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The Morning Report — 12/26/23

Good morning, kids. Hope you all had a blessed and joyous Christmas. We're still light on the links as is usual post-weekend, as well as post-holiday and as the year winds down, yet the seriousness of what's going on reflected in what we do have for sure makes up for it on a number of fronts.

While Governor Jared Pole-Smoker flits about and utterly butchers an alleged rendition of "Feliz Navidad," you'll wish you were as blind as José Feliciano and as deaf as Marlee Matlin so as not to have to endure it.

No doubt, that horrid display was his attempt at "His-pandering" to the newly-minted illegal alien Democrat voter base, despite the fact that much of the current Latino base in the state and elsewhere were as revolted as we all were. Meanwhile, the shrinking number of normal Coloradans as well as the rest of normal America cannot avoid the illegal alien invasion that his party set in motion with the intentional erasure of our border and immigration controls, along with the erasure of the rule of law and morality with the state's supreme court's naked tyranny in removing Donald Trump from the primary ballot.

Once again, Ace cruelty fan-boi Victor Davis Hanson posts a double-whammy, first a plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose with the Colorado court:

In the election of 1860, southern Democrats in 10 states of the soon-to-be formalized Confederacy made it almost impossible for their own voters to cast ballots for Abraham Lincoln for President. In that sense, the Left in Colorado would have felt right at home in the ante-bellum South—erasing the name of a presidential candidate whom they loathed and by whom they were similarly terrified.
In eerie fashion, and also similar to the old ethos of the Confederacy, the Democratic Left now believes in state nullification of federal statutes. So like the would-be secessionist states of 1860-1, over 550 jurisdictions, almost all in blue states, claim that federal immigration laws no longer apply to them. Thus they brag that they can breezily be defied. (Not so easily or willfully are federal gun laws, or EPA mandates, or federal endangered species lists, ignored in red-state jurisdictions.)
The essence of sanctuary cities is an arrogant sense that federal law means nothing to morally superior local and state governments. So they nullify federal immigration laws in the manner of defying tariffs by South Carolina in 1832, or racial integration by Alabama Governor George Wallace in 1963. . .
. . . The echoes keep popping up periodically and predictably in the news, as we saw with the Colorado erasure of Donald Trump from Colorado’s primary and likely general election ballot. Take also racial fixations and obsessions. Is the current diversity/inclusion/equity—woke movement based on similar racial essentialism? Or in Confederate terms, are we back to certifying one’s particular DNA (now by blood tests, but then by genealogists)? Does the South’s old one-sixteenth/one-drop rule (ask Elizabeth Warren) still determine racial status and privilege?
Do our DEI/woke racially segregated campus dorms, segregated safe spaces, segregated graduations, and segregated events echo Wallace’s 1963 Inauguration Address chant—“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”? Are blue-states becoming like one-dimensional “King Cotton” economies of the past? . . .
. . . In the years before the Civil War and in the ante-bellum Jim Crow South, southern states bled populations fleeing to the new territories in the West or to the manufacturing and industrial boomtowns of the North. They were escaping a fossilized society of have and have nots—eerily representative of the current ethos of the blue-state paradigm. California has the richest zip codes and greatest number of billionaires, and near highest poverty rate. New York is close; both have largest number of residents escaping their states—ironically to a new South that is becoming as dynamic as the old bygone North.
So the recent ballot erasing of Colorado fits this larger picture of blue-states emulating the values of ante-bellum southern states—erasing ballots, defying federal laws, fixating on race and racial privileges, and catering to a one-dimensional medieval economy and caste, amid a growing underclass struggling with neglected infrastructure, poor schools, and growing poverty. . .
. . . So what will be the new/old Democratic 2024 election mantra? "Vote for us—and ballot deletion, states’ rights, federal nullification, racial essentialism and segregation, and a one-party, one-economy plantationist nation”?

The entire post is fascinating insofar as the parallels of 1860 to 2023/4 are concerned, vis a vis the run-up to the first Civil War. Whether or not the current situation once again tears the nation apart in another hot civil war is yet to be seen.

But one thing that has not changed in all that time, and really since Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton while parlaying with Spain to seize control of a large chunk of the nascent American nation, is the fact that 99.999% of the suffering, misery, strife, discord, dissolution and discontent that have befallen us since the founding of this nation – in short, everything wrong with America is the direct result of the policies and actions of the Leftist movement and its home base of the Democrat Party. All of it.

That is my political philosophy in a nutshell, and the sole determinant now of my voting habits, the vicissitudes of the candidates and paucity of real leadership insofar as reversing course to pre-1913 American government notwithstanding.

Now, on to VDH part deux:

We should remember the now modern proverb of Nixon-era economic advisor Herb Stein to the effect that what cannot go on (without destroying the nation), simply will not go on.
In some sense, the country for recent years has been cruising on the fumes from prior and likely better wiser generations and institutions. In 2024, the tab for our current apathy, toxic politics, and incompetence will come due. So next year we will likely see the climax to a number of current dangerous ideas, events, and forces, which finally will either overwhelm us or be addressed and remedied. We live in a Neronian age but can recover if we first understand how we got here and the nature of the suicide we are committing. . .
. . . After the 2021 Kabul debacle, the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the 2023 brazen Chinese spy balloon’s uncontested trajectory over the United States, the recent Hamas invasion of Israel, the serial Iranian-fueled terrorist attacks on U.S. installations in the Middle East, and the terrorist Houthis’ veritable absorption of the Red Sea, many of America’s opportunistic enemies drew conclusions and adopted strategies that would have been previously unthinkable. Either adversaries will be so emboldened to start regional wars—an impotent Iran now brags it will block the entire Mediterranean—or a United States will be shocked into action and have to deter Iran, the Houthis, and Islamic terrorism, while dealing with an opportunistic China eager to annex Taiwan, and Russia determined to finish off Ukraine. . .
. . . No one in government has offered any projected costs to states and federal agencies of offering health, food, housing, legal, and education subsidies to millions—who broke the law by entering the U.S. and continue to do violate it while residing unlawfully here. Is that the sign of a promising American citizen—that the first thing he does upon entering America is to break his host’s law? Incredibly, no one has even explained to Americans why millions of illegal aliens are exempt from the vaccine mandates, background checks, and adherence to the law that is demanded of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants. We will soon demand “real” IDs of American citizen airline travelers, while we fly illegal aliens all over the states without any identification?
In fact, those who blew up the border can’t honestly even explain to the American people why they did so. Was it to ensure future (or even present) political constituents? Cheap labor? To ensure higher taxes to pay for more government services and to “spread the wealth?” Obeyance to the diversity/equity/inclusion lobbies? To make up for fleeing blue-state population? The United States has now exceeded, both in real numbers and in percentages, all past numbers of non-native born American residents—at a time when civic education, the idea of the melting pot, and adherence to assimilation have never been more under assault. . .
. . . The October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel and premodern massacring of nearly 1,200 Jews—and the virulent anti-Semitism that swept our elite campuses and big cities even before the October 27 Israeli Defense Forces’ retaliatory invasion of Gaza—was a wakeup call about the racialized hatred and anti-Semitism now endemic on the Left. Campus protestors dropped the prior protestations that they were not anti-Semitic in their hatred of Israel. Instead, they now call out Jews by name. They disrupt their homes and businesses, regardless of their views on Zionism. Pro-Hamas protestors feel free to harass Jews, and with impunity and arrogance chant genocidal chants promising the destruction of Israel and its Jewish population. . .
. . . The apogee of such extremism was evident in the congressional testimony of three ethically challenged Ivy-League presidents. They reminded the nation that no campus president would unequivocally condemn, much less punish, any anti-Semites on a campus, who openly called for the destruction of Israel and its Jewish population. And they lied about “free speech” constraints on their punishment of mainstreaming anti-Semitic and genocidal threats—given they routinely expel, censure, and variously punish all sorts of “hate speech,” but only if it is directed against their own DEI constituencies. All this is not tenable. . .
. . . They understand that half the country knows the January 6 “riot” was the work of unarmed, overzealous, and buffoonish protestors, who broke the law by entering the Capitol, but otherwise had no master insurrectionary plan. And the majority surrounding the Capitol did in fact obey the president’s call to protest “peacefully” and “patriotically.” The left privately understands that their latest weaponization of government follows their “Russian collusion hoax,” their “laptop disinformation” farce, their two politicized impeachments, their performance-art Mar-a-Lago documents raid, and thus are all part of a systematic degradation of our campaigns, elections, and political customs, tradition, and discourse.
A jaded public knows too well that such punitive measures never applied to the 2016 Hillary Clinton crimes of destroying subpoenaed emails and devices, or the FBI’s illegal alteration of FISA documents or its contracting out social media to suppress news stories, or its hiring of a foreign national Christopher Steele, who compiled a fake “dossier” to destroy the candidacy of Donald Trump. . .

Pause while I remind the estimable Dr. Hanson, who somehow never mentions this rather salient point, that aside from the fact that the "buffoonish protesters" as he calls them did not break into the Capitol but were literally escorted into the building by the police, the violence he seems to attribute to them was instigated by scores of agents-provocateur; FBI/DOJ confederates or actual agents themselves. Back to the action. . .

What then do the campaign and election of 2024 foreordain? We will be in entirely new and completely dangerous territory. The likely Republican nominee who currently leads incumbent president Joe Biden will be for most of 2024 the constant target of a coordinated state and local Soviet-like effort to destroy his candidacy before the voters can even vote for or against him in the November election.
In sum, in 2024, we will either see the destruction of presidential electoral politics as we have known them or a complete repudiation of lawfare. The current new normal that the party in power indicts the leading candidate of the opposition is not sustainable or compatible with the idea of America.
Will we meet these challenges or ensure the ongoing decline?
If what we saw after October 7, or the wild and out-of-control reign of weaponized local and state prosecutors, or what we watch nightly on television at the border, or the paralyses we witness abroad of our military, or the breezy way in which our officials promise groups here and abroad billions of dollars in easy money, continues into 2024, then the country as we knew it will become unrecognizable.

Dr. Hanson, the country as we knew it is already completely unrecognizable. More to the point, you ask us if we are going to "meet these challenges." My question to you, and every other smart, erudite historian, commentator and pundit who writes these very well-thought essays on the state of play is simple:

H O W ? !

With a thoroughly corrupt government that has weaponized law enforcement and intelligence to target any voice of opposition, a media that is a propaganda house organ that silences voices of dissent while pumping out bald-faced lies and smears to prop up the regime and destroy all opponents, an educational system that has created at least two generations of useless brainwashed dolts instead of citizens, and a private sector that more and more is crony-fascisticly in bed with the regime, how is the average person supposed to "meet these challenges?"

In Dr. Hanson's defense, he is great at being able to articulate and catalogue the problems and their causes. If you have read him over time, he has become more and more alarmed at the speed and depth of the dissolution. Yet, he is still reticent, like so many others, at identifying real solutions, especially as the situation descends into an existential threat. Can't say I blame him.

The fact of the matter is the challenges are meeting us, with brass knuckles to the face. For the moment, that's rhetorical, but for those still languishing in the Garland Archipelago that you labeled "buffoons" it's not rhetorical at all.

As we roll into 2024, it's become more and more obvious that it'll either be ballots or bullets. And as we all saw in 2020, ballots are likely not going to cut it. If by some miracle they do, then for sure the bullets will be coming right at us.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Richard Moss, MD: "Medical schools embraced DEI, and it’s now beginning to infiltrate medical practices across America."
DEI Comes to Jasper, Indiana
Victor Davis Hanson: "Will we meet the challenges or ensure the ongoing decline?" (Even the great VDH is not immune from perfectly diagnosing the situation without addressing the fundamental question of fighting back: "How?" - jjs)
2024—The Year of Our Reckoning

ISRAEL AT WAR

"Iranian-state media said that Reza Mousawi, a high-ranking Iranian general, was killed in a strike on the Sayida Zeinab neighborhood. Israeli airstrikes in Syria earlier this month killed two other Iranian generals."
Israel Kills Top Iranian General In Syria: Report
"Last week, Hamas was reported to have cut off hostage negotiations, insisting that no talks would happen under fire, and that a hostage exchange would only occur in response to a permanent ceasefire ending the war and leaving Hamas in control."
Hamas, Islamic Jihad Reject Proposal to End War by Giving Up Power in Gaza
"Biden and his Democrats live to revive the Spirt of Munich, 1938."
A Real Democracy Cannot Protect Hamas
"A look at the UN's finest who's out there to make 'peace' in the Middle East."
Is the UN's Francesca Albanese Impartial on Israel?
"An Israeli mom reunited with her two just-freed daughters."
A Tight Embrace

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“Her track record is unbefitting the president of the country’s premier university. Remaining on the job would send a bad signal to students about the gravity of her conduct,” [Ruth] Marcus wrote. (Marcus may be an outlier but when the WaPo publishes it, then the knives are out - jjs)
Washington Post Op-Ed: Harvard President Claudine Gay Should Resign over Plagiarism Scandal
“Austin, we are at your gate, justice is our only fate,” the protesters chanted at the home of the defense secretary [Lloyd Austin]." (What? No molotov cocktails? - jjs)
Pro-"Palestinian" Protesters Assail Homes of Biden Officials on Christmas Day
"Children taken off stage as demonstrators storm the stage."
Christmas Event Supporting Blind Children Disrupted By Pro-"Palestinian" Demonstrators
Daniel Greenfield: "Those who define the oppressors and the oppressed get to perpetrate the genocide."
Decolonization is Colonialism
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
She is a staunch advocate of leftist political stances, and has described a proposed French immigration bill as "shameful" and "disgusting," Remix News reports. (Le karma runs over le dogma - jjs
Left-Wing French Deputy Mayor Brutally Assaulted by "North African" Men Outside Her Home, Hospitalized
Robert Spencer: "Will he visit a Sharia-adherent country?"
Man Wearing Hijab and Lipstick Insists: "I am Muslim. Not a Fake Woman."
". . . she won official acclaim for the radicalism that now has her out of the classroom, but still getting paid. Schools Chancellor David Banks plainly hasn’t cleaned house at DOE headquarters, if he’s even tried. No wonder alert middle- and working-class families are fleeing the DOE’s schools." (And fleeing New York Shitty - jjs)
The Ugly Reasons This Pro-Hamas NYC Teacher Still Has a Job
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
“And no mention of hostages and rape. He[r] Jew hate is really showing here.”
Titty-Caca AOC Cooked For ‘Jew Hate’ Christmas Message Likening Jesus Christ To Gazans
COLORADO'S DISGUSTING REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM 2024 BALLOT
Robert Spencer: "Maybe he's just remarkably prescient?"
As California and Others Move to Bar Trump From Ballot, Remember: Biden Said This Would Happen
"The Biden [junta] has enacted or threatened sanctions against foreign nations who have kicked opposition candidates off the ballot, leading some lawmakers to question the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling this week to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 election ballot."
Here’s How the Biden Junta Treated Countries Who Kicked Candidates Off the Ballot
"The state’s Supreme Court ruling confirms Trump’s claim that Democrats are coming after his voters."
Colorado’s Christmas Gift to Trump
"Many have observed that Confederate states proudly booted Lincoln off the ballot, but Victor Davis Hanson digs into how the Confederate pattern extends beyond the ballot."
Must-Read VDH Tweet: 2023 Democrats the Same as the 1861 Democrats
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Despite this, Trump believes 2024 will culminate in a general election victory for him:"
Trump: Biden ‘Illegally Using All of the Levers of Law Enforcement’ to Jail Me
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
“I was just swatted. This is like the 8th time. On Christmas with my family here. My local police are the GREATEST and shouldn’t have to deal with this. I appreciate them so much and my family and I are in joyous spirits celebrating the birth of our savior Jesus Christ!” Greene tweeted Monday morning.
MTG Swatted On Christmas
"Lang was there in the tunnel where J6ers were gassed by cops. This is where Rosanne Boyland was overcome by the gas and, as she struggled to get out, was trampled. Then, when she was on the ground, she was allegedly beaten with a baton by a federal cop. Lang was there begging cops to help get her out and medically treated. Her lifeless body was removed from the Capitol complex, and moments later she was pronounced dead on January 6. Lang was arrested days later and has been locked up on pre-trial detention ever since. Read that again: ever since. It will be three years in just a few days."
Another Gulag Christmas in Joe Biden's J6 Jail. Here's How to Help NOW.
"We can expect the lunatics to try to disenfranchise us under the rubric of thwarting 'insurrectionists.'"
"Our Democracy™" is the Opposite of Majority Rule
Robert Spencer: "Biden’s leftism isn’t generally recognized as a religion, but it very much is one, as can be seen all over, for instance in the transgender pronoun fantasies and hunt for heretics who dare to 'misgender' a particular fantasist, and the fervor with which supporters of abortion vowed to fight against all restrictions to the practice after Roe v. Wade was overturned. But since this secular ideology is not understood to be a religion, it is not seen as an established creed in violation of the First Amendment, as it would be in a sane polity."
We Actually Do Have an Established Religion, and That’s Not Good
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Hussain Abdul-Hussain, research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, responded: “Because you know how in Matthew 15:24 Jesus said, ‘I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel,’ by Israel Jesus meant Palestine. Father Beck has to stop watching Al-Jazeera and start reading the New Testament.”
XiNN Priest Slammed for Claiming Jesus Was a "‘Palestinian' Jew" Born Into an "Occupied" Country (Where are all the other "Palestinian" Jews? - jjs)
Robert Spencer: "Why is the New York Times publishing Hamas propaganda? Because doing so is consistent with its longstanding editorial policies. Ninety years ago, on July 9, 1933, just over five months after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany and years after his virulent anti-Semitism and propensity for violence had become internationally known, the Times published a fawning puff piece on the Führer."
Hitler Wasn't Available: New York Times Runs Article by Hamas Official

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"Effective Altruism and Artificial Intelligence are healthy, safe, abstract, pro forma. Real life is dirty, dangerous, full of mistakes, and right in your face."
The AI Axe Will Fall First on Bureaucrats and Journalists
"In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.”
Artificial Intelligence—Learning Panacea or Progressive Trojan Horse?
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
“[T]he share of EVs has been dramatically increasing every single year, and that’s continuing. Now, our goal is, by the end of this decade, to be about half-and-half. We think that that can and will happen." (His shit's all retarded . . . and that other thing - jjs)
Mayor Buttplug: Americans Won’t Be Driving "Old" Gas-Powered Cars in 2050
"Smart businesses don’t sell things customers aren’t buying."
Half of U.S. Buick Dealers Take Buyouts Rather Than Sell EV’s
"Instead of leveraging all available tools to pull Africa out of energy poverty, it only allows so-called 'green-energy projects' to receive US funding and support. This policy is simply energy colonialism. Even worse, it is hypocritical and a huge waste of money and opportunities."
Biden's Energy Plan Means Lights Out for Africa
AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The governor’s questionable dance moves and out-of-pitch singing come in the wake of at least 340 migrants being dropped off in Denver in less than 24 hours between Thursday night and Friday morning, according to CBS News."
Colorado Gov. Jared Pol-Smoker Faces Backlash for Cringy "Feliz Navidad" Rendition as Migrant Crisis Surges
"Biden's refusal to protect the southern border is objectively a disaster."
Malice in Blunderland: Biden’s Border
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"In recent months, [Jon Bel Edwards] has made an effort to reduce the population of the state’s overcrowded prisons, with 1,094 people per 100,000 being in some form of incarceration, according to Fox News."
Outgoing Democrat Governor Pardons 56 Inmates, Including 40 Convicted Murderers
Radio silence from BLM - jjs
At Least 18 Shot in Chicago During First Two Days of Christmas Weekend
ABORTION
"We should never end the life of a newborn as a mercy."
Kate Cox’s Baby Deserved a Name
POLITICS
"No more talk of Michelle ‘hating politics.’ Conservatives should be ready to deal with it when she replaces Joe Biden for 2024."
Michelle Obama Absolutely is Political
"In 2023, Harris recorded the lowest vice-presidential favorability rating in NBC News poll history, hitting a net-negative rating of -17."
Kamala Harris Wrapped: Here’s How America’s Favorite VP Fared During Another Rocky Year Under Scrutiny
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"Once upon a time, Barack Obama named Joe Biden as his running mate to fill a void in his own resumé on foreign policy experience. Today, Joe Biden's own team can't seem to name any legitimate foreign policy accomplishments to brag about."
Awkward: John Kirby Struggles When Asked for a Biden Foreign Policy Achievement
“So if people are celebrating quietly, there’s very little chance they’re going to be harassed, but any public demonstrations around Christmas, and large church movements to celebrate Christmas, will certainly be monitored,” he continued, “and potentially hurt the social score of those people who are involved.”
In Communist China, Celebrating Christmas Could Hurt Your Social Credit Score
"The Chinese recession is driven mostly by a crisis of confidence."
The Sickness and Outlook of the Chinese Economy
"The Chinese attitude to animals is very different from our own."
Bad News Bears
The new rooster weathervane has “wings of fire” to symbolize that “the cathedral can be reborn from the ashes, like a phoenix.”
France’s Iconic Notre Dame Cathedral Will Reopen by Christmas 2024
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"The potential Achilles' heel of our military."
The U.S. Military is Not Woke, But the Woke Threat is Real
The course description for HE 374, Topics In Gender & Sexuality in Literature, begins by tracing the history of gender and sexuality studies from its origin in the women’s studies discipline rooted in the Second Wave Feminism of the 1970’s and 1980’s, according to a syllabus the DCNF obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. However, the English major course broadens to include studies for future U.S. Navy officers on LGBTQ studies, race, class and concepts informed by Critical Race Theory, which defines people groups in terms of oppressor and oppressed, the syllabus shows.
Here’s What They’re Teaching in the Naval Academy’s Gender and Sexuality Class
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
The Hobby Distillers Association, an organization with over 1,300 members represented by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), filed a federal lawsuit this month against the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TBB) and Department of Justice (DOJ) over the government’s ban on at-home distilling. The ban is not just “bad policy,” CEI’s General Counsel Dan Greenberg told the Daily Caller News Foundation, it’s also “inconsistent with a proper view of the limited government constraints of the Constitution.”
Federal Lawsuit Challenges Ban on One of the Most American Things Ever
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"The poll reveals that 62% of Californians believe sex is a binary concept, with male and female being the only two options. Furthermore, 70% of respondents defined woman as a 'biologically born female.'”
Most Californians are against radical gender ideology: poll
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"You can start out with every advantage and waste them all. Or you can start out with nothing and become a success. It all depends on you. Your attitude is far more important than your race, gender, or social class in determining what you will accomplish in life."
Carol Swain Op-Ed: A Can-Do Attitude is More Important Than Race or Social-Class (And merit-based achievement - jjs)
"Imagine this lady showing up for her violin-fest with her crying routine in front of some West Virginia coal miners or some Amazon warehouse workers making $15/hour."
WATCH: Black Actress Worth Estimated $12 Million Cries About Low Pay, Cites Racism
"The West has become the cultural equivalent of an anorexic, with the leftists’ warped perceptions ignoring our cultural wonders and filling too many with self-loathing."
The Decline and Fall of the Descendants of the Roman Empire
"A reflection on where the Catholic Church is headed."
Can the Pope Overrule God?
HITHER & YON
“Maestro is a huge missed opportunity."
Bradley Cooper Is Leonard Bernstein — And I Am Marie of Romania
Christian Toto: "Sublime franchise reboot takes page from Tom Cruise's 2022 smash."
Godzilla Minus One is Toho’s Top Gun: Maverick
FINALLY . . .
"The 1940s hit should remind us of the men who couldn’t come home."
"If Only in My Dreams": The Poignant Context of a Christmas Classic

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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 07:45 AM (MoZTd)

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The early bird catches the First.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 07:45 AM (MoZTd)

3 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2023 07:46 AM (fwDg9)

4 Or a podium

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2023 07:47 AM (fwDg9)

5 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 26, 2023 07:47 AM (sNtYB)

6 Mornin

Posted by: Mick at December 26, 2023 07:49 AM (sVc11)

7 I nodded the tech peep’s

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 26, 2023 07:51 AM (hEv4o)

8 Meant nooded, rookie mistake.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at December 26, 2023 07:52 AM (hEv4o)

9 top 10

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 07:52 AM (lwOKI)

10 my lingering respect for the brilliant academic mind of VDH is frequently covered over by pity and mild disgust at his weak-tea, too-little-too-late attempts to seem relevant in the modern times we find ourselves in.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 26, 2023 07:54 AM (kc18b)

11 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 26, 2023 07:55 AM (ju2Fy)

12 10 my lingering respect for the brilliant academic mind of VDH is frequently covered over by pity and mild disgust at his weak-tea, too-little-too-late attempts to seem relevant in the modern times we find ourselves in.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 26, 2023 07:54 AM (kc18b)

He is great at brilliantly cataloging the problems and their causes. He does not articulate real solutions, especially as those problems devolve into existential threats.

I think he knows what they are and just does not want to go there. Can't say I blame him.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 07:57 AM (x0n13)

13 10 my lingering respect for the brilliant academic mind of VDH is frequently covered over by pity and mild disgust at his weak-tea, too-little-too-late attempts to seem relevant in the modern times we find ourselves in.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 26, 2023 07:54 AM (kc18b)

Even were VDH to call for violence, does he have the reach that anyone would heed it?

Posted by: XTC at December 26, 2023 07:58 AM (sm6Pk)

14 . . . So what will be the new/old Democratic 2024 election mantra? "Vote for us—and ballot deletion, states’ rights, federal nullification, racial essentialism and segregation, and a one-party, one-economy plantationist nation”?

I stand in awe of VDHs erudition, but FFS, is he miles off the beam on this one. The Democrat mantra will be what it has been since at least Dubya's election and sporadically before:

Vote for us and the pain stops.

Why otherwise sane people cannot see this is beyond me. AFAIAC, the only inaugural address I want to hear in January of 2025 is: "Joseph Robinette Biden, you are under arrest for the crime of treason against the United States of America."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 26, 2023 07:59 AM (Q0kLU)

15 A whole article on "I'll Be Home for Christmas," the big hit of 1943, and no mention of the Eighth Air Force in England.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 26, 2023 08:00 AM (FCs/J)

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Bradley Cooper Is Leonard Bernstein — And I Am Marie of Romania

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I know I'm an awful person, but Leonard Bernstein grates on my nerves. As does The Neurotic Jew (see also, Woody Allen). No wonder he became a well-known Mahler conductor.

He made two terrible mistakes. The first was taking on the music directorship of the New York Philharmonic, thus extinguishing the promise of West Side Story. The second was giving up the music directorship of the New York Philharmonic and becoming an itinerant celeb.

He was a pretentious pseudo-intellectual - Tom Wolfe took care of that - who wrote pretentious pseudo-great "serious" works (would we listen to Mass if it was written by anyone else?).

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:00 AM (MoZTd)

17 Arkansas man finds a 4.87-carat diamond while golfing with his girlfriend at a state golf course SW of Little Rock. Crater of Diamond City course. Largest found there since 2020.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:00 AM (2yu8s)

18 I'm a Yankee noodle noody,
I'm a Yankee noodle nood!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:02 AM (2yu8s)

19 Good morning again dear morons and thanks JJ

Good job with the VDH essay, pointing out some of the omissions makes me wonder about his blind spots. I think the template is more 1933 than 1860.

This is not merely a civil schism, we are dealing with a junta that is global in nature.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:03 AM (RIvkX)

20 Not top 10?

BAH! HUMBUG!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:03 AM (ch/kO)

21 A real live version of my Uncle Nood
Born on the Nood of July.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:03 AM (NBVIP)

22 16 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:00 AM (MoZTd)

I found Bernstein's works irritating. "Candide" grates on my ears. That said, I wonder if he isn't the Claudine Gay of composers. The fact that he was a Black Panther fan-boi is also reason to loathe him.

Woody Allen is detestable on so many fronts. That said, in his earlier works, he skewered the Left with equal gusto and frequency as he did to the Right.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:05 AM (x0n13)

23 Hey, Nood, don't make it bad
Take a sad thread and make it nooder

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:06 AM (2yu8s)

24 I know I'm an awful person, but Leonard Bernstein grates on my nerves. As does The Neurotic Jew (see also, Woody Allen). No wonder he became a well-known Mahler conductor.

Lennie was a limitedly-talented self-centered leftist clown (the abortive Alan Jay Lerner musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would not have cult status had LB not written the score). I'll take the scratchiest, brokenest disc of Klemperer any day.

And both Mahler and the Woodman grate on me, too.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 26, 2023 08:06 AM (Q0kLU)

25 Left-Wing French Deputy Mayor Brutally Assaulted by "North African" Men Outside Her Home, Hospitalized

What a shame.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 26, 2023 08:07 AM (aD39U)

26 Will we meet these challenges or ensure the ongoing decline?

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This is where an aficionado of the cruel AoSHQ comments section would have followed with a simple "/rhetorical" sarc tag, Dr. Hanson.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 08:07 AM (uVThL)

27 Noody in the sky with diamonds

Posted by: Noody John at December 26, 2023 08:07 AM (NBVIP)

28 Not hard -- term used advisedly -- to see this will be yet another day of glowie Fed penises on the bar, here at the AoS. Let's get that civil war going yay.

Drop a post card when you've taken your first city, you shriveled cripples. You haven't got the nuts to knock on your neighbors' doors to campaign for a candidate, and you want to shoot them. You're not even first rate mental cases; just little nuts. You're ridiculous little boys.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 26, 2023 08:07 AM (FCs/J)

29 As we roll into 2024, it's become more and more obvious that it'll either be ballots or bullets
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\insert why-cant-we-have-both taco meme here

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:07 AM (ch/kO)

30 The problem with addressing the problems we are facing as a nation right now is that any solution involves measures that most people would find morally and ethically repugnant, no matter how necessary they might be.

Extensive bloodshed is among those solutions, which is why most people want to shy away from them. Sadly, that is more and more likely to happen the longer these problems fester.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 26, 2023 08:07 AM (BpYfr)

31 14 Vote for us and the pain stops.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 26, 2023 07:59 AM (Q0kLU)

Except the pain will be unbearable if they "win" wink-wink.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:07 AM (x0n13)

32 Happy New Year. Back in the day, my late Father use to run to the mailbox looking for his SS check. Older voters are the most reliable to cast ballots every election.

Thas is the reason Red States cannot succeed. D.C checks

Posted by: Jonah at December 26, 2023 08:08 AM (33nmr)

33 Sweet Noody Nood...(ba ba ba)
Good times never seemed so nood.

Posted by: Nood Diamond at December 26, 2023 08:09 AM (NBVIP)

34 Read the entire content and still can only think the answer is to collapse the system and then they can create a new system that is barely a theory and has never been proven to work though has been tried many times.

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2023 08:09 AM (fwDg9)

35 Oppenheimer is a excellent movie. Seems to be the pattern in Film these. One quality intelligent movie, without PC gay characters, every season

Posted by: Jonah at December 26, 2023 08:10 AM (33nmr)

36
I hope Way, Way gets his own blog and stays there.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 26, 2023 08:10 AM (enJYY)

37 Arkansas man finds a 4.87-carat diamond while golfing with his girlfriend at a state golf course SW of Little Rock.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:00 AM (2yu8s)
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What does he propose to do with it?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:10 AM (ch/kO)

38 "Blah blah blah was removed from the ballot!" OK. Well... *should* they have been? Is there an objective basis for what you're doing that is supported by anything more than libel and emotion? Lumping together Trump, Lincoln, Biden in DE, some Cossack or Kuomintang no sensible American knows the name of, and whoever else, as some monolithic jeopardy category of "things that were taken off ballots", and then treating them as if they were all congruent, is silly. Taking a candidate off a ballot is not inherently wrong, but if it's illegitimate it certainly is. It's all just argumentum ex sinistrum, like everything else. False equivalence, slander, sophistry, category errors, and on and on and on. But never mind all that. Just root for the Blue Ties, peasant, and we won't have to hurt you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 08:10 AM (9UlRk)

39 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 26, 2023 08:10 AM (T4tVD)

40
As for his conducting, I like Bernstein best in American music, in Mozart and Haydn (where exaggeration would be incongruous), in Berlioz (where exaggeration is almost mandatory) and in his earlier Mahler and Sibelius cycles.

His Columbia recordings have fire and dash, if sometimes sloppy ensemble (I have many of them). His DG recordings are often so bloated as to be unlistenable.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:11 AM (MoZTd)

41 Example of the pain never stops look I to the history of the Soviet Union

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2023 08:11 AM (fwDg9)

42 Good morning Hordelings! Howdy JJ and thanks!

Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2023 08:11 AM (eNASR)

43 Good morning, Horde.

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:12 AM (zxP/x)

44 Woody Allen is detestable on so many fronts. That said, in his earlier works, he skewered the Left with equal gusto and frequency as he did to the Right.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:05 AM (x0n13)
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"Albert Shanker got the bomb."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

45
Please send all 4.87 karat diamonds to SeftonCorp via Western Union to cover all modalities.

And remain blessed!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:13 AM (x0n13)

46 30. Corporate Media wants us to hate each other. Good for Ratings

Posted by: Jonah at December 26, 2023 08:14 AM (33nmr)

47 44 "Albert Shanker got the bomb."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

Harry Stein referenced this a few podcasts back. Hilarious, especially since I'm a New Yorker and the child of NYC teachers from Shanker's era.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:15 AM (x0n13)

48 Good post-Christmas morning to all! I've got leftovers coming out of my earholes.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:15 AM (SfhV1)

49 H O W ? !

As the Apostle Paul said to the Philippians: do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (Philippians 4:6, ESV)

God needed Paul in Rome. He did not send Paul as a conquering Emperor, rather as a simple prisoner. He supplicated himself to God and continued his ministry with joy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:16 AM (NYzgN)

50 Please send all 4.87 karat diamonds to SeftonCorp

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:13 AM (x0n13)
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Times must be rough. We'd love to hear every brilliant facet of your company's finances.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:16 AM (ch/kO)

51 No doubt, that horrid display was his attempt at "His-pandering" to the newly-minted illegal alien Democrat voter base, despite the fact that much of the current Latino base in the state and elsewhere were as revolted as we all were.
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I really don't think it's about vote. Some of them register, and those ballots are useful - but many don't and the cheat machinery in places like CO is so well-developed that they don't need the illegals anyway.

I think it's more about two other things - things that matter far more in the post-republican era:
1. Headcount for federal power. Since the census counts illegals and illegals count for districting, they are useful upstream from the ballot, to help the state grow in importance in Washington thanks to mass.
2. Muscle and street presence. In a post-republic, street control is increasingly important since the serfs have to be kept in line. The Latino gangs take care of that for their own populations, and there is spillover into the rest. Bodies massed on the street count, and the illegals are a big part of it that is firmly on the side of the Big Power.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:16 AM (zxP/x)

52 Yes. Annie Hall showed how pathetic the NYC elitists were, even in the 1970's

Posted by: Jonah at December 26, 2023 08:16 AM (33nmr)

53 I don't think Woody intended or expected Sleeper to be so prescient.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

54 Buttigieg responded, “Well, no, you’re not going to meet a lot of people who ever go back after they’ve got electric, and I think that really tells you something.

the percentage of households who owned and EV and bought another EV increased from 48% to 65.3%

So 1 out of 3 go back to gas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 08:17 AM (lwOKI)

55 48. Morning Grammie. I agree. Ate every type of food group for two days, and have Mount Etna in my belly today. Ya know it is too much when you eat Peanut MM's at Midnight

Posted by: Jonah at December 26, 2023 08:18 AM (33nmr)

56 Sounds like somebody needs a nap.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:18 AM (hH3Px)

57 In the years before the Civil War and in the ante-bellum Jim Crow South, southern states bled populations fleeing to the new territories in the West or to the manufacturing and industrial boomtowns of the North.
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Ante-bellum *is* "the years before the Civil War" in the American context. The postwar period - Reconstruction, "Jim Crow" era, etc. - would be post-bellum.

What an add mistake for Hanson to make.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:19 AM (zxP/x)

58 There's more oil than lithium.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:19 AM (NBVIP)

59 Trying to get a translation of French but doesn't matter. Shocked she didn't take her beating like a Muslim woman would and forget it happened

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2023 08:19 AM (fwDg9)

60 Hannah and Her Sisters was a great parody also

Posted by: Jonah at December 26, 2023 08:19 AM (33nmr)

61
Another thing I hold against Bernstein is his partnership with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. In exchange for his frequent performances with what is, admittedly, one of the world's great ensembles, Bernstein essentially whitewashed the VPO's viciously anti-Semitic past. Only now is it coming to terms with that.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:20 AM (MoZTd)

62 All these cutting puns and yet no one's given an Amsterdam.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:20 AM (2yu8s)

63 Buttigieg responded, “Well, no, you’re not going to meet a lot of people who ever go back after they’ve got electric, and I think that really tells you something.

the percentage of households who owned and EV and bought another EV increased from 48% to 65.3%

So 1 out of 3 go back to gas.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 08:17 AM (lwOKI)

What exactly does it tell us? That there is a product that is finding its niche in the market. Does it tell us it high time to eliminate gas powered vehicles now that 2/3rds of some single digit percentage of the market says they like them enough to buy them again at absurdly subsidized rates? Not even close.

Argument ex sinistrum. Go, Blue Ties.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 08:20 AM (9UlRk)

64 Hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at December 26, 2023 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

65 OK, more mandatory work vids to watch. Feel free to insert my usual "nothing will happen, so why even bother?" comment wherever one feels it appropriate.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 26, 2023 08:20 AM (Q0kLU)

66 Please, Captain Obvious, in the same manner we resolved the original founding is how. Call it Freedom 2 for the catchy name, the procedure won't differ. It IS our preservation and heritage that we follow this path.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 26, 2023 08:21 AM (KATBx)

67 Today is Boxing Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 08:21 AM (NpAcC)

68 Never would have been a civil war, if D.C was sending SS and disability checks to the South, back then.

FDR knew this, so did London

Posted by: Jonah at December 26, 2023 08:21 AM (33nmr)

69 What an add mistake for Hanson to make.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:19 AM (zxP/x)

Maybe he meant the Vietnam antebellum?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 08:21 AM (9UlRk)

70 57 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:19 AM (zxP/x)

Maybe he meant that insofar as post-Civil War, many southerners retained that as an attitude, as no doubt many still do. Hence, the current kerfuffle over the flag and monuments.

And I do not mean that to say that southerners wish for a return to slavery.

Meh, I can't read his mind.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:22 AM (x0n13)

71 With a thoroughly corrupt government that has weaponized law enforcement and intelligence to target any voice of opposition, a media that is a propaganda house organ that silences voices of dissent while pumping out bald-faced lies and smears to prop up the regime and destroy all opponents, an educational system that has created at least two generations of useless brainwashed dolts instead of citizens, and a private sector that more and more is crony-fascisticly in bed with the regime, how is the average person supposed to "meet these challenges?"
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For now, the answer to this question seems to be, "by checking out." People know it's bullshit, yet they also know that they can't win. People are increasingly becoming their own Cassandras. They know the emperor is naked, and many even say so - but nobody seems to hear them. They are heard, of course, but nobody can or will acknowledge that they hear.

So go to ground. Try not to get noticed, wander through the day, and try to find meaning where you can while it all tumbles down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:22 AM (zxP/x)

72 The height of hypocrisy is the "Southern Poverty Law Center".

Morris Dees and his fellas have been stealing money from rich libs since 1971.

What is needed today is a Northern Poverty Law Center.

The horror, the horror...

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2023 08:23 AM (R/m4+)

73 Turn off the news. Play with the grandkids.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:23 AM (NBVIP)

74 Maybe he meant that insofar as post-Civil War, many southerners retained that as an attitude, as no doubt many still do. Hence, the current kerfuffle over the flag and monuments.

Meh, I can't read his mind.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:22 AM (x0n13)
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I think that's a stretch. Looks like a brain fart to me. I won't hold it against him. My brain is excessively flatulent, and I am a damn sight younger than VDH

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:23 AM (zxP/x)

75 HOW?
Perhaps the so-called “buffoons” were on to something.

Posted by: 7man at December 26, 2023 08:23 AM (qwO6y)

76 "So go to ground. Try not to get noticed, wander through the day, and try to find meaning where you can while it all tumbles down."

Isn't this where 'Become a Grey Man' came from?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:23 AM (hH3Px)

77 The height of hypocrisy is the "Southern Poverty Law Center".

Morris Dees and his fellas have been stealing money from rich libs since 1971. ...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2023 08:23 AM (R/m4+)
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He's been accepting money for services rendered, nothing more or less. The organization has an appropriate name. It's goal is to ensure the perpetuation of poverty through perverse law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:24 AM (zxP/x)

78 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

79
OK, more mandatory work vids to watch. Feel free to insert my usual "nothing will happen, so why even bother?" comment wherever one feels it appropriate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)

For a lot of them, I went immediately to the quiz at the end. Unless you were a moral nullity, you could scarcely guess wrong about the answers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:24 AM (MoZTd)

80 65 OK, more mandatory work vids to watch. Feel free to insert my usual "nothing will happen, so why even bother?" comment wherever one feels it appropriate.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 26, 2023 08:20 AM (Q0kLU)

That's my comment when I'm forced to watch those idiotic training films!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:24 AM (x0n13)

81

Let's try ballot manufacturing. However if you've watched Law Professor Dave Clement's' movie ''Let My People Go' it's .... discouraging. Who controls the 'voting' machines ultimately controls the selection' elections'.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at December 26, 2023 08:25 AM (W/grM)

82 Today is Boxing Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Put 'em up !

Posted by: JT at December 26, 2023 08:25 AM (T4tVD)

83 73 Turn off the news. Play with the grandkids.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:23 AM (NBVIP)

"Ooh, that's hot, Fat!"

- - Joey in the Shower

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:25 AM (x0n13)

84 "2024—the Year of our Reckoning"

Every year somebody says that. I'll tell you what else too. What cannot go on, simply will not go on. Yet it does. Until it doesn't of course. Who knows how long it will take, a year or a hundred.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

85 For a lot of them, I went immediately to the quiz at the end. Unless you were a moral nullity, you could scarcely guess wrong about the answers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:24 AM (MoZTd)
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Sigh. If only. I am going to do one of my annual training sessions today and it is time-gated. Some state somewhere, I suppose (and probably California), has some "X amount of time for harassment training each year" rule and the company enforces that through mandatory timers. It doesn't matter how fast you can read, the course *will* take the prescribed time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:26 AM (zxP/x)

86 I don't know how to fix it either.
Yo VDH! Fartclam, bro.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at December 26, 2023 08:26 AM (MvF+J)

87 It's also,
Kwanza.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

88 What exactly does it tell us? That there is a product that is finding its niche in the market. Does it tell us it high time to eliminate gas powered vehicles now that 2/3rds of some single digit percentage of the market says they like them enough to buy them again at absurdly subsidized rates? Not even close.
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Justin is pushing that crap here too. Claiming that [allegedly] "ten percent" of [new car?] sales here means that everyone will want them and them alone by his 2035 ban on ICE sales.

Not to omit that whenever a politician or MFM member uses a 10% stat, it's a lie.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:27 AM (2yu8s)

89 So go to ground. Try not to get noticed, wander through the day, and try to find meaning where you can while it all tumbles down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:22 AM (zxP/x)
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There is a Chinese phrase for this that roughly means "get through the day."

Anti-Nazi Germans referred to it as internal exile.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:27 AM (RIvkX)

90 "He is great at brilliantly cataloging the problems and their causes."

He writes listicles.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at December 26, 2023 08:28 AM (MvF+J)

91 And,
National Candy Cane Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

92 "While Governor Jared Pole-Smoker flits about and utterly butchers an alleged rendition of "Feliz Navidad," you'll wish you were as blind as José Feliciano and as deaf as Marlee Matlin so as not to have to endure it."

You're not scaring me. Bring it!

Posted by: Helen Keller at December 26, 2023 08:28 AM (z+89e)

93
People in the correct location for battery powered vehicles may buy them again. But by my estimate that is limited locations in southern states only. Here in Pennsylvania I've heard of a person who got rid of the vehicle within one month. An electric heater in our winters isn't going to cut it and will be a major strain on the battery. Not to mention every minute spent outside in temperatures below about 60 degrees F the electrons are disappearing, without the motor even running.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 26, 2023 08:28 AM (enJYY)

94 Shouldn't they call it "gift bag" day? No one boxes up gifts anymore if they can avoid it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:28 AM (NBVIP)

95 Put 'em up !
Posted by: JT at December 26, 2023 08:25 AM (T4tVD)
********
🥊

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

96 I have baskets of corn.

Posted by: Kwanzaa Timmy at December 26, 2023 08:29 AM (aD39U)

97 VDH sees coming what I see, what many of us see; an election year that becomes a disastrous train wreck with a mushroom cloud over it. I hate to say this, but no, I do not expect Trump to be President in 2025; because I do not expect America to have any undisputed President in 2025. Someone will end up in charge of the armies, but I doubt any supposed election will have anything to do with it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 08:29 AM (S6gqv)

98 I have gone this entire Christmas season without seeing a single commercial reference to Kwanza.

Perhaps its appeal is becoming more selective.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:30 AM (hH3Px)

99 Great Report this morning. Serious. Clear. Succinct. Real.
As Malone (Sean Connery) says to Elliot Ness (Kevin Costner) "what are you prepared to do?" (The Untouchables)

There endeth the lesson

Posted by: Despise & Deride Marxist Rat Bastards at December 26, 2023 08:31 AM (5uy7A)

100 "Perhaps its appeal is becoming more selective."

Kwanzaa is celebrated almost exclusively by white female schoolteachers.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at December 26, 2023 08:31 AM (MvF+J)

101 It's 2 hour training every 2 years on sexual harassment. No, you can't page through straight to the quiz, grrl h8ers.

Unless of course you are Willie Brown or Gavin Newsom who both screwed women in their offices.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:31 AM (RIvkX)

102 Again, as has been noted, the Junta, in it's first term will have let in a block of illegal immigrants, if the new accelerated rates hold, that will total nearly a 3rd of the black population of the US and over double the Jewish population of the US.

That's a gigantic block of people beholden to The Junta and the Democrat party apparatus.

An army if you will.

This sh*t is serious and I don't think a lot of people on our side understand the implications of what's happening and what's coming down the pike.

This is beyond replacement theory, this is literally ushering in fascism and feudalism without firing a shot.

This country has a decade left, if that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2023 08:31 AM (XV/Pl)

103 So go to ground. Try not to get noticed, wander through the day, and try to find meaning where you can while it all tumbles down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:22 AM (zxP/x)

Humor, community, friendship... just living life normally. My dream is that the underlying fabric of society that still exists very strongly (and is obvious if you turn off the news and delete your Ex-Twitter account), will be the trampoline that the rubble of our imploding managerial class will bounce off of.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 08:31 AM (9UlRk)

104
Earf Day and Kwanzaa. Tributes to the gentle, broad-minded humanity of their founders.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (MoZTd)

105
A 21st century American Civil War would have America's enemies sending support and technical advisors to create multiple factions which would continue fighting forever and have no leaders capable of cementing peace negotiations.

But then, it's not as if America has ever interfered in anybody else's civil war./

Posted by: Speller at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (pSotA)

106 98 I have gone this entire Christmas season without seeing a single commercial reference to Kwanza.

It's been replaced by Toyotathon.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (NBVIP)

107 I have gone this entire Christmas season without seeing a single commercial reference to Kwanza.

Perhaps its appeal is becoming more selective.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:30 AM (hH3Px)

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They should rename it to Kanye or maybe just "Ye."

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (uVThL)

108 Everyone knows the border is held open to let in more Democrats. But it also lets in fentanyl.

It would be extraordinary if the people holding open the border are not getting paid for it in kickbacks from the fentanyl sales. Does anyone believe the people running this country would leave that kind of money on the table?

Posted by: Phil N Blank at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (SV2Xx)

109 96 I have baskets of corn.
Posted by: Kwanzaa Timmy at December 26, 2023 08:29 AM (aD39U)

My People call it maize

Posted by: Two Dogs F*'ing at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (z+89e)

110 No one boxes up gifts anymore if they can avoid it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:28 AM (NBVIP)

I wrap the presents before placing them in the gift bag.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (SfhV1)

111
Unless of course you are Willie Brown or Gavin Newsom who both screwed women in their offices.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

It's how they screen people like you out for higher-level positions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:33 AM (MoZTd)

112 Biden scolds media over economy: ‘Start reporting it the right way’

http://tinyurl.com/5n8x843e

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

113 "It's been replaced by Toyotathon."

It's not difficult to gaze at Toyota Jan.

Kwanza Whoopi....not so much.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:34 AM (hH3Px)

114 There is a Chinese phrase for this that roughly means "get through the day."

Anti-Nazi Germans referred to it as internal exile.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:27 AM (RIvkX)
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Most of the world has been unfree for most or all of its history. There are surely lots of words out there for what is essentially the same phenomenon. Many of those words will fill in the gaps in American English as they make their way into the everyday language through the routine requirement to have them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:34 AM (zxP/x)

115 Biden scolds media over economy: ‘Start reporting it the right way’

Looking at one of Biden's commercials, he seems to think that holding the line on insulin costs equal stopping inflation.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:35 AM (SfhV1)

116 Everyone knows the border is held open to let in more Democrats. But it also lets in fentanyl.

It would be extraordinary if the people holding open the border are not getting paid for it in kickbacks from the fentanyl sales. Does anyone believe the people running this country would leave that kind of money on the table?

Posted by: Phil N Blank at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (SV2Xx)

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The cartels & treasonous Junta grifters are making a lot more money & kickbacks on human and child trafficking -- including sex slavery.

The fentanyl is part of the kink ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 08:35 AM (uVThL)

117 What kind of music do elves listen to?

Wrap.

Posted by: I can use it for one more day at December 26, 2023 08:36 AM (NBVIP)

118 I sometimes remember Limbaugh saying "I'll tell you when it's time to panic."

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying for decades at December 26, 2023 08:36 AM (kc18b)

119 A 21st century American Civil War would have America's enemies sending support and technical advisors to create multiple factions which would continue fighting forever and have no leaders capable of cementing peace negotiations.

But then, it's not as if America has ever interfered in anybody else's civil war./
Posted by: Speller at December 26, 2023 08:32 AM (pSotA)
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If there were to be a real new American civil war, the only call I am confident in making is, "it will be settled by outside powers." It will be too big a deal for outsiders not to see an opportunity. Someone will hurl a nuke or provide a ship or make sure one side or the other has truck tires, etc. Possibly several outsiders, all in a simultaneous proxy conflict to divide up the spoils afterward.

A new civil war could start in a vacuum, but it won't end in one.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:36 AM (zxP/x)

120 The J6 narrative spouted by the likes of Cheney and Kinzinger is the most horrific attack on America as founded in this nation's history. Bar none.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (gxokI)

121 "I wrap the presents before placing them in the gift bag.
Posted by: grammie winger"

Pants and suspenders. A cromulent strategy.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (vFG9F)

122 " No one boxes up gifts anymore if they can avoid it.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:28 AM (NBVIP)

I wrap the presents before placing them in the gift bag."

On Christmas Eve we were at our annual party an White Elephant Gift giving event.

First person to select a gift chose the largest and most brightly wrapped box from the pile of gifts.

It contained a live chicken.

About 7 pounder.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (hH3Px)

123 Every year somebody says that. I'll tell you what else too. What cannot go on, simply will not go on. Yet it does. Until it doesn't of course. Who knows how long it will take, a year or a hundred.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:26 AM (vFG9F)

Fair point; and yet years like 1860, 1914, and 1939 (in Europe) do eventually happen, the years when all the old ways break down completely. And once they happen, there's no going back to what was before.
What happens then depends on the character of the people. A worn out, cowardly people will simply lapse into thugocracy and dictatorship, like Venezuela. A moral people with courage will obtain an outcome that reflects their will.

Leadership, or it's absence, is everything at times like these.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (S6gqv)

124 I haven't seen the original post or vid but if Tucker really said what the person on another site says he said (likely so) regarding "... those who represent DeSantis online..."
Now I don't know if he was referring to just those on D's staff or across the board but, either way,,, ouch.

Posted by: Teej at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (spJU8)

125 Evidently, Kwanzaa is celebrated from 12/26 till 1/1.
The name Kwanzaa comes from the phrase “matunda ya kwanza” meaning “first fruits” in Swahili.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

126 117 What kind of music do elves listen to?

Wrap.
Posted by: I can use it for one more day at December 26, 2023 08:36 AM (NBVIP)

Elvis and El Vez.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:38 AM (x0n13)

127 First person to select a gift chose the largest and most brightly wrapped box from the pile of gifts.

It contained a live chicken.

About 7 pounder.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (hH3Px)

Does not get much better than that.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:38 AM (SfhV1)

128 I miss Rush.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:38 AM (NBVIP)

129 A belated Merry Christmas to all of you! I am taking the day off and have a short day on Friday due to having some hours that need to be spent.

Despite everything going on in the world, I wish you all well and hope that things get better next year.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2023 08:38 AM (5+9sG)

130 125 Evidently, Kwanzaa is celebrated from 12/26 till 1/1.
The name Kwanzaa comes from the phrase “matunda ya kwanza” meaning “first fruits” in Swahili.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

First fruits = Adam and Steve . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:38 AM (x0n13)

131 > So go to ground. Try not to get noticed, wander through the day, and try to find meaning where you can while it all tumbles down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
______________

I think a lot (most?) people are doing this. However the persistent use of the outrage mobs to agitate over every little thing they are told to agitate over is wearing thin.

Nobody is safe from them. When activated, supported and trucked/bussed into wherever the latest protest is planned they simply are pointed at a group and told to go sic 'em.

This is the front line. Not in the capitol city, inside the political organs or any of the institutions the left has co-opted. Those are beyond remediation using traditional methods anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2023 08:38 AM (Q4IgG)

132 Fair point; and yet years like 1860, 1914, and 1939 (in Europe) do eventually happen, the years when all the old ways break down completely. And once they happen, there's no going back to what was before. ...
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (S6gqv)
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"Status Quo Ante" is impossible. We have a phrase for this impossibility, but that is just because this particular impossibility is so commonly desired and visualized. We can imagine it, but we can never realize it.

To borrow another phrase, "you can't unring the bell."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:39 AM (zxP/x)

133 "I miss Rush."

Me too.

Last interview, Geddy seems to be holding up.

But Alex is looking his age.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:40 AM (hH3Px)

134 Major Democrat run cities may well burn again this coming year.

I am indifferent.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) predicts at December 26, 2023 08:40 AM (aD39U)

135
"Someone will hurl a nuke or provide a ship or make sure one side or the other has truck tires, etc."

There will be a couple of dozen "sides".
The fragmentation of pre-war society as it stands today will guarantee it.

Posted by: Speller at December 26, 2023 08:40 AM (pSotA)

136 Do I get to shower with Pop-pop on New Year's Eve, mommy?

Posted by: Navy Joan at December 26, 2023 08:42 AM (NBVIP)

137 It's how they screen people like you out for higher-level positions.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:33 AM (MoZTd)
===
Ha!

A friend suggested I stand for nomination to a mayoral advisory council that meets monthly. I looked at their web site and saw it met twice this year. OK.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

138 134 Major Democrat run cities may well burn again this coming year.

I am indifferent.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) predicts at December 26, 2023 08:40 AM (aD39U)

I find it amusing that for example the Hamas-loving Einsatz-groupies are protesting Democrat politicos like Lloyd Austin. Aside from the horrible fact that Jews and synagogues are being targeted, they at least know not to come out to red state America and try that shit. We shall see if they get dumb.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:42 AM (x0n13)

139 2nd Principle of Kwanzaa

Self-determination: Kujichagulia (koo–gee–cha–goo–LEE–yah)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves.

100% of the current agenda is that cultures are owed money, property, or superior rights by another culture.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 08:42 AM (lwOKI)

140 First person to select a gift chose the largest and most brightly wrapped box from the pile of gifts.

It contained a live chicken.

About 7 pounder.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (hH3Px)

A very welcome gift in Cuba and other places these days.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2023 08:42 AM (Angsy)

141 I miss Rush.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 26, 2023 08:38 AM (NBVIP)

Dittos. SWIDT???

Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2023 08:42 AM (eNASR)

142 Ok, once and for all, please correct this dumbass Yankee because i freely admit i don't actually know and probably should.... when someone says "Stars and bars", they mean the usual x-shaped cross Confederate flag like on the roof of the General Lee everyone puts on their pickup trucks up my way to say "we hate liberals too!". But that's actually the Confederate Battle Flag, specific to the Army of Some state or another, and the flag of the confederacy itself was something else that looked something like the current flag of Texas, more or less, but no one ever really uses that for anything anymore...

Or do i have all that completely inside out and backwards?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 08:43 AM (9UlRk)

143 The J6 narrative spouted by the likes of Cheney and Kinzinger is the most horrific attack on America as founded in this nation's history. Bar none.
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (gxokI)
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Bad Blue infographic:

http://tinyurl.com/4acdjxn5

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:43 AM (ch/kO)

144 insulin costs
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That the Dems allowed to be raised to get Big Pharma donations. Yes, I know they invented a better version. Probably cherry. [Why don't they start with the cherry -- they know everyone wants it?]

Was there a direct Dem link for that too as there was for epi-pens does anyone know??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:43 AM (2yu8s)

145 "years like 1860, 1914, and 1939 (in Europe) do eventually happen"

You people are not cynical enough. Plan for the worst and hope for the worst. Let's get it on.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

146 Mornin’, All. Happy Boxing Day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 26, 2023 08:44 AM (9yWhg)

147 About 7 pounder.
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A Henway??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:45 AM (2yu8s)

148 On Christmas Eve we were at our annual party an White Elephant Gift giving event.

First person to select a gift chose the largest and most brightly wrapped box from the pile of gifts.

It contained a live chicken.

About 7 pounder.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (hH3Px)

Ah, an XL Henway!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2023 08:45 AM (4I/2K)

149 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Selections from the first chapter of the Gospel of John.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:45 AM (SfhV1)

150 I find it amusing that for example the Hamas-loving Einsatz-groupies are protesting Democrat politicos like Lloyd Austin.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:42 AM (x0n13)
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They're having success:

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382567

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:45 AM (ch/kO)

151 I always assumed that Boxing Day originated in Australia and somehow involved punching kangaroos.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 08:45 AM (uVThL)

152 Or do i have all that completely inside out and backwards?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 08:43 AM (9UlRk)

You're correct. The "x" flag is the battle flag of Lee's army.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2023 08:45 AM (Angsy)

153 "A Henway??"

exactly!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:46 AM (hH3Px)

154
A very welcome gift in Cuba and other places these days.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 26, 2023 08:42 AM

"I'll have a chicken sandwich with a live chicken."

/ try to find that

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 26, 2023 08:46 AM (enJYY)

155 7th Principle:
Faith: Imani (ee–MAH–nee)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

What would be the purpose of believing in your teacher? Maybe their is valuing in believing that the teacher has the skills and education to help you learn a lesson or subject, but the is very little value in believing in the teacher.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 08:46 AM (lwOKI)

156 It is amazing evil spewing from a priest:

“What I’m so struck by is that the story of Christmas is about a Palestinian Jew- how often do you find those words put together? A Palestinian Jew born into a time when his country was occupied, right? They can’t find a place for her to even give birth, his mother. They’re homeless. They eventually have to flee as refugees into Egypt, no less. I mean, you can’t make up the parallels to our current world situation right now.”

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:46 AM (NYzgN)

157 Kate Cox’s Baby Deserved a Name

********

Trisomy 18 is quite possibly the worst choice upon which to base an anti-abortion argument. Public discussions of Trisomy 18 are rife with misrepresentations and emotional descriptions of the rare exceptions who survive beyond the newborn period (e.g. Rick Santorum's daughter Bellla), while downplaying or even omitting any mention of the costs (emotional, marital, and financial) on families and the public that accompany a child with Trisomy 18. It's an incredibly complex calculation that decent and moral people struggle with honestly. This is not comparable to abortion on-demand as a means of after-the-fact birth control. Using T-18 as the poster child against abortion on demand is manipulative and a gross oversimplification.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 26, 2023 08:46 AM (991eG)

158 Perhaps its appeal is becoming more selective."

Kwanzaa is celebrated almost exclusively by white female schoolteachers.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at December 26, 2023 08:31

The only good (at least amusing) reference to Kwanzaa I've ever seen is Kwanzaabot in Futurama.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 08:46 AM (S6gqv)

159 I think there is a natural tendency to look at the US as a unique situation rather than stepping back and seeing many if not all of the same trends happening all around the world. Europe is largely disintegrating over the same issues we are dealing with, the Middle East is a match or two away from exploding and China's economy is in hard reverse while the idiotic war in Ukraine is causing instability in that region. The whole world is a powder keg right now not just the US.

We are every bit as likely to see an external event cause massive changes that we can't right now even see or predict as anything happening internally.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 08:47 AM (ZLI7S)

160 "years like 1860, 1914, and 1939 (in Europe) do eventually happen"

You people are not cynical enough. Plan for the worst and hope for the worst. Let's get it on.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

What do you mean?

Posted by: The Hundred Years Way at December 26, 2023 08:47 AM (Angsy)

161 All the chickens at my daughter's house lined up at the front door, waiting to be invited in for cookies. Only one made it in, and that was for photographic purposes only.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (SfhV1)

162 The Bonnie Blue flag that bears a single star.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bonnie_Blue_Flag

Posted by: The Most Recent Unpleasantness at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (NBVIP)

163 130
The name Kwanzaa comes from the phrase “matunda ya kwanza” meaning “first fruits” in Swahili.

If you can find it, read "It's OK to Leave the Plantation" by Mason Weaver. He actually confronted the guy that made up that holiday. At one point in the discussion, he asked about that First Fruits nonsense. Mason pointed out that he spoke Swahili and wondered why he used that phrase when a different one would have been more accurate.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (5+9sG)

164 The Jew Hate in the Dem party is the most amazing thing to come out this year. After being attacked and having 1200 citizens murdered I never expected this. I hope it weakens their party to the extent that they lose the election. Talk about a silver lining.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (vFG9F)

165 150 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:45 AM (ch/kO)

Meh. It's not the protests. Biden et al are pro-Israel for the donors. Their actions in trying to hamstring the IDF are what matters. The denial was not influenced by any protests.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (x0n13)

166
"I'll have the eastern side of his western omelette."

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (enJYY)

167 Consider this awful fact: 4 out of 10 voters approve of FJB's handling of the economy.

Four.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 26, 2023 08:49 AM (KiBMU)

168 I would like to see a real Kwanzaa.

First Principle of Real Kwanzaa is "Who Is Baby Daddy?"...finding the real baby daddy takes time and patience and usually a court ordered medical exam an test. Stay strong and be resilient in getting that child support every month.

Just keeping it real yo!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2023 08:49 AM (R/m4+)

169 "If you can find it, read "It's OK to Leave the Plantation" by Mason Weaver. "

Outstanding book.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:49 AM (hH3Px)

170 168 I would like to see a real Kwanzaa.

First Principle of Real Kwanzaa is "Who Is Baby Daddy?"

I laughed harder than I should have. Thank you.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2023 08:50 AM (5+9sG)

171 Happy RamaHanuKwansaMas!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2023 08:50 AM (4I/2K)

172 153 "A Henway??"

exactly!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:46 AM (hH3Px)

"Henway Park is across town from Kominsky Field."

- - Dog-Eating Closet Queen

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:50 AM (x0n13)

173 According to Netanyahu in the WSJ:

Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized. These are the three prerequisites for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza.

Posted by: dantesed at December 26, 2023 08:50 AM (88xKn)

174 169: I suppose I should use my Amazon money to get a copy.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 26, 2023 08:50 AM (5+9sG)

175 They can’t find a place for her to even give birth, his mother. They’re homeless.

They had a perfectly good home in Nazareth. The government forced them to go pay their taxes in another location. "All the hotel rooms were already booked: does not equal homeless.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:51 AM (SfhV1)

176 "What would be the purpose of believing in your teacher?"
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 08:46 AM (lwOKI)

It points out something I think all of us know - Islam is a system of totalitarian political control masquerading as a religion. All totalitarian systems require commisars who cannot be questioned. (Free thought destroys the system)
This is also why leftists find Islam to be such an attractive and compatible system to their own.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 08:51 AM (S6gqv)

177 I would like to see a real Kwanzaa.

First Principle of Real Kwanzaa is "Who Is Baby Daddy?"...finding the real baby daddy takes time and patience and usually a court ordered medical exam an test. Stay strong and be resilient in getting that child support every month.

Just keeping it real yo!

More coffee...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2023 08:49 AM (R/m4+)

Or come on my show.

Posted by: Maury Povich at December 26, 2023 08:51 AM (4I/2K)

178 Mary and Joseph, displaced by violence and forced to flee, became refugees in Egypt with a newborn waiting to one day return home.
-AOC

God used Nebucanezzar to sack Jerusalem and take Daniel back to Babylon. Daniel, as a prophet became the leader of the Magi, teaching them the prophecy of the coming of Jesus. The later Magi recognized the star from the prophecy and brought the newborn gifts of francinsence, myrrh and gold which were valuable enough to financially support the family during their exodus to Egypt. That is how Gos works.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:52 AM (NYzgN)

179 173 According to Netanyahu in the WSJ:

Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized. These are the three prerequisites for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza.
Posted by: dantesed at December 26, 2023 08:50 AM (88xKn)

One cannot "deradicalize" 'Palestinian' society without eradicating Islam.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:52 AM (x0n13)

180 The Jew Hate in the Dem party is the most amazing thing to come out this year. After being attacked and having 1200 citizens murdered I never expected this. I hope it weakens their party to the extent that they lose the election. Talk about a silver lining.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (vFG9F)

When you know you're not going to lose, you can stop hiding the truth

Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2023 08:52 AM (eNASR)

181 I have a rather darker prediction for 2024: Trump will be killed.

He is the presumptive nominee and the Left/DS cannot and will not allow him back into the WH. The lawfare against him is going nowhere to keep him from office and so they are left with little else in options.

And then, all hell breaks loose.

Posted by: Halfhand at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (o5xaO)

182
Gunga galunga ... gunga, gunga-lagunga >
Kujichagulia (koo–gee–cha–goo–LEE–yah)

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (uVThL)

183 @159

>>We are every bit as likely to see an external event cause massive changes that we can't right now even see or predict as anything happening internally.

I think the maniacs in control have largely fixed the Black Swan Glitch of 2016.

The next stop on this Modern Day, Road to Serfdom, is street fighting.

Summer of 24 is going to be a hot one.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (XV/Pl)

184 Jose Feliciano was blind?

I did not know that. *looks him up*

Huh. I guess I only ever heard the song, thought it annoying and never looked into the guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (di6C2)

185 I hope it weakens their party to the extent that they lose the election. Talk about a silver lining.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (vFG9F)
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They can't lose. Still haven't caught on?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:54 AM (ch/kO)

186 "One cannot "deradicalize" 'Palestinian' society without eradicating Islam."

I'm ok with this.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:54 AM (hH3Px)

187 Huh. I guess I only ever heard the song, thought it annoying and never looked into the guy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (di6C2)

Same here, pal.

Posted by: Jose F. at December 26, 2023 08:55 AM (Angsy)

188 "Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized."

"The Third Reich must be destroyed, Germany must be demilitarized, and German society must be deradicalized."

It's been done before, quite successfully. The first time was actually much harder.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 08:55 AM (S6gqv)

189 Consider this awful fact: 4 out of 10 voters approve of FJB's handling of the economy.

Four.
Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 26, 2023 08:49 AM (KiBMU)

To get back to my "there won't be a real civil war" lucid dream... what is more galling? That they think we could actually bakeries that? Or that they'd say something like that to our faces knowing we won't believe that?

A real Rubicon has been crossed in the last year or so. Go anywhere. People are bitching. Not cranks, not That One Uncle (i detest that trope), not disheveled people on soapboxes. Regular humps. Cashiers. Delivery people. Fellow shoppers in stores. Strangers in bars. Everyone is now on board with idea that something isn't right, the junta in charge can't fix it, and something needs to change. It's now part of the zeitgeist, and while you can gaslight all day and twice on Sunday against the truth, you can't do shit trying to gaslight against Common Knowledge, true or not. The junta cannot stand.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 08:55 AM (9UlRk)

190 Kwanzaa: A Fake Holiday With A Racist Goal, Created By A Criminal Madman
Those who are around my age woke up at the end of December one year and discovered that the “holiday season” of Christmas and New Year’s became a trio, with the addition of something called Kwanzaa. Oh sure, there were rumblings of a new holiday. But political correctness and #MeToo are essential causes. Which raises the question, why is a day invented in 1966 by a rapist who ran a Black separatist group is considered by some as a holiday on par with Christmas, Chanukah, or New Year’s.
http://tinyurl.com/282xy8zm

And the late Kathy Shaidle's Kwanzaa roundup including her "Night Before Kwanzaa".
http://tinyurl.com/36m5pt3s

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 08:56 AM (2yu8s)

191 133. Ha!! You beat me to it. Props.

But I really do miss "don't doubt me on this"

Posted by: Despise & Deride Marxist Rat Bastards at December 26, 2023 08:56 AM (5uy7A)

192 Same here, pal.
Posted by: Jose F. at December 26, 2023 08:55 AM (Angsy)

Heh. Well played.

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 08:56 AM (di6C2)

193 On Christmas Eve we were at our annual party an White Elephant Gift giving event.

First person to select a gift chose the largest and most brightly wrapped box from the pile of gifts.

It contained a live chicken.

About 7 pounder.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 08:37 AM (hH3Px)
*****
What kind of crazy Christmas party did you go to?

If I had gotten that gift, I would now be the owner of a pet chicken.
No way it would end up as dinner.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

194 All the chickens at my daughter's house lined up at the front door, waiting to be invited in for cookies. Only one made it in, and that was for photographic purposes only.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:48 AM (SfhV1)
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There is so much material here, I don't even know where to begin.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 26, 2023 08:56 AM (RIvkX)

195 We are every bit as likely to see an external event cause massive changes that we can't right now even see or predict as anything happening internally.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 08:47 AM (ZLI7S)
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This is true, but so far it's not successful.

Climate change is working well as an external unification mechanism, but only for the kids and not even all of them. We've had better luck than with anything else, but it doesn't have adequate traction and the economic decline that's getting started is going to reduce support further.

The committee is working on it, but it's going to be difficult. We'd like to go with space aliens, but that's a big operation to fake out of whole cloth. We might be able to make a good try at it, but we're considering our options.

Posted by: The Globalists at December 26, 2023 08:57 AM (zxP/x)

196 *They had a perfectly good home in Nazareth. The government forced them to go pay their taxes in another location. "All the hotel rooms were already booked: does not equal homeless.*

And when they had to flee to Egypt in order to avoid persecution, they weren't without means. After all, they had received gifts of gold and frankincense, and by some accounts, in the words of Billy Mays, wait... there's myrrh.

Posted by: Kinda corny, but true at December 26, 2023 08:57 AM (NBVIP)

197 According to Netanyahu in the WSJ:

Hamas must be destroyed, Gaza must be demilitarized, and Palestinian society must be deradicalized. These are the three prerequisites for peace between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors in Gaza.
Posted by: dantesed at December 26, 2023 08:50 AM (88xKn)
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My idiot Prime Minister! This is why we're losing.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 08:57 AM (ch/kO)

198 >> I have a rather darker prediction for 2024: Trump will be killed.

Trump has to be the most vilified and hated politician in modern US times. Yet there are never any media reports of threats on his life.

As soon as the Colorado SC came out with their decision about Trump on the primary ballot there were media reports about threats to the justices but never any reporting about threats to Trump. That's beyond strange.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 08:57 AM (ZLI7S)

199 The death toll following the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island rose to 18 on Tuesday, as police ordered the plant to stop operations until an investigation is completed.

The blast, which occurred on Sunday, was the latest in a series of fatalities at nickel smelting plants in Indonesia that are part of China’s ambitious transnational development program known as the Belt and Road Initiative.

Nickel is a key component in global battery production for electric vehicles.

Posted by: SMOD at December 26, 2023 08:57 AM (RovqD)

200 I always got Jose Feliciano confused with Freddy Fender, for some reason.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 26, 2023 08:57 AM (9yWhg)

201 189 The junta cannot stand.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 08:55 AM (9UlRk)

With liberals and traditional Dems, not the hardcore Maoists, the trick is decoupling the Junta and what it is doing with the former's perception of their historical (in their mind) politics and Party.

There are still libs I know that while aghast at the Jew-hate cannot put 2+2 together to see where it's coming from. They just see it as some weird phenomenon that came out of nowhere. To acknowledge that it is indeed 100% Democrat-Leftist in origin could be a bridge too far.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:58 AM (x0n13)

202 "They can't lose. Still haven't caught on?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey"

Nothing will happen and anything can happen. In 2016 I was sure Hillary was going to be the next president. In 2020 I was sure it would be Trump again. I'm not going to make a prediction yet and will rely on chaos as our best hope.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:58 AM (vFG9F)

203
Nobody guessed but those quotes were from 'The First Family' which lampooned the Kennedy's. Impersonations were made of John and Jackie Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, and others.

The First Family won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1963, becoming the second and most recent comedy or spoken word album to win the award.

I used to play that album over and over it was so funny.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 26, 2023 08:58 AM (enJYY)

204 I saw Jose Filiciano open for Ronnie Milsap at the Lions Club Concert For Eyesight in Detroit at the old Tiger Stadium back in 1980.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM (R/m4+)

205 I think the maniacs in control have largely fixed the Black Swan Glitch of 2016.

The next stop on this Modern Day, Road to Serfdom, is street fighting.

Summer of 24 is going to be a hot one.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (XV/Pl)
++++
It would not surprise me if the summer of '24 isn't all that hot, at least if they can avoid it. Things are in a *very* precarious balance right now and they might decide that caution is warranted.

But you're right about the street fighting stage more generally. It's why I think they're so enthusiastic about the open border.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM (zxP/x)

206 Swahili is the only language people can think of when trying to name an African language.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM (NYzgN)

207 "What kind of crazy Christmas party did you go to?

If I had gotten that gift, I would now be the owner of a pet chicken.
No way it would end up as dinner."

One of our friends daughters raises chickens.

This one was hand raised from hatching, and is more of a pet than a dinner.

It actually was stolen by another person later in the gift selection process (That's how White Elephant Gift Giving works), but ultimately wound up going back home with the daughter that raised it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 09:00 AM (hH3Px)

208 The committee is working on it, but it's going to be difficult. We'd like to go with space aliens, but that's a big operation to fake out of whole cloth. We might be able to make a good try at it, but we're considering our options.
Posted by: The Globalists at December 26, 2023 08:57 AM (zxP/x)

We're working on a fake ship still, Klaus. Just can't figure out how to make it fly. We think we have the hottie green-skinned slave girl down, though.

Posted by: The Minions at December 26, 2023 09:00 AM (Angsy)

209 Jose Feliciano famously did "Light My Fire", thereby relegating the Doors to the elevator music category.

Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 09:00 AM (vFG9F)

210 Swahili is the only language people can think of when trying to name an African language.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM (NYzgN)

I enjoy those click languages like Khoisan.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 26, 2023 09:01 AM (aD39U)

211 196 *They had a perfectly good home in Nazareth. The government forced them to go pay their taxes in another location. "All the hotel rooms were already booked: does not equal homeless.*

And when they had to flee to Egypt in order to avoid persecution, they weren't without means. After all, they had received gifts of gold and frankincense, and by some accounts, in the words of Billy Mays, wait... there's myrrh.
Posted by: Kinda corny, but true at December 26, 2023 08:57 AM (NBVIP)

Joseph is kind of the ... exemplar of good, thoughtful responsible guy. I bet there was a AAA sticker on the back of that donkey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:02 AM (di6C2)

212 Jose Feliciano was blind?

I did not know that. *looks him up*

Huh. I guess I only ever heard the song, thought it annoying and never looked into the guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (di6C2)

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

You never watched "Chico And The Man?"

/Why do you h8 Hispanics, h8r!

[I think he wrote and performed the theme song, and appeared in at least one episode.]

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 09:03 AM (uVThL)

213 Yeesh, a live chicken as a gift? No thank you.

Buids. Dirty, disgusting, lice-ridden buids.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 26, 2023 09:03 AM (9yWhg)

214 Click language?

https://youtu.be/nWglfC5CNS4

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at December 26, 2023 09:03 AM (NBVIP)

215 206 Swahili is the only language people can think of when trying to name an African language.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM (NYzgN)

Afrikaans.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:03 AM (di6C2)

216 Nothing will happen and anything can happen. In 2016 I was sure Hillary was going to be the next president. In 2020 I was sure it would be Trump again. I'm not going to make a prediction yet and will rely on chaos as our best hope.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 08:58 AM (vFG9F)
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2016 was their wake-up call. They thought it was a cinch. Heck. Many of us did, too.

They fixed that in 2020. Now you know exactly what's in store for you in 2024.

If I were them (Dem), I would make sure that Trump could run on every state ballot, make sure the Secret Service super-protects him and then go for the Dominion box kill on election night.

I love it when a plan comes together!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (ch/kO)

217 For a lot of them, I went immediately to the quiz at the end. Unless you were a moral nullity, you could scarcely guess wrong about the answers.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 08:24 AM (MoZTd)

Unfortunately - at least for my company - the vids are fixed so that you cannot skip to the end nor surf the web and let the thing play to the end.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (Q0kLU)

218 Swahili is the only language people can think of when trying to name an African language.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM (NYzgN)

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

Afrikaans was the first one I thought of.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (uVThL)

219 @205

>>It would not surprise me if the summer of '24 isn't all that hot, at least if they can avoid it.

Yeah, I don't think 24 is going to be tranquil, I think it's going to be 2020 on steroids.

The maniacs in control cannot allow Trump to be President, there is a non-zero chance, Trump is sitting in jail before election day, that's going to cause a lot of strum und drang.

Plus, they control enough voting apparatuses in this country that when the inexplicable vote counting stops some time around 11pm on election day, this country is going to explode.

Regardless of who wins, the trajectory this country is on is not a good one, and I don't see an interregnum of 4, 8,12 or 16 years as being enough to turn this Titanic around.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (XV/Pl)

220 Same-sex nativity scene featuring two mothers of Jesus at church ripped as ‘blasphemous’

http://tinyurl.com/32vpa8bw

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

221 You never watched "Chico And The Man?"

/Why do you h8 Hispanics, h8r!

[I think he wrote and performed the theme song, and appeared in at least one episode.]
Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 09:03 AM (uVThL)

Just a little bit before my time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (di6C2)

222
It would not surprise me if the summer of '24 isn't all that hot, at least if they can avoid it. Things are in a *very* precarious balance right now and they might decide that caution is warranted.

But you're right about the street fighting stage more generally. It's why I think they're so enthusiastic about the open border.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM

I hope you're right, but we all know that the leftards are incapable of "caution"

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (xDK93)

223 206 Swahili is the only language people can think of when trying to name an African language.
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Ubangi??

Yes, but only with my wife.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (2yu8s)

224 "The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States."

Can Congress ban mail-in voting with limited exceptions?
Yes.

Also, can Congress abrogate Birth Right Citizenship?
Yes.

I can go on and on.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 26, 2023 09:06 AM (Gse2f)

225 209 Jose Feliciano famously did "Light My Fire", thereby relegating the Doors to the elevator music category.
Posted by: fd at December 26, 2023 09:00 AM (vFG9F)

Maybe 30 years ago or more, I heard "Dream On" as Muzak in a supermarket. That's the first time I was conscious of getting older.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 09:06 AM (x0n13)

226 If the donkey's a rockin' don't come knockin'...

Posted by: Wait, that's a different Joseph at December 26, 2023 09:06 AM (NBVIP)

227 220 Same-sex nativity scene featuring two mothers of Jesus at church ripped as ‘blasphemous’

http://tinyurl.com/32vpa8bw
Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (NpAcC)

That is so... I mean... You guys are really retarded and have no idea what you are saying, right. Joseph was not the... Ok.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:08 AM (di6C2)

228 There are still libs I know that while aghast at the Jew-hate cannot put 2+2 together to see where it's coming from. They just see it as some weird phenomenon that came out of nowhere. To acknowledge that it is indeed 100% Democrat-Leftist in origin could be a bridge too far.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

In good times a false worldview is an affordable luxury. In bad times, the world becomes incomprehensible to those with such views, as for them it is now a world where bizarre and evil things happen constantly for no reason they can fathom. Such a person, if they will not re-evaluate their positions, will sink into despair, superstition, or madness, and will be easily controlled by others - who will have their own agendas.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 09:08 AM (S6gqv)

229 I have a rather darker prediction for 2024: Trump will be killed. ...
Posted by: Halfhand at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (o5xaO)
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They don't want him a martyr, they want him a failure.

Besides, if they were going to off a major political name, there's a better choice than Trump that solves a lot of their problems. A false-flag operation to take out Biden, pin it on "MAGA extremists," elevate Harris on a preliminary war footing, and then using her (or someone who replaces her - it's irrelevant at that point) as the frontman for a violent purge would be much, much more useful if they're going to go down that road. It would clean up a lot of the intra-Party problems going on at the moment, provide the excuse for consolidation within the system and an elimination of Party opponents, justify the ruthless suppression of dissidents and act as a mandate for the pogrom.

I don't think either is likely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 09:08 AM (zxP/x)

230 @224

>>I can go on and on.

Can they do that, yes.

Will they do that, no.

So, again, our side seems to love futile masturbatory exercises.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 26, 2023 09:09 AM (XV/Pl)

231 Did those assholes just assume Mary's gender?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 26, 2023 09:09 AM (9UlRk)

232 It actually was stolen by another person later in the gift selection process (That's how White Elephant Gift Giving works), but ultimately wound up going back home with the daughter that raised it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 26, 2023 09:00 AM (hH3Px)
*****
Whew... I will sleep better knowing this.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 09:09 AM (NpAcC)

233 The electorate has been moving away from the Ds. Cheating has given them collective false confidence. They especially need to worry about reduced turnout from Black men and Hispanics, and from not having a credible candidate at the top of their ticket, so the margin of their needed cheat keeps going up and up. Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 26, 2023 09:09 AM (Gse2f)

234 Summer of 24 is going to depend on Trump. Is he the nominee? Is he still holding a commanding lead in the polls? Yes to both, it is gonna get lit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 09:09 AM (NYzgN)

235
Joseph is kind of the ... exemplar of good, thoughtful responsible guy. I bet there was a AAA sticker on the back of that donkey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:02 AM (di6C2)

I've always identified with Joseph. He's the good guy who stayed in the background while his wife and foster son got all the credit, but if it wasn't for him it's hard for our earthly minds to think how they would have managed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 09:09 AM (MoZTd)

236 226 If the donkey's a rockin' don't come knockin'...
Posted by: Wait, that's a different Joseph at December 26, 2023 09:06 AM (NBVIP)

Cash, Oats or Ass...

This feels vaguely sacrilegious.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:10 AM (di6C2)

237 I hope you're right, but we all know that the leftards are incapable of "caution"
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (xDK93)
++++
They do seem to be allergic to it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 09:11 AM (zxP/x)

238 74 Maybe he meant that insofar as post-Civil War, many southerners retained that as an attitude, as no doubt many still do. Hence, the current kerfuffle over the flag and monuments.

Meh, I can't read his mind.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:22 AM (x0n13)
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But it's not the Southerners who are in a snot over the Confederate Flag and Southern Monuments, it's the Northerners, the Yankees, more specifically the Democrats.

Posted by: Ciampino - I want that we turn the tables and remove any woke monument starting with St George Floyd at December 26, 2023 09:11 AM (qfLjt)

239 >>2016 was their wake-up call. They thought it was a cinch. Heck. Many of us did, too.

>>They fixed that in 2020. Now you know exactly what's in store for you in 2024.

2020 was the wake up call for many normal people. The crackdown required to tamp down the rising anger the obvious election theft caused certainly slowed the anger but it didn't stop it. In order to win in 24 they will likely need to take the cheating to a whole new level and their actions will be very obvious.

What happens after Americans as a whole realize that their rights no longer matter is anyone's guess. A lawless America might not be as easy for them to control as they think.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

240 There are still libs I know that while aghast at the Jew-hate cannot put 2+2 together to see where it's coming from. They just see it as some weird phenomenon that came out of nowhere. To acknowledge that it is indeed 100% Democrat-Leftist in origin could be a bridge too far.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 08:58 AM (x0n13)

"It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled."
Dems / Libs have a deeply held belief / value that Dems are "good people" and Repubs are icky. That paradigm permeates EVERYTHING about them. It paralyzes their minds from objective thinking and analysis. Closely related is the thought that they are smart, educated, informed, etc. No way they could be wrong, no way they could have made a mistake with the people they trust and follow. They inherently trust institutions and can not see in any way that they are really just sheep. To see anything wrong with their way of thinking and beliefs would definitely be a bridge too far -- it would require them to admit they are / were wrong.

Posted by: Doof at December 26, 2023 09:12 AM (eNASR)

241 How?

There is only ONE way to get the country back: to get the people back.

We must properly understand Christian morality and the underpinnings of the principles that built America. Then we must evangelize it to our fellow countrymen.

Without doing that, there is no way a representative republic can possibly exist. Without the morals and the principles that allowed us the freedom we once enjoyed, we can't have that freedom without utter chaos. And, after chaos comes the strongman.

Posted by: GWB at December 26, 2023 09:13 AM (sSx7k)

242 Of course there is also that stupid commercial by hegetsus.com. Jesus had a messy family too. No, no He didn't. God is his Father and Mary & Joseph were his earthly parents. Pretty damn clear cut to me.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 26, 2023 09:13 AM (2NHgQ)

243 But it's not the Southerners who are in a snot over the Confederate Flag and Southern Monuments, it's the Northerners, the Yankees, more specifically the Democrats.
Posted by: Ciampino - I want that we turn the tables and remove any woke monument starting with St George Floyd at December 26, 2023 09:11 AM (qfLjt)

Yeah, but this is a pattern the commies love: Attack a tradition that is not yours. Try to dismantle it. Then blame the attacked side for creating conflict. They have done it so much and across the spectrum of life that we do not even notice it and reflexively go on the defensive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:13 AM (di6C2)

244 *This feels vaguely sacrilegious.*

We passed "vaguely" about a thousand cubits ago.

Posted by: In biblical terms at December 26, 2023 09:13 AM (NBVIP)

245 215 206 Swahili is the only language people can think of when trying to name an African language.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM (NYzgN)

Afrikaans.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:03 AM (di6C2)

Click Clack

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 09:14 AM (lwOKI)

246 Caution is racist. It is a concept developed by the Cautcasians.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 26, 2023 09:14 AM (9yWhg)

247
Vaughn Meader "The First Family" 1962 FULL ALBUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwu8S6Ekx9w

/ Back when politics was fun

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 26, 2023 09:14 AM (enJYY)

248 Of course there is also that stupid commercial by hegetsus.com. Jesus had a messy family too. No, no He didn't. God is his Father and Mary & Joseph were his earthly parents. Pretty damn clear cut to me.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 26, 2023 09:13 AM (2NHgQ)

Extended family. Brothers/cousins tried to drag him away from ministry, and even said he was crazy in the head.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 09:15 AM (SfhV1)

249 244 *This feels vaguely sacrilegious.*

We passed "vaguely" about a thousand cubits ago.
Posted by: In biblical terms at December 26, 2023 09:13 AM (NBVIP)

Right.

What's a cubit?

Posted by: Noah at December 26, 2023 09:15 AM (di6C2)

250 Regarding Mary and Joseph; I think many today, when hearing the tale of the flight to Egypt, do not realize it was because there was a very large and vibrant Jewish community in Alexandria, free from Herod's influence.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 09:15 AM (S6gqv)

251 In order to win in 24 they will likely need to take the ~~cheating~~ control of the military to a whole new level and their actions will be very obvious.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)
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FIFY

Obvious will no longer matter.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 09:15 AM (ch/kO)

252 That big tall obelisk on the National Mall honors a former slave owner. Time to tear it down.

Posted by: If you're really serious about this stuff at December 26, 2023 09:16 AM (NBVIP)

253 No revolution, rebellion, reformation, restoration or what ever you want to call it will succeed unless it has 1 thing:
A political area of protection.

That is, there has to be a geographic area where they control the government.
That is why the left has continued to expand while the right continues to retract:
They have safe areas where they are fully free to act.
We have none.

For example:
No sanctuary cities--backed by both the political and police power--preventing the enforcement of a single federal law.

When you see a city or state defy the feds, and refuse to bow to their courts, then you know war is starting. Until then, the subjugation continues.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 26, 2023 09:16 AM (TzW+Y)

254 I guess nobody's in the mood to discuss the nuances of Trisomy 18 this morning. Who would have thunk it?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 26, 2023 09:16 AM (991eG)

255 I have a rather darker prediction for 2024: Trump will be killed.

He is the presumptive nominee and the Left/DS cannot and will not allow him back into the WH. The lawfare against him is going nowhere to keep him from office and so they are left with little else in options.

And then, all hell breaks loose.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 26, 2023 08:53 AM (o5xaO)

I agree with your first and second points. I absolutely do not believe in your third.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 26, 2023 09:17 AM (Q0kLU)

256 Of course there is also that stupid commercial by hegetsus.com. Jesus had a messy family too. No, no He didn't. God is his Father and Mary & Joseph were his earthly parents. Pretty damn clear cut to me.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 26, 2023 09:13 AM (2NHgQ)

Extended family. Brothers/cousins tried to drag him away from ministry, and even said he was crazy in the head.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 09:15 AM (SfhV1)

Jesus had a Cousin Eddie too?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2023 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

257 What happens after Americans as a whole realize that their rights no longer matter is anyone's guess. A lawless America might not be as easy for them to control as they think.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

I do find it interesting that PDTs message of Freedom is 180 degrees opposite of the Dems messaging of more Big Govt controls. And that the MSM seems to have done a great job getting that labeled as NAZI.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 09:17 AM (lwOKI)

258 >>FIFY

>>Obvious will no longer matter.

Exactly my point. If they need to go to such extreme lengths as deploying the military against the American people then who knows how the people will react. Or the military for that matter.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 09:18 AM (ZLI7S)

259 Jesus had a Cousin Eddie too?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2023 09:17 AM (4I/2K)

I wouldnt be more surprised if I woke up with my head sewn to the carpet.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 09:18 AM (lwOKI)

260 What happens after Americans as a whole realize that their rights no longer matter is anyone's guess. A lawless America might not be as easy for them to control as they think.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)
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Or it's okay, thanks to a police state. Rightless slaves are the dream, after all. Eventually, they're going to have to try to convert the play. Then, I suppose, we find out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 26, 2023 09:19 AM (zxP/x)

261 *Jesus had a Cousin Eddie too?*

Actually, he had a cousin John. But don't lose your head over it.

Posted by: Watching for the lightning bolt at December 26, 2023 09:19 AM (NBVIP)

262 252 That big tall obelisk on the National Mall honors a former slave owner. Time to tear it down.
Posted by: If you're really serious about this stuff at December 26, 2023 09:16 AM (NBVIP)
******
I wish they had left all the other monuments alone and focused on that one.
I have always thought it was ugly.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 26, 2023 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

263 218 Swahili is the only language people can think of when trying to name an African language.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 26, 2023 08:59 AM (NYzgN)

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Afrikaans was the first one I thought of.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 26, 2023 09:05 AM (uVThL)
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I'll give it to you but Afrikaans is a White man's language. Making it mandatory in Black schools was the 'official' spark for the Soweto Riots July 16, 1976.

Posted by: Ciampino - Beginning of the End at December 26, 2023 09:22 AM (qfLjt)

264 If they need to go to such extreme lengths as deploying the military against the American people then who knows how the people will react. Or the military for that matter.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 09:18 AM (ZLI7S)
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Look at what the military has become and who's left it.

BTW, let's not forget that the IRS is now part of the military. That's quite a stockpile they have there! I wonder what it's for?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 09:22 AM (ch/kO)

265 "It would not surprise me if the summer of '24 isn't all that hot, at least if they can avoid it. Things are in a *very* precarious balance right now and they might decide that caution is warranted."

It astounds me that Dems themselves are working as hard as they can to stage a replay, a revival if you will, of the production originally known as the 1968 Democrat National Convention.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 09:22 AM (S6gqv)

266 Mayor of Gaza said war destroyed his beautiful city.

I was told Gaza is a prison camp.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 09:24 AM (lwOKI)

267 I think it would be worthwhile to consider the possibility that the majority of "Americans" are all in on tyranny and we, the disenfranchised few, are, in fact the minority.

The so-called transformation is well under way and it seems to me it's being embraced by the majority. Whether that's an artifact of the MSM/propaganda is debatable, but I just don't see a whole lot of agitation from the right.

Maybe it's not uncomfortable enough for them yet. Many people are still insulated from the economy and other events that they don't feel the need to worry.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 26, 2023 09:24 AM (Q4IgG)

268 Jose Feliciano famously did "Light My Fire", thereby relegating the Doors to the elevator music category.

He also did a nice cover of the old Bruce Chanel song "Hey, Baby."*

*John Lennon cited Chanel as an influence for the harmonica part in "Love Me Do."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 26, 2023 09:25 AM (Q0kLU)

269 Jesus had a Cousin Eddie too?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2023 09:17 AM

Lot was Abraham's Cousin Eddie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 09:25 AM (S6gqv)

270 266 Mayor of Gaza said war destroyed his beautiful city.

I was told Gaza is a prison camp.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 26, 2023 09:24 AM (lwOKI)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Detroit at December 26, 2023 09:25 AM (di6C2)

271 Swahili is a good language for engaging in playful bantu.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 26, 2023 09:25 AM (9yWhg)

272 Jesus had a Cousin Eddie too?
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 26, 2023 09:17 AM (4I/2K)
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In Syria:

https://youtu.be/Rer9W58-qQQ

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 26, 2023 09:26 AM (ch/kO)

273 265 Look at how swiftly and effectively the left has stirred up worldwide pro-Gaza demonstrations. They can generate instant, massive street violence and culturejamming at the press of a button. No reason to think they won't do it throughout 2024.

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at December 26, 2023 09:26 AM (MvF+J)

274
It astounds me that Dems themselves are working as hard as they can to stage a replay, a revival if you will, of the production originally known as the 1968 Democrat National Convention.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 09:22 AM (S6gqv)

Except when the Chicago cops beat up the MAGA protesters, the whole world won't be watching. But Chicago's mayor will still say, "Fuck you, you Jew son of a bitch."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 26, 2023 09:27 AM (MoZTd)

275 If Father Vitagluano (sp?) wants to recognize that there are different types of families, why not try to warmly greet all the families he can at Christmas.? Don't try to make the Christmas story "progressive" But I note the priest seems to be wearing a rainbow scarf so the change is not surprising.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2023 09:27 AM (5fmz0)

276 >>Look at what the military has become and who's left it.

>>BTW, let's not forget that the IRS is now part of the military. That's quite a stockpile they have there! I wonder what it's for?

No, I get it. But I think it is a bit premature to assume the entire military will agree to help enslave their fellow Americans some of whom might be their own families. I live in an area with a lot of retired military with kids now serving. I doubt they will turn against their families.

In any case I don't think we can tell what is going to happen other than we are finally coming to a big public confrontation rather than this low level, behind the scenes stuff. It's clear to just about everyone the country is completely divided and either we win or they do. The two visions for the future of this country are completely incompatible.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 26, 2023 09:28 AM (ZLI7S)

277 My cold seems to have progressed to the 'thick, gelatinous glue like phlegm' stage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 26, 2023 09:29 AM (di6C2)

278 What makes me think all the voters matters?

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2023 09:30 AM (fwDg9)

279 nood

Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead at December 26, 2023 09:30 AM (MvF+J)

280 @149 - grammie from John chapter 1.
Nominate for thread winner!

Posted by: Teej at December 26, 2023 09:30 AM (spJU8)

281 ART CRITICS UPSTAIRS

NOOD NOODIE NOOD

Posted by: Skip at December 26, 2023 09:31 AM (fwDg9)

282 From the 2024 NDAA:

SEC. 904. ELIMINATION OF THE CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

(a) REPEAL OF POSITION.—

Section 147 of title 10, United States Code, is repealed.

(b) CONFORMING REPEAL.—Section 913 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116–283; 10 U.S.C. 147 note) is repealed.

Good news if this purports to be what it says it is.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 26, 2023 09:31 AM (fMhOl)

283 Don't try to make the Christmas story "progressive"

Disregarding the facts, they attempt to spin a fairy tale of how much better it would be if only if only we were woke. Christ in Christmas can be reduced to a social justice fad. Way more powerful then the truth. Perhaps this clergy person might take a crack at the entirety of Luke 2.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 09:31 AM (SfhV1)

284 I guess nobody's in the mood to discuss the nuances of Trisomy 18 this morning. Who would have thunk it?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 26, 2023 09:16 AM (991eG)

IMO, elective abortion is always wrong. The only nuance I can think of is the right of self defense for the mother. Though we laud those that do, nothing in the western tradition requires someone to lay down their life for another.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at December 26, 2023 09:32 AM (aD39U)

285 265 "Look at how swiftly and effectively the left has stirred up worldwide pro-Gaza demonstrations. They can generate instant, massive street violence and culturejamming at the press of a button. No reason to think they won't do it throughout 2024.
Posted by: Apply gp Directly To Forehead"

If you really want to look at something, consider how at every protest in the US, EU, and UK, there were already thousands of Palestinian flags preprinted, boxed, and in place ready to be handed out.
And these were all put in place before Oct. 7.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 09:33 AM (S6gqv)

286 Blue states are getting some of that old’ Reconstruction Blues’ the South is so familiar with the past 158 years. You vote like we tell you, rebel.

Posted by: Eromero at December 26, 2023 09:33 AM (ajB4P)

287 261 *Jesus had a Cousin Eddie too?*

Actually, he had a cousin John. But don't lose your head over it.
Posted by: Watching for the lightning bolt at December 26, 2023 09:19 AM (NBVIP)

IIRC National Lampoon had a piece about "Jackie Christ."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 26, 2023 09:34 AM (x0n13)

288 Trump won't be assassinated for the simple reason that that will convince everyone! that America is dead and the people no longer have any voice nor will they be allowed to have one and the government is an illegitimate thugocracy.

Even those who would cheer his killing will know it even as they celebrate it. Only later will they figure out exactly what that means.

That wil make their governing all that more difficult. If not impossible as Irish Democracy comes into play(I think the most likely outcome).

They want to wear the skin of law and legitimacy while having none. This is the reason for all their frantic lawfare.

If our judges and the Sc are a bunch of cowardly moles, then they'll get what they want easily. They oo0wn the media and will celebrate this as a great day for America, With Biden elevated to Lincolnian status for saving the Republic from Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2023 09:35 AM (nFnyb)

289 Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 09:31 AM (SfhV1)

Since @ 21, 000 so far have signed a petition against the objectionable and Biblically incorrect manger scene I guess there are quite a few Italians who are not on board with it either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2023 09:35 AM (5fmz0)

290 Leading Report @LeadingReport 16h
BREAKING: Top Chicago democrat has been found guilty of 13 federal corruption charges including racketeering, bribery, and attempted extortion.
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Old white guy, Ed Burke.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 26, 2023 09:37 AM (2yu8s)

291 Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 26, 2023 08:45 AM (SfhV1)

Amen. That was the last reading for the evening for our service of lessons and carols on Christmas Eve.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 26, 2023 09:38 AM (5fmz0)

292 188
It's been done before, quite successfully. The first time was actually much harder.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 26, 2023 08:55 AM (S6gqv)
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We are talking religion this time.
Unpossible.

Posted by: Ciampino - Biblical victory at December 26, 2023 09:50 AM (qfLjt)

293 JJ is always an advocate of States Rights, except when he isn't
Mary was only either 14 or maybe 15 years old, a veritable teenybopper, when she got knocked up Abraham married his 1/2 sister.
Should books like this be allowed in primary school?

[Kurt you gibbering fool, you have no understanding of our history in context to legitimate states' rights as opposed to its use to uphold clearly unconstitutional laws. And ditto your lack of knowledge of Biblical history. Get back to your subway glory hole and hit my tip jar, you cheap Democrat. BIRM - jjs]

Posted by: banned by JJ Paul [Kurt who somehow manages to suck 12 cocks simultaneously while still posting?] at December 26, 2023 12:16 PM (hgDJr)

294 "In Dr. Hanson's defense, he is great at being able to articulate and catalogue the problems and their causes. If you have read him over time, he has become more and more alarmed at the speed and depth of the dissolution."

Yes. Just like every conservative writer for the past 50 years. MSM: "Nothing to see here, move along." Conservative writers: "Nothing to do here, enjoy the show."

Posted by: Joe at December 26, 2023 01:59 PM (Pndj9)

295 “[T]he share of EVs has been dramatically increasing every single year, and that’s continuing. Now, our goal is, by the end of this decade, to be about half-and-half. We think that that can and will happen." (His shit's all retarded . . . and that other thing - jjs)

Mayor Buttplug: Americans Won’t Be Driving "Old" Gas-Powered Cars in 2050

He's 100% correct. No one will be driving gas-powered vehicles in 2050, because no automaker will be selling gas-powered cars within the next 5-10 years. Because of mandates to meet WEF and Deep State EPA requirements.

Those ridiculous EPA requirements kick in starting in 2025. Which is why every automaker in the world moved to all-EVs all the time as soon as the Deep State stole the 2020 election and installed Biden as their puppet to sign all their legislation starting in January 2021.

I work for one of the Big 3 and we have zero products in development for 2025 model years and beyond that are traditional gas-powered. Every single future product is some sort of EV (HEV, PHEV, BEV). And that will not change unless the ridiculously stringent EPA fuel economy and emissions targets are changed back to as they were under President Trump.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 26, 2023 03:07 PM (AaCDb)

296 "Smart businesses don’t sell things customers aren’t buying."

Half of U.S. Buick Dealers Take Buyouts Rather Than Sell EV’s

All companies are producing and attempting to sell products the WEF and Deep State are allowing them to sell to people. This is not about what the customer or consumer wants, it is about what the WEF and Deep State will allow citizens of Western nations to have.

If citizens buy the allowable products, then fine. If they do not, then even better, since the goal is for people to "own nothing and be happy."

Long-term, the goal is to eliminate all industries like the automotive industry, since they will no longer be necessary in a world where people own nothing. The industries will be re-purposed to build and produce things for the 15-minute cities.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 26, 2023 03:56 PM (AaCDb)

297 "The poll reveals that 62% of Californians believe sex is a binary concept, with male and female being the only two options. Furthermore, 70% of respondents defined woman as a 'biologically born female.'”

Most Californians are against radical gender ideology: poll

"Most". Which is not saying much at all. In fact, these results are grim. If this poll was taken 25 years ago, I bet the result would be 95%+ believe sex is binary. And maybe even closer to 99%.

Which means that in 25 years, the Marxist Left has taken us from 1%-5% of the population believing in lies to 38% believing in lies.

That is a ridiculously bad trend, which seems to just get worse and worse. As the Millennial, Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha generations are completely indoctrinated into these lies.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 26, 2023 04:09 PM (AaCDb)

298 They want to wear the skin of law and legitimacy while having none. This is the reason for all their frantic lawfare.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 26, 2023 09:35 AM

The appearance of law must be upheld, especially while it's being broken.

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