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The Morning Report — 12/29/23

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Good morning, kids. The final Morning Report for this accursed year of 2023 kicks off with yet another jackbooted stomp to our head, as the criminals running the state of Maine have joined Colorado in naked, partisan, banana republic election interference.

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows held a hearing on three challenges related to the nomination petition of Trump, according to a copy of the decision. The petitions were separately filed by Mary Ann Royal, Kimberly Rosen and Thomas Saviello and Ethan Strimling, who challenged Trump’s qualification under the “insurrectionist ban” of the 14th Amendment.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment states no person should hold elected office if they “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”

“For the reasons set forth below, I conclude that Mr. Trump’s primary petition is invalid,” Bellows wrote. “Specifically, I find that the declaration on his candidate consent form if false because he is not qualified to hold the office of the President under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.”

Whatever one thinks about the 2020 election and the events of 1/6/21, aside from the fact that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has zero bearing on today, the reasoning of this filthy shit-whore apparatchik is complete and utter horseshit for one reason and one reason alone: Donald Trump has neither been tried nor convicted of leading or fomenting an insurrection.

Obviously, this doesn't matter in the least to these wretched bastards. This decision actually comes on the heels of the Colorado removal being stayed and Trump being kept on the ballot temporarily until SCOTUS gets the opportunity to review it. They knew this would happen and I'm sure the Maine GOP will do the same and be granted a stay as well. All this is is an attempt to slime Trump even further and more to the point, entangle him in so many legal battles as to drain away his financial and other resources.

As for SCOTUS, I'd like to think that they'd reject this 9-0, if for no other reason than for the sake of the nation since if it goes along party lines, the Left will condemn the court as illegitimate. For sure, if the court rules that removing Trump from the ballot is kosher, then if the nation isn't dead already, this would be taking a dump on its grave. That said, whatever the outcome of the 2024 election vis a vis who is either legitimately elected or like 2020 is "selected," one side is not going to accept the results.

Hold that thought for a moment while I regale you with the most chutzpocritical statement I've found this morning.

[Democrat Maine Rep. Jared] Golden took to Twitter to post his response to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to remove the former president from Maine’s ballot . . .

. . . “I voted to impeach Donald Trump for his role in the January 6th insurrection. I do not believe he should be re-elected as President of the United States. However, we are a nation of laws, therefore until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection, he should be allowed on the ballot,” Golden posted.

Following the Jan. 6 capitol riot, Golden supported impeaching Trump from office in January 2021, co-sponsoring the article of impeachment introduced by Democrat Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, according to News Center Maine. The Maine Democrat formerly stated he supported the impeachment “without reservation,” as he had “no question or doubt about the president’s conduct and responsibility for last week’s assault upon the United States Capitol and the United States Congress,” the outlet reported.

Golden further expressed his discontent with the former president’s actions during the Jan. 6 events, claiming Trump had “incited” the insurrection against the U.S. Capitol.

Wait a second; Golden voted to impeach him “without reservation” because he believes that he did lead an insurrection on 1/6 but that we need to "follow the rule of law" and leave him on the ballot " until he is actually found guilty of the crime of insurrection." Notice that he didn't say UNLESS, he said UNTIL. Either it's wishful thinking or, like every other thing in our whorehouse of a criminal justice system, he knows in advance what the outcome is going to be.

In any case, I understand that impeachment and removal from office is a purely political process and not a criminal proceeding. Regardless, this miserable worm knew full well that what happened on 1/6 was about as close to an "insurrection" as David "Little Shitler" Hogg is to being Mr. Universe (at least in the formerly non-woke, non-soy, relatively sane world of yore). But that said, if he truly believes that Trump led an insurrection, isn't what the Secs of State in CO and in ME did completely Constitutional? Why not come out and say that? Or more to the point, why not come out and declare the opposite?

Because he knows full well that to do so would be a clear admission that what is being done to Trump is pure, unmitigated persecution of the kind usually found in the worst dictatorships and totalitarian regimes. And, at least in my non-expert estimation, that would put what's being done to him by Jack Smith in a rather unflattering light to say the least. Perhaps to the point of collapsing that case entirely. Meh, with Judges like Tanya Shitcan, Amy Berman Jackson, Beryl Howell and Emmett "Freisler" Sullivan and a 12-0 to convict guaranteed from a DC jury pool . . .

That brings us back to the Supreme Court. And considering the gravity of the situation, it's going to be a case that John Judas Roberts will not be able to avoid before the 2024 Election. Oh boy.

“I think it’s really important Pete, for every single American who is seeing this news alert pop up to recognize how dangerous this is,” [Tulsi] Gabbard told “Hannity” guest host Pete Hegseth. “You have a secretary of state who is a known partisan, who is known to be against Trump, she supported the impeachment of Trump, single-handedly making this decision to say the former president cannot be on the ballot, taking away our right as voters in this country to decide who we want to serve as our next president and commander in chief.”

. . . “This is the M.O. of the Democrat elite. They will stop at nothing to try to maintain their power, even if it means taking away the right to vote of Americans. They have no issue taking Trump off the ballot, they have no issue pursuing him and persecuting him through a weaponized and politicized Department of Justice. They have no qualms doing whatever they feel is necessary to hold on to power. It is ridiculous that we are having this conversation in the United States of America.”

Ridiculous indeed, but nevertheless it's reality. And I highlighted that sentence from Tulsi Gabbard because if she's saying it, then she must understand the implications.

To be absolutely clear, I'm talking about physically taking out Donald Trump if all of these efforts fail.

Remember how Chuck Schemer threatened Trump? "Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you." And remember his gossamer-thin threats of physical violence against Justices Gorsuch and Alito to make them think twice about overturning Roe?

As an aside, Tulsi is no longer a Democrat and, regardless of who else is in the VP pool, she might be a dark horse (no pun). For sure she's a damn sight better by far than dusky duplicitous Nikki Haley. But I digress.

Psaki-psircling back to Golden boy, his motive for opposing the removal is purely political in that every time a new charge or new insane accusation is hurled at Trump, his poll numbers go up. And with Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants' numbers cratering simultaneously as everything he touches turns to shit, it does not bode well for the Dems next November.

Beyond even the elections, there is just no way in hell that the Left in this country is going to give up their hold on power. Regardless of the fact that the real power, the Bureaucracy, is likely there forever, the nation itself has been cleaved in half. As events around the world become more and more out of control, and the situation devolves here with equal speed, the temptation for those who have dragged our nation, culture, and society down to a level that was inconceivable even just a few years ago have nothing to lose in doing the unthinkable. They have nothing to lose because they have everything to lose: the 100-plus year anti-American Revolution that they are this close to completing.

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 29, 2023 07:56 AM (sNtYB)

2 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at December 29, 2023 07:56 AM (53oGX)

3 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2023 07:56 AM (adINt)

4 Thank you JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 29, 2023 07:57 AM (hH3Px)

5 Yonder Horde

1st snow of winter here in Bourbon Country.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 07:58 AM (Q4IgG)

6 Happy New Year Birthday JJ!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 29, 2023 07:58 AM (mTuD/)

7 Good morning JJ and horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2023 07:59 AM (ube+h)

8 JJ -- the above-the-fold link on Rule of Law article doesn't seem to work.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 07:59 AM (L4Etu)

9 I should never try to cook breakfast before my first cup of coffee.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 29, 2023 08:00 AM (mTuD/)

10 hiya

Posted by: JT at December 29, 2023 08:00 AM (T4tVD)

11 At best you might get 7-2.

The Wide Latina and Jumanji Jemima Jerumiunda would absolutely vote Party Line.

Posted by: XTC at December 29, 2023 08:00 AM (sm6Pk)

12 G'morn all

Posted by: Ciampino - second and last launch tonight at December 29, 2023 08:02 AM (qfLjt)

13 What do you have on your Bingo card for "Country Biden will get us in war with."

[ ] Iran
[ ] Russia
[ ] China
[ ] Freedonia

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 29, 2023 08:02 AM (Gse2f)

14 One of the Everly Brothers is dead (I could never tell them apart)

Guess Little Susie objected to being awakened.

Posted by: JT at December 29, 2023 08:02 AM (T4tVD)

15 Often advocate everyone should read at least the condensed Gulag Archipelago
At least will give you a preview of the Bolsheviks plan they are working on here

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2023 08:03 AM (ube+h)

16 RE: Maine.

Like I said on the tech thread, we need to be making a list of all these people doing these things and, if Trump wins, arrest them and jail them until his term is over. I'm sure there's multiple things we can charge them with.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 29, 2023 08:03 AM (Angsy)

17 8 JJ -- the above-the-fold link on Rule of Law article doesn't seem to work.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 07:59 AM (L4Etu)


Fixed. Thanks!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:03 AM (x0n13)

18 They're taxing SS at 50 percent?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 08:04 AM (SfhV1)

19 Gangsters.

Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2023 08:04 AM (SYTee)

20 Good morning JJ and THANK YOU!!!

Good morning Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at December 29, 2023 08:04 AM (RFPHU)

21 The Morning Report or alternatively, The Chronicle of Late Stage End of The American Republic.

I have coffee though, and as we all know, coffee makes everything better, even oblivion.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 08:04 AM (XV/Pl)

22 > What do you have on your Bingo card for "Country Biden will get us in war with."
____________

By all accounts we're in a proxy war with Russia via Ukraine now, and increasingly a proxy war with Iran via the Houthis.

War with China is simmering in the Western Pacific, but that won't last.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 08:05 AM (Q4IgG)

23 They're taxing SS at 50 percent?
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 08:04 AM (SfhV1)

Lucky! They eliminated us completely!

Posted by: SA at December 29, 2023 08:05 AM (Angsy)

24 @16

>>if Trump wins, arrest them and jail them until his term is over. I'm sure there's multiple things we can charge them with.

As noted, if Trump wins, make sure all of your people stay off the phones and don't talk to anyone until you are sworn in.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 08:05 AM (XV/Pl)

25 Good morning again dear morons y feliz ano nuevo JJ

I've been to the barrel and back

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:05 AM (RIvkX)

26 Like I said on the tech thread, we need to be making a list of all these people doing these things and, if Trump wins, arrest them and jail them until his term is over. I'm sure there's multiple things we can charge them with.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 29, 2023 08:03 AM (Angsy)
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Knit, Madame Defarge, knit!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2023 08:05 AM (adINt)

27 14 One of the Everly Brothers is dead (I could never tell them apart)

Guess Little Susie objected to being awakened.
Posted by: JT at December 29, 2023 08:02 AM (T4tVD)


The survivor can form a group with Dick Smothers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:05 AM (x0n13)

28 We know what they are doing re: Maine, Colorado et al, is Constitutionally wrong. For that matter They know it's wrong.
And we have only the 'Republican' House to withhold funding to the anti American, anti Constitution thugs and..... the House is on vacation.

Fuck Speaker Mike Johnson in particular. He says he is a Christian but he is most certainly a fucking coward.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at December 29, 2023 08:06 AM (14t2+)

29 Knit, Madame Defarge, knit!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2023 08:05 AM (adINt)

All out of yarn and bubblegum.

Posted by: Mme. D at December 29, 2023 08:06 AM (Angsy)

30 I should never try to cook breakfast before my first cup of coffee.
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Fish don't fry in the kitchen; Beans don't burn on the grill. Took a whole lotta tryin' Just to get up that hill.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:06 AM (2yu8s)

31 I do not understand why everyone thinks Tulsi Gabbard is a possibility as a VP for Trump. Tulsi may not be affiliated with the democrats right now but she still is a progressive and that isn't going to change.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 29, 2023 08:07 AM (DBrN4)

32 Yonder Horde

1st snow of winter here in Bourbon Country.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 07:58 AM (Q4IgG)


Helping out that red winter wheat used by Maker's Mark. Let it snow (x3)!

Posted by: Doof at December 29, 2023 08:07 AM (RFPHU)

33 So President Trump is now equated with President Jefferson Davis? Pretty high cotton if you ask me.

Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2023 08:08 AM (Omqq1)

34 War with China is simmering in the Western Pacific, but that won't last.
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I'm gonna wash that Xi right outta my hair and send him on his way!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:09 AM (2yu8s)

35 1st snow of winter here in Bourbon Country.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 07:58 AM (Q4IgG)
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Looking forward tomorrow to a few shots of Woodford Reserve Double Oaked.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2023 08:09 AM (adINt)

36 Looking forward tomorrow to a few shots of Woodford Reserve Double Oaked.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2023 08:09 AM (adINt)


Outstanding choice. Among my favorites. But why wait until tomorrow???

Posted by: Doof at December 29, 2023 08:10 AM (RFPHU)

37 It is imperative for the existence of America that Trump, if elected, do as Lincoln and suspend habeus corpus etc due to the border invasion and widespread treason in and by ' the government'.

Merely trying to reverse what the Communists have done is a futile, useless strategy.

The Communists are imprisoning us( J6 et al) and have every intention of ruling and treating us like serfs. It is War and they are treasonous.
Trump save America by jailing the traitors.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at December 29, 2023 08:11 AM (14t2+)

38 Jack Smith is the Reinhardt Heydrich of the Democratic Party. He is a profoundly evil man.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 29, 2023 08:11 AM (x42Y3)

39 Doof, Cheers!

Posted by: Ben Had at December 29, 2023 08:11 AM (PKEqY)

40 My pick for Trump VP is Mike Pompeo. All kinds of gravitas

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 29, 2023 08:12 AM (Gse2f)

41 40, good choice with Pompeo but I have heard he is establishment. Trump had a lot of people in his admin. that had gravitas and they shoved it right up his ass.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 29, 2023 08:13 AM (DBrN4)

42 ‘It’s a tax’….
Now content.

Posted by: Redenzo at December 29, 2023 08:13 AM (V/pbu)

43 Thank you JJ for all the tremendous output you managed in 2023. Sincere best wishes for 2024.

Posted by: Ciampino - second and last launch for 2023? at December 29, 2023 08:13 AM (qfLjt)

44 I hope that we paid a fair price to Australia for the kangaroo courts.

Happy Friday, everyone. It's a half day for me and then I go into the main office to bid a recently laid off co-worker farewell. Thankfully, my company stepped up and found him something on another contract.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2023 08:13 AM (4olE8)

45 The people in darkness have seen a great light

Posted by: Mr Gaga at December 29, 2023 08:14 AM (KiBMU)

46 Hitler said that Heydrich had a Black Heart. Now that's saying something.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 29, 2023 08:14 AM (Gse2f)

47 Meanwhile, Biden started begging Mexico for help with immigration. Mexico said no help, unless the US starts paying ransom to Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua - the three communist governments.

So it really is all about extortion.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 29, 2023 08:14 AM (S6gqv)

48 Ah, The Gulag Archipelago. Story after story of commies doing nasty things to their fellow man all in the name of "socialism".

How soon before we have a "J6 Archipelago" telling people what they already know.

No difference between the commies in "Gulag" and the federales in washington dc.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2023 08:14 AM (Edu7X)

49 Fundamental Transformation.

He meant what he said.

Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2023 08:15 AM (SYTee)

50 I've got a bottle of New Riff Bourbon to open New Years Eve. Just finished off a bottle of Makers 46 French Oaked.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 08:15 AM (Q4IgG)

51 31 I do not understand why everyone thinks Tulsi Gabbard is a possibility as a VP for Trump. Tulsi may not be affiliated with the democrats right now but she still is a progressive and that isn't going to change.
Posted by: Jaimo at December 29, 2023 08:07 AM (DBrN4)


Progressive? No. That's why she left. Is she a liberal and a fairly far to the left liberal? Probably. But she might be more to the center than you think.

Remember: Donald Trump was a NYC liberal Democrat once. No guarantee Tulsi will evolve as he did, but given the situation that caused her to leave her party, and the madness infecting it, it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

Of course, she is a political animal, so there's that calculus as well.

By the way, my statements about her should not be construed as an endorsement.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:15 AM (x0n13)

52 It is imperative for the existence of America that Trump, if elected, do as Lincoln and suspend habeus corpus .....

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at December 29, 2023 08:11 AM (14t2+)
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For a law wise ignorant person, me, could you elaborate a littlle on what would that do to both the law and Trump's powers?

Posted by: Ciampino - can we declare open season on the bfis? at December 29, 2023 08:18 AM (qfLjt)

53 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:15 AM (x0n13)

What's her position on abortion?

Posted by: dantesed at December 29, 2023 08:18 AM (88xKn)

54 43 Thank you JJ for all the tremendous output you managed in 2023. Sincere best wishes for 2024.
Posted by: Ciampino - second and last launch for 2023? at December 29, 2023 08:13 AM (qfLjt)


Cheers. Happy '24.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:18 AM (x0n13)

55 I'm looking for the left within a few years to officially nullify the constitution (not just ignore it like now) by some vote of congress or court order or plebiscite or whatever BS they can come up with. They are that power hungry insane and have already laid the groundwork for their idiot lemmings for years.


Fortunately they will replace it with something much better like the constitution of the USSR or South Africa.

Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2023 08:18 AM (13idB)

56 Outstanding choice. Among my favorites. But why wait until tomorrow???
Posted by: Doof at December 29, 2023 08:10 AM (RFPHU)
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Another drink for this evening - a grapa made in moscat wine barrels.

And the WRDO goes so well with the matjes herring we'll be having as an appetizer for tomorrow's lunch.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 29, 2023 08:19 AM (adINt)

57 53 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:15 AM (x0n13)

What's her position on abortion?
Posted by: dantesed at December 29, 2023 08:18 AM (88xKn)

Probably pro-abort. To what extent or with any limits? No idea.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:19 AM (x0n13)

58 We're gonna need a lotta lamp posts to rectify the wrongs done by the deep state....

http://tinyurl.com/nhbb88vb

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2023 08:19 AM (YRsIm)

59 Fixed. Thanks!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:03 AM (x0n13)

Thank you.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 08:20 AM (L4Etu)

60 55 Fortunately they will replace it with something much better like the constitution of the USSR or South Africa.
Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2023 08:18 AM (13idB)

Ruth Bader-Meinhoff was rubbing one out on her leathery piss-flaps with the SA constitution. Someone who was supposed to preserve, protect and defend ours and was one of its highest adjudicators.

Farcical and tragic at the same time.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:21 AM (x0n13)

61 From the article about the sledgehammer attack at El Camino College:

"Davis was arrested and is being held without bail. The motive behind the attack is unclear"

In other words, he's not a White man with a MAGA hat attacking an Asian woman so we can't blame raysism on this.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2023 08:22 AM (4olE8)

62 Bribe'em demands Israel pay tax revenues to PA and Hamas.

Finance minister Smotrich reply was a nicer version of " not one fucking shekel".

Posted by: Ben Had at December 29, 2023 08:23 AM (PKEqY)

63 I wish Republican rank and filers would speak as clearly and openly about l’affaire Trump as Tulsi Gabbard does.. Tulsi Gabbard… former Democrat.. shameful.

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 08:24 AM (NhIyq)

64
Remember how Chuck Schemer threatened Trump, in that the intelligence community had "nine ways to Sunday to get at you."

I've heard the expression before as 'Seven Ways to Sunday' so I looked it up. He actually said:

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you.”

Minor thing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 29, 2023 08:25 AM (3qE2b)

65 "Could fuel global instability in 2024..."

Maybe the understated headline of century so far.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 08:25 AM (L4Etu)

66 I dont think Trump is going to pick a woman, but if he does, his standards are high, it will probably be Noem.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 08:26 AM (XV/Pl)

67 60 Ruth Bader-Meinhoff was rubbing one out on her leathery piss-flaps with the SA constitution.

Hate you so much for that image.

Someone who was supposed to preserve, protect and defend ours and was one of its highest adjudicators.

But according to The Lightworker, the Constitution is a "document of negative liberties." Surely we could look to Wakanda for a better alternative.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 29, 2023 08:26 AM (4olE8)

68 Does removing Trump from the ballot mean you cannot write -in his name? If so does that mean those any write-in votes will be discarded to protect Our Democracy?

To Dem lemmings that makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2023 08:27 AM (13idB)

69 66 I dont think Trump is going to pick a woman, but if he does, his standards are high, it will probably be Noem.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 08:26 AM (XV/Pl)

I'm sorry Winsome Sears is ineligible.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 08:27 AM (L4Etu)

70 TGIF, horde!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2023 08:28 AM (izj35)

71 Does removing Trump from the ballot mean you cannot write -in his name? If so does that mean those any write-in votes will be discarded to protect Our Democracy?

To Dem lemmings that makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2023 08:27 AM (13idB)

That's what the CO Supremes ruled.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at December 29, 2023 08:29 AM (iODuv)

72
Speaking of Solzhenitsyn, Putin is a big fan of his writing. Solzhenitsyn after his return to Russia from the USA, also was adamant about reunification of Russia, Belarus, and

:: drum roll ::

Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 29, 2023 08:29 AM (3qE2b)

73 @47

>>So it really is all about extortion.

We'll pay more money and they will send more people.

And 10pct of the money we send will go to all of the big guys and gals for their troubles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 08:29 AM (XV/Pl)

74 You had to know it would come to this: Democrats officially telling us who we can't vote for.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 08:29 AM (L4Etu)

75 The "Haley VP" thing. Yeah, sure. It's posted here everyday. Just a coincidence.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 29, 2023 08:30 AM (Z8Yh2)

76 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

By sheer coincidence, as J.J. posted his last MR of the year, I've been working on the last Sunday Morning Book Thread of the year...

See y'all on Sunday!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 29, 2023 08:30 AM (BpYfr)

77 Bribe'em demands Israel pay tax revenues to PA and Hamas.

Finance minister Smotrich reply was a nicer version of " not one fucking shekel".
Posted by: Ben Had at December 29, 2023 08:23 AM (PKEqY)
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Can't collect 10% of what is not paid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

78 You had to know it would come to this: Democrats officially telling us who we can't vote for.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 08:29 AM (L4Etu)

Concur. Time for Red States to start bouncing democrats asses off of ballots.

Just for shits and grins.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2023 08:31 AM (Edu7X)

79 "Democrats officially telling us who we can't vote for."

That's just so....Ukranian.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 29, 2023 08:31 AM (hH3Px)

80 One of the nation's top misinformation experts censorship tyrants got shafted and thinks we should care:
nline disinformation specialist Joan Donovan on Wednesday took to social media to post what she called the “full account” of her separation from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

In a series of evening Tweets, Donovan repeated previous charges with new furor, claiming that staff and colleagues at the Kennedy School “heisted all my research programs and millions in funding.” She further claimed that the school is holding onto her intellectual property as part of a wider attempt at preventing Donovan from continuing her research elsewhere. Following her departure from Harvard, Donovan joined Boston University’s faculty this year. . .


Oh, boohoo, Ms. Jabb-the-Hut! No honor among self-appointed speech control freaks.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2023 08:31 AM (izj35)

81 Eventually they'll let us vote for the single person on the ballot.

Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2023 08:32 AM (SYTee)

82 "You had to know it would come to this: Democrats officially telling us who we can't vote for. "


I'm pretty sure we won't hear Dems shrieking "My ballot, my choice!"

Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2023 08:32 AM (13idB)

83 As this is the last Morning Report for the year, I want to thank Ace, my co-bloggers and all of you for being here, commenting and all your support for making this the best place to be on the interwebz.

Wishing you all a happy, healthy, prosperous and peaceful new year ahead. See you next year.

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Back at you, JJ -- thank you so much for all you do, giving me something to look forward to each weekday morning!

I'll be hitting the tip jar "next year" for Ace, you, and a couple of others who comprise my virtual sanctuary of sanity.

[It's too bad that these treasonous criminal tyrants can't be held criminally & financially accountable (as in imprison as well as bankrupt their asses as they've done to Alex Jones and Rudy Giuliani -- and are trying to do to Trump) for literally violating (in serially & multiple ways) the civil rights of not only Trump, but his likely 100+ million supporters.

But a class action lawsuit of course would take several years with no guarantee of success, and in the end only the lawyers profit. As some have been saying since even B.T. (Before Trump): we're not voting or suing our way out of this. Le Sigh ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 08:33 AM (kX2Rs)

84 If Florida had any balls they'd throw Biden off their primary ballot.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 29, 2023 08:33 AM (DBrN4)

85 81 Eventually they'll let us vote for the single person on the ballot.
Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2023 08:32 AM (SYTee)

Point out that the Soviet Union had elections for Dear Leaders….

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 08:33 AM (NhIyq)

86 The only thing I care about when it comes to DTS choice for VP is that his selection isn't an established politician.

I'd like to see him come through the doors on day one and begin eliminating entire departments, starting with the DoJ and Education.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2023 08:33 AM (YRsIm)

87 Minor thing.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 29, 2023 08:25 AM (3qE2b)
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What are your thoughts about apostrophes?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:33 AM (RIvkX)

88 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 10m
NEW - Illegal border crossings have increased sharply under Biden: "It is a disguised open border" — NZZ

http://tinyurl.com/4zdaee7n
Chart contrasting PDT years with FJB so far. The one PDT spike is probably the "locking kids in cages" staged invasion.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:34 AM (2yu8s)

89 Seems like a much bigger story than is being reported.

@DonStandeford

US intelligence officials have determined that the Chinese balloon spotted over the United States earlier this year used an American internet service provider to send information back to China via burst transmissions.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2023 08:34 AM (ZLI7S)

90 I'd like to see him come through the doors on day one and begin eliminating entire departments, starting with the DoJ and Education.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2023 08:33 AM (YRsIm)
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Afuera!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:34 AM (RIvkX)

91 87 What are your thoughts about apostrophes?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:33 AM (RIvkX)


"They are the crux of the biscuit."

- - Frank Zappa

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:34 AM (x0n13)

92 New England is New England. All White Leftists,who never have to deal with the ethnic melting pots of other American states. Try sending a bus full of illegals to Augusta or Portland. They would be returned

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:35 AM (33nmr)

93 "What are your thoughts about apostrophes?"

And the Oxnard Comma?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 29, 2023 08:35 AM (hH3Px)

94 @81

>>Eventually they'll let us vote for the single person on the ballot.

That's essentially what rank choice voting and jungle primaries achieve.

Again, as has been noted, once Donks gain power, the move to make one party rule their mission.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 08:35 AM (XV/Pl)

95
What are your thoughts about apostrophes?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:33 AM


Opposed's to them's!

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 29, 2023 08:35 AM (3qE2b)

96 US intelligence officials have determined that the Chinese balloon spotted over the United States earlier this year used an American internet service provider to send information back to China via burst transmissions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2023 08:34 AM (ZLI7S)
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They always said we will sell them the rope they use to hang us.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

97 If voting mattered they wouldn't let us do it.

Posted by: George Carlin, I think at December 29, 2023 08:36 AM (NBVIP)

98 IMO the thing about taking Trump's name off primary ballots is that it's a litmus test to "disqualify" him from the general election. The J6 committee (Liz Cheney) suggested the "disqualification" route. It's being tested.

But that unto itself doesn't matter.

In the general election you can vote for anyone you want, whether their name's on the ballot or not.

People "write-in" all sorts of stupidity; Mickey Mouse, Garfield the Cat, Dr. Doolittle, etc. They can write-in "Trump" too.

It's just that those ballots would likely be tossed anyway.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

99 92 aren't Augusta and Portland already full of immigrants from Somalia or some other African Country? Obama made sure of that. Why do you think they have a commie for Governor when much of the State is rather conservative?

Posted by: Jaimo at December 29, 2023 08:36 AM (DBrN4)

100 Not only does it screw Trump, but hurts Conservatives on the down ballot for Congress, State Legislature etc...

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:36 AM (33nmr)

101 Opposed's to them's!
Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 29, 2023 08:35 AM (3qE2b)
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*tear rolls slowly down*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:36 AM (RIvkX)

102 89 Seems like a much bigger story than is being reported.

@DonStandeford

US intelligence officials have determined that the Chinese balloon spotted over the United States earlier this year used an American internet service provider to send information back to China via burst transmissions.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2023 08:34 AM (ZLI7S)

That's either sickeningly comical or indicates perhaps our own government was colluding with them.

Remember, it is known that we were tracking the balloon almost immediately after it was launched and watched it sail across the Pacific all the way across the country to the Atlantic coast.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:36 AM (x0n13)

103 "used an American internet service provider to send information back to China via burst transmissions. "

Couldn't have been Comcast.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (hH3Px)

104 Good morning, JJ, Horde

2024 won't be boring, that's for sure. If I was a sailor, and America was the ship, well, I'd plan for rough seas.



Posted by: callsign claymore at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (JcnCJ)

105 Leading Report @LeadingReport 13h
BREAKING: As of December 18th, 35,589 Democratic voters have switched to the GOP in Joe Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania.

Leading Report @LeadingReport 9h
BREAKING: Maine State Rep. John Andrews has filed a request for a joint order to impeach Secretary of State Shenna Bellows following her efforts to remove former President Trump from the ballot.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (2yu8s)

106 It's just that those ballots would likely be tossed anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

Stuff and toss. Both things are possible.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (L4Etu)

107 100 Not only does it screw Trump, but hurts Conservatives on the down ballot for Congress, State Legislature etc...
Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:36 AM (33nmr)

Ugh. I had not thought of that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (x0n13)

108 99. Could be right, but I think gov Abbott should send a few planes to Maine right now

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (33nmr)

109 How do you write in a name on an electronic ballot? I know, ask a stupid question….

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (NhIyq)

110 US intelligence officials have determined that the Chinese balloon spotted over the United States earlier this year used an American internet service provider to send information back to China via burst transmissions.
Posted by: JackStraw

/adjusts tinfoil hat to a jaunty angle...

Is this a set-up-frame-job by the IC against Star-Link and Musk?

Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (SYTee)

111 #88 BTW, NZZ = Neue Zürcher Zeitung from Switzerland.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:38 AM (2yu8s)

112 @89

>>Seems like a much bigger story than is being reported.

If one was being cynical, the internet provider they are alluding to would be StarLink, and that the LE/IC/Deep State is laying out a pre-text to go after Musk.


Just spit balling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 08:38 AM (XV/Pl)

113 Golden is in a swing district. What a weasel

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:39 AM (33nmr)

114 >>Wishing you all a happy, healthy, prosperous and peaceful new year ahead. See you next year.


Same to you, JJ!
Thanks you for your excellent MRs!!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2023 08:39 AM (izj35)

115 JJ, you might have mentioned the down ballot already. Still on my first cup

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:39 AM (33nmr)

116 If one was being cynical, the internet provider they are alluding to would be StarLink, and that the LE/IC/Deep State is laying out a pre-text to go after Musk.

Just spit balling.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 08:38 AM (XV/Pl)

Or it was Verizon and China never got a single one or zero from the damned thing, so no harm no foul.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 08:40 AM (9UlRk)

117 I would say that DC will bring Musk to heel this coming year… or at least start the process in a big way…

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 08:40 AM (NhIyq)

118 "New England is New England. All White Leftists,who never have to deal with the ethnic melting pots of other American states. Try sending a bus full of illegals to Augusta or Portland. They would be returned

Posted by: Jonah "

Have a friend who moved to Maine because his teacher wife was sick of Atlanta area schools and wanted to teach in a good district. Big time leftist, she could never bring herself to admit, or even consider, what that really meant (i.e the entire leftist narrative about schools and race is BS)

Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2023 08:40 AM (13idB)

119 Happy New Year JJ.

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:40 AM (33nmr)

120 New England is New England. All White Leftists,who never have to deal with the ethnic melting pots of other American states. Try sending a bus full of illegals to Augusta or Portland. They would be returned
Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:35 AM (33nmr)

Concur. Yankees Gotta Yankee.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (Edu7X)

121 10+ months of CalvinBall Elections.

God be with us.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (4I/2K)

122 If Trump is elected: close the border tight with armed BP. Fire all the 85000 new IRS 'agents'. Hire 100,000 or however more is needed, border guards. Build the wall with any dirty money confiscated from politicians (looking at Bidens, Paul "Insider-Trading" Pelosi, Schumers, etc.). Arrest all those that came up with spurious "crimes" against him and his subordinates and do a J6 on them (prison) and take all their money. Treat BLM and antifa as urban terrorists. Fire all the top 3? tiers at the FBI and CIA. Make the rest reapply for their jobs. Get rid of the State Department.
Get rid of the EPA and leave that job to the States. Same with OSHA. Maybe we can get some critical chemical manufacturing back in country and not be dependent on China and India. Where do the munitions company get their TNT from? Local or China?

Posted by: Ciampino - can we declare open season on the 3-letter agencies? at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (qfLjt)

123 Eventually they'll let us vote for the single person on the ballot.

Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2023 08:32 AM (SYTee)

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DATELINE November 8, 2140:

"With over 1 billion votes cast, Kamala Jong Un has been elected Dear Leader after running un-opposed for the 5th consecutive election cycle with over 98% of the vote. Thank you for playing, citizens! Your daily cricket rations will be increased from 40 to 30 in celebration ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (kX2Rs)

124 18 USC 242 - Deprivation of rights under Color of Law

Punishable by “any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.”

Charge them with this and this shit will stop toot sweet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (uKeRS)

125
They can and likely will try to destroy Musk. But since they were tracking the balloon all the way across the Pacific, the intel community is guilty in allowing it to sail unmolested all the way here.

Of course, the Deep State will not be dinged in any way and Musk will be fucked over.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (x0n13)

126 >>That's either sickeningly comical or indicates perhaps our own government was colluding with them.

>>Remember, it is known that we were tracking the balloon almost immediately after it was launched and watched it sail across the Pacific all the way across the country to the Atlantic coast.

Based upon my earlier life I'd say the odds the intel community didn't know internet traffic was being sent from an American ISP to China is around 0.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (ZLI7S)

127 "aren't Augusta and Portland already full of immigrants from Somalia or some other African Country?'

The Somalis were sent to Lewiston, an old mill town and the poorest in the State. But their soccer team won a state title, so they have that.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (Gse2f)

128 There are 6 New England states. How many non white Us. Senators or Governors up there?

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:42 AM (33nmr)

129 Breaking911 @Breaking911 9h
Hero Cat Saves 74-Year-Old Owner From Christmas Day Attack

As stated in the arrest document, the victim, who was now Derouen’s roommate, would occasionally allow the 60-year-old man to use her car. On the day of the incident, police reported that Derouen became enraged when the woman declined to lend him the vehicle.

According to the affidavit, he forcefully pushed her onto a bed and proceeded to choke her with one hand while covering her mouth and nose with the other, rendering the victim unable to breathe.

The woman informed the police that the attack ceased when her cat jumped onto the attacker, as Derouen reportedly has a fear of cats. Seizing the opportunity, the woman escaped, entered her vehicle, and reported the crime to the San Antonio Police Department.

http://tinyurl.com/2cvvm5up

Always bribe the cat first!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:43 AM (2yu8s)

130 Have you figured out how the GOPe is going to keep Trump off the ballot yet?

Posted by: Nikki Haley - I bet you've already forgotten about Maui at December 29, 2023 08:43 AM (9cE5Q)

131 126 Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (ZLI7S)

So, they allowed the Chink blimp to spy on us just to nail Musk, or was that just a bonus, where Joey got a fee?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:43 AM (x0n13)

132 The Chinese spy balloon episode was an agreed upon op by our intelligence/military community and theirs.

What's not being disclosed is whether we "flew" something over China in a reciprocal mission, the parameters which were agreed upon earlier.

"Open Skies" is a treaty-like agreement between several nations that permit surveillance flights over sensitive military sites by other nation's aircraft. I don't believe China is a member, or for that matter if the "Open Skies" agreement is still in effect... it used to be.

China likely doesn't have a sophisticated enough aircraft to fly over our missile bases and nuke facilities... to they used a balloon. And we permitted it.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 08:44 AM (Q4IgG)

133 125. Musk creates a lot of jobs and tax income for this country. Deep state is always two steps behind

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:44 AM (33nmr)

134 128 There are 6 New England states. How many non white Us. Senators or Governors up there?
Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:42 AM (33nmr)

Does Sheldon Whorehouse still belong to that whites only country club?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:44 AM (x0n13)

135 >>New England is New England. All White Leftists,who never have to deal with the ethnic melting pots of other American states. Try sending a bus full of illegals to Augusta or Portland. They would be returned


Oh H*ll no. Illegals and refugees in New England, too.

Funny you mention Portland, Maine, because it has become one of the nation's magnets for Somalis. There was one of those refugee resettlement programs for them there, and things got so good for the Somalis that now the illegal ones who come in though the Southern border will head straight to Maine. The homeless and poor Maine residents are getting screwed out of handouts now. http://tinyurl.com/yc5r56cp

Maine morons can no doubt provide more details/the latest on this. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2023 08:45 AM (izj35)

136 Leading Report @LeadingReport 9h
BREAKING: Maine State Rep. John Andrews has filed a request for a joint order to impeach Secretary of State Shenna Bellows following her efforts to remove former President Trump from the ballot.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:37 AM (2yu8s)

Charge 1: Shenna, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Point / Counterpoint at December 29, 2023 08:45 AM (4I/2K)

137 Deep State allowed Balloons, and also funded Wuhan

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:45 AM (33nmr)

138 Bribe'em better start wearing a raincoat because every nation is pissing all over him

Posted by: Ben Had at December 29, 2023 08:45 AM (PKEqY)

139 If Trump is elected: close the border tight with armed BP. Fire all the 85000 new IRS 'agents'. Hire 100,000 or however more is needed, border guards. Build the wall with any dirty money confiscated from politicians (looking at Bidens, Paul "Insider-Trading" Pelosi, Schumers, etc.).

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Bring U.S. military troops -- presently protecting the border of over 150 other countries -- home and put them on the borders and all other points of entry.

Fuck the rest of the world, I wanna get off ...

/only half-joking, as I know it's folly to be fully isolationist, but the spirit of my comment (many of which are, pure fantasy) stands.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 08:46 AM (kX2Rs)

140 136. At least one Maine Republican with some nuts. He better call his CPA, IRS is looking thru hiis returns right now

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:46 AM (33nmr)

141 My prediction:

Trump is kept off the ballot. He mounts a national write in campaign. He wins. Congress finds some random dude named Donald Trump from East Fumblebuck, MT, and says "hey look, you won, buddy!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 08:46 AM (9UlRk)

142
BREAKING: As of December 18th, 35,589 Democratic voters have switched to the GOP in Joe Biden’s home state of Pennsylvania.

Assuming an average 28% of voters are (D) and about 25% are (R) that would leave the middle at about 50% (I).

If the (I)'s in the middle are equally as displeased, Pennsylvania is definitely back in play in '24. They're gonna need a bigger boatload of ballots.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 29, 2023 08:47 AM (3qE2b)

143 Is Maine sos a elected office, or a appointment by the Hippie Bitch Governor?

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:47 AM (33nmr)

144 I have news for the crazed sos... we have an insurrection every 4 years, by design. Get over it!

Posted by: ET at December 29, 2023 08:47 AM (xrJLf)

145 I do remember seeing a video about the Open Skies program allowing overflights.

But not much beyond that little snippet remains in my brain.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 29, 2023 08:48 AM (hH3Px)

146 “Last night, while at dinner with my wife, cowards ‘swatted’ my home in Naples,” Scott said on X, formally known as Twitter. “These criminals wasted the time & resources of our law enforcement in a sick attempt to terrorize my family.”
Sen. Rick Scott Says Florida Home "Swatted": "Sick Attempt to Terrorize My Family"

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Republicans are such pussies they DESERVE to be Swatted.

Frankly every Republican office holder should experience the police state up close and personal. Maybe one or two will realize where we are as a country.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 29, 2023 08:48 AM (cMXNt)

147 Deep State is very nervous about the US Senate also. Manchin retiring, and their informant Mitt Romney, leaving also

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:48 AM (33nmr)

148 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
BREAKING: China names Dong Jun as new defence minister: state media

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
BREAKING: China names Dong Jun as new defence minister: state media
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Apparently, the old one threatened to phone Milley if China invaded Taiwan.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:49 AM (2yu8s)

149 Bribe'em better start wearing a raincoat because every nation is pissing all over him
Posted by: Ben Had

-

If the laptop taught us anything it's that they're likely into that.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - I bet you've already forgotten about Maui at December 29, 2023 08:49 AM (9cE5Q)

150 Don't know how JJ can produce these five days a week. I couldn't do it for even a couple of days fueled by little white pills.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2023 08:50 AM (Dm8we)

151 Charge them with this then convict them and sentence them for it, and this shit will stop toot sweet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2023 08:41 AM (uKeRS)

Just to clarify...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2023 08:50 AM (YRsIm)

152 >>So, they allowed the Chink blimp to spy on us just to nail Musk, or was that just a bonus, where Joey got a fee?

Your guess is as good as mine but what really pisses me off is the number of things they go like this including the whole virus situation is the number lies they tell us right to our faces and demand we accept.

What if the Chinese had sent a bomber over the US? Would Biden have said we couldn't shoot it down because of the chance of falling debris and would we be expected to believe that too? The response was clearly idiotic and yet most just shrugged and said oh well.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2023 08:50 AM (ZLI7S)

153 College buddy was from far northern Minnesota. He said, everybody up there had Flags and owned multpile guns, very patriotic. But he also said they voted 70% Dem in his area.
Reason he said, is these people never went to the cities and saw the carnage. Just like New England

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:51 AM (33nmr)

154 Lol... Naples SWAT.... what, they roll up to your house in their Tommy Bahamas and tell you they're going to play pickleball without you?

"OK, fine, i surrender!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 08:52 AM (9UlRk)

155 “Last night, while at dinner with my wife, cowards ‘swatted’ my home in Naples,” Scott said on X, formally known as Twitter. “These criminals wasted the time & resources of our law enforcement in a sick attempt to terrorize my family.”
Sen. Rick Scott Says Florida Home "Swatted": "Sick Attempt to Terrorize My Family"

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It would be nice for some of these True Conservatives to speak clearly about what this is.

This isn't wasting resources or trying to scare your kids during Wheel of Fortune.

This is an attempt to get *just* the right situation / sounds / low light / etc so that these representatives and their family members are shot by the amped-up full-auto armed police who are responding blindly to a violent and dangerous situation.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - I bet you've already forgotten about Maui at December 29, 2023 08:52 AM (9cE5Q)

156 >>Is Maine sos a elected office, or a appointment by the Hippie Bitch Governor?

Appointed by the Maine legislature.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2023 08:52 AM (ZLI7S)

157 Bribe'em better start wearing a raincoat because every nation is pissing all over him

Posted by: Ben Had at December 29, 2023 08:45 AM (PKEqY)

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Will that protect him when they start shitting all over him?

/They should start wheeling him around with a large hand truck like Hannibal Lecter, strapped in, and wearing a HazMat suit. At least little girls will finally be safe around him ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 08:52 AM (kX2Rs)

158 "Bring U.S. military troops -- presently protecting the border of over 150 other countries -- home and put them on the borders and all other points of entry."


That could be avoided with a some warning shots shots overhead of groups of invaders. Maybe a few near misses as well. The flood would stop overnight and the caravans would head home.

Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2023 08:52 AM (13idB)

159 Mornin’, All. Happy New Year’s Eve Eve Eve.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2023 08:52 AM (9yWhg)

160 “Last night, while at dinner with my wife, cowards ‘swatted’ my home in Naples,” Scott said on X, formally known as Twitter.
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For the love of pete please stop with the formerly known as.

FORMERLY known as, you big dummy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

161 It is an Ex-Twitter.

Wonderful plumage, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 08:54 AM (9UlRk)

162 Zimmerman will apparently not admit that cosmologists almost always express their navel gazing incantations as incontrovertible fact, thus exposing themselves to the kind of factual retribution Webb is inflicting on them.

It's pretty funny, really.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 29, 2023 08:54 AM (MkuC5)

163 @148 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
BREAKING: China names Dong Jun as new defence minister: state media

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
BREAKING: China names Dong Jun as new defence minister: state media
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Second cut & paste was supposed to have been...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 21h
NEW: China's defence ministry on Thursday urged the Asia-Pacific to be on high alert as the United States steps up forward military deployment in the region - Reuters
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Need second coffee NOW!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:54 AM (2yu8s)

164 It would have been simpler for Elon to have renamed it "X formerly known as Twitter" and be done with it

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

165 TwitX

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 08:54 AM (9UlRk)

166 134. Exactly JJ. White Dem males from New England in the US Senate. Whitehouse, Reed, King, Sanders, Welch, Murphy, Blumenthal,and Markey. 8 of them, voting like good communists

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:55 AM (33nmr)

167 How about Twix???

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 08:55 AM (NhIyq)

168 IIRC these fake call in SWAT assassination attempts by the left happen almost routinely against outspoken and unbowed Rep. Marjorie Greene.


Crickets.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - I bet you've already forgotten about Maui at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (9cE5Q)

169 Or TwiX….

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (NhIyq)

170 156. Thanks Jack. Commie bitch not even elected.

Posted by: Jonah at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (33nmr)

171 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Maybe we'll get lucky and that Bellows woman from Maine will have an up close and personal meeting with some of the enlightened Somalis who live in Portland and Augusta. At least one Republican there is trying to impeach her. AWFL is as AWFL does

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (iYJk7)

172 to be fair, "X" is kind of a stupid name.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

173 “Last night, while at dinner with my wife, cowards ‘swatted’ my home in Naples,” Scott said on X, formally known as Twitter. “These criminals wasted the time & resources of our law enforcement in a sick attempt to terrorize my family.”
Sen. Rick Scott Says Florida Home "Swatted": "Sick Attempt to Terrorize My Family"

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It would be nice for some of these True Conservatives to speak clearly about what this is.

This isn't wasting resources or trying to scare your kids during Wheel of Fortune.

This is an attempt to get *just* the right situation / sounds / low light / etc so that these representatives and their family members are shot by the amped-up full-auto armed police who are responding blindly to a violent and dangerous situation.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - I bet you've already forgotten about Maui at December 29, 2023 08:52 AM (9cE5Q)
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These are not criminals; they are domestic terrorists and need to be executed post-haste pour encourager les autres.

[But there I go, fantasizing about living in a primarily rational, moral & just society again ...]

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 08:57 AM (kX2Rs)

174 Xitter.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 08:57 AM (9UlRk)

175 172 to be fair, "X" is kind of a stupid name.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

Sorta like Twitter… Hi grammie!!!

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 08:57 AM (NhIyq)

176 When I was a kid, I hated commies.

I still do.

Posted by: Marooned at December 29, 2023 08:57 AM (kt8QE)

177 Hi there tubal!

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 08:57 AM (SfhV1)

178 I imagine there was a significant brand value to "Twitter" I don't know why he threw that away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

179 to be fair, "X" is kind of a stupid name.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

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Next you'll be telling me that that's what he named one of his children.

Wait, wut?

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 08:58 AM (kX2Rs)

180 Ex Twitter

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2023 08:58 AM (9yWhg)

181 Media upset that Pierce Brosnan went into an off-limits area of Yellowstone Ntl. Park.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:59 AM (2yu8s)

182 Wait, Wheel Of Fortune is still on?

Posted by: Just waking up at December 29, 2023 08:59 AM (NBVIP)

183 BlahBlahBlah

Posted by: X formerly known as Twitter at December 29, 2023 08:59 AM (4I/2K)

184 Whatever one thinks about the 2020 election and the events of 1/6/21, aside from the fact that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment has zero bearing on today, the reasoning of this filthy shit-whore apparatchik is complete and utter horseshit for one reason and one reason alone: Donald Trump has neither been tried nor convicted of leading or fomenting an insurrection.

I don't think that's the slam-dunk you assume it is...even legally. I don't think Confederates were tried and convicted of "insurrection", yet if Robert E. Lee had run for office, he would have (rightfully) been disqualified. Heck, congress passed the Amnesty Act just a few years after the 14th Amendment was adopted to remove the disqualification from many people...none of whom were charged and convicted.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 29, 2023 08:59 AM (ycI94)

185 Media upset that Pierce Brosnan went into an off-limits area of Yellowstone Ntl. Park.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:59 AM (2yu8s)

He wanted to form a Bond with nature.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 29, 2023 09:00 AM (R4t5M)

186 Of course!

The Maine Secretary of State who just kicked Trump off the ballot was the executive director of her state’s ACLU chapter for nearly 10 years.

She also campaigned for same-day voter registration and ranked-choice voting. maine.gov/sos/about/bio.html


Voting rights = voting fraud specialist

Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2023 09:00 AM (izj35)

187 166 don't remind me of those two assholes Murphy and Blumenthal. We are stuck with them until they go tits up. Same with that rich asshole lamont.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 29, 2023 09:00 AM (DBrN4)

188 Heck, congress passed the Amnesty Act just a few years after the 14th Amendment was adopted to remove the disqualification from many people...none of whom were charged and convicted.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 29, 2023 08:59 AM (ycI94)

Son of a whore. We had a civil war and i went and missed it. Just my luck.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 09:00 AM (9UlRk)

189 Should have left it named Twitter, rubbing their noses in their loss.

Posted by: davidt at December 29, 2023 09:00 AM (SYTee)

190 Space"X" -----> X

Elon's creating a "brand"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 09:00 AM (Q4IgG)

191 Media upset that Pierce Brosnan went into an off-limits area of Yellowstone Ntl. Park.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:59 AM (2yu8s)

BTDT back in 2012.

Posted by: Jackson Curtis at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (4I/2K)

192 IIRC these fake call in SWAT assassination attempts by the left happen almost routinely against outspoken and unbowed Rep. Marjorie Greene.
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They did her parents just yesterday after having done her [twice??] earlier in Christmas Week.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (2yu8s)

193 An actual opposition party in control of the House, would--after the election-- announce they are not accepting the electors from the states that removed Trump from the ballot regardless of the Supreme Court ruling or whether Trump wins.
Removing 14 votes, as of now, from Biden.

And that they will not accept future electors until those involved are removed and barred from office.

The thing is, the Supreme Court can't punish the lawlessness of these states but the House must.

But, doesn't matter. They won't and besides the republic is dead.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (TzW+Y)

194 And doesn't Maine have that ranked choice voting now for the 1,000 residents who actually live there?

Posted by: Jaimo at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (DBrN4)

195 Wait, Wheel Of Fortune is still on?

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Can somehow manage to find at least one Gay or someone who wants to say hi to Gay in nearly every episode. Might not have a black woman or a hispanic man, but there will be Gay. You wouldn't think the odds of 1% of the population being in every episode would line up that way, but they somehow do.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's verified online persona at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (33ek6)

196 Musk has money beyond normal comprehension… he got bored and bought Twitter.. changing its’ name is sorta like repainting a house for him…

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (NhIyq)

197 Ugh. Morning all. Don't want to work today.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (GIBR7)

198 "The decision was stayed until Jan. 4 or an appeal to the Supreme Court concluded, CBS News reported."

The "or" is ambiguous. Does it mean whichever event comes first or until both events are completed?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 29, 2023 09:02 AM (sNc8Y)

199 The new definition of democracy is one candidate on the ballot.

Funny how protecting democracy involves preventing citizens from voting for whom they wish.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2023 09:02 AM (lTGtQ)

200 YaddaYaddaYadda?

Posted by: X formerly known as Twitter at December 29, 2023 09:03 AM (4I/2K)

201 I imagine there was a significant brand value to "Twitter" I don't know why he threw that away.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2023 08:58 AM (RIvkX)

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If you don't already know, his original (and still likely) plan was to create a portal website, X.com, through which one would have access to pretty much every type of interwebz service and application -- a horizontally-integrated and in theory seamless combination of every social media type of application along with online shopping a la Amazon, etc.

"One app to rule them all!" Thus the X metaphorically representing a variable (as is done in say Algebra) which represents any of a number of different values.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 09:03 AM (kX2Rs)

202 Who really needs habeas corpus, anyway?

Posted by: A. Lincoln at December 29, 2023 09:03 AM (NBVIP)

203 I just want to bang on de drum all day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 29, 2023 09:03 AM (R4t5M)

204 Media upset that Pierce Brosnan went into an off-limits area of Yellowstone Ntl. Park.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 08:59 AM (2yu8s)


Maybe looking for his moose of a wife.

I denounce myself for fat phobia.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 09:03 AM (SfhV1)

205 Ugh. Morning all. Don't want to work today.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (GIBR7)

Then go bang on the drums all day.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2023 09:03 AM (4I/2K)

206 An actual opposition party in control of the House, would--after the election-- announce they are not accepting the electors from the states that removed Trump from the ballot regardless of the Supreme Court ruling or whether Trump wins.
Removing 14 votes, as of now, from Biden.

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I'd read something over Christmas about the legal cases at the time. We all know about the no standing too early, no standing too late, but there was another angle that I was unaware of. Trump's legal team filed to have the cases heard in a "timely" (some specific legal term/meaning) manner, and the judges kept refusing so it would be too late.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's verified online persona at December 29, 2023 09:04 AM (33ek6)

207 Funny how protecting democracy involves preventing citizens from voting for whom they wish.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2023 09:02 AM (lTGtQ)

We can't give the people the elected officials they want if all these people keep screwing up the process and picking someone else the people don't want.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 09:04 AM (9UlRk)

208 >>And doesn't Maine have that ranked choice voting now for the 1,000 residents who actually live there?


Yup.

One man, several fractional votes!
Just try to do a recount, btchez!

Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2023 09:04 AM (izj35)

209 The new definition of democracy is one candidate on the ballot.

Funny how protecting democracy involves preventing citizens from voting for whom they wish.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2023 09:02 AM (lTGtQ)

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"Zombie George Orwell, please pick up the white privilege courtesy phone ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 09:04 AM (kX2Rs)

210 150 Don't know how JJ can produce these five days a week. I couldn't do it for even a couple of days fueled by little white pills.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2023 08:50 AM (Dm8we)
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Have you tried the little red pills?

Posted by: Ciampino -You want Purple Hearts at December 29, 2023 09:04 AM (qfLjt)

211 @142

>>Pennsylvania is definitely back in play in '24. They're gonna need a bigger boatload of ballots.

Nope, not gonna happen.

Little Joshy just two weeks ago, informed everyone that a software update for PA's voting machines that was supposed to fix, "some bugs," is delayed and will not be implemented until after the 24 election.

Also, the SOS, is going to mail out millions of unsolicited ballots.

So, through adjudicating and jamming as much paper as possible into the tabulators, if Trump wins PA, I'll eat my shoe.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 09:05 AM (XV/Pl)

212 The whole "dark matter" BS that cosmologists propose is because galaxies don't rotate as current gravitational laws predict.

Said laws would have to be rewritten or additional matter currently not detectable would need to be found.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 29, 2023 09:05 AM (cMXNt)

213 An actual opposition party in control of the House would have already shut off all funding for an out of control, unelected bureaucracy, and the other two branches of government.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2023 09:05 AM (YRsIm)

214 Ugh. Morning all. Don't want to work today.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (GIBR7)

Then go bang on the drums all day.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2023 09:03 AM (4I/2K)

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Dammit Count, now I'll have THAT earworm in my head while working all day today ...

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 09:06 AM (kX2Rs)

215 The whole "dark matter" BS that cosmologists propose is because galaxies don't rotate as current gravitational laws predict.

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Thank goodness that sort of thing has no bearing on planetary temperatures and our Science can remain settled.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's verified online persona at December 29, 2023 09:06 AM (33ek6)

216 Third Manassas is gonna be lit!

Posted by: Ghost of Stonewall at December 29, 2023 09:07 AM (NBVIP)

217 Dark Matter is just phlogiston with a cell phone.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 29, 2023 09:07 AM (9UlRk)

218 150 Don't know how JJ can produce these five days a week. I couldn't do it for even a couple of days fueled by little white pills.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2023 08:50 AM (Dm8we)

Not getting paid helps.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:07 AM (x0n13)

219 Aside from having an obsession with the letter X, take a look at how many times Musk has used X in naming his products including his children, Musk has explained the reason he bought Twitter was 1) for free speech but 2) to be the basis of a new "everything app" his team is creating that will allow for things like communication, browsing and commerce modeled on the Chinese platform WeChat.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 29, 2023 09:07 AM (ZLI7S)

220 As has been noted, Trump, or any Republican really, has a very narrow path to victory, I would concentrate on flipping the three states with Republican Governors, VA, GA, and NV.

That's the best most probably path to victory.

Wasting time and resources on WI, MI, PA and AZ are pointless and counter productive.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 09:07 AM (XV/Pl)

221 Dammit Count, now I'll have THAT earworm in my head while working all day today ...


Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 09:06 AM (kX2Rs)

Happy to be of service to the AoSHQ community.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2023 09:07 AM (4I/2K)

222 Did someone say Humpus Corpsus?

Posted by: The Illegal Who Lives In Your Crawlspace at December 29, 2023 09:08 AM (/djnR)

223 Aside from having an obsession with the letter X, take a look at how many times Musk has used X in naming his products including his children...

What is now Paypal.com began as X.com.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 29, 2023 09:09 AM (sNc8Y)

224 @212

>>Said laws would have to be rewritten or additional matter currently not detectable would need to be found.

Or alternatively..

Everything in cosmology makes sense as long as you allow for one miracle.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 09:09 AM (XV/Pl)

225 218 150 Don't know how JJ can produce these five days a week. I couldn't do it for even a couple of days fueled by little white pills.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 29, 2023 08:50 AM (Dm8we)

Not getting paid helps.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:07 AM (x0n13)

So… hobby, voocatiion, orr raison d’etre???

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:09 AM (NhIyq)

226 {17}... Fixed. Thanks!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 08:03 AM (x0n13)


Unfortunately, it's not.

The link titled "Joe Biden and the Left are Putting the Rule of Law at Risk" links back to this very comments page, and not an article as intended. (This after doing a forced refresh on this page to ensure I had the latest copy.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 29, 2023 09:09 AM (qPw5n)

227 197 Ugh. Morning all. Don't want to work today.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 29, 2023 09:01 AM (GIBR7)

This.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at December 29, 2023 09:09 AM (RV/En)

228 Everything in cosmology makes sense as long as you allow for one miracle.

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Imma use this like you ain't believe.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's verified online persona at December 29, 2023 09:09 AM (33ek6)

229 I see my iPad has developed a stutter….

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:10 AM (NhIyq)

230 I see my iPad has developed a stutter….

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:10 AM (NhIyq)


Performance anxiety.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 09:11 AM (SfhV1)

231 172 to be fair, "X" is kind of a stupid name.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (SfhV1)
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So is google but there it is. I didn't think Twitter was a good name, rather stupid sounding.

Posted by: Ciampino -You want Purple Hearts for the win at December 29, 2023 09:11 AM (qfLjt)

232 226 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 29, 2023 09:09 AM (qPw5n)

Joe Biden link above the fold should be fixed now.

Sorry.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:11 AM (x0n13)

233 225 So… hobby, voocatiion, orr raison d’etre???
Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:09 AM (NhIyq)

More like an addiction.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:12 AM (x0n13)

234 For those who may not be aware, four models of the Tesla EV have been produced: "S", "3", "X" and "Y" which is a play on the word "sexy." So there's that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 29, 2023 09:12 AM (NBVIP)

235 >>Media upset that Pierce Brosnan went into an off-limits area of Yellowstone Ntl. Park.


While my esteem for the NPS has been lowered after they were happily Obama's goons during "sequestration" (or whatever the govt shutdown was called), you have to respect the fragility* - and danger - of these wonderful parks. I would imagine it was off-limits to either protect something or protect idiot tourists (e.g. taking selfies in front of a bear or bison).
So yes, that was a jerk move, Pierce Brosnan, be happy you weren't bear or timber wolf food/boiled in a thermal pool.

*There are placed in the West where you can still see the markings in the rocks and soil where the Native Americans lived, so tromping all over these places can unknowingly damage/leave marks that will outlive us all.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2023 09:12 AM (izj35)

236 Nice pic up top.

She Wolf much?

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2023 09:12 AM (4I/2K)

237 230 I see my iPad has developed a stutter….

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:10 AM (NhIyq)


Performance anxiety.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 09:11 AM (SfhV1)

Well that’s… deflating..

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:12 AM (NhIyq)

238
So, through adjudicating and jamming as much paper as possible into the tabulators, if Trump wins PA, I'll eat my shoe.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 09:05 AM


I don't wanna match your bet 'cause I don't like sole food.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 29, 2023 09:13 AM (3qE2b)

239 For those who may not be aware, four models of the Tesla EV have been produced: "S", "3", "X" and "Y" which is a play on the word "sexy." So there's that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 29, 2023 09:12 AM (NBVIP)

On the catwalk!

Posted by: Right Said Fred at December 29, 2023 09:14 AM (4I/2K)

240 Rick Scott has allowed the J6 persecutions to continue with nary a word or deed to even imply the faintest scintilla of support for those falsely accused and/or imprisoned.

Maybe he'll grow a pair now.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 29, 2023 09:15 AM (MkuC5)

241 JJ, I just hit the tip jar. Happy New Year!! Thank you for all you do.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 29, 2023 09:15 AM (DBrN4)

242 172 to be fair, "X" is kind of a stupid name.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 08:56 AM (SfhV1)

Y ?

Posted by: JT at December 29, 2023 09:15 AM (T4tVD)

243 229 I see my iPad has developed a stutter….

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:10 AM (NhIyq)
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Perhaps it's cold and it is shivering?

Posted by: Ciampino - Stuttering convict cannot finish his sentence at December 29, 2023 09:16 AM (qfLjt)

244 *I'll eat my shoe.*

Tread softly.

Posted by: So it's punz now? at December 29, 2023 09:16 AM (NBVIP)

245 -

"... everything he touches turns to shit ..."

Fuck Joe Biden and his shite-ass touch.

Posted by: Marooned at December 29, 2023 09:16 AM (kt8QE)

246 Thanks JJ! There's no other horder I'd rather be enduring the decline with than AoS Morons!

Posted by: Iris at December 29, 2023 09:17 AM (n3DL0)

247 Rick Scott has allowed the J6 persecutions to continue with nary a word or deed to even imply the faintest scintilla of support for those falsely accused and/or imprisoned.

Maybe he'll grow a pair now.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 29, 2023 09:15 AM (MkuC5)

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* Steve Scalise has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 09:17 AM (kX2Rs)

248 Who really needs habeas corpus, anyway?
Posted by: A. Lincoln



I know, right?

Posted by: J. Davis at December 29, 2023 09:17 AM (9yWhg)

249 Obama had the Midas touch.

Posted by: Everything he touched turned to mufflers at December 29, 2023 09:17 AM (NBVIP)

250 Maine removes Trump from primary ballot!

interesting that this came directly from the SoS and not a court ruling.[5b] Gives a TINY bit more fuel for SCOTUS now that CO is not the only state to declare this? I put the odds of SCOTUS declaring him ineligible at maybe 5%.

How ling until a Rethug SoS declares that Biden participated in an insurrection and is banned from their ballot?

With what evidence? No one should ever back down, or back away from doing the right thing, because the criminals may not like it, or may retaliate. Look at how poorly the impeachment hearings are polling. Any SoS who tried to remove Biden from the ballot would face enormous backlash. Plus it wouldn’t hold up in court.

why is everyone giving privilege to Trump voters and not to the majority who voted against him. He should not be on the ballot, period.

Let's see how the 6 so-called originalists on SCOTUS tip-toe around and away from the very clear wording of the 14A. Their reputation, already circling in the toilet from the several corruption scandals, and Dobbs having snatched away women's rights, will descend on down.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 29, 2023 09:18 AM (ycI94)

251 @240

>>Rick Scott has allowed the J6 persecutions to continue with nary a word or deed to even imply the faintest scintilla of support for those falsely accused and/or imprisoned.
Maybe he'll grow a pair now.


Rick Scott is a snake, remember, him and the meatball, literally had to fight off Democrat efforts to steal their elections, and yet according to him, the 2020 election was the most honest and above board elections since elections were invented.

Again, election integrity should be at the top of the GOP's agenda, but nope, Ukraine, continued spying on Americans and funding a new swanky building for the FIB is the most important thing to the GOP.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 09:19 AM (XV/Pl)

252 Accurate photo up top.

Posted by: dantesed at December 29, 2023 09:20 AM (88xKn)

253 I saw Virtual Sanctuary of Sanity open for The Killers at the Double Down Saloon in 2008.

Posted by: ShainS -- I saw the Crotch Goblins open for Poetic Ammo at December 29, 2023 09:21 AM (kX2Rs)

254 him and the meatball, literally had to fight off...



...use of the nominative case?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2023 09:21 AM (9yWhg)

255 Remember Limbaugh, and Operation Chaos talk he used to push??? Well we are are getting Chaos now, all right…

Posted by: tubal at December 29, 2023 09:21 AM (NhIyq)

256 As an interesting way to think about this ballot removal stuff.

If Trump is NOT more popular then Biden it doesn't matter. He's going to lose to Mr 81M Votes right?

So the only reason you'd take him off the ballot is that you believe he WOULD get more votes in a free and fair election...

And what do we call a political system that doesn't allow the most popular citizen in the country to run?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2023 09:21 AM (XqcwY)

257 ...
why is everyone giving privilege to Trump voters and not to the majority who voted against him. He should not be on the ballot, period.
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Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 29, 2023 09:18 AM (ycI94)

Mighty fascist/tyrannical of them.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2023 09:22 AM (4I/2K)

258 I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.

Posted by: Nicky HeyLee at December 29, 2023 09:22 AM (NBVIP)

259 I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.
Posted by: Nicky HeyLee at December 29, 2023 09:22 AM (NBVIP)
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You're kidding, right?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 29, 2023 09:23 AM (ScR16)

260 Son of a whore. We had a civil war and i went and missed it. Just my luck.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Don't worry, son. The South will rise again!

Posted by: The South at December 29, 2023 09:23 AM (ycI94)

261 why is everyone giving privilege to Trump voters and not to the majority who voted against him. He should not be on the ballot, period.

Even if you accept the absurd premise, would it apply to Hillary too?

Posted by: Oddbob at December 29, 2023 09:23 AM (sNc8Y)

262 258 I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.
Posted by: Nicky HeyLee at December 29, 2023 09:22 AM (NBVIP)


"How dare you!"

- - Emir Shel of Oman, Juan Fordirode LLC

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:24 AM (x0n13)

263 Good morning!

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

Kansas State Football won the Pop-Tart Bowl, beating a good team and corrupt refs (two touchdowns flagged and removed). Pretty slimy. The coverage was ridiculously juvenile.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 29, 2023 09:24 AM (u82oZ)

264 How ling until a Rethug SoS declares that Biden participated in an insurrection and is banned from their ballot?

See this is actually our problem.

If the 20ish states that have supposed Republican leadership immediately started moving to take Biden off the ballot I guarantee you this would move to the top of the cases the SC would hear and it would be forced to tell states they cannot do this.

But as long as it is a few blue states doing it Roberts can potentially talk Kav and ACB into doing nothing....

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2023 09:24 AM (XqcwY)

265 **hmmm, lemme see. Naught gazzinta naught, naught times, with a remainder of naught**

Whew. My SS not gonna get taxed. Good thing.
I'd halfta sell everything I own and freeze up inside.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 29, 2023 09:25 AM (3K/9t)

266 240 Rick Scott has allowed the J6 persecutions to continue with nary a word or deed to even imply the faintest scintilla of support for those falsely accused and/or imprisoned.

Maybe he'll grow a pair now.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at December 29, 2023 09:15 AM (MkuC5)
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I've been waiting since Jan 6 2020 for the GOP to be up in arms about the illegal shenanigans going on BUT CRICKETS.

Posted by: Ciampino - D-Day is every day if you stutter at December 29, 2023 09:25 AM (qfLjt)

267 >>why is everyone giving privilege to Trump voters and not to the majority who voted against him. He should not be on the ballot, period.


OMG, that is incoherent!
How does "privilege" factor into being on the ballot?

Said for years this "privilege" paradigm is like Harrison Bergeron - the more "privilege" you allegedly have, the more weights, chains, masks, etc. you must wear to hold you back.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 29, 2023 09:25 AM (izj35)

268 why is everyone giving privilege to Trump voters and not to the majority who voted against him. He should not be on the ballot, period.

Biden ran before 2020 and lost, badly. In fact pretty much everyone R or D though he was a joke. And this is before he went senile.

By this logic he shouldn't have been able to run in 2020.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2023 09:26 AM (XqcwY)

269 ...
why is everyone giving privilege to Trump voters and not to the majority who voted against him. He should not be on the ballot, period.
...

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 29, 2023 09:18 AM (ycI94)


Even in this nation with a population on the road to replacement, a theoretical clean and fair plebiscite of every man, woman and child would likely wipe out Democrats almost everywhere.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:26 AM (x0n13)

270 The continued swatting shows how dumb the police really are. It's a miracle crime ever gets solved. First time you raid a famous GOP house should be the last. Rub a couple brain cells together for a safe word or something.

Scott is the perfect GOP. Stupid. Does he not realize the purpose is accidental shooting? Big gummed dumb fuck.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 29, 2023 09:27 AM (Z8Yh2)

271 I must say that it takes a lot of work, both legal and illegal, and many many lawyers, and ballot stuffing, and election software rigging, and candidate removal, and voter harassment to protect our democracy.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2023 09:27 AM (lTGtQ)

272 The continued swatting shows how dumb the police really are. It's a miracle crime ever gets solved. First time you raid a famous GOP house should be the last. Rub a couple brain cells together for a safe word or something.

Yep. The government could roll up the ring behind it - and even assuming the people doing it are NOT working for fedgov - they don't want to. Its that simple.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2023 09:28 AM (XqcwY)

273 >>I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT COMMENTING HERE!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 29, 2023 09:28 AM (izj35)

274 271 I must say that it takes a lot of work, both legal and illegal, and many many lawyers, and ballot stuffing, and election software rigging, and candidate removal, and voter harassment to protect our democracy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 29, 2023 09:27 AM (lTGtQ)

Worth every penny, comrade!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:28 AM (x0n13)

275 I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.

The hell you say

Posted by: Phil McCracken at December 29, 2023 09:28 AM (XqcwY)

276 "As for SCOTUS, I'd like to think that they'd reject this 9-0, if for no other reason than for the sake of the nation since if it goes along party lines, the Left will condemn the court as illegitimate."

Will Ketanji Brown-Jackson vote that part of the Left's Holy and Sacred Fourteenth Amendment is not applicable to Donald Trump? I'm doubtful. Will Sotomayor? I believe Kagan will vote to overturn, unless Ketanji and Sotomayor vote to approve the Colorado ruling.

====

JJ, thank you for another year of the Morning Report. I always begin my weekday morning news education here.

Posted by: Gref at December 29, 2023 09:29 AM (5fDan)

277 Son of a whore. We had a civil war and i went and missed it. Just my luck.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Don't worry, son. The South will rise again!
Posted by: The South at December 29, 2023 09:23 AM (ycI94)

Perhaps you've heard my song?
https://youtu.be/McIxMlOXbS0

Posted by: Zombie Charlie Daniels at December 29, 2023 09:29 AM (4I/2K)

278 Historically, anyone pushing back on the J6 protests as an insurrection and the illegality of jailing people gets "the treatment" themselves.

Nobody in Congress has the stones to push back.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2023 09:29 AM (Q4IgG)

279 Action Jackson and Wise Latina will vote as told as always

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2023 09:29 AM (XqcwY)

280 Call me crazy, but -- I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 29, 2023 09:29 AM (izj35)

281 276 JJ, thank you for another year of the Morning Report. I always begin my weekday morning news education here.
Posted by: Gref at December 29, 2023 09:29 AM (5fDan)


Cheers and happy '24!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:30 AM (x0n13)

282 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT COMMENTING HERE!

Posted by: Claudine Gay, President of Harvard at December 29, 2023 09:30 AM (u82oZ)

283 155 “Last night, while at dinner with my wife, cowards ‘swatted’ my home in Naples,” Scott said on X
Sen. Rick Scott Says Florida Home "Swatted": "Sick Attempt to Terrorize My Family"

Why would they bother with him?

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 29, 2023 09:31 AM (L4Etu)

284 258 I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.
Posted by: Nicky HeyLee at December 29, 2023 09:22 AM (NBVIP)

Don't get saucy with me.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 29, 2023 09:31 AM (4I/2K)

285 Thank you J.J.

I'll see if I can get another donation past my wife. She wants me to spend all my money on her.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 29, 2023 09:32 AM (u82oZ)

286 285 Thank you J.J.

I'll see if I can get another donation past my wife. She wants me to spend all my money on her.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 29, 2023 09:32 AM (u82oZ)


Cheers, bro. Happy and a healthy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:32 AM (x0n13)

287 282 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT COMMENTING HERE!
Posted by: Claudine Gay, President of Harvard at December 29, 2023 09:30 AM (u82oZ)

Thread winner!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:33 AM (x0n13)

288 >>I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.



*takes glasses off, long pause to indicate his serious thought*

 I did not know that!

Posted by: Charles Gibson at December 29, 2023 09:33 AM (izj35)

289 Vivek explaining that TPTB will allow neither Trump nor Biden in 2024:

http://tinyurl.com/mr45dfa6

Hard to argue with him.

Posted by: IrishEi at December 29, 2023 09:35 AM (KS/3z)

290 Oh, no! Amy's got some competition now!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 09:35 AM (2yu8s)

291 55 I'm looking for the left within a few years to officially nullify the constitution (not just ignore it like now) by some vote of congress or court order or plebiscite or whatever BS they can come up with. They are that power hungry insane and have already laid the groundwork for their idiot lemmings for years.


Fortunately they will replace it with something much better like the constitution of the USSR or South Africa.

Posted by: Ripley at December 29, 2023 08:18 AM (13idB)


If the Leftists get five seats on SCOTUS, they'll immediately vote to take a case that will let them rule all of the Constitution is null and void, citing the 14th A, Sect, 1, equal protection clause.

Posted by: Gref at December 29, 2023 09:35 AM (5fDan)

292 @289

>>Hard to argue with him.

Again, the desiccated meat sack that inhabits the White House, has already said, they are going to do everything they can to prevent Trump from becoming President again, he then interjected, LEGALLY, but we all know what he meant.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 09:37 AM (XV/Pl)

293 @254 him and the meatball, literally had to fight off...use of the nominative case?

When you sign on here, you pledge to be objective.
Some take this oath more seriously. Others just want to dative.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 29, 2023 09:37 AM (FCs/J)

294 @291


>>If the Leftists get five seats on SCOTUS, they'll immediately vote to take a case that will let them rule all of the Constitution is null and void, citing the 14th A, Sect, 1, equal protection clause.

If they get structural control of SCOTUS, they won't need to take everything in one bite.

The AdHoc strategy has worked for them for over a century, why change up what works.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 09:39 AM (XV/Pl)

295 When you sign on here, you pledge to be objective.
Some take this oath more seriously.


Oath? I didn't sign no oath.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 29, 2023 09:40 AM (SfhV1)

296 256
And what do we call a political system that doesn't allow the most popular citizen in the country to run?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2023 09:21 AM (XqcwY)
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Let's see .... Southern Rhodesia after Ian Smith ..... wasn't the legal guy Bishop Abel Muzorewa but the Western Powers wanted a commie there so pushed for ZANU's Robert Mugabe to take over?

Posted by: Ciampino - So called Free & Fair elections at December 29, 2023 09:40 AM (qfLjt)

297 @295 And yet here you are, objecting.

"Whaddaya got?" --Brando

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 29, 2023 09:41 AM (FCs/J)

298 This Vivek guy. He's very articulate, no?

Posted by: I might be coming around at December 29, 2023 09:41 AM (NBVIP)

299 Types and deletes...

Posted by: Archer at December 29, 2023 09:42 AM (gmo/4)

300 Maine has always had a large dose of Roundheads, but it seems they have imported a goodly number of Crazy Quakers. Yankees can't follow simple instructions.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2023 09:42 AM (pZ64F)

301 Hope CBD's OK.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2023 09:42 AM (9yWhg)

302 This Vivek guy. He's very articulate, no?

Posted by: I might be coming around at December 29, 2023 09:41 AM (NBVIP)


Owns a 7-11 or Dunkin' Donuts shop, I bet. - Dynamo Joe

Posted by: Archer at December 29, 2023 09:43 AM (gmo/4)

303
You want to cull the list of available candidates for President? W

Okay, then you have opted to leave the Union. Have your elected representatives to the federal government vacate their offices by 31-Dec-2023.
You can expect no revenues or subsidies from the federal government beginning on 01-Jan-2024. We'll negotiate the division / recompension for federal properties in your state by 31-Dec-2024.

Enjoy your brave and solo existence!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 29, 2023 09:43 AM (xG4kz)

304 The Cuntnucks are determined to go down the path of Hitler, it seems.

Yeah, overdone comparison, Godwin's Law, yadda-yadda-yadda, but when quack doctors are alllowed, nay, encouraged, to medically murder "defectives" I think the comparison is entirely appropriate.

If anyone sees AOP, ask him what happened to that movement for the sane, non-Communist Canadian provinces to secede.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2023 09:43 AM (W5ArC)

305 A lot of people from Maine have family trees that look like flag poles.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 29, 2023 09:43 AM (R4t5M)

306 Let's see .... Southern Rhodesia after Ian Smith ..... wasn't the legal guy Bishop Abel Muzorewa but the Western Powers wanted a commie there so pushed for ZANU's Robert Mugabe to take over?
--------------
Mugabe guaranteed British mines would be protected for a small annual fee.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2023 09:43 AM (pZ64F)

307 @301

>>Hope CBD's OK.


Probably shaking off a maple syrup bender.

Damn Canadians and their fire water.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2023 09:43 AM (XV/Pl)

308 > 305 A lot of people from Maine have family trees that look like flag poles.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 29, 2023 09:43 AM (R4t5M)

Either that, or one of those macrame plant hangers that were popular back in the '70s.

Family trees that would make a Habsburg say "Dude... that is fucked up."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2023 09:45 AM (W5ArC)

309 NOOD.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 29, 2023 09:47 AM (9yWhg)

310 Probably shaking off a maple syrup bender.

Damn Canadians and their fire water.
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"French toast" Canuck Worship Word.

You will not speak it!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at December 29, 2023 09:47 AM (2yu8s)

311 > 300 Maine has always had a large dose of Roundheads, but it seems they have imported a goodly number of Crazy Quakers. Yankees can't follow simple instructions.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2023 09:42 AM (pZ64F)

Didn't Maine get a heavy dose of French-Canadians at some point in history? Seems like I remember reading tat somewhere.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2023 09:47 AM (W5ArC)

312 Reconsiders ordering from L.L. Bean catalog...

Posted by: Hmmm... at December 29, 2023 09:47 AM (NBVIP)

313 @298 - Very articulate, yes.
Kinda like that fallen angel who comes only to steal, kill and destroy.

Posted by: TeeJ at December 29, 2023 09:48 AM (3K/9t)

314 Art up but nor Nood nude.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 29, 2023 09:49 AM (u82oZ)

315 The interesting thing about the Dylan - Donovan Conflict was in 1965 Dylan played Newport Folk Festival with electric guitars, featuring his 1965 Maggie's Farm album, and shocked the world while Donovan released two albums, his debut album What's Bid Did and What's Been Hid and his second Fairytale album. Dylan was 23 while Donovan was 19. There were some that accused Donovan of copying Dylan. This led to the amazing moment when Dylan and Donovan met in London and each played the other one of their songs - Dylan's 'Its All Over Now, Baby Blue' and Donovan's 'To Sing For You’. All rivalry was settled and they signed a peace treaty. Oddly, by the end of 1965 Dylan had a motorcycle accident and did not perform or produce any new music until the 'Self Portrait' in 1970. Donovan, however, became to the guiding light for psychedelic movement that lasted into 1973. Interesting twist of fate.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2023 10:07 AM (pZ64F)

316 315 Posted by: Pudinhead at December 29, 2023 10:07 AM (pZ64F)

"Hurry Gurdy Man" can be argued to be the first Led Zeppelin tune, of course with Donovan instead of Plant on vocals.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 10:10 AM (x0n13)

317 Thank you J.J. I never feel prepared for the day unless I read the ZMorning Report and follow a bunch of links.

Your daily essay frames the issues perfectly.

Posted by: scottst at December 29, 2023 10:11 AM (5JRy1)

318 232 ... Joe Biden link above the fold should be fixed now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 29, 2023 09:11 AM (x0n13)


Fix confirmed. Thank you J.J. :-)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 29, 2023 10:32 AM (qPw5n)

319 It seems obvious to me, mind you only a legal resident, that the exclusions in the 14th Amendment were not intended to include the President. It's the one national position. Seems to me that the US could have elected Jefferson Davis should he have been nominated.

Posted by: leber at December 29, 2023 11:52 AM (rovGg)

320 JJ, my thanks for a year's worth of articulate, insightful, pleasing and (sometimes) upsetting commentary in this hellhole year of 2023. You gave your best and for most of it, this reader was pleased.
Going into 2024, I'll remind everyone here of the Republican's Party's complicity and duplicity in stealing the 2020 election. Be not fooled, the G.O.P. hates it's voters, unless you're one of their corporatist/big donor pimps. The blinders are off as we have finally seen them for who they truly are. Liars, conspirators, traitors and whores.
And when some Republican apparatchik says "There's nothing we CAN do about 2020," what they're really saying is "There's nothing we WILL do about 2020."
Here's hoping that in 2024, the Republican Party gets pulled even closer to the void of no return. I'm working to destroy them as a political entity. President Trump has my unwavering support and will be the ONLY person with an (R) after their name I'll support. Otherwise, it will be an absolute pleasure voting straight down the line against their handpicked empty suit candidates.
Happy New Year all and FUCK the G.O.P.!

Posted by: Tracy at December 29, 2023 12:03 PM (t/whR)

321 The obvious ‘narrow’ rejection for Roberts and the Leftists judges: ‘Since he hasn’t even been charged, it doesn’t apply (wwkkkwimaithyd)’

Posted by: Legion of Boom at December 29, 2023 12:06 PM (ado5X)

322 I don't think all of the posters here are using their real names.
Posted by: Nicky HeyLee at December 29, 2023 09:22 AM (NBVIP)

WUT? You're kidding me.

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