard bully, they will be surprised as sh*t when they get a preemptive punch in the nose.

Posted by: Kassie Kassim at December 21, 2023 09:34 AM (5VhjV)

399 I remember talking to a Battle of the Bulge veteran (75th Division) who related to me a scene he witnessed. The 75th was mostly green troops and while his unit was being loaded aboard trucks for a road march, a BAR rifleman was being hoisted into a truck filled with people from his (the BAR guy) squad. Suddenly the BAR started barking, spraying the passengers with the entire mag with the rifle on full auto. People wonder why some veterans don't like to talk about their experiences. I don't.

Posted by: mrp at December 21, 2023 09:35 AM (rj6Yv)

400 As much as I enjoyed American Top 40, gotta take off the DJ sock.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * take no prisoners at December 21, 2023 09:35 AM (5VhjV)

401 Diesel is in everything. The Diesel taxes 20 years ago added 4 to 6% to groceries in about a month. I have seen shipping bills for large items where the fuel surcharge is greater than the bill itself.
Posted by: rhennigantx

Part of it is legit. Part of it is: I need to make my margin.

For a good laugh, ask them how they calculate it.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 21, 2023 09:42 AM (b8J4P)

402 ‘We’re gonna die a little in this war.’
-something Josey Wales might be saying

Posted by: Eromero at December 21, 2023 09:57 AM (rqn5J)

403 I think sometimes people just go with the flow. The Left, in an insane lust for power, or because of profound fear if we understand more fully what the elite have been up to, has gotten more and more ambitious. It's kind of like they just have to find the next crazy thing to do. Just like they need to keep creating victim groups, eventually they begin eating themselves - and we are seeing DEI slowly be consumed because it is unsustainable.

I believe the same thing will happen to the left's power grab. Antifa/BLM isn't moving out of the urban blue hellholes in mass because red burbs and country will take matters into their own hands, and the local police and sheriff depts aren't going to stand down. And that includes stopping the legal maneuverings to keep them out of trouble. The rich bitch kids will do time.

The end is coming. Just waiting to see how messy it will be.

Posted by: Black JEM at December 21, 2023 10:02 AM (GZYu7)

404 - Not Found

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 21, 2023 10:05 AM (enJYY)

405 Good morning, all, thanks, J.J.

Positive news: Israel uncovers major Hamas command center in Gaza City and Comedian Jerry Seinfeld visits Kibbutz Be’eri, meets survivors of Hamas massacre. (AP, Times of Israel reporting.)

But Al Jazerra writes: Hamas says prisoner swap talks only after Israeli war on Gaza stops Hamas says prisoner swap talks only after Israeli war on Gaza stops.

(Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh is in Egypt for talks.)
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Independent UK: Ukraine-Russia war – live: Kyiv repels major Russian drone attack as Putin’s forces hit by ‘mouse fever’. The disease causes people to bleed from their eyes, vomit several times a day and experience extreme temperatures and headaches.

WTH? Is that Rat Bite Fever as defined by our CDC? Is it what was recently in China?
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Bluish Pennsylvania: Can't do "a Colorado' but Congressman (Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), Chair of the House Freedom Caucus) has been told to hand over hundreds of texts and emails to FBI in 2020 election probe. BTW, he's the only sitting member of Congress whose cellphone has been seized by the FBI in the 2020 election investigation.
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Free ALL Hamas Hostages. Prayers for the IDF.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 21, 2023 10:22 AM (GshMh)

406 I'd say prosecute them for the real crimes they are committing, rather than validate the non-crimes they're prosecuting Trump for.

There's enough real ones to send them away for an eternity.

Posted by: Voyager at December 21, 2023 11:24 AM (XjXDt)

407 Yes, Trump is stronger than ever, thanks to these obsessed Democrats. I thought of him after I saw Godzilla (great movie) and how he got even stronger after he got nuked in the Bikini atoll blast.

That's Trump.

Posted by: PJ at December 21, 2023 11:30 AM (G1dq6)

408 My very modest proposal is that all current and prior Congresspeople, their staff and family are exiled from the USA forever. Can take $1 million with them. Rest of their assets go to pay down debt.
Ok to shoot on site if they ever come back.

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