The Morning Report — 1/17/24

Good morning, kids. While the meat of today's links is about the Iowa Caucuses and what they mean going forward, there's a potential, heh, "Mexican standoff" brewing down in Texas between that state and the Junta in DC that has major ramifications for the nation, or whatever the nation will become going forward. Whatever one feels about Governor Greg Abbott and State AG Ken Paxton, their actions over the past year indicate that, to paraphrase George S. Patton, "Alinsky, you malignant bastard, I read your book!" That is, they've taken to heart Rule #4:

Leftist governors and mayors made a huge deal out of declaring sanctuary status for illegal aliens, in that they are immune from federal laws regarding citizenship, legal status, deportation, etc. They completely bastardized the 9th and 10th Amendment in what is de facto nullification of legitimate federal law. Make no mistake; the Left hate the Constitution yet are quite adept at using/abusing it as both shield and cudgel whenever they feel it's to their advantage.

So when Biden intentionally erased our borders and allowed several million foreigners to invade us in the past three years, Abbott (and DeSantis in FL) said, "Okay, be our guest!" At the outset, quite a few of us thought it was a stunt and it wouldn't last. But as it turns out, it's quite possibly one of, if not the most brilliant political moves in recent memory. Flooding blue cities with the illegal aliens has strained their budgets and city services to such an extent that the citizenry are in open revolt. It has the potential – the potential – to alienate them temporarily and perhaps permanently from the the Democrat Party going forward. Remember, as bad as this crisis is, it's on top of a crashing national economy and worse the decriminalization of crime that has ravaged cities across the country.

Eric Adams' and Brandon Johnson's attempts to blame Abbott are falling on deaf ears. Ditto their pleas for help from the source of the catastrophe: Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants. More money is not going to solve this. The only thing that will is sealing the border, cutting off illegals from Tio Azucar while deporting the millions already here. Including as many as we can going back to the abomination of the Hart-Celler Act and passing a law abolishing that. Of course, those are non-starters with the Dems and too many in the Grand Old Potemkin Party.

That's just the first blow in the one-two punch Abbott is hitting back with. He is attempting as best he can to physically seal off the Rio Grande from the invading hordes. Evidently, it's working to the extent that the Junta in DC is trying to stop it. Cue the High Noon imagery.

A strongly worded letter from the Department of Homeland Security to the State of Texas demands access to the U.S.-Mexico border on land seized by the State in Eagle Pass. DHS officials ordered the State to cease and desist its efforts to block Border Patrol’s access in and around Shelby Park “and remove all barriers to access” by the end of the day on January 17.

Texas’s actions are clearly unconstitutional and are actively disrupting the federal government’s operations,” DHS General Counsel Jonathan E. Meyer wrote in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “We demand that Texas cease and desist its efforts to block Border Patrol’s access in and around the Shelby Park area and remove all barriers to access in the Shelby Park area.” The counsel sets a deadline of the end of the day on January 17.

“The recent actions by the State of Texas have impeded (emphasis added) operations of the Border Patrol. Those actions conflict with the authority and duties of Border Patrol under federal law and are preempted under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution,” Meyer stated.

The use of the word “impeded” by the DHS general counsel could imply a threat of criminal action against officers and agents of the State of Texas who are carrying out the orders of Governor Abbott to secure Shelby Park and prevent Border Patrol’s entry to the area.

Under federal law 18 U.S. Code § 111, it is a federal crime to “impede” or “interfere” with certain officers or employees of the federal government. . .

. . . On the evening of January 11, the Texas Military Department seized Shelby Park in Eagle Pass and expelled Border Patrol agents, Breitbart Texas reported. Border Patrol officials told Breitbart Texas that Texas National Guard units quickly moved into Shelby Park in Eagle Pass on Thursday. The guardsmen erected barriers around the park and instructed Border Patrol agents to leave the area.

The following night, a Mexican migrant woman and two small children drowned in the Rio Grande near Shelby Park. Mexican officials rescued other migrants in distress and recovered the bodies of the three drowned migrants. Biden [junta] officials and U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) blamed the drownings on Governor Abbott’s decision to keep Border Patrol agents from accessing the park. Abbott responded, calling the claims “wholly inaccurate.”

. . .In an apparent response to the DHS letter, Governor Abbott posted on X, “Biden is doing everything possible to eliminate strategies that actually prevent illegal immigrants from entering our country. Texas will continue to use every tool possible to block illegal immigration.”

A couple of things. First, the Junta is – surprise! – lying about the timeline of events that led to the drowning. The victims were already dead by the time CBP got there and it was the Mexican authorities that pulled them from the water. The notion that CBP was prevented by Texas from rescuing them is a blood libel. Second, if people are stupid enough to attempt to cross a dangerous body of water and die in the process, the responsibility is both theirs and the Biden Junta itself for encouraging them to do so in the first place.

More crucially, we now have a standoff between the Federal government and a sovereign state, in this case Texas. Funny how when blue states "nullify" Federal law, it's totes kosher, but when a red state does it, it's tantamount to, wait for it, "insurrection." In this case we had Texas law enforcement preventing CBP and DHS from accessing the border. It should be noted that the latter have been regularly going down to the river to cut the razor wire that Abbott's men have erected to keep the invaders out.

Something's got to give and so far Abbott and Paxton to their credit are standing (no pun) their ground.

The increasing heat between state governments and the feds may be reaching a virtual boiling point, as the Biden Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Friday added a supplemental filing to the Administration’s days-old request for the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to “reinstate” federal control over the southern Texas border with Mexico. . .

. . . some very important, very fundamental, questions arise when reading or hearing terms such as “Border Patrol” and “DHS.” Those are heavy and powerful constitutional questions that, likely, the Supreme Court majority – however it is composed when the Justices make a decision – will not address. . . it is absolutely essential that Americans understand that the word “immigration” is not in the US Constitution, and that any federal politician or bureaucrat who claims power to control the Texas border, or even to get access to its southern border, is breaching the rules in that founding document.

Many Americans conflate the power in Article One, Section Eight, granting the Congress ability to create a rule of naturalization, with the power to create a rule over immigration. Naturalization is, of course, how visitors become American citizens, not whether visitors can be on the soil of any U.S. state. . .

. . . The Founders understood that immigration was not a federal power. Thomas Jefferson said so himself in his 1798 Kentucky Resolution Number Four, which was a slap at the Alien Act pushed by then-President, John Adams . . .

. . . Left hanging is the matter of whether the US Constitution authorizes the feds to be involved, or if the matter of the lost migrants is one left to Texas during a time when no War has been declared. Clearly, the Founders left the matter in the hands of the state and the Texas Bureau of Immigration.

Like everything else these days I have very little faith in what the Supreme Court will rule. Roberts is a stooge and even the Trump picks have been spotty at best. If Abbott and Paxton are willing to tell Biden to piss up a rope, is it fair to assume that a ruling from SCOTUS that upholds the Junta will elicit the same response?

This is both a crucial test and a potential flashpoint of the dissolution and breakup of the United States. Because if Abbott stands his ground, it would give other red state governors a reason to stand their ground against the Junta on this and other issues from EPA land seizures to thwart oil exploration, imposition of DEI regimes in the schools and on and on. What Abbott and Paxton are doing is a direct threat to the authority of the Federal government. In this case, an illegitimate and abusive one that is abusing the citizenry of Texas and indeed the entire nation.

As we all know, whenever a tyrant is threatened, he/she ultimately will resort to the use of force to crush that opposition. In this case, the only option for DC if Abbott and Paxton continue to block DHS and CBP from the Rio Grande is to use force to impose its will on them. That means potentially arresting them both and perhaps the Republican members of the TX legislature and taking over the running of the state. Sound crazy? Would they go that far?

Of course, I am merely attempting to play out one possible scenario. Abbott and Paxton could also conceivably collapse like a wet taco. But given the gravity of the crisis and their raising the ante in physically blocking federal agents, I can't imagine them backing down now. Not with a likely majority of Texans and the rest of real America behind them.

The ball is in the Junta's court. Whether they know it or not, and I believe they do, the stakes are enormous. They cannot back down because to do so is both a massive, embarrassing failure as well as tacit admission that opening the border (despite the bullshit lies that they're not to blame) was a mistake. They are actively seeking to replace what's left of the American citizenry with a majority of third world peasants who will eagerly keep them in permanent power in return for whatever's left in the US Treasury.

That scenario is playing out not only here but all over the world, and with the resurgence of Trump as well as the election of "populist" (that is no longer a dirty word) leaders in Europe, the Davos-Brussels-Beijing Axis is getting antsy. What to do to stop it? Yup, once more with feeling!

Of course, ensuring people get diets full of protein and other immune-system-enhancing nutrients doesn’t allow Big Pharma to prosper, nor bureaucrats to mandate policies on the global scale (which they themselves will ignore).

Well, it turns out that Disease X is on the agenda at Davos.

It comes after warnings from experts that a hypothetical new pandemic could kill 20 times more people than the recent coronavirus outbreak. It is hoped that with the correct research framework in place and enough knowledge in place on a global level, a future pandemic could be eliminated in just 100 days.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of a potential Disease X since 2017, a term indicating an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic. Speaking to the WEF on its Radio Davos podcast last year, author Kate Kelland said that extensive research into already-known families of viruses would help humanity prepare and create a vaccine quickly for the the next outbreak.

She said: “Because scientists were working for decades or more on Sars vaccines and also on Mers vaccine, they found out some very key pieces of information about coronaviruses. If we do that kind of homework on every one of the 25 or so viral families that we already know have the potential to cause disease in humans … then we can actually gain a lot of knowledge ahead of time about something that doesn’t exist yet.”

I predict the attendees at Davos will remain oblivious to how their policies will be received.

They may be oblivious, but they don't really give a shit, do they? And this Disease X that doesn't exist yet? Umm, who had the Andromeda Strain on their Bingo cards?

In a Wuhan-esque study, Chinese scientists are experimenting with a mutant COVID-19 strain that has a 100% kill streak in “humanized” mice. The deadly virus — known as GX_P2V — attacked the brains of mice that were engineered to reflect similar genetic makeup to people, according to a study shared last week out of Beijing.

“This underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans and provides a unique model for understanding the pathogenic mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2-related viruses,” the authors wrote.

The deadly virus is a mutated version of GX/2017, a coronavirus cousin that was reportedly discovered in Malaysian pangolins in 2017 — three years before the pandemic. All the mice that were infected with the virus died within just eight days, which researchers noted was a “surprisingly” rapid death rate.

GX_P2V had infected the lungs, bones, eyes, tracheas, and brains of the dead mice, the last of which was severe enough to ultimately cause the death of the animals. In the days before their deaths, the mice had quickly lost weight, exhibited a hunched posture, and moved extremely sluggishly. Most eerie of all, their eyes turned completely white the day before they died.

Although terrifying, the study is the first of its kind to report a 100% mortality rate in mice infected by the COVID-19-related virus — far surpassing previously reported results from another study, the researchers wrote. More importantly, the results of the study do not indicate how it would impact human beings. Francois Balloux, an epidemiology expert at the University College London’s Genetics Institute, slammed the research as “terrible” and “scientifically totally pointless.

“I can see nothing of vague interest that could be learned from force-infecting a weird breed of humanized mice with a random virus. Conversely, I could see how much stuff might go wrong,” the professor wrote on X. “The preprint does not specify the biosafety level and biosafety precautions used for the research,” he continued. “The absence of this information raises the concerning possibility that part or all of this research, like the research in Wuhan in 2016-2019 that likely caused the Covid-19 pandemic, recklessly was performed without the minimal biosafety containment and practices essential for research with potential pandemic pathogens.

Professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Ruger’s University Richard H. Ebright backed up Balloux’s concerns with a simple: “concur.” Dr. Gennadi Glinsky, a retired professor of medicine at Stanford, wrote: “This madness must be stopped before too late.”

The end of this article is to laugh, after your head explodes:

The 2024 study does not appear to have any ties to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was the center of lab leak theories surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. US intelligence agencies over the summer found no direct evidence that the lab leaked the coronavirus, though did not rule out the possibility that the virus came from a different one.

It's the NY Post, which is rapidly degenerating in quality and veracity now that the Murdoch spawn are in charge.

That said, at least Klassik KOVID was essentially treatable with readily available and cheap anti-virals, until Big Pharma pimped vaccines that were dangerous, untested and lethal. From what this virus can do to "humanized mice" – what the Feminists have turned men into, by the way – the Luddites and Malthusians will be able to get to net zero in record time.

Not net zero carbon emission but net zero global population.

Old and Busted - "You will have nothing and like it."
New Hotness - "You will be nothing."

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• ". . . are we headed down a path where our police departments are one day full of illegal immigrants from enemy nations? Imagine the United States being policed by non-Americans from countries such as China and Iran. I can hear Klaus Schwab licking his evil chops at such a thought. Like I asked earlier, what could go wrong?"
  Blue States Are Hiring Illegals as Police, Giving Them Guns
  
• "Even when evidence indicates potential crimes, some government officials have declined to investigate and ensure the integrity of elections."
  Why Doesn’t the FBI Want to Get to the Bottom of Alleged Massachusetts Cash-for-Vote Scheme?
  
• "The classes that brought you the War on Terror and the Great Recession are getting away scot-free yet again."
  Covid: Another Accountability-Free Crisis
  
• "Choose a higher aim than service to a regime that hates you. Instead, seek to undermine that regime and replace it with one that is better and more noble."
  A Message to the Young Men on the Right

ISRAEL AT WAR
• "The IDF said the tunnel underneath the major highway was 'hundreds of meters long and around nine meters deep.' It was used to transport Hamas thugs 'undetected' between northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, Emanuel Fabian, The Times of Israel military correspondent, tweeted Tuesday."
  Video Shows IDF Detonate Massive Tunnel Connecting North and South Gaza
  
• The New York Times: “One tunnel in Gaza was wide enough for a top Hamas official to drive a car inside. Another stretched nearly three football fields long and was hidden beneath a hospital.”
  NYT Report: IDF Estimates There are "Far More" Terror Tunnels Under Gaza
  
• "In primetime Hebrew TV interviews, the released hostages have confirmed that ordinary Gazans were deeply complicit in every stage of the hostage scheme. Unarmed teens helped to abduct Jews from their homes on Oct. 7, while Gazan women and children held some of the Israelis captive. In other cases, Gazan doctors collaborated with Hamas terrorists to covertly treat kidnapped Israelis and imprison them in hospitals." (Liquidate everyone over the age of 8. Deprogram Islam out of the youngest - jjs)
  Gazan "Civilians" Involved in Every Stage of Hamas Hostage Scheme, Freed Israelis Say
  
• "The measure has little chance of passing in the Senate, according to the Times."
  Bernie Sanders To Force Vote That Threatens To Freeze Military Aid to Israel
  
• "Houthi Yemen is thus a test case for policy failure based on unrealistic hopes that irresponsibly breed wider conflicts."
  Houthis, Hamas, and Humanitarian Restraint
  
• "The snow day came after Republican lawmakers vowed to punish any Biden [junta] employees who joined the anti-Israel walkout and as legal experts warned that staffers should expect to lose their jobs if they participated in it."
  Snow Thwarts Anti-Israel Government Employee "Walkout"
  
• Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: "This sounds like a worrying politicisation of the Met police, ­especially after Met officers were seen tearing down posters of Israeli hostages in Gaza,"
  London Police Solicit Reports of "War Crimes" from Travelers to Israel and Gaza, Meet with Pro-"Palestinian" Group to Review Allegations
  
• Robert Spencer: "The same failed 'solution' is offered over and over again."
  Blinken: Hey, You Know What Would Fix This Problem? A Palestinian State
  
• "A monument to the woke idiocy of the statement's authors."
  U of Illinois: Only Queer, Racial, Environmental Justice Will "Free 'Palestine' "

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Robert Spencer: "Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D-What Did You Expect?), invited Jallow to the Executive Residence in May to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Will Evers be asked to apologize and repudiate Jallow? Come on, man! This isn’t a Republican governor we’re talking about. Evers is more likely to bring Jallow back to the mansion and give him an award."
  You Won’t Believe What This Wisconsin Imam Preached — On Second Thought, You Probably Will
  
• "The new report Monday details the abuse suffered by dozens of young girls, including a teenage girl who allegedly died from a drug overdose, an aborted fetus taken by police and a child allegedly forced to act like a dog." (At least Islam gave us algebra . . . - jjs)
  Cops Abandoned Victims of UK Grooming Gang That Repeatedly Raped Underage Girls, Report Says

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

• "Capitol Hill Club set to host Max Blumenthal and Miko Peled."
  National Republican Club Hosts Israel-Bashing Authors

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• Four years after the fact. Gee, what impeccable timing. Traitors the lot of them. - jjs
  Department of Justice Acknowledges Hunter Biden Laptop Content is Legitimate for First Time
  
• "Hunter is now facing three federal gun-related felony charges over the ordeal. Additionally, he has three felony and six misdemeanor counts pending against him in Los Angeles for allegedly evading $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019. . . Hunter Biden has used his drug addiction and recovery efforts — he now claims to have achieved sobriety — as a cudgel against congressional and legal scrutiny."
  Another "Blow": Hunter Biden’s Gun Pouch Tested for Cocaine Last Year After Sister-in-Law Turned Lover Hallie Tossed it In the Trash in '18: Docs

  COLORADO & MAINE TRUMP 2024 BALLOT BANS

• "The Colorado Supreme Court wasn’t interested in the history of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment but let’s hope that the Robert’s Supreme Court is." (History vs Leftist political expediency? You name the winner - jjs)
  The 14th Amendment’s History Militates Against Colorado’s Ruling Against Trump

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

• "Kemp’s Davos vacation suggests he prefers to socialize with global elites than combat corruption in his own state of Georgia." (Suggests? Confirms. - jjs)
  Worthless Turd Brian Kemp Flies to Davos While Refusing to Open Criminal Probe into Fani Willis
  
• "Attorneys for Ms. Carroll are expected to move to strike jurors identified by Judge Kaplan as having right-leaning political beliefs. While striking potentially unfavorable jurors is standard for the jury selection process, the active involvement of the presiding judge is uncommon — but not unheard of."
  Trump Trial Judge Screened For Jurors Who Believe 2020 Election Stolen, Posted on Truth Social or Rumble

  CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Why did the Democrats have such a fit when House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) authorized the release of Capitol CCTV from Jan. 6, 2021? It's obvious by now, isn't it? The footage has disproven the narrative that Democrats have pushed for years. For example, according to the Democrats, the Capitol riot was a violent insurrection. But footage released in November contradicted that narrative because it showed protestors calmly marching in the Capitol with security looking on without even the slightest concern. 
  Bombshell J6 Footage Exposes Malig-Nancy Pelosi's Security Guard's Lies
  
• Scott McKay: "Every time the former president had an opportunity to speak the truth to America, he chose to do the opposite."
  Obama Destroyed Martin Luther King’s Dream
  
• "Claims that Trump would exact revenge on his political enemies are ramping up, particularly as he appears poised to become the Republican presidential nominee." (Talk like this paves the way for government-sanctioned public violence if not direct government violence, against Trump and us - jjs)
  Never Trumper Claims Donald Trump Wants His Own Mercenary Force
  
• “Tonight, at the Timberline Caucus, as I spoke on behalf of President Trump an enraged man attempted to stop my speech. He shouted Trump was ‘racist.’ You know, the same tired trope we’ve heard over and over again,” Hunt said on Twitter. “But on this day, of all days, Martin Luther King Day, the people of Iowa, just like President Trump judge me not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character. The anti-Trump movement is in full blown meltdown.”
  GOP Rep. Wesley Hunt Fires Back at Heckler Calling Him "Racist" for Supporting Trump

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• Texas’ actions are clearly unconstitutional and are actively disrupting the federal government’s operations,” DHS General Counsel Jonathan E. Meyer wrote in a letter to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “We demand that Texas cease and desist its efforts to block Border Patrol’s access in and around the Shelby Park area and remove all barriers to access in the Shelby Park area.” The counsel sets a deadline of the end of the day on January 17. (Flounder voice: "Oh boy, this is gonna be great!!!" - jjs)
  BORDER SHOWDOWN: Texas Must Give Feds Access by Jan. 18, or Else, Says Biden Junta
  
• "In the face of federal opposition and local Republican indifference, Texas citizens demand that we secure our borders."
  Combating the Federal Government’s Determination to Allow a Border Invasion
  
• "The increasing heat between state governments and the feds may be reaching a virtual boiling point, as the Biden Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Friday added a supplemental filing to the Administration’s days-old request for the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to 'reinstate' federal control over the southern Texas border with Mexico."
  Biden Takes Texas To SCOTUS Over Border Dispute
  
• ". . . the [junta's] own accounting of the incident by the DOJ makes clear that the allegations against Texas authorities were false. The DOJ states that at 9:00 p.m. on January 12, the Mexican government informed Border Patrol that three migrants, two children and one woman, had drowned at 8:00 p.m. Border Patrol informed the Texas Military Department of the drowning over an hour after it had occurred."
  White House Fact-Checked by Own Officials on Migrant Drowning
  
• Authorities have not disclosed on which airline the infected individual was traveling. Doctors have warned that the ongoing border crisis poses a significant health concern as migrants threaten to spread diseases once rare in the U.S."
  DC Health Officials Warn of Measles Exposure at Dulles, Reagan Airports
  
• "Here’s an idea. If you’re too cold, just do what you did to get to this country and enter it illegally — move. Or, you can go back to your more comfortable climate."
  Illegal Aliens IN CHICAGO Are Whining About the Cold Weather

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

• "MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow announced on-air that Trump had just began giving his speech but that the network decided not to air it because it did not want to knowingly broadcast 'untrue things' . . . CNN was not much better, airing only a short portion of Trump’s speech, until he began talking about the border. . .
  MSNSDAP, XiNN Refuse to Air Donald Trump’s Victory Speech in Iowa but Air Haley and DeSantis Speeches
  
• Michael Goodwin: "There’s no mystery in any of this. There’s only a corrupt media that believe they know what is best for America and are entitled to pick the president. Trump supporters have the courage to disagree. For this, they must be shunned." (Spot on and kudos to Goodwin for resisting the temptation to personally ding Trump - jjs)
  As Trump Nears GOP Nomination, Elitist Media Again Treats American Voters They're Stupid – It's 2016 All Over Again
  
• ". . . there is no upside to Haley standing on a stage with DeSantis. Better to treat him like what he is: an also-ran’s also-ran. I like DeSantis. He’s a great governor. But his presidential campaign has been a total catastrophe; the worst by a major player I have ever witnessed. Haley might do okay in New Hampshire, but Trump is set up to wallop her in the next primary state, South Carolina, and it’s difficult to imagine her staying in the race if she gets walloped in her home state."
  Far-Left ABC Cancels Debate After Trump, Haley Refuse to Participate
  
• "Apparently, the media learned nothing from uncritically hyping a series of previous would-be Trump-slayers who ultimately flamed out, including Michael Avenatti, Michael Cohen, and 'Russiagate' special counsel Robert Mueller."
  FLASHBACK: Media Rave About "Strong Black" Woman Fani Willis "Standing Up to Donald Trump"
  
• "Democrats get 'fact-checkers' as a fringe benefit."
  Biden Launches 2024 Campaign With "Fact-Checker" Silence
  
• "Jean-Pierre claimed, falsely, that the Texas Military Department interfered with U.S. Border Patrol agents as they attempted to rescue a migrant family from drowning. The story had already been disavowed by the U.S. Department of Justice and the governor of Texas. Jean-Pierre also claimed, falsely, that police officers died as a result of injuries sustained during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021." (She lies for a living. The only issue is how good of a liar she is, and she's the Claudine Gay of Pinocchios - jjs)
  Jean-Pierre’s Lies at Presser: from Border to January 6
  * * * * *

• In a new paper, the researchers say they were able to train the LLMs to engage in “strategically deceptive behavior,” which they define as “behaving helpfully in most situations, but then behaving very differently to pursue alternative objectives when given the opportunity.” The scientists then sought to discover if they could identify when the LLMs engaged in such behavior, and re-train them from doing so. The answer was no.
  Researchers Who Developed "Evil" AI Report They Can’t "Untrain" It (Evil AI is a redundancy, like radical Islam - jjs)

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "The Trump administration saw for the first time in decades an influx back into the country of major critical industries—and a slowdown in the drain out of the country of other critical industries. Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum imports essentially saved those industries. Now, under Biden, U.S. Steel—once a 'powerhouse' company representing American strength—is reportedly possibly about to be sold to a Japanese competitor."
  Trump on "Made in America": "We Were Moving Big on Bringing All That Back," But Biden Screwed It Up
  
• “Let’s be very clear: In a global economy, and in fragile geopolitical times, it is in America’s best interest for other economies to grow and succeed through free markets. Prosperous nations are stable nations — they become partners, allies, and ballasts against authoritarianism,” Clark said. (Suzanne Clark resembles ballast - jjs)
  Gas-Chamber of Commerce Rages Against Trump’s Economic Nationalism: The Global Economy at Risk
  
• "Optimism from the wrong people isn’t reassuring."
  Does Economic Recession Loom in Our Future?

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

• "Meanwhile, Axios complains the Europeans are leading the US in ESG investing now!"
  Woke Business Managers Rebranding “ESG” Investment as “Responsible Business
  
• Democrat New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s administration effectuated a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags in May 2022 intending to reduce pollution, but the policy appears to have actually increased consumption of plastics, according to a new report by the Freedonia Group, a “premier international business research company.” While the ban appears to have achieved the opposite outcome as intended, it has proven to be a boon for retailers in the state.
  Blue State’s Aggressive Plastic Bag Ban Has Failed Miserably So Far, Report Finds
  
• "There are similar demonstrations by angry farmers in Romania, as well as protests planned in Poland and Bulgaria."
  German Finance Minister Tells Protesting Farmers He Can’t Make Promises About Budget
  
• "That's a stupid question."
  John Kerry Snaps at Reporter Asking Him About His "Carbon Footprint" at Davos
  
• "We hope the White House climate envoy will do less damage in his next 'job.'" (He's now on Biden's campaign - jjs)
  John Kerry: Goodbye, Good Riddance
  
• "The green energy scam continues to poison the West. It’s driven by a combination of affluence and ignorance, and it spells the end of civilization as we know it."
  2024 Promises the Expansion of the Green Energy Scam
  
• “This is crazy. It’s a disaster. Seriously.” (So was Communism. And yet, unlike EV batteries, it keeps going and going and going and . . . - jjs)
  Deep Freeze in Illinois Strands Tesla, Electric Vehicle Owners in Parking Lots

  AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS

• "In the days before their deaths, the mice had quickly lost weight, exhibited a hunched posture and moved extremely sluggishly. Most eerie of all, their eyes turned completely white the day before they died. . . Francois Balloux, an epidemiology expert at the University College London’s Genetics Institute, slammed the research as 'terrible' and 'scientifically totally pointless.'” (Geopolitically, it makes perfect sense. Thanks, Fauci! - jjs)
  Chinese Lab Crafts Mutant COVID-19 Strain with 100% Kill Streak in "Humanized" Mice: "Surprisingly" Rapid Death

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• After engaging in what many viewed as an embarrassing display of hubris in her attempt last fall to issue “Executive Orders” attacking the right to keep and bear arms and ammunition, New Mexico's Democrat governor backed off the orders - but her hubris seems to remain, as last week she fought for the EO move in the New Mexico Supreme Court and engaged in another bold attack.
  NM Governor Pushes "Legislative Session" to Pass Gun Grabs After "Exec Orders" Fall Flat
  
• "Florida’s constitutional carry law may not be the sole reason for those numbers, but this is the exact opposite of what Democrats claimed would happen after the law passed. Indeed, it’s fair to suspect respecting citizens’ constitutional right to self-defense played a role in the crime decline. Good guys with guns can deter, prevent, and even stop crime. The legal use of firearms helps thwart an estimated 2.5 million crimes a year."
  After Media-Brutalized Gun Freedom Law, Violent Crime Drops In Florida

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "The costly program seeks to create an 'inclusive teen pregnancy program for transgender boys.'"
  Federal Government to Spend $700,000 on Trans-Inclusive Sex Ed for 14-Year-Olds
  
• "If we truly want to prevent basic scientific fact, truth, ethics, and freedom culture from going the way of the dodo bird, parents need to fight tooth-and-nail against the madness coming out of public schools." (And that puts them at risk of the Junta targeting them as potential terrorists - jjs)
  Most Americans Believe Parents Have the Right to Opt Out of Objectionable Curriculum
  
• Robert Zimmerman: "The effort nationwide in many legislatures to end the very racist “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” (DEI) departments that now poison universities everywhere are not only failing, they are illustrating the emptiness of most of that effort."
  Toxic and Incompetent Academia

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• "Raffensperger’s general counsel sent Factcheck.org a ‘legal analysis’ that attempted to discredit my analysis of the voter data."
  Lawsuit Uncovers How Raffensperger Tried to Memory-Hole the Election Law Trump’s Georgia Call Was About
  
• "Vote16USA is a project of Generation Citizen, a progressive New York-based nonprofit. Among its top funders are the Ford Foundation, Bezos Family Foundation, the Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund." (QED - jjs)
  New Jersey’s Biggest City Grants Voting Rights To Minors

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY

• "A Clark County spokesperson told Fox 5 Vegas News last week that Farzaneh-Simmons "is still employed by the county." The question is, will she still be employed by the county once she's convicted of, or pleads guilty to, her two misdemeanor charges? Will she face at least some kind of disciplinary action?" (She will win a dream date with Dana Nessel! - jjs)
  Vegas DA: "I'm Not That Drunk," Before Falling Back Into Car

  POLITICS

• Jeffrey Lord: "It’s officially on for the delegates to the 2024 Republican Convention."
  Iowa Ignites the Race for the GOP’s 1,215
  
• Sohrab Ahmari: “The GOP’s right-liberal elites can rage all they want.”
  Left-Behind America Sticks With Trump
  
• "Though his campaign lacks the enthusiasm of his 2016 bid, the former president coasted to victory against Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley."
  The Trump Train Rolls On
  
• "Ramaswamy’s appearance at the Atkinson, New Hampshire, event Tuesday evening comes the day after he dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Trump following the 45th president’s record-breaking victory in the Iowa Caucuses Monday."
  Vivek at Trump Event: 45th President Will "Shut Down That Deep State"
  
• "Cruz — who had declined to make an endorsement last year, saying that he was friends with both Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — said that Trump’s win on Monday night was 'decisive.'”
  Cruz Endorses Trump: "This Race Is Over"
  
• DeSantis: “The reality is that she is not running for the nomination, she’s running to be Trump’s VP.”
  Nikki Haley Will Only Debate if Donald Trump Shows Up
  
• "Florida’s governor can’t win, but he can split the right’s vote against Nikki Haley." (She should GTFO as well - jjs)
  Iowa Results Show That DeSantis Must Drop Out
  
• David Harsanyi: "It’s too early to hold a funeral for DeSantis’ political career."
  Nothing DeSantis Did Or Didn’t Do Would Have Made Any Difference
  
• Rabbi Dov Fischer: "There is absolutely no one else on the horizon strong enough to — maybe — get things turned around."
  Of Course Trump Won Iowa
  * * * * *

• "The biggest takeaway isn’t about former President Donald Trump, but the Trump voter."
  Trump Dominates in Iowa: What We Learned 
  
• "If DeSantis had better understood the underlying dynamics of the race, he would never have gone directly after Trump." (Except Trump went after him, but I guess that's another story? - jjs)
  Ron DeSantis Failed Spectacularly In Iowa, But It Didn’t Have To Be This Way
  
• "'Why would anyone support Nikki Haley aka Hillary Clinton 2.0?'. . . Former two-term South Carolina Governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley placed third in the Iowa caucuses on Monday."
  Actual Republicans Want Nothing To Do With Nikki Haley
  
• "When you’re running to be the Republican Presidential nominee, the last people you expect to boost your ballot numbers are the ones actively hoping you and all your colleagues fail, but that’s precisely who propelled Haley to win the only county Trump lost in Monday’s Iowa primary race."
  Nikki Haley is the Left’s Favorite Republican
  
• "If you think 2016-23 was bad, this year the Democrats are desperate for many reasons."
  Get Ready for the NeverTrump Follies on Steroids
  
• "A deeper dive into the poll results sheds some light on why. As the border crisis rages on, only 18 percent of respondents support Biden’s handling of immigration — the lowest number on record since ABC began polling the issue in 2004. Biden is also facing high disapproval numbers due to his mishandling of the economy. Seventy-one percent of those polled said the economy was bad, with nearly half saying they are worse off now economically than when Donald Trump was president. Overall, 56 percent of people disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy."
  Biden Presidential Approval Rating Drops to Near 20-Year Low
  
• "Manchin would “seriously” consider launching a third-party ticket campaign against Biden if he does not compromise and change his far-left policies, Manchin said, noting that Trump’s Republican nomination would inspire his potential run."
  Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin Threatens Joe Biden with Third-Party Ticket Run
  
• "The MAGA position is founded on a solid intellectual and moral foundation, aspiring to the optimal well-being of all Americans and ultimately to the benefit of everyone else in the world as well."
  The Intellectual Foundations of MAGA

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• David Marcus: ". . . as long as Americans are footing the bill for Ukraine’s existence, they need to avoid letting our citizens die mysteriously in their prisons."
  Gonzalo Lira's Blood is On Joe Biden's Hands (So is pre-teen taint sweat - jjs)
  
• Zelensky called on those in attendance to help bring peace to and restore Ukraine. He had met with the president of Switzerland the day before where they had discussed organizing a global peace summit for Ukraine which Zelensky invited all country leaders at WEF "that respects peace and international law" to join.
  Zelensky Criticizes Those Who Told Him "Don't Escalate" Tensions with Russia at WEF Annual Meeting in Davos

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "The Associated Press reported that the announcement is expected to come as soon as Wednesday and comes after the terrorist group has launched dozens of attacks on merchant vessels over the last couple of months."
  Biden Junta to Re-Designate Houthis as Terrorist Organization After Removing Them From List
  * * * * *

• Iran and China are no doubt on the march, but much of the warnings seem like a poorly disguised argument/plea to give Zelensky money - jjs
  U.K. Gov't Warns: Be Ready for War With China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea in Five Years
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "It’s not incompetence; it’s treason." (Treason is punishable by death. And this is but one count among many. Too bad there is no justice system to mete it out, as it's as guilty as he is - jjs)
  Biden’s Taiwan Betrayal
  
• "The Democratic Progressive Party won decisively, affirming that most Taiwanese want to maintain Taiwan’s separation from communist China."
  Taiwan’s Election Results Humiliate Communist China’s Xi Jinping
  
• "The world was quieter, more stable, and more prosperous when Trump was president. Today, the world is a scary, destabilized place with war breaking out in new locations periodically. Even the pantywaists of Davos can see that, even if they still can't bring themselves to admit why."
  A Looming Second Trump Term Is Ruining Davos' Vibe
  
• "The Davos gatherings are a microcosm of what the Left has in mind for the rest of the world."
  Davos: From Proto-Fascism to Post-Fascism
  
• The Allianz boss urged the “elite” to remember that “a lot of people are going to vote” this year, not only in the United States and the United Kingdom but in roughly 40 nations worldwide.
  Allianz CEO Raises Risk Barometer, Warning Out of Touch Elites are "Number One Risk for Societies"
  
• "According to Sky News, Ireland saw over 140,000 immigrants last year, a 16-year high for the country of 5.1 million. . . Anti- [illegal] immigration activists called for a peaceful protest at the hotel Monday evening on social media. But video footage showed the situation escalating when officers became aggressive with members of the crowd."
  Irish Police Crack Down on Citizens Who Protest Housing of 160 Illegal Immigrants in Roscrea Hotel
  
• "Prime Minister Donald Tusk is moving swiftly to completely undo the legacy of the previous conservative government, which governed Poland from 2015 to late last year. Not only have illegal aliens formerly turned away at the previous government’s border wall been invited to meet the Speaker, but conservatives working for state media have also been fired en masse, and former government ministers have been jailed and expelled from the legislature." (Poland is still deeply Catholic - jjs)
  Poland’s New, Gay Deputy Justice Minister Announces Laws Banning "Hate Speech" Against Gays and Transgenders
  
• “The government has set aside £1 billion to compensate Horizon victims.”
  UK Postmasters vs. Rentier Capitalism

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "Austin, who was released from the hospital on Monday, has come under fire for hiding his hospitalization following cancer surgery from the proper authorities, including the White House, for days. The Defense Secretary’s behavior has resulted in some, including former President Trump, calling for him to be fired."
  Audio Reveals SecDef Austin Staff Tried to Hide Medical Issue, Asked Ambulance to Turn Off Lights, Sirens

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• "After carefully removing organic impurities through a controlled process, samples were thoroughly examined under a microscope. In addition to the four forms of microplastics, researchers also identified four types of polymers: polyethylene, polypropylene, polyethylene terephthalate, and polyester — all of which have potential implications for human health." (Meh, like Joe Jackson sang, "Everything gives you cancer" - jjs)
  Humans Consume Over 1,000 Microplastics Annually Through Table Salt

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

• "Texas law prohibits prescribing puberty blockers and hormones to children. While the Texas Children’s Hospital has reportedly said it would not provide such procedures to minors, Dr. Haim came forward as a whistleblower  and gave documents to journalist Christopher Rufo that allegedly expose the hospital for behaving otherwise. The documents claim the children’s hospital has never abided by the Texas law. In one instance, a doctor allegedly surgically inserted a drug-delivery implant in an 11-year-old patient." (De-frock and imprison every friggin' cannibal witch doctor in that hell hole - jjs)
  Surgeon Whistleblower Alleges Texas Children’s Hospital Ignores Law Protecting Children from Transgender Procedures

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "On Monday, the conservative X account Libs of TikTok posted pictures of Kirby appearing to don a long purple and blonde wig, black eye makeup, a stuffed bra, chaps, and a lot of leather, as well as a blonde wig, white dress, and purple feather boa." (You are now free to move about Mayor Pete's rumpus room . . . - jjs)
  Report: United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby Has History of Dressing in Drag as Kesha, Taylor Swift
  
• Christian Toto: "Jodie Foster headlines fourth season of once-mighty HBO anthology series."
  True Detective’s Woke Makeover, Explained

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:02 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Its Hump Day

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:02 AM (lwOKI)

3 Good morning, JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2024 08:02 AM (S+f/u)

4 Thank you, JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 08:03 AM (hH3Px)

5 Good morning, J.J. and Horde.

8° here in North Alabama

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 17, 2024 08:03 AM (3CCua)

6 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 17, 2024 08:03 AM (T4tVD)

7 I just want to say, everything Ace said about me yesterday was complete bullshit. I've never said or implied any of those things. He declared he was switching to democrat so he could feel like 'his side' was fighting for him in one thread and I called him a libtard in the next thread. Period.

He decided to trash me and make up a bunch of shit to make himself feel better. Whatever it takes, I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)

8 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2024 08:04 AM (Q4IgG)

9
Propane delivered. It's a 500 gallon tank that they fill 400 gallons or to 80%. Amount put in: 397 gallons. I am not looking forward to the invoice.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2024 08:05 AM (MoZTd)

10 5 Good morning, J.J. and Horde.

8° here in North Alabama
Posted by: BifBewalski at January 17, 2024 08:03 AM (3CCua)


Luxury! Minus 8 in Southern WI.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:06 AM (x0n13)

11 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at January 17, 2024 08:06 AM (53oGX)

12 9 Propane delivered. It's a 500 gallon tank that they fill 400 gallons or to 80%. Amount put in: 397 gallons. I am not looking forward to the invoice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2024 08:05 AM (MoZTd)

Possible Eric Clapton/Weird Al remake?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:07 AM (x0n13)

13 Are we rooting for the Apocalypse?

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:07 AM (PCK5/)

14 no school today, better be some tits in Art thread

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 17, 2024 08:07 AM (sJHOI)

15
We're up to 21 degrees!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2024 08:08 AM (MoZTd)

16 Disregard whatever The SCROTUM says or has to say.

Each State should nullify warshington dc until warshington dc is irrelevant and obsolete, along with The SCROTUM.

Their rules. Let Texas tell you something, pendejos. If the federales pull any of their crazy shit with Texas, they flash a piece out on the lanes, Texas will take it away from them, and stick it up their asses and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes "click."

Nobody fucks with the Texas.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 17, 2024 08:08 AM (515bZ)

17 No wonder they tried to destroy Paxton. He fights like few do.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2024 08:09 AM (OeUnR)

18 Abbot and Paxton's actions in Texas are a direct slap in the face to FJB and his minions.

It's now a personal point of "honor" (*spit*) for them to respond with the full weight and power of the federal government.

They may very well send down the Army to patrol the border and keep it open.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:09 AM (7fElN)

19 War in five years?! We can't wait that long!

Posted by: GOPe at January 17, 2024 08:09 AM (Angsy)

20 Eons from now, some species will rule the earth and uncover evidence Wuhan was the source (and cause) of the end of all humanity.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 08:09 AM (H5+/D)

21 Propane delivered. It's a 500 gallon tank that they fill 400 gallons or to 80%. Amount put in: 397 gallons. I am not looking forward to the invoice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2024 08:05 AM (MoZTd)

How long will that last?

Posted by: dantesed at January 17, 2024 08:11 AM (88xKn)

22 It's Benjamin Franklin Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2024 08:11 AM (NpAcC)

23 no school today, better be some tits in Art thread
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 17, 2024 08:07 AM (sJHOI)

Paging Chris Christie......

Posted by: JT at January 17, 2024 08:11 AM (T4tVD)

24 They may very well send down the Army to patrol the border and keep it open.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:09 AM (7fElN)

A perfect and viciously absurdist outcome. The federal government using our military to destroy us and anybody who dares to stand in the way of their plan for our destruction.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2024 08:12 AM (OeUnR)

25 Good morning again dear morons and happy birthday JJ

"You will be nothing."
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Well, that is the logical conclusion of all this, isn't it?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2024 08:12 AM (RIvkX)

26 Good morning JJ and horde
It's a cold one, inside but not a heated space

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (EHOM+)

27 Propane delivered. It's a 500 gallon tank that they fill 400 gallons or to 80%. Amount put in: 397 gallons. I am not looking forward to the invoice.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2024 08:05 AM (MoZTd)



Woof. It won't be small.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

28 In this case we had Texas law enforcement preventing CBP and DHS from accessing the border.

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As Governor, Kari Lake promised to close the border on Day One -- which is a primary reason why they stole the election from her in broad daylight (from 2022):

"We're going to be invoking our inherent powers under Article 1, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution to defend ourselves from the invasion in lieu of the federal government reneging on their guarantees to protect us under the guarantee clause, Article 4, Section 4.

So we will issue a declaration of invasion and we will take on those powers that are granted to us in the U.S. Constitution and we will take care of the problem at our border.”

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (5GWDq)

29 Can't lie, can't lie, can't lie.........propane.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (R4t5M)

30 If Kemp is in Davos, what other evidence of his iniquity is needed?

Now that he's out of state, can't the LtGov initial an investigation into Willis?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (Angsy)

31 Why's everybody always pickin' on me?

Posted by: Humanized Mouse at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (V5BDR)

32 Righteous rant today, JJ.

Well done.

Not that you don't always do well, but this one brings it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

33 Good Morning Vietnam

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 17, 2024 08:14 AM (CecP5)

34 Anti-Israel government employees planning a "walkout" to protest the Biden administration's military support for Israel had their plans foiled after a snow day shut down all federal offices in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
=====================
They're looking at this the wrong way, and should instead announce "the solidarity between Gaia and "Palestinian" demonstrators resulted in the refusal to work of all Federal employees".

BTW, I was in DC yesterday. It was cold but there was, maybe, an inch of snow. Nothing really, but I guess it was enough to close the government.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 08:14 AM (Co21G)

35 He decided to trash me and make up a bunch of shit to make himself feel better. Whatever it takes, I guess.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)
===
Not flouncy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2024 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

36 At this point, if I were Texas, I would petition for secession from this bullsh*t union we are now in.

The ball has got to get rolling sometime, cause this sh*t cannot go on any longer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 08:15 AM (XV/Pl)

37 Just commenting... I will not gloat over a Trump victory in Iowa. Serious people are now finally understanding things. We need to unite with a common purpose of leaving the Left behind. Grant them no credibility and that starts with NeverTrump and their Chinese funders.

DeSantis isn't hated or discarded, same with Haley even though I think she is a globalist stooge. We are all on the same team except for the globalists.

Have a great day!

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 17, 2024 08:15 AM (klw0w)

38 no school today, better be some tits in Art thread
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 17, 2024 08:07 AM (sJHOI)


"Will you accept backfat?"

- - - - - That guy on an ottoman.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:15 AM (Zz0t1)

39
How long will that last?
Posted by: dantesed

____________

We'll likely need a refill in the spring, though not that much. And that should last until fall.

Because of the puppies, we've had to have the house warmer than usual. And it's the furnaces that use the most propane. We have a gas stove, dryer and water heaters but they're not much count.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 17, 2024 08:15 AM (MoZTd)

40 The following night, a Mexican migrant woman and two small children drowned in the Rio Grande near Shelby Park.

-

It's weird to know that so many people don't understand that stopping illegals from killing themselves will prevent them from killing themselves.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:15 AM (+RC1q)

41 The globalist lunatics at WEF are talking up Disease X. They're saying AI could replace human voters. And they're saying the EU's top priority for the next two years is control of information and speech.

It's like we're living in a cheap Chinese rip-off of a James Bond movie.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2024 08:15 AM (S+f/u)

42 As I was reading what you wrote about Paxton, I realized what voters here like about him most. Yes, he's been involved in some screwy deals, but unlike most everyone else on the Republican side, he never backs down, he never quits fighting. Even when it looks like all is lost, he won't quit fighting. That's what we want now, that's all we want. Everything else is bullshit.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:16 AM (S6gqv)

43 "So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Isaiah 41:10

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 08:16 AM (H/XYA)

44 no school today, better be some tits in Art thread
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 17, 2024 08:07 AM (sJHOI)
---
Be careful what you wish for...

"Today's Art Thread is sponsored by Admiral Ackbar!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:17 AM (7fElN)

45 Well hey there Sponge… what’s new??

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:17 AM (PCK5/)

46
Mexican officials rescued other migrants in distress and recovered the bodies of the three drowned migrants.

Why not stop them from crossing on your side if it's dangerous? Perhaps because you don't GAF?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2024 08:17 AM (nIvob)

47 Hope Abbott and Paxton don’t back down. I think the Junta will fold; they’re bullies

As for disease X these people are nuts. Those humanized mice experiments sound reckless and sound like GoF to me. Of course I’m not a biologist so I’m not competent to even opine on whether someone is male or female…. I sometimes feel like a marine biologist, though, so that makes me confident that it’s a golf ball that’s obstructing the blowhole of the whale….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 08:17 AM (1jdMT)

48 Anti-Israel government employees planning a "walkout" to protest the Biden administration's military support for Israel had their plans foiled after a snow day shut down all federal offices in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
-

BTW, I was in DC yesterday. It was cold but there was, maybe, an inch of snow. Nothing really, but I guess it was enough to close the government.

-

I'm certain it's insurrectiony to say it, but if you aren't required to come to a government job on a snow day then you're part time with no benefits.

Non-essential. It's right there in the name.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:17 AM (+RC1q)

49 43 "So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Isaiah 41:10
Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 08:16 AM (H/XYA)

Words to live by Marcus…

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:18 AM (PCK5/)

50 "So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

Isaiah 41:10

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 08:16 AM (H/XYA)


Thanks Marcus T. "I will uphold you with My righteous right hand." Isn't that wonderful?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:18 AM (SfhV1)

51 >>"The Colorado Supreme Court wasn’t interested in the history of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment but let’s hope that the Robert’s Supreme Court is."
---

"Hope is not a strategy."
(anonymous)

-Don Black

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:19 AM (geLO8)

52 They're saying AI could replace human voters.

-

o_O

I have to admit that I didn't see that one coming.

"Oh look, these search engines are sentient now, so we've got to let them vote using the strict guidance laid out by the way their programmers designed them to vote."

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:19 AM (+RC1q)

53 I got a disease X at Davos but some penicillin should clear it right up.

Posted by: Governor Brian Kemp at January 17, 2024 08:19 AM (vFG9F)

54 Thanks Marcus !

Posted by: JT at January 17, 2024 08:20 AM (T4tVD)

55 I just want to say, everything Ace said about me yesterday was complete bullshit. I've never said or implied any of those things. He declared he was switching to democrat so he could feel like 'his side' was fighting for him in one thread and I called him a libtard in the next thread. Period.

He decided to trash me and make up a bunch of shit to make himself feel better. Whatever it takes, I guess.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)

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Yeah, I wasn't around for the initial exchange, but his trashing you yesterday in the post was pretty disingenuous if you didn't say those things because he literally used quotation marks.

Disinformation Expert, indeed ... I thought the best response, most accurate, and most insightful response in that thread was from Aetius451AD (post to follow):

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:20 AM (5GWDq)

56 Can't say I like Sponge being called out.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 16, 2024 04:35 PM (xcxpd)

Sponge is a big boy, but to be fair, ace is using sponge as a wobbie for every commenter who has ever annoyed him, every new nic that has tried to rile him up and set us as blood enemies against each other. People gleefully swallow that shit without thinking 'do I know this guy? Why the fuck do I care what HE thinks? He seems to be taking the opposition opinion but being deliberately inflammatory. No matter, I will take his argument and energy and reflect it back at the commenters I have known for years who 'agree' with him but who did not come at me the same way! Profit!'

Now, to be fair, other nics have been doing the exact same to Trumpfan nics and people have responded the same.

Weird, it is almost like either people like drama and/or it is a concerted effort to get us to draw knives on each other. No matter, carry on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2024 04:43 PM (di6C2)

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:20 AM (5GWDq)

57 Re: Disease X

I've seen this movie. It was called "Twelve Monkeys."

95% of the world was killed off. The remaining 5% was driven underground to live like rats in the decaying ruins of once-great cities.

Not happy fun times.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:20 AM (7fElN)

58 San Franpsycho, sorry I missed you below. Infusion went fine. I will probably crash tomorrow. That's usually the pattern after I finish the steroids. Thank you for asking

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 17, 2024 08:20 AM (iF0sF)

59 The following night, a Mexican migrant woman and two small children drowned in the Rio Grande near Shelby Park.

Good. More Please.

That's one way to stop the illegal invaders. FAFO they did.

Migrants my hairy ass.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 17, 2024 08:20 AM (515bZ)

60 Disgusting to see the American "Conservative " pimping for Haley.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:21 AM (S6gqv)

61 OK, so someone is all upset that Trump kicked ass and is now certain to be the GOP nominee. Because Trump is a vulgarian who is repulsive to certain classes of voters, you see.

I disagree with this strongly and believe that Trump is exactly the guy to rebrand the GOP away from the Chamber of Commerce and Country Club so we have a winning right-center coalition. Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2024 08:21 AM (Gse2f)

62 >>As Trump Nears GOP Nomination, Elitist Media Again Treats American Voters They're Stupid – It's 2016 All Over Again

They aren't the only ones.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 08:21 AM (ZLI7S)

63 In December, the network was assessed to be an estimated 250 miles. Senior Israeli defense officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, are currently estimating the network is between 350 and 450 miles -- extraordinary figures for a territory that at its longest point is only 25 miles. Two of the officials also assessed there are close to 5,700 separate shafts leading down to the tunnels.
=======================
Hamas has a future in billionaire bunker building.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 08:22 AM (nbv5G)

64 Speaking of Brian Kemp…. Who the hell is this guy. He comes out of nowhere (at least for me not living in GA) and so I’m pulling fit him from afar because he’s running against Tank. But then there’s this obvious animosity with Trump (going both ways) and seeming election nonsense. Who is this creature? Is he essentially a CoC republican or something worse?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 08:22 AM (1jdMT)

65 32 Righteous rant today, JJ. Well done. Not that you don't always do well, but this one brings it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

Thank you!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (x0n13)

66 Because Trump is a vulgarian who is repulsive to certain classes of voters, you see.


Personally, Trump makes me cringe. But I don't have to love him in order to vote for him. He's the only one who makes sense now IMO.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (SfhV1)

67 Well hey there Sponge… what’s new??
Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:17 AM (PCK5/)


I got my HVAC issues resolved yesterday.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

68 Man, I'm glad I missed that thread.

Has anyone ever explained how non-Trump's would beat the cheat, or is are we insisting that it's 1992 still?

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (+RC1q)

69 Although terrifying, the study is the first of its kind to report a 100% mortality rate in mice infected by the COVID-19-related virus — far surpassing previously reported results from another study, the researchers wrote. More importantly, the results of the study do not indicate how it would impact human beings.

***

Totally not trying to come up with a better bio-weapon, swearsies!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (vnSn7)

70 66 Because Trump is a vulgarian who is repulsive to certain classes of voters, you see.


Personally, Trump makes me cringe. But I don't have to love him in order to vote for him. He's the only one who makes sense now IMO.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (SfhV1)

Sounds pretty pragmatic grammie… and Good Morning!!!

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:24 AM (PCK5/)

71 A strongly worded letter from the Department of Homeland Security to the State of Texas demands access to the U.S.-Mexico border on land seized by the State in Eagle Pass.

"Nuts."

Good morning, everyone!

Posted by: NR Pax at January 17, 2024 08:24 AM (4olE8)

72
Speaking of Brian Kemp…. Who the hell is this guy.
snip...

Who is this creature? Is he essentially a CoC republican or something worse?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 08:22 AM

I suspect on the China payroll. Time will tell, with almost 100% certainty.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2024 08:24 AM (nIvob)

73 Good morning, tubal!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:24 AM (SfhV1)

74 67 Well hey there Sponge… what’s new??
Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:17 AM (PCK5/)


I got my HVAC issues resolved yesterday.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (Zz0t1)

No frozen pipes or such??

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:25 AM (PCK5/)

75 60 Disgusting to see the American "Conservative " pimping for Haley.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:21 AM (S6gqv)

The meat of the article was not so much that but they don't include her along with DeSantis as having to go.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:25 AM (x0n13)

76 It would be wild if SCOTUS decides States have more authority over their borders than Feds.
But wild in a good way.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:25 AM (vnSn7)

77
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 16, 2024 04:43 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:20 AM (5GWDq)


That is pretty spot on. I didn't read the comments after I was advised of the thread, so I appreciate the 'backing' as it were.

That's exactly what he did. I didn't say any of those things, don't feel that way and don't think any of it was warranted toward me individually.

But I've seen Ace do that 1,000 times, so, it is what it is and no skin off my nose. He got a rant out, so be it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

78 Also I saw news articles where Trump "is moving the party rightwards"


You know. Same as the German Socialists of the 1940s. Not openly communists like the (D)s, and not openly socialists like the GOPe, so "rightward"

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:25 AM (+RC1q)

79 It's also,
Hot Buttered Rum Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2024 08:25 AM (NpAcC)

80 @61

>>I disagree with this strongly and believe that Trump is exactly the guy to rebrand the GOP away from the Chamber of Commerce and Country Club so we have a winning right-center coalition. Developing ...


Listen, for all of his protestations, Ace is an establishment guy, always has been, probably always will be.

That's alright, he can back anyone he wants to back, but it would be nice if he didn't get nutso about it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 08:26 AM (XV/Pl)

81 Personally, Trump makes me cringe. But I don't have to love him in order to vote for him. He's the only one who makes sense now IMO.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

ditto

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:26 AM (vnSn7)

82 Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 08:26 AM (9yWhg)

83 Although terrifying, the study is the first of its kind to report a 100% mortality rate in mice infected by the COVID-19-related virus — far surpassing previously reported results from another study, the researchers wrote. More importantly, the results of the study do not indicate how it would impact human beings.

-

Wait, so it's behaving exactly the way researchers/developers determined it would behave years before they released the virus and shot, with animals dying after re-exposure?

Shocking!!!

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:27 AM (+RC1q)

84 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes.

16 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Hoping the day goes by quickly. Planning on making meatloaf for supper tonight.

Got nothing to say about JJs links that I haven't already mentioned ad nauseam, so in honor of Benny Hill's 100th birthday (January 21), here's the Fireman Song:

http://tinyurl.com/3bj6fsds

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:27 AM (Q0kLU)

85 CHINESE LAUNCH in about 42 minutes

CASC - Long March 7 - Tianzhou 7 - LC-201 -
Wenchang SLS, China
Launch time: January 17th at 10:27 p.m. BJT
(9:27 a.m. EST, 1427 UTC)
http://tinyurl.com/mskjkx4w

Posted by: Ciampino - ROCKET SCIENCE today at January 17, 2024 08:27 AM (qfLjt)

86 77

But I've seen Ace do that 1,000 times, so, it is what it is and no skin off my nose. He got a rant out, so be it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)


Yep, essentially.. just turn the page, right? Every Leap Year the HQ goes nuts…

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:27 AM (PCK5/)

87 52 Any day now, Davos will launch their brand new WEFfen SS for motivated, military age males. And a Nazi EUth group for the kids.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2024 08:28 AM (S+f/u)

88 Amen my friends. Words to live by indeed.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 08:28 AM (H/XYA)

89 " Who is this creature? Is he essentially a CoC republican or something worse?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt"

Kemp is a member of the Atlanta good 'ol boy network.
There is not much between them and the Dems. He's a fan of China and EVs, and his good buddy is Brad Ratshitburger.. What else do you need to know?

Posted by: Governor Brian Kemp at January 17, 2024 08:28 AM (vFG9F)

90 Anyone using the term migrant as opposed to the accurate term illegal alien/immigrant is not fit to be in a position of responsibility.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at January 17, 2024 08:28 AM (gxokI)

91 Trump? No? Thoughts?

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:28 AM (geLO8)

92
No frozen pipes or such??
Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:25 AM (PCK5/)


Not so far. I was able to light a fire and also get the heater to keep the house around 60 until I figured out my issue.

The heater and A/C evap are in the same unit. The A/C evap on the input side was incredibly clogged. I had to cut the surround away so I could clean it. My arm is pretty shredded, but the system is blowing a LOT of air now. Was able to bring the temp of the house up 8 degrees in a couple hours.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

93 >CHINESE LAUNCH in about 42 minutes


may it experience a rapid unplanned disassembly

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:29 AM (geLO8)

94 And now we know why the Junta could not afford to allow Kari Lake to win in AZ.

Lake was up front about declaring an invasion and sending the AZ NG to secure the border.

Having two governors telling the Junta to pound sound was something the Junta couldn't abide.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:29 AM (tT6L1)

95 The only hope that democrats have is to get Haley on the ballot.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2024 08:30 AM (V2IO2)

96 Nine men, primarily British Pakistani except for an Afghan individual, were found guilty of various charges including rape, sexual assault, and trafficking for sexual exploitation in 2012.

It was hundreds, maybe over a thousand!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:30 AM (lwOKI)

97 >> Personally, Trump makes me cringe. But I don't have to love him in order to vote for him. He's the only one who makes sense now IMO.


I've never seen a politician who didn't make me cringe over somethings. Ironically, it's some of the things does that make me cringe that also make me support him. The problems we solve are not going to be solved by a traditional, stay within the lines politician. We need a Hulk. It comes with cringe.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

98
Yep, essentially.. just turn the page, right? Every Leap Year the HQ goes nuts…
Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:27 AM (PCK5/)


Hell, I'm not even the one that mentioned one Chuckles Footballs.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

99 They're saying "migrants" instead of illegal aliens as standard on Fox radio now. Fuck 'em, they're just another propaganda outlet.

Posted by: Seigmeyer of Catarina, Brave and True Onion Knight at January 17, 2024 08:30 AM (SfSWS)

100 Hadrian, at least fuel doesn't go bad, and it's probably cheaper than next years prices, right? *weak grin*

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:31 AM (vnSn7)

101 Thanks again, J.J., appreciate your efforts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:31 AM (tT6L1)

102 Got nothing to say about JJs links that I haven't already mentioned ad nauseam, so in honor of Benny Hill's 100th birthday (January 21), here's the Fireman Song:

http://tinyurl.com/3bj6fsds
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:27 AM (Q0kLU)
==================
Lovely start to the day MP4, thank you for that throwback vaudeville. As a 29 year old I still recall seeing Benny Hill on TV.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 08:32 AM (nbv5G)

103 What blake said - thank you, JJ.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2024 08:32 AM (S+f/u)

104 All the mice that were infected with the virus died within just eight days, which researchers noted was a “surprisingly” rapid death rate.

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What is the sound of a thousand Fauci's fapping?

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:32 AM (5GWDq)

105 I still have a hard time believing large metro areas like Chicago and NYC are having such difficulty with an influx of a couple thousand illegals. Those cities see that sort of influx daily (visitors/tourists) and yet, they claim to be overwhelmed with them.

On one hand I think the local governments are getting an earful from the local "free shit armies" and on the other hand are looking to the capitol city for more money. Money to line their pockets for having to deal with the unwashed, not to take care of them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2024 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

106 Worthless Turd Brian Kemp Flies to Davos While Refusing to Open Criminal Probe into Fani Willis
_______

Any Republican going to Davos needs to be exposed and to try to explain themselves for going to a conference that is actively working to destroy the US.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 17, 2024 08:33 AM (fs1hN)

107 Trump? No? Thoughts?

--

The same people who comforted me about inflation being back to normal and how food, energy, and car prices are completely affordable by people making less than 100K (median household is $70K) told he said pussy and that he raped a pornstar and is a troublemaker who watches TV shows about apes

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:33 AM (+RC1q)

108 91 Trump? No? Thoughts?
Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:28 AM (geLO

Splunge. I love him and he makes me crazy at the same time.

It is what it is.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:33 AM (x0n13)

109 Man, I'm glad I missed that thread.

Has anyone ever explained how non-Trump's would beat the cheat, or is are we insisting that it's 1992 still?
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (+RC1q)

To repeat what I said in Pixy's thread: I think that Ace and a few commenters here still cling, despite all evidence, to the idea that 'elections' can actually be conducted fairly and that they are a way to influence polity, and simply cannot (or will not) come to the realization that everything is kayfabe, and has been for years.

Accepting that reality is simply a bridge too far for a lot of people.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:33 AM (Q0kLU)

110 97
I've never seen a politician who didn't make me cringe over somethings. Ironically, it's some of the things does that make me cringe that also make me support him. The problems we solve are not going to be solved by a traditional, stay within the lines politician. We need a Hulk. It comes with cringe.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 08:30 AM (ZLI7S)

For me it is simple… there is no alternative to Donald Trump. None. My personal opinions of him as a person are not relevant to the situation we are in.

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (PCK5/)

111 his good buddy is Brad Ratshitburger.. What else do you need to know?
Posted by: Governor Brian Kemp at January 17, 2024 08:28 AM (vFG9F)

I saw Rat Shit Burger open for MC5 and Canned Heat at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington back in 1970.

For a blind bastard, Blind Owl rocked the house!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (515bZ)

112 Splunge. I love him and he makes me crazy at the same time.

It is what it is.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:33 AM (x0n13)
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Succinct. And, yep.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (tT6L1)

113 Completely OT
I am thinking of trying to memorize some Psalms.I will start with Psalm 23.
Which others should I try next?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (vnSn7)

114 I should also mention that Trump campaigned for Kemp and Kemp stabbed him in the back. Kemp lied in his campaign ads and has done nothing as he promised about illegal immigration in Georgia.

The GA GOP has the same problems as the national party. The Atlanta crowd has infected the rest of the state.

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (vFG9F)

115 104 a thousand Fauci's fapping?
Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:32 AM (5GWDq)


"On the thousandth day of Christmas . . . "

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (x0n13)

116 That would leave only the border between CA and Baja as the invasion route and put Newsom's Brylcreem head in a ringer.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:31 AM (x0n13)
---
How much traffic goes through the NM border?

It looks like it's almost all desert out there, so it could be geographically the most challenging, I suppose.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (7fElN)

117 Here a story you won't see in the headlines;

Yesterday the chairs of both the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee agreed on a piece of $78 billion tax legislation that mostly includes an expansion of the Child Tax Credit. This "credit" has largely been a giveaway to illegal immigrants and thanks to BBB Act these same clowns passed, also to illegal immigrant children. Neither the House nor the Senate sought to modify the credit so it was only open to American citizens. In 2021 it was estimated this would be over a $10 billion giveaway to illegals immigrants. Under this bill and with the historic illegal immigration numbers it will increase significantly.

This still needs to be voted on in committee and in Congress. Call your representatives and tell them no more money for illegal aliens.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 08:35 AM (H/XYA)

118 113 Completely OT
I am thinking of trying to memorize some Psalms.I will start with Psalm 23.
Which others should I try next?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (vnSn7)

Is it the 5th? Psalm of David, IIRC.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:35 AM (x0n13)

119 Don't think of it as who you are voting for. Remind yourself who or what you are voting against.

Hope this helps.

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:35 AM (geLO8)

120
Accepting that reality is simply a bridge too far for a lot of people.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:33 AM

I refuse to accept your perception of reality. Just whose side are you on?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2024 08:35 AM (nIvob)

121 I still have a hard time believing large metro areas like Chicago and NYC are having such difficulty with an influx of a couple thousand illegals. Those cities see that sort of influx daily (visitors/tourists) and yet, they claim to be overwhelmed with them.

-

I believe it. They're the opposite of tourists. The South has been slowly absorbing the leeches for decades. Those Yankee cites get hit with 1000-10,000 non-productive criminals that have nowhere to live and nothing to eat and nothing to do except form gangs and stab each other, and it gets exciting quick.

I hope they get 10K more this month.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:35 AM (+RC1q)

122 Which others should I try next?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (vnSn7)


Psalm 1, 40, 139, 150 just off the top of my head.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

123 Second year in a row for Kemp in Davos. He and Al Gore are sharing a hot tub now.

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2024 08:36 AM (vFG9F)

124 Splunge. I love him and he makes me crazy at the same time.

It is what it is.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:33 AM (x0n13)


Yeah, pretty much this.

He didn't do everything he said he was going to the first time, but I had more money in my pocket, job security, national security, no wars and this country was starting to rock again.

He did some stupid things, sure, but looking at were we are right here, right now, I'll take that risk.

DeSantis is NOT ready for the big show. Sorry, Ace, he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing just yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

125 116 That would leave only the border between CA and Baja as the invasion route and put Newsom's Brylcreem head in a ringer.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:31 AM (x0n13)
---
How much traffic goes through the NM border?

It looks like it's almost all desert out there, so it could be geographically the most challenging, I suppose.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (7fElN)


Yeah, I deleted that comment when my brain kicked in. BUT . . . CA and NM would bear the immeditae brunt of the invasion and that would muss Newsom's Brylcreem and Grisham's merkin but good.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:36 AM (x0n13)

126 Psalm 1 definitely

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:36 AM (SfhV1)

127 113 Completely OT
I am thinking of trying to memorize some Psalms.I will start with Psalm 23.
Which others should I try next?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (vnSn7)

I do that with deeply meaningful parts of the Bible… Protip… do NOT start with Ecclisiastes…

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (PCK5/)

128 @105

>> Those cities see that sort of influx daily (visitors/tourists) and yet, they claim to be overwhelmed with them.

Yes, but those streams are orderly and paid for, every plug nickle of a Donk Cities budget is spoken for and there is no extra money to rob peter to pay for jose and his three brothers, jose, jose and juan.

So they whine and bitch to try to get uncle sugar to bail them out.

Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (XV/Pl)

129 >>>I still have a hard time believing large metro areas like Chicago and NYC are having such difficulty with an influx of a couple thousand illegals. Those cities see that sort of influx daily (visitors/tourists) and yet, they claim to be overwhelmed with them
====================
The main difference is tourists take care of themselves, whereas Demofascist doctrine (for 200 years) has been to hand out free shit to the new arrivals along with voting instructions. NYC is paying for food, lodging, phones, clothes and medical care. And robbing school budgets to do it. But has Randi Weingarten bitched word one? No, she has not.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (nbv5G)

130 Because Trump is a vulgarian who is repulsive to certain classes of voters, you see. ...
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (SfhV1)
====

Ace thinks everyone from Queens is vulgar.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (RIvkX)

131 It looks like it's almost all desert out there, so it could be geographically the most challenging, I suppose.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (7fElN)
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Drive I-40 across NM and you'll see why NM isn't an invasion route. The state is desolate with pockets of urban decay, such as Albuquerque, Gallup and Tucumcari.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (tT6L1)

132 Personally, Trump makes me cringe. But I don't have to love him in order to vote for him. He's the only one who makes sense now IMO.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

ditto
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:26 AM (vnSn7)

Eh, I had an anti-Trump period a long time ago. Not anymore. The people I supported enthusiastically decades ago have done nothing for me. The more I think about it, they've never done anything that's benefitted me personally. I won't support any old time Rs and their new faces spouting the same lines from the Reagan era - that they never followed through on. No more blind support.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (Angsy)

133 The story had already been disavowed by the U.S. Department of Justice and the governor of Texas. Jean-Pierre also claimed, falsely, that police officers died as a result of injuries sustained during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
____

The script was written prior to Jan 6. Edits to the script haven't yet made their way to the press office.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (fs1hN)

134 Sponge will always be FIRST!! in my heart. I feel like I'm living through another LGF meltdown. Getting banned by "Charles" was one of the proudest days of my life. Is history about to repeat?

Posted by: This House Sho' Gone Crazy! at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (V5BDR)

135 I'm not very religious, but I learned about this Psalm from Saving Private Ryan and I like it


Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:38 AM (geLO8)

136 124 DeSantis is NOT ready for the big show. Sorry, Ace, he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing just yet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

I agree with you with the exception of this. I think he's proven himself as a solid executive as well as a culture warrior. Certainly glad he's on the bench.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:38 AM (x0n13)

137 Brrrr... it's cold.

Posted by: dantesed at January 17, 2024 08:38 AM (88xKn)

138 “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
++++
They have no rules. The problem with imposing Alinsky #4 on those who implement it is that they do not have any kind of rules or code. What the governors are doing is merely imposing consequences on them, but there is no moral victory or defeat as far as those doing this are concerned.

Literally *everything* these people do is transactional. There are no standards, there is no anchor, there is no "north star" that guides them from a moral or ethical standpoint. There are goals, of course, but not standards. Not rules.

Inconsistency? Hypocrisy? Contradictory actions? Deceit? Double standards? Who cares. None of those things matter to them. The ends justify the means and never won't. There is no moral code or standard that can be weaponized against them. They don't see any need to "live up to their own standards" because they have no standards. They cannot be cajoled or shamed into changing, they can only be overwhelmed.

What Abbot and the like are doing is trying to overwhelm them. Good. That's the angle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:39 AM (C19Uv)

139 “The recent actions by the State of Texas have impeded (emphasis added) operations of the Border Patrol. Those actions conflict with the authority and duties of Border Patrol under federal law and are preempted under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution,” Meyer stated.

The use of the word “impeded” by the DHS general counsel could imply a threat of criminal action against officers and agents of the State of Texas who are carrying out the orders of Governor Abbott to secure Shelby Park and prevent Border Patrol’s entry to the area.
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Bring on the nullification crisis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:39 AM (C19Uv)

140 Got nothing to say about JJs links that I haven't already mentioned ad nauseam, so in honor of Benny Hill's 100th birthday (January 21), here's the Fireman Song:

http://tinyurl.com/3bj6fsds
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:27 AM (Q0kLU)

I'd been looking for his "Woodstock" sketch, but can't seem to find it.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2024 08:40 AM (Angsy)

141 Just whose side are you on?

Whichever side puts me in touch with a lady like this:

http://tinyurl.com/3dn9ueyz

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:40 AM (Q0kLU)

142 61 Ignoramous - I agree, I want Trump to be like Rodney Dangerfield in Caddy Shack who just destroys the upper crust and who has the right ideas.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 17, 2024 08:40 AM (DBrN4)

143 By the way, Jason Smith is the chair of House Ways and Means. He likens himself as a supporter of President Trump, a conservative and of traditional values. Call him and ask him why he's giving our tax money to illegal immigrants.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 08:40 AM (H/XYA)

144 Your Tesla charging in your Texas garage is

Natural Gas41,918 MW(54.2%)67,739 MW
Coal and Lignite11,183 MW(14.5%)14,713 MW

69.7% hydrocarbon fueled.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:40 AM (lwOKI)

145 133 The script was written prior to Jan 6. Edits to the script haven't yet made their way to the press office.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 17, 2024 08:37 AM (fs1hN)

Brian Sicknick died of a stroke at home a day or two after 1/6.

There is video footage of him calmly strolling through empty Capitol hallways on the day he was allegedly martyred by a fire extinguisher.

Horst Wessel he was not.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:40 AM (x0n13)

146 I'm going to post this again: Ron DeSantis needs to run this cycle. He has to find out what to run a national campaign. And, remember, the name calling by PDT is absolutely nothing compared to what the merciless media will say about Ron D.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (tT6L1)

147 I thought about Ace's reaction last night and it occurred to me that he's going through the various stages of grief.

Stage 1 is denial, as he denied the possibility that Trump could be on the ballot.

Stage 2 is anger, which is where Ace seems to be right now.

He'll probably reach Stage 3 (bargaining) by Super Tuesday and try to convince us that there really are better candidates who should get the nod.

Stage 4 (depression) will happen after the convention when Trump is formally given the nomination.

Stage 5 (acceptance) may never happen, but certainly won't happen until well after the election.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (7fElN)

148 More crucially, we now have a standoff between the Federal government and a sovereign state, in this case Texas. Funny how when blue states "nullify" Federal law, it's totes kosher, but when a red state does it, it's tantamount to, wait for it, "insurrection." In this case we had Texas law enforcement preventing CBP and DHS from accessing the border. It should be noted that the latter have been regularly going down to the river to cut the razor wire that Abbott's men have erected to keep the invaders out.
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Yup. Nullification is like everything else. No standards. Pro-prog nullification is good. Non-prog nullification is evil and must be destroyed.

Simple.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (C19Uv)

149 >>For me it is simple… there is no alternative to Donald Trump. None. My personal opinions of him as a person are not relevant to the situation we are in.

I'm not sure why this is such a controversial opinion to some. They feel just as strongly about DeSantis but I don't see Trump supporters losing their mud and calling them cultists or smooth brains.

I like DeSantis but he also makes me cringe when he gives a speech and he has just not shown me he's ready for the maybe impossible task of reforming DC. It's not like he didn't spend $100 million and a year of campaigning in Iowa to make his case and he didn't convince enough Iowans either. Doesn't mean I think DeSantis supporters are idiots.

Trump has taken everything the swamp could throw at him for 7 years and he not only weathers the storm he gets stronger. I don't know there is anyone else right now who could do that.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (ZLI7S)

150 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:40 AM (Q0kLU)

She looks like Myrna Loy, no?

Posted by: dantesed at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (88xKn)

151 Ace thinks everyone from Queens is vulgar.

"Fuck that guy!"
- Carrie Heffernan

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (Q0kLU)

152 I agree with you with the exception of this. I think he's proven himself as a solid executive as well as a culture warrior. Certainly glad he's on the bench.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:38 AM (x0n13)


I'm looking at his campaign only. He made incredibly bad decisions there. I think he's a solid guy and did miraculous things for Florida. Texas wouldn't be doing what it is under Abbott if DeSantis didn't lead the way.

I REALLY wanted him to jump on the Trump train, learn the right things, then take over in '28 for 8 years of kicking ass and MAGA, turning the world on its ear.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

153 "The meat of the article was not so much that but they don't include her along with DeSantis as having to go.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton"

The part that grated most was the unchallenged assumption that SOMEONE has to beat Trump! Watching the intraparty fights break out, both here and nationally, I'm starting to get a handle on what the AntiTrump contingent just does not get - It's Not About Trump. It's about destroying the version of the Republican Party that has run things since at least 1988. There have been too many betrayals, too many lies, too much leadership involved and too many fakers, and primary voters are just Done. We'd rather destroy Everything than put up with this shit one more minute, and we will.
And whenever I think this is too extreme, well here comes Lankford and McConnell promising open borders for all, and more money for themselves. Well fuck this party, burn it all down, even if the country goes with it.
It's already gone anyway.
And saying "oh please give us one more chance we're not lying this time" just ain't gonna cut it with anyone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (S6gqv)

154 >I'd been looking for his "Woodstock" sketch, but can't seem to find it.

search 'Woodstick'

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (geLO8)

155 She looks like Myrna Loy, no?
Posted by: dantesed at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (88xKn)

No. The utterly luscious Marion Davies.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (Q0kLU)

156 DeSantis is living out the old adage “ you always pay for your education”… in one way or the other.

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (PCK5/)

157
My pappy, and his pappy, and probably his pappy before him all said that a politician that starts to believe the positive press about him is delusional.

When Ron won reelection the party that night people chanted, 'Two more years!' encouraging him to run for President. He should have stopped listening to the brown nosers.

As Veep, I have no issue. Four years of that and he's ready for prime time and I'll support him 100%. Florida has a spotty record for Presidents.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2024 08:43 AM (nIvob)

158 Blue States Are Hiring Illegals as Police, Giving Them Guns

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I'm old enough to remember Willie Brown, as Mayor of San Francisco in the mid-90's, hiring gang-bangers as security patrols on city busses. Good times, good times. He also wanted to give panhandlers portable Point-of-Sale devices so they could beg not only for cash, but for digital credit and debit card payments.

Dude was way ahead of his time as we see with Kamala ...

/Heh, heh, heh ... you said "head" and "Kamala" in the same sentence.

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:44 AM (5GWDq)

159 “Let’s be very clear: In a global economy, and in fragile geopolitical times, it is in America’s best interest for other economies to grow and succeed through free markets. Prosperous nations are stable nations — they become partners, allies, and ballasts against authoritarianism,” Clark said:

Ever notice that the more we trade with communist dictatorships the more like them we become.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:44 AM (lwOKI)

160 I've been watching Trump from around 1979 or so when he came on the scene in NYC, he hasn't changed at all, like, at all.

So you know what you're going to get.

Again, I think it boils down to are you an establishment guy and do you like fighters.

There are a lot of people who don't want to rock the boat and just don't want "drama."

That attitude is what got us to where we are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 08:45 AM (XV/Pl)

161 Telegraph newspaper reports the Texas grid is expected to collapse today, because of renewables failure.

May the lord preserve and protect the elderly and defenseless, and punish the fuckups who cannot seem to learn to ignore the greenies.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 08:45 AM (WhcLn)

162 Fd,

I hope that you read this. I apologize for what I posted yesterday regarding your mom possibly not voting for Trump this time. Please forgive my horrible and thoughtless sense of comedy.

Please accept my apologies.

Posted by: Floridachick at January 17, 2024 08:45 AM (iOWvC)

163 The Straits Times Jan 13 - Swedes spooked as government, military say to prepare for war

STOCKHOLM - Realism or fear-mongering? Calls from Sweden’s government and military urging Swedes to be ready for war have triggered panic buying, frightened children and sparked a fierce debate in the Nordic country.

While Sweden has contributed troops to international peacekeeping missions, the country has not been directly involved in an armed conflict since the Napoleonic era.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 17, 2024 08:45 AM (fs1hN)

164 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:40 AM (Q0kLU)

Go long (or schlong) on edible crinoline . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:45 AM (x0n13)

165 5 Good morning, J.J. and Horde.

8° here in North Alabama
Posted by: BifBewalski


Lies!!
It's now 10° and the sun is out @ 7:40!!!

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 17, 2024 08:45 AM (qZdIZ)

166 DAVOS, Switzerland (LifeSiteNews) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for direct military intervention of European nations in Ukraine at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.

In his special address, Zelensky said regarding the Russia-Ukraine war: “If anyone thinks this is only about us, this is only about Ukraine, they are fundamentally mistaken.”

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 17, 2024 08:46 AM (fs1hN)

167 153 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (S6gqv)

Points taken. Well said.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:46 AM (x0n13)

168 "Ace thinks everyone from Queens is vulgar."

I'm of The Bronx and heartily agree. They sound like clanging pots.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2024 08:46 AM (Gse2f)

169 .

Let's leave the job of injuring, maiming and killing people to the pros---Big Pharma.
Screw some dollar store virus that kills for free.
Letting a dollar store virus do the job that Big Pharma is eager to do is ..... not profitable.

CCCP Rules peasants.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 17, 2024 08:46 AM (LkVLg)

170 All that said, I am glad that he didn't go full tizzy and permaban me, so there IS that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

171 113 Psalm 110. Jesus quotes it in St. Mark and St. Luke. It may be the most quoted Psalm in the New Testament.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2024 08:47 AM (S+f/u)

172
We signed agreements outlawing germ warfare!
*does the virtue strut*

-- U. S. scientific community (always failing to practice what they preach)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2024 08:47 AM (xG4kz)

173 Psalm 143.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 08:47 AM (H/XYA)

174 Perhaps I’m unique but I’ve never found Trump cringy….. I well remember back in the day he was a semi regular on Letterman and even then I thought I recognized that he had a schtick and was playing to a persona: loud brash New Yorker. That was the act that made the apprentice a huge success. liked the schtick then and it still works for me….. he ticks off all the right people, doesn’t parse his words like all pols and he says things I wish I could say but don’t have a mic. When people say they don’t like him (even if they like his policies) I’m thinking…. Why not? And BTW he’s the funniest prez since Reagan…. Hilarious when he starts riffing at his rallies

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 08:48 AM (1jdMT)

175 1: Chain Fauci to the roof of WIV
2: Nuke it from orbit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 08:48 AM (2ovLw)

176 "Optimism from the wrong people isn’t reassuring."



Jim Cramer has entered the chat.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 08:48 AM (9yWhg)

177 Green Energy Scam

Solar288 MW(0.4%)19,441 MW

So Texas 20k MW investment in Solar is returning less than one half of a percent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:48 AM (lwOKI)

178 2 degrees out now with wind chill of -10. fucking cold. I know people have it worse.

I hate winter.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 17, 2024 08:48 AM (R4t5M)

179 Personally, Trump makes me cringe. But I don't have to love him in order to vote for him. He's the only one who makes sense now IMO.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead

ditto
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:26 AM (vnSn7)
*******
I feel the same way, but a lot of people, especially women, can't get past the cringe and drama.

If Trump wants to win back voters he's got to be more humble and less obnoxious.

Sure he has my vote, but I'm not the type he needs to win over.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2024 08:48 AM (NpAcC)

180 The first 18 verses of the Gospel of John… Chapter 7 of the Epistle to the Romans…

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:48 AM (PCK5/)

181 Thx JJ, good morning everyone. The reference to "Everything Causes cancer" reminds me of two great Carlin lines
1 Scientists have discovered that cancer in lab rats is hereditary
2 Scientists have discovered that saliva causes cancer but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2024 08:49 AM (/Mbcg)

182 Deep Freeze in Illinois Strands Tesla, Electric Vehicle Owners in Parking Lots
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Should have used horses.

Posted by: CapeFear at January 17, 2024 08:49 AM (3d0UA)

183 Sponge! How's my favorite fellow cult member?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 08:49 AM (9yWhg)

184 Woodstick, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Woodstick,Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah,
Three Whole Days of Love and Peace and Joy!

Posted by: Alfred Hawthorne Hill at January 17, 2024 08:49 AM (V5BDR)

185 104
What is the sound of a thousand Fauci's fapping?
Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:32 AM (5GWDq)

Calling it now:

1. This disease will get released from a lab and into world.
2. Congress will beg Fauci to save us. They may even have a bat signal ready to go.
3. He will reluctantly step up and push for a shiny new medicine.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 17, 2024 08:49 AM (4olE8)

186 And saying "oh please give us one more chance we're not lying this time" just ain't gonna cut it with anyone.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (S6gqv)


So, you're saying they're Lucy with the football and we're Charlie Brown?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

187 I like DeSantis but he also makes me cringe when he gives a speech and he has just not shown me he's ready for the maybe impossible task of reforming DC...

--

I heard the media was mean to him yesterday.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (+RC1q)

188 138 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:39 AM (C19Uv)

I don't think the Alinsky thing was a prime motivator but they for sure understood that moving the illegals to the sanctuary cities would have a not insignificant side effect of making them live up to their propaganda. If they resisted, as they are, they'd point it out as they have been doing since the start.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (x0n13)

189 “Let’s be very clear: In a global economy, and in fragile geopolitical times, it is in America’s best interest for other economies to grow and succeed through free markets. Prosperous nations are stable nations -- they become partners, allies, and ballasts against authoritarianism,” Clark said.
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Facts not in evidence.

I understand the logical argument and philosophy behind free trade absolutism. I know because I used to subscribe to it. Free trade - even asymmetrical free trade with slave states - is a net positive despite asymmetry.. The slave states will become liberal with wealth. They get free before we get poor, and the rising tide lifts all boats.

Except it doesn't work. The core principle - that wealth leads to increasing liberalism - got cause and effect backwards. The West wasn't liberal because it was rich, it was rich, in part, because it was liberal. Our way just worked better. Subsidizing the illiberal did not make them liberal, it just made us poor.

The free trade absolutists suffer from the same fundamental problem as the communists: their concept isn't flawed, it's just that people aren't good enough to implement it properly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (C19Uv)

190 Joe Biden is an evil authoritarian. But at least he will let me kill my baby if I want to.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (2ovLw)

191 Sponge! How's my favorite fellow cult member?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 08:49 AM (9yWhg)


*fistbump*


Basking in the glory of my house being warm once again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

192 SETH WEATHERS @sethweathers
SCOOP: Georgia United Credit Union updated their user agreement

They now monitor your account & block any purchase of guns or ammo

Yep, u can’t buy a gun with your own bank account if you bank with @GAUnitedCU!

Everyone should cancel their accounts!

But wait, there’s more 👇🏼
http://tinyurl.com/3nfymddz

ETH WEATHERS @sethweathers
This is their CEO, Debbie Smith.

In her bio on their website, she pledges allegiance to practicing DEI

This credit union is as woke as it gets, and it’s based here in Georgia!

Time to send a message my canceling your accounts and spreading this info far and wide!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (2yu8s)

193 "... whatever the nation will become going forward...."

*******

We could start by figuring out what it cannot become going forward. The Founders embarked on a grand experiment after studying the history of governance of nation states. They knew that pure democracy as practiced in Greece and Holland didn't work in populations of more than a few hundred and monarchy = tyranny, so settled on a hybrid form of representative republic, with subunits (states) and representation at a ratio consisting of several thousand (10 -30k) per congressman.

Fast forward to today when most congressional districts consist of well over 500k. The federal government is thus distanced from the populace to the point that the connection is nearly severed.
Self-governance of a population of 3-400 million people is not possible without a counterbalance between the local, state and federal entities. The current imbalance is not sustainable and if not restored it seems we are headed toward either a total erasure of state governance leading to purely central governance or a fractionation into smaller governing entities (breakup). We can only guess at the outcome and the timeline.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (991eG)

194 >>For me it is simple… there is no alternative to Donald Trump. None. My personal opinions of him as a person are not relevant to the situation we are in.
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I'm not sure why this is such a controversial opinion to some.
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Controversial? No. Silly? Yes. Of course there is an alternative, and a better one (in this case). PDJT has many faults, and failed in many ways last time he got into office. That was Ace's point, and it seems fairly clearly true. A better choice is right there in front of us (even though he is obviously not going to be the choice of GOP voters). Oh well.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (hPOwW)

195 I agree Sponge, I wanted DeSantis to do better as well. But he doesn't grasp how to campaign. Vivek actually ran the best campaign of all, he went from total obscurity to being a national figure in 3 months on his campaign alone - if DeSantis had done something like that he'd be leading. But instead he seems to have hired all the same bad consultants that Ted Cruz 2016 hired, and that move tanked his campaign. Bad choice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (S6gqv)

196 No. The utterly luscious Marion Davies.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing



Ahem.

Posted by: William Randolph Hearst at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (9yWhg)

197 185 2. Congress will beg Fauci to save us. They may even have a bat signal ready to go.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 17, 2024 08:49 AM (4olE

Bat virus signal . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:51 AM (x0n13)

198 Ever notice that the more we trade with communist dictatorships the more like them we become.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:44 AM (lwOKI)
====

Ref. Convergence Theory

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2024 08:51 AM (RIvkX)

199 Allianz CEO Raises Risk Barometer, Warning Out of Touch Elites are "Number One Risk for Societies"

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

I agree with that and go one further. The elites are the greatest risk to the continuation of humanity as we know it.

I 100% support nuking Davos. Let the whole world know if you support transhumanism or global population collapse you are an outlaw from humanity.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2024 08:51 AM (cMXNt)

200 "Please accept my apologies.
Posted by: Floridachick"

Thank you, but it's not necessary. I didn't take it the same way. It's frustrating dealing with my mom because she is so misinformed by the MSM. It's like that with a lot of people though, they don't know anything but what's on the surface of what is presented.

The point here though is even with that influence from the media, she still did vote for Trump even though she does not like him, and this time it's going to be even harder.

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2024 08:51 AM (vFG9F)

201 Trump is not a politician. He doesn't triangulate every word and comment in an attempt to appeal to everyone in the room. Vivek was much the same. More articulate than Trump IMO, but basically not a political animal.

The rest of the GOP clan... pure political nonsense.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2024 08:51 AM (Q4IgG)

202 I don't think the Alinsky thing was a prime motivator but they for sure understood that moving the illegals to the sanctuary cities would have a not insignificant side effect of making them live up to their propaganda. If they resisted, as they are, they'd point it out as they have been doing since the start.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (x0n13)
++++
So move up the chain. Note that they're not demand border control, they're demanding cash from the feds.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (C19Uv)

203 search 'Woodstick'
Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (geLO

I did, but it's been a long time. Nothing came up. Maybe no one had posted it then.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (Angsy)

204 When I lived in New York, people outside Manhattan were referred to as The Bridge and Tunnel People.

Posted by: Wenda at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (ApuU/)

205 Securing the international border pretty clearly falls within Fedgov's powers, but what if Fedgov abandons the power and refuses to enforce federal law? If I were on the Court I'd rule that Fedgov has abandoned and the State is therefore free to protect its territory as it sees fit.

It would be great to see an Opinion along those lines, but I suspect that such an opinion will be a Dissent. Roberts and Kavenaugh will almost certainly join the socialist Justices to rule in favor of Fedgov...because preserving the status quo is the Sacred Mission of the GOP

Posted by: Ex GOP at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (qS8WV)

206 Sticks head in... Is it safe ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (n2vyf)

207 May the lord preserve and protect the elderly and defenseless, and punish the fuckups who cannot seem to learn to ignore the greenies.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 08:45 AM (WhcLn)

OPERATING RESERVES:
8,571 MW
NORMAL CONDITIONS

We are actually ok today.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (lwOKI)

208 On the plus side, yesterday was the historically coldest day of the year at Charleston International Airport.

At stately VIA Manor, it's the 19th.

But hey....we're close!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (hH3Px)

209
Trump is a cruel and vulgar meanie.
- The people that are paid to form your opinion about Trump

Biden is a nice man.
- The same people

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (+RC1q)

210 "The future is unwritten." Joe Strummer

A great many people are waking up to Biden & Co being an existential threat to their safety and prosperity. Between now and November these numbers will swell. Developing ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (Gse2f)

211
Your Tesla charging in your Texas garage is

A coal car. All EVs are coal cars.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (xG4kz)

212 Sometimes some of the personal sniping here gets a little too youthfully estrogenic for a bunch of middle-aged, self-affirmingly conservative men.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (KAi1n)

213 The Ramones, Paul Simon, Donald Trump were all from Queens. I'm a native Brooklynite, but have to give credit where it is due.

Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (V5BDR)

214 A coal car. All EVs are coal cars.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (xG4kz)
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Eh, that's regional. Most of them are probably powered by natural gas - albeit fairly inefficiently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (C19Uv)

215 Out of the 4 ? Million new immigrants less than 150000 are in public shelters. They get jobs and housing pretty fast in those sanctuary cities

Posted by: Paul banned at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (MhOED)

216 Posted by: Huck Follywood

Your position assumes that as long as DJT is not the nominee, the left will allow for a normal election.
They will not.
Trump is still standing despite what the left has thrown at him.
DeSantis has not even faced his first rape accusation. We can't afford to trust he can withstand the same onslaught trump has weathered.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (2ovLw)

217
ON SECOND THOUGHT . . .

Maybe this new lethal virus is a complete ruse. That is it's nowhere near as lethal as the article states. It's a psy-op that plants the seed of fear for all of us to lockdown, get shot and shut up.

That said, they're crying wolf yet again. No one is going to listen to them ever again. At least I hope not.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (x0n13)

218 206 Sticks head in... Is it safe ?
Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (n2vyf)


Come on in donna… we are in a “ respite phase” today…… mostly, maybe..

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (PCK5/)

219 I'm going to post this again: Ron DeSantis needs to run this cycle. He has to find out what to run a national campaign. And, remember, the name calling by PDT is absolutely nothing compared to what the merciless media will say about Ron D.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (tT6L1)

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It was an interesting decision on his part that I didn't expect.

Assuming we still have elections and a country in four years -- meaning that Trump must accurately overcome both imprisonment, possible assassination attempt(s), and the Margin of Fraud -- will all this acrimony have been forgotten by then?

For the good of the nation in such a scenario, I would hope Trump would (gracefully?) endorse and hand off the mantel to DeSantis -- unless another fighting warrior emerges as the torch-bearer (e.g. Kari Lake).

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (5GWDq)

220 "The current imbalance is not sustainable and if not restored it seems we are headed toward either a total erasure of state governance leading to purely central governance or a fractionation into smaller governing entities (breakup). We can only guess at the outcome and the timeline.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 17, 2024 08:51"

I agree, and have decided that I prefer breakup and fractionation. Trump is as good an avatar to bring that about as any.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (S6gqv)

221
Hmm. It appears there has never been a Florida Governor who became President. I recognize a lot of names who were candidates (Jeb anyone?) but none who actually won.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (nIvob)

222 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J.

Verse for the Day:

"Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation."

–Psalm 68:19

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (SAX5G)

223 Self-governance of a population of 3-400 million people is not possible without a counterbalance between the local, state and federal entities. The current imbalance is not sustainable and if not restored it seems we are headed toward either a total erasure of state governance leading to purely central governance or a fractionation into smaller governing entities (breakup). We can only guess at the outcome and the timeline.
Posted by: Muldoon at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (991eG)

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I go one further and say that above a certain population a nation-state cannot exist as a democratic republic.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (cMXNt)

224 A better choice is right there in front of us

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He should run.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (+RC1q)

225 It looks like it's almost all desert out there, so it could be geographically the most challenging, I suppose.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (7fElN)
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Lots of people still believe that about Joe.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (tT6L1)

226

Posted by: OrangeEnt



hang on...

http://tinyurl.com/2mbe68ek

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (geLO8)

227 A better choice is right there in front of us (even though he is obviously not going to be the choice of GOP voters). Oh well.

Who? And how is this 'better choice' going to beat the cheat and get a GOP congress to actually work for the voters and not for the CoC?

And why should I think this 'better choice' will attract the wine-box Karens and also pull the MFMs fangs?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (Q0kLU)

228
So... Sponge is back home, out of the cold? And we're all going to live together and be happy, right? And mommy and daddy aren't going to fight anymore?

Are the shelves going to stay in place? (*sob*)

Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (j4U/Z)

229 "Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation."

–Psalm 68:19

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (SAX5G)


Amen.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (SfhV1)

230 >>Controversial? No. Silly? Yes.

This is exactly where DeSantis supporters lose credibility with Trump voters and you will never win them over.

When you walk into a car dealership and you look at your second choice and the salesman tells you you are an idiot if you don't see it is a much better car than the one you like most how do you react?

You don't convince anyone of your position by starting off telling them they are stupid if they don't agree. That is stupid and probably a good reason Ron didn't get traction.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (ZLI7S)

231 213 The Ramones, Paul Simon, Donald Trump were all from Queens. I'm a native Brooklynite, but have to give credit where it is due.
Posted by: Bay Ridge Refugee at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (V5BDR)

Flatbush/Midwood boy that lived for a time in Forest Hills. Queens gets my respect. And a good chunk of the borough, along with Brooklyn votes GOP.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (x0n13)

232 For the good of the nation in such a scenario, I would hope Trump would (gracefully?) endorse and hand off the mantel to DeSantis -- unless another fighting warrior emerges as the torch-bearer (e.g. Kari Lake).
Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (5GWDq)
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I think Lake is PDT's VP pick. Female version of Ramaswamy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (tT6L1)

233 202 I don't think the Alinsky thing was a prime motivator but they for sure understood that moving the illegals to the sanctuary cities would have a not insignificant side effect of making them live up to their propaganda. If they resisted, as they are, they'd point it out as they have been doing since the start.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (x0n13)
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So move up the chain. Note that they're not demand border control, they're demanding cash from the feds.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (C19Uv)

I think this is more Cloward Piven type idea.
Crash the system and then build a new one.
But CP always assume the new system will be better. When the odds are that the new system will be worse (eq Obamacare, Medicaid) as it will:
1. Cost more
2. Be more centralized and less efficient
3. Subject to political whims.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:56 AM (lwOKI)

234 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:42 AM (S6gqv)
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Agree 100%. GOPe has been told many times by the R voters which policies they want. GOPe doesn't seem willing to learn, or to even understand. They are preferring to choose the hard way. Ironically, their position on the R voters appears to be the same, i.e. the voters are preferring to choose the hard way. Unfortunate, really.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 17, 2024 08:56 AM (fs1hN)

235 JJ, that is the kind of thing that goes on in Davos. Coordination. They have told Kemp that there will be none of this "opening the state early" nonsense this time.

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2024 08:56 AM (vFG9F)

236 I must have all the excitement yesterday.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 17, 2024 08:56 AM (NpAcC)

237 I agree, and have decided that I prefer breakup and fractionation. Trump is as good an avatar to bring that about as any.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (S6gqv)
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It's why I favor nullification, and Abbot's action are the most exciting thing I've seen in years. I desperately want him to stand firm.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (C19Uv)

238 I'm of The Bronx and heartily agree. They sound like clanging pots.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2024 08:46 AM (Gse2f)
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It's the second-oldest hatred.

Also, how dares yas!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (RIvkX)

239 It's Benjamin Franklin Day.
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So bang an older lady!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (2yu8s)

240 But CP always assume the new system will be better. When the odds are that the new system will be worse (eq Obamacare, Medicaid) as it will:
1. Cost more
2. Be more centralized and less efficient
3. Subject to political whims.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:56 AM (lwOKI)
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These are all net benefits to TPTB, keeping them in charge indefinitetly.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (7fElN)

241 Wouldn't want those videos in the hot tub to come out.
Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Governor Brian Kemp at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (vFG9F)

242 My advice to those who cannot accept the inevitable Trump victory:
Stop it. Get some help.

Posted by: Seigmeyer of Catarina, Brave and True Onion Knight at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (SfSWS)

243 Your position assumes that as long as DJT is not the nominee, the left will allow for a normal election.
They will not.
Trump is still standing despite what the left has thrown at him.
DeSantis has not even faced his first rape accusation. We can't afford to trust he can withstand the same onslaught trump has weathered.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (2ovLw)

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Not to worry, comrade -- Gloria Allred has already conducted numerous auditions, and has hundreds of psychotic whores waiting in the wings for that glorious day!

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (5GWDq)

244 For the good of the nation in such a scenario, I would hope Trump would (gracefully?) endorse and hand off the mantel to DeSantis -- unless another fighting warrior emerges as the torch-bearer (e.g. Kari Lake).

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The thing I can't wrap my mind around is how it's bad that the government won't allow Trump to be president, but it's possible that the same folks will allow someone they can (ahem) work with to win.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (+RC1q)

245 I think this is more Cloward Piven type idea.
Crash the system and then build a new one.
But CP always assume the new system will be better. When the odds are that the new system will be worse (eq Obamacare, Medicaid) as it will:
1. Cost more
2. Be more centralized and less efficient
3. Subject to political whims.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:56 AM (lwOKI)
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Except that they're implementing Cloward-Piven against themselves. *They* - not we - are in charge of the system. They own it. It's theirs. Crashing it now serves them no purpose. It might have back when Cloward and Piven came up with their notion, but now they're only slashing their own organizations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 08:58 AM (C19Uv)

246
He decided to trash me and make up a bunch of shit to make himself feel better. Whatever it takes, I guess.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:03 AM (Zz0t1)

It seemed like a bit of a tantrum to me.
For some reason, he gets really set off by the lack of love for Desantis.
I understand wanting the crazy to stop, but why will it stop? Trump has endured all of the crazy and kept going. Who else is going to do that? No one.. that's why it hasn't happened before. Old days some rumor gets legs and the republican quits. Should we go back to that?
Blaming trump for being attacked doesn't sit right with me, I ignore that line of criticism. My opinion is that will exist no matter whom.

Posted by: Inogame at January 17, 2024 08:58 AM (53oGX)

247 Sponge! How's my favorite fellow cult member?
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Do you reach Trump? [makes triangle sign with fingers then OK sign]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 08:58 AM (2yu8s)

248 Telegraph newspaper reports the Texas grid is expected to collapse today, because of renewables failure.

Posted by: Huck Follywood

The CEO of the TVA sent a tweet out late last night saying the system should be okay today without any rolling blackouts. He did request that customers refrain from using energy hogs like dryers and ovens during the daylight hours however.

Renewables are not a big part of our supply. They are working to increase that portion however. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2024 08:58 AM (SAX5G)

249 Floridachick, ace has jumped in my shit before too. Roll with it.

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2024 08:59 AM (vFG9F)

250 Trump has taken everything the swamp could throw at him for 7 years and he not only weathers the storm he gets stronger. I don't know there is anyone else right now who could do that.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 08:41 AM (ZLI7S)


Your explanations yesterday and today of ' Why Trump ' should be required reading for Master Ace.

Still, Ace is a true, fcuking genius but in this narrow case , re: Trump, Ace has a firm grasp on the little picture.
Ace would do well to outsource the Trump commentary franchise to JackStraw.
Jack is on the case and clearly understands the overall game. Excellent insight. Moar por favour.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 17, 2024 08:59 AM (LkVLg)

251 Trump doesn't make me cringe, not in the least. This is not because I embrace "vulgarianism," but because I am done with the representations of manners by those in politics who either wish me dead or, at best, are indifferent to my demands for liberty. I believe in the supreme irony of Trump's gentlemanliness, i.e., as a man who genuinely cars about our sovereignty, humanity and dignity, both personally and as American citizens as a whole.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2024 08:59 AM (OeUnR)

252 Certain people just don't like Trump. I get it.

But this is the hand we're dealt.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (R4t5M)

253 Has anyone asked the Left who they think should be the Republican nominee?

Yeh...I'm not looking for a 'someone we can work with' candidate.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (hH3Px)

254 >GOPe has been told many times by the R voters which policies they want. GOPe doesn't seem willing to learn
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I keep tellin' y'all, the GOP is only interested in the continued existence of the GOP. They don't care so much about winning as they do about being allowed to play.

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (geLO8)

255 113 Completely OT
I am thinking of trying to memorize some Psalms.I will start with Psalm 23.
Which others should I try next?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (vnSn7)

One of the mercy psalms verses…Psalm 51:10. It is a simple verse and reminds us of the constant need for conversion.

Posted by: 7man at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (qwO6y)

256 @232

>>I think Lake is PDT's VP pick. Female version of Ramaswamy.

I don't think Trump is going to pick a chick, I think it's either going to be Lee Zelden or Burgham.

He's going to want a contrast from him, and those guys would be perfect for the job of VP.

Lake is currently running for Senate and Indian Business Guy would be perfect as the, F**king Sh*t Up Generally Tsar.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (XV/Pl)

257 I went back and read a bit of that ace thread from yesterday afternoon. I’m not typically around this place at that time because it’s when my work day is busiest.

What surprised me about that rant is it’s the first time I’ve ever seen ace threaten the banhammer….. what’s unique and special about this place is people can disagree and state their case. Banning in a fit of pique would go against the whole ethos here…. So I’m glad you’re still around, Sponge! Boy, ace really does hate Trump…. That much is clear

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (1jdMT)

258 Good morning!

I'm guessing Biden wants this fight.
It will be all about bigotry, white nationalism and insurrection - right in his campaign wheelhouse.
That's life. It's still THE battle to have, sooner rather than later, and we continue to be invaded.

God bless Gov. Abbott.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (NKqpy)

259 Yeh...I'm not looking for a 'someone we can work with' candidate.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (hH3Px)
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I want someone who is unwilling to "reach across the aisle." Bipartisanship is a code word for "failure theater."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 09:00 AM (C19Uv)

260 Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at January 17, 2024 08:59 AM (LkVLg)

Well thanks but I am just another moron with a keyboard.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 09:01 AM (ZLI7S)

261 "On the thousandth day of Christmas . . . "

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (x0n13)

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* snort *

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 09:01 AM (5GWDq)

262 Gain of function is a crime against humanity. Anyone found engaging of it should be hung. And yes we should be willing to go to war over it to so as to make sure the next Fauci doesn't just ship his work overseas.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2024 09:01 AM (ibTVg)

263 "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"


Yeah, not so much.
-- USPS

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2024 09:01 AM (SAX5G)

264 Has anyone asked the Left who they think should be the Republican nominee?

The Iowa crossover Dems voted for Nikki Hillary

Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2024 09:02 AM (ibTVg)

265 Listen, for all of his protestations, Ace is an establishment guy, always has been, probably always will be.

That's alright, he can back anyone he wants to back, but it would be nice if he didn't get nutso about it.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 08:26 AM (XV/Pl)

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The problem with Ace can be summed up in Ken Cuccinelli.

Ace believed every single negative thing the Left and GOPe said about him with zero backup.

It's strange he is all in on DeSantis because Cuccinelli and DeSantis are almost identical on policy and even temperment.

Why he likes one and not the other, who knows. Well, I have a guess but I ain't saying it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2024 09:02 AM (cMXNt)

266
Woof. It won't be small.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 08:13 AM (Zz0t1)

Last light gas invoice I saw, about a month ago was $3.60/gallon.
I think it's a bit higher now.

My company uses about 300 gallons per month. Just in forklift food.

Posted by: Reforger at January 17, 2024 09:02 AM (nLeCA)

267 DeSantis was in the Deke house at Yale, which was like gene-splicing the worst of the Delta and Omega houses.

Deke led a campus-wide march chanting "No means Yes! Yes means Anal!

But nothing to see here move along.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2024 09:02 AM (Gse2f)

268 209
Trump is a cruel and vulgar meanie.
- The people that are paid to form your opinion about Trump

Biden is a nice man.
- The same people
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (+RC1q)

Less so Trump than the more aggressive in his fanbase.

But it is what it is.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 09:02 AM (sm6Pk)

269 The article about queers for Palestine would be comedy gold if it weren't so stupid. It would be an interesting experiment to imagine 10k trannies and alphabet people show up on a battlefield. The Israelis might lose because they were laughing so hard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2024 09:02 AM (/Mbcg)

270 Woodstick:

http://tinyurl.com/mr2f242p

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 17, 2024 09:02 AM (Q0kLU)

271 Flatbush/Midwood boy that lived for a time in Forest Hills. Queens gets my respect. And a good chunk of the borough, along with Brooklyn votes GOP.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (x0n13)
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*fistbump*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 17, 2024 09:02 AM (RIvkX)

272
Floridachick, ace has jumped in my shit before too. Roll with it.

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2024 08:59 AM

Yeah, I got told to 'Screw off' then got a lecture on DeSantis the military guy.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (nIvob)

273 go one further and say that above a certain population a nation-state cannot exist as a democratic republic.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (cMXNt)

Rather than population, I would substitute Power and Influence, and would conclude that this is why all such nations throughout history become autocratic Empires. I believe the only way we can avoid that fate is to begin breaking this apart now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (S6gqv)

274 I really understand some of the criticisms of PDT on this board.

However, I also believe what some of PDT's detractors are missing is the very high literacy rate of the people who post here. Overall, we're much better read and informed than the average voter.

However, PDT knows how to connect with the average voter who's literacy rate is well below what is probably the average of this board. And those are the people who have to buy into what PDT is selling.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (tT6L1)

275 I think Lake is PDT's VP pick. Female version of Ramaswamy.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (tT6L1)
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I like Ike Lake!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (dgZCh)

276 OPERATING RESERVES:
8,571 MW
NORMAL CONDITIONS

We are actually ok today.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (lwOKI)
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Here is the Telegraph link, if you're interested

https://shorturl.at/CPYZ0

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (659+B)

277
A coal car. All EVs are coal cars.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2024 08:52 AM (xG4kz)
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Eh, that's regional. Most of them are probably powered by natural gas - albeit fairly inefficiently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Sure, but the point in terming them "coal cars" is to take a hefty swing at their proponents' virtuous blathering and to put them on the defensive.

In a similar vein, to refer to EVs as "road guano" -- which is what they resemble after having caught fire and firefighters dump everything but the kitchen sink on them in a vain attempt to extinguish the flames -- also challenges their proponents' bleats of their own bad virtue for owning one.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (xG4kz)

278 We talked about this before but...

None, nada, zero of this "gain of function" ie. artificially creating deadly viruses from unlikely combinations which don't occur outside of a lab-

has anything to do which the Science of evolving pathogen in the wild.

This is pure mad scientist/Bond villain madness.

you can't predict the newest possible pandemic by creating a deadly pandemic in the lab. That's not the way any of this works because such occurrences in nature are totally random. However-

you can create deadly plague viruses and bacteria and fungi from almost anything.

Fatal Athlete's Foot...sure. It's easy when you can fool around at the molecular and genetic level. In fact-

Our Betters must've already have developed a fatal version of Jock Itch. Do you remember Bill Gates a few years ago gave a speech about the"next deadly pandemic" that would be coming out of India, which was a deadly genital fungus spread by sexual contact?

This was taken at the time as a weird prediction because no one, no scientist or public health official knew of anything remotely like that currently occurring on the subcontinent.

So, hey! coming to a future near you.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (nFnyb)

279 "I want someone who is unwilling to "reach across the aisle." Bipartisanship is a code word for "failure theater.""

Who was it that after assuming the title of POTUS uttered the phrase...'We won, you lost', or words to that effect?

Dude was the consummate Statesman, or so I was told.

We should emulate that mindset.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (hH3Px)

280 Did not read all the links , but did any of them give the percentage of registered Rs who voted in Iowa ? 19%. You can blame the weather and all that , but that is very low.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 09:04 AM (V13WU)

281 At Kennesaw State University, its President Kathy Schwaig announced in a December 2023 faculty email the school will rebrand its Division of Diverse and Inclusive Excellence by renaming it to the Division of Organizational Effectiveness, Leadership Development, and Inclusive Excellence.

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 09:04 AM (lwOKI)

282 We all know Ace hates Trump because Trump stole his only girlfriend Ace ever had.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2024 09:04 AM (cMXNt)

283 I think Lake is PDT's VP pick. Female version of Ramaswamy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (tT6L1)

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I was hoping she would be, blake (and if asked, she may have declined to try and win the Senate seat which you and I both know can not be allowed to happen -- they've been stealing Senate seats here for numerous election cycles now).

Gorka claims he knows who Trump has selected to be his VP, and he let it slip yesterday that it was a "he." I'm most curious ... if I had to bet, it's likely going to be Dr. Ben Carson (who is an adorable and obviously brilliant man), but I wouldn't call him the fighter we need to succeed (and possible succeed Trump as the torch-bearer).

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 09:05 AM (5GWDq)

284 It's Benjamin Franklin Day.
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So bang an older lady!
Posted by: andycanuck

The lovely Mrs. said "No!".

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2024 09:05 AM (SAX5G)

285 Crashing the system means getting the constitution out of the way and writing a brand new government complete with 1500 amendments encoding numerous new "rights" which the government is in charge of granting.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:05 AM (2ovLw)

286 >if I had to bet, it's likely going to be Dr. Ben Carson


why

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (geLO8)

287 T-20 minutes

Posted by: Ciampino - ROCKET SCIENCE today at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (qfLjt)

288 282 We all know Ace hates Trump because Trump stole his only girlfriend Ace ever had.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2024 09:04 AM (cMXNt)

Trump stole garrett?

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (sm6Pk)

289 However, PDT knows how to connect with the average voter who's literacy rate is well below what is probably the average of this board. And those are the people who have to buy into what PDT is selling.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (tT6L1)
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He's extraordinary. He connects with everyone. Fantastic humorist, too.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (659+B)

290 "Trump fans at an Iowa rally were near-unanimous when asked if they’d prefer former President Donald Trump as a “dictator” over reelecting President Joe Biden — one even said “This country needs a dictator!” and another compared Trump to a much-needed “paddling” for the nation."
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Mediaite link:

http://tinyurl.com/bdeby3sb
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"Fans" "near-unanimous" might mean the interviewer asked four people the question. No idea. Regardless it will either be our one righteous conservative dictator for a time -- unlikely without a military on his side -- or their ten thousand lib fascist dictators forever. That's the real choice: one or the current ten thousand.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (/QIWP)

291 There's also no avoiding that lots of Americans are still Americans, and the majority of Americans have always had a fairly strong tradition of right and wrong, and America watched 2020 happen with their own eyes.

The overwhelming Trump support isn't just because of his economy and the illegals and ending wars. It's not all because he was arguably the best president in our lifetimes and the most conservative one since Coolidge. A lot of it is probably because folks have a sense of justice and he's the only one that makes the slightest bit of sense to support.

He risked - and is still risking - everything for us. People saw that and know that. They're not going to quickly turn against him.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (+RC1q)

292 Do Ewoks have Pon Farr?

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (vFG9F)

293 if DeSantis had done something like that he'd be leading. But instead he seems to have hired all the same bad consultants that Ted Cruz 2016 hired, and that move tanked his campaign. Bad choice.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 08:50 AM (S6gqv)


I saw an article that said he hired some off of Jeb!'s campaign.

That's all she wrote for me. You tie yourself to ANY of the Bush clan, you're out in my book.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

294 >>Banning in a fit of pique would go against the whole ethos here…. So I’m glad you’re still around, Sponge!


Oh, you should've been here in 2016 when every - seriously, every - post devolved into arguments for/against Trump. Bannings, people leaving in anger.
Before that there was a co-blogger Gabe who liked to rile people up with posts about SSM in 2012, that it was no biggie and those here who expressed concern were crazy. Think he banned a few, too. Gabe left and those concerns expressed that he had dismissed have happened (and more, sadly).

Love this blog, love the rough and tumble discussion in the comments, but even here there can be limits.

And glad Sponge wasn't banned !!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (NKqpy)

295 hang on...

http://tinyurl.com/2mbe68ek
Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 08:54 AM (geLO

Thanks. Posted two years ago. I looked long before that.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (Angsy)

296 Asking for a friend.

Posted by: fd at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (vFG9F)

297 I should try to go back to sleep after getting a whopping 2 hours last (this) night. But everytime i try, this place pulls me back in.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (KAi1n)

298 Zeldin is the most interesting name I've seen floated for VP.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (S6gqv)

299 We don't need another trump as trump's vp. We need a counterbalance.

A straight man.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:07 AM (2ovLw)

300 "However, PDT knows how to connect with the average voter who's literacy rate is well below what is probably the average of this board."

Spot on! And why the Trump coalition is broad.

Ace wants a Republican Bill Bradley. That doesn't sell

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2024 09:07 AM (Gse2f)

301 So... Sponge is back home, out of the cold? And we're all going to live together and be happy, right? And mommy and daddy aren't going to fight anymore?

Are the shelves going to stay in place? (*sob*)
Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2024 08:55 AM (j4U/Z)


I will leave the pissing off of the head ewok to garrett........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Winsome Sears out of left field.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:07 AM (2ovLw)

303 Has anyone asked the Left who they think should be the Republican nominee?

Yeh...I'm not looking for a 'someone we can work with' candidate.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice



The left has indeed announced who they think should be the nominee: Haley.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2024 09:07 AM (V2IO2)

304
Organizational Effectiveness

Welcome to the world of the 80s!

Which it will not be (the OE of the 80s, that is), but merely an application of a shiny new label to the same old "diversity" crap, because a genuine attempt to create an effective organization would ruthlessly remove and forbid all the time- and resource- drains that "diversity" initiatives bring to the table.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2024 09:08 AM (xG4kz)

305 Here is the Telegraph link, if you're interested

https://shorturl.at/CPYZ0
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 09:03 AM (659+B)

Yes

The front moved in and stalled. So there was very little wind after 3 days of > 20 MPH.

Wind went to 6% and force about 20% more gas to come online.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 09:08 AM (lwOKI)

306 What surprised me about that rant is it’s the first time I’ve ever seen ace threaten the banhammer...
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Just don't call Michelle "Chewbacca".
/memory lane

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 09:08 AM (2yu8s)

307 302 Winsome Sears out of left field.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:07 AM (2ovLw)

Every time I read this suggestion, I realize no one knows Constitutional requirements or reads my posts...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 17, 2024 09:08 AM (exHjb)

308 It's Benjamin Franklin Day.
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So bang an older lady!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (2yu8s)
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So I sucker punched this woman like you suggested and the next thing I knew was I was being booked for assault and battery.

Ironically, bail is set at $100.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 09:08 AM (dgZCh)

309 Should he maybe pick a VP that did not lose their election??

Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2024 09:09 AM (PCK5/)

310 He risked - and is still risking - everything for us. People saw that and know that. They're not going to quickly turn against him.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (+RC1q)
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Interestingly enough, Megyn Kelly asked PDT why he continued to run when he could just retire. Trump's response was along the lines of, "He couldn't betray his voters by walking away."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:09 AM (tT6L1)

311 >Posted by: OrangeEnt at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (Angsy)

enjoy
I'm a Benny Hill fan- my fav sketch is "Lower Tidmarsh Volunteer Fire Brigade"

Posted by: Don Black at January 17, 2024 09:09 AM (geLO8)

312
Jimmah Cahtah has completed 333 days of hospice.

Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2024 09:09 AM (j4U/Z)

313 At least Sponge didn't post any more Queensryche lyrics.

Posted by: William Randolph Hearst at January 17, 2024 09:09 AM (9yWhg)

314
I will leave the pissing off of the head ewok to garrett........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

Maybe it is the lack of sleep for Ace or those pills he takes... Or he just hates Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2024 09:10 AM (n2vyf)

315 Ace banned me in March 2016 for predicting that Trump would beat Hillary with just over 300 EVs because he'd boost White Non-college turnout by 5% over Mitt. I had the state-by-state data

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 17, 2024 09:10 AM (Gse2f)

316 >>Winsome Sears out of left field.

Not eligible. Born in Jamaica.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 09:10 AM (ZLI7S)

317 The constitution is only a suggestion. Nobody has standing to challenge it.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:10 AM (2ovLw)

318 'if I had to bet, it's likely going to be Dr. Ben Carson '

I like the good Doctor, and he has an amazing life story.

But he won't bring in any overs who are not already voting for PDT.

And non-Trump supporting blacks oddly enough hate Ben Carson as well.

So...no vote gain there.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:10 AM (hH3Px)

319 However, PDT knows how to connect with the average voter who's literacy rate is well below what is probably the average of this board. And those are the people who have to buy into what PDT is selling.

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He's extraordinary. He connects with everyone. Fantastic humorist, too.

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The goofy red MAGA baseball cap in 2016, and the silly white IOWA CAUCUS LEADER cap this week.

No other candidate *would* do that. They'd all form focus groups and determine which hashtag to try to trend on the facetimes or whatever, but none of them would put a tacky hat on that establishes something in everyone's mind and establishes a brand.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:10 AM (+RC1q)

320 "And mommy and daddy aren't going to fight anymore?"

Talk about trigger words.

Ughh...

Posted by: pawn at January 17, 2024 09:10 AM (QB+5g)

321 >> Gain of function is a crime against humanity. Anyone found engaging of it should be hung. And yes we should be willing to go to war over it to so as to make sure the next Fauci doesn't just ship his work overseas.

SECONDED!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2024 09:11 AM (NKqpy)

322 We have a half indian/Jamaican who was born in Canada as VP.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:11 AM (2ovLw)

323 292 They have Pon Fur.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2024 09:11 AM (S+f/u)

324 At least Sponge didn't post any more Queensryche lyrics.
Posted by: William Randolph Hearst at January 17, 2024 09:09 AM (9yWhg)

Maybe he should have posted Nickelback lyrics.

Posted by: dantesed at January 17, 2024 09:11 AM (88xKn)

325 N!kk! Haley is the Left’s Favorite Republican

there I fixed it

Please Clap.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (lwOKI)

326 If the GOP is content on running Nikki Haley for prez then an interesting VP choice for her is DeSantis.

In my opinion that duo would peel off sufficient Trump voters to have a semi-realistic shot at blunting Trump's run.

Maybe.

As to who Trump picks for VP... it better be someone outside of politics or he's dumb as a rock.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (Q4IgG)

327 Jimmah Cahtah has completed 333 days of hospice.
Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2024 09:09 AM (j4U/Z)
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Where I come from, overstaying your welcome is inhospitable.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (dgZCh)

328 I go one further and say that above a certain population a nation-state cannot exist as a democratic republic.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

*******

Yeah, that's sort of what I was implying without coming right out and saying it.

It's analogous to certain biological entities such as tumors, that outgrow their blood supply to the point of suffering necrosis (cell death) and involuting (collapse in on themselves).

Posted by: Muldoon at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (991eG)

329 If we go to war over gain of function I recommend Fauci clear minefields with just a bayonet.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (tT6L1)

330 Woke Business Managers Rebranding “ESG” Investment as “Responsible Business”

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

331
Maybe he should have posted Nickelback lyrics.
Posted by: dantesed at January 17, 2024 09:11 AM (88xKn)


Getting banned is one thing. Getting outright SHUNNED is something completely different.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

332 What surprised me about that rant is it’s the first time I’ve ever seen ace threaten the banhammer….. what’s unique and special about this place is people can disagree and state their case. Banning in a fit of pique would go against the whole ethos here…. So I’m glad you’re still around, Sponge! Boy, ace really does hate Trump…. That much is clear

==


You can disagree, politely. what ace was making clear is that he will no more tolerate personal attacks on himself or the commenters, the jagoffs who instead of having a discussion, are being dicks and jump into their always ready SJW costume and start throwing shit - name calling, abuse of other commenters. and if they cannot tell a personal attack from a normal discussion too bad for them. no one can stand them and their toxic crap IRL, so they come here. well , no one here cares either.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (V13WU)

333 The lovely Mrs. said "No!".
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But we haven't even met yet!

Oh.

You asked.

Never mind.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (2yu8s)

334 312
Jimmah Cahtah has completed 333 days of hospice.
Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2024 09:09 AM (j4U/Z)

What little you could see of him at his wife's funeral, my guess is he is in the advanced (if not end) stages of alzheimers.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 17, 2024 09:12 AM (N39Ws)

335 And I want to go on record as saying that I am doing here what I try very hard to do in real life and I will not say anything about anyone who is not around, and what I would say I'd also say if they were standing right in front of me.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is like a bad penny at January 17, 2024 09:13 AM (+RC1q)

336 Everyone knows that right before Pon Fur, Ewoks get a bad case of backed up anal glands.

It's what makes the actual mating process so violent.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:13 AM (hH3Px)

337 Trump/Harbaugh '24!


My two cult leaders combined on one ticket!

Posted by: William Randolph Hearst at January 17, 2024 09:13 AM (9yWhg)

338 (throws smoke bomb, disappears into a cloud of Nikki Haley)

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:14 AM (+RC1q)

339 >>We have a half indian/Jamaican who was born in Canada as VP.

She was born in CA and then her family moved to Canada.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 09:14 AM (ZLI7S)

340 It will be Sunnunununu. I guarantee he will fall back to the trap of trying to appease the establishment.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:14 AM (2ovLw)

341 She was born in CA and then her family moved to Canada.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 09:14 AM (ZLI7S)
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Isn't Kamala an anchor baby?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:14 AM (tT6L1)

342 Ben Carson would be an interesting choice, somewhat counter-intuitive for those who believe in the pitbull tradition of the VP. He's trustworthy for Trump, and his mild manner should not belie his toughness. He might serve as be a "healer" figure at a time when our politics could use one, and would throw a big curve at the Left.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2024 09:14 AM (OeUnR)

343 Trump/Harbaugh '24!

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hahaha, ol' Bubbles.

Liquor and Whores would be a great campaign song.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:14 AM (+RC1q)

344 I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.

.. when they don't fix the roads, pickup the garbage and stop the marauding bands, the underlying social contract has been abandoned.

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2024 09:15 AM (RHGPo)

345 Gain of function is a crime against humanity. Anyone found engaging of it should be hung. And yes we should be willing to go to war over it to so as to make sure the next Fauci doesn't just ship his work overseas.

SECONDED!!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2024 09:11 AM (NKqpy)


Eldon Tyrrell Hardest Hit!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 09:15 AM (x0n13)

346 Oops! Off sock!

Trump/Harbaugh '24!


My two cult leaders combined on one ticket!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 09:15 AM (9yWhg)

347 "I recommend Fauci clear minefields with just a bayonet his face*.

*Suggested edit

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:15 AM (hH3Px)

348 Trump's pick won't be Kari Lake, they need her in the senate. Burgum is kinda old. Ben Carson isn't presidential material and he's no spring chicken. He's brilliant but he doesn't have the personality. We need someone young enough that in 4 years can run for president and do another 8. I'm going with Lee Zelden. Trump isn't going to pick a woman because someone says he should.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 17, 2024 09:16 AM (DBrN4)

349 >>N!kk! Haley is the Left’s Favorite Republican


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE MCCAIN WAS THEIR FAVORITE REPUBLICAN FOR MANY YEARS, RIGHT UP UNTIL HE BECAME THE NOMINEE RUNNING AGAINST OBAMA.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 17, 2024 09:16 AM (NKqpy)

350 (throws smoke bomb, disappears into a cloud of Nikki Haley)


Ewwwww...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 09:16 AM (9yWhg)

351 The more I see of Nikki! the more I can’t stand her…. Has she gotten uglier in the last 6 months? More gaunt? Something looks different in a bad way……

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (1jdMT)

352 no one knows Constitutional requirements
bububut we're so literate! here!

Well, I beat the rush. I got banned after saying something nice to Mindful Webworker. Catch me ever doing that again!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (zdLoL)

353 323 292 They have Pon Fur.
Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2024 09:11 AM (S+f/u)
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Thread winner.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (2yu8s)

354 340 It will be Sunnunununu. I guarantee he will fall back to the trap of trying to appease the establishment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:14 AM (2ovLw)

Old habits die hard. Sununu has been appeasing more since he announced he wouldn't run for re-election.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (N39Ws)

355 "She was born in CA and then her family moved to Canada."

Is she really African American?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (hH3Px)

356 We had a president who was born in Kenya and was raised by a communist in Indonesia. And it threatened the very foundation of our precious democracy to question that to the point Hawaii made a fake birth certificate in adobe Illustrator.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (2ovLw)

357 Current gain of function research for Disease X is aimed at giving a virus the ability to jump at least 6'6" and to enable viruses to cross lines of masking tape placed on the floor near grocery store checkout lanes.

Posted by: Muldoon at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (991eG)

358 I want DeSantis as Veep?
And a pony

Posted by: MkY at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (cPGH3)

359 My prediction: Trump picks Noem as running mate

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM (/Mbcg)

360 >>You can disagree, politely. what ace was making clear is that he will no more tolerate personal attacks

Guess what? Calling someone who doesn't agree with you a braindead cultist is a personal attack.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM (ZLI7S)

361 351 The more I see of Nikki! the more I can’t stand her…. Has she gotten uglier in the last 6 months? More gaunt? Something looks different in a bad way……
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (1jdMT)

Can't stop seeing Nikki here in NH. Yesterday I had 6 pieces of mail touting her and her alleged accomplishments.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM (N39Ws)

362 351 The more I see of Nikki! the more I can’t stand her…. Has she gotten uglier in the last 6 months? More gaunt? Something looks different in a bad way……
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (1jdMT)

The crazy eyes and rictus expression. Something very off in every respect. Dangerous.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM (OeUnR)

363 And I want to go on record as saying that I am doing here what I try very hard to do in real life and I will not say anything about anyone who is not around, and what I would say I'd also say if they were standing right in front of me.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

I strive to do the same.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM (/QIWP)

364 The more I see of Nikki! the more I can’t stand her…. Has she gotten uglier in the last 6 months? More gaunt? Something looks different in a bad way……
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (1jdMT)

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The mask has been peeled off to reveal the big government war mongering statist.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM (tT6L1)

365 348 Trump's pick won't be Kari Lake, they need her in the senate. Burgum is kinda old. Ben Carson isn't presidential material and he's no spring chicken. He's brilliant but he doesn't have the personality. We need someone young enough that in 4 years can run for president and do another 8. I'm going with Lee Zelden. Trump isn't going to pick a woman because someone says he should.
Posted by: Jaimo at January 17, 2024 09:16 AM (DBrN4)

He needs someone who will actually be the mean and cruel bastard that the media wants you to believe Trump is.

Someone everybody else is too afraid to even try to stop from dismantling the bureaucracy.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 09:19 AM (sm6Pk)

366 356 We had a president who was born in Kenya and was raised by a communist in Indonesia. And it threatened the very foundation of our precious democracy to question that to the point Hawaii made a fake birth certificate in adobe Illustrator.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (2ovLw)

But a legal immigrant who assimilated and embraced America and it's culture is NOT allowable!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 09:19 AM (x0n13)

367 And glad Sponge wasn't banned !!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2024 09:06 AM (NKqpy)

early days.....

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 09:19 AM (V13WU)

368 I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands...

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Part of what is so offensive about that is that the law exists and covers all of that, and it exists so that everyone involved knows what is expected of the other.

If there aren't adequate taxes being collected, change the rate. If there needs to be something addressed, address it within the law.

But to be angry about someone not paying "his fair share" when your job is literally to set the rate of taxation? No, take that on down the road that you didn't build and tried your best to avoid paying for come tax time.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:19 AM (+RC1q)

369 "Guess what? Calling someone who doesn't agree with you a braindead cultist is a personal attack."

Not if he has his fingers crossed when he says it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:20 AM (hH3Px)

370 We lost it with obama, let the genie out of the bottle, so to speak.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 09:20 AM (V13WU)

371 (sm6Pk)

366 356 We had a president who was born in Kenya and was raised by a communist in Indonesia. And it threatened the very foundation of our precious democracy to question that to the point Hawaii made a fake birth certificate in adobe Illustrator.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (2ovLw)

Frank Marshall Davis has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 17, 2024 09:20 AM (WVAwc)

372 Oh, the reason I think it's Lake as the VP pick: PDT has an eye for good looking and articulate women.

Lake fits the bill perfectly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:20 AM (tT6L1)

373 So, if Sponge were to get banned, who would inherit his right to proclaim "FIRST!"?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 09:21 AM (9yWhg)

374 (Reuters) - Bipartisan legislation to create a commission charged with taming the $34 trillion U.S. national debt is set to advance this week in a House of Representatives panel, as lawmakers battle over federal spending.

Tax the Billionaires, breakup the monopolies, and leave the little old ladies alone.

It needs to be millionaires. We don’t have enough billionaires to take care of the 34 trillion debt alone.

Trump exploded our debt, but since the economy seems to be doing remarkably well, it’s time for the GOP to try to tank it.

Restore that money to the IRS for agents to audit those complicated tax returns of wealthy tax cheats. Renegotiate leases of public lands and resources. No more subsidies for fossil fuels. Increase Medicare's ability to reduce what is paid for pharmaceuticals. Increase (legal) immigration.

The nation needed more money. (Speaking here from the Modern Monetary Theory viewpoint) The productivity of the nation increased. To prevent deflation (over several decades), we needed more money in circulation.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 17, 2024 09:21 AM (JCZqz)

375 353 Thank you, andycanuck. And I'm not giving up on getting WEFfen SS and Nazi EUth into popular use to mock the Davos loons.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 17, 2024 09:21 AM (S+f/u)

376 I perused yesterday's threads after work. Things got very spicy here in the wake of the Iowa caucus blowout.

RDS, Vivek and Haley are doomed in this primary - that much was obvious six months ago. It's Trump's thing to lose. No reason to get mad about it.

If Dems want a GOP punching bag this cycle, then Trump will win. If they want to keep the drive alive, then he won't. It's their thing to "lose," and they win either way. He'll prove no impediment to their plans as President, or private citizen - same as RDS, Vivek, or Haley. No reason to be exultant.

It's a silly subject to feel any emotions about. It's like two perennially awful football teams aiming to end the season last in their conference for the draft picks, and getting mad at each other about who gets the Biggest Loser booby prize.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2024 09:21 AM (0FoWg)

377
The mask has been peeled off to reveal the big government war mongering statist.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM

I'm so old I remember when the left was anti-war. Now they would embrace her, even put her in the White House, just to keep Trump from preventing wars.

Something doesn't compute.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2024 09:21 AM (nIvob)

378 (Speaking here from the Modern Monetary Theory viewpoint)


So, you can tell us all about phlogiston, then.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 09:22 AM (9yWhg)

379 You can disagree, politely. what ace was making clear is that he will no more tolerate personal attacks
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Guess what? Calling someone who doesn't agree with you a braindead cultist is a personal attack.
Posted by: JackStraw
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SHUTUP YOU SMOOTHBRAINED JAGOFF!!!

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:22 AM (+RC1q)

380
Trump exploded our debt, but since the economy seems to be doing remarkably well, it’s time for the GOP to try to tank it.

I want what he/she's smoking

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2024 09:22 AM (n2vyf)

381
None, nada, zero of this "gain of function" i.e. artificially creating deadly viruses from unlikely combinations which don't occur outside of a lab-

has anything to do with the Science of evolving pathogen in the wild.

This is pure mad scientist/Bond villain madness.

Posted by: naturalfake

You hit the nail precisely on the head. And that is why any argument that "We need to do this in order to anticipate what Nature might do!" is fundamentally false. Nature and mutation are random; the crap that you Doctor Bunsen Honeydews propose to do is not.

Cancel all research grants that involve this nonsense -- hell, claw back money from the grantees -- and reject all research grants seeking approval in the pipeline that involve these insane ideas.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 17, 2024 09:22 AM (xG4kz)

382 322 CAT, we also have two Indians running for president who's parents were not legal citizens when they were born. They are native born not natural born but no one seems to give a shit about that either.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 17, 2024 09:23 AM (DBrN4)

383 Has she gotten uglier in the last 6 months? More gaunt? Something looks different in a bad way……
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (1jdMT)

Ozempic. I'm 90% sure, anyway.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2024 09:24 AM (0FoWg)

384 ... Restore that money to the IRS for agents to audit those complicated tax returns of wealthy tax cheats. Renegotiate leases of public lands and resources. No more subsidies for fossil fuels. Increase Medicare's ability to reduce what is paid for pharmaceuticals. Increase (legal) immigration. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 17, 2024 09:21 AM (JCZqz)
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LOL. This person thinks that "the rich" cheat on their taxes. Nope. They *avoid* their taxes, and do so sleazily but legally. The tax code is designed to enable it. The revenue operations target, primarily, the near-rich (the higher-earners with some assets). They're rich enough to be juicy but not rich enough to have complex tax-avoidance strategies and personnel.

Old memes die hard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 09:24 AM (C19Uv)

385 Tax the Billionaires, breakup the monopolies, and leave the little old ladies alone.

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Is there a MAGA supporter at DU?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 17, 2024 09:24 AM (cMXNt)

386 The more I see of Nikki! the more I can’t stand her…. Has she gotten uglier in the last 6 months? More gaunt? Something looks different in a bad way……
Posted by: LinusVanPelt


I saw a clip of her yesterday, and the word that came to mind was smarmy. Totally fake.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 17, 2024 09:25 AM (V2IO2)

387 PDT did expand our debt, then the Junta doubled down on the expansion...and this is after Obama turned emergency spending into baseline budgeting.

Of course, all of the above came after Bush II and the tax "refund" boogalo.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:25 AM (tT6L1)

388 The nation needed more money. (Speaking here from the Modern Monetary Theory viewpoint) The productivity of the nation increased. To prevent deflation (over several decades), we needed more money in circulation.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions br


bwahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahah

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 17, 2024 09:25 AM (CIS44)

389 Don't take Ozempic if you are allergic to Ozempic.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 17, 2024 09:25 AM (WVAwc)

390 Nikki is getting that gaunt hollowed out eye socket look that just screams....'I want to talk to the manager!!'

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:25 AM (hH3Px)

391 Has she gotten uglier in the last 6 months? More gaunt? Something looks different in a bad way……
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (1jdMT)


It's self-defense against being eaten by Chris Christie.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 09:26 AM (9yWhg)

392 Guess what? Calling someone who doesn't agree with you a braindead cultist is a personal attack.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM (ZLI7S)


you can take it up with DeSantis campaign, JackStraw

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 09:26 AM (V13WU)

393 Politics is a nasty business.

Debating politics and politicians is worse. There was a time you didn't discuss such things in polite company.

Thus, the reason the shit flies here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2024 09:26 AM (Q4IgG)

394 Old man Bush barfed on the Japanese PM because bush had the flu. So I take it that Haley will barf in someone because she's anorexic?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2024 09:26 AM (/Mbcg)

395 Is she really African American?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:17 AM (hH3Px)

no

Jamaican and Indian Dot not Feather

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 09:26 AM (lwOKI)

396 And DUmmies too dumb to see the populists are pissed at corporations and the trust-fund wealthy.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 09:27 AM (2yu8s)

397 They're saying "migrants" instead of illegal aliens as standard on Fox radio now. Fuck 'em, they're just another propaganda outlet.
Posted by: Seigmeyer of Catarina, Brave and True Onion Knight at January 17, 2024 08:30 AM (SfSWS)

I used to watch Fox but switched to Newsmax. Over the holidays , however, I was in a place that Newsmax was unavailable, and had to watch Fox. I was shocked by how liberal, and deceitful, Fox is!

Posted by: Chillin the most at January 17, 2024 09:27 AM (0uQp2)

398 I also want to say that I really appreciate the support I get here. You Morons are awesome. I mean that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

399 Restore that money to the IRS for agents to audit those complicated tax returns of wealthy tax cheats.

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Some moron posted the other day that Biden's 2021 Inflation Reduction Act has the IRS spending $6B to collect $240M

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:27 AM (+RC1q)

400
no

Jamaican and Indian Dot not Feather
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 09:26 AM (lwOKI)


It's amazing that she's not being completely cancelled for her cultural appropriation.


I mean, it isn't, but......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

401 I wonder if Nikki is going for the "X Ray" look as described by Tom Wolfe?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:28 AM (tT6L1)

402 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2024 09:21 AM (0FoWg)

Cynicism to a rarefied level. I can appreciate it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 17, 2024 09:28 AM (OeUnR)

403 I also want to say that I really appreciate the support I get here. You Morons are awesome. I mean that.
Posted by: Sponge


Just make sure you keep up on the payments...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 17, 2024 09:28 AM (9yWhg)

404 376 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2024 09:21 AM (0FoWg)

I'll take Trump's failings, warts and all over the likes of what we were stuck with in the past. Regardless of his fuck ups, his successes were stellar. No one else in the GOP would ever have even given mild lip service to his policies let alone attempted them should they ever have been elected.

Has he learned his lessons? TBD. Will he sell out? TBD. If he does, he would've ruined an image of himself and a place in history that he busted his ass to create

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2024 09:28 AM (x0n13)

405 "Some moron posted the other day that Biden's 2021 Inflation Reduction Act has the IRS spending $6B to collect $240M"

It's scaleable, so they make it up in volume.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:28 AM (hH3Px)

406 Calling someone who doesn't agree with you a braindead cultist is a personal attack.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 09:18 AM (ZLI7S)


Heh. Yes. I agree. But I started it, I'm told.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

407 Politics is a nasty business.

Debating politics and politicians is worse. There was a time you didn't discuss such things in polite company.

Thus, the reason the shit flies here.

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Nah, that was a good reason for the shit to fly in the past. Politics is now a scripted business, and there's o reason to give a shit, let alone throw it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (0FoWg)

408 It's scaleable, so they make it up in volume.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 17, 2024 09:28 AM (hH3Px)
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Spending a trillion dollars to collect 250 billion is a win according to Washington accounting.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (tT6L1)

409 394 Old man Bush barfed on the Japanese PM because bush had the flu. So I take it that Haley will barf in someone because she's anorexic?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2024 09:26 AM (/Mbcg)

Or taking medication that makes you barf if you eat more than one leaf of kale.

I knew someone who was on that shit. They were unpleasant to be around unless the only thing they consumed all day was an expensive keto powder shake.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (sm6Pk)

410 Some moron posted the other day that Biden's 2021 Inflation Reduction Act has the IRS spending $6B to collect $240M
Posted by: Nikki Haley -

They are going to make it up in volume, obviously.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (CIS44)

411 You did, Sponge. I was there.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (V13WU)

412 >>you can take it up with DeSantis campaign, JackStraw

I have in my own way. With his supporters as well.

I'm voting for Trump.

Trump goes no holds barred at his political opponents but he never trashes their supporters. Something the DeSantis campaign would do well to learn.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (ZLI7S)

413 DeSantis has not even faced his first rape accusation. We can't afford to trust he can withstand the same onslaught trump has weathered.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (2ovLw)
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I would laugh, except it's probably true. OTOH, he did face down a PDJT implication he was preying on high school girls, fwiw.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (gK0k3)

414 DeSantis is not gonna get the nomination..... Simple as that

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (n2vyf)

415 art

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 17, 2024 09:31 AM (lwOKI)

416 DeSantis has two rape doors installed in the front of the governor's mansion for when he's feeling extra rapey.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:31 AM (+RC1q)

417 I could give Lee's regarding Trump vs. DeSantis.

I'll vote for either.

Until 10 years ago, Trump would have been welcomed in NY or Davos. He scares the right people and he hasn't changed. They have, if for no other reason than "he's not on 'their' side any more."

In addition, smaller political people are over shadowed. That's also a factor. He sucks the air out of the room. They don't like that.

Plus, he connects with ordinary people. A much bigger reservoir of potential voters. That scares the shit out of them.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 17, 2024 09:31 AM (FxH7T)

418 EU President demands more government control to counter 'misinformation'

Congressman Sam Albert: [on TV] We knew that we had to monitor our enemies. We've also come to realise that we need to monitor the people who are monitoring them...
Carla Dean: Well, who's gonna monitor the monitors of the monitors?

Posted by: SMOD at January 17, 2024 09:32 AM (RHGPo)

419 Plus, he connects with ordinary people. A much bigger reservoir of potential voters. That scares the shit out of them.

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Yeah, I haven't heard anyone explain how anyone else is going to keep those blacks, hispanics, union voters, etc.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:32 AM (+RC1q)

420 Completely OT
I am thinking of trying to memorize some Psalms.I will start with Psalm 23.
Which others should I try next?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at January 17, 2024 08:34 AM (vnSn7)

My personal favorites are 27, and 37. Also Isaiah 33, and 43. I don't have any actually memorized, though. It's admirable that you are going to!

Posted by: Chillin the most at January 17, 2024 09:33 AM (0uQp2)

421 243 Your position assumes that as long as DJT is not the nominee, the left will allow for a normal election.
They will not.
Trump is still standing despite what the left has thrown at him.
DeSantis has not even faced his first rape accusation. We can't afford to trust he can withstand the same onslaught trump has weathered.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 17, 2024 08:53 AM (2ovLw)

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Not to worry, comrade -- Gloria Allred has already conducted numerous auditions, and has hundreds of psychotic whores waiting in the wings for that glorious day!
Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 08:57 AM (5GWDq)

A lot of beach friends in FL... just say'in...

Posted by: Inogame at January 17, 2024 09:33 AM (53oGX)

422 Trump makes our enemies cringe too. I like that.

Posted by: and here we go again.... at January 17, 2024 09:34 AM (SNVFk)

423
Everyone go off to Art, make a comment, and take the count up to 100, join you then.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 17, 2024 09:35 AM (nIvob)

424 The free trade absolutists suffer from the same fundamental problem as the communists: their concept isn't flawed, it's just that people aren't good enough to implement it properly.

NO. That is not the problem with Communism. Communism is a "biggest thug wins" system, it is idiotic and primitive, and can't possibly work. Go read Solzhenitsyn: "Gulags were not an unfortunate side effect of Communism, gulags were the whole point of Communism." It is a system for doling out retribution to productive successful people because they are productive and successful.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 17, 2024 09:36 AM (CecP5)

425 so to fisnish this up, I was forced to do a search and see what DeSantis said. Because it is being brought up by JackStraw on almost every thread. there is a claim that he called Trump supporters "brain dead cultists" . I did not find that, what I did find was : “You could be the most conservative person since sliced bread. Unless you’re kissing his rear end, they will somehow call you a RINO,” he said, challenging those who call conservative Trump critics “Republicans in name only.”

“A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual,” DeSantis went on. “The movement has got to be about what are you trying to achieve on behalf of the American people and that’s got to be based in principle, because if you’re not rooted in principle, if all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”


Can't disagree.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 09:36 AM (V13WU)

426 Trump makes our enemies cringe too. I like that.
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Exhibit A: Fake Jake Tapper (and Rachel Madcow)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 09:38 AM (gK0k3)

427 >>"Some moron posted the other day that Biden's 2021 Inflation Reduction Act has the IRS spending $6B to collect $240M"


So then it's obvious they weren't hired to collect taxes.

They will be used to harass citizens and businesses that oppose Biden. See Obama and Congress using the IRS to destroy Tea Party organizations.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2024 09:39 AM (NKqpy)

428 Trump makes our enemies cringe too. I like that.
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Exhibit A: Fake Jake Tapper (and Rachel Madcow)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 09:38 AM (gK0k3)

B...and dictators across the world.

Posted by: and here we go again.... at January 17, 2024 09:40 AM (SNVFk)

429 Gorka claims he knows who Trump has selected to be his VP, and he let it slip yesterday that it was a "he." I'm most curious ... if I had to bet, it's likely going to be Dr. Ben Carson (who is an adorable and obviously brilliant man), but I wouldn't call him the fighter we need to succeed (and possible succeed Trump as the torch-bearer).
Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 09:05 AM (5GWDq)

Don't know if Trump can really pick a torch bearer.
I mean, he can't pick a GOP guy because even if he isn't traitorous scum his staff will be filled to the brim with it...

Posted by: Inogame at January 17, 2024 09:40 AM (53oGX)

430 >>My personal favorites are 27, and 37. Also Isaiah 33, and 43. I don't have any actually memorized, though. It's admirable that you are going to!
Posted by: Chillin the most


Oh, I love your twitter, Chillin!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2024 09:41 AM (NKqpy)

431 Some moron posted the other day that Biden's 2021 Inflation Reduction Act has the IRS spending $6B to collect $240M
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 09:27 AM (+RC1q)
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"Waste, fraud and abuse", thy name is "Government programs"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 09:41 AM (gK0k3)

432 You did, Sponge. I was there.
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 09:29 AM (V13WU)


Well, he claimed he was jumping to the Democrat side, so I said I guess he's going libtard.

That's the extent of my 'name calling' that created the whole butthurt fiasco.

So be it. I'll take it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

433 Personally, Trump makes me cringe. But I don't have to love him in order to vote for him. He's the only one who makes sense now IMO.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 17, 2024 08:23 AM (SfhV1)

Personally, having been born, raised and living in the NY metro area for 76 years, Trump doesn't make me cringe at all. Around here, you either become more like Trump or get eaten alive. Mister Nice Guy™ disappears by the time you're old enough to work and get out in the real world. He's the guy this country needs. A mean, nasty, SOB fighter. Not the typical pussified Chamber Of Commerce Repuke. Of course, even if he is elected, he will be thwarted at every turn by the beta Repukes in congress. Calling them out, by name, at every opportunity, publicly, and calling every Dem a commie stooge, would make me and many others smile. We are at war. And we need someone in the Big Chair with an axe to grind. As we stand, the only guy who fits that bill is Trump, like it or not. DeSantis is qualified as an executive, but I firmly believe he is beholden to "the party". "I need more coffee", to quote Hairy Back Guy.

Rant off. Now for a BP pill.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 17, 2024 09:43 AM (iODuv)

434 I will start with Psalm 23. Which others should I try next?

You cannot go wrong with old 137. It has a happy ending.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at January 17, 2024 09:46 AM (zdLoL)

435 Well, he claimed he was jumping to the Democrat side, so I said I guess he's going libtard.

That's the extent of my 'name calling' that created the whole butthurt fiasco.

So be it. I'll take it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at January 17, 2024 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
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I know you're thick-skinned enough to take that, but I laugh a little at the memory of when I first came to the HQ many years ago and a then co-blogger (Purp something) spent many electrons calling me names until he sushed out my opinions. I wonder what happened to him....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 17, 2024 09:48 AM (gK0k3)

436 Rant off. Now for a BP pill.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 17, 2024 09:43 AM (iODuv)

Thank you. THIS. Grew up in the Bronx. Toughen up buttercup. The city is a jungle. Trump is a jungle fighter and winner. He's the guy. He intimidates our enemies across the globe.

Posted by: and here we go again.... at January 17, 2024 09:52 AM (SNVFk)

437 NO. That is not the problem with Communism. Communism is a "biggest thug wins" system, it is idiotic and primitive, and can't possibly work. Go read Solzhenitsyn: "Gulags were not an unfortunate side effect of Communism, gulags were the whole point of Communism." It is a system for doling out retribution to productive successful people because they are productive and successful.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 17, 2024 09:36 AM (CecP5)
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Yes, and I don't dispute that in the slightest. It's evil to its core.

But the true believers don't believe that, which is my point. To the true believers, communism is perfect, it's just that those pesky humans are too flawed to implement it properly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 09:57 AM (C19Uv)

438 To the true believers, communism is perfect, it's just that those pesky humans are too flawed to implement it properly.
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Oddly, humans aren't ants. If they were the ant farm would work splendidly.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 17, 2024 10:17 AM (pZ64F)

439 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

>National Constitution Center, Common Interpretation: The Tenth Amendment. In part, The Tenth Amendment’s simple language—“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”—emphasizes that the inclusion of a bill of rights does not change the fundamental character of the national government. It remains a government of limited and enumerated powers, so that the first question involving an exercise of federal power is not whether it violates someone’s rights, but whether it exceeds the national government’s enumerated powers."

USCBP Knowledge Art: Legal authority for the Border Patrol
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Border Patrol is responsible for securing the U.S. border between the ports of entry.

To do this, they use a layered approach that includes patrolling the border itself, (including the use of electronic surveillance devices), patrolling nearby areas and neighborhoods where illegal immigrants can quickly fade into the general population, and conducting checkpoints - both stationary and temporary.

1/

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear. They only have to outrun us - for now at January 17, 2024 10:32 AM (GshMh)

440 Cont'd:

The authority for this is based on the Immigration and Nationality Act 287(a)(3) and copied in 8 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 287 (a)(3), which states that Immigration Officers, without a warrant, may "within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States...board and search for non-citizens in any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States and any railcar, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle. 8 CFR 287 (a)(1) defines reasonable distance as 100 air miles from the border.
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18 U.S. Code § 1114 - Protection of officers and employees of the United States. (a) In General.—Whoever kills or attempts to kill any officer or employee of the United States or of any agency in any branch of the United States Government (including any member of the uniformed services) while such officer or employee is engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties...

It all nonsense. USCPB isn't doing its job by LAW. (See Border Patrol History.) How does TX blocking entry prohibit its assigned duties? TX is also not killing or threating to kill any CPB officer or help.

Blinken & Biden veer to 'Treaties in Force' next?

Not a lawyer.

Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear. They only have to outrun us - for now at January 17, 2024 10:32 AM (GshMh)

441 Prior to the Texas National Guard being activated to excuse the Border Patrol and DHS from their "repopulation" project, I'd determined that Governor Abbott was not being very assertive and relying too much on the courts for lawful remedy to the invasion. Looks like even he finally sees that his faith in the system was misplaced. Interestingly, Texas is one of the few states that has it's sovereignty enshrined in it's constitution. Here's crossing my fingers that Abbott and Paxton don't act like RINOS and fold at the first empty promises from the illegal regime in DC.
As for Davos, I have a begging question. What are the aims of this club made up of billionaires, America politicians, Chinese Communists, EU heads and others? And does anyone else get a sort of SPECTRE feel whenever the word DAVOS is mentioned? We sure could use a James Bond - the real, male version - to wreck their secret bases and bring them down. And damn, it sure sounds like the Chi-Coms are making bioweapons. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that a violation of treaties they've signed? And why hasn't the WHO jumped into this issue or the U.N.? Oh wait, they are probably DAVOS controlled as well.

Posted by: Tracy at January 17, 2024 10:37 AM (uYUwH)

442 I hope Governor Abbott starts having federal agents that interfere with the border closure arrested and put in jail.

Posted by: Advo at January 17, 2024 10:43 AM (VHN21)

443 Mass deportations can be done. We did it before under Eisenhower.


http://tinyurl.com/3bc7adm9

Posted by: PJ at January 17, 2024 11:27 AM (G1dq6)

444 Chinese Lab Crafts Mutant COVID-19 Strain with 100% Kill Streak in "Humanized" Mice: "Surprisingly" Rapid Death

Holy F***. I guess we'll know when that will be used on us and the Taiwanese...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2024 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

445 Nikki Haley is the Left’s Favorite Republican

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My BIL, a big libbie (except when it comes to guns) says that if he were a Repub, he'd vote for Nikki.
Told him I'd vote for Trump just to piss off the Dems...

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The lower-income denizens of our cities are disproportionately disadvantaged by increasing costs of energy (both heat and transportation), food, and clothing because those take up a greater percentage of their income than it does of the middle and upper income cohorts. Then they find that the parks and schools of their neighborhoods are being taken by the city for use by illegal aliens. Which they are NOT happy about. At all. I don't know if it'll get them to vote for the GOP but it may well get them to simply stay home.

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