The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 2/1/24

Good morning, kids. February already? Time flies when you're having Armageddon. As is almost always the case these days, with the erased border along with Israel and Iran the top stories, there are a number of others of similar import that I shall endeavor to get to, lest they get lost in the sauce.

But the intentional flooding of America by millions of unvetted foreigners is what we'll lead with. The House has advanced two articles of impeachment against DHS apparatchik Alejandro Mayorkas. Is it a useless gesture or a necessary political move? "Relax, kids. It's both!"

“Political and policy disagreements aren’t impeachable offenses,” former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The Journal‘s own editorial board used that same line in its own subheader opposing impeachment, arguing that, “a policy dispute doesn’t qualify as a high crime and misdemeanor.”

STOP THE PRESSES – For those who are either too young or like Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants too demented to remember, Michael Chertoff was the Homeland Security director under George W. Bush, a Republican whose proclamation in the wake of 9/11 that Islam was a religion of peace and that we were not at war with it led to a flood of legal immigration from Muslim lands. It also gave us another out of control, inept bureaucracy, the TSA (now working on even more insidious ways to spy on us) as well as the ramping up of the Patriot Act used, not to protect us from the Islamic jihadists that Bush allowed in, but against anyone that was a threat to the globalist, Democrat-RINO agenda. People like Trump, and you and me. And how did that work out for us?

The Wall Street Journal. A Soviet-esque ass-wiper that irritates the perineum and lies worse than Pravda, which once ran the five word editorial "Thou shalt have open borders." Illegally and catastrophically refusing to carry out the mission of protecting our first and most critical line of defense, the border, is merely "a policy dispute?" Someone needs to vaporize 22 Cortlandt Street (its address at least when I once briefly worked there) with a neutron bomb, so at least Century 21 next door can remain standing.

Back to the action:

The same Democrats protesting that impeaching Mayorkas is an abuse of power were responsible for sending Peter Navarro, a former Trump official, to prison for refusing to testify before their partisan committee. That was and is an extraordinary abuse of power. Mayorkas, unlike Navarro, is a sitting government official. Impeachment, as Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers, involves those “offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust.”
Impeachable offenses “relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself,” he wrote. It’s hard to think of a better example than allowing millions of illegal aliens to invade the country, and doing everything possible to wilfully impede the efforts of states trying to slow that invasion. As the internet meme goes, Homeland Security had one job. Is our homeland secure? . . .
. . . Nearly 7 million illegal alien invaders have shown up on Mayorkas’ and Biden’s watch. They include tens of thousands of gang members and criminals, hundreds of terrorists and enough fentanyl to kill every American ten times over… and those are just the ones that we caught. Is 7 million illegal invaders a policy dispute or a war? Biden, Mayorkas and other officials claim that they’re helpless to act and that they’re doing the best that they can, and that House Republicans can fix the problem with a “border deal.”
All of that is a lie. . .
. . . The impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas is not a matter of personal misconduct. There is no evidence that he is stealing, conducting an affair, taking or soliciting bribes or corrupting the government for his own personal agendas. His only actual crime is following orders. And that’s the only argument against impeaching Mayorkas. He’s not acting on his own.
Enabling the mass invasion of the United States is not the action of one man, but of an administration, which has used every federal agency at its disposal, including the EPA, to enable that invasion, which has dispensed a fortune to the invaders to encourage them to invade, and another fortune to the refugee resettlers to make sure that they never leave. And it’s not just the policy of one man or one administration, but of a party that has spent decades conniving, scheming and maneuvering, since the Kennedy administration, to fundamentally transform immigration law in order to shift the national demographics and the political culture through laws, UN treaties, economic incentives and the neglect of existing laws. . .
. . . If a political official willfully refusing to do his duty leading to an invasion of millions and the deaths of over a hundred people doesn’t justify impeachment, what possibly does?

Daniel Greenfield's essay is an accurate, methodical, point by point indictment of Mayorkas and indeed the entire system and flagrantly malfeasant bureaucracies that are acting with malice aforethought to literally destroy this country from within, as absolutely and thoroughly in its net result as any invading army or even ICBM attack could accomplish.

In a way, what's going on is worse because at least we theoretically would have pockets of individuals who shared a common history, heritage, language and national identity. What is happening now will ultimately destroy it. The moral equivalent of a neutron bomb, except while people remain standing, their collective memory is wiped clean via being subsumed in an ocean of foreign, alien and hostile cultures.

And considering the vast influx of not just an army of illiterate Latin-American peasant lettuce-pickers, but Islamic males of military age with jihad, baby-roasting and gang-raping on their mind, an actual neutron bomb or Jose Padilla dirty bomb is a real possibility

So, while Greenfield's essay is as usual well-written and accurate, it misses a crucial factor. Getting rid of Mayorkas is the equivalent of getting rid of Eichmann, while Himmler, Hitler and the entire SS remain in place. There is no doubt that Mayorkas is a twisted, ideologically driven dangerous parasite. But getting rid of him is pissing-in-the-wind-symbolism, because behind him are hundreds of other poison-Ivy League anti-American automatons as bad or even perhaps worse than he is.

Even more worserer, Biden and his puppet master Obama/Jarrett/Rice/Power-Sunstein will remain in place. And if God-willing Trump wins, the entire unelected bureaucracy is still there, which will be equally treasonous in its insubordination. Ditto every other agency, office and bureaucracy in DC.

What possibly could happen as November looms like the anvil above Wile E. Coyote as he plunges 1,000 feet to the canyon floor, is that Mayorkas becomes the fall guy and then the Dems can claim "Problem solved!" while directing the mass Greek chorus of the propaganda machine, led by minimally talented Pop Tart Taylor Strumpet, to shriek "Roe, Roe, Roe the vote!" from now until well after the last 18-wheeler of ballots is unpacked and run through the tabulators a few hundred times to get to the required winning number.

So, the GOP-led House has brought up articles of impeachment against Mayorkas for his criminality in the catastrophe at the border. At the same time, the same GOP-led House is doing this:

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is rushing through a tax bill unveiled days ago over significant policy objections from both conservative and centrist factions of the Republican Party.
Conservatives have spoken out against provisions in the bill they see as handouts to illegal immigrants, particularly an expansion of the Child Tax Credit without language requiring the parent to have a Social Security number. They argue the expansion would serve as an additional powerful migration pull, even as migrant encounters at the border reach record highs under [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden. . .
. . . Despite the criticism within his party, Johnson has touted the bill, calling it “important bipartisan legislation to revive conservative pro-growth tax reform.”
Yet significant conservative opposition to the bill exists. Richard Stern, Director of the Heritage Foundation’s Herman Center for the Federal Budget and a former budget staffer to Johnson, told Breitbart News the bill is “a Trojan horse to expand welfare programs, including those that go to illegal aliens.”

Yay! Bipartisanship! But wait. There's more!

[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s Department of Alcohol, Tabacco, and Firearms is working with the Department of Justice to regulate private gun sales into oblivion by mandating background checks for personal firearm exchanges, according to whistleblower group Empower Oversight.
Federal law currently requires background checks for any gun buyers who purchase their new weapons through a licensed federal firearms dealer (FFL). Two sources in communication with Empower Oversight confirmed the ATF is prepared to move forward with a rule that would classify a closed-door gun sale between friends or family members the same as firearm purchases made from FFLs.
The rule, proposed by the DOJ and ATF at the behest of Biden’s gun control wish list issued in March 2023, seeks to change the definition of “who is engaged in the business of dealing in firearms” to increase the number of Americans required to become FFLs, a lengthy and far from “easy” process, that must conduct background checks to sell their guns. The ATF and DOJ credits Democrats’ 2022 gun control bill, which passed because more than a dozen Republican senators agreed to betray their base.

Did your eyes just fly out of their sockets like champagne corks?

The GOP — Grifting Oleaginous Parasites.

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Other things of note at press time:

James O'Keefe skunked a Biden junta apparatchik, and oh boy.

What about the rumors of replacing Joe Biden with Michelle Obama? Well, interestingly enough, Kraiger told O’Keefe that he had a meeting with Michelle Obama and someone asked her if she’d run for office. According to Kraiger, she said no. "Empathically.”
"She was like, ‘I've seen all this s--t my husband has had to go through and that does not interest me.’"
. . . Ahh, but there's more. Kraiger also spilled the beans about the incredible dysfunction in the vice president’s office. According to Kraiger, Kamala Harris "hemorrhages black staff. She can't keep black staff. They quit on her en masse.” But, that’s not even the juiciest part.
“She will be the vice president nominee,” Kraiger noted. "There was a debate about removing her from the ticket, but sadly they didn’t, she's not popular, but you can’t remove the first black lady to be vice president from the Goddamn presidential ticket. Like what kind of message are you going to send to like African-American voters.…People would be like, 'What the f**k?' Like she's a woman and she's multiracial.”

I've postulated that Big Mikey Forearms is too lazy and too comfortable to be the candidate, especially if it meant being her gay-boy husband's puppet. And voila! Things could change but I doubt it.

Aside from the comedic yet frightening dysfunction at the top, there's this disgusting story:

Reports that the Biden [junta] is considering recognizing a Palestinian state—upending decades of U.S. policy—are generating intense criticism from Republican lawmakers who say the timing of these leaks marks a stunning betrayal of Israel as it fights to eradicate Hamas terrorists."
As Joe Biden signals that the clock on his support for Israel is running out—a White House endorsement of a two-state solution would be the worst betrayal of our strongest ally in the Middle East, a reversal on decades-long U.S. policy, and a reward to Hamas terrorists who committed the most barbaric attacks against the Jewish community since the Holocaust," Rep. Tom Emmer (R., Minn.), the House majority whip, told the Washington Free Beacon, echoing comments from other GOP offices.
"I will personally use every ounce of leverage at my disposal to ensure the Biden administration does not go through with this absurd idea," Emmer told the Free Beacon, hinting at a looming showdown between the White House and pro-Israel leaders in Congress.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the creation of a Palestinian state would implant "an enclave for global terrorism" in Israel’s backyard, setting the stage for future conflicts with Israel.
"A Palestinian state would not only be an enclave for global terrorism and an existential threat to Israel, it would legitimize the aims of the attack on October 7, effectively rewarding Hamas," Cotton told the Free Beacon. "It’s clear the Biden administration simply wants to appease the pro-Hamas wing of the Democratic Party. It’s shameful this is even a topic of discussion."
The Biden [junta] has been under pressure from the Democratic Party’s left wing to push for a ceasefire that would end the nearly four-month-long conflict. Anti-Israel lawmakers like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) have also floated proposals to cut off U.S. arms sales to Israel and end military aid to the Jewish state.

While the massive pogrom launched on Israel revealed the extant yet shocking levels of Jew-hatred in the Democrat party and its base, still more people have been repulsed by it and I think (read: I pray) they outnumber the Einsatz-groupies by a wide margin.

Groundhog Day! Will DeBolshevik drop another one on its head?

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Lloyd Billingsley: "The leftist-woke-Islamophilia axis in action."
Charting the CIA Jihad Against Trump
"Vigilance is necessary this time around to insure a free and fair election and to keep the cement of fundamental transformation from hardening into unbreakable rock."
How’s Life in Obama’s Fundamentally-Transformed America Working Out for You So Far?
"There has never been such a global policy statement as Agenda 30, which is really is not about policy but about an intended power grab of unprecedented proportions."
Agenda 2030: A Power-mad Document
"Mark Steyn presciently predicted in his 2005 book, America Alone – The End of the World as We Know It that, unless things change, Europe was a forgone Muslim conclusion. However, the United States could live on. But with Joe Biden's open border policy resulting in hundreds of thousands of people from across the globe sneaking into the nation, it is easy to see how things can change, quickly."
The United States of Allah: It Happened in My Neighborhood, Yours Is Next
Miranda Devine: "It’s a frightening feeling when the world feels out of control and you can’t trust the people in charge. A reader this week put his finger on this central truth of politics. 'I don’t think the average voter comprehends that some politicians will sacrifice peoples’ lives and risk national destruction for personal political gain,' he said."
Joe Biden’s Dangerous, Cynical Iran Concessions Prove His Concern is 2024 [rigged] Re-Election – Not America’s Safety
"He said that Jan. 6 prisoners understand that standing 'up and fight[ing] against tyranny' brings the full force of leftist officials who, he argues, 'want to destroy you and your family' . . . Unfortunately, Lang and dozens of other Jan. 6 prisoners are incarcerated in D.C., where Lang argues that it is impossible to have an unbiased jury. He supported that claim with recently published poll data."
J6 Prisoner Details Abusive Prison Conditions

AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

"Republican state Sen. Colton Moore, who is the vice chairman of the Georgia Freedom Caucus, took the video Tuesday night and told the DCNF that he learned of the hidden room full of migrants through a 'whistleblower' at Atlanta’s airport, who noticed an influx of illegal migrants coming through the facility in recent months. In the video, there appears to be a uniformed soldier guarding a room full of migrants and volunteers with a group called Team Libertad, which boasts of helping migrants travel on its social media accounts."
Video Appears To Show Migrants Tucked Away In Hidden Room Under Military Guard At Major US Airport
Daniel Greenfield: "Secretary Mayorkas willfully allowing millions to invade the country is not just a 'policy dispute.'” (Getting rid of Eichmann, while Himmler, Hitler and the entire SS remain in place is pissing-in-the-wind-symbolism. Worse, the Dems will claim "problem solved!" and yell "abortion!" until November - jjs)
The Most Justified Impeachment in American History
A House floor debate and vote to impeach Mayorkas is expected to happen as early as next week. If successful, it would be the first time a Cabinet secretary has been impeached since 1876. But the GOP majority is contending with a tight margin and some doubts among the rank-and-file. The effort also faces long odds of achieving a conviction in the Democrat-controlled Senate. (Don't forget it's an election year and Democrats are shitting bricks about the border. Mayorkas is a convenient fall guy - jjs)
House Committee Advances Two Articles Of Impeachment Against Mayorkas
"You can tell what a good idea it is to impeach Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, just by all the screeching leftists who oppose the idea."
Impeach the Bum!
“Why these propositions?” López Obrador said during a Monday press conference. “Because there are elections! Once the elections pass, there’s another agenda. But we, the Mexicans, need to recognize this background. Politically it’s time. We are in a special time, in Mexico and the United States.”
Mexican President Calls BS on Biden’s Promise to "Shut Down" the Border
"He is, in fact, unable to take effective measures to tackle the border crisis."
Stop the Press! Joe Biden Didn’t Lie.

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"Since Day One of his [illegitimate] presidency, Joe Biden has vigorously [ab]used his office to enable, encourage and validate illegal immigration to the U.S., causing the current crisis at the southwest border, a timeline analysis of his presidential actions to-date demonstrates." (Treason straight up - jjs)
Timeline: How Biden Created the Border Crisis and Encouraged Illegal Immigration
"The complaints about the conditions at the shelter in the 2200 block of South Halsted Avenue were revealed in emails sent to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson in October well ahead of the incident in December when a migrant child died at Comer Children’s Hospital after he took ill in the shelter."
Report: Chicago City-Sponsored Migrant Shelters Filled with Rats, Rotting Food, Garbage (Make that into an ad campaign in Spanish and buy air time and billboards all over Latin America - jjs)
"They argue the expansion would serve as an additional powerful migration pull, even as migrant encounters at the border reach record highs under [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden."
Johnson Sets Vote on Tax Bill Conservatives Call "Trojan Horse to Expand Welfare" for Illegal Aliens
"Hochul was reportedly asked Wednesday whether the alleged perpetrators should be deported." (Everyone here illegally is a criminal by definition. They all should go - jjs)
Dem Gov Says Deporting Migrants Who Allegedly Beat Police Officers Should Be On The Table: REPORT
Allen West: "Biden foolishly takes on Texas."
The Tyranny of Federalizing Troops to Undermine America’s National Sovereignty

ISRAEL AT WAR
"Rumored plan to create 'Palestinian' state sets up fresh showdown between Biden and Republicans in Congress."
"Worst Betrayal": GOP Lawmakers Slam Biden Plan to Recognize "Palestinian" State
"A 'Palestinian' in Gaza as he encounters Israeli forces on the way to Rafah: 'We must take down the heads of Hamas! Don’t leave this place! This is all because of Sinwar and Haniyeh! They eat meat while we eat bullets!'” (Captured Kraut soldier singing "Steamboat Willie" to Tom Hanks, or the real thing? - jjs)
Video Shows Gazan Cursing Out Hamas, Asking Israel to Wipe Them Out. Are the Tides Turning?
"Mohammad Massad was pulled into terrorism against Israel as an eight-year-old boy. Now he lives with 'the same rights as any Israeli Jew.'" (Does he still follow the Koranic precepts demanding Jews be annihilated? - jjs)
Former "Palestinian" Terrorist Slams Hamas: "Brought Disgrace to Our People"
"An on-the-ground report on how the IDF is conducting the war."
British Col. Kemp: How the IDF Mitigates Civilian Casualties
"The dossier—based on signals intelligence, interrogations of Hamas terrorists, and documents recovered in Gaza—was part of an Israeli briefing of U.S. officials that convinced Washington and others to suspend funding to UNRWA. U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken on Monday called the findings 'highly, highly credible.'" (And yet, screw the Yids - jjs)
"UNRWA Is a Front for Hamas," Israel Says. Read the Full Intelligence Dossier.
"A film screened Tuesday in Washington, D.C. for a select audience showed the savagery of Hamas and the human cost of war."
Footage of Hamas Attack Shows Brutality of War
"The bill passed the lower chamber in a 422-2 vote, with Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill) voting present and six members not voting." (Well, at least they're consistent, unlike the rest of their party who know they face a shellacking because of the official Jew-hatred of the party platform - jjs)
Criminal Degenerate Anti-American Scum Tlaib and Bush Vote "No" on Bill Banning Hamas Terrorists from US
“Maybe Chicago city council and mayor think they’ll have better results in Gaza than calling for a ceasefire on the violent streets of Chicago,” retired Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke posted on X. “Both will be ignored however. These people are dopes. @IDF #StandWithIsrael”
Chicago Dope: Chicago Roasted On Social Media For Passing Resolution Supporting Gaza Ceasefire
"Allowing Iran to arrive at the cusp of atomic weapons status recklessly risks our future as a free and prosperous society."
Can America Survive Israel’s Nuclear Destruction?
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Scott McKay: "Her latest comments make obvious she’s anti-American."
Enough Is Enough: No Mo Bro-Fo Omar
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"Dwayne Booth in one sketch drew Nazi flag with Star of David shown in place of swastika." (Won't a group of concerned Jews have a "chat" with this guy? At midnight. When no one's looking - jjs)
Penn Lecturer is Behind Grotesque Anti-Semitic Cartoons
"It’s not a myth, but it’s been exaggerated," Penslar, a professor of Jewish history, told the Boston Globe in an interview before his appointment. He said that while some Jewish students had been "shunned" from "progressive political communities" on campus, that did not amount to "vicious antisemitism." Hey, no campus gas chambers yet!
Harvard’s Embattled Anti-Semitism Chairman Goes Mute (That job title has two very different meanings - jjs)

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"Michael Cassidy was initially charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief on December 15, but the Polk County Attorney’s Office indicated that the Mississippi man’s admission that he 'destroyed the property because of the victim’s [the Satanic Temple] religion' prompted the charges to be upgraded to 'third-degree criminal mischief in violation of individual rights, a class D felony.'”
Hate Crime: Christian Navy Veteran Charged for Tearing Down Satan Statue in Iowa Capital
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS, BRAIN DAMAGE
"I would like nothing better right now than to be left alone by Joe Biden, and I'm not even a 12-year-old girl with nice hair. Thankfully, Twitter/X had as much fun with Biden's banality as they did with Elmo's. . . . 'One puppet endorsing another puppet,' quipped Tim Young. Another said, 'Like 4 wars going on and this dude quote tweeting Elmo.'"
Joe Biden Just Entered the Presidential Quotes Hall of Fame. Really.
Deroy Murdock: "The man who promised to unite America divides it yet again." (He united America . . . in a wood chipper - jjs)
Saturday Night Lies: Biden Screams Hoax About Trump and Fallen Vets
"Biden's intended empathy toward the parents of the dead troops did not connect because his son Beau did not die in combat, as Joe Biden often implies. Until his battle with brain cancer."
Joe Biden and Sons
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"Just when you thought 2024 couldn't possibly get any weirder — yes, I know it's still only January — a secret Barack Obama memo could prove the undoing of special counsel Jack Smith's case against Donald Trump. . . If America First's analysis is correct, Trump is on sound legal footing on possession of whatever documents he kept at Mar-A-Lago, and whatever he may have destroyed could have been just copies of what is still on the PITC systems authorized by none other than Barack Obama. Somewhere in an 8,500-square-foot home in Washington's tony Kalorama neighborhood, a former president must be seething."
Did Obama Just Get Trump Off the Hook?
"Terrence Bradley, Wade’s former partner, and Christopher Campbell, his current partner, have collectively contributed more than $5,000 to Willis’ campaign, contribution disclosure reports show. Moreover, both men have each raked in tens of thousands of dollars from contracts with the district attorney’s office, according to county records."
Quim Pro Whoa!: Business Partners of Fani Willis’ Alleged Lover Bankrolled Her Campaign. She Gave Them Lucrative Contracts.
OHIO DERAILMENT, TOXIC CHEMICAL DISASTER
Don Trump Jr.: “Biden didn’t show up for the patriots of East Palestine when they actually needed him. It’s disgusting that he’s showing his face a whole year later just to get a photo op for his presidential campaign!!!” (Biden called for a ceasefire and two-state solution - jjs)
East Palestine Business Owner: Joe Biden Only Visiting "Because It’s an Election Year"
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Our youth are being radicalized." (Meh, the Chi-Coms are no doubt big players now, but they're relatively late to the game - jjs)
Connecting China’s CCP to American Socialists, Communists, and Anti-Semitism
"If you watch the video in its entirety, you will come away with the unshakable impression that what you just watched was much more like a kindergarten field trip to New York from some suburb like Hoboken than a march of dangerous insurrectionists on the verge of capturing an American city and running a genocide against Persons of Color™ or whatever the implication is meant to be."
WATCH: FBI/DOJ Phony "Patriot Front"Masked Militia Hits New York for Day Trip
"You’re a moron. I’m sorry. There’s no other way to put it. If you ever see this woman, never compliment her. You got it?! Bigots?!"
Didn't You Know?! Whites Complimenting Blacks at the Work Place is Now a Racist "Microaggression"
"Other proposals were nearly just as controversial, such as separate schools for black children (which would, ironically, create a new Jim Crow system in California)."
California Introduces Reparations Bills, with No Cash
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“You’re here testifying to us in public that there’s no link. You’ve been doing this for years. For years, you’ve been coming in public and testifying under oath that there’s absolutely no link, your product is wonderful, the science is nascent, full speed ahead. While internally, you know full well your product is a disaster for teenagers,” Hawley countered, which elicited a round of applause from viewers.
Sen. Hawley Humiliates Mark Zuckerberg For Lying About How Big Tech Hurts Kids
"What the hell were you thinking?" (Unless Zuckerberg is charged with crimes and sent to prison, this is all kabuki theatrics - jjs)
Ted Cruz Confronts Mark Zuckerberg on Instagram Reportedly "Helping Pedophiles"
Meanwhile, this evil creep among others censors anything even remotely to the right of Trotsky as "harmful" or "disinformation." - jjs
Zuckerberg Says It's "Helpful" to Give Pervs the Option to Look Up Child Abuse on Instagram
Christian Toto: "Platform produces 20-min doc on campus antisemitism, free speech hypocrisy."
Bari Weiss’ Free Press Goes Hollywood

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Sens. John Kennedy (R-LA) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced legislation to ban the TSA from using facial recognition technology this past November. “It’s astonishing that the TSA is expanding its invasive facial recognition program in the face of congressional concern,” Sen. Kennedy said, addressing the expanded use of the CAT-2 scanners.
TSA Plans Expansion of Facial Recognition to Over 400 Airports
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Equally troubling, 1/4 of voters say they have zero savings for an emergency."
Economic Shock: 2/3 of Voters Live "Paycheck to Paycheck" Under Biden: I&I/TIPP Poll
"Elephant seal pup population in Venezuela wiped out, first penguin infections reported, and two people seriously infected by H5N1 in Cambodia. Research indicates the virus has mutated to target the brains of mammals."
Northern California Poultry Industry Slammed Hard by Avian Flu Outbreak
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
"Reports filed by the AP, Reuters, CNBC and other legacy media sites warned that a win by Exxon in the lawsuit could have a 'chilling effect' on the bringing of other climate alarm and ESG-related initiatives in the future." (Inshalla! - jjs)
ExxonMobil Just Set the Climate Alarm Lobby on Fire Again
"Podesta, who maintained ties with a Chinese government influence operative for more than a decade, has wielded significant influence within the Democrat Party apparatus since the Clinton administration."
You’ll Never Guess Who Biden Just Picked To Replace John Kerry as Top Climate Flim-Flam Man
"When you boil it down, they essentially just want us – or the vast majority of us – dead. How's that for a spoiler?"
And Now, "Ecocide"
"Is the UN fighting 'the tyranny of poverty' or feeding the 'tyranny of greed?'"
Agenda 2030 and the Path Toward World Government
"Procuring 90+ percent of global energy from wind and solar energy is a fool’s errand."
The Delusions of Davos and Dubai – Part Two: Can Wind and Solar Energy Expand 50-100 Times?
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Michael Luhm, a former Toy Story and Simpsons animator who ran the store with his father, warned before Christmas that the business was doomed unless the Democrat-controlled city changed course. “We’re putting our money in, we’re putting our hard work in, and we’re putting our love into it. But, in the relationship we have with the city, that’s not being returned,” Luhn lamented.
Toy Story Origin Store in San Fran Closes After 86 Years Citing "Perils and Violence"
SECOND AMENDMENT
The rule, proposed by the DOJ and ATF at the behest of Biden’s gun control wish list issued in March 2023, seeks to change the definition of “who is engaged in the business of dealing in firearms” to increase the number of Americans required to become FFLs, a lengthy and far from “easy” process, that must conduct background checks to sell their guns. The ATF and DOJ credits Democrats’ 2022 gun control bill, which passed because more than a dozen Republican senators agreed to betray their base." (Destroy the GOPe! - jjs)
DOJ, ATF Pressed Over Secret Plans for Unconstitutional Regulation of Private Gun Sales
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"The teachers' unions and other naysayers are thankfully losing their grip on zip code-mandated education."
School Choice Keeps Spreading
Short version: White and Asian (non-Pacific Islander) students cannot apply for the Meares scholarship unless they are “LGBTQI+”. So your straight White or Asian student whose “gender identity” aligns with their biological sex cannot apply.
Southern Illinois U Med School Scholarship Discriminating Against Non-LGBTQI+ White and Asian Students Challenged By Equal Protection Project
"Robert Zimmerman: "The bankrupt nature of Charleston’s work, as well as the Harvard slavery study that somehow demanded perfection from past white Americans, illustrates the low educational standards that now exist at this so-called “elite” Ivy League university. No wonder big money donors are beginning to flee."
Shoddy Harvard — Home of Plagiarism and Bigotry — Loses Another Big Donor
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Facebook, with the encouragement of intel agencies, engaged in plenty of election interference in 2020."
"A Starting Point": Meta Oversight Board Member Says 2020 Election Interference Was "Not Enough"
"‘It does appear the municipal citation was retaliatory due to the Wisconsin Elections [Commission] complaint that was filed,’ the judge said."
Judge Throws Out Green Bay’s "Retaliatory" Disorderly Conduct Citation Against Election Observer
"Primarily Democrat lawmakers are trying to force their states to join the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC)."
If ERIC’s Voter Roll "Maintenance" is So Popular, Why Do Democrats Feel a Need to Force States to Join?
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
On the steps of the Capitol, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) said, “She doesn’t even support the police. But the idea to pay her thug money to try to help protect her for? What if she wouldn’t be so loud all the time maybe she wouldn’t be getting threats.”
Criminal, Racialist, Jew-Hating, Sub-Literate Shit-Whore Cori Bush: GOP Rep’s Attack on Me Was "Racist and Sexist Tropes" (In other words, you're guilty as sin - jjs)
POLITICS
What about the rumors of replacing Joe Biden with Michelle Obama? Well, interestingly enough, Kraiger told O’Keefe that he had a meeting with Michelle Obama and someone asked her if she’d run for office. According to Kraiger, she said no. "Empathically.” "She was like, ‘I've seen all this shit my husband has had to go through and that does not interest me.’" (Exactly my prediction about Big Mikey Forearms! - jjs)
New James O’Keefe Undercover Video Exposes Dysfunctional Biden White House
“We’re on the move with a fifty-state strategy, establishing the Justice for All Party as a platform to gain access to the ballot in those states where it’s easier to gain access as a party, as opposed to independent,” West wrote in the press release. “This initiative is a strategic and community-driven effort to extend our reach and impact across the nation.” (Anything that cleaves voters from Biden is good news - jjs)
Cornel West Forms New Party For His Third-Party Presidential Run
"Polls indicate that concerns about the 81-year-old Biden’s advanced age, his handling of inflation, increasing global instability, and the ongoing border crisis are fueling voter uncertainty toward his re-election."
Biden SuperPAC Makes Largest Ad Purchase in U.S. History to Target Battleground States
"I'm sure the Democrats have a secret plan."
Andrew "Out the Ying" Yang Delivers Scathing Review of Biden Polls
"When it comes to traditional American freedoms, Donald Trump’s sole remaining competitor for the GOP nomination has little to recommend her."
"Tricky" Nikki Haley, Authoritarian-in-Waiting
"It remains crucial that politicians be put on the record to hold them accountable for their use of the public trust."
20 Questions To Ask Republican Candidates In Your State
"They painted a picture of a campaign that was micromanaged yet lacked direction, put its faith in the wrong soldiers to carry out the orders of an awkward leader and misjudged its place in the political media ecosystem."
Leaks, Loyalists and One Big Loss: Insiders Describe What Doomed DeSantis From the Start
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
“'It really is disgusting,' Rep. Eli Crane told TAC. 'That money would have gone a long way here at home to provide for the American people.'”
Ukrainian Double-Dealing Made Clear as U.S. Considers Billions More in Aid
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
"The Iranian-backed terrorists responsible for murdering three U.S. soldiers, and injuring dozens more, in an attack over the weekend have started to evacuate their bases after [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s [junta] leaked to the media this week that they are gearing up to respond by carrying out a sustained bombing campaign." (They intentionally tipped them off. Treason . . . yet again - jjs)
Terror Groups Evacuate Their Positions After Biden Junta Tips Them Off to Their Plans
"The incident comes after three U.S. soldiers were murdered, and nearly three dozen more were injured, in a suicide drone attack on a U.S. Military base in Jordan on Sunday. Biden has said that he intends to respond to the deadly attacks over the weekend but no military response has happened yet."
Houthi Terrorist Missile Came Within Few Seconds Of Hitting U.S. Warship: Report
“This is the purpose: protection of the ships,” Borrell told reporters in Brussels. “Intercepting of the attacks against the ships. Not participating in any kind of action against the Houthis. Only blocking the attacks of the Houthis.”
European Union To Launch Full Naval Mission To Red Sea

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"No one knows whether Kim Jong Un is planning a limited military action or a full-blown war. But we are sure weakness invites aggression."
All Signs Indicate North Korea is Preparing for War
". . . driven overwhelmingly by mass migration."
UK Population Forecasted to Surge to Near 75 Million by 2036
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“The risk that poses to every American requires our attention — now,” Wray’s remarks continue. (But, but, but "white supremacists!!!" - jjs)
FBI Director Christopher Wray: Chinese Hackers are "Targeting Our Critical Infrastructure"
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"The latest nuttery from one of the commissars of California matters not just to the Golden State, but to the other 49."
California is About to Make Us All Drive So Slowly We Won’t Want to Drive at All
"New Jersey’s child welfare system has emerged from a federal consent decree, but are children any safer?"
See No Harm
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Starting [today], the government will begin negotiations on 10 drugs covered by Medicare this week. But those new prices won’t go into effect until 2026."
Drugmakers Hike Prices on Hundreds of Brand-Name Drugs
"The Biden [junta] threw increasingly larger amounts of money at Obamacare subsidies so they could trumpet ‘enrollment increases.’"
Obamacare Enrollment is Only "Growing" Because Democrats Expanded the Welfare State
Heidi Klessig, M.D.: "You are not your brain, and brain death does not equal death.'
We Are Not Our Brains
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The U.S. faces a crisis of ingenuity—but some straightforward policy changes can help turn things around." (Like abolishing the EPA immediately and then OSHA, the FTC, the FDA, and every other bureaucracy shortly thereafter - jjs)
Restore American Innovation
"SpaceX now has deals to launch two different space stations using Starship."
Voyager signs SpaceX’s Starship to launch its Starlab space station
"The supposed test-to-tank failure of a rocket tank being tested by the Chinese pseudo-company Landspace on January 29, 2024 apparently injured three workers, though officials also claimed everything worked as planned."
Tank explosion in Shanghai injured three
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
“A driver license is an identification document and, as such, serves a critical role in assisting public and private entities in correctly establishing the identity of a person presenting the license.”
Florida Will No Longer Allow Transgender Psychos to Change the Sex on Their Driver’s License
"If a judge has declared me a woman, what does an army lawyer have to say about it?"
Spanish Soldier Who Identifies as a Woman But Will Keep Male Appearance Upset After Being Prevented From Using Female Changing Rooms
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?” Elmo asked in a Monday X/Twitter post. The Sesame Street Muppet received thousands of replies from distressed social media users, many of whom lamented over the economy and inflation in Joe Biden’s America.
Elmo’s Viral Wellness Check Uncovers Mass Dread and Despair Among Americans, and Many Blame Biden
"Score one more for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) in the legal skirmishes against Disney. U.S. District Judge Allen Winsor issued an order on Wednesday dismissing Disney's federal suit against DeSantis, Florida's Secretary of Commerce J. Alex Kelly, and the members of the board of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD), which replaced the Disney-run Reedy Creek Improvement District (RCID)."
Judge Rules on Disney's Federal Suit Against DeSantis
The Holdfast Collective’s funneling money to Democratic political causes appears at odds with Chouinard’s pledge to use company profits for environmental causes. “I personally fail to see the connection between spending money on abortion and climate change,” Sutherland noted. (Overpriced crap and repulsively leftist for years. And they've probably been using slave labor - jjs)
Patagonia Is Spending MILLIONS of Firm Profits on Far-Left Causes
"Given the level of destruction, I doubt it was an act of vandalism or a prank. This raises the question of why someone would be motivated to do such a thing. And when did so many people decide to go nuts, and why?" (If only they targeted Spike Lee in his Dodgers attire - jjs)
Jackie Robinson Statue Found Destroyed and Burned
"The latest Biden strategy?"
Watson Video: The Unholy Taylor Swift-Democrat Alliance
HITHER & YON
"The sale still needs to be approved by Major League Baseball. Owners will be meeting in Orlando, Florida next week."
Baltimore Orioles Being Sold in Bombshell $1.725 Billion Deal to 2 Private Equity Billionaires: REPORT

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1 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2024 07:47 AM (Wk5E/)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 07:47 AM (ENQN6)

3 Not the bridesmaid today

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2024 07:47 AM (Wk5E/)

4 3 Not the bridesmaid today
Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2024 07:47 AM (Wk5E/)

Porno title "Bridesmaid Refisted"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 07:48 AM (x0n13)

5 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at February 01, 2024 07:51 AM (ju2Fy)

6 "If that man wins, goose-stepping, Trump-heiling death squads will come and git you!" shrieks the lefty who agrees with Hillary about putting conservatives in reeducation camps.

Posted by: Lavoine and Shoily at February 01, 2024 07:52 AM (I4dEw)

7 Good morning horde!

...the four word editorial "Thou shalt have open borders."

Wow, math really isn't allowed here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 07:53 AM (uvymP)

8 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 07:53 AM (Q4IgG)

9 I could have been first but I was brushing my toes.

Posted by: fd at February 01, 2024 07:54 AM (vFG9F)

10 Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the creation of a Palestinian state would implant "an enclave for global terrorism" in Israel’s backyard

Now do 11 million illegals in 3 years in our towns and cities.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 07:54 AM (ENQN6)

11
Baltimore Orioles Being Sold in Bombshell $1.725 Billion Deal to 2 Private Equity Billionaires: REPORT

Can you imagine a baseball team with a McKinsey MBA as a manager? Teams would be fielding six guys and there'd be one pitcher for all 185 games.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2024 07:55 AM (MoZTd)

12 “Political and policy disagreements aren’t impeachable offenses,” former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Funny, I don't recall this asshoe saying this when Trump was being impeached because some bureaucrat didn't like what they believed to be the content of a phone conversation with a foreign head of state.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 07:55 AM (uvymP)

13 Good morning!

Copying from Tech thread for Warai-otoko:
A “Color Revolution” in this context refers to a specific type of coordinated attack that the United States government has been known to deploy against foreign regimes, particularly in Eastern Europe deemed to be “authoritarian” and hostile to American interests. Rather than using a direct military intervention to effect regime change as in Iraq, Color Revolutions attack a foreign regime by contesting its electoral legitimacy, organizing mass protests and acts of civil disobedience, and leveraging media contacts to ensure favorable coverage to their agenda in the Western press.

This combination of tactics used in so-called Color Revolutions did not come from nowhere. Before Norm Eisen came Gene Sharp—originator and Godfather of the Color Revolution model that has been a staple of US Government operations externally (and now internally) for decades. Before Norm Eisen’s “Playbook” there was Gene Sharp’s classic “From Dictatorship to Democracy,” which might be justly described as the Bible of the Color Revolution. . . . http://tinyurl.com/3h4k2cyx

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 07:55 AM (RXyKO)

14 ... it's full of content!

Posted by: Astronaut torabora at February 01, 2024 07:56 AM (FSdPf)

15 The latest Biden strategy?"
Watson Video: The Unholy Taylor Swift-Democrat Alliance

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Watch the video. Interestingly, the people pushing that Taylor will indeed push Biden over the line in five or six crucial cities are attempting to re-establish "streaming reach" and "social media".

But Shapiro has JUST shown that those numbers don't translate to real people.

willowed:

“Our video has over a million more views than hers in the same time frame. Our video also has over 30,000 more comments in the same time frame,” explained MacDonald. “How is Megan Thee Stallion still number one? Because the industry wants you to listen to manufactured bulls*** and they don’t want you listening to ‘controversial music.’ That’s the music industry.”

http://tinyurl.com/yvd7ges4

The #1 song but I bet they're not "also recommended" on the streaming rap channels because humans program those channels.

This is part of how they intend to justify the cheat using Swift.

Remember, TayTay has 272M social media followers, and they only need 15K or so votes in those cities. Doesn't matter if they're real.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 07:57 AM (AIJ3L)

16
To hell with Groundhog Day and that bullshit. This is February, the last month of meteorological winter.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 01, 2024 07:57 AM (nIvob)

17 Propaganda Press objectng to Mayorkas impeachment claim this fight is over "policy differences" between Republicans and the Junta.

That stupidity ignores the real dispute, which is Congress legislates and the Executive Branch administers law while, in this case, Mayorkas has ignored immigration law, broken laws where he can't ignore them, and created his own law. His maladministration is absolutely impeachable, and the WSJ can GFY.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 07:57 AM (4dFVt)

18
Other proposals were nearly just as controversial, such as separate schools for black children (which would, ironically, create a new Jim Crow system in California).

How many white parents are hoping for exactly this?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2024 07:58 AM (MoZTd)

19 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 01, 2024 07:58 AM (T4tVD)

20 "Getting rid of Mayorkas is the equivalent of getting rid of Eichmann, while Himmler, Hitler and the entire SS remain in place."

Bravo, JJ, and spot-on, too!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 01, 2024 07:58 AM (WsTvr)

21 Dem Gov Says Deporting Migrants Who Allegedly Beat Police Officers Should Be On The Table: REPORT

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That'll fix them! It's not like they're going to turn around and walk right back in our completely open border or anything...

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 01, 2024 07:59 AM (mupln)

22 >>Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the creation of a Palestinian state would implant "an enclave for global terrorism" in Israel’s backyard

Now do 11 million illegals in 3 years in our towns and cities.

Hell, look at what the Palestinian protesters have been doing the past few months - shutting down, bridges, tunnels, airports; storming the WH, the Capitol, and Senate office building. . .?

Think they're just going to settle down and assimilate, embrace the American Dream, Sen. Cotton? How about Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar, both have openly said that they are in Congress to represent their respective homelands - not the US citizens of their Congressional district, not America's interests.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 07:59 AM (RXyKO)

23 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at February 01, 2024 08:01 AM (NBVIP)

24 G'morning, all.

Because i'm kinda slow, I just noticed Jane's comment on the main page sidebar about her life, and hopefully returning to the horde soon.

I miss her here.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 01, 2024 08:01 AM (a1415)

25 WHO says there will be a rise in cancer in the next two decades

Posted by: SMOD at February 01, 2024 08:01 AM (UOsdv)

26 So... my thoughts on the "color revolution" having something to so with the colors on the country's flag may be off.

But, what about the proposed change to the Minnesota state flag? It's certainly arguable that place has undergone a type of "color revolution."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 08:01 AM (Q4IgG)

27 In other words, the president would rather we buy oil from terrorists, who will use the money to attack America and its allies, than increase domestic oil production and risk upsetting his party’s feral climate wing. He also lifted sanctions on the communists in Venezuela.

My guess is 25 to 30% of (D) voters have no issues with the diseases, violence, crime, and destruction brought in by millions of illegals.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:01 AM (ENQN6)

28 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 08:02 AM (TuRLx)

29 Watson Video: The Unholy Taylor Swift-Democrat Alliance

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hahaha, even he makes reference to it at the end of the video clip.

"We'll just have to wait until 4am when all those Swifty ballots drop."

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:02 AM (AIJ3L)

30 >European Union To Launch Full Naval Mission To Red Sea

the EU has a navy?

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:03 AM (geLO8)

31
My guess is 25 to 30% of (D) voters ~~have no issues~~ are delighted with the diseases, violence, crime, and destruction brought in by millions of illegals.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:01 AM (ENQN6)

Fix'd

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2024 08:03 AM (MoZTd)

32 “This is the purpose: protection of the ships,” Borrell told reporters in Brussels. “Intercepting of the attacks against the ships. Not participating in any kind of action against the Houthis. Only blocking the attacks of the Houthis.”
European Union To Launch Full Naval Mission To Red Sea
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You'll have to stop their attacks 100% of the time. All it will take to run you off is for one missile to slip through and damage one of your precious ships. Then you'll turn around and run back to the EU with your tail between your legs.

The best defense is a dead opponent.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 01, 2024 08:04 AM (7fElN)

33 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 01, 2024 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

34 >>Dem Gov Says Deporting Migrants Who Allegedly Beat Police Officers Should Be On The Table: REPORT

How is it not already "on the table" -- just follow the freakin' laws on the books!!! You don't have to DO anything legislatively to fix this, just stop letting them in *and* deport if they are already here.

Dem. governors who have stood by as their constituents are beaten, raped, robbed, killed by these people now acting as if some red line has been crossed because this time it was two cops are really just too much -- especially after 3+ years of "Defund the police" from your party and activist pals.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 08:04 AM (RXyKO)

35 The Junta foreign policy has a theme, "desperation". Their Iran plan is desperate, their Palestinian plan is desperate, Ukraine...desperate, China is desperate. Even Mexico and our southern border is totally desperate.

Despite total failure in every single forum you can think, which is amazing when you consider how rare it is for a group of leaders to fail EVERYWHERE and all at once.... anyway, they maintain policies out of either ideological adherence or because they think Dear Leader and Obama couldn't possibly be this wrong. "Desperate", they are. and if WW3 has to happen because of their desperation, why that's probably Trump's fault.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:05 AM (0bpPp)

36 “This is the purpose: protection of the ships,” Borrell told reporters in Brussels. “Intercepting of the attacks against the ships. Not participating in any kind of action against the Houthis. Only blocking the attacks of the Houthis.”
European Union To Launch Full Naval Mission To Red Sea

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It's kind of neat how this ties into the "separate schools for black children please"

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:05 AM (AIJ3L)

37
the EU has a navy?
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:03 AM (geLO

Two dinghies and a kayak

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2024 08:05 AM (MoZTd)

38 Reports that the Biden [junta] is considering recognizing a Palestinian state—upending decades of U.S. policy—are generating intense criticism from Republican lawmakers who say the timing of these leaks marks a stunning betrayal of Israel as it fights to eradicate Hamas terrorists."

The two-state policy has been championed by Foggy Bottom forever. It's a religious tenet for the American "diplomatic" corp. The fact that it would not only never be successful but would be disastrous while they were trying to implement it makes it, in their minds, very nearly the perfect foreign policy idea.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 08:05 AM (uvymP)

39 Charting the CIA Jihad Against Trump

G.H.W. Bush was a former head of the CIA. Just reminding people.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 08:06 AM (uvymP)

40 With narrowed eyes, a foggy mind, and his guard down, he answered questions about the immigration disaster. And, for once, perhaps the first and last time, he told the truth:

“I’ve done all I can do.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:07 AM (ENQN6)

41 the EU has a navy?
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:03 AM (geLO

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Why yes, the USN

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:07 AM (0bpPp)

42 25 WHO says there will be a rise in cancer in the next two decades
Posted by: SMOD at February 01, 2024 08:01 AM (UOsdv)

They should know. They're cancer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 08:07 AM (x0n13)

43 Report: Chicago City-Sponsored Migrant Shelters Filled with Rats, Rotting Food, Garbage

It called the 3rd world for a reason.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:07 AM (ENQN6)

44 Imma bookmark this page (and the one from the other night saying "You're crazy, Taylor Swift concerts are always full!!!") to revisit after the election.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:08 AM (AIJ3L)

45 While many many anti-American, anti-Constitution current and past government officials deserve charges of sedition and treason, you impeach/indict the ones you can. There is no current way to indict Mayorkas so you impeach him. Yes, he is only a rat bastard cog in a much larger Destroy America Marxist machine.
The real fun will be when you indict scores of officials later--IF you win the WH and control(in theory) the DOJ and US Attorneys.

Posted by: Voter theater. at February 01, 2024 08:08 AM (xyzFf)

46 >>WHO says there will be a rise in cancer in the next two decades

Ah, guess we know what's in the vaccines then. . .

I am recalling how Gats, Fauci kept telling us "a big ~~plandemic~~ pandemic is coming, you guys!" and then the man-made Wuhan virus hit.
Hard not to be a conspiracy nut in 2024, you guyz. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 08:08 AM (RXyKO)

47 Can you imagine a baseball team with a McKinsey MBA as a manager? Teams would be fielding six guys and there'd be one pitcher for all 185 games.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2024 07:55 AM (MoZTd)

Hello Peter, what's happening? Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and pitch all nine innings tomorrow. So if you could be here around 7pm that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and pitch all nine innings on Sunday too, kay. We ahh lost some people this week and ah, we sorta need to play catch up.

Posted by: Manager Lumbergh at February 01, 2024 08:08 AM (4I/2K)

48
Why yes, the USN
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:07 AM (0bpPp)

"We will wait for the tanks and the Americans." - General Philippe Pétain, 1917

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2024 08:09 AM (MoZTd)

49 The Wall Street Journal…. Sigh. In the Reagan years their editorial page was outstanding. Now the two “best” writers there are Kimberly Strassel and William Galston, two supposed conservatives. I just recently decided I can’t stand reading either one anymore…. They’re stuck in 2002 and both have terminal cases of TDS, which they try to disguise but not successfully. They’re both now a waste of time…. Especially sad with Strassel because I used to have some respect for her work

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:09 AM (1jdMT)

50 >> “This is the purpose: protection of the ships,” ...
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It was reported yesterday that one of our guided missile destroyers was nearly hit by a Houthi anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM). The ship's Phalanx auto-gun dropped the missile less than 2 miles from the ship. Previous intercepts were at 8+ miles.

There's a debate going on about why this particular engagement was close.

It's also the first recorded interception of a cruise missile by the Phalanx gun system (that wasn't a test.)

And lastly, it doesn't bode well for the surface ships that are using up their anti-air missiles. Once the magazines are empty they're sitting ducks until re-armed. Which means they'll have to return to port... somewhere.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 08:10 AM (Q4IgG)

51 You'll have to stop their attacks 100% of the time. All it will take to run you off is for one missile to slip through and damage one of your precious ships. Then you'll turn around and run back to the EU with your tail between your legs.

The best defense is a dead opponent.

Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 01, 2024 08:04 AM (7fElN)

Absolutely - he wants to let the Houthi sit there and freely lob missiles at everything. if they get lucky a single time, they win. If Borrel's forces fail a single time out of 100, they lose, because shipping will have to be diverted which is the Houthi goal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:11 AM (S6gqv)

52 >>Can you imagine a baseball team with a McKinsey MBA as a manager? Teams would be fielding six guys and there'd be one pitcher for all 185 games.

. . . and half the team's budget would be going to McKinsey to pay for all of this smug ivy league MBA advice!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 08:11 AM (RXyKO)

53 Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?

Posted by: Elmo at February 01, 2024 08:12 AM (vFG9F)

54 Linus, I often like reading Bill McGurn too. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't read JJS's morning editorials with an approving smile and then tosses in a comment or two here.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:12 AM (0bpPp)

55 How does a rag-tag bunch of goat-pounders get cruise missiles?

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:12 AM (geLO8)

56 30 >European Union To Launch Full Naval Mission To Red Sea

the EU has a navy?
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:03 AM (geLO

technically yes; but I've seen bigger boats and more firepower at the start of Texas duck season.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:13 AM (S6gqv)

57 Two sources in communication with Empower Oversight confirmed the ATF is prepared to move forward with a rule that would classify a closed-door gun sale between friends or family members the same as firearm purchases made from FFLs.

Then I want to be able to buy from the factory at factory prices and have it shipped to my door.

Treat me as an FFL, you'd best give me the benefits of an FFL.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 08:13 AM (TuRLx)

58 ... as well as the ramping up of the Patriot Act used, not to protect us from the Islamic jihadists that Bush allowed in ...

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TBF, Shrub did get the entire Bin Laden family out of the country first while all other air traffic was grounded for days.

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 08:14 AM (WlJra)

59 Good morning fine people. Daughter got an alert on her phone last night from the college she teaches at. The Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine is doing a protest on campus today. I told her to call in sick.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 01, 2024 08:14 AM (SfhV1)

60 Chertoff is also the same jagoff who took out a big stake in an upstart airport body scanner manufacturer, then used his position as Homeland secretary to mandate all airports buy his scanner.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2024 08:15 AM (xVkS/)

61 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

FROZEN !

Posted by: JT at February 01, 2024 08:15 AM (T4tVD)

62 With narrowed eyes, a foggy mind, and his guard down, he answered questions about the immigration disaster. And, for once, perhaps the first and last time, he told the truth:

“I’ve done all I can do.”
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:07 AM (ENQN6)
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mic drop comment.

Let's see what Mophead can do to explain this one...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:15 AM (0bpPp)

63 H1N1? I thought Measels was going to be the thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson work phone at February 01, 2024 08:15 AM (1f506)

64 Mornin', All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 08:15 AM (9yWhg)

65 We know people who know people.

Posted by: International Brotherhood of Goat Pounders local #403 at February 01, 2024 08:16 AM (NBVIP)

66 Michael Chertoff.

"Chert" means "devil" in Russian.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 08:16 AM (9yWhg)

67 >>"Given the level of destruction, I doubt it was an act of vandalism or a prank. This raises the question of why someone would be motivated to do such a thing. And when did so many people decide to go nuts, and why?"

I'm sorry, did the writer of this piece sleep through the last 6+ years of violent statue toppling, smashing, and burning down (Lee statue in VA)?! Add to that the various church statues beheaded, topples, and churches burned down across the Western world over the last decade.

Really, NOW you're shocked?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 08:18 AM (RXyKO)

68 "Cherty-chert."

Until Biden, and in similar ways The One, W was the worst president ever to slither across the Oval Office.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 01, 2024 08:19 AM (KSNKu)

69 Other proposals were nearly just as controversial, such as separate schools for black children (which would, ironically, create a new Jim Crow system in California).

How many white parents are hoping for exactly this?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 01, 2024 07:58 AM (MoZTd)

the Babylon Bee is no longer satire, it now simply foretells the future. From late last year:

http://tinyurl.com/3ctzrjnd

"KKK Disbands As Progressive Left Accomplishing All Their Goals" (note the photo)
"Following the disbandment meeting, the former members excitedly showed their support for the new face of racism and hate by donating to Ilhan Omar's campaign."

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:20 AM (S6gqv)

70 @34 - Lizzy

If this is referring to the incident that I posted a link to the video of, yesterday early evening...
Allegedly?
Mmm-kay

Posted by: TeeJ at February 01, 2024 08:20 AM (ix5nG)

71 >>WHO says there will be a rise in cancer in the next two decades

Ah, guess we know what's in the vaccines then. . .
I am recalling how Gats, Fauci kept telling us "a big plandemic pandemic is coming, you guys!" and then the man-made Wuhan virus hit.
Hard not to be a conspiracy nut in 2024, you guyz. . .
Posted by: Lizzy

Interesting that there's a control group. Which will, once these are finally publicly admitted, be pressured then required to get the jab a la Harrison Bergeron.

Posted by: Oedipus at February 01, 2024 08:21 AM (PNdCh)

72 "Reports that the Biden [junta] is considering recognizing a Palestinian state—upending decades of U.S. policy—are generating intense criticism from Republican lawmakers who say the timing of these leaks marks a stunning betrayal of Israel as it fights to eradicate Hamas terrorists."

Yesterday's Tom Friedman NYT column is titled, "A Biden Doctrine for the Middle East Is Forming. And It’s Big."

I don't have a NYT subscription but here is some of what I was able to see -

"A Biden Doctrine — as I’m terming the convergence of strategic thinking and planning that my reporting has picked up — would have three tracks.

"On one track would be a strong and resolute stand on Iran, including a robust military retaliation against Iran’s proxies and agents in the region in response to the killing of three U.S. soldiers at a base in Jordan by a drone apparently launched by a pro-Iranian militia in Iraq.

"On the second track would be an unprecedented U.S. diplomatic initiative to promote a Palestinian state — NOW.

"On the third track would be a vastly expanded U.S. security alliance with Saudi Arabia, which would also involve Saudi normalization of relations with Israel."

Ugh.

Posted by: Gref at February 01, 2024 08:21 AM (5fDan)

73 Despite the criticism within his party, Johnson has touted the bill, calling it “important bipartisan legislation to revive conservative pro-growth tax reform.”
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You can always tell a GOPe Congress is legislating when "tax reform" to benefit large companies and Democrat donors is the first policy item they babble about.

This Speaker is yet another disappointment.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:22 AM (0bpPp)

74 the EU has a navy?
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:03 AM (geLO

technically yes; but I've seen bigger boats and more firepower at the start of Texas duck season.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:13 AM (S6gqv)

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

* snort *

I'm old enough to remember U.S. Army Spc. Michael New -- a 22-year-old Army Medic from Texas -- being court marshaled by the Bubba administration in '95 for refusing to follow an order to wear the U.N. Blue Beret and place United Nations insignia over his American uniform.

Good times, good times ... NOT! One could see the active destruction of the country by the Left even back then (and when I first started researching possibly becoming an ex-pat; not I'm too old to pick up and leave, and look forward to the coming Civil War).

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 08:22 AM (WlJra)

75 I don't see the immediate upside for Taylor Swift going political, on the face of it - she doesn't need to pander to entertainment industry fascists like most celebrities have to. She's beyond their power, and it only serves to create ill-will among at least some portion of her fanbase.

But, there's another wrinkle. She's the biggest star ever, at this point. There is really nothing more for her to achieve... In her arena. If she left now, she'd leave as the unquestioned GOAT.

What if she's setting the table for her own political career? She's 34. She can run for President next cycle. And she would win, no doubt. Maybe this isn't about getting votes for Joe Biden, but for Taylor Swift.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2024 08:23 AM (0FoWg)

76 Occasionally tv nooz has happy nooz - showing a feature about NFL player Tobias Dorzon who became a chef

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 01, 2024 08:23 AM (L4her)

77 Copying from Tech thread for Warai-otoko:

Can't decide if we are in a color revolution or a bottom-up/ top down revolution.

Where government agents foment civil unrest to such an extent that the people demand the government "do something" to quell the unrest. Then the government clamps down with a top-down authoritarian takeover.

It would be like agents of the EU instigating the farmer protests, and people in Europe demanding the government stop the farmer protests. Then government steps in by nationalizing the farms, and confiscating land.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (xVkS/)

78 Believe me I don't want Mooch to run but think if she did it will be Power of Woman and all and that snowball will roll downhill until it's as big as a house.

Posted by: Skip at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (Wk5E/)

79 Reports that the Biden [junta] is considering recognizing a Palestinian state—upending decades of U.S. policy—are generating intense criticism from Republican lawmakers who say the timing of these leaks marks a stunning betrayal of Israel as it fights to eradicate Hamas terrorists."
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Recognition would be new. The *desire* to recognize would not be.

They could be planning to try something like the Taiwan shuffle, where the US "recognizes" the "One China" policy but in reality treats Taiwan as independent. I dunno. Diplomatic jiggery-pokery is unlikely to be all that successful here, as one of the parties involved is completely uncivilized.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (B2vkr)

80 JJ'S LINKS ARE FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S BECOMING CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT 2024 IS GOING TO BE THE YEAR OF "LIVING WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY POOR POLITICAL CHOICES" GOOD AND HARD.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (RXyKO)

81 60 Chertoff is also the same jagoff who took out a big stake in an upstart airport body scanner manufacturer, then used his position as Homeland secretary to mandate all airports buy his scanner.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2024 08:15 AM (xVkS/)

I read scanner as scammer.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (x0n13)

82 Well I screwed up the copy paste in my post. But whatever.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (xVkS/)

83 Happy National Dark Chocolate Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

84 But, there's another wrinkle. She's the biggest star ever, at this point. There is really nothing more for her to achieve... In her arena. If she left now, she'd leave as the unquestioned GOAT.

What if she's setting the table for her own political career? She's 34. She can run for President next cycle. And she would win, no doubt. Maybe this isn't about getting votes for Joe Biden, but for Taylor Swift.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2024 08:23 AM (0FoWg)
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Oy, what a notion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (B2vkr)

85 Milt, we're gonna need to go ahead and move you downstairs into Double A. We have some new people coming in, and we need all the space we can get. So if you could just go ahead and pack up your stuff and move it down there, that would be terrific, OK?

Posted by: Orioles Manager Lumbergh at February 01, 2024 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

86 VIA thank you for pointing that out. I hadn't seen it. I miss her too.

Posted by: jewells45 fuck cancer at February 01, 2024 08:25 AM (iF0sF)

87 I think swift is just a useful idiot.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2024 08:26 AM (xVkS/)

88 JJ'S LINKS ARE FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S BECOMING CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT 2024 IS GOING TO BE THE YEAR OF "LIVING WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF MY POOR POLITICAL CHOICES" GOOD AND HARD.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (RXyKO)

The Dildo of Consequences rarely arrives lubed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 01, 2024 08:26 AM (4I/2K)

89 Enabling the mass invasion of the United States is not the action of one man, but of an administration, which has used every federal agency at its disposal, including the EPA, to enable that invasion, which has dispensed a fortune to the invaders to encourage them to invade, and another fortune to the refugee resettlers to make sure that they never leave.
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Yes, but.

Even under Trump, the government fought any restriction kicking and screaming, both administratively and politically. This administration is living the dream, but it is wrong to pin this entirely on the current executive and his puppet masters. This is an all-of-government effort.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:26 AM (B2vkr)

90 I read scanner as scammer.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 08:24 AM (x0n13)
++++
Eh.

Accurate either way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:27 AM (B2vkr)

91 >Happy National Dark Chocolate Day.
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dark money
dark forces
dark matter

now I gotta worry about dark chocolate?

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:27 AM (geLO8)

92 "but the Polk County Attorney’s Office indicated that the Mississippi man’s admission that he 'destroyed the property because of the victim’s [the Satanic Temple] religion' prompted the charges to be upgraded to 'third-degree criminal mischief in violation of individual rights, a class D felony.'"

okay now I see what happened - all defense attorney's say that the top 3 rules for anyone being questioned by the police is "shut up, shut UP, SHUT UP!" It's like name, rank and serial number; you've been captured by an enemy force, give only name, address, and drivers license. For ANY other questions only say "I don't recall", "I'm not sure", or "I need my attorney present."

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:27 AM (S6gqv)

93 >>There is really nothing more for her to achieve...

How about be in a happy, long-term relationship (a/k/a marriage) and kids?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 08:27 AM (RXyKO)

94 > The Dildo of Consequences rarely arrives lubed.
___________

As seen on an artillery shell (either in Ukraine or Israel).

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 08:28 AM (Q4IgG)

95 I don't see the immediate upside for Taylor Swift going political, on the face of it...

--

Ah, but you see, that's part of it. She's always been political. Publicly endorsed Democrats in races, publicly hardcore vocal tranny supporter, publicly hardcore vocal Biden supporter, public you're a white supremacist statements, etc.

All while being a non-political Christian who doesn't want to get involved or whatever.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:28 AM (AIJ3L)

96 To deliver 1,000 exajoules of power (input power required for today) to the world by 2050, for every wind turbine we have today,

expect to see more than 60 of them.

For every field of photovoltaics we have today, expect to see nearly 100 more of them.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:29 AM (ENQN6)

97 I love watching the "Patriot Front" marching through lower Manhattan but I have questions. Like, who mans the FBI office while these guys are out marching?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:29 AM (Yawo6)

98 She's the biggest star ever, at this point."

???

I wouldn't even know who she was if I didn't read this blog - well I guess some ho' who hangs out at football games.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:29 AM (S6gqv)

99 The US 'Government' joining in to recognize a Palestinian State? The list of countries recognizing such an entity and maintaining diplomatic relations is rather long, it's on Wikipedia if anyone's interested.
The list of countries not recognizing is interesting in itself: Mexico, for instance.
If the US does it...
Well, in my personal experience it will just be another vicious step in the long march to aligning America with, and openly harboring and encouraging, Islam and Islamic Terror.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 01, 2024 08:30 AM (43xH1)

100 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at February 01, 2024 08:30 AM (53oGX)

101
Dark winter.

Posted by: Joey B. at February 01, 2024 08:30 AM (NBVIP)

102 . . . If a political official willfully refusing to do his duty leading to an invasion of millions and the deaths of over a hundred people doesn’t justify impeachment, what possibly does?

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Methinks that Mr. Greenfield meant to say "and the deaths of over a hundred thousand people" in America each year via fentanyl.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 08:30 AM (WlJra)

103 if I were Taylor Swift's manager, I would advise her to steer way clear of politics

no need tarnishing your brand by brushing up against those duplicitous thieving scumbags

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:30 AM (geLO8)

104 The bus is here.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:31 AM (ENQN6)

105 Groundhog Day! Will DeBolshevik drop another one on its head?

Checks calendar. That's tomorrow.

And de Blasio's no longer mayor.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 01, 2024 08:31 AM (/HDaX)

106 95 I don't see the immediate upside for Taylor Swift going political, on the face of it...

--

Ah, but you see, that's part of it. She's always been political.

***

She started going political after becoming BFFs with Lena Dunham some years ago

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 01, 2024 08:31 AM (L4her)

107 When are the Americanpopl4e, particularly the Commiedems are going to wake up realize this has been the strategy of the terrorists for several decades. First to go in and kill several hundreds or thousands of innocent civilians and then when Israel retaliates scream for a ceasefire and peace talks. The US gov falls for this crap every time.

Posted by: vic at February 01, 2024 08:31 AM (A5THL)

108 I wouldn't be surprised to find out Tay-Tay is besties with the Soros clan.

Might explain some things...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 08:31 AM (Q4IgG)

109 Posted by: Gref at February 01, 2024 08:21 AM (5fDan)

Thomas Friedman… Biden Doctrine…. I threw up in my mouth a little

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:31 AM (1jdMT)

110 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. I agree with JJ that showing the rat infested shelters in US to South and Central Americans would be a good deterrent. However the nations those areas would never allow it. The governments get rid of their poor and criminals sending them to the US and the remittances to those countries keep their economies running. Plus Lord knows how much in kickbacks NGOs and our government give to the pols in those states.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2024 08:31 AM (hB1mF)

111 dark money
dark forces
dark matter

now I gotta worry about dark chocolate?
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:27 AM (geLO

******
Dark Brandon.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 08:32 AM (NpAcC)

112 ask me about the Don Black Doctrine

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:32 AM (geLO8)

113 no need tarnishing your brand by brushing up against those duplicitous thieving scumbags
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:30 AM (geLO

Unless you have a different goal, yeah, that's solid advice. And she's no dummy. That's why I wonder if her motive is a political machine of her own.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2024 08:32 AM (0FoWg)

114 Dark winter.

Posted by: Joey B. at February 01, 2024 08:30 AM (NBVIP)

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Heh. I can't believe it's been over three years since Dark Brandon made that prediction (in October of 2020).

Talk about night (now) and day (then) ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 08:33 AM (WlJra)

115 Dad would've been 88 this morning, but he finished his Liverpool protocol February 7, last year.

Posted by: Marooned at February 01, 2024 08:33 AM (kt8QE)

116 3 dozen dudes in khakis do not even make a good size fraternity much less a national revolutionary resistance.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:33 AM (ENQN6)

117 Florida Will No Longer Allow Transgender Psychos to Change the Sex on Their Driver’s License

==

God for Florida. Lucky devils....

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2024 08:33 AM (V13WU)

118 if I were Taylor Swift's manager, I would advise her to steer way clear of politics

no need tarnishing your brand by brushing up against those duplicitous thieving scumbags
Posted by: Don Black

--

Again, this is part of the op.

She has been political for years. She's pro-tranny, extremely pro-Biden, probably hates you and almost certainly thinks you're a white supremacist if you have any interest in laws being followed. That the right doesn't know this shows how effective the system is.

Even more impressive is that the right will continue insisting it isn't true after seeing her tell you those things.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:33 AM (AIJ3L)

119 WHO says there will be a rise in cancer in the next two decades
Posted by: SMOD at February 01, 2024 08:01 AM (UOsdv)

They should know. They're cancer.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 08:07 AM (x0n13)

I believe that mRNA is suspected of increasing cancer rates. Cause the problem, scream about the problem, grab power based on the problem... repeat until dictatorship.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 08:34 AM (uvymP)

120 "Groundhog Day" is one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 08:34 AM (9yWhg)

121 To deliver 1,000 exajoules of power (input power required for today) to the world by 2050, for every wind turbine we have today,

expect to see more than 60 of them.

For every field of photovoltaics we have today, expect to see nearly 100 more of them.

Posted by: rhennigantx

And it would not be dispatchable and not rampable, so it would not work. Electricity must balance supply and demand. Also, just for the record, there are insufficient quantities of the necessary minerals on earth, so which planets are going to be mined?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 08:34 AM (/WbmY)

122 107 When are the Americanpopl4e, particularly the Commiedems are going to wake up realize this has been the strategy of the terrorists for several decades. First to go in and kill several hundreds or thousands of innocent civilians and then when Israel retaliates scream for a ceasefire and peace talks. The US gov falls for this crap every time.
Posted by: vic at February 01, 2024 08:31 AM (A5THL)

crybullyism 101

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)

123 >Heh. I can't believe it's been over three years since Dark Brandon made that prediction (in October of 2020).

you're right
didn't he say we were all going to die without The Shot?

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:34 AM (geLO8)

124 A gang of illegals beat up some NYPD and then got released on bail. Caught on video. This is BAD. As if police needed more incentive to stand down and surrender.

Hochul now says deportation is on the menu.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2024 08:35 AM (Gse2f)

125 >>What if she's setting the table for her own political career? She's 34. She can run for President next cycle. And she would win, no doubt. Maybe this isn't about getting votes for Joe Biden, but for Taylor Swift.

I get that the country has become very dumbed down and there is a sizable number of people who vote on popularity but I think we sometimes go to far in assuming that running for POTUS is nothing but a popularity exercise. I've heard Swift speak in an interview about abortion in which she melted into a weepy clown show.

I doubt she either wants or could withstand the rigors of a grueling presidential campaign where she would have to know such complicated things as where is Israel?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 08:35 AM (LkLld)

126 YD — Interesting possibility you bring up regarding Taylor Swift going into politics. Pre-CERN-multi-verse of 2008 I’d say no way. In our current clown world…. Who knows?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:35 AM (1jdMT)

127 Tomorrow is Groundhog Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

128 >"Groundhog Day" is one of my favorite movies.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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this site will celebrate it all day tomorrow
it's a blog rule that you have to like that movie

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:35 AM (geLO8)

129 Pro-TayTay random video from two years ago:

"Taylor Swift supporting gay rights for 13 minutes straight"

youtube.com/watch?v=sZ3rD7Ge6UQ

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:36 AM (AIJ3L)

130

The Biden Junta = Letitia James Taylor Swiftboat

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 08:36 AM (x0n13)

131 And considering the vast influx of not just an army of illiterate Latin-American peasant lettuce-pickers, but Islamic males of military age with jihad, baby-roasting and gang-raping on their mind ...

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... not to mention hundreds of Red Chinese Army platoons.

Nothing to see here.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 08:36 AM (WlJra)

132 And it would not be dispatchable and not rampable, so it would not work. Electricity must balance supply and demand. Also, just for the record, there are insufficient quantities of the necessary minerals on earth, so which planets are going to be mined?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 08:34 AM (/WbmY)

So I know a dude that trades energy and he told me that without gas and coal you cannot maintain 60 hz. Solar and wind bounce too much.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:36 AM (ENQN6)

133 The hilarious thing about the Junta contemplating a Palestinian state is that the PLO has turned it down several times in the past. Clinton angrily tried to get the buttfucker Arafat to agree to one, and he refused point blank, mostly because he recognized his personal grifting opportunity was larger in refusing. And, also, he didn't want Islamic Jihad to do to him what they did to Sadat.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:36 AM (13w+k)

134 >European Union To Launch Full Naval Mission To Red Sea

the EU has a navy?
Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:03 AM (geLO

technically yes; but I've seen bigger boats and more firepower at the start of Texas duck season.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:13 AM (S6gqv)

France has an aircraft carrier!

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2024 08:36 AM (V13WU)

135 It's also,
National Baked Alaska Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 08:37 AM (NpAcC)

136 technically yes; but I've seen bigger boats and more firepower at the start of Texas duck season.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:13 AM (S6gqv)

That’s funny. Well done.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 01, 2024 08:37 AM (zm5cD)

137 okay now I see what happened - all defense attorney's say that the top 3 rules for anyone being questioned by the police is "shut up, shut UP, SHUT UP!" It's like name, rank and serial number; you've been captured by an enemy force, give only name, address, and drivers license. For ANY other questions only say "I don't recall", "I'm not sure", or "I need my attorney present."
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:27 AM (S6gqv)

Nope, you don't even go with I don't recall, or your name, or anything...

You say "I want my lawyer." Period. That is the response to absolutely everything when you are in discussions with law enforcement.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 01, 2024 08:38 AM (exHjb)

138 130

The Biden Junta = Letitia James Taylor Swiftboat

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 08:36 AM (x0n13)

Strumming and singing Youve Got a Friend over 10,000 dead Americans when we get our Oct 7 visit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:38 AM (ENQN6)

139 What happens when unprepared "stars" jump into politics - in the runup to the last Texas gubernatorial election, a lot of people were pushing the idea that Matthew McConaughey should run, since he was popular with a cross section of Texans. His key to popularity was that he had never taken an actual position on anything. So while he was playing around with the idea, someone asked him about Gun Control; and he had clearly never thought about it, and hemmed and hawed and stammered and ended his political hopes forever in two minutes.
a day later he said that he had never been interested in politics and would answer no more political questions about anything.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:38 AM (S6gqv)

140 If nothing else, we've been shown that literally anyone can be installed as president.

Anyone.

The list of totally absurd people who've been rumored to run, or possibly run in the future is growing by leaps and bounds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

141 It's also,
National Baked Alaska Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

Didn't know they grew that much pot in Alaska.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (9yWhg)

142 Happy National Dark Chocolate Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

🤢🤮

Might as well just eat baker's chocolate.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (TuRLx)

143 The Phalanx point defense gun just saved us a bunch of money. I am glad someone in the CoC had the balls to stand down the missile launch and let the Phalanx do it's job.

I think a lot of the planning by Iran was to wear down the defense by depleting our missiles. These seems to be a lot of that going on now for some reason.

Posted by: pawn at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (QB+5g)

144 I think we sometimes go to far in assuming that running for POTUS is nothing but a popularity exercise.

----

That is all it is. Nothing more. The office itself is a sham.

And she'd win without breaking a sweat. Much, much easier work than she does now. Nothing grueling about it.

I'm not saying she'll do it. But she could, and it makes me wonder.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (0FoWg)

145 please- no 'celebrity' candidates

the actual candidates are bad enough

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (geLO8)

146 So Tay Tay has an IC handler.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (R4t5M)

147 France has an aircraft carrier!
Posted by: runner at February 01, 2024 08:36 AM (V13WU)

The deck is covered with 2 Tops with umbrellas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (ENQN6)

148 without gas and coal you cannot maintain 60 hz. Solar and wind bounce too much.
Posted by: rhennigantx

That is correct. The only way to have load balance is to have nuclear, gas, and coal. You can replace coal to a large extent only by increasing nuclear and gas generation.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (/WbmY)

149 Am I the only person who didn't think Ghostbusters was that great ? It had some amusing parts, but it was no Animal House , Caddyshack or even Stripes. I saw a trailer for the new one and my reaction was meh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (hB1mF)

150 Remember the good old days when a NYT columnist named William Safire would be on Meet the Press with Tim Russert and you could actually watch without having a rage stroke? Did I dream that? Seems like a different universe….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (1jdMT)

151 Sure wouldn't want her to get political.

TayTay Guardian interview, 2019:

"“I was living in this sort of political ambivalence, because the person I voted for had always won,” she explained, echoing the thoughts of many liberals who never felt obliged to pay attention before the Trump era.

“We were in such an amazing time when Obama was president because foreign nations respected us. We were so excited to have this dignified person in the White House. My first election was voting for him when he made it into office, and then voting to re-elect him. I think a lot of people are like me, where they just didn’t really know that this could happen.”

Now she’s focused on the 2020 election, she said, hoping that her involvement might help more than it hurts the Democrats’ cause."

http://tinyurl.com/y6atmb2l

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (AIJ3L)

152 You say "I want my lawyer." Period. That is the response to absolutely everything when you are in discussions with law enforcement.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 01, 2024 08:38 AM (exHjb)
++++
One more thing.

"I want my lawyer and I am exercising my right to remain silent." Need to have both.

There was a case some time ago where the suspect remained silent. The cops during the interrogation did the usual thing of showing gruesome crime scene photos, etc. During the trial, the prosecutor talked about how "the defendant remained coldly silent when presented with evidence of his heinous crimes" or somesuch. The defense lawyer - rightly - called foul because the defendant had the right to remain silent. The judge ruled that because the defendant didn't explicitly invoke that right, his silence could be used against him.

Utter bullshit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (B2vkr)

153 Am I the only person who didn't think Ghostbusters was that great ?

Yes.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2024 08:41 AM (xVkS/)

154 omorrow is Groundhog Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

Deja-Vu all over again ?

Posted by: JT at February 01, 2024 08:41 AM (T4tVD)

155 What happens when unprepared "stars" jump into politics - in the runup to the last Texas gubernatorial election, a lot of people were pushing the idea that Matthew McConaughey should run, since he was popular with a cross section of Texans. His key to popularity was that he had never taken an actual position on anything. So while he was playing around with the idea, someone asked him about Gun Control; and he had clearly never thought about it, and hemmed and hawed and stammered and ended his political hopes forever in two minutes.
a day later he said that he had never been interested in politics and would answer no more political questions about anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:38 AM (S6gqv)

It'd be a lot cooler if I did run, though.

Allright, allright, allright!

Posted by: Matthew McConaughey at February 01, 2024 08:41 AM (4I/2K)

156 >If nothing else, we've been shown that literally anyone can be installed as president.
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b Hussein 0bama proved that, for all time

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:41 AM (geLO8)

157 140 If nothing else, we've been shown that literally anyone can be installed as president.

Dog King

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2024 08:41 AM (xVkS/)

158 Even more impressive is that the right will continue insisting it isn't true after seeing her tell you those things.

The Left does not have the market cornered on projection.

Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 01, 2024 08:41 AM (2tdDi)

159
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 01, 2024 08:42 AM (bEb2S)

160 Might as well just eat baker's chocolate.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (TuRLx)
******
Yum!

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

161 "France has an aircraft carrier"

So do these guys.

http://tinyurl.com/mzmfr3dz

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 01, 2024 08:43 AM (a1415)

162 That is all it is. Nothing more. The office itself is a sham.

And she'd win without breaking a sweat. Much, much easier work than she does now. Nothing grueling about it.

I'm not saying she'll do it. But she could, and it makes me wonder.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (0FoWg)

Taylor Swift will not win if she runs for the D primary - the D primary is already decided in advance by the graft people. She could only win as an R, b/c that one's not nearly as fixed...and while she could do a Nikki Haley R run, she would never deem to want to ever have an R next to her name...even in name only..

Posted by: Nova Local at February 01, 2024 08:43 AM (exHjb)

163 Am I the only person who didn't think Ghostbusters was that great ? It had some amusing parts, but it was no Animal House , Caddyshack or even Stripes. I saw a trailer for the new one and my reaction was meh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (hB1mF)

Commie.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 01, 2024 08:43 AM (/HDaX)

164 Groundhog Day! Will DeBolshevik drop another one on its head?

*************

Groundhog, It's What's For Dinner

Come listen to my tale, young Johnny
Bill DiBlasio dropped Punxsutawney
Though he had an odd taste
Phil didn’t go to waste
He made a nice mulligatawny!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 01, 2024 08:43 AM (991eG)

165 tabletops...

you laff, but..."As part of the daily rations for French servicemen at the beginning of World War I, servicemen were given one Camembert cheese and 25 centiliters of red wine. However, at the start of the first World War in 1915, each soldier was regularly given a 1/4-litre bottle of wine. By 1916, this had risen to half a liter."

That went away by the time WWII commenced. To think that they once had the best army in Europe...

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2024 08:43 AM (V13WU)

166 Now that Podesta has replaced Secretariat, free pizza is being served at all family Climate Office bring your daughter to work days.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 01, 2024 08:43 AM (U7ZsA)

167 Am I the only person who didn't think Ghostbusters was that great ? It had some amusing parts, but it was no Animal House , Caddyshack or even Stripes. I saw a trailer for the new one and my reaction was meh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (hB1mF)

I agree; thought it was boring and silly. Liked the song though!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:44 AM (1jdMT)

168 Even more impressive is that the right will continue insisting it isn't true after seeing her tell you those things.
Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:33 AM (AIJ3L)
++++
She became political recently. She was probably always a prog (she's both a Millennial woman and in show business, so it's virtually guaranteed), but she largely shut up about it pre-2016. #MeToo, IIRC, was when she started dipping her toes into the political waters.

It was a mistake, I think, and as YD pointed out, a completely unnecessary one. She didn't need to. She had top billing worldwide by then and needed to kowtow to nobody.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:44 AM (B2vkr)

169 I bet in WWI Germans supplied their troops with beer...

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2024 08:44 AM (V13WU)

170 Please stop talking about Taylor Swift entering politics. It is the very definition of absurdity.

IMO FWIW YMMV

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:45 AM (geLO8)

171 >>If nothing else, we've been shown that literally anyone can be installed as president.

Well we've asserted it. But in modern history exactly one person has come out of the blue instead out of the political class to become president. Trump.

As Tom Servo noted there was a brief moment when everyone thought McConaughey would be a shoe in for Texas governor. That lasted one interview.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 08:45 AM (LkLld)

172 I have probably mentione it before, but Simon Michaux is a mining engineer who consults with governments, and has some presentations on YT. He proves the impossibility of net zero with mathematical precision.

Even if wind and solar could be balanced, which it can't, there are simply not enough minerals on the planet, and just to produce the first generation of this power would take over a thousand years at current mining production rates.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 08:45 AM (/WbmY)

173 Didn't know they grew that much pot in Alaska.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (9yWhg)
******
Which would explain the idiots that allowed for ranked choice voting.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 08:46 AM (NpAcC)

174 Even if wind and solar could be balanced, which it can't, there are simply not enough minerals on the planet, and just to produce the first generation of this power would take over a thousand years at current mining production rates.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 08:45 AM (/WbmY)
++++
But that assumes current production rates for electricity, and likely forward projections based on growth estimates.

Neither will be true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:46 AM (B2vkr)

175 It's Febwy.

Posted by: I just noticed at February 01, 2024 08:46 AM (NBVIP)

176 Herschel Walker for Senate (was it Senate?)

how far did that go

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:47 AM (geLO8)

177 Am I the only person who didn't think Ghostbusters was that great ? It had some amusing parts, but it was no Animal House , Caddyshack or even Stripes. I saw a trailer for the new one and my reaction was meh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (hB1mF)

Watch him folks 'cause he's a thoroughly dangerous man!

Well you may not know it but this man is a spy
He's a undercover agent for the FBI
And he's been sent down here to infiltrate the Ace of Spades HQ!

He's a friend of them long haired, hippy-type, pinko fags!
I betchya he's even got a commie flag
Tacked up on the wall inside of his garage

He's a snake in the grass, I tell ya guys
He may look dumb but that's just a disguise
He's a mastermind in the ways of espionage

j/k

Posted by: Uneasy Rider at February 01, 2024 08:47 AM (4I/2K)

178 This should be a Holy Shit Headline but I'm no seeing much coverage.

A Delaware judge ordered that Elon Musk's 2018 option grant from Tesla be rescinded, which if upheld will cost him $55 billion (that's billions with a B). The grant was huge at the time but required Tesla to meet stretch goals and it was approved by shareholders.

IIRC Elon used his Tesla shares as collateral for loans to buy Twitter.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2024 08:47 AM (Gse2f)

179 Please stop talking about Taylor Swift entering politics. It is the very definition of absurdity.

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That's the thing, no one was, and now the conversation has moved that way.

The 100% serious thing that IS happening and that WILL happen is, same as abortion, red wave, mail in ballots, etc., she will be used as the excuse for why crucial cities flip to Biden at 4am, even though she told nearly 300M people to register to vote and something like 10K showed up for her effort. It will be used to justify the cheat.

And Republicans will nod and say "Nikki could've won!!!"

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:48 AM (AIJ3L)

180 One bit of good news out of California -

The ammo background check law was overturned. When the state AG asked for a stay pending appeal on the ruling, The Hon. Judge Benitez denied it. So it's now open season on ammo purchases in California, and a number of mail order ammo vendors are shipping to California customers once again. Californians are rushing to get their orders made before a possible stay by a 9th Circuit court.

My apologies in advance if your favorite ammo vendor runs out of stock.

^^;;

Posted by: junior at February 01, 2024 08:48 AM (PTw5h)

181 It's gotta suck to be the guy the O'Keefe got on tape. Not sure what the guy expected? Was O'Keefe supposed to be his new lover?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at February 01, 2024 08:48 AM (FmapG)

182 I lived in California back in 2003 when Ahnold jumped into politics, Gray Davis got recalled, and the governator won all while talking about his “hummer” and lots of generalities and that really cool accent. I voted for him….. he was a disaster as governor. There was a republican in that race named Tom McClintock IIRC…. Shoulda voted for him. The allure of celebrity can be strong

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:49 AM (1jdMT)

183 There's more oil than lithium.

Posted by: Frack it at February 01, 2024 08:49 AM (NBVIP)

184 I have probably mentione it before, but Simon Michaux is a mining engineer who consults with governments, and has some presentations on YT. He proves the impossibility of net zero with mathematical precision.

-

Clearly he hasn't heard that solid state batteries are just around the corner. Also some other magic fuel source made from sunlight. Or something.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 08:49 AM (AIJ3L)

185 Deja-Vu all over again ?
Posted by: JT at February 01, 2024 08:41 AM (T4tVD)
*****
Sonny and Cher song is already stuck in my head.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 08:49 AM (NpAcC)

186 150 Remember the good old days when a NYT columnist named William Safire would be on Meet the Press with Tim Russert and you could actually watch without having a rage stroke? Did I dream that? Seems like a different universe….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (1jdMT)

I remember. Now those times seem as distant to me as the construction of the pyramids.

Posted by: Gref at February 01, 2024 08:49 AM (5fDan)

187 >>If nothing else, we've been shown that literally anyone can be installed as president.

Well we've asserted it. But in modern history exactly one person has come out of the blue instead out of the political class to become president. Trump.

As Tom Servo noted there was a brief moment when everyone thought McConaughey would be a shoe in for Texas governor. That lasted one interview.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 08:45 AM (LkLld)

*politely clears throat*

Posted by: Actor and Star Ronald Reagan at February 01, 2024 08:49 AM (4I/2K)

188 @178 A Delaware judge ordered that Elon Musk's 2018 option gran

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The judge also stated that the board members were too close to Musk personally, and that they can't be taken seriously unless at least three of them are replaced.

Posted by: junior at February 01, 2024 08:50 AM (PTw5h)

189 149 Am I the only person who didn't think Ghostbusters was that great ? It had some amusing parts, but it was no Animal House , Caddyshack or even Stripes. I saw a trailer for the new one and my reaction was meh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (hB1mF)

the original Ghostbusters didn't have a single bad scene in it. I put Animal House in the same category, although some think it's too crude. I love Caddyshack, but it's really a pretty bad movie that's saved by Knight, Murray, and Dangerfield, who all ad-libbed their way though the entire thing. Same kind of thing for Stripes, a bad movie with a lot of good lines along the way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:51 AM (S6gqv)

190 Was Ghostbusters peak Sigourney?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 08:51 AM (9yWhg)

191 I ain't even got a garage. You can call home and ask my wife.

Posted by: Ray Stevens at February 01, 2024 08:52 AM (NBVIP)

192 >>*politely clears throat*
Posted by: Actor and Star Ronald Reagan

Actor, Star, President of the Screen Actors Guild, Governor Ronald Reagan.

Reagan put in years of work before he went big time in politics.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 08:52 AM (LkLld)

193 At TAC, "In Defense of Broad Private Property Ownership"

First they get the vote, then they burn their bras, now they want to own property. Sheesh.

Posted by: gp Decays To Plage at February 01, 2024 08:53 AM (MvF+J)

194 The judge also stated that the board members were too close to Musk personally, and that they can't be taken seriously unless at least three of them are replaced.
Posted by: junior

I'm surprised the judge didn't specify the sex, color, and proclivities of the replacements.

We are living in the modern version of the book of Judges.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 08:54 AM (/WbmY)

195 Same kind of thing for Stripes, a bad movie with a lot of good lines along the way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:51 AM (S6gqv)

The Aunt Jemima treatment FTW!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:54 AM (1jdMT)

196
You store the energy from wind and solar in big old batteries and you can control the bounce. But they'll probably blow up real good and be impossible to extinguish.

If only there was some way to let things evolve naturally over time. Some sort of market place where ideas get tested, approved, or rejected.

But the Five Year Plan was never abandoned for good comrade.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 01, 2024 08:54 AM (nIvob)

197 Reagan was a closet intellectual (fan of Hayek, ... not that Hayek, the other one), a union leader, and then entered the public sphere as spokesman for General Electric and then was a two-term governor of California.

Phil Hartmann played Reagan on SNL as a buffoon in public but a mastermind in private. A truth in every jest, indeed

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2024 08:54 AM (Gse2f)

198
Please stop talking about Taylor Swift entering politics. It is the very definition of absurdity.

it's slightly less stoopid than thinking Big Mike obama is going to run for president

Big Mike has publicly said that being the First Lady-boi was "exhausting" & "too much work"...ain't no way running for president is "her" idea

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 01, 2024 08:55 AM (bEb2S)

199 Same kind of thing for Stripes, a bad movie with a lot of good lines along the way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:51 AM (S6gqv)

The Aunt Jemima treatment FTW!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:54 AM (1jdMT)

You can't leave! The plants will die!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 01, 2024 08:55 AM (4I/2K)

200 Saint of the Day
St. Brigid of Ireland (451–525 A.D.), was born to a pagan Irish chieftain and a Christian slave mother. Being the daughter of a slave, she also was a slave. She became known for her virtuous life and her charity to the poor. Recognizing her great piety and special graces, a Christian king convinced her father to grant Brigid her freedom. Once free, St. Brigid refused marriage, consecrated herself to Christ, and became Ireland's first nun. She also formed Ireland's first convent at Kildare and became its abbess. She went on to found a School of Art famous for its metal working and illuminated manuscripts. St. Brigid was known for her spirituality, even converting her father to the faith after he witnessed her fashioning the sign of the cross from strands of rushes. She was also a friend of St. Patrick. When she died, her sisters kept a fire burning in an enclosure at her convent. This fire burned for centuries, not burning out until the 13th century. It was later re-lit and burned for 400 more years until the Protestant revolt. St. Brigid is the patroness of Ireland and of dairy and milk maids, chicken farmers, travelers, and sailors. Her feast day is Feb 1st.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 08:55 AM (x7plP)

201 A Delaware judge ordered that Elon Musk's 2018 option grant from Tesla be rescinded, which if upheld will cost him $55 billion (that's billions with a B). The grant was huge at the time but required Tesla to meet stretch goals and it was approved by shareholders.

IIRC Elon used his Tesla shares as collateral for loans to buy Twitter.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2024 08:47 AM (Gse2f)
++++
I have heard rumblings about this ruling, but know nothing about it.

Is it a case of blatant judicial corruption to punish a political enemy, or was there something to it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:55 AM (B2vkr)

202 Tay-Tay going into electoral politics is as likely as Biden passing on an opportunity today to sniff a young girl's hair in an ice cream shop.

Posted by: Gref at February 01, 2024 08:55 AM (5fDan)

203 We are living in the modern version of the book of Judges.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 08:54 AM (/WbmY)

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. — Judges 17:6

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 08:55 AM (1jdMT)

204 *politely clears throat*
Posted by: Actor and Star Ronald Reagan at February 01, 2024 08:49 AM (4I/2K)

Just to review history, Reagan had been the best President of the Screen Actor's Guild ever, then Governor of California, and had been giving rousing Conservative political speeches around the country for 20 years by the time he was elected. Which was why all the snide complaints saying "he was just an actor" were just sour grapes from the losers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:56 AM (S6gqv)

205
Reagan put in years of work before he went big time in politics.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 08:52 AM

For years he was an inspirational/motivational speaker for GE locations around the country and did not live in a van down by the river.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 01, 2024 08:56 AM (nIvob)

206 Things will get better in the Ninth Three Year Plan.

Posted by: Orwell comma George type one each at February 01, 2024 08:56 AM (NBVIP)

207 >>dark money
dark forces
dark matter
now I gotta worry about dark chocolate?

Do NOT cross Big Cocoa!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 08:56 AM (RXyKO)

208 The judge also stated that the board members were too close to Musk personally, and that they can't be taken seriously unless at least three of them are replaced.
Posted by: junior at February 01, 2024 08:50 AM (PTw5h)
++++
Yet Bob Iger is just fine and being fully defended by the Party even though he has personally appointed every member of the Disney board and most of them have no experience whatsoever in entertainment, media or infrastructure operations.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 01, 2024 08:56 AM (B2vkr)

209 Stripes and Ghostbusters are full of memes

Posted by: Don Black at February 01, 2024 08:57 AM (geLO8)

210 . . . .although some think it's (Animal House) too crude.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You're talking to the Horde, you know.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 01, 2024 08:57 AM (x7plP)

211 Please stop talking about Taylor Swift entering politics. It is the very definition of absurdity.
Posted by: AltonJackson

Dude. This is 2024. The definition of absurdity changes daily, almost hourly sometimes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 08:57 AM (9yWhg)

212 I knew him when.

Posted by: Bonzo at February 01, 2024 08:57 AM (NBVIP)

213 The ATF and DOJ credits Democrats’ 2022 gun control bill, which passed because more than a dozen Republican senators agreed to betray their base.

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AKA another day that ends in "Y" over the past 60+ years.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 08:57 AM (WlJra)

214 JJ - I know your instincts have been pointing this way for years... Do you now see the globalist UniParty for what it is?

They(including RdS and Nimrata) are paid by globalist billionaires, 400 of the US versions just gave a communist pig(Xi) a fucking standing ovation in communist SanFran back in December...

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 01, 2024 08:57 AM (klw0w)

215 Brigid is a popular name among the Irish.

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2024 08:58 AM (V13WU)

216 >>I have heard rumblings about this ruling, but know nothing about it.

>>Is it a case of blatant judicial corruption to punish a political enemy, or was there something to it?

Appears to be the latter. The judge came from a Delaware law firm that has been a long time Biden supporter with close ties to Hunter. The board overwhelmingly approved the plan and this one activists judge decided in her infinite wisdom it was unfair.

Last night Musk took a poll on X about moving Tesla's incorporation and it won bigly. He claims he will now ask the board to make the move.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 08:59 AM (LkLld)

217 Soldier guarding migrants in ATL airport - no one noticed the soldier is wearing a drill instructor hat; or the US Army Chemical Corps patch on his sleeve? Where are those migrants going.....?

Posted by: Lotta nerve at February 01, 2024 08:59 AM (JdcHc)

218 214 JJ - I know your instincts have been pointing this way for years... Do you now see the globalist UniParty for what it is?

They(including RdS and Nimrata) are paid by globalist billionaires, 400 of the US versions just gave a communist pig(Xi) a fucking standing ovation in communist SanFran back in December...
Posted by: Danimal28 at February 01, 2024 08:57 AM (klw0w)

Really since the last year of Trump with the fake-demic. So, I guess, yes.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 08:59 AM (x0n13)

219 Ran across a story about "escaping conspiracy theories" from the AP.

And wouldn't you know it...COVID coming from a Chinese lab is one of those conspiracy theories even though it has been proven...

Still a conspiracy theory though...especially because it is true.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 01, 2024 09:00 AM (ibTVg)

220 All Signs Indicate North Korea is Preparing for War

*******

My son's stepdaughter is a school teacher in a small town north of Seoul, just a few miles from the DMZ. I pray for her safety in these insane times. My son and his wife just got back from a week-long visit. They enjoyed touring S. Korea but came back with a visceral sense of unease, if not dread.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 01, 2024 09:00 AM (991eG)

221 . . . .although some think it's (Animal House) too crude.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Very well. What am I now? *inserts entire scoop of mashed potatoes into mouth*

Posted by: Brother Bluto at February 01, 2024 09:01 AM (4I/2K)

222 215 Brigid is a popular name among the Irish.
Posted by: runner at February 01, 2024 08:58 AM (V13WU)

In Ireland? sorry for me that's a Brigid too far.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 09:01 AM (S6gqv)

223 Same kind of thing for Stripes, a bad movie with a lot of good lines along the way.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 08:51 AM (S6gqv)

The Aunt Jemima treatment FTW!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

That's a fact, Jack!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 09:02 AM (TuRLx)

224 So, the Norks attack the South at the same time as China goes after Taiwan?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:02 AM (9yWhg)

225 "Republican state Sen. Colton Moore, who is the vice chairman of the Georgia Freedom Caucus, took the video Tuesday night and told the DCNF that he learned of the hidden room full of migrants through a 'whistleblower' at Atlanta’s airport, who noticed an influx of illegal migrants coming through the facility in recent months. In the video, there appears to be a uniformed soldier guarding a room full of migrants and volunteers with a group called Team Libertad, which boasts of helping migrants travel on its social media accounts."

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Was this the one someone posted last night where the Georgia representative was assaulted by the military?

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 09:02 AM (AIJ3L)

226 Usta love the Brigid calendar dad would have in the garage.

Posted by: My 12 year old self at February 01, 2024 09:03 AM (NBVIP)

227 Soldier guarding migrants in ATL airport - no one noticed the soldier is wearing a drill instructor hat; or the US Army Chemical Corps patch on his sleeve?

Where are those migrants going.....?
Posted by: Lotta nerve

Wuhan.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 09:03 AM (TuRLx)

228 See, being installed as president doesn't require previous political experience, intelligence or original thought.

The only requirement is that you do as you're told.

Or, in the current occupant's case, your staff does as its told.

Trump bucked that system and is being destroyed for it. Both personally and politically. It's debatable whether that effort will succeed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 09:04 AM (Q4IgG)

229 Brigid is a popular name among the Irish.
Posted by: runner

Yes, they're fonda it. They have a jones for it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:04 AM (9yWhg)

230 We're Americans we've been thrown out of every respectable country in the world

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2024 09:04 AM (hB1mF)

231 I read her diary.

Posted by: Back in the day at February 01, 2024 09:05 AM (NBVIP)

232 Is Mike Reagan still around? I haven't heard about him in years.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:05 AM (9yWhg)

233 224 So, the Norks attack the South at the same time as China goes after Taiwan?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:02 AM (9yWhg)

And Iran explodes its first nuke.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:05 AM (x0n13)

234 A gang of illegals beat up some NYPD and then got released on bail. Caught on video. This is BAD. As if police needed more incentive to stand down and surrender.

Hochul now says deportation is on the menu.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2024 08:35 AM (Gse2f)

If only they knew where they were... a government building perhaps... one with controlled exits.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 09:05 AM (uvymP)

235 Where are those migrants going.....?
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Los Alamos??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 01, 2024 09:06 AM (2yu8s)

236 >>So, the Norks attack the South at the same time as China goes after Taiwan?

>>And Iran explodes its first nuke.

At times like this a worried nation turns its eyes to Taylor Swift.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:06 AM (LkLld)

237 I think he sells pillows now.

Posted by: Or is that a different Mike? at February 01, 2024 09:06 AM (NBVIP)

238
JackStraw - Did you notice in the poll of the six swing states they included a couple of third party candidates with one exception?

RFK Jr. - the most lethal one to Biden. Funny that.

Now there's some national polls (ignore) that suddenly have Biden way up. Concerted effort to make the cheat plausible.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 01, 2024 09:07 AM (nIvob)

239 138 Strumming and singing Youve Got a Friend over 10,000 dead Americans when we get our Oct 7 visit.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 08:38 AM (ENQN6

You've got a FIEND . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:08 AM (x0n13)

240 >>>even converting her father to the faith after he witnessed her fashioning the sign of the cross from strands of rushes.
~~~~~

St. Brigid's cross:

http://tinyurl.com/bdhv2cv2

Posted by: IrishEi at February 01, 2024 09:08 AM (xmIbJ)

241 We're Americans we've been thrown out of every respectable country in the world
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That's from a comedy film isn't it??

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 01, 2024 09:08 AM (2yu8s)

242 Work beckons. Catch all the fun later.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 01, 2024 09:08 AM (4I/2K)

243 Polls are for page views.

Posted by: And strippers at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (NBVIP)

244
Speaking of Groundhog Day, how could we forget it's Black History Eternity, er, Month?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (x0n13)

245 Until now the Anti-Penguite content of this site has been limited to several cranks on the evening Cafe thread, maybe bleeding over into the ONT on a rare occasion. Now Mr. Sefton, in an article purportedly about avian flu, tries to disparage the entire Penguin Community. When you read the article, you find out ONE, lone, sickly, Emperor Penguin has passed on in Antarctica. This can lead to "othering" of an entire species and discrimination. Part and parcel of the Worldwide Communist Bat Conspiracy. Don't fall for it! Hug a Penguin today!

Posted by: Penguins For Equity and Justice at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (V5BDR)

246
Jews just call out my name
And you know wherever I am
I'll start Juaning
To sue you again

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (AIJ3L)

247 At times like this a worried nation turns its eyes to Taylor Swift.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:06 AM (LkLld)
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The coliseum of celebrity distraction.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (tT6L1)

248 Good morning, J.J. thanks again.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (tT6L1)

249 241 We're Americans we've been thrown out of every respectable country in the world
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That's from a comedy film isn't it??
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 01, 2024 09:08 AM (2yu8s)

"Stripes" maybe?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (x0n13)

250 >>dark money
dark forces
dark matter
now I gotta worry about dark chocolate?

Do NOT cross Big Cocoa!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 08:56 AM (RXyKO)

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* Dark Big Penguin has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (WlJra)

251 Wrong thread, I know Iknow...

But, hey!

Do any of you have a recommendation for a tactical shotgun?

Preferably one that you actually use.

Or, a great multipurpose shotgun that would work well for home defense.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (nFnyb)

252 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
56m
DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on the crime wave in his city: "We can't prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

http://tinyurl.com/nxucb4wz

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

253 noticed a link up there about the Disney-DeSantis case; now this is not intended to restart the DeSantis/Trump war, D conceded and its over. BUT a whole lot of people, most on the left, but some on the right, were predicting that DeSantis would lose and be humiliated in Court. It's worth noting that DeSantis won a complete and total victory (the Disney complaint dismissed out of hand). Oh there will be an appeal, there always is, but the Disney claim was fatally flawed as a matter of law from the start. (a parallel State law case is ongoing, but it will fail for the same reason the Federal case failed; Disney has no First Amendment claim here)

I say this only to point out how many supposedly "knowledgeable" people on the net are completely full of shit, about most everything they "predict".

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 09:10 AM (S6gqv)

254 Scoop: State Department reviewing options for possible recognition of Palestinian state.

This Is The Real Stick Against Netanyahu. The money assistance, even weapons, are a trifle by compare. This would be the overthrow of what the man schemed towards for decades. And there's not a thing he could do to ward it off, save full cooperation with present policies of President Biden's administration. Establishment of, and recognition of, a Palestinian state in the West Bank, is not subject to an Israeli veto, not if backed the US and the EU.

Not only would it serve a lever on Israel (especially under Likud rule), but it would also serve to shepherd Palestine out of an "eternal victim" status. Palestinian leaders would have to actually LEAD.

Biden is rattling the both Bibi and our own goon, Trump. Love it! If this really happens, in the future, if you look up "unintended consequences", you'll see Bibi's picture.

Up the ante and start planning for a post-war Marshall Plan for Palestine, a seaport and an international airport.

this is not consistent with my understanding of Genocide Joe Biden!

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 01, 2024 09:11 AM (F6eqU)

255 Posted by: Penguins For Equity and Justice

Anyone who hates penguins is a leopard-seal supremacist.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:11 AM (9yWhg)

256 >>Speaking of Groundhog Day, how could we forget it's Black History Eternity, er, Month?!

Not just that!
It’s February, which often has the most severe winter weather. For this reason, back in February 1994, Illinois Congressman John Porter read a resolution into the Congressional Record naming February National Wild Bird Feeding Month, now generally known as National Bird Feeding Month. His resolution states that feeding wild birds, particularly through February, “benefits the environment by supplementing wild birds’ natural diet of weed, seed, and insects,” helping them survive the winter. He further stated that “backyard bird feeding is an entertaining, educational, and inexpensive pastime enjoyed by children and adults.” He suggested that the hobby could begin as simple feeding and progress to bird identification, to discovering the relationship between birds and specific seeds as well as the relationship between type of birds and the location of feeders.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 09:11 AM (RXyKO)

257 DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on the crime wave in his city: "We can't prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

http://tinyurl.com/nxucb4wz
Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 09:10 AM (NpAcC)
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Seems to have worked for the J6'ers.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:11 AM (tT6L1)

258 They enjoyed touring S. Korea but came back with a visceral sense of unease, if not dread.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 01, 2024 09:00 AM (991eG)

I have the same sense right here in the good old US of A! I’m not alone, I don’t think, in wondering if chaos will erupt everywhere in 2024. Our presidential election, Taiwan, the ME, Ukraine, Korean peninsula…. Potential for chaos it seems is everywhere

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 01, 2024 09:12 AM (1jdMT)

259 >>Now there's some national polls (ignore) that suddenly have Biden way up. Concerted effort to make the cheat plausible.

The Quinnipiac poll is a pretty stark outlier.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:12 AM (LkLld)

260 I think the line was, "Our ancestors were thrown out of every respectable country in the world."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:12 AM (9yWhg)

261 -

What is Biden'z path to victory?

Drop Camel-la-la and bring Taylor Schwifty to the ticket.

Old, young,
Porn

Posted by: Marooned at February 01, 2024 09:12 AM (kt8QE)

262 >>Not only would it serve a lever on Israel (especially under Likud rule), but it would also serve to shepherd Palestine out of an "eternal victim" status. Palestinian leaders would have to actually LEAD.

That's from the Bee, right?
That's some excellent satire right there

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 09:12 AM (RXyKO)

263 DU is okay with the destruction of Gaza as long as another terrorist refuge exists for further attacks again Israel?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:13 AM (tT6L1)

264 Happy National Dark Chocolate Day.
Posted by: redridinghood

🤢🤮

Might as well just eat baker's chocolate.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (TuRLx)

My personal preference is 95% but I've eaten 100% before. It's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 09:13 AM (uvymP)

265 Speaking of Groundhog Day, how could we forget it's Black History Eternity, er, Month?!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (x0n13)

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Trans Genocide Vengeance Month > Black History Month, H8R!

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (WlJra)

266 Or, a great multipurpose shotgun that would work well for home defense.

Posted by: naturalfake

A tactical is not multipurpose, usually due to barrel length. A cheap reliable multipurpose is a Rem 870

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (/WbmY)

267 Even if wind and solar could be balanced, which it can't, there are simply not enough minerals on the planet, and just to produce the first generation of this power would take over a thousand years at current mining production rates.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 08:45 AM (/WbmY)

I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (ENQN6)

268 Mayorkas is simply doing the bidding of his boss. So will his replacement. Respondeat Superior. Indict the man in charge.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (dahXI)

269 Nuke the unborn baby penguins for Jesus.

Posted by: My new bumper sticker at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (NBVIP)

270 Drop Camel-la-la and bring Taylor Schwifty to the ticket.

Boy, can you imagine Biden sniffing Tay-Tay's hair? That's the thing that would probably kill him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (9yWhg)

271 I think a lot of the planning by Iran was to wear down the defense by depleting our missiles. These seems to be a lot of that going on now for some reason.
Posted by: pawn at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (QB+5g)

Missiles need chips. Guess where chips come from.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (uvymP)

272 I keep saying and saying that all the stupid talk of the Dems replacing Biden is dumb as hell.
And almost certainly pushed by Biden himself to 1) keep people chattering about that instead of him, 2) remind his base he's really the best they have.

But over and over all the Smart People who Know Things keep fanning the shit rumors.
Just like for months, they keep pushing the stupid ridiculous claim that Trump was going to pick Nikkiii for VP.

One third if Con, Inc., spreads false rumors to distract, the other third pushes "the conservative case for liberal policies," and the last spreads FUD, "we can't win because of bad candidates/voter fraud/bad policies/etc."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (C2U4G)

273 >>DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on the crime wave in his city: "We can't prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

"*Ahem*"
-- Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 09:15 AM (RXyKO)

274 It’s February, which often has the most severe winter weather. For this reason, back in February 1994, Illinois Congressman John Porter read a resolution into the Congressional Record naming February National Wild Bird Feeding Month, now generally known as National Bird Feeding Month.
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Which reminds me.... I need to refill the bird feeder today.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 09:15 AM (Q4IgG)

275 Or, a great multipurpose shotgun that would work well for home defense.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (nFnyb)

Mossberg 500 or Maverick 88 if you are on a budget.

Posted by: blaster at February 01, 2024 09:15 AM (xhfG9)

276 I have a secret desire for Hillary to die in a cellulite fire. Oops, it's not secret anymore.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 01, 2024 09:15 AM (Gf82x)

277 That is all it is. Nothing more. The office itself is a sham.

And she'd win without breaking a sweat. Much, much easier work than she does now. Nothing grueling about it.

I'm not saying she'll do it. But she could, and it makes me wonder.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 01, 2024 08:39 AM (0FoWg)

Can you imagine all the post-WH songs about how the PM of some country done her wrong.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 01, 2024 09:15 AM (uvymP)

278 Has anyone asked Tay-Tay why she is such a public supporter of perpetuating racist stereotypes regarding the First Peoples?

Make them play by their own rules.

Posted by: goatexchange at February 01, 2024 09:15 AM (hyS0X)

279 Chocolate was the Aztecs' version of coffee. They drank it hot.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:16 AM (9yWhg)

280 heh, Imagine Taylor Swift next to Joe, in heels. She'd tower over him.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:16 AM (tT6L1)

281 DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on the crime wave in his city: "We can't prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

http://tinyurl.com/nxucb4wz
Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 09:10 AM (NpAcC)

Now do tax evasion.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 09:16 AM (ENQN6)

282
I say this only to point out how many supposedly "knowledgeable" people on the net are completely full of shit, about most everything they "predict".
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 01, 2024 09:10 AM (S6gqv)

*sings*

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Everything your heart desires
Will come to you!
- Jiminy Crackpot

Wishcasting is real and it's spectacular!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2024 09:16 AM (nFnyb)

283 St. Brigid's cross:
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It ticked me off that there was all sorts of Japanese stuff in O'Brien's DS:9 married quarters but nothing Irish like a St Brigid's cross or a [small unobtrusive] picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and/or Mary, especially as I seem to recall them performing a tea ceremony or some other Shinto ceremony once.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 01, 2024 09:16 AM (2yu8s)

284 What is Biden'z path to victory?

Drop Camel-la-la and bring Taylor Schwifty to the ticket.

Old, young,
Porn

Posted by: Marooned at February 01, 2024 09:12 AM (kt8QE)

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Biden/Swift 2024 -- Two Whores for the Price of One!

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 09:17 AM (WlJra)

285 The Quinnipiac poll is a pretty stark outlier.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:12 AM (LkLld)

Scott Adams had a good take on that poll. Not saying that its fake, but if you wanted to prep for electoral surprise you start with sowing the people with fake polls.

Posted by: blaster at February 01, 2024 09:17 AM (xhfG9)

286 NO JUSTICE; NO PEACE!!
🐧 🐧 🐧 🐧 🐧 🐧

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 01, 2024 09:18 AM (2yu8s)

287

Women 58 - 36 percent support Biden, up from December when it was 53 - 41 percent.

"The gender demographic tells a story to keep an eye on. Propelled by female voters in just the past few weeks, the head-to-head tie with Trump morphs into a modest lead for Biden,"

The news of the dumb broad winning 83 million didn't do Trump any favors. Not that she'll ever see a scent of it.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 01, 2024 09:18 AM (nIvob)

288 >>DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on the crime wave in his city: "We can't prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

What an absurd and ahistorical comment. That is exactly the way out.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:18 AM (LkLld)

289 "Is it a case of blatant judicial corruption to punish a political enemy, or was there something to it?"

I suspect it's more the first. I'd rate the opinion "tendentious"

Moving Tesla's incorporation to TX is a threat to get the decision overturned on appeal as it would tarnish Delaware's brand for corporate law.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2024 09:18 AM (Gse2f)

290 273 >>DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on the crime wave in his city: "We can't prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

They want you to believe that, about everything, across the board. "There's nothing we can do. Deal with it." Just like when Obama said manufacturing jobs could never come back. Decline and scarcity and misery are our lot, or YOUR lot, peons.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 01, 2024 09:19 AM (dahXI)

291 Nasdaq suspended trading of Arrival shares this week, followed by a formal delisting, Reuters reports. The action is the result of Arrival being late in posting financial results and failing to file a remediation plan and hold an annual shareholder meeting.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 09:19 AM (ENQN6)

292 heh, Imagine Taylor Swift next to Joe, in heels. She'd tower over him.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:16 AM (tT6L1)

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If she really wants influence, she needs to start hanging out with and banging Hunter.

Posted by: ShainS -- Civil War 2: 10th Amendment Revolution Boogaloo at February 01, 2024 09:19 AM (WlJra)

293 Charlie Kraiger, the cybersecurity guy of all people, shouldn't be dishing gossip on a date, but I imagine he and others are desperate to unload (as it were).

He definitely said "emphatically", not "empathically", so WTH with that quote?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at February 01, 2024 09:19 AM (+RQPJ)

294 Da bish set me up.

Posted by: Marion Barry at February 01, 2024 09:19 AM (NBVIP)

295 A tactical is not multipurpose, usually due to barrel length. A cheap reliable multipurpose is a Rem 870
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (/WbmY)

Yeah, tactical comes to mind because we've got a fair amount of corners to round in the old homestead.

And you can keep the bangy end face forward easier.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2024 09:19 AM (nFnyb)

296 275 Or, a great multipurpose shotgun that would work well for home defense.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2024 09:09 AM (nFnyb)

Mossberg 500 or Maverick 88 if you are on a budget.
Posted by: blaster

Uh-oh! Another epic debate to add the the 9mm vs 45acp and longbow vs crossbow list!

Posted by: Military Moron at February 01, 2024 09:20 AM (F6eqU)

297 "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen."

Ephesians 4:29

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2024 09:20 AM (OZtA4)

298 Flooded with low quality immigrants. The dregs. 3rd world societal refuse. Takers very little doers. Here to stay, embedded, for the productive among us to support and suffer from. All with no pushback but for the retarded performative displays by the media and elite. Just had the truck broken into night before last, cleaned out everything of value not fastened down, tools, equipment. Made online police report, don't expect any follow up. If I could take a bat thru congress I'd start with the GOPe and work upward.

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 01, 2024 09:20 AM (8JB5s)

299 Open borders is a policy dispute.

Fuck right off WSJ

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 09:20 AM (bWsRe)

300 Speaking of Groundhog Day, how could we forget it's Black History Eternity, er, Month?!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

2023 Black History Year just ended yesterday. Onward to 2024!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 09:20 AM (TuRLx)

301 Beau Biden used to date Taylor Swift.

Posted by: Tiger Beat at February 01, 2024 09:21 AM (NBVIP)

302 Moving Tesla's incorporation to TX is a threat to get the decision overturned on appeal as it would tarnish Delaware's brand for corporate law.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 01, 2024 09:18 AM (Gse2f)

I think that's already done. The tarnishing I mean.

The move to Texas for incorporation will probably happen if they overturn it.

If they don't I think Musk peels off the robot/AI business and leaves Tesla.

Posted by: blaster at February 01, 2024 09:21 AM (xhfG9)

303 We can't prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

==

don't tell me , we have to get to the root of the problem and throw billions of dollar at it ! Harvard grad by chance ? *check* unreal ! he is a Harvard grad.

Posted by: runner at February 01, 2024 09:21 AM (V13WU)

304 “The UK has a problem, excess deaths among UK children under the age of 14 are up a staggering 22 percent in 2023.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 09:22 AM (ENQN6)

305 >>Which reminds me.... I need to refill the bird feeder today.

Excellent!
Need to do the same thing - cannot keep my feeders full since we made some adjustments in feed and feeder location.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 09:22 AM (RXyKO)

306 +1 on the Mossberg 500

The only thing I dislike is that I hunt with Remingtons and the safety is in a different place and I always have to have that in the back of my mind. But we've got a 500 for the house and it's fantastic.

Posted by: M. Robbie - Being a tall, Black, nonbinary, trans femme drag queen makes me a target for violence at February 01, 2024 09:22 AM (AIJ3L)

307
Give a man an open border, he eats today. Let him steal your tools he eats for life.

/ Not sure how that goes, something like that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 01, 2024 09:22 AM (nIvob)

308 A tactical is not multipurpose, usually due to barrel length. A cheap reliable multipurpose is a Rem 870
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 01, 2024 09:14 AM (/WbmY)

Yeah, tactical comes to mind because we've got a fair amount of corners to round in the old homestead.

And you can keep the bangy end face forward easier.
Posted by: naturalfake

Nice thing about shotguns?
30 seconds & $240 and you have a new barrel on it. Swap from field to tactical in no time.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 09:22 AM (TuRLx)

309 RFK Jr. - the most lethal one to Biden. Funny that.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 01, 2024 09:07 AM (nIvob)

I think that has been obvious with the almost total media blackout. If RFK were hurting Trump, he'd be on the news 24/7.

Posted by: Ann at February 01, 2024 09:22 AM (4neFu)

310 >>Scott Adams had a good take on that poll. Not saying that its fake, but if you wanted to prep for electoral surprise you start with sowing the people with fake polls.

I agree with him. I think that was a big part of 2020.

I don't think any one poll is an arbiter of the future but trends matter. In 2020 Trump didn't lead once in the RCP average of polls. He's been ahead in the average now for months.

The Q poll is one of the only ones to show Biden ahead and the lead is 6 which is a huge swing when the news for Biden has been universally bad for months.. It's also a poll of registered voters not likely voters. There's really no reason to do that unless you are trying to influence opinion.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)

311 I have a secret desire for Hillary to die in a cellulite fire. Oops, it's not secret anymore.
Posted by: Northernlurker
___________

Does that mean spontaneously combust?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (Dm8we)

312 Matthew Foldi
@MatthewFoldi

Can’t make this up

THREE DAYS AGO, staff at the George Soros-funded liberal group Run for Something unionized

Today, massive layoffs

Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (NpAcC)

313 Democracy dies in Delaware.

Posted by: As any school child can tell you at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (NBVIP)

314 -

Would someone explain to me again, what's wrong with a Palestinian state at the southern end of the Sinai?

Posted by: Marooned at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (kt8QE)

315 >> Open borders is a policy dispute.

Fuck right off WSJ

It's an invasion, being facilitated by our own government and international NGOs (including the UN).

Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (RXyKO)

316 Both DE and NY showed their true colors by attacking high profile businessmen. And, as usual, neither state was able to see those attacks would lead to other businesses leaving their respective states.

Typical leftists, incapable of dealing with or looking at consequences, and, instead, treats things as if they happen in isolation. Context is a meaningless construct, as far as the left is concerned.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:24 AM (tT6L1)

317 One of the RINOs working on the senate immigration deal says it’s misinformation that the bill allows 5000 illegals every day. It’ll be more like 25000.

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 09:25 AM (bWsRe)

318 It's an invasion, being facilitated by our own government and international NGOs (including the UN).
Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (RXyKO)
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And I believe lot of those NGO's are funded by the US.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:25 AM (tT6L1)

319 The Q poll is one of the only ones to show Biden ahead and the lead is 6 which is a huge swing when the news for Biden has been universally bad for months.. It's also a poll of registered voters not likely voters. There's really no reason to do that unless you are trying to influence opinion.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)

They told us what they were doing ahead of time in 2020. Don't be surprised if Trump is winning on election day and then you wake up the next day and he's lost.

Danged if that didn't happen.

Posted by: blaster at February 01, 2024 09:25 AM (xhfG9)

320 273 >>DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on the crime wave in his city: "We can't prosecute and arrest our way out of it."

"*Ahem*"
-- Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador
Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 09:15 AM (RXyKO)

Nayib Bukele >>> Naive Bukkake

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:25 AM (x0n13)

321 Swift is no Debbie Gibson.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 01, 2024 09:25 AM (xVkS/)

322 Whoa! Looks like another massive report by our intrepid repeater the Mighty Sefton.

Better start the coffee.

Posted by: mindful webworker - on a beautiful Oklahoma morning at February 01, 2024 09:25 AM (JzJKx)

323 Empathic for emphatic would have been a big deal when I was, like, editing, man. Now, with auto-fill and autocorrect, I sincerely believe that's how the guy turned in his copy, and O'Keefe has lost his, er, big-hatted copy editor.

This weekend I get to introduce an after-dinner speaker who just got back from Antarctica and has already warned us that some of his penguin footage is XXX-rated. We're friends so I'm expected to be insulting (he's a college professor); it's going to be a challenge to keep the overnight penguin action here out of it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 01, 2024 09:26 AM (zdLoL)

324 Maybe this isn't about getting votes for Joe Biden, but for Taylor Swift.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice'

I'll vote for Taylor Swift when and if she grows a visible ass.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 01, 2024 09:26 AM (43xH1)

325 319 The Q poll is one of the only ones to show Biden ahead and the lead is 6 which is a huge swing when the news for Biden has been universally bad for months.. It's also a poll of registered voters not likely voters. There's really no reason to do that unless you are trying to influence opinion.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (LkLld)

They told us what they were doing ahead of time in 2020. Don't be surprised if Trump is winning on election day and then you wake up the next day and he's lost.

Danged if that didn't happen.
Posted by: blaster at February 01, 2024 09:25 AM (xhfG9)

It'll probably take a very extended count again.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2024 09:26 AM (eYoxG)

326 Does that mean spontaneously combust?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 01,

That works.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 01, 2024 09:26 AM (Gf82x)

327 "*Ahem*"
-- Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador
Posted by: Lizzy at February 01, 2024 09:15 AM (RXyKO)

Does his name rhyme with ukelele ?

Posted by: JT at February 01, 2024 09:26 AM (T4tVD)

328 What an absurd and ahistorical comment. That is exactly the way out.

Only if you lock them up forever. We know - absolutely know - that the vast amount of violent crime involving a victim is done by a small minority of repeat offenders. Nothing less than permanent lock-up will stop them. They simply can not be deterred.

I'm ok with that. Hell, I'm ok with exiling them to a colony. But most people are not.

Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 01, 2024 09:27 AM (2tdDi)

329 So if it take a 10,000 hours to be an expert and we see that in Groundhog Day Phil mastered 6 or 7 subject then he may have been stuck for 35 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 09:27 AM (ENQN6)

330 324 Maybe this isn't about getting votes for Joe Biden, but for Taylor Swift.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice'

I'll vote for Taylor Swift when and if she grows a visible ass.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 01, 2024 09:26 AM (43xH1)

"This is about, er, yeah. Me?"

- - Lumpy Fetterman

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:27 AM (x0n13)

331 Illegal immigrants are able to survive and stay here because the federal budget allows it in many's ways. One way is through the Child Tax Credit, which Congress expanded not too long ago to include illegal immigrants children.

That Republicans and particularly Johnson would not explicitly exclude illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer funds through this dodge, is not only insidious, but tells you all you need to know.

BTW, I was told by a Republican staffer my understanding of the Child Tax Credit was incorrect. I then pointed them to the IRS page which explains the CTC. A third grader could read it and realize exactly what it means.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2024 09:27 AM (OZtA4)

332 Swift is no Debbie Gibson.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

She's not even a Marie Osmond.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:28 AM (9yWhg)

333 If you look at RCP the last 6 or 7 polls show Trump winning nationally. Quinnipiac is either an outlier or the start of a trend. Time will tell.

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 09:28 AM (bWsRe)

334 >>They told us what they were doing ahead of time in 2020. Don't be surprised if Trump is winning on election day and then you wake up the next day and he's lost.

>>Danged if that didn't happen.

I won't be surprised. I think they might be surprised by the reaction. It took a while but a large percentage of the country now believes the 2020 election was stolen despite or maybe because of the left's attempt to crush that belief.

J6 might look like a picnic if they do that again while the country is teetering on invasion, recession and war.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 01, 2024 09:28 AM (LkLld)

335 Would someone explain to me again, what's wrong with a Palestinian state at the southern end of the Sinai?
Posted by: Marooned

I think it's great. Force those fucking animals ti live like the rest of humanity with ALL of the responsibilities of a nation state.

And when they pull an October surprise again, Israel formally declares war and dpends four years eliminating all of palestine.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 01, 2024 09:28 AM (TuRLx)

336 Typical leftists, incapable of dealing with or looking at consequences, and, instead, treats things as if they happen in isolation. Context is a meaningless construct, as far as the left is concerned.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:24 AM (tT6L1)

They understand the consequences. They are fully intended.

No billionaire from NY is going to run as a Republican again, I can guarantee that. No head of a company incorporated in Delaware will go against the narrative.

Posted by: blaster at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (xhfG9)

337 328 "What an absurd and ahistorical comment. That is exactly the way out."

Only if you lock them up forever. We know - absolutely know - that the vast amount of violent crime involving a victim is done by a small minority of repeat offenders. Nothing less than permanent lock-up will stop them. They simply can not be deterred.

I'm ok with that. Hell, I'm ok with exiling them to a colony. But most people are not.
Posted by: It Is What It Is at February 01, 2024 09:27 AM (2tdDi)

That's what 3-strikes laws were about. Chronic offenders don't really chill out until pretty old generally.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (eYoxG)

338 People commission polls to push a narrative.

That's it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (Q4IgG)

339 The child tax credit is increasing again for “low income” families. In other words more free money for illegals and the lazy. And it passed the house with 370 votes.

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (bWsRe)

340 I'll vote for Taylor Swift when and if she grows a visible ass.
Posted by: LenNeal

*sobs*
-- Brie Larson

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (9yWhg)

341 JJ brother, for the 2A you missed the Saint Benitez ruling in CA yesterday. That was huge along with the standard magazine and semi auto rulings they can only bottle it up for so long.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (OZtA4)

342 311 I have a secret desire for Hillary to die in a cellulite fire. Oops, it's not secret anymore.
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Does that mean spontaneously combust?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (Dm8we)

Like a Spinal Tap drummer

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (ENQN6)

343 Oh no! Quinnipiac poll of registered voters has Biden at 50% nationally!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice - Personality Commentator at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (C2U4G)

344 If passed by the Senate, the $78 billion tax package called the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 would increase the child tax credit and restore critical research and development deductions. It includes new low-income housing tax credits and disaster tax relief and tax benefits for Taiwan. If passed, the changes would be in effect through 2025 when previous Republican tax cuts expire.

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One this it apparently DOES NOT DO? Extend or make permanent the 2017 tax cuts which mainly impact the middle class and are set to expire next year.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 01, 2024 09:30 AM (xSX/p)

345 Censorship. . . . . on AceHQ? Really?

Posted by: Wondering aloud at February 01, 2024 09:30 AM (+MYDN)

346 .

NOOD

The Mid-Morning Art Thread is up.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 01, 2024 09:30 AM (qPw5n)

347 I watched a bit of the debate over this bill yesterday. Disgusting. Government is a criminal enterprise.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at February 01, 2024 09:30 AM (QN7a1)

348 Pennsylvania is a huge East Coast state with no ocean beaches. Delaware is a fly-speck of a "state" with many nice ocean beaches. PA should have invaded, subsumed, gobbled up DE decades ago, just for fairness reasons.

Posted by: Beach Equity, Now!! at February 01, 2024 09:30 AM (V5BDR)

349 Do any of you have a recommendation for a tactical shotgun?
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I've been checking out firearms recently, including tac shotguns, coincidentally enough. Not recommendations as I haven't used any of them but here's a selection for different shapes and styles:

+Benelli SuperNova Tactical 12-Gauge Pump Shotgun w/ Collapsible Pistol Grip Stock
+Benelli M4 Tactical Telescoping Stock 12 Gauge 18.5″ Black Synthetic
+Kel-Tec KS7 Pump Action 12ga 18.5″ Shotgun
+Hima Arms HG-105 12Gauge 18.5″ Black bullpup too semi
Hunt Group FD12 12 Gauge 20″ Bronze bullpup too semi
+Canuck FD12 Bullpup, Semi-Automatic Shotgun, 20.00” Chome Lined Barrel 12GA [Canadian-made one -- Canuck has a bunch of tac SGs although probably unavailable in the U.S.]

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 01, 2024 09:30 AM (2yu8s)

350
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Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 09:30 AM (ENQN6)

351 342 311 I have a secret desire for Hillary to die in a cellulite fire. Oops, it's not secret anymore.
Posted by: Northernlurker
___________

Does that mean spontaneously combust?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (Dm8we)

Like a Spinal Tap drummer
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This seems a normal human reaction.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 01, 2024 09:31 AM (Hpgos)

352 Speaking of polls…

One out today shows Biden winning by 3.

In Minnesota.

Posted by: Montec at February 01, 2024 09:31 AM (bWsRe)

353
They understand the consequences. They are fully intended.

No billionaire from NY is going to run as a Republican again, I can guarantee that. No head of a company incorporated in Delaware will go against the narrative.
Posted by: blaster at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (xhfG9)
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Fair point.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:31 AM (tT6L1)

354 However, at the start of the first World War in 1915, each (French) soldier was regularly given a 1/4-litre bottle of wine. By 1916, this had risen to half a liter."
That went away by the time WWII commenced. To think that they once had the best army in Europe...
Posted by: runner"

Wars are fought on drugs and alcohol. Take that away you get fanatics and psycho-killers and not much of anybody else.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 01, 2024 09:31 AM (43xH1)

355 341 JJ brother, for the 2A you missed the Saint Benitez ruling in CA yesterday. That was huge along with the standard magazine and semi auto rulings they can only bottle it up for so long.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2024 09:29 AM (OZtA4)

I actually had it yesterday or the day before. The salient point was this law and the GOP greasing the skids.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:31 AM (x0n13)

356 You take the blonde
Ill take the one in the turban

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 01, 2024 09:32 AM (ENQN6)

357 All Signs Indicate North Korea is Preparing for War

Who has "Chinese Invasion of Taiwan" on their 2024 card?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 09:32 AM (ynpvh)

358 312 Matthew Foldi
@MatthewFoldi

Can’t make this up

THREE DAYS AGO, staff at the George Soros-funded liberal group Run for Something unionized

Today, massive layoffs
Posted by: redridinghood at February 01, 2024 09:23 AM (NpAcC)

Jeez, these clowns better than anyone should understand that Soros doesn't actually believe any of this leftist bullshit.

He just wants to short the crashing US economy and make quadrillions of bucks, just like he did the Bank of England.

They're just there to help George smash the economy. Get a clue, Bozos!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2024 09:33 AM (nFnyb)

359 I see someone is complaining about censorship on AoS.

Whatever.

Go over to DU and see how long you last, wondering.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:33 AM (tT6L1)

360 @297 Same passage in Real English:
"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."

And there in one passage is why I disdain Smoov Tawk fo de Moderan Man editions. You are being dumbed-down to.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 01, 2024 09:33 AM (zdLoL)

361 Was Ghostbusters peak Sigourney?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"

No. That's Galaxy Quest.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 01, 2024 09:33 AM (43xH1)

362 Am I the only person who didn't think Ghostbusters was that great ? It had some amusing parts, but it was no Animal House , Caddyshack or even Stripes. I saw a trailer for the new one and my reaction was meh
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 01, 2024 08:40 AM (hB1mF)

Yes. You are.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 01, 2024 09:34 AM (iODuv)

363 You say "I want my lawyer." Period. That is the response to absolutely everything when you are in discussions with law enforcement.

Sadly, you also have to say or write: "I am asserting my right to remain silent." As just remaining silent does not qualify as asserting your right to remain silent. You have to actively claim your right to remain silent or you lose that right. That is not something I made up, it is an actual Supreme Court ruling in a case exactly about that subject.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 01, 2024 09:34 AM (CecP5)

364 All Signs Indicate North Korea is Preparing for War

Who has "Chinese Invasion of Taiwan" on their 2024 card?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 09:32 AM (ynpvh)

Yep.

China's pit bull always starts growling when China's about to do something shady.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2024 09:34 AM (nFnyb)

365 "I actually had it yesterday or the day before. The salient point was this law and the GOP greasing the skids.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 01, 2024 09:31 AM (x0n13)"

The ATF garbage in private sales isn't going to fly. It is in direct violation of the statute. That doesn't mean they won't try, but with the Chevron deference about to take it in the neck, the long term prospects for their subversion is not good.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2024 09:35 AM (OZtA4)

366 359 I see someone is complaining about censorship on AoS.

Whatever.

Go over to DU and see how long you last, wondering.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:33 AM (tT6L1)

It used to be that there was no guardrail for the ignorant and stupid. We might be Morons, but at least we ain't that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 09:36 AM (ynpvh)

367 The ATF garbage in private sales isn't going to fly. It is in direct violation of the statute. That doesn't mean they won't try, but with the Chevron deference about to take it in the neck, the long term prospects for their subversion is not good.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 01, 2024 09:35 AM (OZtA4)
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I believe the upcoming Chevron ruling may roll back a lot of the rule making garbage. I don't know what's going on with the SCOTUS docket, only that SCOTUS may overturn or gut Chevron. (I really hope I've got the right case)

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(tT6L1) at February 01, 2024 09:37 AM (tT6L1)

368 Do any of you have a recommendation for a tactical shotgun?

Preferably one that you actually use.

Or, a great multipurpose shotgun that would work well for home defense.

Posted by: naturalfake'

Mossberg 590.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 01, 2024 09:37 AM (43xH1)

369 Nood

Posted by: vic at February 01, 2024 09:38 AM (A5THL)

370 The supposed test-to-tank failure of a rocket tank being tested by the Chinese pseudo-company Landspace on January 29, 2024 apparently injured three workers, though officials also claimed everything worked as planned."

Um yeah, that was SUPPOSED

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 09:38 AM (ynpvh)

371 370 The supposed test-to-tank failure of a rocket tank being tested by the Chinese pseudo-company Landspace on January 29, 2024 apparently injured three workers, though officials also claimed everything worked as planned."

Um yeah, that was SUPPOSED

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 09:38 AM (ynpvh)

SUPPOSED to happen.

Hell...I don't know what I hit on my keyboard to prematurely ejaculate the last post...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 01, 2024 09:39 AM (ynpvh)

372 Swift is no Debbie Gibson.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
She's not even a Marie Osmond.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus'

Back in The Day, I would have banged the eyeliner and hairspray off Marie Osmond, after a manly-man act of bitch-slapping her brother and ripping off her funny underwear.

Posted by: LenNeal at February 01, 2024 09:41 AM (43xH1)

373 Thanks for the recommendations everyone!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at February 01, 2024 09:43 AM (nFnyb)

374 Probably not censorship but a newbie using long-character strings; a forbidden advertising word or the like b l a z e r; or other anti-spam trigger and thinking it's censorship. Like the one guy who tried repeating the same all-caps comment a dozen times and was upset that only three of them got posted.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 01, 2024 09:45 AM (2yu8s)

375 +1 for Mossberg 590.

Posted by: PabloD at February 01, 2024 09:46 AM (x96/P)

376 Thanks for the recommendations everyone!!!
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BTW, I missed that the Benelli M4 is a semiauto too. I watched YouTube videos of a couple to see how they work too. BTW, I'm only a newbie.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 01, 2024 09:47 AM (2yu8s)

377 Trump is always angry

[Kurt, you'd be angry too if you were a patriot like Trump who's being martyred while your tormenters are destroying the nation you love right before your eyes. But you're the court jester to the tyrants, an imbecile and stooge. Hit my tip jar. Surely Soros' sub minimum wage is still enough to enjoy the privilege of being our whipping boy? - jjs]

Posted by: Paul banned [Kurt the swallower of semen and bullshit] at February 01, 2024 10:25 AM (2sWac)

378 GM, all, and thanks, J.J.

Didn't realize Ale's been long in the game. As an Asst. U.S. Attorney in Cali, lots of white collar crime prosecutions including Heidi Fleiss. Recommended by Feinstein & appointed by Slick Willie, became the country's youngest U.S. Attorney. In 2000, worked on obtaining executive clemency for narcotics trafficker Carolos Vignali Jr., whose prison sentence was commuted on Clinton's last day in office.

Member of O & Joe's transition team, appointed in '09 as director of US Citizenship & Immigration services & quickly implemented the DACA process. Lead the efforts to rescue orphaned Haitian children following the January 2010 earthquake; the 1st time an agency could issue the max # of visas to 'victims of crime.' Cabinet nomination by FJB (2016) was endorsed by the FOP & several former Secretaries. Became the 1st refugee to lead DHS. And, since most foreign-born Cabinet members are not natural-born citizens, he's ineligible to exercise the powers of the president of the US in the event "neither a President nor VP" is able to "discharge the powers and duties" of the presidency, Presidential Succession Act, 1947.

New American Leaders & BBB

Stand w/TX!

Posted by: L - Confident they're working on new 'rope-a-dope' techniques for the Presidential election at February 01, 2024 10:37 AM (GshMh)

379 Varick Street off & on

Posted by: L - Confident they're working on new 'rope-a-dope' techniques for the Presidential election at February 01, 2024 10:52 AM (GshMh)

380 Once again, JJ invokes the help of allah (his "inshallah" under climate change). God willing, he'll stop begging allah for help.

Posted by: bradc at February 01, 2024 04:22 PM (0jNN6)

381 Greɑt article, totallу ᴡһat I needed.

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