The Morning Report — 1/8/24

Good morning, kids. I suppose a corollary to the old "If a tree falls in the forest" aphorism would be "If the Secretary of Defense whose military he is charged with leading is dangerously unprepared to defend the realm from multiple national security threats that are the most serious since 1941 goes missing, does it really matter?"

When it was first reported on Saturday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been in the hospital since January 1, it was natural to assume that key figures in the Pentagon and the White House, for whatever reason, chose to keep his hospitalization a secret. What possible motive could there be for doing this? Who knows? It didn't make a lot of sense, but the Biden [junta] has an extensive record of covering up scandals, so it wasn't exactly out of character for the Biden [junta] to cover something up.

The truth that has been coming out over the course of the day suggests something far, far worse. According to the latest reports, not even the White House knew about Austin's hospitalization. 

"Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized since Monday, U.S. officials said Saturday, as questions swirled about his condition and the secrecy surrounding it," the Associated Press reported. "The Pentagon did not inform the White House National Security Council or top adviser Jake Sullivan of Austin’s hospitalization at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, until Thursday, according to two administration officials."

That's bad. Really bad. And it gets worse.

A source familiar with the situation told CNN that not even Joe Biden knew.

"National security adviser Jake Sullivan ultimately informed Biden late Thursday afternoon, soon after Sullivan himself learned that Austin had been hospitalized, that source said. Austin was admitted to the hospital on New Year’s Day due to complications from an elective surgery," CNN reported.

Let's think about this for a minute. Joe Biden, who is supposed to be the commander in chief, didn't know for four days that his own defense secretary, a member of his cabinet, was in the hospital. Now, considering what's going on in the world right now—the Israel-Hamas war, the Houthi attacks on container ships in the Red Sea, and many other things—how is it possible that Biden isn't talking to his defense secretary daily? Sure, he has time to give speeches about how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, but he didn't even know his defense secretary was incapacitated for days?

And does anyone think it's a coincidence that the Pentagon waited to reveal Austin's hospitalization on Friday, really, really close to Biden's big speech? Was someone hoping this wouldn't get noticed?

Where to even begin to unpack what in normal times would be an unmitigated disaster of a raging clusterfuck of incompetence? While everyone is focused on how someone like Claudine Gay, who is barely competent enough to wipe down a blackboard can become not only a university president but the president of what supposedly is/was America's leading and most revered institution of higher learning, look who is running the country.

No, not just the rotting, criminal pervert vegetable acting as Obama's front (arguably the #1 national security threat to whatever's left of America) but everyone of their underlings in the most crucial leadership positions running our domestic and foreign policy apparatuses. Then again, you can look at Alejandro Mayorkas and rightly blast him for destroying any notion of border security and sane, rational immigration policy. But is it incompetence or intentional? I'd argue that mere incompetence, while bad enough, is nowhere near as destructive as intentional acts and policies that are ideologically driven.

And that is exactly what's going on at every level of the federal government, and every state and local government that has had Democrats and Leftists in control for even a nano-second, let alone the decades-long control in hell-holes like Detroit, to name just one.

As for Lloyd Austin, he's every bit the boot-licking lackey that every other apparatchik in this illegitimate criminal junta is. Whatever his record was as a soldier, everything he and the Joint Chiefs who have gone along with the dismantling of our military that started in Obama's first term to the level of degradation we now can see in his third, is a red pubic hair's width away from treason.

Here are the bullet points from his extensive rap sheet at the invaluable Discover the Networks:

* Was promoted to Four-Star General in 2010

* Retired from the Military on April 5, 2016

* Was sworn in as Secretary of Defense on January 22, 2021

* Voiced support for the Iran Nuclear Deal

* Vowed to rid the Military of “racists and extremists”

* Relies on the Southern Poverty Law Center for information

* Announced the establishment of the Countering Extremism Working Group

* Emphasizes “Diversity,” “Equity,” & “White Supremacy”

* Identified the 2020 coronavirus pandemic as America’s greatest national security challenge

* Declared climate change to be an “existential threat”

* Oversaw America’s abandonment of Afghanistan in 2021

With that, I'll excerpt two items from their dossier that in particular are most cromulent given some of the current events making headlines:

Austin Orders Hundreds of Trump Appointees in the Pentagon to Resign

By no means was the CEWG the only means by which Lloyd Austin had set out to purge America’s military of any members who held political opinions that differed from his. In his early days as Secretary of Defense, Austin ordered hundreds of former President Trump’s appointees from at least 31 Pentagon advisory boards and panels, to resign.

Austin Emphasizes Leftwing Indoctrination Regarding “Diversity,” “Equity,” & “White Supremacy”

Central to the worldview of the race-obsessed Defense Secretary Austin, is a belief that racism is America’s most salient and enduring feature. That belief animates Austin’s passionate crusade to impose racial “diversity” – by force – upon the military that he oversees. As Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said in May 2021 about Austin: “He’s certainly concerned about the diversity at the senior levels of the department. And this is not just senior enlisted levels, but senior officer levels, admirals, and generals. The numbers [of nonwhites] are not very high.” “[Austin] also believes there’s a sense of urgency here,” added Kirby. “The time is now to start to grow that [nonwhite] talent and develop that talent and provide opportunities for that talent to continue to advance of the ranks.” And for anyone who might wonder whether “diversity” is in fact a worthy goal for an institution whose main purpose is to defend a nation rather than to serve as a social laboratory for leftwing dogmas, Kirby explained that Austin “strongly believes that diversity is a readiness issue because it allows different perspectives, additional context, different lived experiences to inform the way we make decisions in the policies that we craft, the operations that we lead.”

. . . When Austin subsequently stated that “diversity, equity and inclusion is important to this military now, and it will be important in the future,” [Sen Tom] Cotton replied: “This is not about diversity in general, though; this is about a very specific kind of anti-American indoctrination that is seeping into some parts of our military based on the whistleblower complaints we have received.”

Yup. The phantom menaces within the United States of supposed white supremacy, Trump and "climate change," which even if real would be completely outside the purview of the DoD. Plus the notion that "diversity," that is prioritizing skin color, sex, sexual orientation and most crucially personal politics, over actual physical and mental qualification, are the keys to our preparedness is insanity writ large.

. . . Lloyd Austin isn’t exactly a standout in his role. Like everyone else in the Biden-Harris regime, he’s been lackluster at best, dreadful at worst. He bears at least partial responsibility for many of the foreign policy and military disasters throughout this dumpster fire of a presidential term.

Austin has issued orders to the military in support of convoluted leftist redefinitions of extremism in an effort to drive Republicans out of the military. Austin implemented mandatory use of untested COVID vaccines and supervised the dismissal of servicemen who refused, even on religious grounds. Austin was in charge of the DoD when it so severely mismanaged the pullout from 2021 Afghanistan, leaving tens of billions of dollars’ worth of sensitive equipment behind, not to mention abandoning thousands of employees and allies to the Taliban. And that’s just the highlight reel of his disastrous tenure. . .

. . . But all his failures notwithstanding – the Secretary of Defense remains a critical element of the decision process, whenever the United States has to make a quick policy decision.  Even when it’s just being the person to say the cursory “yes, of course, make it so” to an obvious question – still, he is the one to say it, the one who has to say it. And that means both the DoD and the White House have to be able to reach him at a moment’s notice. . .

. . . What’s most shocking about this story is that it provides a rare look inside the minds of the bureaucrats, the people we often think of as the technocracy, or even the Deep State.

Obviously, someone at the Department of Defense knew Lloyd Austin was in the ICU at Walter Reed.  Someone had to make up the lie that the man was working at home, to cover up the fact that he was suffering complications from some as-yet-unidentified elective surgery (if it was indeed elective, that’s a story in itself, as well). Some staffers, and presumably some undersecretaries, knew the truth of the situation and collaborated to keep both the whereabouts and the potentially life-threatening condition of the Secretary of Defense a secret from both his legislative and executive superiors.

Why?

Why did they think they had the right?

That’s the really interesting lesson in this story, isn’t it?

"Interesting" is a word and half.

So while Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants was kept in the dark, the raging incompetence at the highest echelons of this government notwithstanding, a crucial command-and-control link between the commander-in-chief and the head of the Defense Department was severed. God forbid, something happened during that time. But, then again, as I stated at the beginning, all things considered, would it have really mattered all that much? On second thought, maybe. Maybe there is still some underling somewhere with the horse sense to do the right thing had the shit hit the fan despite the fools, retards and maniacs at or near the top of the national command authority.

And speaking of which, despite the obvious dementia rotting his preternatural, pre-dementia pea-brain, it's almost as if it makes him an idiot savant especially when it comes to preserving his power and going after his enemies. Witness his debasing our history and nation by oral defecation at Valley Forge. From Robert Spencer:

Barack Obama said it years ago: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f**k things up.” On Friday, Old Joe proved his sainted predecessor right yet again in what was supposed to be a stemwinder campaign speech that would get his far-left base all fired up to do whatever it takes to get their favorite dementia-ridden kleptocrat back in the White House for four more years. The man who supposedly won eighty-one million votes after running a non-campaign from his basement called Trump a “loser” and charged that Bad Orange Man speaks “the same exact language used in Nazi Germany.”

What? Trump speaks German now? Is he going to start barking at us with a slushy Austrian accent? Okay, I get it: Old Joe means that Trump’s rhetoric is like Hitler’s. Trump’s going to be a great dictator, grow a funny little mustache, put on a lumpy uniform, and have us all goosestepping into Poland in no time. Sure, Joe. I understand. But to say that he speaks “the same exact language used in Nazi Germany” is as ineptly stated as it is inaccurate.

By any measure, Trump certainly does not echo Hitler’s rhetoric. The National Socialist leader was openly antisemitic; although Trump is charged with this, he was the most pro-Israel president since the founding of the modern state of Israel. Hitler was gleefully racist, another charge Trump has borne, and another that is without foundation. And Hitler was openly contemptuous of republican governments, while Trump insists that he will protect our tottering republic, and that Biden, the Disinformation Governance Board president, is the real threat to “our democracy.”

Biden, however, is making it clear that his entire 2024 campaign will be a noxious mélange of fiction, fantasy and propaganda. He leaned heavily into the “insurrection” Big Lie, claiming that Jan. 6, 2021, was “the day that we nearly lost America.”

Yeah, sure, Joe. Thank you for saving “our democracy” from a guy with Viking horns, Ray Epps, and a bunch of old ladies who were let into the Capitol by police who opened gates for them and then stood by placidly as the “insurrectionists” wandered around snapping selfies. Insurrection is an actual crime. Yet while people languish in prison for trespassing in order to bolster the left’s sagging “insurrection” narrative and propel Biden back into the Oval Office for another four years of open borders, skyrocketing inflation, managed decline, and enforced misery, the worst thing that has happened to this nation since 9/11 and Pearl Harbor and the extinction of the dinosaurs remains an insurrection without any insurrectionists.

Old Joe, of course, didn’t see fit on Friday to make much of the fact that no one, not a single person, has actually been charged with that crime in connection with anything that happened on Jan. 6, 2021. On Saturday, however, Donald Trump Jr. wrote: “Happy Fake Insurrection Day!!! The first ever insurrection with armed tour guides and unarmed participants!”

Roger Kimball:

According to Joe Biden, January 6 is “a day forever seared in our memory.” Why? “Because that day, we nearly lost America.”  How’s that? Why, because that was the day Donald Trump showed he was willing to “sacrifice democracy” by unleashing a “violent mob” to storm the Capitol and undertake an “insurrection.”

But no one believes this. Why? Because the more footage we see from the events of that day, the clearer it becomes that what happened on January 6, 2021, was not an insurrection.  Moreover, Donald Trump, far from egging on his supporters to violence, went out of his way to urge them to protest peacefully.  “I am asking for everyone at the U.S. Capitol to remain peaceful,” he Tweeted that afternoon. “No violence! Remember, WE are the Party of Law & Order – respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!”

The reaction to Joe Biden’s histrionic demonization of Trump has been swift and merciless.  Remember the chap who was photographed carrying a lectern across a room in the Capitol? He now Tweets under the handle “Lectern Leader.” He posted the photo and had this to say about Biden’s speech: “Throwback to the time I brought America to its knees by moving furniture tens of feet and became king.”

. . . As well it might.  Joe Biden’s Valley Forge speech was supposed to inaugurate his 2024 campaign.  I would not be surprised if future historians singled it out as the moment his campaign began its final retreat into senile collapse.

Maybe. But lest we forget that all the instrumentalities of government, as well as a rigged voting system and laws that grease the wheels of Democrat fraud and muscle in the form of a corrupt judiciary and black-clad Antifa/BLM brownshirts, the situation remains in doubt until no more phony ballots can be found to overcome a potential Trump victory.

Miranda Devine notes:

Joe Biden let slip a telling boast after his latest Dark Brandon speech.  “I understand power,” he whispered into the microphone as the first lady wrangled him off stage to stop him impersonating a Roomba.

While ostensibly a self-deprecating cliché about wives’ control over men, “I understand power” also was a statement of unwavering confidence in his own mastery of today’s political landscape. It’s hard to admit, given Biden’s manifest frailties and incompetence, but he’s right. The [spurious] president does know how to use power to transform the country. 

By being willing to lie and cheat and break every political norm, by siccing his Department of Justice onto his main rival and ignoring cries of foul, by hysterically overhyping the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, by hatefully demonizing conservatives as domestic terrorists and white supremacists, by dividing the country when he promised to unite us, he achieves his political ends. 

By dismantling border protections, for instance, he has allowed 8 million — and counting — illegal aliens to upend demographics and refresh Democratic voter rolls in the future. That is his legacy of change.  As well, his corrosive “equity” agenda has entrenched in the psyche of a growing number of Americans a gnawing racial grievance and entitlement that knows no end.

What did Donald Trump achieve of any lasting value in the four years he had power? Clearly, he was a better president on every important measure: the economy, the border, foreign affairs, energy policy.  But every achievement of Trump’s was undone on day one by Biden, and many of his aspirations were foiled by Biden’s Deep State allies.  Power is all Biden has ever cared about. In his dismal first speech of the election season near Valley Forge in Pennsylvania on Friday, Biden used the word 13 times. He said “insurrection” or “insurrectionists” 11 times, because that is how he intends to hang on to power, by fashioning his entire campaign pitch around Jan. 6 and Trump’s threat to “democracy.”

“Democracy” came up 30 times in Biden’s speech, too. Apparently it’s “on the ballot.”  “The alternative to democracy is dictatorship,” he thundered. It’s a bizarre statement for the president of a nation that was founded deliberately, not as a democracy, but as a constitutional republic, precisely to avoid the “tyranny of the majority,” which James Madison warned about. That’s why we have an electoral college, and not a presidential election determined by popular vote, where New York would overrule Iowa. . .

. . . [Biden's] polls have stagnated at around 40%, a sore point he reportedly scolded his staff about last November. But the marvel is that they’re not worse.

In the past 50 years, Trump, both Bushes, Carter and Nixon have all suffered from lower approval ratings. It’s too easy to dismiss him as a corrupt decrepit old fool. He likes to be underestimated. He plays the fool to that effect. But he became president despite the naysayers, and Democrats keep winning elections despite his record of ruin.

If Trump does end up as the Republican nominee, as the polls suggest and the pundits insist, the ferocity of the attacks will be unprecedented. The 91 felony counts, the criminal trials, the efforts to throw him off the ballot, the media vilification, the doomsday rhetoric, all will accelerate. They are softening him up, like picadors poking at the bull, to drive him mad and sap him of energy so that by the time the broken down old matador enters the ring he is already half-dead.

You may understand that the various legal prosecutions against Trump are bogus, and that Biden has weaponized the justice system in a deliberately explosive way. But there are a lot of independents in the country who don’t keep up with the news and still believe that you don’t get indicted on 91 felonies, and you certainly don’t get convicted, unless you did something wrong. Some may even still believe in “Honest Joe.” You may rail against their ignorance and naivete, but they will decide the election.

Maybe, Miranda. My guess is the factor that will decide this election is if enough people across the political spectrum have had enough of getting kicked in the teeth and the wallet while the world is set to go up in flames, to show up in enough numbers to beat the cheat, especially in the swing states. And with no border, no military and no law and order, it's going to get hotter than hell here too. With what's going on all around us, I don't think there are any more independents in any significant numbers.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• Victor Davis Hanson: "American civilization has been turned upside down, and we have a rendezvous soon with the once unthinkable and unimaginable."
  A Culture in Collapse
  
• "Essentially a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites: the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety. And, it is characteristic of anarcho-tyranny that it not only fails to punish criminals and enforce legitimate order but also criminalizes the innocent."
  Anarcho-Tyranny, Perfected
  
• "He suspects it is in part because the town is more than 90 percent white, a factor that makes it hard to secure federal aid under a little-known federal initiative established in one of Biden’s first executive orders. The program, Justice40, which the White House describes as a "whole of government effort," decreed that 40 percent of the beneficiaries of federal climate and environmental programs must come from "underserved communities." (And yet Johnson and Schemer just concluded a budget deal. Feh - jjs)
  How the Biden Junta Put Race at the Center of Government Spending
  
• "This spring, the Supreme Court will review the federal government’s alleged efforts to pressure social media companies to censor protected speech."
  A “Coordinated Campaign”

CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
• Roger Kimball: "I would not be surprised if future historians singled out Joe Biden’s Valley Forge speech as the moment his campaign began its final retreat into senile collapse."
  From Insurrection to Satire: Biden’s Valley Forge Speech Fails to Cement the Trump-Dictator Narrative
  
• Robert Spencer: "This authoritarian administration, the first in American history to bring criminal charges against its chief opponent, has a long and ever-lengthening record of being intolerant of dissent. Besides the Disinformation Governance Board that would have policed speech that dissented from the leftist establishment’s perspective, it sicced the FBI on angry parents protesting at school board meetings, worked with Twitter and other social media giants to silence and deplatform people with opposing views, and even sent spies into Catholic churches. But yeah, Joe, the threat to the republic (it’s still not a democracy, no matter how many times you assume that it is) is not you, it’s Donald Trump. You’re competent, capable, and articulate, too. As long as we’re piling on the fantasies, might as well go all out.
  Biden: Trump Speaks "The Same Exact Language Used in Nazi Germany"
  
• Miranda Devine: “'I understand power,' he whispered into the microphone as the first lady wrangled him off stage to stop him impersonating a Roomba. While ostensibly a self-deprecating cliché about wives’ control over men, 'I understand power' also was a statement of unwavering confidence in his own mastery of today’s political landscape. It’s hard to admit, given Biden’s manifest frailties and incompetence, but he’s right."
  Joe Biden Certainly Knows How to Wield His "Power" – To Transform the Country for the Worse
  
• "Commemorating January 6 with breathless bombast has become an annual tradition for the left, but Biden’s Valley Forge rant was his most aggressive and audacious performance yet."
  Biden’s Valley Forge Stunt Shows the Real Threat to Democracy
  
• “He talks about democracy being on the ballot but the ballot isn’t very democratic, his own party is trying to strip ballots of Donald Trump’s name to prevent people who want to vote for what appears to be the leading candidate for the presidency from doing that.”
  ‘He Lost Me’: Jonathan Turley Rebuts Biden’s ‘Assault On Democracy’ Speech In Less Than 60 Seconds
  
• "Joe Biden has lied his whole life for this moment. The next eleven months are where he intends for that to pay off."
  Truth-Loose and Policy-Free: Biden’s Valley Forge Speech and His Campaign Plan
  
• ". . . he doesn’t want to talk about the border, or inflation, or Afghanistan, or all the chaos he has caused throughout the world. The only reason Biden is at Valley Forge abusing George Washington’s legacy to slander 75 million Americans is that he knows he can’t show his face at the Southwest Border, or in East Palestine, Ohio, or at the autoworkers’ factories in Michigan where he is destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs.”
  WATCH: Trump Blasts Joe’s Valley Forge Speech as "Pathetic Fearmongering"
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• Richard Fernandez: "Joe Biden's Jan 6 speech raises some interesting problems. What does he really want to achieve by declaring his foes outlaws? Even if he succeeds in jailing, disqualifying or otherwise delegitimizing his 2024 political opponents, the challenge to "our democracy" he posits will not go away . . ."
  The Mystery of 2024
  
• "Only 28 percent of adults living in the United States — a constitutional republic — are satisfied with the state of democracy, down from 35 percent when Gallup polled on the issue after January 6, 2021, according to the poll."
  Poll: Record Low Satisfied in U.S. with "Way Democracy is Working" Under Biden
  
• "The media uses all manner of verbal jiu-jitsu to deny the obvious."
  The Un-American Inequality of Jan. 6 "Justice"
  
• "Conservatives like to accuse others of being sheep. But many of them say it while baaing."
  No More J6s
  
• "It’s all getting out of control." (Leftists are notorious for doing this but when it happens just once from someone on our side, there's an equivalency? Give me a break - jjs)
  Doxxing and Counter-Doxxing
  
• "Our epidemic of TDS does not appear to be abating. Here is a frightening example."
  A Case Study in Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome
  
• "Cheney spends 384 pages laser-focused on declaring Trump ‘the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.’"
  Liz-ard Cheney’s Memoir Offers Warning About Ruling Class, Not Trump

  ISRAEL AT WAR

• "Over 130 of Kibbutz Be’eri residents were murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7, many of them tortured, raped and mutilated."
  Israel Eliminates Two Hamas Terror Commanders Responsible for Be’eri Massacre on October 7
  
• "Targeted assassinations of terrorist leaders living outside of Gaza are a necessary component of Israel’s war strategy."
  Disrupting Hamas
  
• “Mossad is a very capable first-rate intelligence service both in the collection and analysis of intelligence and in the carrying out of covert operations,” Mick Mulroy, former defense official and CIA paramilitary officer, told the DCNF. “They have a very long memory and an equally long reach.”
  "Marked for Death": Here’s How Israel Plans to Hunt Down Hamas Terrorists Across the Globe
  
• "Al Jazeera’s role in covering the war has been under scrutiny, as it airs anti-Israel propaganda — and cuts off 'Palestinians' who complain (much to the surprise of Al Jazeera reporters) about Hamas."
  Report: IDF Kills Al Jazeera Journalist — Who Was Riding with Hamas Drone Operator
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "And now an official who funded the murder of a 17-year-old girl is in charge."
  Biden Promised Gaza Aid Wouldn’t Go to Hamas. He Lied.
  
• "At a moment when the country's survival depends on unity, Israel's court pulls it apart."
  Israel’s High Court Pulls a Dred Scott
  
• "Grotesque moral equivalence."
  "Palestinian" Official Likens "Palestinian" Prisoners to Israeli Hostages
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• ". . . the Toronto protest specifically appears to have targeted the Jewish community — and saw a unique level of support for the demonstrators by members of law enforcement. A Jewish-owned grocery store in Toronto was set on fire last week in an apparent antisemitic attack."
  WATCH: Police Bring Coffee to Anti-Israel Protesters ‘Blockading’ Toronto Jewish Suburb
  
• “Free Palestine! Fucking die, bitch!” (She must've been the valedictorian - jjs)
  Anti-Israel Girl Who Attacked Teenager in IDF Sweatshirt Graduated From Barack Obama School for Social Justice
  
• “I support Hamas, you fuking Jew”
  Anti-Semitic Slurs Yelled at Jewish Players Cause Cancelation of Girls' High School Basketball Game in Yonkers, NY

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: "Muslim cleric says Jews are 'bloodthirsty.'"
  Interfaith Outreach in Australia

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "Praises Hamas leaders, tours terror tunnels, opposes a Jewish state, and supports BDS." (Be a real shame if she wound up dead from a botched mugging - jjs)
  NYC Lawyer Kathleen Peratis’ Romance with Hamas
  
• "Whitewashing Islamic Jew-hate." (When do we get to see the video locked away in a safe at the L.A. Times of Obama spouting Jew hate at this turd's farewell dinner? - jjs)
  Rashid Khalidi’s Happy Dhimmi Jews
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• ". . . this case now is set up that it could possibly be the undoing of the very case that started this whole matter. . . "
  Kim Davis Fighting Back After Ordered to Pay $100,000 to Gay Couple, Could End Up at SCOTUS, Legal Team Says

  GAY PRIED

• "Sharpton has a long history of racism, homophobia, and antisemitism. He was a key figure in inflaming the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, following which race relations in America plummeted, as the Black Lives Matter movement arose and racial ideology became the predominant filter of political debate."
  Al Sharpton Leads Protest Against Bill Ackman; Retribution for Claudine Gay
  
• Clarice Feldman: "DEI is not and cannot make high-performing professionals out of people without the abilities to perform such tasks, and the overloaded DEI staffs and remedial teachers are not magicians who can do this." 
  Higher Education: DEI and Cargo Cultism
  
• "She was trying to put down Chris Rufo, the writer who exposed Claudine Gay as a plagiarist, and accidentally said the quiet part out loud about Harvard snobbery for the little guy."
  Harvard Prof Spews Contempt for Chris Rufo, Who Brought Down Claudine Gay, Brings Up His Harvard Night School Degree as Proof

  SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION

• "A short briefing on the issues in question in Trump's legal cases."
  The Twists and Turns of Trump’s Legal Journey
  
• “Fortenberry’s trial took place in a state where no charged crime was committed, and before a jury drawn from the vicinage of the federal agencies that investigated the defendant,” U.S. District Judge James Donato wrote in his ruling. “The Constitution does not permit this. Fortenberry’s convictions are reversed so that he may be retried, if at all, in a proper venue."
  Biden Junta Improperly Tried Ex-Congressman, Conviction Tossed

  COLORADO & MAINE TRUMP 2024 BALLOT BANS

• Colorado ballot ban will be heard on a fast track: “The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The case is set for oral argument on Thursday, February 8, 2024.”
  Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Trump Challenge to Ballot Ban On Fast Track
  
• "I don't believe in fighting with one hand tied behind your back."
  "We’re Gonna Fight Back": DeSantis Says He’s Looking to Boot Biden Off Florida Ballot After States Go After Trump
  
• "In an era of hyper-partisanship, the Supreme Court will step in." (Or step in it - jjs)
  Partisan Efforts to Keep Trump Off Ballots
  
• "Democrat operatives have pushed the ‘insurrection’ clause claim in several states with mixed results. The Colorado Supreme Court recently ruled that Trump is ineligible to run for President, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, however both the Minnesota and Michigan supreme courts threw out similar cases. The United States Supreme Court is widely expected to step in and overturn the Colorado decision."
  More Far-Left Activists Team Up to Keep Trump Off the Ballot. This Time in Illinois.

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• "The purpose of the documentary is to produce a public relations ploy to distract from Hunter’s legal and congressional probe, the Los Angeles Times reported this week."
  Report: Hunter Biden’s Lawyer Producing Documentary About First Son amid Federal Charges

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "Vivek comes prepared for his media inquisitors, who are mostly clueless."
  Ramaswamy is Absolutely Schooling Woke, Inc.
  
• Hasan has recently come under fire for his takes on the Israel-Hamas war and has frequently blamed Israel for the rise of Hamas. Back in 2009 Hasan called non-Muslims “animals” and compared homosexuals to “pedophiles” and “sexual deviants.” Just recently Hasan tried to diminish the magnitude of 9/11 terrorist attacks by needlessly equating the overthrow of the Chilean government in 1973 to the deadly attacks, garnering backlash. (Jeez, you'd think all that would be résumé enhancers for MSNSDAP - jjs)
  Mehdi Hasan Out at MSNSDAP
  
• “Now @JohnFetterman is telling everyone how he’s not a progressive, he rejects us and is now calling Harvard ‘pinko.’ What the f***? This is why people lose hope, because of frauds like Fetterman. You work hard to get a progressive elected and they turn into Republicans instantly,” Uygur posted on Friday.
  "Young [Jerks] Turks" Host Lashes Out At Fetterman, Calls Him "Fraud" and Says He’s Turned Into a Republican
  
• Thad McCotter: "The societal dimension of hardwiring youth to become hypersensitive to 'social feedback'—i.e., 'peer pressure'—within their network will have an immense and deleterious impact upon a free society."
  "High on Likes": Driving Under the Influence of Social Media at the Crossroad of Freedom and Serfdom
  
• "The SpaceX lawsuit is interesting in that it challenges the very legal structure that has established the NLRB, stating that its actions are illegal because that structure forbids the [so-called quote-unquote "president"] from having full control over its actions, as required by article II of the Constitution."
  SpaceX sues to have NLRB complaint dismissed
  
• "Wreaking havoc."
  Smartphones, Dumb Kids

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "The consumer rejection of EVs is a challenge to the electric car market and government goals to move towards net zero carbon emissions by 2050."
  Electric Vehicle Sales Slump to Just a Quarter of New Purchases
  
• "Failure to comply with the global warming narrative could mean time behind bars."
  Climate Crimes and Misdemeanors
  
• "Perhaps if the child slave camps were in Ukraine our elected officials would care."
  Africans Might "Know It’s Christmas" if They Weren’t Slaves to "Green" Energy

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "The DHS report only includes data up to September 2023. Since then, roughly 900,000 additional migrants have crossed the U.S. border in October, November, and December. If half were deported, then an additional 450,000 migrants should be added to the inflow numbers."
  Mayorkas’ DHS Claims 2.3 Million Illegal Migrants, but Hides Millions More
  
• "Neocons like Marc Thiessen repeat the line that most migrants are here to become productive Americans. That’s not their priority at all."
  Please, Neocons, Stop Claiming That Migrants Jump the Border to Become Patriotic Americans. That’s Not Why They’re Here.
  
• "Lessons from Milton Friedman, Herbert Stein . . . and Cloward-Piven."
  No Border – Say Goodbye to America

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney issued a preliminary injunction against the “sensitive places” law on December 20, 2023, noting that it is “openly defiant to the Supreme Court.” But Carney’s injunction was put on hold via an administrative stay on December 30, 2023, opening the door for the expanded gun-free zones to take effect January 1, 2024. That hold has now been lifted and portions of SB2 that create a new slate of gun-free zones for licensed concealed carriers is blocked.
  Blocked: CA Expansion of Gun-Free Zones for Concealed Carriers
  
• “We have no interest in criminalizing constitutionally protected behavior. We took an oath to uphold our Constitution and will work to protect the rights of our citizens. This issue is far from being resolved and we are hopeful the courts will rule in favor of our constitution. We will continue to keep our community informed on this important issue,” Sutter County Sheriff Brandon Barnes and Sutter County District Attorney Jennifer Dupré said in a joint statement Wednesday.
  CA Sheriff Offers Big "No" to Newsom on Gun Law
  
• "The Lone Star State’s commitment to securing its citizens’ Second Amendment rights led to the grand jury’s decision clearing the taqueria hero."
  The Houston Grand Jury That Cleared Taqueria Hero Knows Good Guys With Guns Stop Crime

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "To save democracy for future generations and revive the education system for America’s children, we desperately need school choice and competition." (And the death of the John Dewey/Horace Mann/Frankfurt School mafia that poisoned the minds of 3 generations of American students - jjs)
  Randi Weingarten’s Meltdown Over School Choice And ‘Democracy’ Is Pure Projection

  ABORTION

• Democrats have made abortion central to campaigns across the countries since the Dobbs decision, painting the issue as one of freedom rather than one of life and death. In June, Biden’s former White House chief of staff Ron Klain predicted to Politico that abortion is “going to be a major theme in the 2024 campaign.” (When everything else is collapsing, the Left goes to it's strength: Infanticide - jjs)
  Biden Campaign: Restoring Roe Top Priority on Day 1 of Fourth Obama Term

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "The Democrat mega-donor and LinkedIn founder [greasy bastard Reid Hoffman] was reported to be considering funding Ron DeSantis, purely to try and thwart Donald Trump’s nomination, nine months ago. He ultimately decided to back Haley, gifting a quarter-million dollars to the pro-Haley SFA Fund Inc."
  Top Nikki Haley, E Jean Carroll, and Fusion GPS Backer Was Epstein Island Visitor
  
• "Karamo rose to prominence within the Michigan GOP after challenging the results of former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. She then ran for Michigan secretary of state with Trump’s endorsement in the 2022 election cycle, a race she lost by 14 percentage points to incumbent Democrat Jocelyn Benson. Karamo was elected to state party chair in February, largely riding the support of conservative grassroots activists."
  Group Of Michigan GOP Committee Members Vote To Oust State Party Chair; She Says They Have No Authority To Remove Her
  
• Where's Harry Reid's "friend" from the IRS? - jjs
  Newsom Pledged to Release His Tax Returns While In Office. He Hasn't Done So Since 2020.

  POLITICS

• The memo was written soon after New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan (R) announced that the state would have its primary election on January 23, thus “undermining Democrats’ efforts to hold the party’s first primary in South Carolina on February 3,” according to Fox News.
  DNC Calls New Hampshire Primary Process "Detrimental"
  
• Andrew "Out the Ying" Yang: “Look I vastly prefer Biden and would never vote for Trump. But saying you’re defending democracy while suppressing a primary in your own party is ridiculous. Joe Biden referenced George Washington several times in his Valley Forge speech yesterday. More than anything, George Washington knew when to step aside.”
  Former Dem Presidential Candidate Blasts Biden For Claiming To Defend Democracy While ‘Suppressing’ Party Primary
  
• "So, six months after Obama first advised Biden on his reelection, things haven't gotten any better for Biden. And, spoiler alert, it's not likely that anything will change."
  Barack Obama Hits Panic Button on Biden Campaign, and I’m Laughing Hysterically
  
• "The Biden [junta's] status Obama presidential term three is confirmed by Biden’s appointment of enormous number of Obamaites."
  How Obama Pulls Biden's Strings
  
• "Republicans, Conservatives, Magadonians, Populists - whatever they’re called - need to take a page out of the Democrat playbook before it’s too late. The Democrat machine puts everything aside to get to their goals, and it’s time we learned to do the same." (Except the GOP is a sham opposition party in league with the Dems. Take it over or destroy it - jjs)
  It's Like the Right is Trying to Lose
  
• " What exactly are we doing here?"
  Punishing Chick-fil-A and the Politics of Trolling
  
• "In a further irony, this person who condescends to her own husband about the name 'William' is the same individual originally named Nimarata Randhawa before she developed an abiding admiration of Hillary Clinton, rebranded herself a Republican, and declared herself a candidate for high office."
  Nikki Haley Forcibly Renamed Her Husband

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Xi spent months in 2023 firing more than a dozen of his top military brass in China’s People’s Liberation Army and Rocket Force, some of whom 'vanished' in the months leading to their firing or in the months after. Xi did this to root out widespread corruption and graft within his ranks that had greatly weakened China’s military, U.S. intelligence believes, according to people with close knowledge on the matter who spoke to Bloomberg."
  US Intelligence Reveals Why China’s Xi Took a Sledgehammer to His Military
  
• Gordon Chang: "Xi, who cannot stop talking about war in general, could decide to launch an invasion if a President Hou or President Ko decided not to agree to his annexation demands. Given that voters overwhelmingly do not see themselves as part of China, no democratically elected leader can give Xi what he wants."
  Could This Crucial Election Lead China To Invade Taiwan?
  
• "The PRC is using threat deflation strategically to misdirect, to create false impressions, and to deceive adversaries into thinking they are not ready to attack."
  The Immediacy of the PRC Threat: The Change from Land Power to Maritime Power
  
• Pompeo is correct until he starts belching up the crap about "helping Ukraine." No. Hard no.
  Mike Pompeo Op-Ed: Biden Has Dangerously Decayed Deterrence – And Every American is at Risk
  
• "France’s new immigration law could herald a broader shift in the nation’s politics, and Europe’s."
  Migration Right
  
• “France will be close to a fifth Muslim by the middle of this century.”
  How a Stabbing Changed France
  
• "With the abduction of its 15th priest on New Year's Eve, Ortega's anti-Catholic animus has spun out of control."
  In 2023, Nicaragua Was No Place to Be Catholic

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The Pentagon revealed Friday night that Austin was admitted to Walter Reed hospital on Monday following unspecified complications that arose from an elective medical procedure. He was recovering on Saturday when White House National Security Council (NSC) officials said they were not notified of Austin’s hospitalization until Thursday, while Congress and most of the Department of Defense (DOD) leadership did not know until Friday."
  "Could Have Done a Better Job": Lloyd Austin Addresses Lack of Transparency Surrounding Hospitalization 
  
• “Failed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin should be fired immediately for improper professional conduct and dereliction of duty, He has been missing for one week, and nobody, including his boss, Crooked Joe Biden, had a clue as to where he was, or might be. He has performed poorly, and should have been dismissed long ago, along with ‘General’ Mark Milley, for many reasons, but in particular the catastrophic surrender in Afghanistan, perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our Country!”
  Trump Tells Biden to Fire Lloyd Austin for "Improper Professional Conduct"
  
• “I am glad to hear Secretary Austin is in improved condition and I wish him a speedy recovery. However, the fact remains that the Department of Defense deliberately withheld the Secretary of Defense’s medical condition for days. That is unacceptable. We are learning more every hour about the Department’s shocking defiance of the law.”
  Sen. Roger Wicker Calls for a Briefing from the Pentagon After It Hid Austin’s Hospitalization
  
• "Let's think about this for a minute. Joe Biden, who is supposed to be the commander in chief, didn't know for four days that his own defense secretary, a member of his cabinet, was in the hospital. Now, considering what's going on in the world right now—the Israel-Hamas war, the Houthi attacks on container ships in the Red Sea, and many other things—how is it possible that Biden isn't talking to his defense secretary daily? Sure, he has time to give speeches about how Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, but he didn't even know his defense secretary was incapacitated for days?"
  Defense Secretary Austin Scandal Is Even Worse Than We Thought
  
• "The Deep State who kept this secret even from the [spurious fraud] President of the United States has shown its arrogance."
  Lloyd Austin at the ICU: A Symptom of a More Serious Malady

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• "U.S. airlines have been temporarily ordered to stop using some Boeing 737 Max 9 planes."
  "I’m Going To Die": Alaska Airlines Makes Emergency Landing After Chunk of Plane Blown Out on Nightmare Flight
  
• "The bipartisan framework would set defense funding at $866 billion and non-defense spending at $704 billion for the current fiscal year, which is in line with the spending levels set with the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), the debt limit deal struck by [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)."
  Speaker Mike Johnson, White House Strike Spending Framework Deal

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• The artificial uterus, named the Extra-uterine Environment for Newborn Development or “EXTEND,” was first tested on gestating lambs, which were found to experience “normal brain development and stable nutrition,” according to the Daily Mail, “as if they were feeding off their mother.”
  Human Trials for Artificial Uterus Designed for Premature Babies Could Begin This Year

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• "For ULA, this launch is a very big deal."
  ULA’s Vulcan rocket successfully places payload in orbit on first launch
  
• "Essentially the researchers will try to engineer bacteria known to be able to survive space so that it carries genes from another microbe able of changing the perchlorate into chloride and oxygen."
  Researchers propose method for removing toxic perchlorates from Martian water

  FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY

• In training videos obtained by the Daily Wire, physicians at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital openly discussed ways to keep parents from finding out that their child was being treated for gender dysphoria, including keeping parents of gender-confused girls from finding out their underage daughter was being given medication to stop her period. (In a sane world, any doctor who does this should be defrocked and sent to prison for 50 years to life - jjs)
  Cincinnati Children's Trains Doctors On How to Hide Kids' 'Transition' Treatment From Parents

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "These geniuses have decided to collaborate with Project Potluck to sponsor a racist competition for bakers to display their skills and products. . . In other words, if you are white, you need not apply. Baking Pitchfest is ONLY for people of color (POC). . . I cook and bake a lot. Since I have never used their product, I won’t miss it at all. I encourage those who do use it to try something else. I’m betting you won’t miss King Arthur, but if enough people go in another direction, they will miss you."
King Arthur Flour Bakes Up a "DEI" Pie
  
• "Two peas in a racially aggrieved pod."
  Two Racial Grievance Girls: Michelle and Meghan
  
• "Impressionable preteens are ditching their innocence and acting, looking, and shopping like young adult TikTok influencers."
  How TikTok Killed the Preteen Era 
  
• "I quit Instagram three years ago. It took experiencing the withdrawal symptoms to see the bad habits that had become normal."
  3 Bad Habits I Broke When I Quit Instagram
  
• "A new city council is making waves in the O.C." (I've always liked Huntington Beach - jjs)
  MAGA Wave Hits Small-Town California
  
• "Move over, AARP. A conservative competitor that rejects the AARP’s liberal political agenda for seniors has 2.2 million members and growing."
  The Association of Mature American Citizens Has Quietly Become a Conservative Powerhouse
  
• Christian Toto: "Chastened ceremony finds Hollywood putting its best foot forward."
  Apolitical Globes Lean Into Gratitude (Not Politics)
  
• "He is fucking bombing."
  Golden Globes Host Jo Koy Opening Monologue Trashed by Viewers
  
• "A new film indicts white power-brokers' exploitation of black literature."
  American Fiction 2023

  HITHER & YON

• "How did college football become indistinguishable from professional sports? Gradually, and then suddenly."
  Moneyball

  FINALLY . . .

• "A nice story for all the 'anti-Semitism depends on context' crowd."
  Bringing the Roof Down on Anti-Semitism

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1 Happy Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 07:55 AM (lwOKI)

2 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 07:55 AM (GYIa4)

3 Mornin' Hordians!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 08, 2024 07:58 AM (k6uu5)

4 Bonjour horde

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 07:59 AM (J+irZ)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 07:59 AM (Q4IgG)

6 Happy Monday, one and all.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 08, 2024 07:59 AM (4olE8)

7 We can rebuild him...

Posted by: Six Million Dollar Man Intro Voiceover at January 08, 2024 08:00 AM (SYTee)

8 The truth that has been coming out over the course of the day suggests something far, far worse. According to the latest reports, not even the White House knew about Austin's hospitalization
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I bet China knew.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:00 AM (J+irZ)

9 As Brett Weinstein said on a recent episode of Tucker, The West is dead, what we see is an echo and what is being installed is a sort of Techno Feudalism/Fascism, controlled by a Spectral Global Cabal, unseen and unelected, but wielding total power.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:01 AM (XV/Pl)

10 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)

11 "Let's think about this for a minute. Joe Biden, who is supposed to be the commander in chief, didn't know for four days that his own defense secretary, a member of his cabinet, was in the hospital."

To be fair, Joe doesn't know where he is or what he is doing.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2024 08:02 AM (vFG9F)

12 FJB.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)

13 "The Pentagon did not inform the White House National Security Council or top adviser Jake Sullivan of Austin’s hospitalization at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, until Thursday, according to two administration officials."
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Is this failure due to the routine incompetence at all levels of government, or a deliberate and potentially dangerous snub as a consequence of the ongoing intra-Party war?

Taking all bets!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:03 AM (L5WFg)

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

Posted by: Inogame at January 08, 2024 08:03 AM (53oGX)

15 >>You may rail against their ignorance and naivete, but they will decide the election.
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I hate when that happens
why do we let stupid people vote

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:04 AM (geLO8)

16 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

All is as has been foreseen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2024 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

17 so what kind of elective surgery goes so badly, you wind up in the ICU

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:05 AM (geLO8)

18 Someone had to make up the lie that the man was working at home, to cover up the fact that he was suffering complications from some as-yet-unidentified elective surgery (if it was indeed elective, that’s a story in itself, as well).

I am guessing a lap band or other fat procedure. Very dangerous and promoted as in out surgery.
Old people in general do not so well under general anesthesia.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 08:05 AM (lwOKI)

19 "The [spurious] president does know how to use power to transform the country. "

The people behind him do. Joe is a shambling puppet.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2024 08:05 AM (vFG9F)

20 Isn't it racist to expect a black man to comply and fulfill the requirement of a position of responsibility? Those are all white supremacist ideas imposed on POC.


Decolonize to DoD!

Posted by: Claudine Gay at January 08, 2024 08:05 AM (JojsZ)

21 Yup. The phantom menaces within the United States of supposed white supremacy, Trump and "climate change," which even if real would be completely outside the purview of the DoD.
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And the CIA isn't supposed to operate on American soil, and the FBI is supposed to be a police agency and the USDA is really supposed to inspect food and handle farm affairs.

In a single-party superstate, power is a game of "snatch as snatch can."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:05 AM (L5WFg)

22 Lloyd Austin isn’t exactly a standout in his role.
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Yes he is. Like most of the people in charge of the various facets of American government, he is spectacularly awful.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:06 AM (L5WFg)

23 "so what kind of elective surgery goes so badly, you wind up in the ICU
Posted by: Don Black "

Maybe he was undergoing a fundamental TRANSformation.

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2024 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

24
. . . As well it might. Joe Biden’s Valley Forge speech was supposed to inaugurate his 2024 campaign. I would not be surprised if future historians singled it out as the moment his campaign began its final retreat into senile collapse.

His 'Valley Forge speech' was actually in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, fifteen miles away. But Joe wrapped his feet in cloth and trekked through the knee deep snow to get there. Or something.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 08:06 AM (3qE2b)

25 This is a prime example of a country being run by an unelected committee of bureaucrats with an agenda incompatible with the Constitution and the public at large.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

26 @17

>>so what kind of elective surgery goes so badly, you wind up in the ICU

Gastric Bypass Surgery.

Austin is a fat boy and he obviously is having health related issues necessitating him losing weight, which he can't do from willpower alone.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:06 AM (XV/Pl)

27 Someone had to make up the lie that the man was working at home, to cover up the fact that he was suffering complications from some as-yet-unidentified elective surgery (if it was indeed elective, that’s a story in itself, as well).

Hopefully he's being treated for his rectal cranial inversion.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 08:06 AM (GYIa4)

28 The most interesting thing about Slo-Joe's speech is how little notice it has gotten and how quickly the marxist Propaganda Machine moved on from it.

He is politically a lame-duck. No one cares. Sadly, though, his capacity for fucking things up (to quote El Jeffe) is undiminished.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:07 AM (s+y2S)

29 Wish I could remember who mentioned Tucker's interview with Clay Higgins yesterday so I could credit them.
If you're not on X, it's available on utube. At least it was yesterday.
Both names in the searchbox there will bring it up.
Much easier than me trying to "tiny" it on this phone.

Posted by: Teej at January 08, 2024 08:07 AM (9jZWY)

30 @25

>>This is a prime example of a country being run by an unelected committee of bureaucrats with an agenda incompatible with the Constitution and the public at large.

One of their plans is to take away our cars in less than 7 years, so, uhmm, I don't remember having voted on this particular plan, but it's going to happen none the less.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:08 AM (XV/Pl)

31 But no one believes this. Why? Because the more footage we see from the events of that day, the clearer it becomes that what happened on January 6, 2021, was not an insurrection. Moreover, Donald Trump, far from egging on his supporters to violence, went out of his way to urge them to protest peacefully.
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Nah. Nobody who has been paying attention - even loosely - believes this. Everyone else believes what the big nets and "entertainment" - primarily "comedy" - combines tell them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:08 AM (L5WFg)

32 It's about the economy, stupid

[Kurt - Of course it is. The economy that Biden/Obama absolutely destroyed. The one that Trump engendered - the greatest economic boom in 100 years, now in the shitter and likely to never recover. Hit my tip jar! - jjs]

Posted by: Paul [Kurt, Nadler's dingleberry detector] at January 08, 2024 08:09 AM (cizJL)

33 Morning JJ. Thanks again. Wife has Covid. Coming close to 4 years since the Wuhan outbreak, and the Sh%$ is still hanging in the air. China receives no punishment by the west, for a virus that was intnetionally made to hang around for 10 years. Her Covid symptons are not to bad, but she can only get about 3 hours of sleep at night.

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:09 AM (BGQYY)

34 If Trump does end up as the Republican nominee, as the polls suggest and the pundits insist, the ferocity of the attacks will be unprecedented. The 91 felony counts, the criminal trials, the efforts to throw him off the ballot, the media vilification, the doomsday rhetoric, all will accelerate. They are softening him up, like picadors poking at the bull, to drive him mad and sap him of energy so that by the time the broken down old matador enters the ring he is already half-dead.
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Fully dead, if they can manage it. They have to ramp up now.

Our Democracy depends on it...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:10 AM (L5WFg)

35 It's about the dick, stupid.

Posted by: Pawl at January 08, 2024 08:10 AM (vFG9F)

36
Wish I could remember who mentioned Tucker's interview with Clay Higgins yesterday so I could credit them.

'Skip' mentioned it. I saw the video too but never mentioned it because after watching it I was so pissed off at the FIB.

Others should watch it, but be prepared to be pissed off that you and other honest Americans have been pissed on.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 08:10 AM (3qE2b)

37 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 08, 2024 08:10 AM (ous9O)

38 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:11 AM (T4tVD)

39 Like I tell all I know. The enemy of America, is white liberal voters. Upscale white women who do not care about crime and bankrupticies, just friggin abortion

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:11 AM (BGQYY)

40 Very girthy MR today, JJ. Thank you. I even read the content! When I think of Lloyd Austin I immediately think of that ridiculous image of his reviewing troops somewhere (IIRC) and he’s wearing at least one (maybe two) masks AND a face shield. His huge fat gut is prominent in the photo so you maybe understand his fear of the WuFlu as he probably has 17 comorbidities…. He really looked ridiculous

BTW…. This whole situation is the perfect illustration of WFH. Claim you’re WFH and do whatever you want (other than work)….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 08:11 AM (KEuti)

41 " They are softening him up, like picadors poking at the bull, to drive him mad and sap him of energy so that by the time the broken down old matador enters the ring he is already half-dead."

They don't know him very well, do they?

Posted by: fd at January 08, 2024 08:11 AM (vFG9F)

42 Good morning JJ and Happy Birthday!

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2024 08:12 AM (IFNME)

43 Lloyld Austin looks like a broke ass Idi Amin Dada.

He's just another welfare queen who wore a uniform.

Fuck him.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 08, 2024 08:12 AM (Edu7X)

44 @33

>>China receives no punishment by the west, for a virus that was intnetionally made to hang around for 10 years.

Whether it was man-made (of course it was man-made) or from nature, it's gonna act like a virus and continually recirculate in populations as it's now endemic.

The flu virus that caused the 1918 pandemic is still with us as an example.

As has been said, a very large cadre of people need to be chucked feet first into an industrial wood chipper.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:12 AM (XV/Pl)

45 25. Exactly. All instructed by Obama

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:13 AM (BGQYY)

46 VDH

But then again, in our major cities, George-Soros-subsidized prosecutors have all but destroyed civil society. They have been systematically releasing felons with violent criminal records on the same day they are arrested, freeing convicted felons early from prisons and jails, and sabotaging the law by arbitrary enforcement on the grounds that it is inherently either unfair or racist.

My comments:
We have a subpopulation of 20 million illegals and another 20 to 30 million THUGS that bring zero value to our westerns culture. Most of these people are somewhat irredeemable and will continue their criminality throughout their lives until they end up killing an innocent and finally getting off the streets.
But no matter on or off the streets, they cost more to support than our broken military systems.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 08:13 AM (lwOKI)

47 "..he and the Joint Chiefs who have gone along with the dismantling of our military that started in Obama's first term to the level of degradation we now can see in his third, is a red pubic hair's width away from treason."

Methinks the junta crossed the red pubic hair treason threshold Years ago.
The ONE thing the junta does well and consistently is cross treason thresholds of all public colours.
If Trump can beat the DemCommies ballot manufacturing machine there should be supertankers converted to holding cells as the traitors await trial and conviction before they cross their last mortal threshold.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 08, 2024 08:14 AM (LbzpQ)

48 Good Morning Vietnam

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 08, 2024 08:14 AM (CecP5)

49 This is a prime example of a country being run by an unelected committee of bureaucrats with an agenda incompatible with the Constitution and the public at large.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)
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Sure, but it also exemplifies what happens when there's no firm Party leader. There is nobody in charge. Nobody has control of the Party right now. There will always be factional struggle even with strong leadership (look at the decade-long civil war within the CCP as Xi has consolidated power), but the core policy is the core policy and Party apparatchiks will be less inclined to engage in transparent independent empire-building when there is a real head man in play.

We have no head man. Biden isn't, and neither are Obama's other people. The Kalorama faction is dominant, but they have no meaningful central leadership or system-wide shot-caller. The bureaucrats are running wild building their empires, and the lines shift constantly. It's one of the reasons American policy has looked so insane and internally contradictory for the past few years.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:15 AM (L5WFg)

50 Kirby explained that Austin “strongly believes that diversity is a readiness issue because it allows different perspectives, additional context, different lived experiences to inform the way we make decisions in the policies that we craft, the operations that we lead.”


I never hear the DEI gurus explain how supposed different perspectives and lived experiences (of victim groups that is) actually make an organization better. It is simply stated as fact and then move on. Wouldn't the overwhelming success of Western nations compared to the rest of the world indicate there is a right, better way of doing things, especially like in the third world? Unfortunately it is now racist to point that out.

Posted by: Claudine Gay at January 08, 2024 08:15 AM (JojsZ)

51 Biden tells us he is a good Catholic, but supports Late Term murder. Biden says Trump is Hitler, even though Donald has Jewish Grandchildren.

Biden is 81 and pure evil

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:15 AM (BGQYY)

52 Tucker and Clay

http://tinyurl.com/yc7m22ef

Tucker and Bret

http://tinyurl.com/4m7yf4js

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 08:15 AM (lwOKI)

53 Michael Walsh mentioned another video that sounds like a must-see, a compilation of released Jan 6 video that shows a relatively innocuous event that has been sensationalized in the most extreme way possible.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:16 AM (s+y2S)

54 Biden is Woodrow Wilson

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:17 AM (BGQYY)

55 It's National Bubble Bath Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

56 @34

>>Fully dead, if they can manage it. They have to ramp up now.

Even if Trump were to get 100M votes, the Donks seem to control enough voting apparatuses in enough areas to tip the elections in their favor.

The have enough juice to elect two avowed communists in f**king Georgia, all places, literal cabbage in Pennsylvania, and a ghost in Arizona.

So that's the kind of juice they wield.

Unless that is counteracted, I see nothing but pain going forward.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:18 AM (XV/Pl)

57 It's National Bubble Bath Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:17 AM (NpAcC)


Yeah, I'll pass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

58 Will I get to go to the White House and shower with Pop-pop before the big MLK celebration, mommy?

Posted by: Navy Joan at January 08, 2024 08:20 AM (NBVIP)

59
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 08, 2024 08:20 AM (bEb2S)

60 I saw Unmitigated Disaster of a Raging Clusterfuck of Incompetence open for Citizen Cope at The Montrose in 2004.

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:20 AM (g5tO/)

61 > his is a prime example of a country being run by an unelected committee of bureaucrats with an agenda incompatible with the Constitution and the public at large.
++++
Sure, but it also exemplifies what happens when there's no firm Party leader. There is nobody in charge.
______________

"Nobody in charge" is the key. Trump wasn't "in charge" during his tenure as President. I doubt Obama was either. Or any president going back 60 - 75 years.

The difference is whether the nominal president agrees with the agenda being run by this "committee" and/or takes their lead.

Trump didn't. *biden can't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)

62 It's National Bubble Bath Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

Its Elvis' Birthday !

Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:21 AM (T4tVD)

63 From "It's Like the Right is Trying to Lose"...

Because the Right is so obsessed with piety, morale, and the high road, until we’ve vanished in an apologetic puff of our own politeness.

Not all of it. Some of us don't give a shit about decorum, sharply creased pants, and practiced politician speech patterns. But a big portion of the people who do care about those things... not all, but a lot... expect us to accept their choices who'll do not one damn thing even if they manage to gain office.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 08:22 AM (GYIa4)

64 Each citizen's share of the national debt is $95,298.00. Pay up slackers.

Your government betters

Posted by: Ben Had at January 08, 2024 08:22 AM (U+ALs)

65 We have no head man. Biden isn't, and neither are Obama's other people. The Kalorama faction is dominant, but they have no meaningful central leadership or system-wide shot-caller. The bureaucrats are running wild building their empires, and the lines shift constantly. It's one of the reasons American policy has looked so insane and internally contradictory for the past few years.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:15 AM (L5WFg)
====
This process is reminiscent of how the post-Soviet oligarchs were created by the criminal seizure of vast state assets.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2024 08:23 AM (RIvkX)

66 Biden has had both a Nuremburg and Brandenburg Gate speech.

Interesting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 08, 2024 08:23 AM (tT6L1)

67 Unless that is counteracted, I see nothing but pain going forward.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:18 AM (XV/Pl)

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

"The Forecast Calls For Pain."

/obligatory Robert Cray

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:23 AM (g5tO/)

68 Michael Walsh mentioned another video that sounds like a must-see, a compilation of released Jan 6 video that shows a relatively innocuous event that has been sensationalized in the most extreme way possible.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:16 AM (s+y2S)

Yup...reminds me of those videos of some purple haired Karen, who is caught doing Karen things, starts in and hollers and screams like she is being drawn and quartered.

The main stream media hollers like J6 was some horror show while it wasn't anything except a walk about in the Enemy's Kapitol.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 08, 2024 08:23 AM (Edu7X)

69 comedian Jim Gaffigan, speaking to the Hollywood A-List at the Golden Globes ceremony: " I can't believe I'm even in the entertainment industry. I'm from a small town in Indiana. I'm not a pedophile..."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:24 AM (jzft8)

70 Of course. Austin has to purge whites from the command structure. No other choice, and Milley knew that too.

When supreme white insurrection is your pretext for going to war against your own populace, you're gonna have to paint millions of people as supreme white insurrectionists. There's no shortage of cucked-out, tucked under white bitches like Milley, but you're not going to be able to count on a majority white officer corps to carry out a world historical atrocity based on anti-white racism.

Also, a shakeup of the officer corps will provide cover for the actual goal - replacing the command structure with barking mad ideologues who are 110% Party loyal, down to the bone.

Being black or brown isn't enough, just a baseline. They want people they can count on to do the needful.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2024 08:24 AM (0FoWg)

71 Did the SecDef have a treadmill accident? Seizure, stroke or just a stubbed toe?

Weird. Odd. Curious.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2024 08:24 AM (88xKn)

72 We have no head man. Biden isn't, and neither are Obama's other people. The Kalorama faction is dominant, but they have no meaningful central leadership or system-wide shot-caller. The bureaucrats are running wild building their empires, and the lines shift constantly. It's one of the reasons American policy has looked so insane and internally contradictory for the past few years.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:15 AM (L5WFg)
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This has had disastrous results on the international stage. Even our most reliant allies and partners can no longer trust us because the pendulum of American foreign policy is wildly unstable and unpredictable.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2024 08:25 AM (BpYfr)

73 Pet Peeve - calling National Socialism/Fascism right wing. Anyone with at least an ounce of understanding of what these governing philosophies are about would know these are left wing.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:25 AM (fs1hN)

74 But is it incompetence or intentional? I'd argue that mere incompetence, while bad enough, is nowhere near as destructive as intentional acts and policies that are ideologically driven.

----------

ShainS' Razor: "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:26 AM (g5tO/)

75 If you go to the hospital on Jan 1, it isn't for an elective procedure.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:26 AM (fs1hN)

76 ... The difference is whether the nominal president agrees with the agenda being run by this "committee" and/or takes their lead.

Trump didn't. *biden can't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)
++++
Under Obama, I suspect that there *was* a head man: Valerie Jarett. There were still factions, of course - any single-party system is riddled with them - but the buck stopped with her. I think she is also largely still in charge of the Obama meta-faction, but she no longer has the singular power she did when she was the real president.

The Trump administration did a lot of damage in this respect. The 2016 election was supposed to be a changeover of central Party power from the Obama Faction back to the Clinton Faction, but that didn't happen because Trump queered the deal. The war on Trump was then an unexpectedly open playing field within the Party, and the COVID double-down created even more disruptive opportunity. A lot of bureaucratic empires were built and not all of them are fully controlled (or controllable) by the dominant Obama faction.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:27 AM (L5WFg)

77 >Did the SecDef have a treadmill accident? Seizure, stroke or just a stubbed toe?
---


I'm going with liposuction, and they accidentally vacuumed out his spleen or something

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:27 AM (geLO8)

78 >If you go to the hospital on Jan 1, it isn't for an elective procedure.

Posted by: Chuck Martel



verrry interesting...

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:27 AM (geLO8)

79 It's National Bubble Bath Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

So, we should fart in the tub ?

Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (T4tVD)

80 It's one of the reasons American policy has looked so insane and internally contradictory for the past few years.
____

US policy appears to be run by various committees of Ivy League faculty lounges.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (fs1hN)

81 “In a just world,” Cheney wrote, “the January 6th Select Committee investigation, and the criminal prosecutions that have now followed, would be the end of a dark period in our nation’s history.”

“Donald Trump and those who aided him would be scorned and punished,” she added.

I think this biotch has a bug up her ass!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (lwOKI)

82 Anyone with at least an ounce of understanding of what these governing philosophies are about would know these are left wing.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:25 AM (fs1hN)
---------------

The left "thinks" by emotional assertion of talking points.

These are people who are unwilling to learn anything because facts get in the way of what they believe their entitled to.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (tT6L1)

83 @36 - Thanks DbZ!!
Hope J.J. checks it out, drops it in under tomorrow's J6 header and gives Skip a hat tip.

Posted by: Teej at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (9jZWY)

84 "Nobody in charge" is the key. Trump wasn't "in charge" during his tenure as President. I doubt Obama was either. Or any president going back 60 - 75 years.

The difference is whether the nominal president agrees with the agenda being run by this "committee" and/or takes their lead.

Trump didn't. *biden can't.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:21 AM (Q4IgG)

Think about J6. Lest we forget… Trump was STILL President that day! And yet his own FBI (we now know from the Tucker-Higgins interview… actually we’ve known it for awhile) planned and executed this color-revolution style reichstag fire… for the express purpose of discrediting and targeting the very president they supposedly worked for. The fed bureaucracy is out. of. control. I still grit my teeth when I recall Wray walking out of a congressional hearing because he had “other commitments” which turned out to be jetting away in his vacation using a taxpayer funded aircraft

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (KEuti)

85 ShainS' Razor: "Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice.
Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:26 AM (g5tO/)
++++
Mannix's Razor: "Never attribute to stupidity or malice that which can be explained by both."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (L5WFg)

86 JJ, the ULA launch story link opens an AOL mail window.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:29 AM (jzft8)

87 Yeah, I'll pass.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)
******
I think most men take showers.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

88 >>Tucker and Clay

>>http://tinyurl.com/yc7m22ef

A couple months ago Wray was sitting before a House Committee meeting and Higgins asked him some very pointed questions that he obviously knew the answers to before asking the questions. Wray was his usual dishonest self but Higgins was not having it.

He ended his questioning by telling Wray something to the effect "Your time is coming.". If he really does know what he claims to know and Johnson agrees to let the evidence out that could really change a lot of minds not just about J6 but about who is really running this country.

That Tucker interview is well worth watching.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 08:29 AM (ZLI7S)

89 “In a just world,” Cheney wrote, “the January 6th Select Committee investigation, and the criminal prosecutions that have now followed, would be the end of a dark period in our nation’s history.”

“Donald Trump and those who aided him would be scorned and punished,” she added.

I think this biotch has a bug up her ass!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (lwOKI)


She's no longer in government and is a private citizen. That means, she can be told to GFH with no ramification.

The Twaterverse should tell her such. Immediately.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

90 I'm going with liposuction, and they accidentally vacuumed out his spleen or something
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:27 AM (geLO

Or he had a New Years Eve party with a couple of teens which resulted in a heart attack.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (88xKn)

91 Good ULA launch link

https://shorturl.at/anstJ

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (jzft8)

92 77 I'm going with liposuction, and they accidentally vacuumed out his spleen or something
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:27 AM (geLO


"From the Liver to the Spleen! Austin will be de-colon"-ized!"

- - Dr. Walid al-Reed

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (x0n13)

93 So, we should fart in the tub ?
Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (T4tVD)
******
Another man thing.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

94 “He talks about democracy being on the ballot but the ballot isn’t very democratic, his own party is trying to strip ballots of Donald Trump’s name to prevent people who want to vote for what appears to be the leading candidate for the presidency from doing that.”
‘He Lost Me’: Jonathan Turley Rebuts Biden’s ‘Assault On Democracy’ Speech In Less Than 60 Seconds
____

Heck, Biden's party is stripping Biden's competitors' names off of Democrat state primary ballots.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (fs1hN)

95 >I think most men take showers.

Posted by: redridinghood



yes, my bathtub seems to have gotten smaller over the years

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:31 AM (geLO8)

96 Someone should point out to Liz that, in a just world, she'd be rotting in jail for her malfeasance as a representative.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 08, 2024 08:31 AM (tT6L1)

97 *The main stream media hollers*

Ok, I think I've found your problem.

Posted by: Just turn it off at January 08, 2024 08:31 AM (NBVIP)

98 Or he had a New Years Eve party with a couple of teens which resulted in a heart attack.
Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (88xKn)
++++
Eh, he probably has a special-purpose limited "Do Not Resuscitate" order for that scenario.

"What a way to go" and all that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:31 AM (L5WFg)

99 China receives no punishment by the west, for a virus that was intnetionally made to hang around for 10 years.
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:09 AM (BGQYY)

I suppose you could argue that the US, which funded the development of covid in Chynah, HAS been punished... by getting FJB.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 08:31 AM (GYIa4)

100
ULA launch link fixed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 08:32 AM (x0n13)

101 @84

>>for the express purpose of discrediting and targeting the very president they supposedly worked for.

I mean, his first impeachment was essentially because his foreign policy towards Ukraine differed from the State Departments "Inter-Agency Consensus," also military leaders refused to obey his orders in pulling out of Yemen and Afghanistan.

So to the extent Trump had any control over Leviathan, it was minimal at best and non-existent at worst.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:32 AM (XV/Pl)

102 It's also,
National English Toffee Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

103 ... to cover up the fact that he was suffering complications from some as-yet-unidentified elective surgery (if it was indeed elective, that’s a story in itself, as well).

----------

Sex reassignment?

Out: Lloyd.
In: Laqwanda.

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:33 AM (g5tO/)

104 I hope Austin got John Kerry's plastic surgeon. Could be a hoot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 08:33 AM (R4t5M)

105 Apparently Pence was asked by reporter (Tapper, maybe) to rebut Trump's and others' claims that the FBI had any role as instigators on Jan 6. Pence responded that the FBI many times has said that they weren't involved. That's good enough for Mike Pence!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:33 AM (fs1hN)

106 So, we should fart in the tub ?
Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (T4tVD)
******
Another man thing.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (NpAcC)

I suppose you get out of the tub and go outside.....

Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:34 AM (T4tVD)

107 It's also,
National English Toffee Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:33 AM (NpAcC)

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

AKA British Bad Teeth Day.

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:34 AM (g5tO/)

108 I hope Austin got John Kerry's plastic surgeon. Could be a hoot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 08:33 AM (R4t5M)
++++
LOL.

Kerry's rich and I am sure he didn't go to some back-alley plastic surgeon. The surgeon must have just *hated* Kerry.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:34 AM (L5WFg)

109
That Tucker interview is well worth watching.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 08:29 AM

I'm pretty sure Higgins knows about the unmarked buses caught on film in an underground DC garage which would have carried about 200 FIB agents to the event but he never mentioned them. Seems he has quite a few more cards in his deck he's not showing yet.

Still time for a 'whistleblower' in the FIB to come forth and try to save the agency... and his/her own backside.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 08:35 AM (3qE2b)

110 also, your standard bathtub only fits a little person

regular sized people like myself are excluded
it's so size-ist

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:35 AM (geLO8)

111 I suspect the Party wants this chaos and confusion for the time being. The worse things are, the better. They are not going to do the enabling act for Brandon, since he's a doddering old placeholder. That will be for his successor, and the various emergencies his administration is creating will be the pretext for why President-4-Life Newsome (or whomever) needs plenipotentiary power.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2024 08:35 AM (0FoWg)

112 > ... The difference is whether the nominal president agrees with the agenda being run by this "committee" and/or takes their lead.

Trump didn't. *biden can't.
++++
Under Obama, I suspect that there *was* a head man: Valerie Jarett.
_______________
I think that's probably true.

It does beg another question though. Are the elections really legit if the "elected" individual isn't really "in charge?"

Trump tried to weed out some of the rot and look what happened to him. And the country. Maybe someone will eventually succeed, but not in my lifetime.

Point being; the current "election" and "voting" systems are hopelessly corrupted. Using them to effect change seems to be rather ineffective.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)

113 @105

>>That's good enough for Mike Pence!

Basically, if Trump is elected President, there needs to be a team, with access to Trident and Sentinel and given Presidential level Classification to simply run quarries, 24/7/365, to get to the bottom of all of this sh*t.

And just f**king fire EVVVVERYOOOONNNEEAH!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:36 AM (XV/Pl)

114 >I suppose you get out of the tub and go outside.....


put on pants first

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:36 AM (geLO8)

115 99. Touche. Friggin Fauci

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:36 AM (BGQYY)

116 “In a just world,” Cheney wrote, “the January 6th Select Committee investigation, and the criminal prosecutions that have now followed, would be the end of a dark period in our nation’s history.”
___

In a just world Liz Cheney would be prosecuted for the destruction of evidence collected by the Jan6 committee/kangaroo court.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:36 AM (fs1hN)

117 He ended his questioning by telling Wray something to the effect "Your time is coming.". If he really does know what he claims to know and Johnson agrees to let the evidence out that could really change a lot of minds not just about J6 but about who is really running this country.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 08:29 AM (ZLI7S)

#Two Weeks

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 08, 2024 08:36 AM (Angsy)

118 Essentially a kind of Hegelian synthesis of what appear to be dialectical opposites:...

*********

I see somebody got a thesaurus for Christmas!

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 08:36 AM (991eG)

119 Yeah…. Who has an elective procedure on New Year’s Day?? Elective means planned in advance because it’s not absolutely medically required. I’d be willing to bet surgeons don’t do elective procedures on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s… and other major holidays. Just weird.

This crew is so incompetent they can’t even come up with believable lies…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 08:37 AM (KEuti)

120 what's another word for thesaurus ?

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:37 AM (geLO8)

121 Why?

Why did they think they had the right?

-----------

When multiple and serial commies have been committing overt treason daily for eight years now with impunity and zero interest from the same-treasonous MDM-MSM (while patriots and political prisoners are persecuted daily)?

To ask is to have answered ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:38 AM (g5tO/)

122 75. Exactly Chuck. Skeleton crew on any holiday in a hospital

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:38 AM (BGQYY)

123 I see somebody got a thesaurus for Christmas!
Posted by: Muldoon

I thought those were extinct.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 08:38 AM (R4t5M)

124 98 Or he had a New Years Eve party with a couple of teens which resulted in a heart attack.
Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2024 08:30 AM (88xKn)
++++
Eh, he probably has a special-purpose limited "Do Not Resuscitate" order for that scenario.

"What a way to go" and all that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:31 AM (L5WFg)


"I need a love to keep me, er, Happy!"

- - Nelson Rockefeller sings Jagger & Richard

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 08:39 AM (x0n13)

125 Willowing the iPhone that fell 16000 feet, many commenters had at it with incisive, invasive and intrusive remarks. Pretty well worked the subject over.

And nobody mentioned John Cameron Swayze.

We can only infer from this the degree of twenty-ninedness of this new horde. Worst generation ever, all on drugs, talk back to their parents, signed up for the wrong college major, and eat the wrong cereal. We are DOOMED.

Would it have killed you little bastids to just once type in,
"Still ticking"? Ingrates.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2024 08:39 AM (FCs/J)

126 In a just world the Earth would open up and swallow Liz Cheney, much like those blasphemers and idolators in The Ten Commandments

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:39 AM (geLO8)

127 >>I'm pretty sure Higgins knows about the unmarked buses caught on film in an underground DC garage which would have carried about 200 FIB agents to the event but he never mentioned them. Seems he has quite a few more cards in his deck he's not showing yet.

He definitely knows about the buses. He mentioned them in a previous interview and refers to them as "ghost buses" which he claims is a widely used term in in law enforcement to describe vehicles that are unregistered and off the grid.

He asked Wray specifically about the ghost buses during that last hearing and Wray claimed to not know what a ghost bus is let alone had any knowledge of them being used on J6.

I think largely do to his law enforcement background Higgins seems to ask questions very carefully and specifically and it seems he already knows the answer before asking.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)

128 I suppose you get out of the tub and go outside.....
Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:34 AM (T4tVD)
*****
Women don't fart, they vent.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

129 Even though McConnell forced Trump to nominate these deep state shits, Trump fu$%ed up with Wray, Haskell, and Barr..

Sessions was a deer in Headlights, Pence helped win the Rustbelt

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:41 AM (BGQYY)

130 I haven't followed much of the DoJ intrigue, since I've lost interest. "Higgins" is the latest iteration of Steiner, I take it? So a Congressman is gonna save us, this time? That's even sillier than thinking an IG or AG would bring down the regime. That's like Hunter smoking carpet-cheese, but with hopium instead of crack.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2024 08:42 AM (0FoWg)

131 I see somebody got a thesaurus for Christmas!
Posted by: Muldoon

I thought those were extinct.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 08:38 AM (R4t5M)

I have a old paperback Bantam Roget's Thesaurus.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2024 08:42 AM (88xKn)

132 The black pill in me sees this general metastasis of incompetence across every level of society and government, and thinks, "Yup, end stage Cloward Piven". I'm expecting a media propaganda push to lean into it. Everything is horrible. Nothing works. We're all going to die. Trump wants to take advantage and become Dictator. So we're going to become Dictator first. To Save Our Democracy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2024 08:42 AM (leuV0)

133 If you go to the hospital on Jan 1, it isn't for an elective procedure.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:26 AM (fs1hN)

As I read it, he went to the hospital on 1 Jan due to complications arising from a prior elective procedure.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 08:42 AM (GYIa4)

134 In a just world the Earth would open up and swallow Liz Cheney, much like those blasphemers and idolators in The Ten Commandments
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:39 AM (geLO

You trying to kill me!?

Posted by: The Earth at January 08, 2024 08:42 AM (Angsy)

135 @109 - DbZ
Pretty sure I've already seen Mr Higgins bring up those busses but can't remember where. Might be where he gets his conservative baseline of 200 in the Tucker vid.
Gotta get.
Love each other fellow babies

Posted by: Teej at January 08, 2024 08:42 AM (9jZWY)

136 ... It does beg another question though. Are the elections really legit if the "elected" individual isn't really "in charge?" ...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:36 AM (Q4IgG)
++++
Sort of, but less and less each time.

At some point - I am not certain when - we shifted into something akin to a parliamentary system. We aren't really electing a "President," we are electing a "Party Leader." The Party leader - whether it was the person on the ballot (like Bush/Rove) or the person behind that person (like Obama/Jarrett) then moves into the Oval Office and takes over the Party control apparatus. The system is pseudo-representative, in that the people choose the leader, who determines (mostly) what the Party will do.

This fiction can be maintained and it can appear externally stable so long as no outsiders ever get inside. That was what caused things to go off the rails in 2016. The outsider - Trump - thought he was running for President, but he wasn't. He found out the hard way - as did his supporters - that he was running for Party Leader, but was not vetted or approved by the Party. The Party rejected his leadership.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:43 AM (L5WFg)

137 On the one hand, they can’t even tell plausible lies — Incompetence

On the other hand, they steal presidential elections and get away with it — Dangerously competent

This apparent contradiction puzzles me. Maybe the Mannix theory of competing factions is the best explanation. Indeed, I’m sure EVERY faction was onboard with stealing the election so when they’re all pulling the same direction, it will happen. When they’re not…. Chaos

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 08:43 AM (KEuti)

138 I suppose you get out of the tub and go outside.....
Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:34 AM (T4tVD)
*****
Women don't fart, they vent.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

"I did not know that"

Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:44 AM (T4tVD)

139 @130

>>"Higgins" is the latest iteration of Steiner, I take it?

He could go to the well of The House and reveal anything and everything he wants to, with no legal repercussions, but again, that would take real courage, something that is only present in a handful of people.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:44 AM (XV/Pl)

140 Thx JJ, good morning everyone, hope you had a good weekend. Watching Biden disintegrate got me thinking . Exactly how long until he breaks down weeping and Jill has to escort him off stage.? He can still harness rage and bs, but the emotional stability will soon go. Should make for interesting TV

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2024 08:44 AM (Yem6A)

141 I think largely do to his law enforcement background Higgins seems to ask questions very carefully and specifically and it seems he already knows the answer before asking.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 08:40 AM (ZLI7S)
--------------------------

I also noticed Higgins seems to ask questions he already knows the answers to.

...and Wray darn well knew he couldn't say "no" because that would be a lie, hence the way he framed his replies.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 08, 2024 08:44 AM (tT6L1)

142 126. Only reason Liz Cheney, did not get a cabinent job with Biden, is that she actually is pro life. She celebrated after Roe decision.

Only job she could get was working for Larry "The Rug" Sabato at UVA

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:44 AM (BGQYY)

143 "Maybe there is still some underling somewhere with the horse sense to do the right thing had the shit hit the fan despite the fools, retards and maniacs at or near the top of the national command authority."


A smart Pentagon underling may issue orders, but the people next in the chain of command, the commanders of the Unified operational commands (Central Command for example) can legally follow orders only from the Secretary of Defense or his officially designated subordinate, and POTUS.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2024 08:44 AM (5fDan)

144 what's another word for thesaurus ?
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:37 AM (geLO
*******
Synonymictionary.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

145 Until proven otherwise, I'm assuming that Darth Austin decided to bring in the new year by transitioning into the beautiful women he always was but had some... complications.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 08, 2024 08:45 AM (DTX3h)

146 “In a just world,” Cheney wrote, “the January 6th Select Committee investigation, and the criminal prosecutions that have now followed, would be the end of a dark period in our nation’s history.”

“Donald Trump and those who aided him would be scorned and punished,” she added.

I think this biotch has a bug up her ass!
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 08:28 AM (lwOKI)

In a just world, Liz Cheney would emigrate to the UK where she would eventually die disgraced and penniless like a previous American traitor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 08:45 AM (GYIa4)

147 what's another word for thesaurus ?
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:37 AM (geLO
++++
The Big Book of Wordalikes

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:45 AM (L5WFg)

148 I suppose you get out of the tub and go outside.....
Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:34 AM (T4tVD)
*****
Women don't fart, they vent.
Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

So, a ventriloquist has bad breath....

Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:45 AM (T4tVD)

149 132 The black pill in me sees this general metastasis of incompetence across every level of society and government, and thinks, "Yup, end stage Cloward Piven". I'm expecting a media propaganda push to lean into it. Everything is horrible. Nothing works. We're all going to die. Trump wants to take advantage and become Dictator. So we're going to become Dictator first. To Save Our Democracy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 08, 2024 08:42 AM (leuV0)

I believe, that is I fear, that this analysis is accurate. Trump will be assassinated and a lot of people downwind of him arrested.

At that point one of two things happens: we sit and take it OR armed resistance and civil war that precedes a bloodbath.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 08:45 AM (x0n13)

150 We will te;; you what's wrong with Comrade Austin when we are good and ready

Posted by: The Politburo at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (ZV+pB)

151 Tucker had US rep Clay Higgins on this weekend, who confirmed that at least 200 FBI were involved in J6, and not only coordinated it, they were actively trying to entrap people. Funny how that news is suppressed.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (lTGtQ)

152 Friend who donates to Michigan Ann Arbor. Says all the trouble that Harbaugh has had, is due to him being open about his pro life faith

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (BGQYY)

153 Sorry to hear about your wife's illness, Jonah. As to China - why would we expect China to be punished when Fauci, the man who paid for the virus and who put together the team that created it, still walks around as a free, wealthy, and apparently highly respected man here?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (S6gqv)

154 This guy also got a thesaurus for Christmas:

@WarNuse
What This Licentious Odious Flimsy-Spined Pachydermatous Deleterious Rabble-Rouser And His Squalid Ribald Irascible Nonsymmetrical Slightly Masculine Noisome Hausfrau Did While Ungraciously Squatting In The Oval Office Will Be Proven To Be Two Of The Most Destructive U.S. Presidential Terms In History. They Intentionally Weakened And Set America Back Decades, Serving Their "Predominantly" White Masters.


x.com/WarNuse/status/
1744065712728006859

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (mTuD/)

155 @136

>>Sort of, but less and less each time.

This is the best and most concise distillation of what this moment is, this should be permalinked in the sidebar.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (XV/Pl)

156 ... and propel Biden back into the Oval Office for another four years of open borders, skyrocketing inflation, managed decline, and enforced misery ...

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

"Turnkey Totalitarianism."

[h/t Dr. Brett Weinstein]

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (g5tO/)

157 So realistic spending plan:

Debt $34 T 30 year payoff at 150 B/mth
Income 4.9 Trillion
Debt 1.5 Trillion

That leaves 3.4 Trillion for defense and all other programs.
About the size of Big Govt in 2014.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (lwOKI)

158 My kids also thought liposuction, followed by infection...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (exHjb)

159 what's another word for thesaurus ?
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:37 AM

A Stephen Wright fan, I see.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (x0n13)

160 136
This fiction can be maintained and it can appear externally stable so long as no outsiders ever get inside. That was what caused things to go off the rails in 2016. The outsider - Trump - thought he was running for President, but he wasn't. He found out the hard way - as did his supporters - that he was running for Party Leader, but was not vetted or approved by the Party. The Party rejected his leadership.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:43 AM (L5WFg)

Excellent summary of our government.There is a basic misunderstanding, by a lot of people on the Right, of the reality of power in DC. Four years of Trump will not fix DC.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (PCK5/)

161 Snow Day at the Cat Castle. I'm going to use it to wash dishes, win a Science victory as (The Best) Korea, and get some writing typed up. Oh and be supportive of Pooky, since I'm not allowed to snow shovel or do anything "more strenuous than walking."

Posted by: pookysgirl, waiting for another 7 days at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (dtlDP)

162 He could go to the well of The House and reveal anything and everything he wants to, with no legal repercussions, but again, that would take real courage, something that is only present in a handful of people.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:44 AM (XV/Pl)
++++
Assume he does. Assume he is clean enough that he thinks he can survive whatever the IC throws at him (it isn't about legal repercussions, but the intricate web of hate and blackmail that defines Washington). He wades in and lays it bare. What changes, besides the possibility of popular perception? The House is certainly not going to vote to do defund or abolish any of the agencies. Even if it did, the Senate won't, and Biden won't sign it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (L5WFg)

163 Yea, Joe is definitely a shoe in in November.

@NBCNews

The Biden administration is asking Mexico to help curb the huge flow of migrants into the U.S., as Biden runs out of options to fix a problem that is hurting his polling.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (ZLI7S)

164 Got about eight inches of snow Saturday night into Sunday here in mid Hudson. Now tomorrow into Wednesday we're looking at 2-3 inches of rain. Slush, puddles and pot holes. Fun

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2024 08:48 AM (Yem6A)

165 151 Tucker had US rep Clay Higgins on this weekend, who confirmed that at least 200 FBI were involved in J6, and not only coordinated it, they were actively trying to entrap people. Funny how that news is suppressed.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (lTGtQ)

link is above

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 08:48 AM (lwOKI)

166 I hope Austin got John Kerry's plastic surgeon. Could be a hoot.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 08:33 AM (R4t5M)

Austin's new vagina will be to hideous to behold without going instantly blind.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2024 08:48 AM (0FoWg)

167 "... No, not just the rotting, criminal pervert vegetable acting as Obama's front (arguably the #1 national security threat to whatever's left of America) but everyone of their underlings in the most crucial leadership positions running our domestic and foreign policy apparatuses. Then again, you can look at Alejandro Mayorkas and rightly blast him for destroying any notion of border security and sane, rational immigration policy. But is it incompetence or intentional? I'd argue that mere incompetence, while bad enough, is nowhere near as destructive as intentional acts and policies that are ideologically driven..."

Who are we to believe, our lying eyes or Joe?

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at January 08, 2024 08:49 AM (gxokI)

168 149. It is what London did to Scotland, JJ. Same here with D.C and the redstates.

Older voters, the group that votes in lock step, will give up their beliefs the minute their medicare and SS is threatened

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:49 AM (BGQYY)

169 Thx JJ, good morning everyone, hope you had a good weekend. Watching Biden disintegrate got me thinking . Exactly how long until he breaks down weeping and Jill has to escort him off stage.? He can still harness rage and bs, but the emotional stability will soon go. Should make for interesting TV
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2024 08:44 AM (Yem6A)
====
The whispering and shouting from the podium are symptoms of dementia-related emotional lability.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2024 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

170 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2024 08:48 AM (0FoWg)

I'm trying to eat breakfast here.

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2024 08:49 AM (88xKn)

171 163. Good luck Buddy. Big coming to the midwest tuesday. Better buy some cheetos and Milk

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:50 AM (BGQYY)

172 When I was a kid, if I wanted a jacuzzi I had to fart in the tub — Billy Ray Valentine

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 08:50 AM (KEuti)

173 When I saw that part of the side of a brand new 737 blew out in flight, I thought "well how are all those DEI hires working out for you, Boeing?

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2024 08:50 AM (S6gqv)

174 @162

>>Assume he does.

What you say is true, but someone within the structure has to got to find the courage to do something.

We collectively, can do jack squat nothing, but perhaps an elected representative can actually do something for a f**king change, that isn't knob polishing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:50 AM (XV/Pl)

175 > ... It does beg another question though. Are the elections really legit if the "elected" individual isn't really "in charge?" ...
++++
Sort of, but less and less each time.

At some point - I am not certain when - we shifted into something akin to a parliamentary system. We aren't really electing a "President," we are electing a "Party Leader." ...
____________
The appearance of stability has really tumbled lately. While I don't disagree with your assertation that we "elect" the head of a "party" to nominally run things, it does appear there's little difference in the "parties" we're allowed (for now) to choose from.

It's all so... Soviet. By design, I'm sure.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:50 AM (Q4IgG)

176 "How did college football become indistinguishable from professional sports? Gradually, and then suddenly."
___

It might be worse than pro sports. It's as if all the star college players are free agents with one year contracts.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:51 AM (fs1hN)

177 I'm trying to eat breakfast here.
Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2024 08:49 AM (88xKn)
++++
You should know better by now. Do not eat while engaging here unless you have a strong stomach!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:51 AM (L5WFg)

178 168 149. It is what London did to Scotland, JJ. Same here with D.C and the redstates.

Older voters, the group that votes in lock step, will give up their beliefs the minute their medicare and SS is threatened
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:49 AM (BGQYY)

What happens when the entire economy collapses and there is no more Medicare and SS? And it won't be very long until they do. A few years?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 08:51 AM (x0n13)

179 My kids also thought liposuction, followed by infection...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (exHjb)
===
This is the most likely scenario. Could be problem with anesthesia too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 08, 2024 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

180 We collectively, can do jack squat nothing, but perhaps an elected representative can actually do something for a f**king change, that isn't knob polishing.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:50 AM (XV/Pl)
++++
I think it essentially is. It's a show. Is the show worth putting on? I dunno. Maybe. The only potential benefit to such a show is breaking through the wall and reaching some of the more intelligent lo-fos.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:52 AM (L5WFg)

181 I see somebody got a thesaurus for Christmas!
Posted by: Muldoon

I thought those were extinct.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 08:38 AM (R4t5M)

Who needs a thesaurus when you can just spout gibberish and claim it's "your truth".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 08:52 AM (GYIa4)

182 Good morning all you fine people. How 'bout dem Packers, eh?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 08:52 AM (SfhV1)

183 >>Excellent summary of our government.There is a basic misunderstanding, by a lot of people on the Right, of the reality of power in DC. Four years of Trump will not fix DC.

Of course not. Decades of rot and ceding power to the permanent bureaucracy doesn't get fixed in 4 years or even 8. It was always going to be a long process of tearing it apart root and branch.

But the process has at least finally begun. Trump is the overwhelming favorite to win the nomination and is even polling better than Biden right now. Cheney and Kinzinger and their types are either out of government or on their way. Nikki Haley national political director claims to be a Cheney Republican. Let's see how that works out.

We are basically fighting a guerrilla war against the establishment on both sides. Not gonna happen overnight.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

184 Three weeks of eating sweets is finally over today. I will vomit if I see another Xmas cookie

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:53 AM (BGQYY)

185 Hamas is using North Korean-made weapons in Gaza, South Korea confirms
South Korea's intelligence agency confirms report indicating Hamas used North Korean-made F-7 grenade launcher; image shows fuse bearing Korean letters

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 08:53 AM (RHGPo)

186 Piss Poor Planning by the Biden Admin to hold National Bubble Bath Day on a Monday. Everyone knows bath night is on Saturday. Does it being a Leap Year affect this? My Lume still has 24 hours to go, then I slap on my 5 Day Deodorant Pad. Doesn't everyone?

Posted by: Fresh As A Daisy at January 08, 2024 08:53 AM (V5BDR)

187 The sad truth today is that there's not a single cabinet member who has any part in the day to day operations of his department. Most, like Buttiegig, never even bother to show up. Others sign papers that are handed to them without reading them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2024 08:53 AM (S6gqv)

188 183. Jack, first thing Trump could do is a secret ban on nominating Ivy league judges.

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:54 AM (BGQYY)

189 Hiya Grammie !

Happy Elvis's Birthday !

Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:54 AM (T4tVD)

190 176 "How did college football become indistinguishable from professional sports? Gradually, and then suddenly."
___

It might be worse than pro sports. It's as if all the star college players are free agents with one year contracts.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 08, 2024 08:51 AM (fs1hN)

Exactly - it's unwatchable now. Especially when you know your alma mater and state will never pay the fees for the player free agents...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2024 08:55 AM (exHjb)

191 You cultivate the idea that there is a deep state that operates independently and either with or against the elected representatives (even those who came to power through coup) then who is really in charge?

Why is anyone surprised at this?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 08, 2024 08:55 AM (zZu0s)

192 187. Right Tom. Dems used the Covid precedant to their advantage

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:55 AM (BGQYY)

193 Being black or brown isn't enough, just a baseline. They want people they can count on to do the needful.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 08, 2024 08:24 AM (0FoWg)

I say, half in jest, only POC should be allowed in the military and all the flag officers must be trans.

Let's really do this.

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2024 08:55 AM (IFNME)

194 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 08:55 AM (SfhV1)

195 Btw some incredible farmers protests going on in Germany currently, all msm outlets are blocking any reporting on it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2024 08:55 AM (S6gqv)

196 >A Stephen Wright fan, I see.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton



yes
I steal a lot of jokes
Like Solozzo, I'm just not that clever

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 08:55 AM (geLO8)

197 The appearance of stability has really tumbled lately. While I don't disagree with your assertation that we "elect" the head of a "party" to nominally run things, it does appear there's little difference in the "parties" we're allowed (for now) to choose from.

It's all so... Soviet. By design, I'm sure.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 08:50 AM (Q4IgG)
++++
Only one Party. That is why it is capitalized and not pluralized. That convergence kicked into high gear in the early 90s and it's been a one-way trip. There is only one Party. It has two bodies (sort of), but it's one entity. That Party *must* approve of the leadership selected for it by the people. It usually has, because the choice of selections was determined by the Party itself. Trump broke through that structure and fucked everything up and the Party went hog-wild.

Now they don't even have a firm leader. That could change and we could get back to something akin to status quo ante, but I think we've crossed the rubicon. There *will* be a reimposition of actual Party control, but it will likely have nothing to do with an election.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:56 AM (L5WFg)

198
RNC Research
@RNCResearch

Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says Gov. @GregAbbott_TX
is "attacking Democrat-run cities, in particular cities that are being led by black leaders or leaders of color" by sending illegal immigrants to their "sanctuary cities"

http://tinyurl.com/yjz56n4f

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

199 Good morning all you fine people. How 'bout dem Packers, eh?
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 08:52 AM (SfhV1)

Grammie - I believe that expression is properly stated: How ‘bout dem Cowboys!

Speaking of whom, the Packers will now be introduced to those Cowboys this coming weekend. Could be interesting. To copy Dak Prescott: Here we go!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 08:56 AM (KEuti)

200 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger

Posted by: JT at January 08, 2024 08:56 AM (T4tVD)

201 @188

>>Jack, first thing Trump could do is a secret ban on nominating Ivy league judges.

The interesting thing about that Colorado decision to oust Trump off the ballot, the four judges that voted to toss him went to Ivy league schools, the three that voted against tossing him, went to non-Ivy league schools, so yeah, that's a good plan as far as plans go.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 08, 2024 08:56 AM (XV/Pl)

202 183

We are basically fighting a guerrilla war against the establishment on both sides. Not gonna happen overnight.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 08:53 AM (ZLI7S)

Yes. Adopting a “ Long March” mindset instead of the Quick Fix attitude is what will be necessary if the Right has honest intentions of changing the course of events.

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 08:56 AM (PCK5/)

203 As Mark Steyn says,”The Feast of the Insurrection” is a holy day of obligation that shall be celebrated each year without fail.

Posted by: Steynbot 2024 at January 08, 2024 08:56 AM (Eqssc)

204 Older voters, the group that votes in lock step, will give up their beliefs the minute their medicare and SS is threatened
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:49 AM (BGQYY)

Yes! Hopefully the handouts like social security and medicare will go belly up and I will get these old moochers off their wrinkled asses and back to work at Arby's for minimum wage. I want to see "retirement" retired.

Hahahahaha...

Posted by: Dick Cheney, Mastermind On Viagra at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (Edu7X)

205 What happens when the entire economy collapses and there is no more Medicare and SS? And it won't be very long until they do. A few years?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 08:51 AM (x0n13)

The large majority of older voters/government teet voters always believe "their" money will show. So, even if the economy collapses, they think they'll still be paid...so they don't care if it does...it's why Gen X is most conservative (no payouts yet) and not 65+...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (exHjb)

206 "When I asked Christopher Wray that question, I already knew the answer. We have evidence."
==================

And yet, Wray lies to his face and there is no accountability, not for the FBI entrapment on Jan 6, not for the cold-blooded murder of Ashli Babbitt, and not for the ongoing lies Wray tells each and every time he appears before a Congressional committee.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (HHij9)

207 Morning JJ. Thanks again. Wife has Covid. Coming close to 4 years since the Wuhan outbreak, and the Sh%$ is still hanging in the air. China receives no punishment by the west, for a virus that was intnetionally made to hang around for 10 years. Her Covid symptons are not to bad, but she can only get about 3 hours of sleep at night.
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:09 AM (BGQYY)

It's flu season, for Pete's sake. Happens every year.

COVID is a type of flu, engineered as it may be, but why are you blaming China? Who was it that started engineering this virus? Not China. Look closer to home

Hope your wife feels better soon.

Posted by: BonnieBlue is tired of the lies at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (TvRFE)

208 Speaking of whom, the Packers will now be introduced to those Cowboys this coming weekend. Could be interesting. To copy Dak Prescott: Here we go!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 08:56 AM (KEuti)


You betcha!

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (SfhV1)

209 182 Good morning all you fine people. How 'bout dem Packers, eh?

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 08:52 AM (SfhV1)

Yay!

Posted by: Gref, a Packers fan since 1966 when I lived in far western Wisconsin a while at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (5fDan)

210 178. Great point JJ. Seniors would have to go to gubmint clinics, I guess

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (BGQYY)

211 Austin didn't go to the hospital on Jan. 1 for the elective surgery. That was done on Dec. 22 and he went home on the 23rd. He ran into issues on Jan. 1 and they took him by ambulance to Walter Reed on Jan. 1.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (DBrN4)

212 >>>Israel Eliminates Two Hamas Terror Commanders Responsible for Be’eri Massacre on October 7...

Hanson, in his last podcast, said Israel has a list of 10 to 15 of the organizers and implementers of the Oct7 massacre and are in the process of eliminating each one. - suggesting that it may take a little longer to take care of those sequestered in Qatar.
(I thought Qatar told them to leave)

Posted by: Braenyard at January 08, 2024 08:58 AM (csTMM)

213 In the dark is Biden's steady state.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 08, 2024 08:58 AM (n2Iei)

214 My guess is the factor that will decide this election is if enough people across the political spectrum have had enough of getting kicked in the teeth and the wallet while the world is set to go up in flames, to show up in enough numbers to beat the cheat, especially in the swing states.

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The Trump and MAGA Motto (saying) -- and more importantly, actual Strategy (doing) -- this year should be "Beat The Cheat" (although all the instrumentalities of the totalitarian traitors will be employed to make it nearly impossible -- up to and including them simply cancelling national elections ... because who's gonna stop them?).

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 08:58 AM (g5tO/)

215 Congrats on The Pack, Grammie. That win finally helps us get rid of the Jack in the Box QB, Justin Fields

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:58 AM (BGQYY)

216 ow 'bout dem Packers, eh?
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 08:52 AM (SfhV1)

Who?

Posted by: MAC V SOG at January 08, 2024 08:58 AM (P4Pk9)

217
I'm new to Twitter/X but does anyone know if they strip exif data from photographs posted?

I've read that Facebook does and can confirm that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 08:58 AM (3qE2b)

218 "Joe Biden Certainly Knows How to Wield His "Power" – To Transform the Country for the Worse"

The globalists must feel the new world order will be (build back) Better ... for Them. Commoners won't be allowed to travel and clog Their Beaches and Their Resorts. The hoi polloi will be reduced to an obedient servant class.

But it seems unlikely to really work out that way, especially as that working class becomes Islamist with their own ideas of how to run the world. "We" should probably stop the globalists and the Islamists from enacting their nightmarish visions of control.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 08, 2024 08:59 AM (Cus5s)

219 I found that Tucker interview with Clay Higgins interesting but Clay has a weird style of speaking, it kept putting me to sleep. It took so long to drag out what he wanted to say, I was like dude WTF.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 08:59 AM (DBrN4)

220 Dak is a bust.

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 09:00 AM (BGQYY)

221 I like this.


The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Scandal As Chris Christie Mentioned Over 50 Times In Unsealed Sizzler Documents https://buff.ly/3RREpK2

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 08, 2024 09:00 AM (zZu0s)

222 Trump should ask one person before nominating judges to appeals courts or Scotus.

Clarence Thomas.

Forget Leonard Leo and legal committees. Just ask the one man who has proven trustworthy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 09:00 AM (HHij9)

223 I'm guessing Austin had Lap-band surgery or gastric bypass surgery.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 08, 2024 09:01 AM (NpAcC)

224 What is this NFL? Is it a new dance craze or something?

Posted by: dantesed at January 08, 2024 09:01 AM (88xKn)

225 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 08, 2024 08:46 AM (mTuD/)

Who are they describing as pachydermatous? I've never
seen pachyderm used in that way.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 09:01 AM (RSbhh)

226 Conservatives did a great job of exposing Blackrock and Larry Fink on DEI. They worked in the shadows for years, but DeSantis and his people took him down, when eliminating their FL pension business

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (BGQYY)

227 The House is certainly not going to vote to do defund or abolish any of the agencies. Even if it did, the Senate won't, and Biden won't sign it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 08:47 AM (L5WFg)

That is the cowardice of the House. They could vote to defund/abolish and it wouldn't matter what the Senate/Biden did... not in the short term anyway. As long as the House does not fold, which it always does, that agency is "effectively" abolished. Assuming, of course, that the uniparty doesn't give up on pretenses and keep it around without official, legal funding.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (GYIa4)

228 Ravens will win the Super Bowl.

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (geLO8)

229 >>Why did they think they had the right?
That’s the really interesting lesson in this story, isn’t it?


These are the same Pentagon leaders who lied to Trump about his order to pull out of Afghanistan, right? They didn't do it but kept telling him they were.

Also the same military that made it clear, in public, that they would not follow any order from Trump to stop the BLM assault on DC, nor help on January 6.

I find this Austen business incredibly NOT surprising.
As with most (all?) other federal departments, they have gone rogue.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (NKqpy)

230 Hey!

They're stealing my Child Uterus Natal Tube idea!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (2yu8s)

231 Congrats on The Pack, Grammie. That win finally helps us get rid of the Jack in the Box QB, Justin Fields

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:58 AM (BGQYY)


He really is just not very good.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (SfhV1)

232 Honestly, with the whole Austin thing, I WOULD normally be indifferent that they didn't tell the public, because who really gives a rats ass as long as there's people who know in govt. what's going on.

but since they managed to screw THAT up as well, i'll let the press hang them from the nearest lamppost...

Posted by: SturmToddler at January 08, 2024 09:03 AM (bving)

233 Clay Higgins is from Loozyanna. That "weird style of speech" is what they do there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 08, 2024 09:03 AM (S6gqv)

234 And yet, Wray lies to his face and there is no accountability, not for the FBI entrapment on Jan 6, not for the cold-blooded murder of Ashli Babbitt, and not for the ongoing lies Wray tells each and every time he appears before a Congressional committee.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 08:57 AM (HHij9)

What are you talking about? Wray has had to oversee the introduction of several new mandatory training modules to the annual requirement.

If that's not accountability, I don't know what is.

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2024 09:03 AM (IFNME)

235 Ravens will win the Super Bowl.
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (geLO

We'll see.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 09:03 AM (MtjlB)

236 222. Agree. We need to get rid of the stench of Roberts and Harvard

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 09:03 AM (BGQYY)

237 Lamar Jackson is a bigger bust than Dak. Bills and 49ers

Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (BGQYY)

238
What kind of parents name their kid Dak?

* Does a quick search *

Ah, I see it's short for "Rayne Dakota" and he's from Louisiana. Yeah, I think I'd go with Dak, too ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (g5tO/)

239 What happens when the entire economy collapses and there is no more Medicare and SS? And it won't be very long until they do. A few years?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 08:51 AM (x0n13)
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Social Security will get worse with time, but it's manageable right now as it isn't too far underwater as compared to its dedicated funding source. Moving the retirement age up by a couple of years for people in their 40s or below and adding half a point to the FICA tax will probably take care of it. That will be a political headache and will breed some resentment, but it's salvageable.

Medicare isn't. It is the billion-ton gorilla in the federal budget and its dedicated tax is laughably tiny. It cannot be fixed. When Medicare breaks the budget - and it will, within a few years - it will require different solutions. My bet right now is on nationalization of the entire medical industry. The easiest way to contain costs is to impose rationing and radically increase funding. Nationalizing the whole mess will let them try to do so. Sell the gigantic new taxes as a "lateral move" because you no longer pay premiums and then ratchet down access.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (L5WFg)

240 not in the short term anyway. As long as the House does not fold, which it always does, that agency is "effectively" abolished. Assuming, of course, that the uniparty doesn't give up on pretenses and keep it around without official, legal funding.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (GYIa4)

100 Uniparty Rs in the House...hard to not fold...Johnson getting anything is already another win from Kevin...he's got fewer real Rs than Uniparty Rs, and then all the Ds...his willingness to expose them is probably why he's getting any concessions...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (exHjb)

241 Since the NFL season ended , the Commanders and Falcons have fired their coaches, the Panthers fired their GM and Giants have fired special teams and on-line coaches. Black Monday is already a train wreck

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (Yem6A)

242 Dak is a bust.
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 09:00 AM (BGQYY)

He’s actually been very good this year. I expect the Cowboys to make the NFC Championship… where they’ll probably lose to the 49ers… but not certain. They might surprise and actually represent the NFC in the SB

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (KEuti)

243 Xi did this to root out widespread corruption and graft within his ranks that had greatly weakened China’s military, U.S. intelligence believes, according to people with close knowledge on the matter who spoke to Bloomberg."

Wish he would work his magic here.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (lwOKI)

244 Good morning, JJ, Horde. You know the new year has kicked in when you finally box up those heirloom Kwanzaa decorations.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (JcnCJ)

245 237 Lamar Jackson is a bigger bust than Dak. Bills and 49ers
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (BGQYY)

Allen is a turnover machine.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (MtjlB)

246 129 Pence got Trump the evangelical vote. Needing to be placated because they're too stupid to see what's needed. So stick in some lilly white pretending to be Christian and they all go gaagaa because Trump said Pussy and they can't have that. They are half the problem.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (DBrN4)

247 I'm new to Twitter/X but does anyone know if they strip exif data from photographs posted?

I've read that Facebook does and can confirm that.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 08:58 AM (3qE2b)
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I don't know, but you should pre-strip any and all metadata before posting any image. Just because Facebook "strips" it so it doesn't get published doesn't mean that Facebook isn't keeping it for its own purposes and attaching it to your dossier.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (L5WFg)

248 Older voters, the group that votes in lock step, will give up their beliefs the minute their medicare and SS is threatened
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:49 AM (BGQYY)

In "Band of Brothers", Lt. Spiers says (paraphrasing), "once you accept that you're already dead, you can do what you need to do."

Once seasoned citizens accept that SS is going away, they can do what they need to do.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (GYIa4)

249 Anti-Semitic Slurs Yelled at Jewish Players Cause Cancelation of Girls' High School Basketball Game in Yonkers, NY
______

Many decades ago a Jewish friend pointed out to me that the places where, in the past, the worst pogroms occurred, had to have been, long before that, friendly to Jews. Otherwise there would not have been so many there.

Is that pattern being repeated in New York? Hate to see it.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2024 09:06 AM (1bNHn)

250 237 Lamar Jackson is a bigger bust than Dak. Bills and 49ers
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (BGQYY)

Bills took too many injuries last night (as did Miami) - if Lamar stays healthy, it will be the Ravens...

Don't ask me about the NFC, though - that could end up as anyone, especially if CMC actually got hurt in week 17, and not just "banged up"...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2024 09:06 AM (exHjb)

251 I find this Austen business incredibly NOT surprising.
As with most (all?) other federal departments, they have gone rogue.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (NKqpy)
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So the military is no longer under civilian control regardless of the party in the White House. Or they are not reporting to the civilians that they are suppose to report to in the official chain of command.

This won't end well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2024 09:06 AM (BpYfr)

252 What will happen to Bill Belichick

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 09:06 AM (geLO8)

253 I believe Austin went in on Jan-1 due to complications from elective surgery he had prior.

Elective surgery was not the reason he was admitted on Jan-1.

At least what I understand to have read

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 08, 2024 09:07 AM (FxH7T)

254 The easiest way to contain costs is to impose rationing and radically increase funding. Nationalizing the whole mess will let them try to do so. Sell the gigantic new taxes as a "lateral move" because you no longer pay premiums and then ratchet down access.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (L5WFg)

Medicaid is a monster on the states. As Fed shift 50% to the state. Medicaid will be cranked down first.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 09:07 AM (lwOKI)

255 >>Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says Gov. @GregAbbott_TX
is "attacking Democrat-run cities, in particular cities that are being led by black leaders or leaders of color" by sending illegal immigrants to their "sanctuary cities"


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THE GUY WHO'S CONVINCED THIS HAPPENING TO HIM BECAUSE OF HIS RACE IS MAD AT HAVING MORE BROWN PEOPLE DELIVERED TO HIS CITY.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 08, 2024 09:08 AM (NKqpy)

256 Pence got Trump the evangelical vote. Needing to be placated because they're too stupid to see what's needed. So stick in some lilly white pretending to be Christian and they all go gaagaa because Trump said Pussy and they can't have that. They are half the problem.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (DBrN4)


I was shaky on Trump until he picked Pence, then I felt I pretty good about giving Trump my support. I was too stupid to see what was needed and am half the problem.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 09:08 AM (SfhV1)

257 ... Assuming, of course, that the uniparty doesn't give up on pretenses and keep it around without official, legal funding.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (GYIa4)
++++
I have long thought that this is one of the reasons - perhaps the primary reason - that Congress has never tried to crack the whip and defund or abolish an agency.

What if they did it and the agency refused? The only thing worse than being *assumed* to be powerless and pointless would be to have it publicly and irrefutably confirmed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:08 AM (L5WFg)

258 My plan is to live forever. So far, so good.

Posted by: Also Stephen Wright at January 08, 2024 09:08 AM (NBVIP)

259 The Steelers bat .500 against Lamar. If they get past the Bill's, I like their chances at Baltimore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 09:08 AM (MtjlB)

260 Many decades ago a Jewish friend pointed out to me that the places where, in the past, the worst pogroms occurred, had to have been, long before that, friendly to Jews. Otherwise there would not have been so many there.

Is that pattern being repeated in New York? Hate to see it.
____

It's a shame really, but since I have all the correct opinions, I will be spared from the pogrom.

Posted by: Leftist Tribe Member at January 08, 2024 09:09 AM (fs1hN)

261 Ravens will win the Super Bowl.
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (geLO(8uzBS)

They do look like the dominant team of the playoff field. Certainly better all around than the 2000 and 2012 teams that won championships. Not that I care as much as I used to, but it is exciting for people around here in central MD with them playing as well as they have. I'll be watching and wanting them to win - albeit with tepid interest.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2024 09:09 AM (+cH+C)

262 You know I have to wonder what is wrong with us as Republicans. I mean we are self selecting and more politically aware than most, and we have been bamboozled by a whole host of severe conservatives. We were big on George W Bush, John Bolton, Dick Cheney, General Mattis, Chris Christie...the list goes on.

What is going on?

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2024 09:09 AM (IFNME)

263 I have long thought that this is one of the reasons - perhaps the primary reason - that Congress has never tried to crack the whip and defund or abolish an agency.

What if they did it and the agency refused? The only thing worse than being *assumed* to be powerless and pointless would be to have it publicly and irrefutably confirmed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:08 AM (L5WFg)
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That may be the very reason why Congress has never tried it. What happens if they shut down an agency and the people in it refuse to leave?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 08, 2024 09:09 AM (BpYfr)

264 Abbott's response to Johnson should be "we're sending you people of color". Watch the idiot Johnson try to think up a response.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2024 09:09 AM (Yem6A)

265 Medicaid is a monster on the states. As Fed shift 50% to the state. Medicaid will be cranked down first.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 08, 2024 09:07 AM (lwOKI)
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I suspect it will be simultaneous when they nationalize the medical system. Everything gets dumped into Medicare, with huge new taxes on individuals and new state-to-federal tax transfers (the old Medicaid budget, plus add-ons) to fund it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:10 AM (L5WFg)

266 You know I have to wonder what is wrong with us as Republicans. I mean we are self selecting and more politically aware than most, and we have been bamboozled by a whole host of severe conservatives. We were big on George W Bush, John Bolton, Dick Cheney, General Mattis, Chris Christie...the list goes on.

What is going on?
Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2024 09:09 AM (IFNME)

They're good liars?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 08, 2024 09:11 AM (Angsy)

267
Medicare isn't. It is the billion-ton gorilla in the federal budget and its dedicated tax is laughably tiny.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM

That tiny tax is only part of it. What my wife and I have to pay to Medicare every year out of our Social Security proceeds - after half a century of both of us paying the tax, is about 10% of our annual income. One of the largest items in our retirement budget.

People who work and pay into the system are not the problem with Medicare. It was designed for honest hardworking people who are becoming an endangered species in America 2.0

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 09:11 AM (3qE2b)

268 What will happen to Bill Belichick
Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 09:06 AM (geLO

He is going to be my silent partner in a string of Rub N Tug Massage Parlors and Chinese Healing Centers I plan on opening this spring.

Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Bob Kraft, NFL Owner Who Likes The Yellow at January 08, 2024 09:11 AM (Edu7X)

269 How 'bout them Washington four-and-thirteen-skins?

Posted by: Daniel Snyderstein at January 08, 2024 09:11 AM (NBVIP)

270 That's too bad.

@TheNatPulse

Mehdi Hasan, Who Called Non-Muslims 'Animals', Out at MSNBC.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 09:11 AM (ZLI7S)

271 Given our politician's penchant for avoiding personal responsibility for anything that goes wrong, I'd be looking at who is bailing from their cushy FedGov jobs between now and shortly after the "election."

An exodus from FedGov by congressional maggots would be a tell that things are about to get really bad.

McCarthy's resignation wasn't just a mean girl hissy fit. It was. But there's more to it than that. He's a shining example of someone who loathes to take responsibility for his decisions and actions.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 09:12 AM (Q4IgG)

272 >>“This issue is not just about what they did to the president of Harvard University. It’s about the use [of her] as a scapegoat to fight DEI,” Sharpton said. “We would not have to have DEI if we wouldn’t have D-E-N-Y. We were denied. DEI was to make up for the denial historically of Blacks, of women, of gays, Latinos, and Asians.”


So. . . DEI is reparations?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:13 AM (NKqpy)

273 As Mark Steyn points out, the left maintains a monopoly on political violence, enforced by the DOJ and local police.

Byrd, who never warned an unarmed Ashli Babbitt, killed her in cold blood. Antifa, who destroyed cities all over America, and killed many, goes completely unpunished. Heck, they've repeatedly sued law enforcement and been PAID.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 09:13 AM (CbIog)

274 "Many decades ago a Jewish friend pointed out to me that the places where, in the past, the worst pogroms occurred, had to have been, long before that, friendly to Jews. Otherwise there would not have been so many there.

Is that pattern being repeated in New York? Hate to see it."

Since the Diaspora, every place the Jews went after they were kicked out were not exactly friendly to them. It was lather rinse repeat from Spain, to England, to every other country the arrived. Second class citizenship, restrictions on what they could do and where they could live (hence "ghettos" in Italy) etc. etc.

One wonders why they were allowed to live anywhere at all. By the time the Nazis came to power, it went from "You are not allowed to live among us" to "You are not allowed to LIVE."

And here we are today . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 09:13 AM (x0n13)

275 I suspect it will be simultaneous when they nationalize the medical system. Everything gets dumped into Medicare, with huge new taxes on individuals and new state-to-federal tax transfers (the old Medicaid budget, plus add-ons) to fund it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:10 AM (L5WFg)

What day of the week is it when everyone is required to go out at 6 pm to clap for the NHS?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 09:13 AM (GYIa4)

276 >I'll be watching and wanting them to win - albeit with tepid interest.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2024 09:09 AM


Nowadays I watch the sport, more than any one team. I just like to watch football played at a high level. I grew up in Montgomery County, so I was raised on the Redskins. Dad sometimes got tickets, got to see Sonny Jurgensen play.

Posted by: Don Black at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (geLO8)

277 So Pro Football is okay again?? Just asking, I must have missed a memo or something….

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

278 270 That's too bad.

@TheNatPulse

Mehdi Hasan, Who Called Non-Muslims 'Animals', Out at MSNBC.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 09:11 AM (ZLI7S)


Got it in the links. ;-)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (x0n13)

279 Not buying "elective surgery" on Jan 1. Not one bit.

It was major emergency surgery.

He stroked, or had a heart attack, or ruptured appendicitis... something of that nature.

Because if it was just a minor thing they would say "He had a colonoscopy and had a unforeseen reaction to the anesthesia"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (lu1XB)

280 People who work and pay into the system are not the problem with Medicare. It was designed for honest hardworking people who are becoming an endangered species in America 2.0
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 09:11 AM (3qE2b)
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Medicare was never adequately funded, not even at the beginning, and the program was never designed to be self-sustaining from a cost standpoint. Medicare is one of the worst-designed federal programs in history and it never had any way to succeed long-term. It has been beaten down further by the general corruption and out-of-control costs generated by our insane broader medical system and the ever-present corruption and incompetence of every government program, but it was never workable long-term at its tax level. Not at the beginning and certainly not now.

Social Security sort of was. It's a Ponzi scheme, but it was designed to survive. There's a reason that Social Security can be fixed with some tweaks but Medicare can't be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (L5WFg)

281
I was shaky on Trump until he picked Pence, then I felt I pretty good about giving Trump my support. I was too stupid to see what was needed and am half the problem.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 09:08 AM

Seems to me I recall you had something to say about Paul Ryan too. 'Real deal' iirc.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 09:15 AM (3qE2b)

282 Like I tell all I know. The enemy of America, is white liberal voters. Upscale white women who do not care about crime and bankrupticies, just friggin abortion
Posted by: Jonah at January 08, 2024 08:11 AM (BGQYY)

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Isn't it absolutely amazing that decades since reliable contraceptives were invented and yet these smart women still can't get the hang of using them. If they were as smart as they think they are they would not need abortions. Come to think of it, nobody needs abortions, they want it.

Posted by: Decaf at January 08, 2024 09:15 AM (3JfbU)

283 What day of the week is it when everyone is required to go out at 6 pm to clap for the NHS?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 09:13 AM (GYIa4)
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Every day, of course.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:15 AM (Zp1WF)

284 Seems to me I recall you had something to say about Paul Ryan too. 'Real deal' iirc.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 09:15 AM (3qE2b)


Yep. That were me.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at January 08, 2024 09:16 AM (SfhV1)

285 Has anyone in the administration tried to cite HIPAA for the secrecy surrounding Austin's hospitalization?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 09:16 AM (991eG)

286 So. . . DEI is reparations?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:13 AM (NKqpy)

EVERYTHING is reparations, colonizer.

Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM (IFNME)

287 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 6h
NOW - Vulcan rocket with lunar lander lifts off for the first U.S. landing on the moon since the final Apollo mission 1972.

http://tinyurl.com/ysbmhp7t
35 seconds; 🖖

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM (2yu8s)

288 So Pro Football is okay again?? Just asking, I must have missed a memo or something….
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

It's OK if you want it to be OK. If not, that's fine. Personal freedom of choice is a wonderful thing.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM (+cH+C)

289 Many decades ago a Jewish friend pointed out to me that the places where, in the past, the worst pogroms occurred, had to have been, long before that, friendly to Jews. Otherwise there would not have been so many there.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 08, 2024 09:13 AM (x0n13)

I suppose an interesting question would be, why does every place where Jews congregate eventually want to kill them?

I don't know that I've ever lived anywhere with an especially large Jewish population so I don't understand it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM (GYIa4)

290 And had Ashli not entered the Capitol. Or climbed the stairs. Or stood in front of the broken window. Or climbed through the window. She would be alive today.

Or she is alive and her death was a false flag op.

Depending on what you believe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM (lu1XB)

291 Austin went in for "elective surgery" in December. I'm betting he's now a "she." The "emergency" was related to that.

It would somehow be fitting for 2024.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 08, 2024 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

292 Good morning everyone Thank you J.J.

Verse for the Day:

"Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?” But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him; and lo, a voice from heaven, saying, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

–Matthew 3:13-17

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2024 09:18 AM (QG3cQ)

293 288 So Pro Football is okay again?? Just asking, I must have missed a memo or something….
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

It's OK if you want it to be OK. If not, that's fine. Personal freedom of choice is a wonderful thing.
Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM (+cH+C)

Can’t disagree with the philosophy….

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:18 AM (PCK5/)

294
There's a reason that Social Security can be fixed with some tweaks but Medicare can't be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (L5WFg)

Disregarding SS and focusing on Medicare, there are insurance companies who are figuring out how to take the money the government and the payers provide and make a profit with Medicare Advantage plans. Almost as if the government *maybe* isn't quite so good at running the program but free enterprise is. Surprising?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 09:18 AM (3qE2b)

295 Amazing. We can almost do the thing we did 52 years ago.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 09:19 AM (lu1XB)

296 . DEI was to make up for the denial historically of Blacks, of women, of gays, Latinos, and Asians.”

So, Sharpton is all on board with supporting Asians, huh? I guess the grift prospects must be ever expanded, as if most Asian Americans would think he's really interested in them/sarc. He's like the black version of the mostly lily white folks at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 09:19 AM (RSbhh)

297 @284 don't despair grammie. The GOPe controls a lot of the mechanics to get on the ballot. It's getting so bad that even the GOPe will have to start coming around (hopefully)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2024 09:19 AM (Yem6A)

298 I've been away a few hours. Have you all seen the most priceless meme so far of 2024? and I mean priceless:

http://tinyurl.com/pw9y9h2w

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2024 09:19 AM (PODEE)

299 The NFL still hates you and wants you dead.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 09:20 AM (lu1XB)

300 The very attributes that Obummer and his ilk require for upper level positions would, in King Tonypete world, be disqualifying factors.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2024 09:20 AM (QG3cQ)

301 BNO News @BNONews 9h
Cockpit voice recorder of Alaska Airlines Epstein Air flight was mistakenly overwritten because no one turned it off, NTSB says: 'There's nothing on it'

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 09:21 AM (2yu8s)

302 293 288 So Pro Football is okay again?? Just asking, I must have missed a memo or something….
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

It's OK if you want it to be OK. If not, that's fine. Personal freedom of choice is a wonderful thing.
Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM (+cH+C)

Can’t disagree with the philosophy….
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:18 AM (PCK5/)

I would add that individualism when adhered to in a very stringent manner makes it difficult to form a monolithic front to oppose, well, anything, really..

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:21 AM (PCK5/)

303 >>McCarthy's resignation wasn't just a mean girl hissy fit. It was. But there's more to it than that. He's a shining example of someone who loathes to take responsibility for his decisions and actions.


McCarthy's flounce - leaving office early because he was challenged - so reminds me of the kids who would take their ball and go home if they were being beaten or you didn't want to play by their rules.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:22 AM (NKqpy)

304 I used to be a Nikki Haley fanboi but ace of all people convinced me that was bad. He pointed out that her first reaction to Leftist criticism was to quail to their position. She might later come around to making a strong conservative stance but her first reaction is to cede turf to the Left.

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2024 09:22 AM (IFNME)

305 >>BNO News @BNONews 9h
Cockpit voice recorder of Alaska Airlines flight was mistakenly overwritten because no one turned it off, NTSB says: 'There's nothing on it'


Sure, sure, I totally believe that.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:23 AM (NKqpy)

306 129 Pence got Trump the evangelical vote. Needing to be placated because they're too stupid to see what's needed. So stick in some lilly white pretending to be Christian and they all go gaagaa because Trump said Pussy and they can't have that. They are half the problem.
Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 09:05 AM (DBrN4)

This is oversimplified. Most evangelicals don’t care whatsoever about Trump’s playboy past or his pussy comment. I should know — I am one and my dad’s been a Baptist pastor for almost 60 years. Every evangelical I know is an enthusiastic Trump supporter and have been since 2016. I’d go farther and say we’re now leery of pols trying to suck up to us with religious messages (think W or Pence)…. We’ve been burned. We’re not prudes…. We even find some amusement occasionally in Trump’s crudity….. I was in Iowa in 88 so I could’ve caucused for Pat Robertson. I was never interested. I voted for Jack Kemp in that caucus because I saw him as a Reagan heir apparent. He never caught on….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 09:23 AM (KEuti)

307
Or she is alive and her death was a false flag op.

Depending on what you believe.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM

I've watched the Jayden video quite a few times. It was edited by someone to NOT show who broke the window that Ashli broke through. A cop was standing a few feet away from her seconds before that window got broken. EDIT HERE. Then he was gone. Almost as if a signal was given.

It she were ever to be found on some desert island with Epstein and even Elvis I would hardly be shocked.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 08, 2024 09:23 AM (3qE2b)

308 It's OK if you want it to be OK. If not, that's fine. Personal freedom of choice is a wonderful thing.
Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2024 09:17 AM (+cH+C)

Can’t disagree with the philosophy….
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:18 AM (PCK5/)

Yes we can!

Posted by: The Left at January 08, 2024 09:23 AM (IFNME)

309
I would add that individualism when adhered to in a very stringent manner makes it difficult to form a monolithic front to oppose, well, anything, really..
Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:21 AM (PCK5/)

Right - that's why we focus on Disney (theatrical especially) and AB(Bud Light especially) - pick a few targets and hurt them. Don't pick everything, b/c you can't hit them all when everything wants you dead...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (exHjb)

310 >>>My bet right now is on nationalization of the entire medical industry. ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (L5WFg)
----------------------

The Methodist System is preeminent at the Texas Medical System, the largest in the world, and the first to mandate Covid shots, masks and shutdowns. - Mary Tally Bowden is now on the way to the Supreme Court. - She may be the Joan of Arc in medical care.
https://is.gd/u8Zfzc

maloneinstitute.org/blog/
healthcare-is-turning-texas-blue

Posted by: Braenyard at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (csTMM)

311 Saddest Canadian protest: People out for a family skate harassed endlessly by antisemites recreating 1933 Berlin.

https://shorturl.at/doBS0

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (HHij9)

312 240 not in the short term anyway. As long as the House does not fold, which it always does, that agency is "effectively" abolished. Assuming, of course, that the uniparty doesn't give up on pretenses and keep it around without official, legal funding.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 08, 2024 09:02 AM (GYIa4)

100 Uniparty Rs in the House...hard to not fold...Johnson getting anything is already another win from Kevin...he's got fewer real Rs than Uniparty Rs, and then all the Ds...his willingness to expose them is probably why he's getting any concessions...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 08, 2024 09:04 AM (exHjb)


This is a POTUS election year. Mike Johnson will not shut down FedGov. Not willingly. The Dems know this.

Posted by: Gref at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (5fDan)

313 >>Have you all seen the most priceless meme so far of 2024? and I mean priceless:

http://tinyurl.com/pw9y9h2w




Banger

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (NKqpy)

314
What is it with Puerto Rico? Austin's deputy Kathleen was there last week filling in for him with a "full range of secure communication and control" for a defsec while Jennifer Granholm has been there so much she should be eligible for residency.

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (j4U/Z)

315 Texas Medical Center

Posted by: Braenyard at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (csTMM)

316 The NFL will regret the day they went into bed with gambling. When that is, who knows? But, that day will come.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (R4t5M)

317 @274 JJ do you think it could have something to do with leftists and leftist Jews living in proximity? History shows that leftism becomes very anti semitic as comes into power (Soviet Union). My area the mid Hudson has a large Jewish population and has grown increasingly leftist. We've had a couple of large people Hamas rallies including trying to push in our leftist congressman's office doors.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2024 09:25 AM (Yem6A)

318 I can't believe that dude bought the Commancheros for $6 BILLION DOLLARS. They'll always suck

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 08, 2024 09:25 AM (ZV+pB)

319 @EndWokeness

BREAKING: Blackrock will be laying off 600 employees, mostly from the ESG division.

ESG global investments collapsed by $5 trillion in just 2 years.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

320 Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (NKqpy)
================
perfect

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024 09:25 AM (HHij9)

321 Amazing. We can almost do the thing we did 52 years ago.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

********

Graduate high school?
Lose our virginity?
Get our driver's license?

Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 09:26 AM (991eG)

322 Has anyone in the administration tried to cite HIPAA for the secrecy surrounding Austin's hospitalization?
Posted by: Muldoon at January 08, 2024 09:16 AM (991eG)
++++
Does HIPAA apply to Dod?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:26 AM (Zp1WF)

323 ESG global investments collapsed by $5 trillion in just 2 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

Good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 09:26 AM (R4t5M)

324 Just a friendly reminder that the traditional lunch for Elvis Day is peanut butter and banana sammiches. For those heathens among you who don't celebrate Elvis Day, what the heck is your problem?

https://youtu.be/1jFklrR1-YA?si=JWr4tQz0vIFZxJ_3

Posted by: tankdemon at January 08, 2024 09:26 AM (k9sFg)

325 >>>I was shaky on Trump until he picked Pence, then I felt I pretty good about giving Trump my support. I was too stupid to see what was needed and am half the problem.

Posted by: grammie winger
-------------------

None of us, including Trump, realized the breadth and depth of corruption in DC.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 08, 2024 09:26 AM (csTMM)

326 @317 correction "pro - Hamas"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 08, 2024 09:27 AM (Yem6A)

327 Is Jimmy Carter still alive?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2024 09:27 AM (P6iYF)

328 Austin went in for "elective surgery" in December. I'm betting he's now a "she." The "emergency" was related to that.
++++
Take a walk on the wild side.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 08, 2024 09:27 AM (dr4Q1)

329 256 Grammie, I totally get it, but I just face plant when evangelicals worry about silly crap like Trump's "personality" or the cringey things he says and would even consider voting democrat because of it. I am not overly religious, grew up Baptist, but I am a realist. Trump wasn't my favorite, Cruz was but when he lost the primary I was all on board. Seeing what Pence has become led me to believe he was never what he claimed to be in the first place. Trump was the man for that time and I believe he is now as well.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 09:27 AM (DBrN4)

330 Mehdi Hasan, Who Called Non-Muslims 'Animals', Out at MSNBC.
Posted by: JackStraw

Is this the same guy who got his show flushed and was going to be a "special guest" for other MSNBC shows?

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 08, 2024 09:28 AM (FxH7T)

331 The NFL will regret the day they went into bed with gambling. When that is, who knows? But, that day will come.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 09:24 AM (R4t5M)

All pro sports will. As will college football and basketball.

Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2024 09:28 AM (+cH+C)

332 @EndWokeness
BREAKING: Blackrock will be laying off 600 employees, mostly from the ESG division.

ESG global investments collapsed by $5 trillion in just 2 years.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)
++++
LOL. Probably just some cost rationalization within the division.

Look for more of these headlines, but for little to change. ESG and DEI are unpopular and so they're going to quit talking about it so much. They're not going to quit doing it and demanding it, but they'll stop talking about it and unload some of the dead weight in those divisions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:28 AM (Zp1WF)

333 Is Jimmy Carter still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma

You can ask him when he gets back from Triathlon training.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 09:28 AM (R4t5M)

334 Linus Van Pelt of course decisions are multivariable but I don't think it is an oversimplification to say that Pence was placed on the 2016 ticket to steady support from religious conservatives.

Let's not forget that Cruz scored some points by calling out Trump's New York values. A solid Midwestern governor who had been a conservative talk show host and was an outspoken Christian helped hold down that wing of the electorate.


I mean no one in 2016 thought Trump was running on overturning Roe v Wade.

Posted by: The Left at January 08, 2024 09:28 AM (IFNME)

335 None of us, including Trump, realized the breadth and depth of corruption in DC.
Posted by: Braenyard

Every one of PDJT's accomplishments pale in comparison to him exposing the above.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 08, 2024 09:28 AM (QG3cQ)

336 Elective surgery 3 days before the kickoff of the Holiday Season… I am sceptical….

Posted by: tubal at January 08, 2024 09:29 AM (PCK5/)

337 Now that we know the depth of corruption in DC, we still expect this to be a normal election year and electing republicans will fix everything.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 08, 2024 09:29 AM (lu1XB)

338 Is Jimmy Carter still alive?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2024 09:27 AM (P6iYF)

Ummmmm....Soon. Very. Soon.

Posted by: Death at January 08, 2024 09:29 AM (Edu7X)

339 http://tinyurl.com/pw9y9h2w

Very good. Has the meme maker been arrested yet?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 09:29 AM (RSbhh)

340 All pro sports will. As will college football and basketball.
Posted by: Doof at January 08, 2024 09:28 AM (+cH+C)

Yep. Someone always gets greedy and bold.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 08, 2024 09:29 AM (R4t5M)

341 311 Saddest Canadian protest: People out for a family skate harassed endlessly by antisemites recreating 1933 Berlin.

https://shorturl.at/doBS0
Posted by: Huck Follywood
=====
Even worse -- that was our Chinese, commie mayor's New Year's skating party [called a Levée] that was interrupted.


The Post Millennial
@TPostMillennial
16h
As anti-Israel protestors disrupt her skating party, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow tells them “I do agree. You’ve seen my message about ceasefire right…?”

As they keep shouting, she says "What you’re seeing is democracy in action, and it’s… interesting."

http://tinyurl.com/cnk5bjr2
60 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 08, 2024 09:29 AM (2yu8s)

342 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at January 08, 2024 09:30 AM (fwDg9)

343 Off no longer appropriate sock

Posted by: blaster at January 08, 2024 09:31 AM (IFNME)

344 Darth Lloyd being MIA is a major issue. Like Lil Kim had invaded South Korea during this time...

It would have made the command cock-ups during Pearl Harbor seem small potatoes.

Maybe our global adversaries forbade attacking for fear of finding someone competent in charge. I am pretty sure they all knew he was in the hospital.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 08, 2024 09:31 AM (P6iYF)

345 >>Look for more of these headlines, but for little to change. ESG and DEI are unpopular and so they're going to quit talking about it so much. They're not going to quit doing it and demanding it, but they'll stop talking about it and unload some of the dead weight in those divisions.


They are quitting doing it. There have been a number of stories over the last few weeks about the cutting of DEI jobs.

Dead weight happens when things don't work and DEI/ESG most definitely don't work.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 09:31 AM (ZLI7S)

346 Noodus gratia artis

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 08, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

347 http://tinyurl.com/pw9y9h2w

Very good. Has the meme maker been arrested yet?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 09:29 AM (RSbhh)
-

They're trying to stamp him out post haste. We are licked!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2024 09:32 AM (PODEE)

348 >>> They're not going to quit doing it and demanding it, but they'll stop talking about it and unload some of the dead weight in those divisions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
-----------------

They didn't dismantle it they changed the names.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 08, 2024 09:32 AM (csTMM)

349 Jonah - the Covid-19 virus reproduces in the nasal mucosa inside the nostrils. Have your wife swab the inside of her nose with Iodine or Betadine. A doctor tipped me to this. I had a friend try this. He said "This is unpleasant" 20 minutes later he said "Wow, that really worked". A doctor tipped me off on this.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 08, 2024 09:32 AM (CecP5)

350
WOW! Kneeler Matthew Stafford returns to Detroit to face the revenge of Jared Goff who the Rams disrespected and basically gave away!

Waste next weekend with the NFL watching race-swapped commercials and referee mistakes while drinking Bud Light with Payton Manning!

Posted by: Auspex at January 08, 2024 09:33 AM (j4U/Z)

351 They are quitting doing it. There have been a number of stories over the last few weeks about the cutting of DEI jobs.

Dead weight happens when things don't work and DEI/ESG most definitely don't work.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 09:31 AM (ZLI7S)
++++
They are not quitting doing it. Not yet. It might get there (and the weakening economy and increasing costs of money are key downside risks for MOAR ESG and DEI), but it isn't now.

They just know its unpopular and aren't talking about it as much, and there is - as you said - gigantic amounts of dead weight in those divisions, so they can make cuts while blaming outside conditions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 08, 2024 09:33 AM (Zp1WF)

352 306 Linus, then why did Trump feel the need to HAVE to have Mike Pence on the ticket? That was all that was talked about at the time. Yes, I know it's over simplified, but sometimes it's just that simple. I was raised Baptist and my boss is evangelical, we both love Trump, but obviously there are plenty of people out there who were religious that found Trump distasteful that he felt he needed the great white hope on the ticket.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 09:35 AM (DBrN4)

353 Didn’t know it at the time but the CFP format and now the expansion to 12 teams next year is the death knell of college football. The bowl games this year were disastrous and the kerfuffle over undefeated FSU not being selected left a bad taste. Plus Michigan will probably win tonight and that’ll be tainted by the “cheating” allegations and Harbaugh is off to the NFL….

The NCAA did it with the transfer portal and NIL in 2023 — Clue epitaph

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 09:35 AM (KEuti)

354 Do you now understand who has run our government since Nixon?

Side note: Julie Kelly and Liz Sheld had Jacob 'Shaman' Chansley on their "Happy Hour" podcast and it is a must listen. He confirms that the Stasi(Capitol Police not exposed to FOIA) started the fracas or melee know as the 'riot'.

Further, here is the real reason why the melee was started:

http://tinyurl.com/5n92tcu4

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 08, 2024 09:35 AM (klw0w)

355 >>They are not quitting doing it. Not yet. It might get there (and the weakening economy and increasing costs of money are key downside risks for MOAR ESG and DEI), but it isn't now.

This is from last July. DEI has been going on for a very long time. It's unpopular now because many people are just starting to realize it exists and it does not work.

>>How corporate America is slashing DEI workers amid backlash to diversity programs
DEI officers say they've faced cuts in the years since George Floyd's murder.

http://tinyurl.com/yvp4krp4

Posted by: JackStraw at January 08, 2024 09:36 AM (ZLI7S)

356 >>Cheney wasn’t removed from her number three perch in House leadership and eventually the lower chamber altogether just because she picked a fight with the former president. It was how she picked the fight. Cheney dropped her responsibilities to constituents to lead the Democrats’ partisan crusade exploiting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot to tar political dissidents and capitalize on the stardom that comes with anti-Trump punditry.


This assumes Cheney ever represented Wyoming's citizens. If you review Cheney's CV you see that she has been in and out of government jobs in DC for her career. She raised her family in NoVA. She was a carpetbagger as much as Hillary when she moved to NY to get elected to the Senate.

Understanding her career trajectory, who she's worked for and partnered with over the years, her behavior is completely understandable. The WY people were never on her radar - why would they have been?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:37 AM (NKqpy)

357 None of us, including Trump, realized the breadth and depth of corruption in DC.
Posted by: Braenyard

Every one of PDJT's accomplishments pale in comparison to him exposing the above.

Posted by: Tonypete 
---
Compare to the campaign of all the other Republicans--including DeSantis who was there as a Representative-- what in their platforms indicates they see that corruption?

Or, to put it another way, how many are running as if the Presidency of Trump never happened and we're in just a normal, usual election year?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 08, 2024 09:38 AM (TzW+Y)

358 @201 The University of Virginia is not a member of the Ivy League.

If you're going to play Ivy League Twister, you kind of have to know what the Ivy League is. Otherwise you just look stupid.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2024 09:39 AM (FCs/J)

359 Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 09:35 AM (DBrN4)

You’re right; the time Pence helped some evangelicals be comfortable with Trump. I was speaking about current day: at this point I’d guess there are hardly any evangelicals who want that kind of assurance now. Personally I’d rather have gay Ric Grennell as VP than another Pence…. and I really believe all the hellfire and brimstone stuff and think homosexuality is a sin…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 08, 2024 09:40 AM (KEuti)

360 President Trump's greatest accomplishment was denying Hillary the white house.

Viva La Trump!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 08, 2024 09:40 AM (Edu7X)

361 OMG Linus, I so agree with you on Ric Grennell. He is smart and I've said that in other blogs that Ric Grennell should be his VP if he'll take the job. Screw this picking a woman because she sits down to pee crap.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 08, 2024 09:41 AM (DBrN4)

362 The Immediacy of the PRC Threat: The Change from Land Power to Maritime Power
_____

Maybe, but I doubt it. It's been tried, and doesn't work. Well, maybe the Romans succeeded. But the French tried several times, and it never took. Nor for the Russians, or the Germans. I'm not completely sold on Lambert's Seapower States thesis - he excludes too many*, for instance - but there is SOMETHING there.

*Including the US. He ignores that it was precisely as a maritime power that were were seen early on.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 08, 2024 09:42 AM (1bNHn)

363 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2024 09:32 AM (PODEE

if they arrest him, they won't be sticking to the law.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 09:43 AM (RSbhh)

364 “Trump began his 2024 campaign by glorifying the failed violent insurrectionist—insurrection at our—on our Capitol. The guy who claims law and order sows lawlessness and disorder,” Mr. Biden said. “Trump is now promising a full-scale campaign of ‘revenge’ and ‘retribution’—his words—for some years to come. They were his words, not mine.”

This is Mr. Biden’s theme because he believes it, and he doesn’t have much else to run on. The public doesn’t buy his boasts about the benefits of Bidenomics. Disorder is spreading around the world, chaos prevails at the U.S.-Mexico border, and even most Democrats think he’s too old to run again. With an approval rating near 40%, he has no choice other than to make the election about the other guy. Scaring the country about MAGA and abortion is all he’s got.

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 09:43 AM (RHGPo)

365 >>>>How corporate America is slashing DEI workers amid backlash to diversity programs
DEI officers say they've faced cuts in the years since George Floyd's murder.



I'm going to make a wild-a$$ guess that corporate America is cutting back thanks to Biden's economy, and the DEI jobs that exploded during 2020 were the easiest to cut. Last in, first out. Easy to virtue signal when BLM demands it, easier still to walk away when it's no longer useful. Whatever, on to the next management fad!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 08, 2024 09:43 AM (NKqpy)

366 who has run our government since Nixon

Kennedy's cabinet were referred to as "New Deal retreads."
You might do better to say "since FDR."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2024 09:43 AM (FCs/J)

367 if they arrest him, they won't be sticking to the law.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 09:43 AM (RSbhh)
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This tyranny needs to be addressed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 08, 2024 09:47 AM (PODEE)

368
This tyranny needs to be addressed.

Stamp it out!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 08, 2024 09:54 AM (RSbhh)

369 Good morning. Thanks, J.J.

Military.com "The US wanted out of the Middle East. 'The Middle East Had Other Ideas." Within the article, (but) the Middle East has jumped as a priority for Americans in the last year.
Operation Prosperity Guardian to protect the Red Sea is not gelling for defensive operations as the U.S. had hoped? Today, Tasnim News Agency reports: "Iraqi Islamic Resistance Strkes Israeli, US Targets in Solidarity with Gaza Palestinians." Seems more plausible Austin has had a breakdown - or that's what vaguely floats out here - as the US slips away from the region without glaring headlines confirming. After all, 'they,' including our Potato, know but there's no alarm. In fact, the Potato is on the way to S.C. to try to stir up more 'Make America Great Again' h8tred.

Ali M? ABC News, July 2013, "Meet the Cuban Immigrant Who Could Run Homeland Security" BP#2: Soon after news broke that Mayorkas could become the deputy secretary of DHS, the AP reported the IG office is reportedly examining how a company run by Hillary Clinton's brother was able to secure a visa for investors, even after an application was denied and an appeal was rejected.

We forget.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear. They only have to outrun us - for now at January 08, 2024 10:00 AM (GshMh)

370 Honky call!

why does every place where Jews congregate eventually want to kill them?

You will never hear anyone but a wannabe Bundt member say this. It is a sure marker, every time. Fits in at Instapundit.

"Pizza screams" may be a ruddy catholic schoolboy joke.
"Kill the Jews" gets actual real Nazis giving you stink-eye.
It may be time for someone to get yet another nic.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 08, 2024 10:15 AM (FCs/J)

371
The White House, Briefing Room, Statements & Releases, December 27, 2023: Statement from National Security Advisor Sullivan Welcoming Appointment of Sigrid Kaag as UN Senior Humanitarian and Reconstruction Coordinator for Gaza

(Side note of possible interest: Husband served as a deputy minister under Yasser Arafat in the 1990s and as the Palestinian representative to Switzerland.)
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You're clear Lloyd. Beat it.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear. They only have to outrun us - for now at January 08, 2024 10:33 AM (GshMh)

372 “As we begin 2024, with an election coming, a war still ongoing, and too many Trump trials honestly to even keep track of, and with this show going away, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to look for a new challenge,” Hasan said. “Tonight is not just my final episode of the Mehdi Hasan Show, it’s my last day with MSNBC. Yes, I’ve decided to leave.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 08, 2024 11:15 AM (RHGPo)

373 Possibility of Steelers at Baltimore playoff-wise?

Good grief, that ought to be a game to watch.

Posted by: pawn at January 08, 2024 11:21 AM (QB+5g)

374 “Because that day, we nearly lost America.”

I'm sure it's indelible, indelible in the hippocampus of the Lao Dong Dem Cong because of what might have happened had January 6 been an actual insurrection: Christmas in Bucharest.

Who hath ears, let that one use a Q-Tip.

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Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 08, 2024

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He's vocally anti-Trump, so his ticket gets punched regardless.

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