Retired General: Lloyd Austin Went AWOL and Deserted His Post. Fire Him.

But-but-but -- he's a Very Private Man! We can't expect a Very Private Man who Values His Privacy to remain at his post until relieved!

That's racist!

Ed Morrissey:

Kenneth Israel has had enough of the apologists at the White House and elsewhere trying to defend the indefensible. In an essay today at The Messenger, the retired major general blasts those spin efforts to hide what everyone can plainly see happened at the Department of Defense.
Lloyd Austin went AWOL, regardless of his personal desire for privacy or the illness for which Austin was being treated. Everything else is just "crazy excuses" for abandoning a post, Israel declares...
Furthermore, Israel concludes, Austin's selfish actions in pursuit of "privacy" contradicts everything drilled into the men and women who serve under him in uniform. Any one of those would be punished for quitting a post without proper relief. What kind of signal does it send when their penultimate civilian commander decides to simply disappear out of a concern for his pride?

I abandoned my sentry post because I wanted to be alone with my thoughts for a few days. I'm a Private Man. How dare you question me disappearing without leave for a long weekend!!!

More at the link, including excerpts from Israel's post.

At RedState, Andrew Malcolm writes that Austin needs to go.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who presides over 1.4 million U.S. military volunteers, left his Pentagon post without notice or authorization and kept his absence a secret for almost a week. That's called AWOL, even if you're in charge.
...
Colleagues describe the veteran as an intensely private person.
Sorry, you give up privacy when you take on an appointed job that's high up in the chain of presidential succession, leading the men and women volunteers who comprise our national defense.
How's he going to prosecute the next Bowe Bergdahl who leaves his guard post without notice and his fellow troops vulnerable?
He can't.
...
The event and its bungled handling also create a widening array of difficulties for an administration that's already acquired a convincing reputation for incompetence.
...
Word at the moment is that Joe Biden is not considering seeking Austin's resignation. Biden hates facing up to such confrontations, so he won't. And the world sees this weakness in someone supposed to be commander in chief.

Senator Tommy Tuberville: Austin lectured me about military readiness.

Then he went AWOL.

Tuberville said, "It's outrageous that the head of the largest military in history has been hospitalized for a week and he didn't tell anybody. You know what that tells me? There's no respect for Joe Biden being the President of the United States. Somebody was told, I promise you that, but they didn't tell Biden because he's the Rodney Dangerfield of being President, no respect. This puts us in danger. Thank God our enemies didn't take advantage of it. These people just spent months lecturing me about acting officials, these promotions I've been holding for abortion. They've been telling me Sen. Tuberville's holding back on military readiness, and we have an AWOL Secretary of Defense that doesn't tell anybody. ... At the end of the day, this is Joe Biden's responsibility. He should have been fired."

The Very Private Secretary of Defense needs to Seek Further Opportunities in the Very Private Sector.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:25 PM

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Posted by: A dude in MI at January 11, 2024 03:25 PM (/6GbT)

2 He is protected by Black Democratium.

Posted by: rd at January 11, 2024 03:26 PM (mDTS7)

3 AWOL is big shit... unless you ARE the big shit.

Posted by: MkY at January 11, 2024 03:26 PM (TSnGz)

4 Retired General: Lloyd Austin Went AWOL and Deserted His Post. Fire Him. From a Cannon. Into the Sun.

FIFY.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 11, 2024 03:27 PM (Wnv9h)

5 It's okay because Biden brought peace and respect to the world stage.

There's no real need for a Secretary of Defense in times like this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

6 The DOD Secretary is not part of the military. He is supposed to be the head of the civilian oversight of the military.

He is also a key member of the National Security team in charge of the Nuclear Weapons Release Protocol.

Posted by: rd at January 11, 2024 03:28 PM (mDTS7)

7 At least Rodney was funny.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 11, 2024 03:28 PM (63Dwl)

8 Court Martial him

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 11, 2024 03:28 PM (CIS44)

9 > The Very Private Secretary of Defense needs to Seek Further Opportunities in the Very Private Sector.

Only after a dishonorable discharge. That way he has no second amendment rights and loses his security clearance.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 11, 2024 03:28 PM (Odg76)

10 Technically, he wasn't AWOL, because he left his Darth Vader mask next to the phone

Posted by: Joe kidtoucher at January 11, 2024 03:28 PM (W+TLY)

11 " ... These people just spent months lecturing me about acting officials, these promotions I've been holding for abortion. They've been telling me Sen. Tuberville's holding back on military readiness, and we have an AWOL Secretary of Defense that doesn't tell anybody. ... At the end of the day, this is Joe Biden's responsibility. He should have been fired."
++++
This is part of the thrill. They get off on it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 11, 2024 03:29 PM (Zp1WF)

12 Not holding my breath.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:29 PM (bhRsz)

13 Who?

Posted by: Joe Biden, confused and demented, but happy! at January 11, 2024 03:29 PM (bpapH)

14 But's he's Historic(TM) you racists!!

Posted by: The MSM at January 11, 2024 03:29 PM (PiwSw)

15 I abandoned my sentry post because I wanted to be alone with my thoughts for a few days. I'm a Private Man. How dare you question me disappearing without leave for a long weekend!!!
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If only it was just that. Just that would be bad enough, but the reality is far worse. He didn't take off to go party at the lake without notice, he took off to undergo surgery and general anesthesia and didn't notify anyone. Neither did his team.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (Zp1WF)

16 but they didn't tell Biden because he's the Rodney Dangerfield of being President, no respect.

at least Rodney was in a couple funny movies, which is more that I can say for the pResident.

Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (eEq+b)

17 Firing him for being AWOL seems mighty racist. Must be some of those White-Supremacists Lloyd Austin was warning us all about. He can't leave now or the Racists win.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (evaxF)

18

The Very Private Secretary of Defense in a very special Tuesday afternoon Special on ABC.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (63Dwl)

19 I understand the going rate for an AWOL grunt is to release 5 high-value terrorists.

So long as they pinker swear not to go back to terrorism.

So how many terrorists are going to be released from Gitmo now?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (PFILT)

20 He's been made an Honorary Warrant Officer.

Posted by: Darth Cobalt Shiva, Sith Lord In Residence at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (4OUQ9)

21
Willowed

Is there any state more corrupt than New Jersey? Apart from Maryland. And Illinois. And New York.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (MoZTd)

22 Imma wait right here until Joe Biden fires someone for incompetence...

*taps foot*

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (k6uu5)

23 But then who's going to save us during WW3?

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (v0R5T)

24 If you're missing from your post for 4 days and nobody notices you can be assured you're just a diversity hire.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (evaxF)

25 at least Rodney was in a couple funny movies, which is more that I can say for the pResident.
Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM (eEq+b)

Didn't molest his daughter in the shower, either.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (bhRsz)

26 Honestly, both Austin and his deputy BOTH need to go. He went AWOL. Then, she refused to come back to the US to assume command when he did, staying on vacation and thus, being effectively AWOL.

But, it won't happen unless Dems start demanding it...and I've only seen one so far, but the ball can start rolling...maybe...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (exHjb)

27 Just how old is this austin guy? I was just reading the post from yesterday about the Gen Z boys and girls bringing their parents to job interviews and the like. Is Austin autistic or something?

Not looking to excuse him.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (J2vNu)

28
Claudine Gay and plagiarism, Lloyd Austin and unexcused absence... When are people going to realize it's the elites vs the normies?

Well, we morons realize it, but everyone else?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (Uf+q7)

29 Alerting your superiors about git whereabouts is a sign of white supremacy.
- Military DEI Training later this year

Posted by: Montec at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (qXnqR)

30 Austin goes missing.
Cruelty ensues.

Posted by: torabora at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (OUiUM)

31 Why, he is destroying the military very well

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (fwDg9)

32 Didn't just put us in danger, it put the entire world in danger. Anyone think Xi or Putin didn't know?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (ZLI7S)

33 "If you're missing from your post for 4 days and nobody notices you can be assured you're just a diversity hire."

Or a Warrant Officer. I'm sure he left his coffee cup at his desk.

Posted by: Darth Cobalt Shiva, Sith Lord In Residence at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (4OUQ9)

34 He's been made an Honorary Warrant Officer.

Warrant Officer would have left a spare patrol cap on the desk.

"He has to be here somewhere..."

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (k6uu5)

35 At least Pete Buttigay's pecker still works. Make him SECDEF.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (jrKun)

36 I have trouble referring to an adult at "Tommy." It's even worse with "Tommy Tuberville". That seems like if should be followed with: by Mattel.

Tommy Tuberville....by Mattel. It fits regardless of his political leanings.

Posted by: Orson at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (dIske)

37 27 Just how old is this austin guy? I was just reading the post from yesterday about the Gen Z boys and girls bringing their parents to job interviews and the like. Is Austin autistic or something?

Not looking to excuse him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (J2vNu)

70...which is why he's unlikely to fully recover, now 11 days in the hospital and counting from his complications...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (exHjb)

38 When you fire Austin? Fire every fucking member of his personal staff. They are just as responsible as he is to keep the President and the military informed about the Secretary's medical crises.

Austin was obviously not fit for his duties, and they must let the Defense Department Leadership and President know.

Posted by: rd at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (O+Wqc)

39 Is there any state more corrupt than New Jersey? Apart from Maryland. And Illinois. And New York.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 11, 2024

***
I'm insulted you left me out!

Posted by: Louis-i-ana at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (J2vNu)

40 CW4 keeps a spare car in the parking lot...

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (k6uu5)

41 Very Private Sector?.....more like very private retirement!

Posted by: Soyboy Blue at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (zosAJ)

42 If only it was just that. Just that would be bad enough, but the reality is far worse. He didn't take off to go party at the lake without notice, he took off to undergo surgery and general anesthesia and didn't notify anyone. Neither did his team.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) a

And even worse, didnt tell anyone when he had complications and had to be gone for days. The surgery was one day.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 11, 2024 03:33 PM (CIS44)

43 Or a Warrant Officer. I'm sure he left his coffee cup at his desk.
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Let's not start talking about Senior Chiefs and donuts. Mmmkay?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 11, 2024 03:33 PM (jrKun)

44 But-but-but -- he's a Very Private Man! We can't expect a Very Private Man who Values His Privacy to remain at his post until relieved!
_____

Well, strip his rank down to Private then. Win-win.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 11, 2024 03:33 PM (fs1hN)

45 Claudine Gay and plagiarism, Lloyd Austin and unexcused absence... When are people going to realize it's the elites vs the normies?

Well, we morons realize it, but everyone else?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (Uf+q7)

I keep beating the same drum though. These people, the ones we ridicule and see as lousy human beings... they're not in charge. This is patently obvious.

If you killed off every executive in this country, just took a hammer and sliced through the entire class of people, the organizations would continue to function exactly as is.

They'll put another head up there, and you can slice that one off too. It doesn't matter. They're not in charge.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:33 PM (QBaJw)

46 I keep hearing rumors from Ukraine way that he was wounded in Kiev by a missile rom the ones that don't hit there because of air defense.

I don't credit those at all though.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:33 PM (eoQWY)

47 The Very Private Secretary of Defense needs to Seek Further Opportunities in the Very Private Sector.
++++
He'll get 'em. No question.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (Zp1WF)

48 21
Willowed

Is there any state more corrupt than New Jersey? Apart from Maryland. And Illinois. And New York.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 11, 2024 03:30 PM
****
What am I? Chopped liver?
There isn't ONE statewide selected office here

Posted by: California at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (OUiUM)

49 Austin needs to be court-martialed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (9yWhg)

50 And Austin doesn't say a damn thing at meetings either? What is this guy mute AND intensely private? Gees.

Posted by: The thrill is gone baby at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (eheVn)

51 Claudine Gay and plagiarism, Lloyd Austin and unexcused absence... When are people going to realize it's the elites vs the normies?

Well, we morons realize it, but everyone else?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 11, 2024

***
Every time I think these clowns have at last hit bottom . . .

. . . I hear the sound of heavy digging equipment.

Posted by: Louis-i-ana at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (J2vNu)

52 The Very Private Secretary of Defense needs to Seek Further Opportunities in the Very Private Sector.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:25 PM

The government already IS the private sector. Chew on that one.

Posted by: JCG at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (FDc5h)

53 Anyone else notice that no doctor has been identified in any of the reports?

CNN reports say "Doctors say. . . " but there is no specific doctor identified as the doctor responsible for Austin's treatment.

Usually, the attending doctor releases a state with his NAME for attribution, and the specialty that the doctor has.

In this case, no doctor has been mentioned nor has a specialty.

The specialty would tell us about the true nature of Austin's injury or illness.

We have not gotten that.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (lf83v)

54 At least this Austin idiot didn't go AWOL to consort with the Taliban . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

55 I'm glad there is a new thread, because I could have done a lot of posts mocking a gender reversed modern day version of the story of Jesus and Judas set in Southern California-and I would prefer not to be on the most frequent poster this this week.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 03:35 PM (Ki//m)

56 At least Pete Buttigay's pecker still works. Make him SECDEF.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (jrKun)
.......

From potholes to foxholes, an easy transition.

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:35 PM (v0R5T)

57 Word at the moment is that Joe Biden is not considering seeking Austin's resignation. Biden hates facing up to such confrontations, so he won't. And the world sees this weakness in someone supposed to be commander in chief.

==========

Biden doesn't have to face anything. Demand a resignation, or fire him. You don't have to discuss it.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:35 PM (eoQWY)

58 Mighty Racist to demand a black man show up on time for work...or at all.

Posted by: Claudine Gay at January 11, 2024 03:35 PM (evaxF)

59 They'll put another head up there, and you can slice that one off too. It doesn't matter. They're not in charge.
Posted by: BurtTC at Januar

HAIL HYDRA!

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 11, 2024 03:36 PM (CIS44)

60 Most of the Biden administration is AWOL. The Uniparty/Deep State rules, the bureaucrats not the names on the doorplate.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 11, 2024 03:36 PM (xcxpd)

61 The Very Private Secretary of Defense needs to Seek Further Opportunities in the Very Private Sector.
++++
He'll get 'em. No question.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (Zp1WF)
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Yep. Book deals, lecture circuit, various board appointments, television appearances...

He's going to be VERY well-compensated when he finally leaves office.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 03:36 PM (7fElN)

62 The specialty would tell us about the true nature of Austin's injury or illness.

Oh, that came out. Prostate cancer, followed by infection.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 11, 2024 03:36 PM (k6uu5)

63 Every world leader already knows that no public face is running the show here, not Uncle diddle fingers, not Pete buttjizz, not La-loyd Austin. This was more of a pulling the curtain back, oh no the rubes, sort of problem.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 03:37 PM (bSSoQ)

64 Saying he went AWOL is a stretch. What it is, is incompetence with his staff for failing to make the proper notifications.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 11, 2024 03:37 PM (A6o4K)

65 When Trump gets elected he needs to send Austin a pistol with one bullet in it.

Posted by: torabora at January 11, 2024 03:37 PM (OUiUM)

66 The PENULTIMATE military commander just up and disappeared? Hold your breath, fellas, cuz I have some even worse news for you.

Posted by: Wally at January 11, 2024 03:37 PM (hqVaF)

67 HAIL HYDRA!
Posted by: BruceWayne at January 11, 2024

***
Those johnny-come-latelies! They learned everything they know from us.

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at January 11, 2024 03:37 PM (J2vNu)

68 57 Word at the moment is that Joe Biden is not considering seeking Austin's resignation. Biden hates facing up to such confrontations, so he won't. And the world sees this weakness in someone supposed to be commander in chief.

==========

Biden doesn't have to face anything. Demand a resignation, or fire him. You don't have to discuss it.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:35 PM (eoQWY)

=========

"Joe Biden is the best president in my lifetime. He's taking time to seriously consider his options and whether he can lose someone like Lloyd Austin, one of our best Secretaries of Defense especially considering how seriously he takes covid and climate change as issues facing our world, in a time of such upheaval caused by Trump's chaotic presidency. I'm so happy we have a contemplative and sincerely honest president like Biden in the White House now. I'm sure Trump would have nuked the Pentagon by this point."
-DU, 100% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

69 I'm glad there is a new thread, because I could have done a lot of posts mocking a gender reversed modern day version of the story of Jesus and Judas set in Southern California-and I would prefer not to be on the most frequent poster this this week.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 03:35 PM (Ki//m)

......forget it. Don't want to know.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (bhRsz)

70 And Austin doesn't say a damn thing at meetings either? What is this guy mute AND intensely private? Gees.
Posted by: The thrill is gone baby at January 11, 2024 03:34 PM (eheVn)
.......

Only mildly retarded.

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (v0R5T)

71 Oh, that came out. Prostate cancer, followed by infection.
___________

That came from the Pentagon, not the attending physician.

I don't trust the Pentagon spokesman.

At all.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (lf83v)

72 Just how old is this austin guy? I was just reading the post from yesterday about the Gen Z boys and girls bringing their parents to job interviews and the like. Is Austin autistic or something?

Not looking to excuse him.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 03:31 PM (J2vNu)

If that happens, should you just hire mom/dad? or pass on all of them?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (eoQWY)

73 At least this Austin idiot didn't go AWOL to consort with the Taliban . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade
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I'll have you know that a Federal judge vacated my dishonorable discharge from the US Army. So, STFU.

Posted by: Bowe Bergdahl at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (XeU6L)

74 Expecting a black man to always be present and ready to work is just like slavery you know.

Posted by: Ripley at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (JojsZ)

75 I'm sure Trump would have nuked the Pentagon by this point."
-DU, 100% probability
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:37 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm not sure if I have a problem with that at this point...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (7fElN)

76 Admiral Borda killed himself for less than this.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (jrKun)

77 The AP actually has a good write up of all the people who knew Jan 2/3 (who are not Biden) who now need to be fired...

Jan 2: "Austin’s senior staff, including chief of staff Kelly Magsamen, his senior military assistant, Lt. Gen. Ron Clark, the assistant defense secretary for public affairs, Chris Meagher, and Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, say they are informed of Austin’s hospitalization. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown is also told. None of those officials notifies the White House, National Security Council or Hicks. Austin remains in the intensive care unit."

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (exHjb)

78 Mighty Racist to demand a black man show up on time for work...or at all.

Posted by: Claudine Gay at January 11, 2024 03:35 PM (evaxF)
****
It's called 'Indian time' where I'm from.

Posted by: torabora at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (OUiUM)

79 Jody Jody hear the call.

Our SecDef has gone AWOL.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (LaNzR)

80 Slice him like a hammer!

Posted by: Paul Anka at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (eheVn)

81 Why not replace him with Admiral Levine?

Just as qualified as this turd.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (PFILT)

82 Austin deserted his post for days if not weeks ... and barely anyone even noticed he was gone. That goes to show how useless and worthless all these fancy-sounding titles are, at least in today's world.

And this guy is the Defense Secretary during a time when half the world is at war or a smoldering powder keg. And still nobody noticed he was gone.

It's one thing for a fake, phony, anal-discharge position like Pete Bootyjuice's "Transportation Secretary" to fly under the radar. But Defense Secretary? During a time of at least two major wars?

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

83 And...if he resigns or is fired, he'll have a cushy spot on the board of Lockheed Martin or Raytheon or wherever by the end of the week. That's how it works.

Posted by: Stu-22 at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (Mdp30)

84 forget it. Don't want to know.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (bhRsz)

if you do want to know, after all, it's at the end of the previous thread, It's an actual Martin Scorcese film which is planned

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (Ki//m)

85 He's been made an Honorary Warrant Officer.
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Warrant Officer would have left a spare patrol cap on the desk.

"He has to be here somewhere..."
Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 11, 2024 03:32 PM (k6uu5)

True story, back in the day, while on guard duty, some folks had left some deuce and a half trucks near the entrance to the motorpool. It seemed a rather convenient thing, for those of us on guard duty.

Much easier to get out of the wind than inside the guard shack. So... at whatever point it was, I was comfortably snoozing in the back of one of the trucks, and a warrant officer came up, and sort of apologetically told me I had to vacate my post. Whatever they were using the trucks for, they had to start loading up.

Damn fine of the man to be as cordial as he was.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (QBaJw)

86 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs also needs to be immediately relieved of command.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (exHjb)

87 As said, Diversity hires are dime a dozen, not there to perform any functions other than check the boxes.

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (fwDg9)

88 If that happens, should you just hire mom/dad? or pass on all of them?
Posted by: Oldcat at J

GIve them each a whiteboard and make them play the newlywed game.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (CIS44)

89 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

90 Oh come on guys. His illness was in the Private Sector ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (qZ6wg)

91 . . . I was just reading the post from yesterday about the Gen Z boys and girls bringing their parents to job interviews and the like. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024
*
If that happens, should you just hire mom/dad? or pass on all of them?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024

***
Someone in the thread suggested something like, if Mom is cute, toss Dad down the stairs, send the kid home, and just hire her.

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (J2vNu)

92 89 NOODlum.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

=======

This is a false nood.

Remain calm.

Sponge will be in the cooler for the rest of the winter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

93 Isn't that Claudine chick free now? She's diverse.

Posted by: Paul Anka at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (eheVn)

94 I'm glad there is a new thread, because I could have done a lot of posts mocking a gender reversed modern day version of the story of Jesus and Judas set in Southern California-and I would prefer not to be on the most frequent poster this this week.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 03:35 PM (Ki//m)

So what happened to the other 11 disciples? Did they have headaches?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (eoQWY)

95 >>And...if he resigns or is fired, he'll have a cushy spot on the board of Lockheed Martin or Raytheon or wherever by the end of the week. That's how it works.

He was on the Raytheon board just prior to taking the DOD job.

Good thing he resigned so there was no conflict of interest.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (ZLI7S)

96 Wait....

There WAS A nood.....then there wansn't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

97 "Only ~~mildly~~ wildly retarded."

FIFY

Posted by: Hawkpilot at January 11, 2024 03:41 PM (k6uu5)

98 It was about Google and Amazon layoffs......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

99 Don't you have to go to The Barrel for a fake NOOD call?

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:41 PM (bhRsz)

100 None of those officials notifies the White House, National Security Council or Hicks.
___

Whom did they notify? It might give a clue on who is really running the show. My guess is the Chinese generals Milley was planning on keeping in the loop if Trump got uppity.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 11, 2024 03:41 PM (fs1hN)

101 Sponge has deserted his post!

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:42 PM (eheVn)

102
It's an op, just like Hunter pretending to be corrupt and Joey an idiot, to expose Russian evil-doing.

You morons are sure gonna be embarrassed when the trap is sprung and all the Republican disinformation that rules the media is exposed.

Posted by: Auspex at January 11, 2024 03:42 PM (j4U/Z)

103 Sponge has attained prophet status.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:42 PM (lf83v)

104 How's he going to prosecute the next Bowe Bergdahl who leaves his guard post without notice and his fellow troops vulnerable?

He can't.

Jokes on us...they didn't want to prosecute Bergdahl, and they won't want to prosecute the next one either.

Posted by: Military Moron at January 11, 2024 03:42 PM (JCZqz)

105 Wait....

There WAS A nood.....then there wansn't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
---
You know the rule -- pics or it didn't happen!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 03:42 PM (7fElN)

106 So what happened to the other 11 disciples? Did they have headaches?Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (eoQWY)

LOL. You'd have to ask Martin Scorcese

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 03:43 PM (Ki//m)

107 100 None of those officials notifies the White House, National Security Council or Hicks.
___

Whom did they notify? It might give a clue on who is really running the show. My guess is the Chinese generals Milley was planning on keeping in the loop if Trump got uppity.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 11, 2024 03:41 PM (fs1hN)

AP didn't reveal that...that might have been real news...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:43 PM (exHjb)

108 Jody Jody hear the call.

Our SecDef has gone AWOL.

Posted by: Minuteman

"Sound off..."

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2024 03:43 PM (XeU6L)

109 Maybe he was admitted for prostrate problems but things being busy and chaotic he was swapped by accident with a gender reassignment surgery patient...you know, one of the losers his Department recruited to be an 11bravo.

Posted by: torabora at January 11, 2024 03:43 PM (OUiUM)

110 if you do want to know, after all, it's at the end of the previous thread, It's an actual Martin Scorcese film which is planned
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (Ki//m)

If I say I don't want to know, then I Don't. Want. To Know.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:43 PM (bhRsz)

111 "Joe Biden is the best president in my lifetime. He's taking time to seriously consider his options and whether he can lose someone like Lloyd Austin, one of our best Secretaries of Defense especially considering how seriously he takes covid and climate change as issues facing our world, in a time of such upheaval caused by Trump's chaotic presidency. I'm so happy we have a contemplative and sincerely honest president like Biden in the White House now. I'm sure Trump would have nuked the Pentagon by this point."
-DU, 100% probability
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:37 PM (GBKbO)

Commies always venerate the Dear Leader, its part of their Religion.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:43 PM (eoQWY)

112 I could have done a lot of posts mocking a gender reversed modern day version of the story of Jesus and Judas set in Southern California . . .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024
*
So what happened to the other 11 disciples? Did they have headaches?
Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024

***
The other eleven couldn't decide where to have the Supper and who had ordered what from the menu.

Posted by: Thrush Supreme Council at January 11, 2024 03:43 PM (J2vNu)

113 I heard a little of NPR's "reporting" on this issue yesterday in the car. They turned it into a discussion of developments in treatment of prostate cancer and mistrust of the medical system among black folk.

Maybe I don't understand the immediate national security implications of these topics.

Posted by: KT at January 11, 2024 03:43 PM (rrtZS)

114 The Biden administration is pure incompetence from top to bottom. And grift...never forget the grift.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (XMwZJ)

115 So what happened to the other 11 disciples? Did they have headaches?
__________

Thier monthly periods all synchronized to the same week.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (lf83v)

116

He's black dammit!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (UCNv1)

117 No NOOD is good NOOD?

I hope I'm not banned for attempting to comment on a disappearing thread. (Although I feel a sense of deja vu because this happened once before to Jewells and a couple other of us 'ettes.)

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (fxCK2)

118 He wasn't being treated for prostate cancer.

It was mouth cancer.

From sucking Admiral Rachel Levine's cock.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (PFILT)

119 Austin should have had his ass at work!

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (eheVn)

120 When your average leftist hears this the response will be "General Israel, he's obviously Jewish, he shouldn't be listened to"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (Yem6A)

121 He has the complexion for protection. Nothing will happen to Austin.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (rJ48h)

122 I'll have you know that a Federal judge vacated my dishonorable discharge from the US Army. So, STFU.
Posted by: Bowe Bergdahl at January 11, 2024 03:38 PM (XeU6L)

No matter how one feels about the Bergdahl story, there are a few facts people tend to leave out.

1. He's basically autistic, and had no business being in the service at all. The Army took him after the Corps got rid of him.
2. Nobody was paying close enough attention to what he was up to, which is how he was able to walk away so easily.
3. Nobody got killed looking for him. That's a myth the Army tried to tell, but it's just that. A myth.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (QBaJw)

123 Rappin' Rodney!

https://youtu.be/mWTKhQzQl1A

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)

124 Was the whole NOOD willowed?

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:45 PM (eheVn)

125 If secdef Austin caught fragments while secretly visiting Ukraine and has been airlifted back to the US to try to recover, and there was NO plan to work around that, then there is some truly hinky stuff going on without any real thought about what comes next.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2024 03:45 PM (D7oie)

126 "None notified the White House, the Security Council, or Hicks."

Hicks was in hypersleep with me.

Posted by: Ripley at January 11, 2024 03:45 PM (hqVaF)

127 Hunter is supposed to appear in L.A. court in fifteen minutes.
This should be fun.

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:45 PM (v0R5T)

128 The other eleven couldn't decide where to have the Supper and who had ordered what from the menu.
____

Chaos ensued when the bill came.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 11, 2024 03:45 PM (fs1hN)

129 This kind of irresponsibility really resonates for people in the military, or those who work in the productive economy.

So. 99% of dems won't care.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (7alhV)

130 If secdef Austin caught fragments while secretly visiting Ukraine and has been airlifted back to the US to try to recover, and there was NO plan to work around that, then there is some truly hinky stuff going on without any real thought about what comes next.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2024 03:45 PM (D7oie)

That doesn't sound like the Biden junta *I* know!

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (bhRsz)

131 Dr. Rudy Wells

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (63Dwl)

132 Although a LOT of people knew about Sec Def on Jan 2, none in the White House or Nat Sec Council did...to exclude one is expected b/c Biden has dementia...but to exclude the other in wartime? That's a surprise...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (exHjb)

133 96 Wait....

There WAS A nood.....then there wansn't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)
_______

That's what she said

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

134 Much easier to get out of the wind than inside the guard shack. So... at whatever point it was, I was comfortably snoozing in the back of one of the trucks, and a warrant officer came up, and sort of apologetically told me I had to vacate my post. Whatever they were using the trucks for, they had to start loading up.

Damn fine of the man to be as cordial as he was.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (QBaJw)

Had to, you were doing a crackerjack horizontal inspection of the inside roof of the truck.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (eoQWY)

135 NPR is total crap and should have their federal funding pulled.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (8TJgL)

136 Didn't Mark Sanford start his downfall when he disappeared, without telling anyone, as SC's governor on a trip to visit his girlfriend in South America? He should've just told everyone he was a very, very private person!

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (mupln)

137 Hunter is supposed to appear in L.A. court in fifteen minutes.
This should be fun.
Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:45 PM (v0R5T)
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Wonder if he'll pull the same stunt in an LA courtroom that he did in Congress...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (7fElN)

138 A myth.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:44 PM (QBaJw)

Thats an effeminate moth.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (eheVn)

139 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

I saw it too, but it jumped off the plane wing every time the stewardess came over to see why I was freaking out

Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (eEq+b)

140 Austin will come out stating it wasn't prostate cancer that he was having a procedure for....

It was an abortion, the baby just looked like his prostrate.

And you are a hater for not understanding what shmen like shem go through.

Posted by: Scott_T at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (2waQ7)

141 Although a LOT of people knew about Sec Def on Jan 2, none in the White House or Nat Sec Council did...to exclude one is expected b/c Biden has dementia...but to exclude the other in wartime? That's a surprise...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (exHjb)

This may shock you, but it isn't wartime.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (eoQWY)

142 I was gonna go to work, but then I got roids

Posted by: That guy Austin at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (ZMs+D)

143 Was there a premature n00dulation?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (bSSoQ)

144 Hunter is supposed to appear in L.A. court in fifteen minutes.
This should be fun.
Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:45

This could be a reality show-bounty hunters tracks down Hunter.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (NvyWM)

145 NPR is total crap and should have their federal funding pulled.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (8TJgL)

There should be no such thing of government funded programming of any nature whatsoever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

146 Chaos ensued when the bill came.
Posted by: Chuck Martel a

They planned to split it evenly, but Judas complained because he only had the soup.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (CIS44)

147 If secdef Austin caught fragments in the ass while secretly visiting Ukraine and has been airlifted back to the US to try to recover
I'm going to laugh.

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

148 That's what she said

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (iFTx/)

Thats just not used enough.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (eheVn)

149 Pvt. Eddie Slovak wants a word with Darth Lloyd.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (++LEd)

150
I saw it too, but it jumped off the plane wing every time the stewardess came over to see why I was freaking out
Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (eEq+b)

Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

151 >Retired General: Lloyd Austin Went AWOL and Deserted His Post. Fire Him.

all together now:

This will not happen.

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (geLO8)

152 NPR is total crap and should have their federal funding pulled.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (8TJgL)

Just jail them for insurrection. DOJ and FBI are getting itchy fingers again.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (eoQWY)

153 1. He's basically autistic, and had no business being in the service at all. The Army took him after the Corps got rid of him.
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Coast Guard, I think.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (XeU6L)

154
Thats just not used enough.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (eheVn)

That's what he said.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

155 None of those officials notifies the White House, National Security Council or Hicks. Austin remains in the intensive care unit."
Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:39 PM (exHjb)

Which should tell you something. I bet the Kalorama folks knew about it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (BdMk6)

156 141 Although a LOT of people knew about Sec Def on Jan 2, none in the White House or Nat Sec Council did...to exclude one is expected b/c Biden has dementia...but to exclude the other in wartime? That's a surprise...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:46 PM (exHjb)

This may shock you, but it isn't wartime.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (eoQWY)

I'm betting both the military and the American taxpayer would disagree. We may not be "at war" but it's definitely wartime when it comes to pocketbooks and deployments...and getting shot at if you're currently in the Gulf with the Navy...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (exHjb)

157 In the military there are ways to go to the hospital, keep why from leaking, and putting your subordinates in charge so there is continuity of command.
Austin didn't do any of this.
He should resign and go away.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (W/lyH)

158 Maybe he's been unable to pee for a week.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 11, 2024 03:50 PM (NvyWM)

159 The other eleven couldn't decide where to have the Supper and who had ordered what from the menu.
____
Chaos ensued when the bill came.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 11, 2024

***
Men, cooperating: "There's a leopard in that tree. Og, move left; Trog, go right. We'll all attack at once." "Got it." "Got it."

Women: "Leopard? In the tree? I don't see a leopard. Are you sure that's a leopard?" "It could just be one of those spotted owls with a long tail." "No, I'm pretty sure that's a leopard." "Oh, come on. Dawna, do you see a leopard?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 03:50 PM (J2vNu)

160 If secdef Austin caught fragments in the ass while secretly visiting Ukraine and has been airlifted back to the US to try to recover
I'm going to laugh.
Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

Define "fragments."

Posted by: Admiral Rachel Levine at January 11, 2024 03:50 PM (bhRsz)

161 Didn't Mark Sanford start his downfall when he disappeared, without telling anyone, as SC's governor on a trip to visit his girlfriend in South America? He should've just told everyone he was a very, very private person!
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 11, 2024 03:47 PM (mupln)

I believe they were walking the trail in the Appalachians. I think the girlfriend was South American.

Or maybe that's backwards. She's Appalachian, and they were in South America.

Either way, I'm sure they had fun.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (QBaJw)

162 I'm betting both the military and the American taxpayer would disagree. We may not be "at war" but it's definitely wartime when it comes to pocketbooks and deployments...and getting shot at if you're currently in the Gulf with the Navy...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (exHjb)

In wartime you are allowed to shoot back more often.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (eoQWY)

163 By the way, who schedules ELECTIVE surgery three days before Christmas? At a military hospital?

More hinkyness to this story.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (lf83v)

164 UCMJ Dereliction of Duty.

Posted by: ShainS -- Plagiarism is copying without attribution plus white cisheteropatriarchal skin at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (8AZzc)

165 Maybe he's been unable to pee for a week.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 11, 2024 03:50 PM (NvyWM)

"Don't shoot till you see the yellow floaties of his eyes!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)

166 >>> There WAS A n00d.....then there wansn't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

Last night I saw upon the blog
A little n00d who wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish it'd go away...

Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (bSSoQ)

167 I have to assume all the positive accomplishments of Austin listed in Wikipedia are result of affirmative action reporting and lowering of expectations.

Only explanation for the 180 turn to woke incompetent.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (MNhXM)

168 That's what he said.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

Ok sponge that made me LMAO.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (eheVn)

169
Isn't Lloyd never again being able to get a hard-on punishment enough?

Posted by: Auspex at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (j4U/Z)

170 ...and getting shot at if you're currently in the Gulf with the Navy...
--------------
Or swinging by the CVS in DC.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (jrKun)

171 The military doesn’t use AWOL anymore. That’s from WWII. It’s now UA, or it was 20 years ago when I was in.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (uKeRS)

172 You all should see my cabinet meetings! Bootyjudge trying to pretend breastfeed. Austin doesn't show. Granholm practices counting to ten. Blinken tries to surrender every five minutes; not sure to whom this time. Mayorkas keeps throwing up his fist and crying out "La Raza!"

It's a shit show. Fortunately, Kamala does most of the serous talking. She says really interesting things about space, and time, and stuff.

Posted by: Joe Biden, confused and demented, but happy! at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (3+JgO)

173 163 By the way, who schedules ELECTIVE surgery three days before Christmas? At a military hospital?

More hinkyness to this story.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (lf83v)

The "elective" part of the story got dropped when the prostate cancer had to be revealed b/c he was so bad off in the hospital...again, he's not released still, and no one is saying it's gonna be "soon"...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (exHjb)

174 By the way, who schedules ELECTIVE surgery three days before Christmas? At a military hospital?

More hinkyness to this story.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot

Elective doen't reall mean "elective". just means non-emergent.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (CIS44)

175 But if Austin is a civilian, is he subject to UCMJ?

don't think so, and I'm not a lawyer

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (geLO8)

176 2. Nobody was paying close enough attention to what he was up to, which is how he was able to walk away so easily.
--------

One of us does not understand how military service works. It might be me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (XeU6L)

177 This may shock you, but it isn't wartime.

This ain't no party
This ain't no disco
This ain't no fooling around

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (dZVON)

178 Coast Guard, I think.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (XeU6L)

I'll leave it to someone else, but I'm pretty sure he was a Marine, for some number of months less than his full enlistment.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:53 PM (QBaJw)

179 ...and getting shot at if you're currently in the Gulf with the Navy...
--------------
Or swinging by the CVS in DC.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (jrKun)

Probably the more dangerous of the two, really.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:53 PM (bhRsz)

180 I bet Pete is at his post.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 03:53 PM (bSSoQ)

181 just means non-emergent.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (CIS44)

So nothing came out of his arse?

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:53 PM (eheVn)

182 If the Democrats had balls, they'd replace Biden at the convention with Austin.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 11, 2024 03:53 PM (rJ48h)

183 Obviously, on top of being a Very Private Man, Lloyd Austin has not been Positioned for Success.

I blame The Patriarchy.

Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2024 03:53 PM (RVloE)

184 Darth Lloyd probably hadn't seen his gun in decades.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (++LEd)

185 In the military there are ways to go to the hospital, keep why from leaking, and putting your subordinates in charge so there is continuity of command.
Austin didn't do any of this.
He should resign and go away.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 11, 2024 03:49 PM (W/lyH)
.........

maybe hook up with Milley for retirement fun. Golf, sex, and travel.

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (v0R5T)

186
Ok sponge that made me LMAO.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (eheVn)

Winning!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

187 By the way, who schedules ELECTIVE surgery three days before Christmas? At a military hospital?

More hinkyness to this story.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (lf83v)

My elective wrist surgery was at like 5 AM Friday before Memorial Day. Its when they could squeeze it in.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

188 I bet Pete is at his post.
Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 03:53 PM (bSSoQ)

Or ON his post.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (NvyWM)

189 183 Obviously, on top of being a Very Private Man, Lloyd Austin has not been Positioned for Success.

I blame The Patriarchy.
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2024 03:53 PM (RVloE)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (xcxpd)

190 161 Either way, I'm sure they had fun.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (QBaJw)

========

He literally just fell off the map, including to his staff, to go to South America to be with his mistress, a journalist. He was gone for a few days. It became a scandal. He showed up, claiming he had been hiking in the Appalachia's. He even got his wife to back him up.

It came out where he really went. His personal life completely fell apart. His political career came to a stall (going from presumptive contender for the R nomination in 2012 to a joke). He disappeared for a few years, coming back to run in the special election to fill SC-1 when Nikki Haley appointed Tim Scott to be Senator. It was a big field of about 15 candidates, Sanford won pretty much based on name recognition. He served four terms or so, participating in the Freedom Caucus and accomplishing little (because the Freedom Caucus is a joke) and only gained "new respect" when he went against Trump, first backing Cruz in the SC primary and then just being an ineffective thorn in Trump's side in Congress until he just refused to run for re-election again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

191 176 2. Nobody was paying close enough attention to what he was up to, which is how he was able to walk away so easily.
--------

One of us does not understand how military service works. It might be me.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 11, 2024 03:52 PM (XeU6L)

The story goes, everyone in his company knew he was a weirdo, that he would go off on his own, and nobody was particularly concerned when he did so this time, even though he was supposedly on duty in a war zone.

So yeah, it's the weirdos you keep a closer eye on, because if you don't, they CAN get you killed.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (QBaJw)

192 Isn't Lloyd never again being able to get a hard-on punishment enough?
Posted by: Auspex at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (j4U/Z)
......

he'll just be the bottom.

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:55 PM (v0R5T)

193 WAR ENSEMBLE

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=jqnC54vbUbU

Posted by: SLAYER at January 11, 2024 03:55 PM (RVloE)

194 Les Aspin wonders if he can get his reputation back.

Nah.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 11, 2024 03:55 PM (++LEd)

195 Jill Biden slams 'horrible' Republicans for showing nude Hunter photos during hearing and says what they're doing to him is 'cruel'

Posted by: Don Black at January 11, 2024 03:56 PM (geLO8)

196 TJM,
That's a lot of words to say "Probably gay now"

Posted by: Wally at January 11, 2024 03:56 PM (hqVaF)

197 166 >>> There WAS A n00d.....then there wansn't.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:40 PM (Zz0t1)

Last night I saw upon the blog
A little n00d who wasn't there
It wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish it'd go away...
Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (bSSoQ)

props

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 11, 2024 03:56 PM (xcxpd)

198 TX seized the land at Eagle Pass. They will eject Border Patrol from state land. They will cite border crossers for criminal trespass rather than illegal entry.

http://tiny.cc/7ufzvz

Posted by: bonhomme at January 11, 2024 03:56 PM (Odg76)

199 Lloyd Austin should be made to testify before the House.

I want to here him articulate and actually speak a da English.

Hilarity to ensue.

Posted by: Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp at January 11, 2024 03:57 PM (gQdZt)

200 He literally just fell off the map, including to his staff, to go to South America to be with his mistress, a journalist. He was gone for a few days. It became a scandal. He showed up, claiming he had been hiking in the Appalachia's. He even got his wife to back him up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (GBKbO)

Ah, that's right, the Appalachian trail story was a cover.

Sounds like they did have fun.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:57 PM (QBaJw)

201 Jill Biden slams 'horrible' Republicans for showing nude Hunter photos during hearing and says what they're doing to him is 'cruel'
____

You want cruel, look at what your husband is doing to the January 6 protesters.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:57 PM (lf83v)

202 Ok sponge that made me LMAO.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (eheVn)

Winning!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm also loaded but that should not taint your winning. Not around here anyway.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:58 PM (eheVn)

203 200 Ah, that's right, the Appalachian trail story was a cover.

Sounds like they did have fun.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:57 PM (QBaJw)

=======

After his wife left him, he kept up the relationship with the journalist for a few years. They were going to marry until she dumped him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

204 TX seized the land at Eagle Pass. They will eject Border Patrol from state land. They will cite border crossers for criminal trespass rather than illegal entry.

http://tiny.cc/7ufzvz
Posted by: bonhomme at January 11, 2024 03:56 PM (Odg76)

Interesting....

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:58 PM (bhRsz)

205 TX seized the land at Eagle Pass. They will eject Border Patrol from state land. They will cite border crossers for criminal trespass rather than illegal entry.

http://tiny.cc/7ufzvz
Posted by: bonhomme at January 11, 2024 03:56 PM (Odg76)

About damn time.

Now, start arresting the feds that interfere and let them rot in prison 'awaiting trial.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:58 PM (Zz0t1)

206 Much thanks for the Slayer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2024 03:59 PM (4iXOd)

207 Outside the courthouse in L.A. some guy is yelling in a bullhorn:
Hunter Biden is a criminal
Hunter Biden needs to go to jail
USA
USA
Hunter's laptop

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

208
Private Man here (Very Private Man, if you insist):

LEAVE LLOYD ALONE!!!!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 03:59 PM (BMvqE)

209 He literally just fell off the map, including to his staff, to go to South America to be with his mistress, a journalist. He was gone for a few days. It became a scandal. He showed up, claiming he had been hiking in the Appalachia's. He even got his wife to back him up.

Is hiking the Appalachian Trail defined in the Urban Dictionary?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 11, 2024 03:59 PM (NvyWM)

210
I'm also loaded but that should not taint your winning. Not around here anyway.
Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:58 PM (eheVn)

Wait. Everyone isn't loaded?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

211 DB Blooper

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 11, 2024 03:59 PM (0FoWg)

212 A bit of advice to Dr Jill. If you don't want people to see pictures of Hunter naked , tell Hunter not to take naked pictures of himself. A Dr like yourself should always look for the simplest answer.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 11, 2024 04:00 PM (Yem6A)

213 The Very Private Secretary of Defense needs to Seek Further Opportunities in the Very Private Sector.

He'll fail upwards, like all apparatchiks of the Regime. Assuming he doesn't croak of some ailment.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 04:00 PM (sAmhv)

214 I have to assume all the positive accomplishments of Austin listed in Wikipedia are result of affirmative action reporting and lowering of expectations.

Only explanation for the 180 turn to woke incompetent.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (MNhXM)

Remember a story out of USSR this junior officer was such a drunk (embarrassing by Russian standards!) that the regimental staff connived to have him sent off to training school. But then they had to fake a bunch of glowing reviews of him, recommend him for promotion, etc. But eventually was out.

After graduating, and another promotion he volunteered to take the posting at the same regiment, but now he was less drunk and more vindictive of anyone who crossed him back then.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 04:00 PM (eoQWY)

215 God Damn, I Love Slayer.

Fuck Spiders.

Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2024 04:00 PM (RVloE)

216 I am in fact pleaѕed to read this website posts
which consists of plenty of helpful data, thanks for providing these information.

Posted by: latter at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (pAWbE)

217 Outside the courthouse in L.A. some guy is yelling in a bullhorn:
Hunter Biden is a criminal
Hunter Biden needs to go to jail
USA
USA
Hunter's laptop
Posted by: wth

Somehow I don't think it's going to work.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (IG4Id)

218 After his wife left him, he kept up the relationship with the journalist for a few years. They were going to marry until she dumped him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 03:58 PM (GBKbO)

I tend to get him and McGreevy mixed up. I know Gay Mac had his wife up on the podium, once his scandal broke, and the poor woman had to stand by her man... for a time.

I don't recall if Sanford's wife did the same, but that was a cliche for a while. Catch the guy in a sex scandal, then make the wife stand there looking like she likes it.

Such a perverse kink. And of course Hillory perfected the role.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (QBaJw)

219 TX seized the land at Eagle Pass. They will eject Border Patrol from state land. They will cite border crossers for criminal trespass rather than illegal entry.

http://tiny.cc/7ufzvz
Posted by: bonhomme at January 11, 2024 03:56 PM (Odg76)

Interesting....
Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 03:58 PM (bhRsz)
---
Things are about to get sporty along the border. I can't see how FJB can let this pass as it's basically a personal insult to him.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (7fElN)

220 216 I am in fact pleaѕed to read this website posts
which consists of plenty of helpful data, thanks for providing these information.
Posted by: latter at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (pAWbE)

========

Please tell us that you sell lace wigs.

Our guy went on the Appalachian Trail a while back and hasn't come back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

221 Imma wait right here until Joe Biden fires someone for incompetence...

*taps foot*
Posted by: Hawkpilot

Well, that would be ironic.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (FVME7)

222 >>> I'm also loaded but that should not taint your winning. Not around here anyway.
Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 03:58 PM (eheVn)

Wait. Everyone isn't loaded?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

Are we including taint?

Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (bSSoQ)

223 I am in fact pleaѕed to read this website posts
which consists of plenty of helpful data, thanks for providing these information.
Posted by: latter at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (pAWbE)

Translation:

I like the cut of your jib. Might you have a newsletter one might subscribe to?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)

224 Sounds like they did have fun.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 03:57 PM (QBaJw)

Running off to Argenetina with your mistress probably is fun.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (D7oie)

225 Hey sponge don't forget to NOOD when your NOOD comes up. What's keeping it anyway.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (eheVn)

226 I just saw Trump's press conference in NY. He sounded and looked great. I don't know he does it given what he's up against.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (5GiIq)

227
Were he an honorable man, a man of integrity, Lloyd Austin would have submitted his resignation already.

And if Biden won't accept it, he'd just go AWOL again to prove his oh so serious point. Guy's got a pattern to uphold, hasn't he?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (BMvqE)

228 I thought this was amusing.

http://tinyurl.com/4b83247k

It's a link in another post on how corruption has hollowed out China's military.

http://tinyurl.com/5n95razh

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2024 04:03 PM (CsUN+)

229
Are we including taint?
Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (bSSoQ)

Wouldn't a loaded taint mean a serious infection?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

230 The bots are thankness for our many great helps!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 11, 2024 04:03 PM (bSSoQ)

231 smoke crack for democracy, folks

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (v0R5T)

232 I read that as "Lloyd Austin Went A-Hole".

Posted by: Obama at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (lf83v)

233 I am in fact pleaѕed to read this website posts
which consists of plenty of helpful data, thanks for providing these information.
Posted by: latter

Any health problem can be cured if you slap hot iron to it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (FVME7)

234 Hey sponge don't forget to NOOD when your NOOD comes up. What's keeping it anyway.
Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (eheVn)

I will if I'm still around when it drops. If and when it does, I should already be FIRST.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

235 Please tell us that you sell lace wigs.

Our guy went on the Appalachian Trail a while back and hasn't come back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

Word is he's decided to live his life as a gay moron.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (bhRsz)

236 Things are about to get sporty along the border. I can't see how FJB can let this pass as it's basically a personal insult to him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (7fElN)

As mentioned, Biden isn't even informed anymore...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (exHjb)

237 Running off to Argenetina with your mistress probably is fun.
Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (D7oie)

I would think so, but at this stage of my life, I'd have to get married again, acquire a mistress, then plan the clandestine trip.

Too much like work.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (QBaJw)

238 118 He wasn't being treated for prostate cancer.
It was mouth cancer.
From sucking Admiral Rachel Levine's cock.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator

So hot...

Posted by: Sam Brinton and Dylan Mulvaney, getting freaky in the Senate Cloakroom at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (JCZqz)

239 Were he an honorable man, a man of integrity, Lloyd Austin would have submitted his resignation already.

And if Biden won't accept it, he'd just go AWOL again to prove his oh so serious point. Guy's got a pattern to uphold, hasn't he?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (BMvqE)
---
If Austin was an honorable man, he would never have been in that position in the first place.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (7fElN)

240 lol
Ashley's diary
YT top chat comments are pretty good

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 04:05 PM (v0R5T)

241 227
Were he an honorable man, a man of integrity, Lloyd Austin would have submitted his resignation already.

And if Biden won't accept it, he'd just go AWOL again to prove his oh so serious point. Guy's got a pattern to uphold, hasn't he?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 04:02 PM (BMvqE)

Are we sure Austin is conscious yet? He's still not in charge.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 04:05 PM (exHjb)

242 Fun fact about DB Cooper. He used the name Dan Cooper. A reporter, get this, f’d up and said DB Cooper and it stuck.

Reporters have been f’kups for a long time.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 11, 2024 04:05 PM (uKeRS)

243 Well, maybe he'll make it back to work after this next long weekend. Good and rested by then.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at January 11, 2024 04:06 PM (evaxF)

244 I will if I'm still around when it drops. If and when it does, I should already be FIRST.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)

Wait, you were first on The NOOD that wasn't? That is an automatic 'first' place holder for first when it appears. oh yeah, thats in the bylaws.

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 04:06 PM (eheVn)

245 Winnie Cooper > D.B. Cooper

Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2024 04:06 PM (RVloE)

246
After his wife left him, he kept up the relationship with the journalist for a few years. They were going to marry until she dumped him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra

A Nikki Haley Republican, too, if I am not mistaken.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 04:06 PM (BMvqE)

247 Hunter's pet rocks

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (v0R5T)

248 Things are about to get sporty along the border. I can't see how FJB can let this pass as it's basically a personal insult to him.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (7fElN)

As mentioned, Biden isn't even informed anymore...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 04:04 PM (exHjb)
---
Unlike an AWOL Sec Def, this actually *matters* to the people surrounding FJB. They will inform him of this ASAP because TX is interfering with their plans. They'll still need his "official" go-ahead to retaliate.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (7fElN)

249 >>> Winnie Cooper > D.B. Cooper
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2024 04:06 PM (RVloE)

SOOOPAH DOOOOPAH!

Posted by: Fetterman at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (bSSoQ)

250 lol
Ashley's diary
YT top chat comments are pretty good
Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 04:05 PM (v0R5T)

Link?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (Zz0t1)

251 246
After his wife left him, he kept up the relationship with the journalist for a few years. They were going to marry until she dumped him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra

A Nikki Haley Republican, too, if I am not mistaken.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 04:06 PM (BMvqE)

=========

If Sanford has endorsed anyone, I think it would be news to...the whole planet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

252 What if the replacement candidate for Biden is the Fettermonster?

Posted by: blaster at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (IFNME)

253 Fun fact about DB Cooper. He used the name Dan Cooper. A reporter, get this, f’d up and said DB Cooper and it stuck.

Reporters have been f’kups for a long time.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 11, 2024 04:05 PM (uKeRS)

I'm sure none of this stuff matters anymore, but back in the day, they'd say if you read a newspaper, believing everything you read is at least an attempt at getting it right, wait until they write a story about a subject with which you have intimate familiarity.

This has happened to me, and it's astounding how much they get wrong. And don't care to correct, once you try to correct them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:08 PM (QBaJw)

254 A Nikki Haley Republican, too, if I am not mistaken.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 04:06 PM (BMvqE)

Isn't that how Haley became governor? She was the lieutenant governor at the time?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 04:08 PM (nC+QA)

255 He may be assuming room temp.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 11, 2024 04:08 PM (Ibaon)

256 If Sanford has endorsed anyone, I think it would be news to...the whole planet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (GBKbO)

Did his Son endorse anyone?

Posted by: Is anyone at their post? at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (eheVn)

257 Listening to the dumbf*ck reporters trying to parry with Vivek is hilarious. I've been saying for over years, these people are not hard to mess with but no one on our side (aside from Breitbart) ever really tried.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (5GiIq)

258 What if the replacement candidate for Biden is the Fettermonster?
Posted by: blaster at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (IFNME)

That would be a step up from Biden,

Posted by: Titanium White at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (MNhXM)

259 Well done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 03:48 PM (Zz0t1)

I really saw it tho!

I wondered why the ASutin thread was getting stomped

Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (eEq+b)

260 He may be assuming room temp.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 11, 2024 04:08 PM (Ibaon)

Where would HE find information leading to the arrest of Hillary Clinton?

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (eoQWY)

261
The way Lloyd rocked the Conehead look with his big and shiny new piece of third world bling, he'd be a shoo-in for the Janes Earl Jones role in a remake of "Coming to America".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (BMvqE)

262 Unlike an AWOL Sec Def, this actually *matters* to the people surrounding FJB. They will inform him of this ASAP because TX is interfering with their plans. They'll still need his "official" go-ahead to retaliate.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:07 PM (7fElN)

Nah, they just need Jill's...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (exHjb)

263 I'm still playing with the antipodes map. Turns out the tip of South America, Punta Arenas in Argentina, has its antipode near a village called Ust Batguzin in Siberia. (The website didn't have Ushuaia, the town at the very tip of SA, so I picked something close by.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (J2vNu)

264 Didn't Mark Sanford start his downfall when he disappeared, without telling anyone, as SC's governor on a trip to visit his girlfriend in South America?

-
You big dummy!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (FVME7)

265 Hello Pilgrims, Nobody schedules any elective surgery on a Friday, weekends for Doctors are Golf and Viagra Parties with their HEAD Nurses.
Doctors do not want to come in on play for days, they may tell the wife their working , however I have amassed quite a photo gallery of some of the golf dates.

Posted by: Dr Kildare / Prostate sex partner at January 11, 2024 04:10 PM (LcRVs)

266 lol
Ashley's diary
YT top chat comments are pretty good
Posted by: wth

Link?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

http://tinyurl.com/28bpw4bu

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 04:10 PM (v0R5T)

267 I tend to get him and McGreevy mixed up. I know Gay Mac had his wife up on the podium, once his scandal broke, and the poor woman had to stand by her man... for a time.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:01 PM (QBaJw)
=================
McGreevey is the absolute pinnacle of NJ politicians, as far as I can tell. Accused by his wife of running gay orgies in the Governors mansion (she liked to attend, it turns out), he was pressed to resign and finally did when it emerged that he appointed his favorite butt boy, an Israeli spy, to advise him on "homeland security". Then it came out that he was collecting two state pensions while also governor, as Mayor of his hometown of Woodbridge and as a State legislator. When he resigned, the rumor was he got to keep collecting those pensions, as well as triple-dipping with a Governors pension.

Then, he became an Episcopal priest. I'm told he is very entertaining.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2024 04:10 PM (Co21G)

268 I wondered why border states didn't use trespass laws before. If I'm a landowner near the border, I'd push to arrest them all and jail them for the max amount of time.
Forget immigration laws. We can get them other ways. He'll, if they're in Georgia, hit them with a RICO charge.

Posted by: Wally at January 11, 2024 04:10 PM (hqVaF)

269

Sorry, you give up privacy when you take on an appointed job that's high up in the chain of presidential succession, leading the men and women volunteers who comprise our national defense.>

I'm a private person who is not high up in anyone's food chain except for my pets. They think I'm a Goddess. I also work for the Feds, and if I didn't show up for work one day without calling let along 10 days I would be charged as AWOL and the process for me being cashiered out would have already been started.

Posted by: Cheri at January 11, 2024 04:11 PM (oiNtH)

270 Listening to the dumbf*ck reporters trying to parry with Vivek is hilarious. I've been saying for over years, these people are not hard to mess with but no one on our side (aside from Breitbart) ever really tried.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (5GiIq)

Well, there is that guy who was elected President. He was pretty good at it... until they tossed a China virus in his face.

I forget his name, starts with a T, I think.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:11 PM (QBaJw)

271 Was the ______________ worth it?

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at January 11, 2024 04:11 PM (as3uC)

272 What if the replacement candidate for Biden is the Fettermonster?

--

Well, he does have a higher level of brain waves registering, so...

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 11, 2024 04:11 PM (mupln)

273 I guess it would be pointless to try to figure out a system where flag officers have to pass routine fitness and competency tests. but I can dream, can't i?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 11, 2024 04:11 PM (IG4Id)

274 Listening to the dumbf*ck reporters trying to parry with Vivek is hilarious. I've been saying for over years, these people are not hard to mess with but no one on our side (aside from Breitbart) ever really tried.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 11, 2024 04:09 PM (5GiIq)

J School is a little better than El Ed degrees in College pecking order but not by a lot.

Mrs. Degrees were better thought of than either.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 04:11 PM (eoQWY)

275 WEF at Davos warn of disease X with 20x more fatality.

What they want to say but can't, at least right now, is: Submit to our new world order as slaves or we will kill everyone.

Evil

Posted by: ET at January 11, 2024 04:11 PM (U3RHl)

276 163 By the way, who schedules ELECTIVE surgery three days before Christmas? At a military hospital?

More hinkyness to this story.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 03:51 PM (lf83v)

The news this morning said he had prostate cancer. This not elective surgery.

Posted by: vic at January 11, 2024 04:12 PM (A5THL)

277 they have the drug dog ready

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

278 He may be assuming room temp.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at January 11, 2024 04:08 PM (Ibaon)

dead is easy to solve, just put the deputy in position and plan a funeral. Now, getting injured trying to negotiate the destruction of evidence in Ukraine would be complicated.

Imagine ol' Lloyd getting lippy and getting shot by a pissed of Oligarch who knows he is going to swing. That right there is a nightmare.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2024 04:13 PM (D7oie)

279 Biden's cabinet. So are they all, all honorable men.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:13 PM (FVME7)

280 I'm a private person who is not high up in anyone's food chain except for my pets. They think I'm a Goddess. I also work for the Feds, and if I didn't show up for work one day without calling let along 10 days I would be charged as AWOL and the process for me being cashiered out would have already been started.

Yes, but you're a little person and don't count. I thought that was understood.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 11, 2024 04:13 PM (CsUN+)

281 What they want to say but can't, at least right now, is: Submit to our new world order as slaves or we will kill everyone.

Evil
Posted by: ET at January 11, 2024 04:11 PM (U3RHl)

As if they wouldn't just kill everyone anyway.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 04:13 PM (nC+QA)

282 I am curious to see if Austin was one of the military officers who availed himself of the sex ring that operated in Washington, DC and Boston.

And his UTI is really a flare-up of an STD.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 11, 2024 04:13 PM (lf83v)

283 This has happened to me, and it's astounding how much they get wrong.

a friend used to work for a PR firm. Her job was to meet celebrities who came to town and assist them while they were here for a gig. Then when they left she'd write a warm and fuzzy piece for the Inquirer, a human interest story to make them more relatable.

Nothing she wrote bore any resemblance to the truth of those people's lives. I remember one time she published a recipe about one celeb's favorite meal, when the whole time said luminary had been a total biatch and frozen out my friend who was supposed to assist her.

Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 04:14 PM (eEq+b)

284 Then, he became an Episcopal priest. I'm told he is very entertaining.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2024 04:10 PM (Co21G)

If I ever get caught up in some scandal, involving a criminal charge or not, I haven't decided whether I'm going to declare myself an Episcopalian priest, or a transjenner lesbian.

I guess I could do both.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:14 PM (QBaJw)

285 He's the very model of modern private general.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 11, 2024 04:14 PM (wzAuc)

286 And it turns out Shanghai, China, and Buenos Aires are very close to being antipodes of each other. Shame they don't declare each other sister cities.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:14 PM (J2vNu)

287 286 And it turns out Shanghai, China, and Buenos Aires are very close to being antipodes of each other. Shame they don't declare each other sister cities.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:14 PM (J2vNu)

======

Buenos Aires is probably where Nessus is in The Book of the New Sun!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (GBKbO)

288 "What was here and then gone?"

*pause*

"What was a NOOD."

Posted by: Karnak the Magnificent at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (eheVn)

289 Latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump losing to Biden in PA.

We’re going to once again lose a winnable election because of Trump’s ego.

He doesn’t care, he has nothing better to do and will probably be dead in a few years anyway. I could see him trying again in another 4 years.

Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (29cxv)

290 WEF at Davos warn of disease X with 20x more fatality.

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Plus the dead shall rise as zombies!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (FVME7)

291 Then, he became an Episcopal priest. I'm told he is very entertaining.Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2024 04:10 PM (Co21G)

I think what McGreevey did was incredibly slimy, but nowadays he could have just gotten divorced and lived his life as the first out and proud gay Governor. As far as the two pensions he yet another slimy politician I actually think he does better as an Episcopal Priest and seems to have a genuine interest in helping people, so it's a better calling for him, it seems.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (Ki//m)

292 And his UTI is really a flare-up of an STD.

or maybe his testicles were taken over by the spike protein because the Darth Vader mask was useless wrt spermatazoa replacement

Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (eEq+b)

293 Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (29cxv)

Here we go again.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 04:16 PM (Ki//m)

294 good doggie getem

Posted by: wth at January 11, 2024 04:16 PM (v0R5T)

295 Oldcat: "Biden doesn't have to face anything. Demand a resignation, or fire him. You don't have to discuss it."

That would work if Obama wasn't the one doing the hiring/firing. It's not Austin Biden/et al are afraid of; it's facing Obama.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 11, 2024 04:16 PM (aXxgO)

296 289 Latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump losing to Biden in PA.

We’re going to once again lose a winnable election because of Trump’s ego.

He doesn’t care, he has nothing better to do and will probably be dead in a few years anyway. I could see him trying again in another 4 years.
Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (29cxv)

========

We just found out that 170,000 ballots in GA were fake.

The final polls said that LA governors race was a dead heat at 35% each.

Polls are shit, elections are compromised, and no Republican will beat it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

297
That picture of Austin walking in from of troops at attention while he's covered in Covid masks/clear shields and a medal has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. He looks like an estrogen covered Darth Vader.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 11, 2024 04:17 PM (+oR7L)

298 The news this morning said he had prostate cancer. This not elective surgery.
Posted by: vic at January 11, 2024 04:12 PM (A5THL)

The original story said elective surgery. So whether it was elective surgery, or treatment for prostrate cancer, they're switching it up.

This of course, in copland, is how they try to getcha eventually. Mark down where you switched your story, until you don't remember anymore, and somehow the truth manages to emerge.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:17 PM (QBaJw)

299 Government by committee.

If everyone's in charge, no one's in charge.

This, along with rouge cabinet members doing whatever the fuck they want without being reigned in, is what you'll get.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2024 04:18 PM (Q4IgG)

300 Oldcat: "Biden doesn't have to face anything. Demand a resignation, or fire him. You don't have to discuss it."

That would work if Obama wasn't the one doing the hiring/firing. It's not Austin Biden/et al are afraid of; it's facing Obama.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at January 11, 2024 04:16 PM (aXxgO)

Barry doesn't give a rats ass about Austin. He's a big picture dude and what functionary is at DOD means nothing. Its the assistants that do the work, Austin's departure shows that.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 04:18 PM (eoQWY)

301 “They Don't Want to Hear It”. Christie’s hot mic truth bomb. CHARLIE SYKES. Right up until the end, Christie — that deeply flawed, infuriating, exasperating, irritating man — was a magnificent beast.

He admitted that he made mistakes and told the truth. In Republican politics these days, that is vanishingly rare. And he did it more forcefully and clearly than any other Republican whose name is not Cheney or Kinzinger. That’s what made him absolutely toxic in the GOP circa 2024. “I would rather lose by telling the truth than lie in order to win,” Christie said. So he never had a shot, and now he’s gone.

...as a Never Trumper, I’m used to disappointment, and I’m now bracing for a replay of the GOP’s many capitulations to the low-rent wanna-be Caesar from Queens.

Christie’s departure was worthy of the rest of his campaign, including (especially?) his refusal to endorse any of his Republican rivals...Last night, he posed this stark challenge: "Do you think (The Founders) could imagine that the country they risked their lives to create would actually be having a conversation about whether a convicted criminal should be president of the United States?

Posted by: Intercepted The Bulwark Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 11, 2024 04:18 PM (JCZqz)

302 Austin is that same fool who paraded in front of the Filipino military in that ludicrous face-shield getup.

Total clown.

Posted by: Beverly at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (Epeb0)

303 Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (29cxv)

Is this Glum from Gulliver's Travels?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

304 >> Latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump losing to Biden in PA.

Quinnipiac.

Yuh-huh.

Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (RVloE)

305 Remember the Golden Rule of Polls - They are total bullshit.

Unless they support our argument. Then they're gold.

Posted by: Wally at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (hqVaF)

306 I'm a private person who is not high up in anyone's food chain except for my pets. They think I'm a Goddess. . . .
Posted by: Cheri at January 11, 2024

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Cheri, you must have dogs. My cats do not think of me as a god, or a demi-god, or even a king or prince among humans.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (J2vNu)

307 https://lawenforcementtoday.com/what does 31 million-get-the-chinese-from-biden easy access into the

And I would add cross country rights to fly over balloons

Posted by: Skip at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (fwDg9)

308 He doesn’t care, he has nothing better to do and will probably be dead in a few years anyway. I could see him trying again in another 4 years.
Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (29cxv)

Is this a new troll ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (n2vyf)

309 In this case, no doctor has been mentioned nor has a specialty.

The specialty would tell us about the true nature of Austin's injury or illness.

We have not gotten that.

I'm starting to actually believe the joke that he'd actually had a choppadickoffame.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 11, 2024 04:20 PM (2ocoG)

310
Is this a new troll ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (n2vyf)

New ish. He's been flinging poo for a few weeks now, I think.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:20 PM (Zz0t1)

311 >>The news this morning said he had prostate cancer. This not elective surgery.

If you can pick the time AND the doctor, it's elective.

Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2024 04:20 PM (RVloE)

312 He doesn’t care, he has nothing better to do and will probably be dead in a few years anyway. I could see him trying again in another 4 years.
Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (29cxv)

WHAT! YOU MEAN TO SAY HE IS GOING TO RUN WHEN HE IS DEAD?

The balls on that guy!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 11, 2024 04:20 PM (D7oie)

313 Nothing she wrote bore any resemblance to the truth of those people's lives. I remember one time she published a recipe about one celeb's favorite meal, when the whole time said luminary had been a total biatch and frozen out my friend who was supposed to assist her.
Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 04:14 PM (eEq+b)

I guess that's to be expected though, right? Celebs are assholes, and the media does its best to keep that fact away from the public eyeball.

Until the green light is given, to turn on said person.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:21 PM (QBaJw)

314 Latest Quinnipiac poll has Trump losing to Biden in PA.

Quinnipiac.

Yuh-huh.
Posted by: garrett at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (RVloE)

Probably of Registered Voters, Adults, Children, and Illegal Aliens.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 04:21 PM (eoQWY)

315 313 I guess that's to be expected though, right? Celebs are assholes, and the media does its best to keep that fact away from the public eyeball.

Until the green light is given, to turn on said person.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:21 PM (QBaJw)

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Then it's, "Well, everyone knew already."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:21 PM (GBKbO)

316 WEF at Davos warn of disease X with 20x more fatality.

"Disease X"? No wonder they're all big mad at Elon.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 11, 2024 04:22 PM (2ocoG)

317 I'm starting to actually believe the joke that he'd actually had a choppadickoffame.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 11, 2024 04:20 PM (2ocoG)

Even if he did he would still be a dick

Posted by: It's me donna at January 11, 2024 04:22 PM (n2vyf)

318 My cat loves me. :-> Heck, my ex's cat loves me too. (He's a cool dude.) My ex's cat likes my cat but my cat hates all other cats.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 11, 2024 04:22 PM (KAi1n)

319 Is this a new troll ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (n2vyf)

No, just a redundant one, because I recalled the "wireless" nic and was hoping he would be rendered completely wireless, phoneless and computerless.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 04:22 PM (Ki//m)

320 He doesn’t care, he has nothing better to do and will probably be dead in a few years anyway. I could see him trying again in another 4 years.
Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (29cxv)

Is this a new troll ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (n2vyf)

Not so new, I've seen her before. Fiber Optic, that's the new one. So new I made her up.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 04:22 PM (eoQWY)

321 I actually think he does better as an Episcopal Priest and seems to have a genuine interest in helping people, so it's a better calling for him, it seems.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (Ki//m)
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A friend of mine who does some work for a local organization working with wrongfully convicted prisoners says McGreevey is a fantastic resource. Likes him a lot.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2024 04:22 PM (H5+/D)

322 321 A friend of mine who does some work for a local organization working with wrongfully convicted prisoners says McGreevey is a fantastic resource. Likes him a lot.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2024 04:22 PM (H5+/D)

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He throws the best parties.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:23 PM (GBKbO)

323 Cheri, you must have dogs. My cats do not think of me as a god, or a demi-god, or even a king or prince among humans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (J2vNu)

I got up this morning, felt like someone dropped a pallet of Iranian cash on my head, so I decided to stay home (feeling a little better now).

Sent the boy off to his day program, and went back to bed. Cats kept clawing my face, as if to check if I was still alive, or to let me know I didn't belong there, in my bed, during their shift.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:23 PM (QBaJw)

324 Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:15 PM (29cxv)

Is he going to be dead or trying again? They're sort of mutually exclusive.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 04:24 PM (nC+QA)

325 Cheri, you must have dogs. My cats do not think of me as a god, or a demi-god, or even a king or prince among humans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (J2vNu)
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Either you need to get new cats or they need to get a new human...

Wait a minute...My cats feel exactly the same way about me!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:25 PM (7fElN)

326 Cheri, you must have dogs. My cats do not think of me as a god, or a demi-god, or even a king or prince among humans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:19 PM (J2vNu)

Mine sometimes do look like a security detail, 2 in front and 2 behind going upstairs or down.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 04:25 PM (eoQWY)

327 Trump 14th Amendment Ballot Eligibility Challenger Arrested on Federal Tax Fraud Charges

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Oh no! A paragon of virtue like that?!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:25 PM (FVME7)

328 Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 11, 2024 04:22 PM (H5+/D)

Yes; I have heard that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 04:26 PM (Ki//m)

329 Is he going to be dead or trying again? They're sort of mutually exclusive.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 04:24 PM (nC+QA)
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Not if you're a Democrat!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:26 PM (7fElN)

330 "Is he going to be dead or trying again? They're sort of mutually exclusive"

Not so fast, my friend!

Posted by: Mel Carnahan at January 11, 2024 04:27 PM (hqVaF)

331 Not if you're a Democrat!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:26 PM (7fElN)

Lol, true enough.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at January 11, 2024 04:27 PM (nC+QA)

332 Non-elective surgery means when it’s required plus power.

Posted by: Crazy to be sane at January 11, 2024 04:28 PM (uLzDT)

333 I have a dog and a cat. My dog Bella, yellow Lab, is now 15 and is absolutely the best. It's very hard to watch her decline. The kitty, Meeko, loves me at feeding time. The rest of his day is spent plotting how to knock shit over and bite me.

Posted by: Cheri at January 11, 2024 04:28 PM (oiNtH)

334 It's always nice to know that my Catholic grade school had higher standards about plagiarism and absence notes than Our Betters.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 11, 2024 04:28 PM (xttsV)

335 Mensa member in Austin, TX pulls a gun on TEN cops and starts shooting. You'll never guess what happens next!

https://youtu.be/AhxelkgfLbA?t=350

Posted by: bonhomme at January 11, 2024 04:29 PM (Odg76)

336 Mine sometimes do look like a security detail, 2 in front and 2 behind going upstairs or down.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 11, 2024 04:25 PM (eoQWY)

When it was time for me to put to sleep, the BEST CAT EVAR, we had the vet come to the house. She did a great job setting it all up, and when we were pretty much done with the process, she told me to look at the other cats.

They were pointed in the opposite direction, alert and perched, as if on guard duty. I never noticed it before, but it really did look like they were at attention, keeping watch while their brother was guided on to the next life.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:29 PM (QBaJw)

337 My wife said she wanted to make mad passionate love in the back seat--and she wanted me to drive!

Posted by: "President" Rodney at January 11, 2024 04:29 PM (woPEM)

338 Maybe Dr Oz can help Trump shore up PA?

Look, I don’t want Biden being reelected, but I’ve seen how this ends before. Were handing this election again to democrats. But hopefully Trump has a good time at some more rallies.

Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:30 PM (29cxv)

339 Lol: San Francisco Votes for a “Ceasefire” With Hamas

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Well, they might as well lay down their arms. They've laid everything else.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:30 PM (FVME7)

340 My cat loves me. :-> Heck, my ex's cat loves me too. (He's a cool dude.) My ex's cat likes my cat but my cat hates all other cats.

Posted by: SFGoth

Tune in tomorrow for our new soap opera, Days of our Nine Lives...

Posted by: Gremlin on the wing of Sponge's plane at January 11, 2024 04:30 PM (OUMaO)

341 It's always nice to know that my Catholic grade school had higher standards about plagiarism and absence notes than Our Betters.
Posted by: Chuck C at January 11, 2024 04:28 PM (xttsV)

That's harsh, man.

Posted by: Juan Epstein at January 11, 2024 04:30 PM (T/Lqj)

342 Dear ace,

We're ready for the AMZ/GOOG layoff thread now.

kthxbye

Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 04:31 PM (eEq+b)

343 -
Well, they might as well lay down their arms. They've laid everything else.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:30 PM (FVME7)

*Sobs*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at January 11, 2024 04:31 PM (N3zMI)

344 338 Maybe Dr Oz can help Trump shore up PA?

Look, I don’t want Biden being reelected, but I’ve seen how this ends before. Were handing this election again to democrats. But hopefully Trump has a good time at some more rallies.
Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:30 PM (29cxv)

========

The PA Secretary of State illegally mailed out 250,000 mail in ballots before the 2022 election. Those were simply out in the world to be cured and returned. Nothing was done to the PA Secretary of State. In fact, he became governor.

How does DeSantis (or any other Republican candidate for president, including Trump) counter that?

Please...say lawsuits. That would entertain me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

345 The original story said elective surgery. So whether it was elective surgery, or treatment for prostrate cancer, they're switching it up.

This of course, in copland, is how they try to getcha eventually. Mark down where you switched your story, until you don't remember anymore, and somehow the truth manages to emerge.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:17 PM

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Technically it was elective surgery, because it wasn't an acute emergency requiring immediate attention. But they knew that to most people, "elective" = "nothing serious.". So they made sure to call it "elective" until it came out that he has prostate cancer.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 11, 2024 04:32 PM (EEoJD)

346 290 WEF at Davos warn of disease X with 20x more fatality.

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Plus the dead shall rise as zombies!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

That's nice of WEF to let us know ahead of time. Let me guess, it will hit next month? Or a bit later so it effects the elections?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 04:32 PM (sAmhv)

347 Mensa member in Austin, TX pulls a gun on TEN cops and starts shooting. You'll never guess what happens next!

A lot of dogs die?

Posted by: spindrift at January 11, 2024 04:33 PM (AA8bA)

348 Nothing was done to the PA Secretary of State. In fact, he became governor.

Shapiro was AG, not SecState. He sued the Little Sisters of the Poor after their first SCOTUS win

Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 04:34 PM (eEq+b)

349 > A lot of dogs die?

Well, three bystanders got shot in addition to the moron who pulled a gun and shot at ten cops who had him surrounded.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 11, 2024 04:34 PM (Odg76)

350 347 Mensa member in Austin, TX pulls a gun on TEN cops and starts shooting. You'll never guess what happens next!

A lot of dogs die?
Posted by: spindrift

Austin? A drum circle formed?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 04:35 PM (sAmhv)

351 348 Nothing was done to the PA Secretary of State. In fact, he became governor.

Shapiro was AG, not SecState. He sued the Little Sisters of the Poor after their first SCOTUS win
Posted by: kallisto at January 11, 2024 04:34 PM (eEq+b)

========

Even better!

The effective chief of police of the state refused to bring charges against the Secretary of State who broke the law and undermined the election in 2022!

That gets fixed with a better candidate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

352 Cheri, you must have dogs. My cats do not think of me as a god, or a demi-god, or even a king or prince among humans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024
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Either you need to get new cats or they need to get a new human...

Wait a minute...My cats feel exactly the same way about me!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024

***
Don't get me wrong, Perfessor; they *like* me and like my company (well, I'm not sure about Dagny La Siberienne), but they don't worship me. They remain resolutely unimpressed with most things I do.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:35 PM (J2vNu)

353 Technically it was elective surgery, because it wasn't an acute emergency requiring immediate attention. But they knew that to most people, "elective" = "nothing serious.". So they made sure to call it "elective" until it came out that he has prostate cancer.
Posted by: Bigsmith at January 11, 2024 04:32 PM (EEoJD)

The lie is in the technicality. This is how modern world works. You keep playing games with the truth, until nobody has the time or energy to combat the effort to keep the truth from coming out.

They're hiding something. At this point I don't care what it is. They're lying sacks of shit, and need to keep being called out for it. Every time, everywhere.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:36 PM (QBaJw)

354 Josh Shapiro is a piece of shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2024 04:36 PM (4iXOd)

355 Don't get me wrong, Perfessor; they *like* me and like my company (well, I'm not sure about Dagny La Siberienne), but they don't worship me. They remain resolutely unimpressed with most things I do.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024 04:35 PM (J2vNu)
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Maybe take up juggling?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024 04:36 PM (7fElN)

356 NOOD

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 11, 2024 04:36 PM (Q4IgG)

357 352 Cheri, you must have dogs. My cats do not think of me as a god, or a demi-god, or even a king or prince among humans.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 11, 2024
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Either you need to get new cats or they need to get a new human...

Wait a minute...My cats feel exactly the same way about me!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 11, 2024

***
Don't get me wrong, Perfessor; they *like* me and like my company (well, I'm not sure about Dagny La Siberienne), but they don't worship me. They remain resolutely unimpressed with most things I do.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

To cats, we are staff.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at January 11, 2024 04:36 PM (sAmhv)

358 Andrea Mew: Gen Z Is The Most Susceptible To Propaganda—Here’s How You Can Tell If You’re Being Targeted

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That's because they're dumber than dogshit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter 2024 at January 11, 2024 04:37 PM (FVME7)

359 Speaking of cats. A cat saves its "brother" dog from a coyote.
Sunny Skyz story and video. Video may take a bit to load, or maybe that's just my computer:

http://tinyurl.com/2fakxx6h

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 11, 2024 04:37 PM (Ki//m)

360 NOODlum...

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

361 And, it's NOT what I was expecting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 11, 2024 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

362 Sock-b-gone.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Nick Saban for President! at January 11, 2024 04:38 PM (OUMaO)

363 nood

For real this time?

Posted by: Fetterman at January 11, 2024 04:38 PM (bSSoQ)

364 The lie is in the technicality. This is how modern world works. You keep playing games with the truth, until nobody has the time or energy to combat the effort to keep the truth from coming out.

They're hiding something. At this point I don't care what it is. They're lying sacks of shit, and need to keep being called out for it. Every time, everywhere.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:36 PM

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Yep

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 11, 2024 04:38 PM (EEoJD)

365 Josh Shapiro is a piece of shit.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 11, 2024 04:36 PM (4iXOd)

True. Now what? Most if not all politicians are POSs, it's a requirement for taking the ticket.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at January 11, 2024 04:38 PM (L13ne)

366 They're hiding something. At this point I don't care what it is. They're lying sacks of shit, and need to keep being called out for it. Every time, everywhere.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 11, 2024 04:36 PM (QBaJw)

That would be my guess.

Posted by: mrp at January 11, 2024 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

367 He left the deep state in charge.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at January 11, 2024 04:40 PM (J8LnB)

368 So, because fraud happened, we clearly can’t ever care about candidate quality again. Let’s just run Trump forever!

Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:43 PM (29cxv)

369 368 So, because fraud happened, we clearly can’t ever care about candidate quality again. Let’s just run Trump forever!
Posted by: Wireless at January 11, 2024 04:43 PM (29cxv)

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Well, that's certainly not an answer to my question at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 11, 2024 04:46 PM (GBKbO)

370 Mensa member in Austin, TX pulls a gun on TEN cops and starts shooting. You'll never guess what happens next!

https://youtu.be/AhxelkgfLbA?t=350
Posted by: bonhomme

Unless I missed something, after they absolutely smoked him, they then yelled at him to drop the gun. Um, gun was dropped after he was, right?

Posted by: Cheri at January 11, 2024 04:49 PM (oiNtH)

371 Court Martial is in Order

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 11, 2024 05:41 PM (wGqjj)

372 That's called AWOL, even if you're in charge.
Well, no, it's not. Because he is a civilian, NOT in the military, he does not fall under the UCMJ.

There's lots of valid, bad things you can say about his really stupid idea to hide his illness, but it being "AWOL" is not one of them. You can compare it to being AWOL, but it isn't AWOL.

Also, you can't court martial him for this.

Posted by: GWB at January 11, 2024 05:46 PM (32nmx)

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