The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 1/30/24

Good morning, kids. I didn't intend to lead off with Joy Reid, the shrieking knockwurst with more ghastly repurposed merkins on her head than Sy Sperling and the Istanbul rug bazaar combined, dropping an F-bomb on her nightly 30 minutes of hate on MSNSDAP, but my muse takes me where it wants to go.

Reid was trying to blame Republicans for the border crisis when she played a video of Biden saying he would shut the border down.
“Congressional Republicans love to latch on to [fraudulent] President Biden and Democrats’ successful policies and take credit for things they didn’t do, while tying themselves into pretzels to do nothing for the American people for the sake of Donald Trump,” Reid began. “Case in point, fixing what they say is a crisis at the border with congressional negotiators continuing work on a bipartisan deal to tie border policy changes to funding for Ukraine. Over the weekend, [fraudulent] President Biden said he’s ready to take action if Congress is serious about solving the border issue.”
Reid then played two clips of Biden, one in which he said he would shut down the border immediately if the proposed legislation were law today.
“And Congress needs to get it done,” Biden added when suddenly Reid was caught off camera saying “starting another f*cking war.”
The audio was then quickly cut, with Reid’s sentence audibly cut off before she went on to blame Trump for the legislation not yet passing. . . Reid’s “war” comment is likely a reference to the White House saying the nation would respond to the drone attack in Jordan that killed three service members and injured dozens more.

Let's face it. Statistically speaking, Joy Reid has virtually no audience. In point of fact it's the blogosphere that gives her the lion's share of exposure. Usually, I avoid her like plague since highlighting anything that emanates from her small exhaust port is a waste of pixels. But in this case, her accidental dig at Biden is quite revealing. In fact, disregarding where she's coming from she sounded positively America First.

With everything he's doing, or more accurately being directed to do by Obama/Rice/Jarrett, collapsing in on them and more importantly everyone, they are desperate for one big ass wag of the dog (if they can keep it away from Obama's chef, and the odds are good since he drowned in three feet of water just offshore of the Obama Martha's Vineyard compound). Looks like Ukraine is a bust on that one, so just before they put him in the ground, heeeeere's Johnny! — McCain that is with his #1 chart busting smash "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!"

Joy Reid notwithstanding, this is now the battlecry from the propagandists, surprise-surprise, since their job is the dissemination of the junta's desires to the masses.

Iran, allegedly, via proxy, attacked U.S. installments in Jordan yesterday. The corporate state media and the national security state have seized on the opportunity to promote instigating a full-scale war with Iran.
Make no mistake: attacking Iran, which would be no cakewalk even on its own, would almost certainly result in China and Russia jumping in on the other side, at which point we’d have World War III with nuclear powers.
The geopolitical reality — insulated as these technocrats are from it — is that the U.S. and the broader neoliberal world order have a three-front war brewing, nearly entirely of its own making: in Eurasia, the Middle East, and East Asia. Only a fool, hopped up on hubris and war contractor talking points, would believe it is capable of waging and winning even one of these without incurring nuclear annihilation, let alone all three at once.
This is the stuff of crumbled empires.

As I averred yesterday, all of this would not be happening with Trump in the White House, or at the very least nowhere near the breadth, depth and danger levels that have us on the brink of catastrophe. If elections have consequences, stolen elections have it out the freaking wahzoo.

That's why Joy Reid's outburst rings true. Before we go hoisting her, presumably with a crane, on our shoulders and proclaiming her as the next Fetterman, it should be noted that she said this off camera and only apologized for dropping the F-bomb, and not the truth nuke. It's likely her attitude is heavily shaded by hatred of Israel. Also, the prime directive is to protect Biden at all costs while sliming and smearing Republicans, especially Donald Trump. So it's all run of the mill immediate political calculus.

As we have observed over the past few years, it's interesting to compare and contrast the positions of the hardcore anti-war Left in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 with their attitude towards Ukraine. If I'm correct, and you don't have to be Kreskin to read these tea leaves since the above link clearly shows what's about to happen, the Code Pink pinkos are going to be doing a Hallelujah Chorus of John McCain's big hit any moment now.

Regardless of why Reid is disgusted by Biden looking to wag the dog, you have to believe that a very large swathe of the citizenry are equally disgusted. But not for the same reasons as she. It's the open borders on top of and exacerbating the crashing economy, stupid. We see it and now traditional Democrats see it, especially blacks and Latinos of the legitimate citizen variety. Joy Reid's outburst in that regard is for sure a tell that Biden and his party are facing an ass-kicking of tremendous proportions.

And that segues quite nicely into this semi-alarming and infuriating bit of news:

The numbers, which Turning Point Action provided to Breitbart News exclusively, are stunning. Across ten battleground states, the group identified 4,571,210 disengaged GOP voters who did not vote in 2016 or 2020. The ten states counted are Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada. While Trump won Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and North Carolina in 2020, Democrat President Joe Biden took the other six states—and in each one, the disengaged GOP voters total was more than the margin of Biden’s victory over Trump.
For instance, in Pennsylvania, the margin between Trump and Biden was 80,555. The number of disengaged GOP voters was, per Turning Point Action’s analysis, 589,350—more than seven times the margin. In Michigan, the margin was 154,188 votes by which Biden beat Trump. Turning Point Action found 490,630 disengaged GOP voters there, more than three times the margin.
It was even more profound in places like Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia. In Georgia, the margin was 11,779—and the number of disengaged GOP voters was, per Turning Point Action, 539,480—more than 45 times the margin. In Arizona, the margin between Trump and Biden was 10,457—and Turning Point Action identified 286,440 disengaged GOP voters there, more than 27 times the margin. In Wisconsin, 20,682 votes separated Trump and Biden—and Turning Point identified 542,720 disengaged GOP voters there. That is more than 26 times the margin. . .
. . . Turning Point Action is doing a major “ballot chasing” program across those three states—Wisconsin, Arizona, and Georgia—designed to get these people to vote.
“It’s a little wonky, but we can’t touch the ballot,” Kirk said when asked to explain what ballot chasing is. “Ballot harvesting is illegal in these states. We actually honor the law. We follow the law—the bad guys, they break the law. That’s actually ballot harvesting, but we don’t touch the ballot. We understand there’s voting month, and then we find the people who are low-propensity voters—we’re not interested in the people showing up anyway. That’s one of the problems with the RNC—the RNC is focused on moving people who already vote on election day into the category of early voting. That’s not a new vote; it’s just the same votes being transferred into a different column. So we try to go out there and find these low-propensity voters and try to get them to submit their ballot in that 30-day period, and we do that through a variety of ways. We’ll have 300 full-time people in Arizona and Wisconsin. It will be, to be my knowledge, the largest deployment of full-time field staff in the history of modern conservative politics.”

Two things: first, to hell with being worried about breaking the law vis a vis ballot harvesting. The Left are doing it and in point of fact the laws were completely bastardized and eviscerated with the cover of the lockdowns and fake-demic to do exactly that. So do what they do. Then again, with the justice system being what it is, it's us who'll be prosecuted for election fraud, right?

Second, and most importantly, Charlie Kirk and company neither ask nor answer the rather cromulent question of WHY. Why didn't voters show up? Could it be that they were sick and tired of merely voting against the slightly, and now ever so slightly lesser of two evils, the Grifting Oleaginous Potemkin Party that is the GOP instead of having a reason to vote for a true opposition party? One that actually puts forth pro-American and anti-globalist/Democrat policies?

Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, here – as if we didn't know this ages ago – is what open borders and the equally horrendous policies of Hart-Celler gets us:

It seems like a no-brainer that the men and women elected to lead the U.S. would put America’s interest above all else, and yet, there are daily reminders that not only are they not doing that, but their allegiances are to foreign nations wanting to destroy the country.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reported exclusively Monday that federal authorities caught a Somali terrorist from the al-Shabaab terror group at the California border and released him into the interior United States, where he stayed for almost a year before eventually being arrested again in Minnesota. . .
. . . It’s hard to explain what it does to the psyche of a country’s citizens when they realize national safety is a myth and even worse when one of its elected officials is telling crowds of people in a foreign language that her allegiances lie with Somalia first.
Democrat Minn. Rep. Ilhan Omar told Somalis at a recent event that although there are “areas of friction” among their people, Somalis know “they are Somalians first, Muslims second.”
“Many Somalians have personally called me to encourage me to speak to the U.S. government and help Somalia. They wanted to know what the U.S. government could do for Somalia to ensure the MoU [Memorandum of Agreement] never turns into a full bilateral agreement. My answer to Somalians was that the U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else,” Omar told the crowd according to a translation on X, formally Twitter. “They must follow our orders, and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia. We Somalians must have that confidence in ourselves that we call for the shots in the U.S.”
“We live in the U.S., pay taxes in the U.S., and have a real voice. The U.S. is a country where one of your daughters is in Congress to represent your interests,” she continued.
“For as long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger. Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others. The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans. Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system,” Omar promised. “The woman you sent to Congress is working day and night to protect your interests. She knows your plight and that of Somalia. I am as concerned about Somalia as you guys are. Together we will protect the interests of Somalia.”
She is not the only official accused of subverting U.S. interests for those of a foreign country. The Daily Caller reported in Oct. 2023 that the Biden Administration quietly revoked its special envoy to Iran, Rober Malley’s security clearance, after he was found allegedly “mishandling classified information.”
Malley was the lead negotiator for the U.S. on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) under former President Barack Obama, which saw Iran receive the now infamous billions of dollars in sanctions relief. Malley called the Hamas terrorist group a “charity organization” in a 2008 interview, according to the New York Post.
While the Biden [junta] would love for the American people to focus on Taylor Swift and abortion as the topics that will lead the 2024 presidential election, it’s a tall order, considering the drums of war get louder every day. If the country goes to war with Iran or Hamas, how are American parents supposed to willingly send their children to die in the desert, knowing the people running war games are helping the enemy?

Let's face it; Bro-Fo Omar, who should be ejected the hell out of this country, let alone Congress, for lying about her multiple marriages and literal incestuous relationships to get here, is now openly boasting that her aims and goals and allegiance is not to the United States but Somalia. She should be expelled from Congress, her citizenship stripped and then deported the hell back to her dark age shit hole where her joy buzzer can be re-attached to her nose and then she can be decapitated for failing to taqqiya sunrise us to death.

Meh, as sick as she is, she's merely a symptom. The fish stinks from the head; Joe Biden's 50 years of selling us out to every bad actor around the globe is bad enough but the deliberate opening of the borders and erasure of even the barest minimum of immigration controls is intentionally with malice aforethought endangering the lives of every citizen and an existential threat to our national security. Ergo . . .

T R E A S O N

I don't think I can spell it out any louder or clearer. But Grahamnesty, Cornyn, Cotton et al would rather help open the borders and wag the dog over Tehran.

Meh, what does citizenship or treason even mean in a nation that no longer really exists?

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

"In London, a group of Chinese Communists test their power to crush freedom."
Silencing a Piano Man
Robert Zimmerman: "On inauguration day every FBI agent and manager must either submit his or her resignation or be fired. They should told in no uncertain terms that they must not report to work, and that they no longer have any authority to enter any FBI facility or use any government equipment, from email servers to computer desktops"
The FBI Must Be Wiped Clean, or Wiped Out, on Day One of the Next Republican Administration
Dennis Prager: "The notion that the cockpit or the mayor's office has to look like the rest of the population is just foolish -- as foolish as the idea that professional athletes have to look like the rest of the population. It is an idea, like most stupid ideas, that appeals primarily to college graduates."
You Should Rethink Flying United Airlines
Glenn Reynolds: "Apparently anyone who challenges the insider crowd’s power is the next Hitler. Except the insiders are the ones wearing the jackboots. . . I mentioned just how afraid of a populist revolt the West’s leadership has become. But why, exactly, is it so afraid? Perhaps these people fear for their necks if the commoners ever figure out what’s been done to them." (We have figured it out. What we do about it is the question - jjs)
Canada’s Elite Colluded Against the Freedom Convoy truckers — Just as America’s Elite Have Colluded Against Us

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

"The deal, negotiated by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), would increase annual legal immigration, permit thousands of illegal aliens to arrive at the southern border daily, and require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to release thousands of border crossers into the U.S. interior every few days, among other things."
Joe Biden’s Unvetted Afghans to Score Green Cards as Part of Senate Deal
"Biden would do nothing to secure the border with the new powers provided in the Senate bill."
Another Bad Border Deal
"The only thing Americans are unified about is that Biden needs to retire."
Is This What Biden Meant By "Unity?"
"The [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] recent pledge to "shut down' the border suggests that, if nothing else could, his political survival might finally motivate him to enforce the law."
Biden’s Border Catastrophe
"A more robust federalism that empowers states to act where the federal government is overburdened or unwilling to enforce its own laws would relieve some pressure on the existing system."
Fort Sumter on the Border
"An Afghani migrant was arrested for sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Las Vegas - and the young woman’s father may have just earned himself Dad of the Year."
Court Chaos: Dad Knocks Out Afghani Migrant Who Allegedly Raped His Daughter
"It’s hard to explain what it does to the psyche of a country’s citizens when they realize national safety is a myth and even worse when one of its elected officials is telling crowds of people in a foreign language that her allegiances lie with Somalia first. Democrat MN Rep. Ilhan Omar told Somalis at a recent event that although there are 'areas of friction' among their people, Somalis know 'they are Somalians first, Muslims second.'”
Biden’s Border Crisis Exposed America’s Dirty Foreign Agent Secret
ISRAEL AT WAR
"Hamas is holding out for a permanent ceasefire. Israel would regard an end to the war that left Hamas intact in Gaza as a defeat. Hamas has already broken an agreement to provide evidence that medications sent via Qatar actually reached Israeli hostages. Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are reportedly near victory in the Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, where the leaders of the organization are thought to be hiding."
Hamas Rejects Hostage Deal: No Agreement Without End to War
“The United States is the single largest donor to the Palestinian people, having contributed more than $1 billion to UNRWA since 2021,” U.S. Representative for UN Management and Reform Ambassador Chris Lu said in November. “UNRWA needs more support from more donors.” (It needs to be dismembered and fed to pigs- jjs)
Biden Junta Gave Over a Billion to UN Agency it Just Cut Ties With Over Terror-Linked Staffers
The raid included “the battalion headquarters, the Hamas terrorist organization’s training compounds, communication posts, the Khan Yunis Brigade’s command center, a military intelligence building, a significant rocket manufacturing facility.”
IDF: Troops Raid Offices of Hamas Officials, Including Chief Yahya Sinwar
"By calling for a 'Palestinian' state, the [junta] admin. and the EU are advocating for endless war." (No, a final destruction of Israel - jjs)
Israel Should Reject the "Palestinian" State Snake Oil
"Yousaf is married to a 'Palestinian', has advocated for Israel to cease operations in Gaza, and wants the West to take in Gazan migrants. He has insisted his administration will not halt existing funding."
Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf, Won’t Defund UN Agency Whose Staff Participated in Oct 7 Hamas Terror Attack
"An opportunity for the United Arab Emirates?" (All these pie-in-the-sky ideas and plans ignore the 1,500 year-old fly in the ointment: Islam's quest to annihilate the Jews and lord over the rest of the world - jjs)
A Plausible, Benevolent, and Deep-Pocketed Future Ruler of Gaza

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"According to several reports, Pelosi’s comment may have been a nod to Code Pink, the anti-war protest group that has been linked to China through founder Jodie Evans and her husband, Shanghai-based tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham."
Malig-Nancy Pelosi Scolds Pro-Hamas Protesters Outside Her House: "Go Back To China!"
"Author Max Blumenthal and Israeli-American activist Miko Peled spoke at Capitol Hill Club." (How the actual fuck did these twin towers of Leftist Jew-hatred get invited to speak there?! - jjs)
National Republican Club Speakers Call for "Dismantling" Jewish State and Deny Hamas Atrocities
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"Because of Islam’s far reach across the globe, only internal forces—aided by a wise Western leader—will break the back of its anti-Western radicalism."
Only Islam Can Defeat Radical Islam (Assumes that "radical Islam" is not a redundancy - jjs)
Raymond Ibrahim: "The Danes copy a play from the Islamic gamebook."
Rule of Thuggery Prevails in Denmark
"Perpetrated against helpless black Africans in the Sudan by well-armed Arabs."
Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes Against Humanity
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
". . . And why do so many young people know so little about it?"
Prager U Video: What Was the Holocaust?
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Carroll’s book and the subsequent accusations of defamation were just a more aggressive weaponization of the same bookselling strategy. The curious timing of her accusations, coupled with the fact that her story appears to have been completely derived from the plot of a television show, would have convinced an objective jury that her claims were dubious, but it’s nearly impossible for Trump to get an objective jury in deep blue cities where he is forced to stand trial over the weakest of charges that would normally be laughed out of court."
Did E. Jean Carroll Admit Her Real Motivations for Her Accusations Against Trump?
"Former Governor Edgar, a moderate Republican, has been an outspoken critic of Trump — stating in 2016 that he would not vote for the Republican presidential nominee and would cast his ballot for Hillary Clinton instead. Edgar — who describes himself as an “Eisenhower-Ford-Bush Republican” — oversaw drastic changes to the Illinois state pension program during his two terms as governor from 1991 to 1999. Conservative and progressive policy analyses lay at least part of the blame for the state pension crisis on Governor Edgar and the changes he enacted."
Judge Who Says Trump Should Be Off Illinois Ballot Was Appointed By RINO Who Backed Clinton in 2016
“The Georgia Senate has the right and responsibility to investigate misuse of taxpayer resources by public officials. I have full faith in the members of this investigative committee, chosen this morning by the Committee on Assignments, and their efforts to pursue the truth wherever it may lead.” (I hope this is a legitimate bypassing of the obviously biased, compromised Kemp and not a cover-up - jjs)
GA Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones Announces Members Of New Investigatory Committee Looking Into Fani Willis
"An egregious legal treatment of the Constitution deserves a patriotic response."
Grammar for Attorneys
As a government contractor, Littlejohn “stole” Trump’s tax return information, the DOJ said on Monday, adding that he took steps to conceal his activities so he wouldn’t get caught. He also stole the tax return information of thousands of America’s wealthiest individuals, including figures like Jeff Bezos. (If you're filing tax returns you're obeying the law. If there is rock-solid proof the returns are fraudulent, maybe you got something. In any case, all this is is trying to foment anger at the rich for political purposes. Club Fed wrist-slap on the way because of who runs the IRS - js)
Man Who Leaked Trump Tax Returns Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Eager to exploit the episode as an example of America’s systemic, virulent discrimination illustrating the country’s irredeemable racism and homophobia, Biden got swept up in the controversy along with the rest of the corporate press."
Five Years Ago Today, Joe Biden Spread the Jussie Smollett Hate Crime Hoax
"The public discourse has been poisoned by childish tirades."
Our Nation Of Effete Status Seekers
"Today in the 21st century, American citizenship and its one-of-a-kind written contract with the government, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, is teetering on the edge of meaninglessness."
The Death of Citizenship
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
"Make no mistake: attacking Iran, which would be no cakewalk even on its own, would almost certainly result in China and Russia jumping in on the other side, at which point we’d have World War III with nuclear powers. The geopolitical reality — insulated as these technocrats are from it — is that the U.S. and the broader neoliberal world order have a three-front war brewing, nearly entirely of its own making: in Eurasia, the Middle East, and East Asia. Only a fool, hopped up on hubris and war contractor talking points, would believe it is capable of waging and winning even one of these without incurring nuclear annihilation, let alone all three at once. This is the stuff of crumbled empires."
WATCH: White House, Corporate State Media Salivate For World War III
"Logically.AI has been in talks with states and DHS to expand its social media surveillance for the presidential election later this year."
Censorship-Industrial Complex Enlists U.K. "Misinformation" Group Logically.AI to Meddle In 2024 Election
Robert Spencer: "AFP labels defenders of freedom of speech 'extremists.'”
This News Agency Wants You to Hate Freedom of Expression
"Wicresoft, started in 2002 by Microsoft and the Shanghai Municipal Government, conducts business with at least three companies sanctioned by the U.S. government over national security concerns and human rights violations."
Microsoft-Backed Chinese Company Works With Sanctioned Groups
"Progressives like Joy Reid want to get into an intellectual sparring match over the authority to take out books from school when they completely overlook the authority someone had to insert them there in the first place. When they had the power to dictate what books were being implemented in schools, they didn’t inquire with the rest of us about the appropriate nature of said books: they just did it."
Joy Reid's Sneering at "Moms for Liberty" Shows What the Elites Really Think of the People
It would be a big deal if she had an actual audience. Hell, I'd wager we give her more of an audience in the blogosphere than she has in total viewership. In any case, the fool flipped her blondie wig on Biden "starting another fucking war." Wow, she sounds positively America first, baby! - jjs
MSNSDAP's Lowlife Slag Joy Reid Drops F-Bomb on a Hot Mic During Biden Clip
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
". . . I'm surprised she's directly contradicting Biden's claim that inflation and prices are going down. Perhaps she's trying to protect her reputation with a little honesty, even if it means effectively calling Biden a liar. Not only are inflation and prices not going down, but Yellen also admitted that the Biden [junta] either doesn't know how to fix it or is powerless to do so. Either way, both options contradict Biden's claim that his policies are working to bring relief to the American people."
Ouch: Janet Yellen Threw Joe Biden Under the Bus Over Inflation
"Should our rulers have so much power to fight inflation and recession and climate change? Because they clearly don’t have a clue what they are doing."
Fearless Forecasting at the OMB
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
In 2019, Joe Biden did precisely that when he openly stated he would “end fossil fuel.” And, using the softer-but-meaning-the-same-thing term “phase-out”, he repeatedly reiterated the threat, pointing to 2050 as his date for the end and telling listeners, “No more drilling.” Yet Jennifer Granholm -- the perpetually sanctimonious, Cheshire-Cat-grinning, former Governor of Michigan whom Biden picked to fill the unconstitutional “Secretary of Energy” spot in his insulting Administration – Friday first tried to avoid acknowledging Biden’s statements, then couldn’t stop herself from, essentially, confirming precisely the same plan.
Energy Sec Plays Dumb Over Biden's Vow To 'End' Fossil Fuels
The GGRF intends “to mobilize financing and private capital to address the climate crisis” using several subprograms, according to the EPA. The program’s expeditious timeline, as well as the connections that several of those groups share to the administration and the broader Democratic party apparatus, have attracted the scrutiny of government watchdog groups and elected Republicans alike in recent months.
Here are Three Unanswered Questions About Biden EPA’s Massive Green "Slush Fund"
"Tesla will fix its cold-weather woes, but an all-EV future is still dead on arrival."
Tapping the Brakes on Electric Vehicles
"Environmental activists have also sought to halt offshore wind developments along the Atlantic seaboard after a number of whales were found dead along the coast, sending a letter to Senate Democrats in December 2022 requesting a stop to operations."
Dems’ Energy Permitting Reform Bill Includes Billions For Eco-Activist Groups
"Critics slammed the administration after the department released an estimate in February 2023 that roughly half of gas stoves on the market would not meet the standards it proposed. That figure came after a Biden appointee to the Consumer Product Safety Commission floated the possibility of a ban on new gas stoves based on health concerns."
Biden Junta Backs Off From Proposed Aggressive Gas Stove Ban
"Since the ban took effect, though, it looks like the state’s consumption of plastic for bags spiked to three times as much, according to a report from Freedonia Custom Research that was commissioned by the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance."
New Jersey’s Plastic Ban Did Not Work, Report Shows
Daniel Greenfield: "While spreading diseases that are killing people and dogs."
Democrats Want to Save the Rats
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
“Kaiser Permanente is committed to ensuring the safety and security of our employees and physicians across all of our locations.”
Oakland’s Largest Private Employer Tells Employees to Stay in Buildings for Lunch
"Ryan Khojasteh supported Soros-backed Boudin throughout recall."
Progressive Prosecutor for Ousted Chesa Boudin Launches San Francisco DA Bid
". . . Republican Councilmember Inna Vernikov also slammed Salaam and called for a public apology. 'What this experience amplifies is how you lied, are potentially committing insurance fraud, using the race card, as well as using your status as Councilmember to evade the law. The officer did everything by the book, and was nothing but extra nice to you.'” (The rat bastard and his scum accomplices should be rotting in prison for what amounted to a Hamas-style assault - jjs)
NYC Councilman Yusef Salaam, One of Exonerated Central Park 5, Facing Calls to Resign Safety Committee Chairmanship After "Lying" About NYPD Traffic Stop
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston's thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, submitted to the University of Michigan, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution, the complaint alleges. And in her sole peer-reviewed journal article—coauthored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2014—the couple recycle much of a 2012 study published by LaVar Charleston, the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, framing the old material as new research."
Shocking (Not!): Not Just Claudine Gay. Harvard's Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized and Claimed Credit for Husband's Work, Complaint Alleges
"A Catholic school in Oklahoma seeks to restore the American tradition of publicly funded religious schools."
Charter Case Challenges School Secularism
"Planned Parenthood has gone FULL groomer now. . . The video featured one groomer from the group who stood in what looked like a set of a sex ed classroom. “Sex Ed 101” was in colorful letters across the top of the classroom scene. There was also a female and male reproductive system diagram, a poster that talked about consent, and a skeleton with a t-shirt that read, 'sex ed is power.'”
"What's the Big Deal About Losing It?" - Planned Parenthood Releases Video About Virginity for Kids
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Omar has claimed outsiders’ interpretations of her speech, which has gone viral on social media, are 'completely off,' but reiterated she stands in 'solidarity' with those opposed to Somaliland’s independence."
WATCH: Ilhan "Bro-Fo" Omar Gives Treasonous "Somalia First’"Speech Confessing to Working for Foreign Nation in U.S. Congress
"Another way to look at it is that there are trained lawyers who are such idiots (on top of being sleazebags) that they don't understand how email works."
"What Color Panties You Have On?" and Other Legal Concerns
Margot Cleveland: "The attorney general’s office sought reconsideration of that order, initially noting that the court had failed to provide it with an opportunity to respond to the motion. Had the court allowed a response, the AG’s office continued, it would be clear that there was no longer a need for the depositions as it was not challenging the plaintiffs’ factual claims and had agreed to the entry of judgment in favor of the former employees. The Travis County judge denied the motion, and the state appellate court refused to intervene."
Texas AG Ken Paxton Seeks Help From State Supreme Court To Halt Lawfare
"Investigating" a Democrat – in this case filthy, sub-literate, Jew-hating shit-whore Cori Bush – means dragging their feet just long enough to declare they found nothing inappropriate and close the case without any backlash on them or the scumbag they're protecting - jjs
DOJ Investigating House Democrat for Misusing Government Funds Intended for Private Security
POLITICS
"The fundamentals simply do not favor Biden."
Trump Will Win
"The numbers . . . are stunning. Across 10 battleground states, the group identified 4,571,210 disengaged GOP voters who did not vote in 2016 or 2020. . . While Trump won Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and North Carolina in 2020, Democrat [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden took the other six states—and in each one, the disengaged GOP voters total was more than the margin of Biden’s victory over Trump." (But why were they disengaged, Charlie Kirk? Could it be the traitorous GOP gave them no reason to turn out?! - jjs)
Turning Point Action Identifies 4.5 Million "Disengaged" GOP Voters Across 10 Battleground States
"The Trump Train’s momentum cannot be stopped."
Attention, Deep State: You Are Headed for a Shellacking Come November
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The Heartbreak of the Brideshead Republicans
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
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Three Soldiers from Georgia Identified as Troops Killed in Jordan
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Sky News reported Monday afternoon that Biden was preparing to authorize U.S. Military action against those responsible for the attack “as early as tonight,” thus potentially tipping them off.
Biden Junta Accused Again of "Previewing" to the Enemy Its Response to 3 Dead U.S. Soldiers
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Ukraine Says U.S. Money Not Going to Ukraine, "Benefiting American Interests"
OHIO DERAILMENT, TOXIC CHEMICAL DISASTER
"As East Palestine grappled with the chemical fallout, Regan was jet-setting across the country advertising electric school buses and touring water treatment plants, his calendar records show. Regan finally visited the devastated Ohio town 13 days after the derailment, amid public outrage at the Biden administration’s perceived disinterest in the unfolding disaster."
Idris Elba and Electric Buses: EPA Chief Lived Large While East Palestine Burned
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"The Triangle area encompasses the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill in North Carolina, a hot-bed for research, innovation and academia, but the boom the region once knew might be drawing to a close, according to Axios. And with year-over-year new home sales increasing as more people move to the Triangle for work, we could be looking at a social time bomb that could destroy North Carolina socially and economically."
One of America’s Highest-Growth Cities is Starting to Fracture
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Communications with SLIM lunar lander re-established
"SpaceX [Sunday] successfully completed two Starlink satellite launches, its Falcon 9 rocket lifting off from opposite coasts."
SpaceX completes two launches on Sunday
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"The Kolstads shared the sequence of events that led to their current predicament. It began with a call from the school alerting them of Jennifer’s state, which led to an immediate intervention by CFS, Reduxx reported. Despite the family’s efforts to provide a nurturing and stable environment for Jennifer, including relocating her to a different school district to escape bullying, their world was turned upside down when a CFS caseworker arrived unannounced at their home."
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CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
"What the fuck are you? That's not a headline."
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The episode features a white female rape victim that resisted testifying against her black attacker out of fear that he wouldn’t get a fair trial due to his race. The episode, called “Truth Embargo,” stars actress Romina D’Ugo in the role of the rape victim, Natalie, and the role of the rapist named Jay is played by actor Mykey Cooper, according to Fox News. Social media exploded after Natalie’s lesbian partner, played by actress Keeley Miller, told detectives Natalie is upset with the racial discrimination in the justice system.
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"50-plus years after campus radicals stormed buildings, they comprise a more bitter and intolerant Establishment."
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"Just because being noncommittal is the norm, that doesn’t make it right."
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". . . God cannot be controlled, and the world does not exist to cater to one's expectations. Ironically, the only time the world did exist to meet man's needs was in the opening chapters of Genesis. And we know how that turned out." ("Homosexuality is an abomination." Queer that sweetie - jjs)
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1 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 07:58 AM (ENQN6)

2 Good morning, fellow morons!

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 07:59 AM (aCVzN)

3 Ok, now I have to look it up: what is the difference between a knockwurst and a bratwurst?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2024 07:59 AM (qnBi0)

4 Thats a lot of stuff!

Posted by: Molly k. at January 30, 2024 07:59 AM (j/yko)

5 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 08:01 AM (SVQQi)

6 3.

There are variations on the meat used, seasoning, and regions of origin.

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 08:03 AM (aCVzN)

7 "Make no mistake: attacking Iran, which would be no cakewalk even on its own, would almost certainly result in China and Russia jumping in on the other side, at which point we’d have World War III with nuclear powers."

We have DEI on our side. It wouldn't even be close.

Posted by: Ripley at January 30, 2024 08:04 AM (PTDkx)

8 "I don't think I can spell it out any louder or clearer."

I'm sure you can get larger fonts than that.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 30, 2024 08:04 AM (KBjAN)

9 JJ, so you did notice that NOTHING has gone right in the entire world since Sy Sperling passed on? Turns out he was the glue holding Western civilization together. RIP, dear Sy!

Posted by: Not Just the President at January 30, 2024 08:04 AM (V5BDR)

10 What sort of Scottish name is Humza Yousaf?

Posted by: AnnaS at January 30, 2024 08:05 AM (FnSbk)

11 8 "I don't think I can spell it out any louder or clearer."

I'm sure you can get larger fonts than that.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 30, 2024 08:04 AM (KBjAN)

Indeed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:05 AM (x0n13)

12 3 Ok, now I have to look it up: what is the difference between a knockwurst and a bratwurst?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at January 30, 2024 07:59 AM (qnBi0)

First you knock her up and later she produces brats?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 30, 2024 08:05 AM (KBjAN)

13 Does Joy Reid own a potato peeler?

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2024 08:06 AM (Dc73h)

14 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

15 OT: If anyone on here was considering joining the "Take Our Border Back" convoy, please don't...there's a certain glow that movement currently has and you wouldn't want the spotlight.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2024 08:06 AM (exHjb)

16 9 JJ, so you did notice that NOTHING has gone right in the entire world since Sy Sperling passed on? Turns out he was the glue holding Western civilization together. RIP, dear Sy!
Posted by: Not Just the President at January 30, 2024 08:04 AM (V5BDR)

When Morrie went down to the boulevard to get some danish for Belle, that's when things went tits up. . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:07 AM (x0n13)

17 Nothing on the Florida woman vegetable peeler story?

Posted by: Brian Stetler at January 30, 2024 08:07 AM (vFG9F)

18
China, the last communist nation, has an economy coming apart at the seams. No inflation, but worse, disinflation.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 08:08 AM (nIvob)

19 I now use Kentucky as a proxy to see analyze voting.

The maximum GOP in Kentucky is Donald Trump's 1.3M vote haul in 2020. In fact his vote totals for 2020 election should be used as max level GOP vote potential.

The maximum Donk vote in Kentucky is in the 700k range.

In the recent Governors race Batsh*t got the usual donk vote of approx 700k, but Cameron got roughly 600k votes, which is 200k less than he got when he ran for AG in 2019.

Somehow Cameron lost 200k votes for some reason.

So every election, the GOP is leaving hundreds of thousands of votes on the table by offering up dog shit candidates.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:08 AM (XV/Pl)

20 “For as long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger. Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others. The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans. Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system,” Omar promised.

Who the fuck would want that God forsaken county?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 08:08 AM (SVQQi)

21 Good morning again dear horde and great essay JJ

Seems rather easy to prove the president has violated his oath of office.

And the many bureaucrats who opposed lawful authority in the prior administration.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

22 Happy Tuesday, horde. Stocking up on marshmallows and popcorn for what happens next.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2024 08:09 AM (4olE8)

23 The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 08:08 AM (SVQQi)

Oceans?

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 30, 2024 08:10 AM (KBjAN)

24 Then one of her male comrades told Kavanagh to turn off his camera, insisting that it was the group’s “right” not to have their images recorded. Kavanagh replied, firmly but pleasantly, that “we’re in a free country…..We’re not in Communist China.”...

Liu later posted a video online explaining that she and her comrades were at St. Pancras to film a cutaway for Communist China’s big TV gala celebrating Chinese New Year, which this year falls on February 10. The hosts of YouTube’s “China News” noted that this massive annual spectacle is (naturally) a CCP production, and that the Chinese government should have requested permission to film a segment for it on British soil

--

Wait

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:10 AM (k1AR8)

25 >>"Complying with new federal regulations, the American Museum of Natural History has essentially shuttered its Native American exhibits."

Ironically or not, the left is going to force the removal of every thing AM-Indian from the public zeitgeist.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:10 AM (XV/Pl)

26 I didn't intend to lead off with Joy Reid, the shrieking knockwurst with ...
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Tell me that you're from the NYC megalopolis without telling me you're from the NYC megalopolis

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:11 AM (mwCIn)

27 Man, when I think of crucial areas and issues of the world, U.S. - Somalian relations is right up there at the top.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:11 AM (k1AR8)

28 Todays FOAD List:

The deal, negotiated by Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ)

OU sucks

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 08:11 AM (ENQN6)

29 There is no case where America will win a conventional war abroad. It lacks the political leadership and public will for it.

Eventually, one of our misadventures *will* provoke a response from a real power led by serious people. Not the JV team. When that happens, the US will be unable to meet that response, and will face the choice of nuclear escalation, or the permanent loss of its ability to bully the rest of the world into putting up with its constant bullshit anymore.

Neither one of those scenarios ends well for us. Every new blood-soaked international cash grab our feckless, reckless leaders lunge into could be our last.

Package contains a rough beast, and Bethlehem. Some slouching required.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 08:11 AM (0FoWg)

30 Good morning, JJ, Horde. "The Shrieking Knockwursts" would be a good garage band name.

Posted by: callsign claymore at January 30, 2024 08:11 AM (JcnCJ)

31 China, the last communist nation, has an economy coming apart at the seams. No inflation, but worse, disinflation.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 08:08 AM (nIvob)

I think Cuba and North Korea are still commie.

Probably one or 2 in the Horn Of Africa too but I can't spell their shithole name.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2024 08:12 AM (Dc73h)

32 “For as long as I am in the U.S. Congress, Somalia will never be in danger. Its waters will not be stolen by Ethiopia or others. The U.S. would not dare to support anyone against Somalia to steal our land or oceans. Sleep in comfort, knowing I am here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system,” Omar promised.

So she stands (bravely) with the pirates or the warlords?

Posted by: Ripley at January 30, 2024 08:12 AM (PTDkx)

33 @27

>>Man, when I think of crucial areas and issues of the world, U.S. - Somalian relations is right up there at the top.

Well, for some inexplicable reason we have a couple of thousand troops in Somalia.

It's more than likely to protect Chinese Run, America Funded Bio-Labs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:13 AM (XV/Pl)

34 Oceans?
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 30, 2024 08:10 AM (KBjAN)
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All they survey belongs to them, I guess.

Nobody owns the oceans. Nobody can. But oceans (or, rather, the transit upon them) *can* be controlled on the spectrum between "nominal" and "effectively total."

As we slip from "effectively total" back toward "nominal" (and then, of course, "no"), the Somalias of the world will capitalize. Until someone else steps in, anyway.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:13 AM (mwCIn)

35 I am not considering joining the truckers convoy, nor am I w liking to believe that it's all a Fed Op. anymore than I believe that the Canadian Truckers envoy was full of whatever their version of glowies is. Church Militant/ conservative RC site even has an article on some truckers going down to Texas.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:13 AM (lIgGw)

36 I thought I'd have been late after looking online for firearms since 6:30 but I see JJ is late too.

Mind you, I want to go back to sleep now as well.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 08:13 AM (2yu8s)

37
Joe O'Biden's action of preventing LNG facilities to export has me scratching my head. Why in the hell aren't these people in a courtroom within hours contesting an arbitrary action intended to punish Texas?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 08:13 AM (nIvob)

38 25.

"But...but...muh culture iz dying!"

Posted by: Chief Running Toe at January 30, 2024 08:13 AM (aCVzN)

39 18 China, the last communist nation, has an economy coming apart at the seams. No inflation, but worse, disinflation.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 08:08 AM (nIvob)

Plus a negative birth rate that will destroy them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:15 AM (x0n13)

40 As I averred yesterday, all of this would not be happening with Trump in the White House, or at the very least nowhere near the breadth, depth and danger levels that have us on the brink of catastrophe. If elections have consequences, stolen elections have it out the freaking wahzoo.
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Iran was contained and going broke under Trump. Would it have stayed that way? Who knows. It's anyone's guess. It could have melted down. It is unlikely, however, that it would be ascendant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:15 AM (mwCIn)

41 It's more than likely to protect Chinese Run, America Funded Bio-Labs.

-

Yeah, these days assume anywhere we have an odd presence is because we have bioweapons labs there.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:15 AM (k1AR8)

42 Nobody owns the oceans. Nobody can.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:13 AM (mwCIn)

China is trying. The US Navy also contends.

But Somalia???

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 30, 2024 08:16 AM (KBjAN)

43 Oh, snap. I made the sidebar. It has been a while.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:16 AM (xVkS/)

44 Those who identify nominally as "Republican" don't really have a party that aligns with their ideology.

Therefore, they/we don't vote.

It's called "voter disenfranchisement."

If the GOP wasn't a dogshit party I might feel otherwise. But I don't.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 08:16 AM (Q4IgG)

45 @37

>>Joe O'Biden's action of preventing LNG facilities to export has me scratching my head. Why in the hell aren't these people in a courtroom within hours contesting an arbitrary action intended to punish Texas?

Well, more than likely The Junta has plenary power in this area or fear of retribution is a factor, either way, some very evil people are in the wheel house steering this modern day Titanic, directly into numerous icebergs.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:16 AM (XV/Pl)

46 35 I am not considering joining the truckers convoy, nor am I w liking to believe that it's all a Fed Op. anymore than I believe that the Canadian Truckers envoy was full of whatever their version of glowies is. Church Militant/ conservative RC site even has an article on some truckers going down to Texas.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:13 AM (lIgGw)

Look, before J6, I tried to stop folks from going b/c it seemed like an Op...so, all I can do is provide advice (with no verified info) and let adults be adults. With the glow off that convoy, I'd stay very far away...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2024 08:16 AM (exHjb)

47 "On inauguration day every FBI agent and manager must either submit his or her resignation or be fired. They should told in no uncertain terms that they must not report to work, and that they no longer have any authority to enter any FBI facility or use any government equipment, from email servers to computer desktops"

Trump folded when a single judge ordered him to return a single pulled press pass. In what world is he going to have the stones to completely shut down the FBI?

And who would make them obey when they tell Trump to FOAD?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 30, 2024 08:16 AM (Q0kLU)

48 Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf, Won’t Defund UN Agency Whose Staff Participated in Oct 7 Hamas Terror Attack

==

Pardon me for noticing, but it sure seems odd that so many traditional, deeply white countries now seem steeped with officials that have muslim names.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (mupln)

49 Tell me that you're from the NYC megalopolis without telling me you're from the NYC megalopolis
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:11 AM (mwCIn)
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I was called out as a new yorker by a stranger on the phone yesterday. I left 35 years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

50 “It’s a little wonky, but we can’t touch the ballot,” Kirk said when asked to explain what ballot chasing is. “Ballot harvesting is illegal in these states. We actually honor the law. We follow the law—the bad guys, they break the law. That’s actually ballot harvesting, but we don’t touch the ballot.
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The perniciousness of the double standard on full display.

If we do harvesting in Ohio, everyone goes to prison for treason. If they do harvesting in Ohio, everyone just smirks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (mwCIn)

51 Gees JJ that was like poetry. Well done.

Posted by: Jaimo at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (DBrN4)

52 26 I didn't intend to lead off with Joy Reid, the shrieking knockwurst with ...
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Tell me that you're from the NYC megalopolis without telling me you're from the NYC megalopolis
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:11 AM (mwCIn)

Full disclosure: I don't think I've ever even had knockwurst.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (x0n13)

53 I doubt Trump, on his own, will wipe out the FBI. However, benefiting from the close advice of VP Ramaswamy, he just might take such an action, along with other radical, overdue and highly salubrious reforms.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (LK7dm)

54 44.

I think "Trumpoid" should be an officially designated political party. They can run Trump once more for president, and then just run him for every elected office he is or could be eligible for; Trump has the money to mvoe from state-to-state, so residency wouldn't have to stop him from being a legislator -- at least in each of the lower 48.

Posted by: Chief Running Toe at January 30, 2024 08:18 AM (aCVzN)

55 So do what they do. Then again, with the justice system being what it is, it's us who'll be prosecuted for election fraud, right?
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Yes. This is how a dual standard of "justice" works.

Break whatever law you want, just don't get caught unless you're a Party member.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:18 AM (mwCIn)

56 As I averred yesterday, all of this would not be happening with Trump in the White House, or at the very least nowhere near the breadth, depth and danger levels that have us on the brink of catastrophe. If elections have consequences, stolen elections have it out the freaking wahzoo.

-

This sounds suspiciously like the talk of a closeted neopacifistisolationist

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:18 AM (k1AR8)

57 With its long coastline on the Mediterranean, Gaza could turn into a potential beach resort, well-placed to attract Arab and European visitors,

And rape and kill them.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 08:18 AM (ENQN6)

58 Church Militant article on faith based views Of some of truckers as well as concern for the border:

http://tinyurl.com/9mu4t5c2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:18 AM (lIgGw)

59 48 Scotland’s First Minister, Humza Yousaf, Won’t Defund UN Agency Whose Staff Participated in Oct 7 Hamas Terror Attack
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Pardon me for noticing, but it sure seems odd that so many traditional, deeply white countries now seem steeped with officials that have muslim names.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (mupln)

Old and busted = "I keeeel you!"

New hotness = "I kiiilt you!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM (x0n13)

60 Ugh. Joy Ried. Who can listen to that brain dead harpy for more than a second without losing some brain cells?

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM (iF0sF)

61 48.

When these "traditional, deeply white" countries become ashamed of their traditions and demographics, something has to come in to fill the vacuum.

Posted by: Chief Running Toe at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM (aCVzN)

62 Let's face it; Bro-Fo Omar, who should be ejected the hell out of this country, let alone Congress, for lying about her multiple marriages and literal incestuous relationships to get here, is now openly boasting that her aims and goals and allegiance is not to the United States but Somalia.
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JJ, it is profoundly racist - not to mention jingoistic and nativist - to assert that US Congressman should have loyalty to the United States and her interests, or loyalty to the constituents and their interests.

Be better.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM (mwCIn)

63 57 With its long coastline on the Mediterranean, Gaza could turn into a potential beach resort, well-placed to attract Arab and European visitors,

And rape and kill them.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 08:18 AM (ENQN6)

So, Jamaica. Or Aruba?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM (x0n13)

64 Pardon me for noticing, but it sure seems odd that so many traditional, deeply white countries now seem steeped with officials that have muslim names.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (mupln)
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They think of you as their slave.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:20 AM (RIvkX)

65 @50

>>If we do harvesting in Ohio, everyone goes to prison for treason. If they do harvesting in Ohio, everyone just smirks.

Well, it's similar to how Donks can go into black churches and politick all the live long day, the 2nd any church, religious person or politician try to do anything affiliated with something conservative, the donks are screaming about taking away tax exemptions, tax breaks or placing sanctions of some kind on the church or conservative.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:20 AM (XV/Pl)

66 62.

It's also pretty explicitly spelled out in the constitution that our founding fathers *strongly* discouraged divided loyalties.

Posted by: Chief Running Toe at January 30, 2024 08:20 AM (aCVzN)

67 61 . . . fill the vacuum.
Posted by: Chief Running Toe at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM (aCVzN)

"This is about me, right?"

- - Sandra Fluke's Superdome

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:21 AM (x0n13)

68 Thanks as always JJ!

Lankford cannot get re-elected in Oklahoma, the reddest state in the union…. Can he? I read somewhere he went on one of the Sunday morning shows and made a pathetic defense of his involvement in the border surrender. I’d tend to think he won’t even run for reelection at this point….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 08:21 AM (1jdMT)

69 Its all about the benjamins!
-Rep. Omar

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

70 50.

Yet *more* evidence that voting doesn't matter anymore. Come on over and embrace teh suck.

Posted by: Chief Running Toe at January 30, 2024 08:21 AM (aCVzN)

71 Pardon me for noticing, but it sure seems odd that so many traditional, deeply white countries now seem steeped with officials that have muslim names.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (mupln)
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*waves hand*

It's just your imagination...

Posted by: B. "Hussein" O. at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (7fElN)

72 I think staying away from absolutely anything related to protests against. Governmental tyranny is not a positive courageous approach

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (lIgGw)

73 It's also pretty explicitly spelled out in the constitution that our founding fathers *strongly* discouraged divided loyalties.

--

Thankfully our elected and unelected officials are all on the same side and hold the same mindset.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (k1AR8)

74 Ack. Nothing like leaving a sock puppet on your hand and forgetting that it's there. X-D

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (aCVzN)

75 War for Votes was the obvious play for the Junta.

The question is: Will it work?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (tT6L1)

76 Kentucky has a proud tradition of being the first state in the nation to be reliably called for the Republican on national levels. I suspect that Cameron's loss comes down to the Cult of Moloch coming out in force, and my wife swears up and down people loved Beshear's COVID daily check-ins, which were an Orwellian horror to me, but apparently appealed to people who aren't particularly invested in their own freedom.

Posted by: American Hawkman at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (skAOD)

77 Lankford made his money being the suicide bomber. He did his job.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (R4t5M)

78 Great job once again, J.J.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (tT6L1)

79 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:18 AM (lIgGw)

Story on women priests in the sidebar of your link. Fwancis "commissioned" two female Anglican Bishops. Anglican converts to Catholicism furious.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (KBjAN)

80 Full disclosure: I don't think I've ever even had knockwurst.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (x0n13)
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LOL. You don't need to. The only people I've ever heard use "knockwurst" as a slur - as in "you're a fricken' knockwurst" or "you and your knockwursts for fingers can't do anything right!" - are from that part of the country.

"Yeah, he says it's your fault! You and your ham hands! Tony, Tony, he already knows. Fingers like knockwursts you have!"
-- Shit I've actually heard when consulting in NJ (it was meant in jest and it has *always* stuck with me because it was hilarious)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (mwCIn)

81 I don't think a group of political supporters have ever been as misunderstood and as slandered as much as Trump's.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (LK7dm)

82 72.

How would you expect positive courage from a nation of chestless men?

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (aCVzN)

83 Omar's speech is utterly ridiculous. She is such a powerful Somali representative that the entire US government will bend to Somalias will?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (xVkS/)

84 Well, it's similar to how Donks can go into black churches and politick all the live long day, the 2nd any church, religious person or politician try to do anything affiliated with something conservative, the donks are screaming about taking away tax exemptions, tax breaks or placing sanctions of some kind on the church or conservative.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:20 AM (XV/Pl)
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Yup. All in the same theme.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (mwCIn)

85 now seem steeped with officials that have muslim names.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (mupln)
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*waves hand*

It's just your imagination...
Posted by: B. "Hussein" O. at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (7fElN)

... who all went to top tier western universities.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (9UlRk)

86
So, Jamaica. Or Aruba?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM

Right now advisories for Jamaica and the Bahamas. Nothing like the violence in DC, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc.

Pot calling the kettle black.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 08:24 AM (nIvob)

87 Posted by: Gryph at January

The truckers who aren't glowies, I mean, seem pretty courageous.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:24 AM (lIgGw)

88 72 I think staying away from absolutely anything related to protests against. Governmental tyranny is not a positive courageous approach
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (lIgGw)

So, the knowledge/fear that there are plants and agents provocateur at protests is enough to keep real peaceful protesters away.

That right there is pure evil.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:25 AM (x0n13)

89 So, Jamaica. Or Aruba?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM
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Sigh.

:: channels Sponge ::

You asked for it. Sort of.
https://youtu.be/xmr8bEuyQjA

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:25 AM (mwCIn)

90 So, Jamaica. Or Aruba?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM

Right now advisories for Jamaica and the Bahamas.

Why do I suddenly have a Beach Boys tune in my head?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

91 72 I think staying away from absolutely anything related to protests against. Governmental tyranny is not a positive courageous approach
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (lIgGw)

There's protests...and then there's protests. Ones that pop up, out of the blue, get major media coverage immediately as a conservative protest (when the media didn't even cover the March for Life this month), and have interesting names and places to go (like CA at the end?) - just sayin...

Attend March for Life. Attend other pre-established yearly protests.

But try to avoid the glowy ones...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2024 08:25 AM (exHjb)

92 87.

Honestly, I feel like that remains to be seen. Courage usually involves putting something on the line, a willingness to sacrifice. There's precious little of that left in America, even among those who call themselves "conservative."

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (aCVzN)

93 80 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:23 AM (mwCIn)

I didn't realize it was a regional expression. ;-)

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (x0n13)

94 Why do I suddenly have a Beach Boys tune in my head?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:25 AM (SfhV1)
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Because you've been falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band down in Kokomo?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (mwCIn)

95 hiya

Posted by: JT at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (T4tVD)

96 Today is National Croissant Day. 🥐

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (NpAcC)

97 I haven't met a single South Carolinian who has a good word to say about Lindsey Graham. But he keeps getting re-elected. So, yes, I think Lankford can get re-elected.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (LK7dm)

98 Because you've been falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band down in Kokomo?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (mwCIn)

I think that's it.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:27 AM (SfhV1)

99 Omar's speech is utterly ridiculous. She is such a powerful Somali representative that the entire US government will bend to Somalias will?

--

LOL, I thought the same thing. She's a vile little p*ssant who needs to be deported. Or she could fall into a thresher. Either works for me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2024 08:27 AM (mupln)

100 Good morning horde!

Can someone put some knowledge on me... WHY do we have troops in Jordan?

No, I'm not a neo-isolationist, I just wonder why they're there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2024 08:27 AM (GYIa4)

101 I didn't realize it was a regional expression. ;-)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (x0n13)
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I have a limited data set, but I have no qualms with extending it without boundaries and generalizing it into unassailable truth.

If it's good enough for the climatologists, it's good enough for me!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:27 AM (mwCIn)

102 Only attend government approve protests against the government.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:27 AM (k1AR8)

103 Let's see how many truckers have high and tights and Ray-Bans.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 08:27 AM (R4t5M)

104 Why do I suddenly have a Beach Boys tune in my head?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

God only knows.

Posted by: dantesed at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (88xKn)

105 72 I think staying away from absolutely anything related to protests against. Governmental tyranny is not a positive courageous approach
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:22 AM (lIgGw)

So, the knowledge/fear that there are plants and agents provocateur at protests is enough to keep real peaceful protesters away.

That right there is pure evil.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:25 AM (x0n13)
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It's yet another facet of control in a totalitarian state. Why go to a protest if the FIBs will just be knocking on--or knocking down--your door the next day?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (7fElN)

106 Well... It is about time you all realize the BLOB is the real threat. We have the largest gummint in the world and it is time to tame it.

Still blame Trump for Covid, et al.? You need to get over it and join forces with him. If Tom Cotton is compromised - he is - the fight will be fierce.

Let's get it on.

Posted by: Danimal28 at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (klw0w)

107 103.

...and neuralyzers.

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (aCVzN)

108 Turning Point reported "...the group identified 4,571,210 disengaged GOP voters who did not vote in 2016 or 2020. The ten states counted are Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Ohio, Michigan, Arizona, North Carolina, and Nevada. While Trump won Florida, Iowa, Ohio, and North Carolina in 2020, Democrat President Joe Biden took the other six states—and in each one, the disengaged GOP voters total was more than the margin of Biden’s victory over Trump."

So which was it, Trump lost because of millions of disengaged GOP voters? Or Trump lost because of Democrat mail-in ballot crimes? We can't have it both ways.

Posted by: Java Joe at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (WaLgG)

109 Charlie Kirk I find him quite annoying when I try listening to his radio program. Can’t figure out why…. But I have deep respect for what he’s doing with ballot (not quite) harvesting. He’s doing what the RNC should’ve already been doing for years….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (1jdMT)

110 101 I didn't realize it was a regional expression. ;-)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:26 AM (x0n13)

=======

Well, I'm from Albany and I've never heard of steamed hams.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (GBKbO)

111 Knockwursts are just onion flavored hotdogs. I'm not sure how they became an insult food.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (0FoWg)

112 Posted by: dantesed at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (88xKn)

That's a pretty one. Now I'm torn.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:29 AM (SfhV1)

113 Can someone put some knowledge on me... WHY do we have troops in Jordan?

We have troops everywhere. Anti-terrorism. Make friends with them before Isis does, grift for politicians...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:29 AM (xVkS/)

114 108.

I don't think it's mutually exclusive. There could have been elements of both contributing to his loss.

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 08:29 AM (aCVzN)

115 Knockwursts are just onion flavored hotdogs. I'm not sure how they became an insult food.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (0FoWg)
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Huh.

They sound delicious.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:29 AM (mwCIn)

116 He’s doing what the RNC should’ve already been doing for years….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (1jdMT)

He and Scott Pressler.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:29 AM (LK7dm)

117 109.

I can tell you exactly what *I* find annoying about Charlie Kirk: He cheers for political candidates like football fans cheer for their teams in the playoffs.

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 08:30 AM (aCVzN)

118 They sound delicious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:29 AM (mwCIn)

Yeah, they're pretty good. You can buy them prepackaged, but I'm not sure about availability in our AO. Might have to drive down to the city.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 08:31 AM (0FoWg)

119 So which was it, Trump lost because of millions of disengaged GOP voters? Or Trump lost because of Democrat mail-in ballot crimes? We can't have it both ways.
Posted by: Java Joe

Both. Disengaged voters is a real thing. That is why dems push voter registration. You have to have a big pool of registered voters, but little voter engagement. That way there is a large slush fund of registrants to match with fake ballots.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:31 AM (xVkS/)

120 > With its long coastline on the Mediterranean, Gaza could turn into a potential beach resort, well-placed to attract Arab and European visitors
____________

Back in the 40's and 50's Beirut was a happening resort town.

Then, shit happened.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

121 @76

>>I suspect that Cameron's loss comes down to the Cult of Moloch coming out in force, and my wife swears up and down people loved Beshear's COVID daily check-ins,

That would be reasonable if Batshit got more votes, he didn't, Cameron lost 200k votes from his run as AG.

And it's not like those votes went to any other candidates in the election as they all got within their historical norms.

Only Cameron lost votes, inexplicably.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:32 AM (XV/Pl)

122 So which was it, Trump lost because of millions of disengaged GOP voters? Or Trump lost because of Democrat mail-in ballot crimes? We can't have it both ways.
Posted by: Java Joe at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (WaLgG)

Embrace the power of AND

They’re not mutually exclusive

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 08:33 AM (1jdMT)

123 Back in the 40's and 50's Beirut was a happening resort town.

Then, shit happened.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

And they ran outta toilet paper ?

Posted by: JT at January 30, 2024 08:34 AM (T4tVD)

124 What sort of Scottish name is Humza Yousaf?
Posted by: AnnaS at January 30, 2024 08:05 AM (FnSbk)

Clan Derka has been ululated in the highlands since time began.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2024 08:34 AM (GYIa4)

125 Back in the 40's and 50's Beirut was a happening resort town.

Then, shit happened.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 08:32 AM (Q4IgG)

***

muslims happened

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 30, 2024 08:34 AM (ZV+pB)

126 >>"For scholars like me who research the Bible, these are just a few of the ways that scripture portrays gender as a colorful spectrum, not a rigid binary. "
She also claims that the Bible supports the use of drugs and surgery to transition children. And she is offering a Lenten series at a local Episcopal church.

You want to know why church attendance is down in some churches? This is why. Complete subversion of what's in the Bible.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (RXyKO)

127 Tucker spoke with Army veteran Joe Kent running for office in Washington state who asserts that we're deliberately fragmenting troops and placing them in vulnerable hot spots as bait to be killed as as to incite war with Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/yxdjscw3

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (LK7dm)

128 And maybe I shouldn't speculate, but I think Fr. Jerzy Popielusko, the Polish priest, who is on the road to possible sainthood-I think he's been declared "Blessed" who worked with the Solidarity movement and was killed by the Communists would not even now say, "I think I should have kept my nose down and my mouth shut instead of doing what I did." Not everybody can do all sorts of actions, but we all can do some.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (Ki//m)

129 now seem steeped with officials that have muslim names.
Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2024 08:17 AM (mupln)

Just shows how stupid and selfish some american voters are for voting for Barack Mugabe.

Hope And Change Baby!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (Dc73h)

130 Can someone put some knowledge on me... WHY do we have troops in Jordan?

No, I'm not a neo-isolationist, I just wonder why they're there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2024 08:27 AM (GYIa4)
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From what I can gather, defending Jordan's border with Syria.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

131 90 So, Jamaica. Or Aruba?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:19 AM

Right now advisories for Jamaica and the Bahamas.

Why do I suddenly have a Beach Boys tune in my head?
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:25 AM (SfhV1)

"Build the dang Fence!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (x0n13)

132 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (NBVIP)

133 Any election only gets about 50-60% turnout. It is frustrating when a candidate loses by 10,000 when 400,000 stayed home.

It is more frustrating when your candidate loses by 10,000 when only 200,000 stayed home but the other guy got 125% turnout.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:36 AM (xVkS/)

134 Kentucky is about to lose McConnell, and with him, their gravy train.

They can tilt red or blue after that. Won't matter. Once the most powerful Dem Senator in the country is no longer from Kentucky, the Party will cut them off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 08:36 AM (0FoWg)

135 Trump lost voters and still had record numbers (including record blacks, hispanics, union voters, etc) to a point where they had to shut down states simultaneously in order to dump votes into the system and pretend there was somehow 96% voter turnout or some silliness.

He won in a landslide.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:36 AM (k1AR8)

136 You want to know why church attendance is down in some churches? This is why. Complete subversion of what's in the Bible.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (RXyKO)
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"Liberation theology" - whatever its form, be it communist claptrap or postmodern sex theory claptrap or whatever else - is a dead end.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:36 AM (mwCIn)

137 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (NBVIP)

Not frozen

Posted by: JT at January 30, 2024 08:37 AM (T4tVD)

138 And she is offering a Lenten series at a local Episcopal church.

Of course she is. Scholars can come up with some very bizarre things in service to their credo which is not orthodox, (Small o) Christianity.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:37 AM (Ki//m)

139 The structure the Democrats use with the border is fascinating.

It is the Republicans fault all these illegals are coming here, but the illegals are good for us because they do the work you lazy Americans won't do AND we need to give them a bunch of your money because its not like we should expect them to have to work.

Also, it is a conspiracy theory that they are voting or that we are replacing you heritage Americans with these people but boy are you people screwed since we will use their votes to take all your stuff as you become a minority.

It is...insane.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:37 AM (ibTVg)

140 You want to know why church attendance is down in some churches? This is why. Complete subversion of what's in the Bible.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (RXyKO)
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Complete *corruption* of what's in the Bible.

It's the Enemy using the Bible for his own nefarious purposes to lead people astray from the Truth.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (7fElN)

141 God warned us about all of this. I have been going through Genesis lately and am reminded that God knew what Ishmael's descendants would become right from the beginning.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (xVkS/)

142 Liberation theology" - whatever its form, be it communist claptrap or postmodern sex theory claptrap or whatever else - is a dead end.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:36 AM (mwCIn)

Liberation Theology is just Critical Jesus Theory

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (9UlRk)

143 You want to know why church attendance is down in some churches? This is why. Complete subversion of what's in the Bible.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (RXyKO)
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Another version of the Devil quoting scripture.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (tT6L1)

144 Liberation Theology is just Critical Jesus Theory
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (9UlRk)
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Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (mwCIn)

145 "For scholars like me who research the Bible, these are just a few of the ways that scripture portrays gender as a colorful spectrum, not a rigid binary. "

-

Yes, if the Bible is known for anything it's for being very unclear on the whole idea of men and women and it requires scholars to tell people what it says when it discusses the topic repeatedly in clear language.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (k1AR8)

146 Leon Redbone - Come and Get Your Love:
https://youtu.be/rsf_gTZG4cI

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:39 AM (mwCIn)

147 He won in a landslide.
Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:36 AM (k1AR

Indeed. And he's out of office and facing jail. This usurpation and persecution is the greatest national crime in our history.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:39 AM (LK7dm)

148 Here in KY McConnell currently owns the election system. Some have said he endorsed Cameron, others claim that was simply lip service. I would not be surprised to find out that McConnell had a hand in Cameron's loss.

McConnell was easily able to swat Matt Bevin away even though Bevin had a fair amount of rural support... unlike McConnell. But owning the votes in Louisville, Lexington and Frankfort is all you need in the state to win.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 08:40 AM (Q4IgG)

149 Why would anyone go to a leftist church?

You can hear exactly the same leftist claptrap in movies or TV and you don't have to get up early on a Sunday to hear it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:40 AM (ibTVg)

150 Mornin’, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 08:40 AM (9yWhg)

151 For scholars like me who research the Bible, these are just a few of the ways that scripture portrays gender as a colorful spectrum, not a rigid binary.

------

Is this David French at it, again?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 08:40 AM (0FoWg)

152 >>Tucker spoke with Army veteran Joe Kent running for office in Washington state who asserts that we're deliberately fragmenting troops and placing them in vulnerable hot spots as bait to be killed as as to incite war with Iran.

It's sad that this is totally believable.
The Left only loves wounded and dead troops they can use to further their activism.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2024 08:41 AM (RXyKO)

153 146 Leon Redbone - Come and Get Your Love:
https://youtu.be/rsf_gTZG4cI
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:39 AM (mwCIn)

Joe: It's just Redbone, a native American pop band with a one hit wonder.

Leon Redbone's a different cat altogether.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:41 AM (x0n13)

154 For scholars like me who research the Bible, these are just a few of the ways that scripture portrays gender as a colorful spectrum, not a rigid binary.

First (and true): Adam and Eve

Later: Adam and Steve

Now: Adam (They/Them) and Steve (Zer/Demonself)

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:41 AM (ibTVg)

155 Yes, if the Bible is known for anything it's for being very unclear on the whole idea of men and women and it requires scholars to tell people what it says when it discusses the topic repeatedly in clear language.
Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (k1AR

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One of the main tenets of the church I go to is: "Let the Bible interpret the Bible."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (tT6L1)

156 100 Good morning horde!

Can someone put some knowledge on me... WHY do we have troops in Jordan?

No, I'm not a neo-isolationist, I just wonder why they're there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2024 08:27 AM (GYIa4)

Probably from the fight against Assad(unofficial) and ISIS.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (eYoxG)

157 A big part of Trump’s superpower as a candidate is he actually gets a big chunk of those disaffected voters to vote for him. They’re not gonna vote for any other GOP candidate but they’ll enthusiastically vote for Trump. It’s millions of votes across the country. People complain Trump is also hated by millions (Karens and wine moms etc) but that crowd is probably not gonna vote for any Republican candidate anyway. The game of arithmetic with Trump is does he draw more disaffected voters to him than he repels? There is both addition and subtraction but to me it’s obvious that he’s a net gainer of votes in that dynamic… it’s why he won the “blue wall” rust belt states in 2016

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (1jdMT)

158 Joe: It's just Redbone, a native American pop band with a one hit wonder.

Leon Redbone's a different cat altogether.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:41 AM (x0n13)
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I thought he was the frontman.

Welp, I will go to the shame corner and hang out with David French. We're there for different reasons, but punishment is punishment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (mwCIn)

159 Yes that gender fluid clergy sounds like a good David French Episcopal. Another of the mainstream protestant churches that is dying, and deservedly so.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (S6gqv)

160 149 Why would anyone go to a leftist church?

You can hear exactly the same leftist claptrap in movies or TV and you don't have to get up early on a Sunday to hear it.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:40 AM (ibTVg)

All you have to do is listen to film of Hitler at a Nuremberg rally or replay the Paul Wellstone memorial.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (x0n13)

161 Prices are up 17.3% overall during his presidency.

"How do you convince Americans and voters that those prices might not go back to where they were before the pandemic?" she was asked.

"Well, I think most Americans know that prices are not likely to fall," Yellen admitted. "It's not the Fed's objective to try to push the level of prices back to where they were."

As M2 went up almost 40% we still have another 20 to 25% in inflation coming.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (ENQN6)

162 One of the main tenets of the church I go to is: "Let the Bible interpret the Bible."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (tT6L1)

Very wise.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (SfhV1)

163 The structure the Democrats use with the border is fascinating.

It is the Republicans fault all these illegals are coming here, but the illegals are good for us because they do the work you lazy Americans won't do AND we need to give them a bunch of your money because its not like we should expect them to have to work.

Also, it is a conspiracy theory that they are voting or that we are replacing you heritage Americans with these people but boy are you people screwed since we will use their votes to take all your stuff as you become a minority.

It is...insane.
Posted by: 18-1

Being a democrat means being able to hold two conflicting views at the same time and thinking each are valid and cannot cancel each other out.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (SVQQi)

164 134 Kentucky is about to lose McConnell, and with him, their gravy train.

They can tilt red or blue after that. Won't matter. Once the most powerful Dem Senator in the country is no longer from Kentucky, the Party will cut them off.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 08:36 AM (0FoWg)

Based on Mitch's glitches, I almost think his Chief of Staff is the most powerful Republican in the Senate.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 30, 2024 08:43 AM (z+89e)

165 Pray for safety and wisdom and courage for the truckers convoy and the frustration of any people trying to infiltrate and subvert it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:43 AM (Ki//m)

166 Tucker spoke with Army veteran Joe Kent running for office in Washington state who asserts that we're deliberately fragmenting troops and placing them in vulnerable hot spots as bait to be killed as as to incite war with Iran.

There is no need to boots on the ground in any of these shitholes in the Middle East. So its the Democrat's favorite game...are we incompetent or are we malevolent?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:43 AM (ibTVg)

167 Indeed. And he's out of office and facing jail. This usurpation and persecution is the greatest national crime in our history.
Posted by: Ordinary American

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The neat part for me has been how everything since then has been the predictable steps that occur after a coup.

Jailing and persecution of opposition, looting the treasury / selling off treasure to personally profit, openly and proudly enriching family members, passing laws solely to persecute political enemies, etc.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:43 AM (k1AR8)

168 >>It's the Enemy using the Bible for his own nefarious purposes to lead people astray from the Truth.

Yes, and indulging this is not "tolerance" or welcoming or whatever.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2024 08:43 AM (RXyKO)

169 149 Why would anyone go to a leftist church?
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To burnish with holy authority their self-righteous political insanity.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:43 AM (LK7dm)

170 Morning, grammie, How are things in the frigid north?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:44 AM (tT6L1)

171 It's sad that this is totally believable.

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It's obvious that's what they're up to. Not a big revelation, but it's nice to see a veteran saying the quiet part out loud. Maybe he got tired of waiting to see if his would be the bloody shirt our Big Guys would cash in for another 10%.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 08:44 AM (0FoWg)

172 hiya Grammie !

Posted by: JT at January 30, 2024 08:44 AM (T4tVD)

173 Why would anyone go to a leftist church?
**
To burnish with holy authority their self-righteous political insanity.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:43 AM (LK7dm)
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Well stated.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (tT6L1)

174 ... "Well, I think most Americans know that prices are not likely to fall," Yellen admitted. "It's not the Fed's objective to try to push the level of prices back to where they were." ...
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (ENQN6)
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Their objective? No.

Their duty? Yes. The Fed's "dual mandate" is, after all, "full employment" and "stable prices." This is impossible, of course, but that's the requirement. The Fed has never, ever been fond of that "stable prices" part of their charter, and has been ignoring it for a century. 2% inflation - the normal Fed target - is *not* "stability."

So by their duty, they should be pushing for deflation to get prices back to stability. But they won't. They never do. They push inflation at all times.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (mwCIn)

175 MAZE
@mazemoore

2020. Biden on Trump - "As the walls close in on this man, I'm worried that he is going to get us into a war with Iran. Unfortunately I may have been right."

http://tinyurl.com/m2uks9pp

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (NpAcC)

176 Morning, grammie, How are things in the frigid north?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:44 AM (tT6L1)

Not too bad! Already 36 degrees here at the end of January. Mild all week. It's wonderful!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (SfhV1)

177 Michael Mann took the stand for the third day at the trial of his own making to start Week 3. Mark's cross-examination continued in full force today. By the end of the day, Mann's lawyers were clearly flustered as illustrated by their attempts to rebut Mann's own testimony (in vain). C.S. Lewis (yes, that C.S. Lewis) once said, "Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others." We witnessed a lot of blame in Room 132 of the DC Superior Court today, so hell must be near.

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (RHGPo)

178 Prices are up 17.3% overall during his presidency.

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This is one of the most absurd things I've ever read. I know they want to keep pushing it in hopes that people think they're imagining things, but cars alone are up 30-50% and food is over 200%.

You know. Things people buy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (k1AR8)

179 Trump was right, he lost in 2020 due to heavy Democrat vote fraud. That predominantly occurs in heavy black inner cities.

Posted by: vic at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (A5THL)

180 "Well, I think most Americans know that prices are not likely to fall," Yellen admitted. "It's not the Fed's objective to try to push the level of prices back to where they were."

LIVs don't know the inflation rate means the continuous increase in prices. So if inflation is solved (note its not) that just means the prices stop increasing NOT that they go back down.

LIVs also don't know that prices going down, aka deflation, is the thing most establishment economists (left and right) believe is the worst thing that can happen

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (ibTVg)

181 Being a democrat means being able to hold two conflicting views at the same time and thinking each are valid and cannot cancel each other out.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 08:42 AM (SVQQi)
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Orwell's definition of "doublethink"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (RIvkX)

182 Hiya JT!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (SfhV1)

183 127 Tucker spoke with Army veteran Joe Kent running for office in Washington state who asserts that we're deliberately fragmenting troops and placing them in vulnerable hot spots as bait to be killed as as to incite war with Iran.

http://tinyurl.com/yxdjscw3
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (LK7dm)

We were dispersing small amounts of troops in various locations as tripwires, but the intention may have been genuinely defensive. Most of this dates back to when Russia was pretty active in Syria supporting Assad and fighting ISIS, and the Russians were careful not to attack these positions.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (eYoxG)

184 Not too bad! Already 36 degrees here at the end of January. Mild all week. It's wonderful!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (SfhV1)
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As a former resident of MN, I get this.

Were I still in CA, I'd think you're nuts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (tT6L1)

185 141 God warned us about all of this. I have been going through Genesis lately and am reminded that God knew what Ishmael's descendants would become right from the beginning.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:38 AM (xVkS/)

Reminds me of the line from "Patton" when he learns they're not letting him lead the invasion because he slapped a soldier.

"I should've kissed the son of a bitch.

What Isaac should've done?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 30, 2024 08:47 AM (x0n13)

186 Prices are up 17.3% overall during his presidency.

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This is one of the most absurd things I've ever read. I know they want to keep pushing it in hopes that people think they're imagining things, but cars alone are up 30-50% and food is over 200%.

I go to the same grocery store and buy the same things. Prices were up about 17% already around a year into the Biden junta.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:47 AM (ibTVg)

187 So many churches committed suicide during the Covid panic - they told all their members don't come right when they were needed most, now they wonder why no one comes back. So many I see are really just funeral parlers with an extended waiting list, full of people who are only there so that they'll have a nice place to hold their funeral when they turn 90 a couple years from now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 08:47 AM (S6gqv)

188 Well, I'm from Albany and I've never heard of steamed hams.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 30, 2024 08:28 AM (GBKbO)

I think Superintendent Chalmers was from Utica.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 30, 2024 08:48 AM (Q0kLU)

189 This is one of the most absurd things I've ever read. I know they want to keep pushing it in hopes that people think they're imagining things, but cars alone are up 30-50% and food is over 200%.

You know. Things people buy.
Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (k1AR

When the US gov was screaming there was no inflation all people who go to groc stores knew that was a lie.

Posted by: vic at January 30, 2024 08:48 AM (A5THL)

190 Hiya JT!
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (SfhV1)

Posted by: JT at January 30, 2024 08:48 AM (T4tVD)

191 You know. Things people buy.
Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:45 AM (k1AR

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More importantly, things people NEED.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2024 08:48 AM (7fElN)

192 So many I see are really just funeral parlers with an extended waiting list, full of people who are only there so that they'll have a nice place to hold their funeral when they turn 90 a couple years from now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 08:47 AM (S6gqv)

Points for accuracy.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 08:48 AM (SfhV1)

193 You want to know why church attendance is down in some churches? This is why. Complete subversion of what's in the Bible.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (RXyKO)

Welcome friends! Come by this Saturday for our International Day Of The Muslim Love In and enjoy food, friendship and festivity! Hate has no home here and all are welcome, especially the children.
Look for the large rainbow flags off of I-4 on the frontage road.

Remain Blessed!

Posted by: Bishop Shirley Bintface, International Church Of The TransCult at January 30, 2024 08:48 AM (Dc73h)

194 LIVs don't know the inflation rate means the continuous increase in prices. So if inflation is solved (note its not) that just means the prices stop increasing NOT that they go back down.

LIVs also don't know that prices going down, aka deflation, is the thing most establishment economists (left and right) believe is the worst thing that can happen
Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (ibTVg)
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Yup. I talked about this on the Podcast a few weeks back. The Administration has done themselves no favors by setting the wrong expectation on this topic when it comes to the public. The Administration and the Fed have been perfectly happy to let the press arm of the Party run with, "inflation is down and happy days are here again and everything will get better and you'll be able to afford stuff again and for now on."

The press has been out there for months pushing this message with full Party backing, and then people still get gut-punched when they go to the store, and then they get confused and resentful because while they don't know the mechanisms underneath it, they *do* know they have been lied to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:49 AM (mwCIn)

195
As a former resident of MN, I get this.

Were I still in CA, I'd think you're nuts.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:46 AM (tT6L1)

It was 74 here yesterday in NorCal

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 08:49 AM (n2vyf)

196 Only a fool, hopped up on hubris and war contractor talking points, would believe it is capable of waging and winning even one of these without incurring nuclear annihilation, let alone all three at once.

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* Canceled elections have entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 30, 2024 08:49 AM (/z9fK)

197
Any election only gets about 50-60% turnout. It is frustrating when a candidate loses by 10,000 when 400,000 stayed home.

It is more frustrating when your candidate loses by 10,000 when only 200,000 stayed home but the other guy got 125% turnout.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:36 AM

According to the Wiki page on the 2020 election in Pennsylvania something like 76% of registered voters voted.

We both know shenanigans were involved in somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 of the votes recorded.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 08:50 AM (nIvob)

198 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 08:47 AM (S6gqv)

And some 90 year old people thank God that they can still get to church, love Jesus and the people they go to church
with and can serve in some capacity and have been exhibiting that love for 60 or more years.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:50 AM (Ki//m)

199 Omar is an embarrassment and by her own actions and words should be removed from Congress. But she is hardly the only one or even the one in position to do real damage.

Check out Biden's National Security Council Director of Intelligence Maher (al) Bitar. Not only is he a Palestinian lawyer and former member, of course, of the Obama administration he is also a former member of UNRWA.

He knows exactly what our funding of UNRWA was being used for in Gaza. The modern Democrat Party is full of treasonous scumbags.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2024 08:50 AM (ZLI7S)

200 Back during the Obama reign, Manufacturers were able to hide inflation through shrinking the amount of product in a package.

Shrinkflation was the term, I believe.

This time around, prices have to go up.

Be interesting if someone did a study to see how much prices have actually gone up, taking into account shrinkflation.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:50 AM (tT6L1)

201 The press has been out there for months pushing this message with full Party backing, and then people still get gut-punched when they go to the store, and then they get confused and resentful because while they don't know the mechanisms underneath it, they *do* know they have been lied to.

I had a woman at my grocery store who I watched pick up some meat, lock at the price, and put it back down turn to me and say "well the prices have to go back down at some point right?"

I asked her why since the people profiting off the inflation are still in running the government?

And...its like a light bulb went off over head.

You would think if there was an opposition party they'd make this argument at some point...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:51 AM (ibTVg)

202 Be interesting if someone did a study to see how much prices have actually gone up, taking into account shrinkflation.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at January 30, 2024 08:50 AM (tT6L1)

This Bratwurst I like from trader Joes went from 16 oz to 12 oz and up a dollar in the last year...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 08:52 AM (n2vyf)

203 LIVs also don't know that prices going down, aka deflation, is the thing most establishment economists (left and right) believe is the worst thing that can happen
Posted by: 18-1

LIVs also don't understand properly taxes are tied to rent. The more free shit you demand from government, the more taxes are raised.

The more that taxes sre raised, the deeper and longer you get bent over. So when that "slumlord" raises rent again, just know it's because of some welfare queen somewhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 08:52 AM (SVQQi)

204 Attorney General Merrick Garland will be out of commission this weekend due to back surgery and is going out of his way to make sure that there are no doubts about who will be in charge during his absence. (snip) Garland, 71, will turn over his duties to the Justice Department’s No. 2 official — Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco — during the surgery and while he recovers from the anesthesia, Hinojosa said.

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 08:52 AM (RHGPo)

205 "Why would anyone go to a leftist church?
**
To burnish with holy authority their self-righteous political insanity.
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 08:43 AM (LK7dm)

Mainline protestant hierarchy, Frankie the Anti-Pope's supporters (as differentiated from True Catholics) and Reform Movement Judaism - all perverted heads of the same evil Hydra. All dedicated to the Glorification of Evil and their own self destruction.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 08:52 AM (S6gqv)

206 You would think if there was an opposition party they'd make this argument at some point...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:51 AM (ibTVg)
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They might, but there is no opposition party.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (mwCIn)

207 From what I can gather, defending Jordan's border with Syria.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

I can see that. If there's one thing that the US government is adamant about it's protecting the integrity of almost every border.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (GYIa4)

208 According to the Wiki page on the 2020 election in Pennsylvania something like 76% of registered voters voted.

90% in WI. Including 10,000 people aged 120 or older.

Note according to the sites that track longevity there are NO people 120 or older living in the US.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (ibTVg)

209 They steam their cheeseburgers in Hartford, so if you were really from Albany, you would know this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

210 Rep. Lieu agonizes that rats in glue traps “that do not escape die of blood loss, suffocation, or dehydration.”

Sound fitting for most in congress.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (ENQN6)

211 According to the Wiki page on the 2020 election in Pennsylvania something like 76% of registered voters voted.

We both know shenanigans were involved in somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 of the votes recorded.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 08:50 AM (nIvob)

Which is strange considering the overall votes vs registered voters in 2020 was 94%.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (eYoxG)

212 LIVs also don't understand properly taxes are tied to rent. The more free shit you demand from government, the more taxes are raised.

The more that taxes sre raised, the deeper and longer you get bent over. So when that "slumlord" raises rent again, just know it's because of some welfare queen somewhere.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 08:52 AM (SVQQi)
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One of many reasons I favor limiting the franchise.

If you don't own property, you shouldn't be voting on property tax measures.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (mwCIn)

213 "The Left only loves wounded and dead troops they can use to further their activism.
Posted by: Lizzy"

I've noticed veterans, especially wounded ones, keep showing up the past few years on Dem victim list that need extra protection along with the usual black, LGBTQ, women, Muslim etc... Is this because the military has gone woke? I don't think they are very high on the progressive stack but they are on it

Posted by: Ripley at January 30, 2024 08:54 AM (PTDkx)

214 Morning Horde, thx JJ, as always. Nice to see Zimmerman catching up but he doesn't go far enough . I've said it here many times (sorry for being redundant) but the next Republican president, after getting undercovers and informants to safety, should dump the entire FBI and DOJ databases and electronic comms onto the Web. Nuke it from orbit so to speak

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2024 08:54 AM (hB1mF)

215 @157

>>A big part of Trump’s superpower as a candidate is he actually gets a big chunk of those disaffected voters to vote for him. They’re not gonna vote for any other GOP candidate but they’ll enthusiastically vote for Trump. It’s millions of votes across the country.

True, but the Cameron race in Kentucky really bugs me, he had high enthusiasm for his AG run in 2019 getting over 820K votes, out performing the vote totals of most other GOP elected officials, there was great enthusiasm for Cameron in 2022, but somehow every other statewide GOP won and he lost by 200k votes.

It literally makes no sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:54 AM (XV/Pl)

216 I posted this link in yesterday's Morning Report. It's a link to a list of all US military bases worldwide. It's public. (Wiki)

There are a LOT of installations the US has. Jordan is not on this list however "Tower 22," the site of the attacks that left several US service personnel dead was previously identified as a WoT location.

http://tinyurl.com/ycsha3rp

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 08:54 AM (Q4IgG)

217 I honestly don’t know if civilization is going to survive 2024.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at January 30, 2024 08:54 AM (9yWhg)

218 I am not an economist, but I think that deflation is only an issue if you have long term debt like a mortgage.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:54 AM (xVkS/)

219 The GOPe does its hardest work to give those low propensity voters a reason not to vote.

They are the working class and they disgust them.

It's almost equal to their efforts to stop conservative policies and politicians.

There is and only has been one candidate in 40 years that can bring them out to vote Republican.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 30, 2024 08:54 AM (C2U4G)

220 We are, of course, a very small church, but the only people who didn't come back were the people who died. We even gained a member during Covid. Of course ,we didn't stay closed for as long as some other churches and no, I credit this to myself. It was a joint decision.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:55 AM (Ki//m)

221 @209 quoting Principal Skinner this early could be dangerous

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2024 08:55 AM (hB1mF)

222 LIVs also don't understand properly taxes are tied to rent. The more free shit you demand from government, the more taxes are raised.

Leftwing LIVs sort of get this. But they believe the government can just "tax the rich" to give them more goodies.

Of course often the people making this argument are making mid-6 figures, live in multi-million dollar houses, and have paid help. But...as they will tell you THEY can't afford to pay any more taxes.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:55 AM (ibTVg)

223 What profit is there in impugning the noble Knockwurst?

Posted by: StewBurner at January 30, 2024 08:55 AM (Guh8+)

224 90% in WI. Including 10,000 people aged 120 or older.

Note according to the sites that track longevity there are NO people 120 or older living in the US.
Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (ibTVg)

A recent watchdog review found that at least 6.5 million active Social Security numbers belong to people who are at least 112 years old and likely deceased. Only 35 living individuals worldwide had reached that age as of October 2013, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

This was from 2015.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 08:55 AM (ENQN6)

225 Meant before someone starts shrieking: No, I DON'T credit this to myself.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:56 AM (Ki//m)

226 Israeli undercover troops disguised as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing three ~~militants~~ terrorists.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 08:56 AM (2yu8s)

227
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:50 AM (Ki//m)

I know you're right - I am really pissed off at a certain group of clergy I know who have intentionally and carefully run off anyone younger because it made their job easier, and because they know they'll retire a couple months before it all collapses.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 08:56 AM (S6gqv)

228 We have DEI on our side. It wouldn't even be close.
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Not to mention our Strategic Pronoun Reserves and the Hashtag Battalions!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at January 30, 2024 08:57 AM (C2U4G)

229 The behavior of most churches during the covid scam revealed just how weak Christian leaders (pastors) had become as a group. There were notable exceptions (John MacArthur for one) but so many pastors shut down their churches and parroted the Fauci lies. Still totally depressing to me…..

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 08:57 AM (1jdMT)

230 Related, it was posted maybe yesterday:

"American Households' Average Monthly Expenses: $6,081"

http://tinyurl.com/2gz23qp8

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There are breakdowns for the amounts they use if you scroll down, and I halfway wonder if they're not fudging a lot of the numbers in hopes of softening the real numbers and how dire the economic situation is. Mortgages count stuff like cleaning products and utilities, and transportation counts cars, fuel, insurance, etc.

I find it interesting that there's no
1) tithing or
2) credit card or other debt, when there's a median balance of $3000 or so

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 08:57 AM (k1AR8)

231 Tell me that you're from the NYC megalopolis without telling me you're from the NYC megalopolis
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 30, 2024 08:11 AM (mwCIn)

My dad loved knockwurst and he was from Menomonee WI, with German grandparents.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at January 30, 2024 08:57 AM (TIizU)

232 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 08:56 AM (S6gqv)

I am sorry to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:57 AM (Ki//m)

233 In London, a group of Chinese Communists test their power to crush freedom.

The man has been getting death threats and YouTube has been getting constant demands for the video to be taken down.

China is asshoe.

Posted by: NR Pax at January 30, 2024 08:58 AM (4olE8)

234 This Bratwurst I like from trader Joes went from 16 oz to 12 oz and up a dollar in the last year...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 08:52 AM (n2vyf)

Yeah, but what about the Knockwurst?

Posted by: Hello Deli! at January 30, 2024 08:58 AM (V5BDR)

235 Ted Lieu deserves to be dropped into a giant glue trap.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 08:58 AM (S6gqv)

236 A big part of Church attendance, like anything, is habit. You get people out of the habit of going to church every Sun, you lose them forever. That was why Covid was done the way it was with churches.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:58 AM (xVkS/)

237 According to the Wiki page on the 2020 election in Pennsylvania something like 76% of registered voters voted.

We both know shenanigans were involved in somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 of the votes recorded.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 08:50 AM (nIvob)

I think there were 171k more votes than total number of voters registered by county.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 08:58 AM (ENQN6)

238 Meh, what does citizenship or treason even mean in a nation that no longer really exists?

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. Borders.

. Language.

. Culture

[h/t Michael Savage, starting in the early 90's when he was a local fill-in talk radio show host in San Francisco]

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 30, 2024 08:59 AM (/z9fK)

239 @215

>>there was great enthusiasm for Cameron in 2022, but somehow every other statewide GOP won and he lost by 200k votes.

What I meant is that he lost 200k votes from his 2019 run for AG, 820K votes in 2019 for AG, 620K votes in 2020 for Gov.

Again, literally makes no sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 30, 2024 08:59 AM (XV/Pl)

240 More importantly, things people NEED.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 30, 2024 08:48 AM (7fElN)

The price of milk and eggs are absurdly high.

Posted by: dantesed at January 30, 2024 09:00 AM (88xKn)

241 2) credit card or other debt, when there's a median balance of $3000 or so

The primary bit of financial advice I give my friends and family is to pay off credit card debt above anything else they can do with their money.

Having a 20%+ interest loan compounding year over year just kills your finances.

And...most of the time people get into this because of stupidity. They lose a source of income and keep buying the same luxury goods. Yes there are people that get an unexpected medical bill or something like that but most of the time its one spouse lost his/her job and they keep going on the same vacations as when both were working...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 09:00 AM (ibTVg)

242 They steam their cheeseburgers in Hartford, so if you were really from Albany, you would know this.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM (RIvkX)

Anyone here from Oklahoma? I am going to do some Oklahoma Onion Burgers this upcoming weekend.

Oh Yeah!

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 30, 2024 09:00 AM (Dc73h)

243 Israeli undercover troops disguised as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing three militants terrorists.
Posted by: andycanuck

Ooh-rah!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 09:00 AM (SVQQi)

244 218 I am not an economist, but I think that deflation is only an issue if you have long term debt like a mortgage.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:54 AM (xVkS/)

It depends what is driving it, from large scale productivity increases it wouldn't be an issue.

As a psychological price expectations thing it is an issue because what it means is that people are avoiding trade (buying things) because they expect the thing to be cheaper in the future, which in turn causes the price to fall from lower demand. The eventual thing that'd fix this is supply falling faster than demand which isn't ideal, over the long run you want supply to expand.

It's the reverse of the positive price spiral where people's expectations of higher prices cause them to spend immediately further pushing prices higher.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 09:00 AM (eYoxG)

245 The knockwurst bit is funny, it's a total regionalism.
Personally I have wanted for years to get up on a mezzanine at Istanbul Airport with a loudspeaker or at least homemade cone and yell:
588-2300...
And see who yells back.

Posted by: LenNeal at January 30, 2024 09:00 AM (43xH1)

246 Just like Raffsberger and Kemp won GA, but Walker lost?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 09:01 AM (xVkS/)

247
Which is strange considering the overall votes vs registered voters in 2020 was 94%.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 08:53 AM

I was trying to do the math on the back of an index card yesterday for Pennsylvania and I could not get consistent data. But it appears that close to one million voters suddenly appeared in the state between 2019 and 2020.

It's no wonder the PA Secretary of State resigned or was forced out of office after the election. The numbers for 2020 are completely indefensible.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at January 30, 2024 09:01 AM (nIvob)

248 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 08:58 AM (xVkS/)

I agree with you, but as we don't have internet access and can't do streaming the only way we could do a service online was for spouse to film it and then download it. Yes, we have people who are older and they got their butts to church whatever the reason unless they were sick and don't like the idea of church by Zoom even if we could do that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:02 AM (Ki//m)

249 It's not just Claudine Gay. Harvard University's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday.

DIE DEI DIE

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 09:02 AM (ENQN6)

250 But yes, I did advocate we open as quickly as possible but they voted.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:02 AM (Ki//m)

251 World awaits Biden’s response to death of U.S. servicemembers in drone strike...White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby says administration “does not want a war” and “does not want to escalate.”

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

252 Elon Musk Blasts Biden's Push For Border Deal: "No Laws Need To Be Passed"

All that is needed is an executive order to require proof before granting an asylum hearing. That is how it used to be.

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

253 The numbers, which Turning Point Action provided to Breitbart News exclusively, are stunning. Across ten battleground states, the group identified 4,571,210 disengaged GOP voters who did not vote in 2016 or 2020...For instance, in Pennsylvania, the margin between Trump and Biden was 80,555. The number of disengaged GOP voters was, per Turning Point Action’s analysis, 589,350—more than seven times the margin. In Michigan, the margin was 154,188 votes by which Biden beat Trump. Turning Point Action found 490,630 disengaged GOP voters there, more than three times the margin.

==

I keep telling you.....

=====

Why didn't voters show up?

I don't know..who was on the ballot on 2016 and 2020 ? what ? same guy as in 2024 ????

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:04 AM (V13WU)

254
What I meant is that he lost 200k votes from his 2019 run for AG, 820K votes in 2019 for AG, 620K votes in 2020 for Gov.

Generally the more high visibility the office the more people that vote for it and more people vote overall in presidential election years.

So, you would expect 820K votes for AG in an off year election would lead to far more votes in an on year election for governor.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 09:04 AM (ibTVg)

255 213 I'm a veteran of 5 tours in Iraq and I mostly avoid the veteran community because far too much of it is absolutely committed to blaming their past and current problems on their service. And the system (define that as you will) is designed to promote self-pity, moral weakness and dependency. A "homeless veteran" is no more entitled to sympathy than anyone else. In fact, a "homeless veteran" is someone who relied on big brother to run their lives and never quite grasped the idea that soldiering is about disciplining one's self to win and survive.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at January 30, 2024 09:04 AM (QN7a1)

256 White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby says administration “does not want a war” and “does not want to escalate.”
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

Waving a white flag and yelling "We Surrender! " before the fighting even starts does not really intimidate the enemy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 30, 2024 09:04 AM (S6gqv)

257 White House Spox Called Out For Odd Condolence Statement: 3 US Troops Died Fighting For 'This Administration'

the idea that anyone in the military is fighting on behalf of any administration is precisely what is wrong with the DC ruling class.

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

258 40% is the same 40%...it is not going anywhere.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:05 AM (V13WU)

259 My dad loved knockwurst and he was from Menomonee WI, with German grandparents.
Posted by: Marcus Gravey at January 30, 2024 08:57 AM (TIizU)

***

I spent many drunken weekends in Menomonee WI

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 30, 2024 09:05 AM (ZV+pB)

260 Spokesman John Kirby says administration “does not want a war” and “does not want to escalate.”
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

Sure. I believe that as much as I believed "two weeks to flatten the curve."

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 09:05 AM (LK7dm)

261 253.

I can't help but wonder if Trumpoids aren't in for a rude awakening when they realize that whatever caused Trump to lose in '20 will cause him to lose in '24...

Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 09:05 AM (aCVzN)

262 World awaits Biden’s response to death of U.S. servicemembers in drone strike...White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby says administration “does not want a war” and “does not want to escalate.”
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:02 AM (RHGPo)

Looks like they boxed themselves into a corner. I'm shocked.

Posted by: dantesed at January 30, 2024 09:06 AM (88xKn)

263 The behavior of most churches during the covid scam revealed just how weak Christian leaders (pastors) had become as a group. There were notable exceptions (John MacArthur for one) but so many pastors shut down their churches and parroted the Fauci lies. Still totally depressing to me…..
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 08:57 AM (1jdMT)

Same here. The eagerness of the RCC to bend the knee to Caesar and the continued excuses for it disgusts me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 30, 2024 09:06 AM (Q0kLU)

264 The FBI Must Be Wiped Clean, or Wiped Out, on Day One of the Next Republican Administration

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On the Second Day of Trumpfest, the DOJ must croak.

On the Third Day of Trumpfest ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 30, 2024 09:06 AM (/z9fK)

265 Another chicken farm fire yesterday--ten miles from my house. News is reporting it may burn for two days. Basically they can't enter the buildings to fight it so it will more or less burn itself out completely.

Just outside Bryan,TX.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 30, 2024 09:06 AM (X7yt5)

266 read this morning Uk wants to proclaim a "palestenian state". this is coming from a "Conservative" UK government. British are asshoe, always looking out for their arab brethren , no matter what atrocities they perpetrate.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:06 AM (V13WU)

267 I spent many drunken weekends in Menomonee WI

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 30, 2024 09:05 AM (ZV+pB)

Who hasn't?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 30, 2024 09:06 AM (SfhV1)

268 on behalf of any administration
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:05 AM (RHGPo)

She's an idiot. No further explanation is required.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (KBjAN)

269 absolutely committed to blaming their past and current problems on their service. And the system (define that as you will) is designed to promote self-pity, moral weakness and dependency.

Big driver was the focus on PTSD as a forever diagnosis requiring multiple medications and weekly therapy with no hope of ever recovering.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (xVkS/)

270 > "American Households' Average Monthly Expenses: $6,081"
_____________

Holy shit

I think ours (in retirement) is about half that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (Q4IgG)

271 'Diversity' Exhibition Laughably Claims Original Brits Were Black

An exhibition celebrating ‘diversity’ in London laughably claims that the first Britons were black and that “Britain was black for 7,000 years before” white people arrived.

Yes, really.

The Brilliant Black British History exhibition held at Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, south London, received taxpayer funding to spout patently false nonsense.

The very first display panel in the exhibition states, “By testing DNA, scientists made an amazing discovery – the first migrants to Britain around 12,000 years ago had black skin. Yes, that’s right, the very first Britons were black!”

Fact check: Nope.

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

272 It's not just Claudine Gay. Harvard University's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday.

-

This should no longer be surprising to anyone. Folks have known it in their personal dealings for decades, and we're now seeing the glorious maturing of it. It's neat in a way because it's like an experiment where you allow a cargo cult group of natives to reach the highest levels of society in order to see how they handle it and what happens to the society with them in charge.

Related, JackStraw posted this yesterday. The feds are giving out codewords for black applicants to put in their applications/resumes in specific places so that they are recognized, set aside, and get moved to the front of the line in hiring.

http://tinyurl.com/yweoth7m

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (k1AR8)

273 253 The numbers, which Turning Point Action provided to Breitbart News exclusively, are stunning. Across ten battleground states, the group identified 4,571,210 disengaged GOP voters who did not vote in 2016 or 2020...For instance, in Pennsylvania, the margin between Trump and Biden was 80,555. The number of disengaged GOP voters was, per Turning Point Action’s analysis, 589,350—more than seven times the margin. In Michigan, the margin was 154,188 votes by which Biden beat Trump. Turning Point Action found 490,630 disengaged GOP voters there, more than three times the margin.

==

I keep telling you.....

=====

Why didn't voters show up?

I don't know..who was on the ballot on 2016 and 2020 ? what ? same guy as in 2024 ????

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:04 AM (V13WU)

If you extrapolate their numbers it suggests roughly 13 million former GOP voters that could be reached. This doesn't account for former D or independent voters.

There were only 168 million registered voters in 2020, 158 million voted.

The voter pool can't be as large as they're saying it is or fraud in 2020 had to be upwards of 30 million.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (eYoxG)

274 RNC Research
@RNCResearch

Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken:

“We have not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across [the Middle East] since at least 1973.”

http://tinyurl.com/3ycvkc2u

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

275 "Complete subversion of what's in the Bible."

Worse yet, complete subversion of the Bible itself.
Just one example of hundreds.
Read Matthew 17:21 in your KJV. Hopefully you have one.
Kind of important, yes?
Now read it in your NIV.

Is the blood of Christ important?
How many times is mention thereof removed from your ESV?

Those Alexandrian texts that were used for the "new age" "Bible" versions were written by heretics. Found in trash cans and being used for starting fires.

But, but, but, the KJV is so hard to read.
Puh-lease.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (ix5nG)

276 "Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body. “In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold."

Ephesians 4:25-27

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (MJIed)

277 Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken:

“We have not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across [the Middle East] since at least 1973.”

http://tinyurl.com/3ycvkc2u
Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

Hey Anthony, why do you think that is ?

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 09:08 AM (n2vyf)

278 I can't help but wonder if Trumpoids aren't in for a rude awakening when they realize that whatever caused Trump to lose in '20 will cause him to lose in '24...
Posted by: Gryph at January 30, 2024 09:05 AM (aCVzN)

***

Fraud?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 30, 2024 09:09 AM (ZV+pB)

279 Biden's Bumbling LNG 'Ban' Profits Putin, Vexes Texas, And Unsettles Europe

The Biden administration's decision to delay the approval of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the United States may have marked a major victory for environmental advocacy groups in both the US and Europe (while effectively punishing Texas - the world's 3rd largest LNG exporter, for defending the southern border), it was a terrible move for Western interests.

.. they must keep all the lights on at the White House because they seem to be a "MORE ON" kind of folks

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:09 AM (RHGPo)

280 People already know the deck is stacked against Trump and the only hope is an overwhelming victory that gets by the fraud.

It's the right approach for now, too. The proper thing is to use words, and the law, for as long as possible.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 09:09 AM (k1AR8)

281 In reference to above comments I do not believe anybody in Wisconsin has ever been truly sober on any weekend ever.

Posted by: LenNeal at January 30, 2024 09:10 AM (43xH1)

282 As a psychological price expectations thing it is an issue because what it means is that people are avoiding trade (buying things) because they expect the thing to be cheaper in the future

That's my understanding as well.

In a deflationary market you gain more purchasing power by NOT spending your money before you have to, whereas in an inflationary one you gain more purchasing power by spending right now.

I suspect that this is NOT as bad as claimed, but would change the sort of society we have - a lot of the frivolous and status spending would go away and people would spend more money on real things of last value.

For example...if you can get a fancy dinner for $50 now or $60 next year...why not buy it now when it is "cheaper". OTOH people are still going to invest money and buy things with a real return on investment in a deflationary atmosphere. Do I buy this company making $100K a year now for $200K or next year for $180K?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 09:10 AM (ibTVg)

283 I can't help but wonder if Trumpoids aren't in for a rude awakening when they realize that whatever caused Trump to lose in '20 will cause him to lose in '24...

You mean massive election fraud aided and abetted by treasonous GOP nickelfuckers like Pence and covered up by the propaganda media?

And "Trumpoids" isn't exactly a term useful to making people consider your points with calm reason. But I expect you know that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 30, 2024 09:10 AM (Q0kLU)

284 Have a former AF colleague who claimed PTSD on his retirement exit as a way to game VA disability. After years of therapy to fix his PTSD his is an unemployed alcoholic mess.

We did the same job. He claimed his was triggered by the sight of flag draped transfer cases in the cargo compartment.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 09:10 AM (xVkS/)

285 EU Commission Corrects Video Claiming Auschwitz Was In Poland (Without Context As To The Perps)

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

286 270 > "American Households' Average Monthly Expenses: $6,081"
_____________

Holy shit

I think ours (in retirement) is about half that.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (Q4IgG)

You probably don't have a mortgage, nor are you feeding more than 2 people...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2024 09:11 AM (exHjb)

287 The border is in chaos and I stand ready to fix it just as soon as the Republicans agree to this completely unrelated issue and also grant me the authority to increase illegal immigration.

- Joe Potato

Posted by: Darth Randall at January 30, 2024 09:11 AM (xT7BI)

288 The very first display panel in the exhibition states, “By testing DNA, scientists made an amazing discovery – the first migrants to Britain around 12,000 years ago had black skin. Yes, that’s right, the very first Britons were black!”
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Whites are colonizers everywhere they exist. I think I see whats happening here.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 30, 2024 09:11 AM (fs1hN)

289 If you extrapolate their numbers it suggests roughly 13 million former GOP voters that could be reached. This doesn't account for former D or independent voters.

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"former" D or Independent is a fantasy. It never materializes in large enough numbers to make a difference where it counts. I hear it every election. As far as Rs that "could reached", doing the same thing and expecting a different result ain't gonna do it.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:11 AM (V13WU)

290 The voter pool can't be as large as they're saying it is or fraud in 2020 had to be upwards of 30 million.

I pin the extra fraudulent votes in the presidential election of 2020 as around 20M. This is over and above the normal baseline of fraud that you saw in previous elections which is of course hard to measure but likely much lower.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 09:12 AM (ibTVg)

291 LEN!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 09:12 AM (k1AR8)

292 287 The border is in chaos and I stand ready to fix it just as soon as the Republicans agree to this completely unrelated issue and also grant me the authority to increase illegal immigration.

- Joe Potato
____

He's right, you know.
- At least half of the GOP in Congress.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 30, 2024 09:12 AM (fs1hN)

293 And "Trumpoids" isn't exactly a term useful to making people consider your points with calm reason. But I expect you know that.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 30, 2024 09:10 AM (Q0kLU)

The casual frequency of its use suggests a blinkered contempt completely at odds with hopes of being taken seriously.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 09:13 AM (LK7dm)

294 > You probably don't have a mortgage, nor are you feeding more than 2 people...
___________

I actually have 2 mortgages.

But, yea, only 2 people to feed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 09:13 AM (Q4IgG)

295 I can't help but wonder if Trumpoids aren't in for a rude awakening when they realize that whatever caused Trump to lose in '20 will cause him to lose in '24...

==

Looks like the answer is "no". His lack of appeal will not be entertained - how dare you ! It is all "massive fraud". But solid 40% is there for him.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:14 AM (V13WU)

296 Texas Is 'Prepared' If Biden Federalizes State National Guard: Gov. Abbott

Gov. Abbott declared an invasion in Texas due to the influx of migrants, insisting that the measure ‘supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.’

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

297 Another chicken farm fire yesterday--ten miles from my house. News is reporting it may burn for two days. Basically they can't enter the buildings to fight it so it will more or less burn itself out completely.

Just outside Bryan,TX.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 30, 2024 09:06 AM (X7yt5)

Poor cluckers.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2024 09:14 AM (4I/2K)

298 "In London, a group of Chinese Communists test their power to crush freedom."

Silencing a Piano Man

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A read that even Zombie George Orwell couldn't have imagined.

Alternate Title: The Coming "Great Leap Backward" and Prelude to the Suicide of The West.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 30, 2024 09:14 AM (/z9fK)

299 And that USD $6,000@month as an average US expense?
WTF
WHERE? How? Why?
That's insane. Unpossible. Or is that demographic simply carrying all the nogoods that live around me? If I MADE that much I'd be flying business class and taking vacations to Singapore.
I saw that earlier in the threads and goggled.

Posted by: LenNeal at January 30, 2024 09:15 AM (43xH1)

300 People thinking that we have honest elections. It is to laugh.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 09:15 AM (R4t5M)

301 what was going on in the ME in 1973 ...hmm, oh right!

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:16 AM (V13WU)

302 Of course ,we didn't stay closed for as long as some other churches and no, I credit this to myself. It was a joint decision.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 08:55 AM (Ki//m)

Where'd ya get the joint ?

Posted by: JT at January 30, 2024 09:16 AM (T4tVD)

303 "Trumpoid" seems to be the new extremely-online dork slur for his voters. It's very lame, and it feels forced. Like Trumpalo was. But that was more of a head scratcher, I guess, so it's improvement. Still bad.

Those guys have "Brandon." That is actually a fun one. Do better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 09:16 AM (0FoWg)

304 Thanks JJ !

AGAIN !!!

Posted by: JT at January 30, 2024 09:16 AM (T4tVD)

305 289 If you extrapolate their numbers it suggests roughly 13 million former GOP voters that could be reached. This doesn't account for former D or independent voters.

==

"former" D or Independent is a fantasy. It never materializes in large enough numbers to make a difference where it counts. I hear it every election. As far as Rs that "could reached", doing the same thing and expecting a different result ain't gonna do it.
Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:11 AM (V13WU)

Practically speaking Trump had relatively high in-party support in 2020. In 2016 he had some losses of conventional GOP. If you go through things bottom-up, Trump got regular GOP voters(as much as might reasonably be expected for any R candidate in the last 40 years) and added a bunch of independents and crossover voters to reach his total in 2020. 2016 was more of a swap so he got pretty normal R vote totals.

There's not much of an argument that Trump didn't add a lot of voters vs what an R candidate would normally have in 2020. Numerically one might argue that Biden added a massive amount of D voters relative to what one would normally have.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 09:17 AM (eYoxG)

306 My solemn promise to you all: I shall never rap.

Posted by: gp Can't Even at January 30, 2024 09:17 AM (MvF+J)

307 I assume Trumpalo is a play on Juggalo?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 09:17 AM (ibTVg)

308 And "Trumpoids" isn't exactly a term useful to making people consider your points with calm reason. But I expect you know that.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 30, 2024 09:10 AM (Q0kLU)

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What, "Ultra MAGAts" wasn't available to the troll?

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at January 30, 2024 09:17 AM (/z9fK)

309 Good morning ... and fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Marooned at January 30, 2024 09:17 AM (kt8QE)

310 I agree, Trumpoids is not a nice term. I imagine good a number of those who are tired of his shtick (I know quite a few!) voted for him in 2016 and 2020.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:17 AM (V13WU)

311 Admiral Invalidator @Artofhunger75
Long form content isn’t always consumed but this, from the longer vid, after the initial conflict between a pianist and a bunch of British CCP spies, is REALLY IMPORTANT. The police try to intimidate and side with the communists demands using “hate speech” law threats.

Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray Jan 21
British man stands up to the police, who are acting like they’re the private security for a CCP crew from China who demand he stops filming them in public.

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber
Your own police telling you, 5 times, “you can’t say” when you say “This isn’t China”
http://tinyurl.com/6xreebyb

Guy's Channel @Politic56721677
Here we have Chancellor of The Exchequer @Jeremy_Hunt hanging out with one of the Chinese women who tried to get @brenkav to stop filming at St Pancras.

WTF is going on? - that photo is clearly taken in a room at the Palace Of Westminster.

WTF is she doing there?
http://tinyurl.com/3rmfzeck

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 09:17 AM (2yu8s)

312 274 RNC Research
@RNCResearch

Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken:

“We have not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across [the Middle East] since at least 1973.”

http://tinyurl.com/3ycvkc2u

Posted by: redridinghood at January 30, 2024 09:07 AM (NpAcC)

This is news to me.

Posted by: Jale Sullivan, National Security Advisor to Appeasement Joe at January 30, 2024 09:18 AM (5fDan)

313 Where'd ya get the joint ?
Posted by: JT at January 30, 2024 09:16 AM (T4tVD)

I do not partake of "joints". I gave up marijuana in my teens.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:18 AM (Ki//m)

314 Don't sing us a song Piano Man,
Don't sing us a song tonight.
You can horsefuck with your melody,
you'll get a beating alright.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 09:18 AM (R4t5M)

315 There's not much of an argument that Trump didn't add a lot of voters vs what an R candidate would normally have in 2020. Numerically one might argue that Biden added a massive amount of D voters relative to what one would normally have.

Trump scored the highest vote total for an incompetent...ever...and lost.

To a candidate that limped to win his primary and was widely seen as a joke across the political sphere. That's right, Joe Biden got more votes then Obama or Clinton. How does that work again?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 09:19 AM (ibTVg)

316 In fact, I know they did.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:19 AM (V13WU)

317 UPS just clicked by Genset did not start.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 09:19 AM (ENQN6)

318 The essential thing to keep in the forefront of your mind is that gray is a color whilst grey is a colour.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 30, 2024 09:19 AM (4I/2K)

319 Sept 2023 median housing cost numbers...

"As a result, the median rent in America is approximately $1,850 per month, about 30% cheaper than the median cost to buy, standing at $2,700 per month."

Posted by: Nova Local at January 30, 2024 09:19 AM (exHjb)

320 >>Biden Secretary of State Antony Blinken:

“We have not seen a situation as dangerous as the one we’re facing now across [the Middle East] since at least 1973.”

Hey, wasn't he just bragging about historic ME stability last summer?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 30, 2024 09:19 AM (RXyKO)

321 299 And that USD $6,000@month as an average US expense?
WTF
WHERE? How? Why?

Well I imagine My Daughters Family . We're in Ca. She has a mortgage, car insurance and home insurance , property taxes and a 1400 a month health care." bill... Don't forget food and gasoline.

Posted by: It's me donna at January 30, 2024 09:20 AM (n2vyf)

322 Trumpoid? That’s a new one for me…. Sounds derogatory, like us Trump supporters are just android, unthinking robots….. even that lunatic dem running against Biden (Dean Phillips) discovered that wasn’t true when he actually spent time speaking to Trump supporters at one of his rallies. Trumpoids? Okay…. I’m really not insulted, just bemused

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 09:20 AM (1jdMT)

323 Drumpf was really lame too. These attempts at humor by the Internet set on the Left are baaaad. They sound retarded.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 09:20 AM (0FoWg)

324 The disenfranchised Republicans who now self identify as "Independent" (if not in actuality but in spirit) are not going to respond favorably, if at all, in any poll about the party that turned its back on them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 30, 2024 09:20 AM (Q4IgG)

325 @312 people like Biden, Blinken and Sullivan are to self absorbed and obtuse to realize that they are the major causes of the danger and chaos

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2024 09:20 AM (hB1mF)

326 Nobody ever lost money, said PT Barnum, underestimating the gullibility of the American public.

So, it's understandable the Junta would try to take over the border issue, which has been Trump-Hitler's defining issue in (now) THREE Presidential campaigns.

What I never guessed, though, is that the Senate GOPe caucus would enthusiastically join in on Biden's side. It's so obviously a traitorous move from McConnell, Thune et al.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:21 AM (JdhGg)

327 325 @312 people like Biden, Blinken and Sullivan are to self absorbed and obtuse to realize that they are the major causes of the danger and chaos
___

The Urkel administration.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 30, 2024 09:22 AM (fs1hN)

328 Trumpoid doesn't even make sense. Maybe I'm slow, but has to think a little bit it to get the meaning of "If you support Trump it's like taking opioids. It's preferable to "Trump cultists" or "Trump is your Messiah." Why can't people just make their points about why they don't support Trump or other candidates without the insults?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:22 AM (Ki//m)

329 Biden, Blinkin, and Sullivan are just doing what they are told.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 09:22 AM (R4t5M)

330 "The median monthly cost of homeownership in the US is $1,775 per month, according to the most recent data from the Census Bureau's 2022 American Community Survey. That cost includes not only the monthly mortgage payment, but also other necessary costs like homeowners insurance, HOA fees, and property taxes."

http://tinyurl.com/yqfwkf5w

--

Notice the MF link has $1200 as the "shelter" amount and they get to $2000 by counting utilities, furniture, etc.. So using that same standard add another $800 to the actual median mortgage amount and it should be $2600 instead of $2000 at the MF link.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 09:23 AM (k1AR8)

331 So, are we looking at a Romney-Manchin "No Labels" ticket?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:23 AM (JdhGg)

332 "incumbent"

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 09:23 AM (2yu8s)

333 Trumpoid doesn't even make sense.

==

Trumpoid - droid, you know a robot ? automaton ?

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:24 AM (V13WU)

334 "One of the main tenets of the church I go to is: "Let the Bible interpret the Bible." Posted by: blake

An important key (imo) is to understand the God had to communicate with people in terms they understood. That includes relating to the people in light of their cultural imperfections and traditions of their day. So a lot of analogies and parables, but also straight forward "rules".

Much of Eastern culture is very different, even more different a couple thousand years ago than today.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2024 09:24 AM (Cus5s)

335 So, are we looking at a Romney-Manchin "No Labels" ticket?
Posted by: Huck Follywood a

rest assured who ever it is it will have a "R" on the top line of the ticket.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 30, 2024 09:24 AM (CIS44)

336 It's so obviously a traitorous move from McConnell, Thune et al.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:21 AM (JdhGg)

*shrugs* It's our nature/character. See our story in The Scorpion and the Frog.

Posted by: Senate GOPe Leadership and Caucus at January 30, 2024 09:24 AM (4I/2K)

337 333 Trumpoid doesn't even make sense.

==

Trumpoid - droid, you know a robot ? automaton ?
Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:24 AM (V13WU)

If you have to explain the joke

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (eYoxG)

338 >>Trumpoid - droid, you know a robot ? automaton ?

What is your cute name for DeSantis supporters? Losers?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

339 “They write stupid things today,” Maher said, describing how NYT has changed since the ’90s. “It’s a completely different generation that has a completely different idea about journalism. And the opinion page is every page. That is a fundamental difference, I did not change, Mr. Short, they changed.

The front page used to be just the news. Just give me the facts.

Do you now understand that everything is a lie, misleading, or meant to confuse?

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (ENQN6)

340 So, it's understandable the Junta would try to take over the border issue, which has been Trump-Hitler's defining issue in (now) THREE Presidential campaigns.

Had Trump truly been like Hitler, there wouldn't be a border problem.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (SVQQi)

341 331 So, are we looking at a Romney-Manchin "No Labels" ticket?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:23 AM (JdhGg)

Or Haley. Maybe they could run as a threesome?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (LK7dm)

342 @328Fen, pursuant to Saul Alinskys Rules for Radicals "ridicule is one of the man's most effective weapons". They're following a script

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (hB1mF)

343 ‘You see what happened today with the border, and now Trump is trying to do everything he can to make Joe look bad, you know, even at the lives — sacrificing lives of so many people just for his own political gain,’ she told donors to her husband’s re-election campaign.

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

344 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 09:20 AM (0FoWg)

I didn't understand Drumpf either. "Dumb TRump?" It's sounds like some creature from a new version of "Lord of the Rings" You have your trolls, elves, hobbits and drumpfs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:26 AM (Ki//m)

345 Trumpoid - droid, you know a robot ? automaton ?
Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:24 AM (V13WU)

Oh I guess they're trying to "take back" NPC.

Nope. Not gonna work. Everyone knows they're the Current Thing guys.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 30, 2024 09:26 AM (0FoWg)

346 How much longer will it take DOCTOR Jill to choose the retaliation Target Package Joe should use? Can the docs keep Joe coherent long enough nowadays to understand Jill then repeat what Jill said to members of the Junta?

Posted by: Gref at January 30, 2024 09:26 AM (5fDan)

347 Donors sue No Labels over possible third-party presidential ticket, alleging ‘bait and switch’
Donors “should not have to stand idly by while their dollars are used to threaten democracy,” Douglas and Jonathan Durst allege in the lawsuit.
By KELLY GARRITY; Politico; 01/23/2024 02:08 PM EST

Two prominent No Labels donors are suing the centrist political group for pulling a “bait and switch” by preparing to back a possible third-party presidential bid in 2024, after soliciting donations to support “bipartisan activism.”

No Labels “has lost its way, abandoned its original mission, and fundamentally betrayed its donors’ trust in the process,” the plaintiffs, Douglas and Jonathan Durst, allege in the lawsuit, filed with the New York State Supreme Court Tuesday.

The Durst cousins, part of a powerful New York real estate family, are suing No Labels for the $145,000 that members of the Durst family have donated to the organization since 2016, accusing No Labels of a breach of contract and “unjust enrichment,” according to the lawsuit.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (2yu8s)

348 If you have to explain the joke
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (eYoxG)

Dude, don't look at me - let the commenter explain what he meant ! *don't think it was a joke ...FenelonSpoke is the one who is not familiar with SciFI and needed an explanation.

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (V13WU)

349 It's sounds like some creature from a new version of "Lord of the Rings" You have your trolls, elves, hobbits and drumpfs.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:26 AM (Ki//m)

True, and funny.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (LK7dm)

350 That is a fundamental difference, I did not change, Mr. Short, they changed.

Most of what the left calls common sense reasonable policy in 2024 was stuff that in 2004 they claimed no one would ever want and that only a right wing extremist would ever even dream up.

And the amazing part of this to me is people like Maher basically going along with it.

If you publicly claim to believe the things the 2004 Kerry platform claimed, or hell even the 2012 Obama platform claimed you are now a far right wing extremist...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (ibTVg)

351
"Please enforce the law"

TRUMPTARDS ARE TRYING TO RUIN THE BORDER DEAL!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (k1AR8)

352 Malig-Nancy Pelosi Scolds Pro-Hamas Protesters Outside Her House: "Go Back To China!"

-
Nancy's not smart smart. More stupid stupid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (FVME7)

353 ‘You see what happened today with the border, and now Trump is trying to do everything he can to make Joe look bad, you know, even at the lives — sacrificing lives of so many people just for his own political gain,’ she told donors to her husband’s re-election campaign.
Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:26 AM (RHGPo)

Education majors are some of the most vapid and ridiculous people on the planet.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (R4t5M)

354 What is your cute name for DeSantis supporters? Losers?
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Servians.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 09:28 AM (2yu8s)

355 "Scripture's Spectrum: Queer, Trans, and Non-Binary Bible Readings:"

February 21: Joseph and the Rainbow Princess Dress
February 28: Redefining Masculinity with Daniel the Eunuch
March 6: “Whither Thou Goest”: Ruth’s Sapphic Steadfastness
March 13: The Non-Binary Wisdom of Mordecai and Qohelet
March 21: Imagining a Genderfluid God

WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 09:28 AM (ENQN6)

356 Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (LK7dm

Drumpfs sounds like some kind of relative of dwarves.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:28 AM (Ki//m)

357 I liked two things about the plandemic.
6' distancing and everyone stay inside so I can drive wherever the hell I want to as fast as I want to.

Posted by: Reforger at January 30, 2024 09:28 AM (U8nIs)

358 The Durst cousins, part of a powerful New York real estate family, are suing No Labels for the $145,000 that members of the Durst family have donated to the organization since 2016, accusing No Labels of a breach of contract and “unjust enrichment,” according to the lawsuit.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 30, 2024 09:27 AM (2yu8s)

Never give a sucker an even break.

Posted by: W.C. Fields at January 30, 2024 09:29 AM (4I/2K)

359 Drumpfs sounds like some kind of relative of dwarves.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at J

Snow Biege and the seven drumpfs. only in theaters 2025

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 30, 2024 09:29 AM (CIS44)

360 That article on NC was a real eye opener. I looked at a few properties in that area and decided not only were they way overpriced, but stacked together like Monopoly houses for an area like NC. Most of the people were also not the North Carolinians I would be moving to join, but the people I was trying to get away from. Nobody wants to jump out of the pot and into the frying pan...

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2024 09:29 AM (MJIed)

361 Today's Telegraph says WW3 is going to be started by Biden's overly-tentative retaliation against Iran, when that comes, but the paper blames Putin, Xi, Kim, and the Mullahs (the "failing autocracies") for the war.

Maybe blame the voters, print shops, and ballot harvesters who cheated in 2020's election. Blame Nanzi, the Junta, and the Secretaries of State in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:29 AM (ESxfK)

362 I couldn’t be less concerned about a no labels ticket. Romney is a joke who couldn’t even get reelected to the senate in Utah which is why he’s not running. Let ‘em waste their money…. They ain’t changing the outcome. Now RFK Jr and Cornell West? They’ve gotta worry the junta…. Lets have them all in; in that scenario I think Trump has an easier path to a win because his absolute floor is low 40’s percent

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 09:30 AM (1jdMT)

363 The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is covering up displays and emptying cases in its Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands galleries to begin the process of following new regulations pertaining to the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA).

"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.

1984 aint a GD instruction manual!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

364 yeah, solid 40%

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:30 AM (V13WU)

365 Maybe blame the voters, print shops, and ballot harvesters who cheated in 2020's election. Blame Nanzi, the Junta, and the Secretaries of State in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Michigan.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at

In fairness, Dana Nessel was probably passed out drunk at a football game.

Posted by: BruceWayne at January 30, 2024 09:30 AM (CIS44)

366
A
R
T

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

367 What is your cute name for DeSantis supporters? Losers?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

JackStraw, are you going to disappear for a year after this election too ?

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:31 AM (V13WU)

368 February 14: Get Down Tonight, The Song of Solomon.

Posted by: Hubba hubba at January 30, 2024 09:31 AM (NBVIP)

369 "Well I imagine My Daughters Family . We're in Ca. She has a mortgage, car insurance and home insurance , property taxes and a 1400 a month health care." bill... Don't forget food and gasoline."

For an upwardly mobile family in a higher cost of living area, I can see it. But for the "average" person in flyover country, that seems very high ... but it would be nice to see more details, and to see if the median is different than the average.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 30, 2024 09:31 AM (Cus5s)

370 >>>>Hey Anthony, why do you think that is ?

Posted by: It's me donna at
----------------------------

Why, It's Joey Kalorama screwing one more thing.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 30, 2024 09:31 AM (eGNbo)

371 I do not know how in the world the Left is able to do this, but somehow they are winning the war of who wants to close the border more.

Trump is the bad guy on the border being open now.

This house sho gone crazy.

Posted by: blaster at January 30, 2024 09:31 AM (xhfG9)

372 JackStraws prognostications are legendary ! all wrong all the time. Are we still waiting for Godot ?

Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:32 AM (V13WU)

373 341 331 So, are we looking at a Romney-Manchin "No Labels" ticket?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:23 AM (JdhGg)

Or Haley. Maybe they could run as a threesome?
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (LK7dm)
===============
It's time for Polyamorous Presidenten!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:32 AM (ESxfK)

374 371 I do not know how in the world the Left is able to do this, but somehow they are winning the war of who wants to close the border more.
**
No. Not even close.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 09:34 AM (LK7dm)

375 Posted by: rhennigantx at January 30, 2024 09:28 AM (ENQN6)

There is so much bizarrely wrong in that theology, I can't even begin to comment except to say that Naomi and Ruth no were lesbians. It was a mother in law and her daughter in law and Naomi wanted her DIL to marry again. D'oh. Theology cut from whole progressive cloth.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:34 AM (Ki//m)

376 DeSantis supporters do need to realize that he is no longer running.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 30, 2024 09:35 AM (eGNbo)

377 .Posted by: BruceWayne at January 30, 2024 09:29 AM (CIS44)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2024 09:36 AM (Ki//m)

378 341 331 So, are we looking at a Romney-Manchin "No Labels" ticket?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:23 AM (JdhGg)

Or Haley. Maybe they could run as a threesome?
Posted by: Ordinary American at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (LK7dm)
===============
It's time for Polyamorous Presidenten!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:32 AM (ESxfK)

I thought the proper terminology was “throuple” which we learned from that CA congresswoman

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 30, 2024 09:37 AM (1jdMT)

379 Well ok not to spoil it for JJS but he could have gotten a much cheaper deal down the road (I do know where he lives and also know his model trains were kind of a deal) where I live. You also should have a gun and be willing to use it which in his household might not be the case.
Well under USD $100K for a house and my job provides full health for USD $50@month by being self insured.
I paid off my home in 10 years.
I really just don't have to make a lot of money, to have money. I admit to being baffled by people chasing the Prosperity Dragon.

Posted by: LenNeal at January 30, 2024 09:38 AM (43xH1)

380 What is your cute name for DeSantis supporters? Losers?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2024 09:25 AM (ZLI7S)

JackStraw, are you going to disappear for a year after this election too ?
Posted by: runner at January 30, 2024 09:31 AM (V13WU)
=================
Rod Rosenstein, Bill Barr and John Durham are honest men who will do the right thing and sort all this out.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:40 AM (tRvof)

381 DeSantis supporters do need to realize that he is no longer running.
Posted by: Braenyard at January 30, 2024 09:35 AM (eGNbo)

***

It's hard to run in those high heeled boots

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at January 30, 2024 09:41 AM (ZV+pB)

382 C'mon now. I doubt any of us realized that we would be going down the path where we'd learn that no one in any positions of power or influence in the gov or judiciary would accidentally show us reality like they did.

Posted by: Moron Robbie stands in support of afro-chemistry, afro-economics, and afro-engineering WAKANDA 4EVER at January 30, 2024 09:42 AM (k1AR8)

383 GM, all, and thanks, J.J.

CBS News, Jan 29: Iran has denied it was behind a drone strike that killed three U.S. troops at a military base in northeast Jordan on Sunday, but an Iran-backed militia based in Iraq said it had carried out four attacks in the area. "But," CBS isn't a true believer either?

Oct. 26, 2023, Task & Purpose article, "19 US troops have Traumatic Brain Injury after drone attacks in Iraq and Syria. Fifteen of the troops diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury were based in Syria. The other four were in Iraq."

CNBC, World Politics, 01/28/24: In part, "“While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq,” Biden said in a statement.

(In addition to 3 dead) "At least 34 personnel were being evaluated for possible traumatic brain injury, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. Two different officials said some wounded U.S. forces were medically evacuated from the base for further treatment."

What is happening w/drones & how long before it's on our shores?
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Somalia? Shush!! It's in our Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program!

Posted by: L - Confident they're working on new 'rope-a-dope' techniques for the Presidential election at January 30, 2024 09:43 AM (GshMh)

384 A "throuple" sounds right; there's gotta be a catchy campaign slogan in there somewhere.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 30, 2024 09:43 AM (tRvof)

385 >>>It's hard to run in those high heeled boots

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report
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Gotta let it go on both sides.
We have bigger fish to fry than name calling over the past.

Posted by: Braenyard at January 30, 2024 09:44 AM (eGNbo)

386 Joey the B has a problem with the border: like trying to exit a stage, he isn't sure where he is, or which way to go.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at January 30, 2024 09:44 AM (CecP5)

387 m,kliiiiiiinood

Posted by: vic at January 30, 2024 09:49 AM (A5THL)

388 "Zoozve", The Solar System's First Quasi Moon of Venus

Posted by: SMOD at January 30, 2024 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

389 I would suspect Brendan Kavanagh, the pianist accosted by the chicoms, knows the oriental riff. It would have been funny if he’d played that for the pinkos.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 30, 2024 09:57 AM (ogTiX)

390 Here Are Three Unanswered Questions About Biden EPA’s Massive Green ‘Slush Fund’

Ah, this answers my question of where Biden gets the billions of dollars of our money that he gives away.

The Republicans gave it to him.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 30, 2024 10:04 AM (aD39U)

391 I think I read the definition of victory here years ago, maybe somebody quoting Maha Rushie, but you go skating at midnight on the enemy capitol, now fused to glass. But can't we just keep headhunting the crazy Shi'te Twelver mullahs until they're all gone? Or did you want them to nuke DeeCee first?

Posted by: Shai in Giv'at Mordecai at January 30, 2024 10:06 AM (EW9Uk)

392 Suggestion: put the "Actual Science, Technology" section nearer to the top, so we don't have to wade through quite so much dreck to get to something sort of positive!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 30, 2024 10:10 AM (8Ta2Y)

393 What can be said more than you've already stated this morning, JJ? Little else I think, save that Charlie Kirk - having good intentions - completely misses the point of 2020, 2024 and U.S. elections in general now.
President Trump DID NOT legally lose the last contest. In fact, he legally won by the most votes ever received by a White House incumbent. And yet, here's Kirk buying into the utter BS thinking that America is a 50-50 Nation politically (we are not) and that the reason 2020 went the way it did is because our side just couldn't rally enough votes in key counties. I swear, I am damn sick to my core of so-called conservative commentators who push these falsehoods, probably for the sake of "comity" or to keep their cushy consulting jobs!
And the whole 50-50 Nation talking point was created by the GOPe to cover for their constant betrayals, a convenient excuse and nothing more. We have ALWAYS been a center-right nation, more like 60-40 or 65-35 but then the GOPe has never let a hard truth get in the way of good governance (i.e. - grifting).
Meh. Let Charlie Kirk and Conservative Inc. piss up the voter canvas tree. That effort is meaningless when our elections are stolen!

Posted by: Tracy at January 30, 2024 10:25 AM (U5zjI)

394 Have a former AF colleague who claimed PTSD on his retirement exit as a way to game VA disability. After years of therapy to fix his PTSD his is an unemployed alcoholic mess.

We did the same job. He claimed his was triggered by the sight of flag draped transfer cases in the cargo compartment.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at January 30, 2024 09:10 AM (xVkS/)

Pull "a Patton" and slap the living shit out of him. Enough of this "constant sympathy". I grew up surrounded by WW2 combat vets (and some Korean vets as well), and the great majority got on with their lives after they returned. By dad was wounded in action twice. Never heard him whine. Yes, the term back then was "shell shocked", but, the guys who suffered from that were in the minority. Now, it seems that PTSD is a common fallback excuse.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at January 30, 2024 10:28 AM (iODuv)

395 Behsr is living rent free in JJ's head.
He can't evict her she has a long term lease

[Behsr? Do you mean Joe Besser? Or Joy Behar? I guess you got dropped on your head repeatedly by your mother when she was giving out blowjobs during Fleet Week, but it's Joy REID. I even have a picture of her up top. Dude, you really ought to stop huffing Carbona. Hit my tip jar, cheapskate. I let you live rent free right here! - jjs]

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Posted by: jamaica at January 30, 2024 11:22 AM (IVPLp)

397 Joyless has as much combat experience as Austin so she knows what she's talking about. Austin's combat experience was playing with tin soldiers in a sandbox when he was six.

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