THE MORNING RANT: Decentralization versus Libertarianism

Earlier this week I posted a piece titled “More Winning in the Culture Wars at the State & Local Level.” It discussed major victories against woke capital, green energy, DEI, etc that are occurring at the state level. The thesis of the piece was that we will never win these battles at the federal level – certainly not in the halls of Congress - but we are winning them at the state level. A conservative Republican elected as state Attorney General, or to the state Utility Commission, or as Treasurer entrusted with investing state funds, is far more important to our cause than any US Senate seat.

State-level victories in the culture war are also an important reminder about the importance of federalism, which perhaps could use a re-branding as “Decentralization.”

Those of us on the right who cherish freedom, the Bill of Rights, etc have long championed federalism, but we often conflated the idealistic personal freedom of libertarianism with the vast economic and political freedom that federalism makes possible.

With 50 states offering 50 “laboratories of democracy” there are 50 different permutations of political and economic freedom (or lack thereof) that are possible.

Perhaps because “states’ rights” is a term that carries racial baggage, too many conservatives abandoned the idea of federalism altogether, and instead became obsessed with the utopian notion of liberty via national - or even global - libertarianism, which is just as unrealistic as “true communism,” due to human nature of course. Instead, we ended up with a freedom-crushing level of corporatism in which government tyranny has been outsourced to an oligopoly of obedient mega-corporations, who monitor, censor, and control allowable thoughts and behaviors on behalf of government and/or the ruling class.

As Nick Hudson notes, unelected “world leaders” such as Klaus Schwab are most afraid of not having top-down control over all political and economic activity. Schwab does not fear any disobedience from a mega-corporation that has been entrusted as the enforcer of the WEF’s anti-freedom agenda, but he is very fearful of decentralized bodies that are not under his control. Per Mr. Hudson:

The “anti-system” to [Schwab’s] world-destroying authoritarian one is not libertarianism, but decentralization; a world where ideas compete in an open society and many alternative systems are free to flourish or fail.

Roger Kimball has also recently been discussing the importance of Decentralization.

“Our Democracy™: The Democratic Weaponization of Government and the Need for Decentralization” [American Greatness – 01/28/2024]

The overriding imperative, as I have argued before, must be to do everything possible to reduce the place of Washington in the metabolism of American political life. To this end, Trump should endeavor as far as possible to govern the country from outside of Washington. The first symbolic act should be to hold the inauguration someplace other than Washington. I do not insist that it be held in Mar-a-Lago, but why not?

Decentralization goes beyond politics, obviously. Corporate monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels must be broken up so that authentic, competitive marketplaces can return. A greater number of smaller competitors might also rid us of global-celebrity CEOs who have more power and influence than do many heads of state - power and influence that they are using to pursue suppression of personal and economic freedom.

Decentralization rather than libertarianism looks like the best hope for liberty right now.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:01 AM (geLO8)

2 2

Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 11:03 AM (W/lyH)

3 Sorry. Libertarianism is what brought us the unmitigated disaster at the border.

LP Platform
3.4 Free Trade and Migration

We support the removal of governmental impediments to free trade. Political freedom and escape from tyranny demand that individuals not be unreasonably constrained by government in the crossing of political boundaries. Economic freedom demands the unrestricted movement of human as well as financial capital across national borders.

Fuck those potheads.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2024 11:03 AM (5apCz)

4 Rick Perry's signal contribution to our national discussion was his slogan that he aimed to make government as irrelevant to our lives as possible.

Well, that and counting to three.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2024 11:04 AM (CsUN+)

5 Fun fact: Geo Washington was inaugurated in NYC

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:04 AM (geLO8)

6 The “anti-system” to [Schwab’s] world-destroying authoritarian one is not libertarianism, but decentralization; a world where ideas compete in an open society and many alternative systems are free to flourish or fail.
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Even an "open society" is not a prerequisite as such.

One decentralized, independent component - a town, a church, an entire country, whatever - can be authoritarian as hell and still be decentralized. That's the point. If you want to live under authoritarianism, you're welcome to it - so long as your authoritarian hellhole doesn't try to impose itself on its neighors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:05 AM (HnUIn)

7 Fun fact: John Q Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long pants

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:05 AM (geLO8)

8 Fun fact: John Q Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long pants

And Joe Biden was the first to be sworn in wearing Depends.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2024 11:06 AM (CsUN+)

9 To this end, Trump should endeavor as far as possible to govern the country from outside of Washington. The first symbolic act should be to hold the inauguration someplace other than Washington. I do not insist that it be held in Mar-a-Lago, but why not?
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I like it, actually. Don't hold it in Mar-a-Lago, though. I think that would look pretty bad, putting man over office, egotistical, etc.

Hold it somewhere in the Interior, in a place anathema to Washington. Oklahoma, maybe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:06 AM (HnUIn)

10 Fun fact: John Q Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long pants
Posted by: Don Black

You mean, as opposed to breeches?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 11:06 AM (9yWhg)

11 Warren G Harding was the 1st President to arrive at the inaugural by car

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:08 AM (geLO8)

12 Decentralization goes beyond politics, obviously. Corporate monopolies, oligopolies, and cartels must be broken up so that authentic, competitive marketplaces can return. A greater number of smaller competitors might also rid us of global-celebrity CEOs who have more power and influence than do many heads of state - power and influence that they are using to pursue suppression of personal and economic freedom.
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Where it makes sense or is possible, shop local. There's probably a non-chain (or at worst, regional chain) restaurant or store you can frequent, or a decent local credit union you can use. Sometimes, it's a bad fit but if it isn't, consider shopping local first.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:08 AM (HnUIn)

13 "Sorry. Libertarianism is what brought us the unmitigated disaster at the border."

Yep, all that power they weild. Stupid doesn't begin to cut it dude.

Posted by: DOYLE at February 23, 2024 11:08 AM (Z8Yh2)

14 Fun fact: John Q Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long pants
Posted by: Don Black
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Makes sense. Knee breeches had been on the way out on the fashion scene for the preceding couple of decades.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:09 AM (0gvpA)

15 JFK: First inaugural parade for which Army flame throwers were used to clear snow from Pennsylvania Avenue.

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:09 AM (geLO8)

16 *You mean, as opposed to breeches?*

The Sunday morning book thread would like a word.

Posted by: Strange Pants at February 23, 2024 11:09 AM (NBVIP)

17 Chicago Mayor Johnson Asks to Add $1.25 Billion to City’s Debt

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It's like the captain of the Titanic asking the passengers to bail water into the ship.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:09 AM (FVME7)

18 Warren G Harding was the 1st President to arrive at the inaugural by car

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:08 AM (geLO

Didn't Carter walk to his? Shoulda' been a clue right there.

Posted by: BignJames at February 23, 2024 11:09 AM (AwYPR)

19 You mean, as opposed to breeches?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 11:06 AM (9yWhg)

Biden is a breech-loader, as in he puts loads into his breeches.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:09 AM (tkR6S)

20 Fun fact: John Q Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long pants
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And that codpiece was to die for.

Posted by: Pete Bootyboy at February 23, 2024 11:10 AM (woPEM)

21 >>Hold it somewhere in the Interior, in a place anathema to Washington. Oklahoma, maybe.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:06 AM (HnUIn)
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My Rushmore would be epic

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 23, 2024 11:10 AM (oWzei)

22 Oklahoma! Where the Trump towers high as an elephant's eye!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 11:10 AM (2yu8s)

23 Thinking about it , surprised the Liberty Bell hasn't been removed

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2024 11:11 AM (C8TDz)

24 Decentralization rather than libertarianism looks like the best hope for liberty right now.

But dude...we need, like, drug decriminalization and open borders, like, now!

Posted by: Current Libertarian Party Priorities at February 23, 2024 11:11 AM (JCZqz)

25 My Rushmore would be epic
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 23, 2024 11:10 AM (oWzei)
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SoDak in the winter? Not bloody likely.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:11 AM (0gvpA)

26 My Rushmore would be epic
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 23, 2024 11:10 AM (oWzei)
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Yeah, that would be a pretty good choice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:11 AM (HnUIn)

27 Morning.

I think we should just say fuck it all and go back to living as a nomadic species.

Worked for 250,000 years, pretty sure it could work now.

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:11 AM (acc6r)

28 JFK started Global Warming!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 11:11 AM (2yu8s)

29 https://www.aoc.gov/what-we-do/

programs-ceremonies/inauguration

'aoc' means 'architect of the capitol'

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:12 AM (geLO8)

30 My Rushmore would be epic
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly

South Dakota in January? Could be probelmatic.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 11:12 AM (9yWhg)

31 this is a major element in fights over concepts now.

decentralization taken to the ultimate extreme is libertarian.
Libertarianism, at least among some factions, is focused first on decentralization, and going on from there. They are taking to heart Murray Rothbard's position that if you abolished the state tomorrow, by the end of the week you will have another one, and that one will be missing all the restraints that had been built into the old one

Posted by: Kindltot at February 23, 2024 11:12 AM (D7oie)

32 11 Warren G Harding was the 1st President to arrive at the inaugural by car
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I believe it was a Pierce Arrow.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (Hpgos)

33 Mt Rushmore would be nice in May. The observation deck would be a nice place.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (R4t5M)

34 Libertarianism has brought us a plague of people who absolutely reek of weed. Disgusting.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (fs1hN)

35 11 Warren G Harding was the 1st President to arrive at the inaugural by car
Posted by: Don Black

He'll yeah. Regulators! Mount up.

Posted by: Nate Dogg and Warren G at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (JCZqz)

36 >My Rushmore would be epic

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly

S Dakota in January could be rough

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (geLO8)

37 Excellent topic, Buckster.

"A conservative Republican elected as state Attorney General, or to the state Utility Commission, or as Treasurer entrusted with investing state funds, is far more important to our cause than any US Senate seat."

Indeed.

Posted by: Danimal28 at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (klw0w)

38 Fuck those potheads.

While you're rantin' and ravin' and carrying on with your comedy act, take a quick peek at the first platform of the Republicans.
Go ahead: I'll hold your frock coat and knickerbockers.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (zdLoL)

39 How about holding it in front of Mt. Rushmore?

Posted by: BigMeanie at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (WSALe)

40 I am Nomad. I am performing my function. Deep, emptiness. It approaches, collision, damage, blackness. I am the other. I am Tan Ru. Tan Ru. Nomad. Tan Ru. Error. Flaw. Imperfection. Must sterilize. Rebirth. We are complete. Much power. Gan Ta Nu Ika. Tan Ru. The creator instructs, search out, identify, sterilize imperfections. We are Nomad. We are Nomad. We are complete. We are instructed. Our purpose is clear. Sterilize imperfections. Sterilize imperfections. Nomad! Sterilize! Sterilize! Nomad! Sterilize!

Posted by: Nomad at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (2yu8s)

41 But to the topic of the essay: Yes, I wish more states would tell DC to GF itself

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (geLO8)

42 Won't you help?

Kansas City Super Bowl Parade Murder Suspect Had a GoFundMe Set Up to Help Him Get Through a “Tragic Time”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:14 AM (FVME7)

43 Yeah, that would be a pretty good choice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:11 AM (HnUIn)

On top of Devil's Tower, with a giant flying saucer hovering overhead, zapping random Communists with disintegrator beams.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:14 AM (tkR6S)

44 Trump’s inauguration needs to be held in a jurisdiction that won’t be shy about arresting and prosecuting antifa.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 23, 2024 11:14 AM (u73oe)

45 Lord Acton was right a long time ago. No concentrations of power, please

Or has Dennis Prager has often said: The bigger the government, the smaller the individual

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 23, 2024 11:15 AM (Dd+/6)

46 Posted by: Nomad at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (2yu8s)

Chevy Nomad?

Posted by: BignJames at February 23, 2024 11:15 AM (AwYPR)

47 Libertarians and decentralizers should focus on accomplishing Grover Norquist's goal of making the federal government small enough that it could be drowned in a bathtub.

In related news, I see that Chip Roy is excited about reducing the federal government budget by $73B. The projected deficit in the next fiscal year is $1.8T.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (ogTiX)

48 do it at RFK Stadium

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (geLO8)

49 Endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Millard Filmore at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (woPEM)

50 Fuck those potheads.

While you're rantin' and ravin' and carrying on with your comedy act, take a quick peek at the first platform of the Republicans.
Go ahead: I'll hold your frock coat and knickerbockers.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (zdLoL)

Heh. Bill Buckley was pro-legalization.

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (acc6r)

51 RIP Vice.com....just kidding, fuck those guys in particular.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (xcxpd)

52 Chicago Mayor Johnson Asks to Add $1.25 Billion to City’s Debt

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It's like the captain of the Titanic asking the passengers to bail water into the ship.

They're assuming a Federal bailout, so why not spend it now? The idea that a bailout might not be coming is simply to horrible to contemplate, so they refuse to think about it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (CsUN+)

53 39 How about holding it in front of Mt. Rushmore?
Posted by: BigMeanie at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (WSALe)

South Dakota in January could be rough.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (VtYZF)

54 In related news, I see that Chip Roy is excited about reducing the federal government budget by $73B. The projected deficit in the next fiscal year is $1.8T.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (ogTiX)
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Fuck a doodle-doo.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:16 AM (0gvpA)

55 The Alamo.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 23, 2024 11:17 AM (R4t5M)

56 The Alamo.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 23, 2024 11:17 AM (R4t5M)

A good choice.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:18 AM (tkR6S)

57 Our purpose is clear. Sterilize imperfections. Sterilize imperfections. Nomad! Sterilize! Sterilize! Nomad! Sterilize!
Posted by: Nomad at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (2yu8s)

Do you have a campaign website? I'd like to know where I can donate.

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:18 AM (acc6r)

58 The first symbolic act should be to hold the inauguration someplace other than Washington.

Some of you may be wondering why we're at farm in rural Iowa for this historic event. I figure, if I'm going to be surround by pigs feeding at a trough, and stepping knee dip in shit, I should do it with the people that helped make America great...the blue-collar farmers of this great nation, and not the politicians that make life harder for us.

(Senator Ernst in the background, jumping like a chihuahua, trying to get into frame and hoping Trump says something about making them "squeal like a pig")

Posted by: Based President Trump at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (JCZqz)

59 There's too much sanity going on here!

Warner Brothers’ Top DEI Executive Endorses Pushing Out Non-Woke Employees

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)

60 Sure, crims in Canada can own automatic weapons but not me. And on .223/5.56 Friday!

Sarbraj Singh Kahlon @sarbrajskahlon
NEW: Shocking CCTV footage captures brazen early morning shooting in White Rock, as attackers use automatic weapons on a car in residential area. Four male victims left in serious condition

http://tinyurl.com/yc5ew92e
24 seconds; LOUD

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (2yu8s)

61 While you're rantin' and ravin' and carrying on with your comedy act, take a quick peek at the first platform of the Republicans.
Go ahead: I'll hold your frock coat and knickerbockers.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

Talk about a comedy act. You don't think they've changed one iota since 1854. GTFOOH with that ancient shit.

You have to go all the way back to 1854 to find something disagreeable? 😂😂😂

How about something newer like 1954 & Operation Wetback?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (5apCz)

62 56 The Alamo.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 23, 2024 11:17 AM (R4t5M)

A good choice.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:18 AM (tkR6S)

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And then he can go eat lunch at the Texas Sizzle just down the road!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

63 In related news, I see that Chip Roy is excited about reducing the federal government budget by $73B. The projected deficit in the next fiscal year is $1.8T.

I'm glad you weren't in charge at D-Day. "It's not the whole European theater, so why bother getting excited?"

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (CsUN+)

64 I don't like authority at any level, but 50 competing states is intriguing. The corporations won't like it - "how can we do business when we have to comply with 50 separate sets of rules? Waaaah."

Posted by: Oglebay at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (ogTiX)

65 In related news, I see that Chip Roy is excited about reducing the federal government budget by $73B. The projected deficit in the next fiscal year is $1.8T.
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We need an infusion of 535 Milei's into Congress, stat!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (fs1hN)

66 They like to call Americans “anti democratic”.

Take a guess how many times “Democracy” is mentioned in the text of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution or Bill of Rights?

Not once, that’s how many times. Restricting the vote to landowning males wasn’t going to remain, however “Universal suffrage” doomed the enterprise.

Democracy is a form of government, ostensibly ruled by the masses, results in license, agitation, and discontent. Attitudes toward property communistic. Mob rule. Sound familiar? It should.

Government is now chock full of opprtunistic crooks looting the treasury, exactly as predicted.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:20 AM (HYyZn)

67 An even greater threat to Americans are the unaccountable bureaucracies that make laws outside of congress. I don't recall voting for net zero, or X percent lower carbon by 2030. I certainly hope the supreme court plows the Chevron ruling under. I realize that this will force congress to actually vote on things their constituents don't want, or, maybe congress will finally see the cost of going against the American people.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 23, 2024 11:21 AM (lTGtQ)

68 On topic, being ruled by your neighbors IS prefereable to being ruled from afar...unless your goal is to ignore onerous laws. One problem with local rulership is that it's harder to be ignored. If you're living in a repressive regime, like CA or MA or WA, state laws are more directly enforced. If they are unjust laws, that's extra pressure and attention you don't want.

In theory, it's easier to make change at the local level but in practice....you might get screwed harder and more personally. I suppose the solution to that is to move but that's a tough pill to swallow for many.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

69 S Dakota/Mt Rushmore inauguration:

Winters are cold with January high temperatures averaging below freezing and low temperatures averaging below 10 °F (−12 °C) in most of the state.

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:21 AM (geLO8)

70 I realize that this will force congress to actually vote on things their constituents don't want, or, maybe congress will finally see the cost of going against the American people.
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Sorry, no costs, only benefits.
-Congress

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 11:22 AM (fs1hN)

71
What was Muldoon's good news?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2024 11:23 AM (nFnyb)

72 Yahoo: Rivian stock tanks to all-time low after job cuts, slash in production outlook

http://tinyurl.com/6pvdx6d3

Should I feel bad for the people who bought these amazingly ugly vehicles?

Via Stephen Green.

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:23 AM (acc6r)

73 S Dakota in January could be rough

DC in January can also be rough.

Mount Rushmore's a great idea because the statue-destroying Left would lose their damn minds.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 11:23 AM (2ocoG)

74 44
‘ won’t be shy about arresting and prosecuting antifa.’

I would appreciate watching them get a good old fashioned ass beating.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 23, 2024 11:24 AM (jbnUc)

75 Have the inaguration at Mar-a-Lago.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 11:24 AM (fs1hN)

76 What was Muldoon's good news?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2024 11:23 AM (nFnyb)
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The new phone books are here?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:24 AM (0gvpA)

77 Kansas City Super Bowl Parade Murder Suspect Had a GoFundMe Set Up to Help Him Get Through a “Tragic Time”

Won’t you help? Let your heart guide your hand, when you write the check! Thank You!

Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:24 AM (HYyZn)

78 >What was Muldoon's good news?

Posted by: naturalfake

it's too complicated to explain, but no good news

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:25 AM (geLO8)

79 76 What was Muldoon's good news?
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Nothing. Someone misunderstood a Muldoon joke.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 11:25 AM (2yu8s)

80 Warner Brothers’ Top DEI Executive Endorses Pushing Out Non-Woke Employees

The remaining DEI power centers know that 1) everyone's onto them now and 2) DEI is a luxury white woman belief and can't survive Biden's economy so they're trying to boost their influence before they get defenestrated.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 11:25 AM (2ocoG)

81 The new phone books are here?
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The Nantucket Edition.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 11:25 AM (2yu8s)

82 The police have Muldoon's father in law's body

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 11:25 AM (u82oZ)

83 The Dow is over 39k, so my investments are doing okay. As always, there are those saying we're due for a severe correction, and also as usual, if I pull my money now, the market will continue on its upward trajectory.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (CsUN+)

84 Eagle Pass, TX has real potential.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (woPEM)

85 If Trump were to manage a reelection I'd still hold the ceremony in the capitol city. If, true to form the Democrats responsible for the steal opt out of attending, it would made good political sense to have them arrested and jetted off to Gitmo without any fanfare.

If they attend, drag them through the mud, verbally, then have them taken to Gitmo.

Either way..... but in all seriousness I think there are people that need to hang for 2020 if for no other reason than a warning to the rest of them.

And sweep the White House for bugs. Daily.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (Q4IgG)

86 What was Muldoon's good news?

That the cops arrested his dad. I have no idea what the backstory is that makes that good news.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (2ocoG)

87
Nomad! Sterilize! Sterilize! Nomad! Sterilize!
Posted by: Nomad

Oh, Bite Me!

Posted by: Landru at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (63Dwl)

88
Decentralization VS Goofballs on Pot

I'm goin' with Decentralization.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2024 11:27 AM (nFnyb)

89 On topic, being ruled by your neighbors IS prefereable to being ruled from afar...unless your goal is to ignore onerous laws.

It's hard to push back against some bureaucrat halfway across the country from you. When the bureaucrat lives in your neighborhood, and shops at the same grocery store...unpopular policies can make his/her life painful. That’s why they should be not only local, but not paid so much that they can avoid living amongst the normies.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 23, 2024 11:27 AM (JCZqz)

90 Sarbraj Singh Kahlon @sarbrajskahlon
NEW: Shocking CCTV footage captures brazen early morning shooting in White Rock, as attackers use automatic weapons on a car in residential area. Four male victims left in serious condition

http://tinyurl.com/yc5ew92e
24 seconds; LOUD
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 11:19 AM (2yu8s)

Factional fight in the International Sikh Youth Federation, I expect. Or maybe some Indian secret agents cleaning some of them up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:27 AM (tkR6S)

91 "Go ahead: I'll hold your frock coat and knickerbockers"

I don't have a frock coat. The closest I come to that is a suit jacket. I do have pants that reach to my knees, but they're flowered and more appropriate for summer. But thanks for the offer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024 11:27 AM (Ki//m)

92 >The police have Muldoon's father in law's body

Posted by: NaCly Dog

No
we were riffing on misunderstood song lyrics and he used 'police have my dad' for "Feliz Navidad"

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:27 AM (geLO8)

93 It's not safe for normal American citizens to go to the nation's capital any more.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 23, 2024 11:28 AM (woPEM)

94 All powers should be vested in and decisions made at the smallest workable scale.

Subsidiarity. Learn to love it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:28 AM (HnUIn)

95 The police have Muldoon's father in law's body
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 11:25 AM

That was what we all assumed. Muldoon says no.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2024 11:28 AM (Wnv9h)

96 I like "decentralization"

More dummies understand that than "federalism."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 23, 2024 11:28 AM (RIvkX)

97 68 In theory, it's easier to make change at the local level but in practice....you might get screwed harder and more personally. I suppose the solution to that is to move but that's a tough pill to swallow for many.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

Only the strong survive.

Posted by: XTC at February 23, 2024 11:29 AM (sm6Pk)

98 86 What was Muldoon's good news?

That the cops arrested his dad. I have no idea what the backstory is that makes that good news.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (2ocoG)

His dad wasn't arrested. Muldoon explained in the last thread. Seems it was a joke that was misunderstood.

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:29 AM (D00sD)

99

A conservative Republican elected as state Attorney General, or to the state Utility Commission, or as Treasurer entrusted with investing state funds, is far more important to our cause than any US Senate seat.
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To wit, a headline from last week and after having elected a firmly conservative majority in the 2022 election (they didn't think to steal those seats ... yet):

Arizona Corporation Commission moves to eliminate energy efficiency rules, renewables targets

The proposal is “a big step backwards” for Arizona, said Mark Kresowik, senior policy director for the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy

Cry MOAR, asshoe!

[Pull quote:] "The Arizona Corporation Commission on Feb. 6 initiated a proceeding to eliminate energy efficiency and renewable energy rules that conservative regulators say have cost the state’s electricity consumers billions of dollars but no longer provide much in system benefits."

https://is.gd/UzzDC8

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 11:29 AM (dsilq)

100 “Police have my dad”

Thanks, guys. LOL. I’ll never hear that tune any other way. I like the “One Ton Tomato” song too.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (HYyZn)

101 94 All powers should be vested in and decisions made at the smallest workable scale.

Subsidiarity. Learn to love it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:28 AM (HnUIn)

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Or,...stay with me on this...

Centralized power in the hands of the elite who are so perfectly educated and with so much knowledge that they can accurately predict the effects of policy to the smallest of levels.

Which will then magically go away and lead to classless utopia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (GBKbO)

102 The police have Muldoon's father in law's body
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 11:25 AM (u82oZ)

No. He was making a misheard song lyric joke.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (tkR6S)

103 I like "decentralization"

More dummies understand that than "federalism."

"Decentralization" is also a police term for making someone stop resisting, so I'm OK with that being used on leftists.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (2ocoG)

104 The police have Muldoon's father in law's body
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 11:25 AM (u82oZ)

Sadly, it appears that the line was a joke based on Feliz Navidad, and we were all overly hopeful. He explained it later, but I forgot to note the comment number.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (nC+QA)

105 93 It's not safe for normal American citizens to go to the nation's capital any more.
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I blame Black Lesbian Mayors and real estate pump and dumpers.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (Hpgos)

106 Or,...stay with me on this...

Centralized power in the hands of the elite who are so perfectly educated and with so much knowledge that they can accurately predict the effects of policy to the smallest of levels.

Which will then magically go away and lead to classless utopia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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It can't fail!!!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (HnUIn)

107 Centralized power in the hands of the elite who are so perfectly educated and with so much knowledge that they can accurately predict the effects of policy to the smallest of levels.

Which will then magically go away and lead to classless utopia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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Plato's Republic is a glaring example of why we don't let philosophers design our systems of government.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:31 AM (0gvpA)

108 I think Rush used to say "Meet me in the arena of ideas! I'll tie half my brain behind my back just to make it fair."

Posted by: pookysgirl, Rush Baby Forever at February 23, 2024 11:31 AM (dtlDP)

109 Yes, we'll certainly miss Vice. One of their articles still up is about those lying right wingers saying the Houston church shooter was a tranny. Yes, she did go by the name Jeffrey, but that's because she was crazy, not a tranny!

Posted by: Wally at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (hqVaF)

110 I like the “One Ton Tomato” song too.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM

*raises hand*

One Ton Tomato?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Wnv9h)

111 106 It can't fail!!!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (HnUIn)

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We can try it in Cambodia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

112 93 It's not safe for normal American citizens to go to the nation's capital any more.
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The criminals and the state are both looking for easy prey. I'd say New York is similar. Anarcho-Tyranny form of government.

I think that in most of the big blue cities, it's mostly just the criminals that are on the prowl and the most effort the state has put in so far is in letting the criminals back on the streets, rather than activily going after normal Americans. I could be wrong.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (fs1hN)

113 One Ton Tomato?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Wnv9h)
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Guantanamera.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (0gvpA)

114 One Ton Tomato?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Wnv9h)

Guantanamera.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:33 AM (tkR6S)

115 107 Plato's Republic is a glaring example of why we don't let philosophers design our systems of government.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:31 AM (0gvpA)

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I'm still convinced that The Republic is a satire of students instead of an earnest attempt to design a perfect society.

Socrates starts with a proposition that's so ridiculous that his students reject it. Socrates then uses a series of logical steps to convince the students of the justness of the proposition. The students then become fervent believers in the proposition.

I think one of those propositions is about cannibalism, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

116 Guantanameeeeera!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (0gvpA)

117 >Plato's Republic is a glaring example of why we don't let philosophers design our systems of government.

or participate in sports:

https://youtu.be/IjgVd7kf3t4?t=76

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (geLO8)

118 I think that in most of the big blue cities, it's mostly just the criminals that are on the prowl and the most effort the state has put in so far is in letting the criminals back on the streets, rather than activily going after normal Americans. I could be wrong.

It's societal Cloward-Piven, except instead of overloading the government they're overloading the citizens. Kind of clever in a demonic way.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (2ocoG)

119 Posted by: Nomad at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (2yu8s

I'm not getting the allusion. What is a nomad-aside from a person that likes to be alone?. Is this a reference to a movie or video game?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (Ki//m)

120 It can't fail!!!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (HnUIn)

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We can try it in Cambodia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

Isn't Cambodia the country with the Chillin' Fields?

Where everyone is all happy and relaxed and chill because their elites were so smart?

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (nFnyb)

121 I think that in most of the big blue cities, it's mostly just the criminals that are on the prowl and the most effort the state has put in so far is in letting the criminals back on the streets, rather than activily going after normal Americans. I could be wrong.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (fs1hN)
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The hoods prowl the streets.
The pols prowl the halls of power, finance and industry.

Both prey on the people caught up in the gears of the machinery, and neither is challenged so long as they don't intrude on each other's domains. The pols stay off the streets, the hoods stay out of the board rooms.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (HnUIn)

122 Plato's Republic is a glaring example of why we don't let philosophers design our systems of government.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:31 AM (0gvpA)

So much was explained when I read that the Japanese Bushido system was designed by a philosopher. No wonder the *in practice* part was brutal on everyone, including the people at the top, though especially on those at the bottom and foreigners.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (nC+QA)

123 One Ton Tomato?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 23, 2024 11:32 AM (Wnv9h)

Guantanamera.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Lizzo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

124 I'm not getting the allusion. What is a nomad-aside from a person that likes to be alone?. Is this a reference to a movie or video game?

Star Trek episode.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (CsUN+)

125 Polliwog the 'Ette

We do pay attention to the stories in the Horde.

The good news is we amused Muldoon greatly.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (u82oZ)

126 I'm still convinced that The Republic is a satire of students instead of an earnest attempt to design a perfect society.
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I've thought the same about The Symposium.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (Hpgos)

127 State-level victories in the culture war are also an important reminder about the importance of federalism, which perhaps could use a re-branding as “Decentralization.”

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[Even though MannixGPT beat me to it ...]

"Subsidiarity" FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 11:36 AM (dsilq)

128 115 I think one of those propositions is about cannibalism, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

Cannibalism is simply a modest proposal.

Posted by: XTC at February 23, 2024 11:36 AM (sm6Pk)

129 Government IS THE PROBLEM you idiot.

Posted by: Fisht at February 23, 2024 11:36 AM (BHEHK)

130 The Muldoon posts in this thread are an excellent example of the old game "post office".

Muldoon commented with a line that was mis-heard in Feliz Natividad. This was "the police have my dad".

This was misconstrued as the father-in-law has been found or Muldoon's father was being held by the police.

Muldoon's father-in-law is still missing and the search is ongoing.

So, no 'good news' yet.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2024 11:36 AM (D4kcr)

131 The Alamo.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 23, 2024 11:17 AM (R4t5M)

Promontory, Utah - the uniting of a nation.

Still, like Mt Rushmore, pretty cold in January...

Posted by: Boswell at February 23, 2024 11:37 AM (K+UlC)

132 I'm not getting the allusion. What is a nomad-aside from a person that likes to be alone?. Is this a reference to a movie or video game?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (Ki//m)
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Star Trek, the Original Show.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:37 AM (0gvpA)

133 Plato's Republic is a glaring example of why we don't let philosophers design our systems of government.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:31 AM (0gvpA)

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I'm still convinced that The Republic is a satire of students instead of an earnest attempt to design a perfect society.

Socrates starts with a proposition that's so ridiculous that his students reject it. Socrates then uses a series of logical steps to convince the students of the justness of the proposition. The students then become fervent believers in the proposition.

I think one of those propositions is about cannibalism, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:33 AM (GBKbO)

huh.

Maybe that's why Aristophanes often conflated Socrates with sophistry in his comedies.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2024 11:37 AM (nFnyb)

134 I'm not getting the allusion. What is a nomad-aside from a person that likes to be alone?. Is this a reference to a movie or video game?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (Ki//m)

It's an allusion to a machine in Star Trek. A giant interstellar robot, which, IIRC, was intended to seed life onto dead planets, but which went rogue and began killing all life on some planets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:38 AM (tkR6S)

135 Why do people dislike Kamala Harris? People doubt her ability to govern should something happen to Joe Biden. But when I try to research why, all I've found are vague opinions.

Back in 2020, an interviewee said “She police.” I think that sums up a lot of poorer folks’ opinions.

She has boobs and dark skin. That makes some folks "uncomfortable." I love her. I don't think she'll ever be President, though, and that makes me sad.

Those on the left don't like her because she was an effective district attorney, and the "defund the police" crowd doesn't like that. A lot of animosity toward her has been unfairly pushed by the illustrious "libural media". VP Harris is capable and smart. There is no doubt she has been unfairly treated.

You see the way women are treated. It took them 30 years to smear Hillary down. Now they’ve got the playbook, they start right on Kamala. We live in a patriarchy and one of the myriad consequences is women are judged far more harshly.

I really feel bad for Hillary. We should never have had that rapist sick fuck in office. But it was so much easier to demonize her because she is a woman.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

136 It's societal Cloward-Piven, except instead of overloading the government they're overloading the citizens. Kind of clever in a demonic way.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (2ocoG)

Anybody here *not* familiar with my opinion of That Bitch, Frances Fix Piven, and my disappointment that she has lived to be old?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 11:38 AM (nC+QA)

137 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:39 AM (IXZGh)

138 "A conservative Republican elected as state Attorney General, or to the state Utility Commission, or as Treasurer entrusted with investing state funds, is far more important to our cause than any US Senate seat."

Absolutely. But those state-level positions will also influence the choice of senators through the state political organizations.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2024 11:39 AM (gSZYf)

139 Why do people dislike Kamala Harris? People doubt her ability to govern should something happen to Joe Biden. But when I try to research why, all I've found are vague opinions. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)
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Consider doing some "research" outside of the left-wing disinformation/censorship bubble.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:39 AM (HnUIn)

140 139 Consider doing some "research" outside of the left-wing disinformation/censorship bubble.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:39 AM (HnUIn)

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Consider watching one of her speeches.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

141 Lizzo
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

Two tons of spoiled melons.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:40 AM (tkR6S)

142 MSNBC guest says Christian nationalists believe rights come from God, not government, and that this is different than what [real] Christians believe 🥴

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Yeah, what kind of wackjobs are they?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)

143 Relieved to read that my county in Western Colorado has passed a resolution to declare itself a NonSanctuary County with official notice sent to Denver this week. That's A win for now locally.

Posted by: Cheri at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (FGQ5G)

144 Absolutely. But those state-level positions will also influence the choice of senators through the state political organizations.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2024 11:39 AM (gSZYf)

Seems like that would be a positive.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (nC+QA)

145 ... You see the way women are treated. It took them 30 years to smear Hillary down. Now they’ve got the playbook, they start right on Kamala. We live in a patriarchy and one of the myriad consequences is women are judged far more harshly.

I really feel bad for Hillary. We should never have had that rapist sick fuck in office. But it was so much easier to demonize her because she is a woman.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)
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I have never understood, nor its sister position along the lines of "I'm voting for X because X is a woman!"

This is absurd. Hillary Clinton is no more a woman than Nancy Pelosi is a woman, or Chuck Schumer is a man, or Mitch McConnell is a man.

These are sexless creatures of power and vessels of demonic possession. Their genitals are immaterial.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

146 Lizzo
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

Two tons of spoiled melons.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:40 AM (tkR6S)
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Civilization-destroying asteroid.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (0gvpA)

147 One Ton Of Fan Mail

https://youtu.be/faV_uLLOPkk?si=vDha9cyhvUa349OD

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (geLO8)

148 142 MSNBC guest says Christian nationalists believe rights come from God, not government, and that this is different than what [real] Christians believe 🥴

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Yeah, what kind of wackjobs are they?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)

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Man...that person should really read the Declaration of Independence, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

149 Lizzo
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

It sickens me that pig bitch was allowed to play Madison's crystal flute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:42 AM (IXZGh)

150 Nomad! Sterilize! Sterilize! Nomad! Sterilize!

Posted by: Nomad

Oh, Bite Me!

Posted by: Landru at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (63Dwl)

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LOL.

Festival!

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (dsilq)

151 Say what you will about Tulsi but she supports Trump more than a lot of Republicans do. I watched her speech.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (USTAS)

152 119 Posted by: Nomad at February 23, 2024 11:13 AM (2yu8s

I'm not getting the allusion. What is a nomad-aside from a person that likes to be alone?. Is this a reference to a movie or video game?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024 11:34 AM (Ki//m)

*Orders Fen a Blu-ray copy of the complete Star Trek original series for Christmas*

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (9UtP8)

153 Obviously the method of the Dems in Wyoming where they've taken over the Republican Party without a shot fired. Any plans to ouster the pervert party from the GOP?

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (u3NjE)

154 She has boobs and dark skin. That makes some folks "uncomfortable."
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*considers own moobs*
*looks at own skin*
I make people uncomfortable??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (RIvkX)

155 Their genitals are immaterial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

I saw the Sexless Ghost Genitals open for the Butthole Surfers in '95 at Banana Joe's.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (VoAdT)

156 Nomad! Sterilize! Sterilize! Nomad! Sterilize!

Posted by: Nomad

Oh, Bite Me!

Posted by: Landru at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (63Dwl)
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Both of you, shut up!

Posted by: Vaal at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (0gvpA)

157 145 This is absurd. Hillary Clinton is no more a woman than Nancy Pelosi is a woman, or Chuck Schumer is a man, or Mitch McConnell is a man.

These are sexless creatures of power and vessels of demonic possession. Their genitals are immaterial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

I don't understand how anybody can see photographs on them, those smug demonic grins on their faces, and think that they're "good" or "on your side".

Posted by: XTC at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (sm6Pk)

158 Seems like that would be a positive.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (nC+QA)

Yes...I wasn't clear. I think Buck is 100% correct about this, and it may be the only way to take back D.C. from the corporatists.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (gSZYf)

159 Now, when you say "Madison's crystal flute," is that a euphemism? I need to know

Posted by: Mayor Pete at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (hqVaF)

160 Bullies gotta bully.

Unelected “world leaders” shall be eaten and shat out for the compost heap.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (EEgXH)

161 LOL.

Festival!
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (dsilq)

FUN, you stupid idiot!

Posted by: Anthrax at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (IXZGh)

162 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

Very true.

It would help their argument more if Hillary didn't make it clear she *hates* other women who may be competition and despises those who are no threat.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (nC+QA)

163 MSNBC guest says Christian nationalists believe rights come from God, not government, and that this is different than what [real] Christians believe ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)
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There is no such thing as "natural rights" or "human rights," only the right of power, which permits you to define and dictate the rights of those over whom you have power.

Excellent philosophy, if you happen to be a tyrant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

164 I really feel bad for Hillary. We should never have had that rapist sick fuck in office. But it was so much easier to demonize her because she is a woman.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)
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Something tells me this guy is not referring to either WJC or FJB...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2024 11:45 AM (7fElN)

165 She has boobs and dark skin. That makes some folks "uncomfortable."

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

I wish the DUmmies would post proof instead of assertions and mind-reading, but then they wouldn't be DUmmies.

Posted by: pookysgirl is sick of having her mind "read" at February 23, 2024 11:45 AM (dtlDP)

166 158 Yes...I wasn't clear. I think Buck is 100% correct about this, and it may be the only way to take back D.C. from the corporatists.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (gSZYf)

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I think the federal government is simply too far gone to save.

Our future is at the state level. The state level is more important now than it has been in a very long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)

167 Man...that person should really read the Declaration of Independence, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

But but… the guy who wrote that owned slaves, raped at least one of his slaves and didn’t think women should vote. All his statues should be banned and we should ignore everything he wrote!!! — at least 40% of Dems probably

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 23, 2024 11:45 AM (Dd+/6)

168 Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (9UtP

Thanks and to everybody that also answered, I did see much of it. I just don't recall that episode

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (Ki//m)

169 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (C8TDz)

170 I wish the DUmmies would post proof instead of assertions and mind-reading, but then they wouldn't be DUmmies.
Posted by: pookysgirl is sick of having her mind "read" at February 23, 2024 11:45 AM (dtlDP)

Well, when you're mindless, braindead sheep........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (IXZGh)

171 Excellent philosophy, if you happen to be a tyrant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

"Might makes right" seems to be the only thing the Dems actually believe.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (D4kcr)

172 " MSNBC guest says Christian nationalists believe rights come from God, not government, and that this is different than what [real] Christians believe."

I get all my religious views from people who think mutilating children is a fundamental human right.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (u3NjE)

173 135
‘ I really feel bad for Hillary. We should never have had that rapist sick fuck in office.’

But if Bill Clinton were never President, no one would know who Hillary was.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

174 163 There is no such thing as "natural rights" or "human rights," only the right of power, which permits you to define and dictate the rights of those over whom you have power.

Excellent philosophy, if you happen to be a tyrant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

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I want to believe that these people don't actually believe this nonsense, that they don't worship government to this degree where they are willing to subsume their entire set of rights and even their existence to the whims of those men and women who wield power.

But then I realize that they probably do believe it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

175 I think the federal government is simply too far gone to save.

Our future is at the state level. The state level is more important now than it has been in a very long time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:45 AM (GBKbO)
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Yup.

And when we hit a full-blown fiscal crisis, which is likely to occur within the next decade at the outside, the checks may start bouncing and the sanity and health of the state and local will become of utmost importance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (HnUIn)

176 I have never understood, nor its sister position along the lines of "I'm voting for X because X is a woman!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

And of course they return to genitalia being immaterial when the woman is conservative.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (gSZYf)

177 Their genitals are immaterial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

This is a combination of words one would never expect to read and may, in fact, be the first usage of such in the long history of the English language.

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (9UtP8)

178 171 Excellent philosophy, if you happen to be a tyrant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

"Might makes right" seems to be the only thing the Dems actually believe.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (D4kcr)

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Until they lose a fight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (GBKbO)

179 Excellent philosophy, if you happen to be a tyrant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

The biggest problem with Wille zur Macht is how flat out exhausting it is.

Sometimes an uebermensch just wants to crack a beer and watch some cricket after a long day, you know?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (VoAdT)

180 Nomad! Sterilize! Sterilize! Nomad! Sterilize!

Posted by: Nomad

Oh, Bite Me!

Posted by: Landru at February 23, 2024 11:26 AM (63Dwl)
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Both of you, shut up!
Posted by: Vaal at February 23, 2024 11:43 AM (0gvpA)
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Ssssssss! Sss.

Posted by: Gorn at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (RIvkX)

181 "I wish the DUmmies would post proof instead of assertions."

Much harder to refute unsubstantiated assertions. You just keep moving the goalposts and claim that's not the intent of what you were saying.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (u3NjE)

182 3 S Dakota in January could be rough

DC in January can also be rough.

Mount Rushmore's a great idea because the statue-destroying Left would lose their damn minds.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 11:23 AM (2ocoG)

Love the Mount Rushmore inauguration idea.
Trump 47 should be ALL about offense.
Screw cleaning up the Commie's mess--attack them like the lying, criminal traitorus dogs they are

Posted by: Voter theater. at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (fspFq)

183 Now, when you say "Madison's crystal flute," is that a euphemism? I need to know
Posted by: Mayor Pete

Euphemism for Harry Glasscock.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (5apCz)

184 Wild ~~Kingdom~~ President Dumb!

http://tinyurl.com/4bsau7wf

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (FVME7)

185 171 Excellent philosophy, if you happen to be a tyrant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

"Might makes right" seems to be the only thing the Dems actually believe.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (D4kcr)

Two things. "Might makes Right", and "Vae Victis" (Woe to the conquered).

Posted by: XTC at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (sm6Pk)

186 Well, when you're mindless, braindead sheep........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (IXZGh)
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Dammit, I hate that stereotype!

Posted by: A mindless braindead sheep at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (0gvpA)

187 I want to believe that these people don't actually believe this nonsense, that they don't worship government to this degree where they are willing to subsume their entire set of rights and even their existence to the whims of those men and women who wield power.

But then I realize that they probably do believe it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)
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They do believe it. They think they are in power, or will be. They'll be the wielders, not the wieldees.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (HnUIn)

188 I have never understood, nor its sister position along the lines of "I'm voting for X because X is a woman!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

And of course they return to genitalia being immaterial when the woman is conservative.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (gSZYf)

Especially when no one knows what a woman is. NO ONE!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (IXZGh)

189 ----------
Dammit, I hate that stereotype!
Posted by: A mindless braindead sheep at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (0gvpA)

FINE.

They're lemmings.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:48 AM (IXZGh)

190 I really feel bad for Hillary. We should never have had that rapist sick fuck in office.
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What does this have to do with Bill Clinton?

Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 11:48 AM (lZkXJ)

191 Their genitals are immaterial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

There's a Detachable Penis joke in there, somewhere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (tkR6S)

192

Euphemism for Harry Glasscock.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (5apCz)

We be mates.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (IXZGh)

193 Our future is at the state level. The state level is more important now than it has been in a very long time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

We agree.

Posted by: The Republic of Texas at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (5apCz)

194 176 I have never understood, nor its sister position along the lines of "I'm voting for X because X is a woman!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:41 AM (HnUIn)

And of course they return to genitalia being immaterial when the woman is conservative.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (gSZYf)

An ex of mine from long ago in days of yore voted for McCain/Palin because Woman. Pretty damn "liberal". Almost lefty. But... Woman.

I was really taken aback by the sincerity of the absurdity. Or the absurdity of the sincerity. Whatever. We split not too long after that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (VoAdT)

195 "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness"

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (EnT0Y)

196 Wieldees…. Great word formulation, Joe Mannix! Is it actually a word (says guy too lazy to look it up)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (Dd+/6)

197 190 I really feel bad for Hillary. We should never have had that rapist sick fuck in office.
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What does this have to do with Bill Clinton?
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 11:48 AM (lZkXJ)

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"Paula Jones was just a trailer park trash whore who had it comin'."

"Right on! Wait...who is Paula Jones?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

198 They do believe it. They think they are in power, or will be. They'll be the wielders, not the wieldees.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (HnUIn)
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Remember--they follow the philosophy that all political power comes from the barrel of a gun. And they have the guns (they think).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (7fElN)

199 So that's what follows the now worn out White Supremacists.

"Christian Nationalists"

The new Jews

Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (lZkXJ)

200 This busty blonde in a plunging top uses the concept of subsidiarity as the "north star" of her political philosophy:
http://tiny.cc/m0hzwz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (HnUIn)

201 off acephalic ovine sock.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (0gvpA)

202 MSNBC guest says Christian nationalists believe rights come from God, not government
____

The government's job is to grant and remove rights to whomever in order to bring the most benefit to the people in goverment.

Like how illegals have been given more rights than taxpaying citizens for example. Or how Trump is treated vs Biden.

Practice vs Theory on the subject are widely divergent.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (fs1hN)

203 ========

"Paula Jones was just a trailer park trash whore who had it comin'."

"Right on! Wait...who is Paula Jones?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

"Did Brett Kavanaugh run train on her too?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (IXZGh)

204 I'm not getting the allusion. What is a nomad-aside from a person that likes to be alone?. Is this a reference to a movie or video game?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024

***
Star Trek (the original series). Nomad was a floating robot, about a meter tall, that had as its (damaged) directive to find and destroy flawed or imperfect units (aka living things). It comes aboard Capt. Kirk's starship, and there are many edgy and suspenseful scenes. Imagine if your desk computer could float around at will and might decide to laser-beam you at any moment.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (J2vNu)

205 Wieldees…. Great word formulation, Joe Mannix! Is it actually a word (says guy too lazy to look it up)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (Dd+/6)
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Nope, not a word.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)

206 To this end, Trump should endeavor as far as possible to govern the country from outside of Washington.

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That's a great idea.

I nominate Moscow in Russia purely for the ensuing exploding heads entertainment ... but I'll settle for Moscow, Idaho.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (CkFL9)

207 Part II;

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

"A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: "

- George Washington, First Speech to Co geese January 8, 1791

Posted by: Truthbomb at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (EnT0Y)

208 201 off acephalic ovine sock.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (0gvpA)

hehehehehehe....

you said "ace phallic"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (VoAdT)

209 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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Who is this Creator guy? Is that the one who does all the "roads and bridges"?

Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (lZkXJ)

210 205 Wieldees…. Great word formulation, Joe Mannix! Is it actually a word (says guy too lazy to look it up)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 23, 2024 11:49 AM (Dd+/6)
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Nope, not a word.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)

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Good for a wordhole, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (GBKbO)

211 "Like how illegals have been given more rights than taxpaying citizens for example."

Democrats actually push what they say they believe. Their voters are the ones who didn't believe them.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (u3NjE)

212 I really feel bad for Hillary. We should never have had that rapist sick fuck in office. But it was so much easier to demonize her because she is a woman.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2024 11:38 AM (JCZqz)

Don't feel bad for Hillary. She chose to marry that rapist sick f*ck.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 11:52 AM (KbCG3)

213 Hillary Clinton is no more a woman than Nancy Pelosi is a woman, or Chuck Schumer is a man, or Mitch McConnell is a man.

These are sexless creatures of power and vessels of demonic possession. Their genitals are immaterial.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Uh, while I wouldn't want to have sex with any of them, if I did, I'd feel dirtier after fucking McConnell than Hillary?

Okay, I'm going to down a fifth of bourbon now.

Posted by: Intrusive Thoughts at February 23, 2024 11:52 AM (JCZqz)

214 ++++
Nope, not a word.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)

Meh. The english language has been so destroyed, every word is a word and no one cares. Like, no one. Ya know.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:52 AM (IXZGh)

215 If they could leave us alone they wouldn't be them they'd be us.

Posted by: DaveA at February 23, 2024 11:52 AM (FhXTo)

216 @204 which was then upgraded to become Vger in the first Star Trek movie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2024 11:52 AM (byGob)

217 >This busty blonde in a plunging top uses ...

Kudos to her dentist

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 11:53 AM (geLO8)

218 200 This busty blonde in a plunging top uses the concept of subsidiarity as the "north star" of her political philosophy:
http://tiny.cc/m0hzwz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (HnUIn)

Allie Dunn. A staple of Outkick.com's Screencaps. Combined with JJ's mo'nin' repo', it's the best way to start your digital day.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 11:53 AM (KbCG3)

219 Back when Hillary ran, there were a group of women at work who had 'I'm with H' bumper stickers on their cars. They just happened to be all lesbians. They knew one of their own.

Posted by: Cheri at February 23, 2024 11:53 AM (FGQ5G)

220 All words weren't words at some point.

Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 11:53 AM (lZkXJ)

221 http://tiny.cc/m0hzwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (HnUIn)

*Slicks back what's left of hair.

Hey thar!

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:53 AM (xWow5)

222 Who is this Creator guy? Is that the one who does all the "roads and bridges"?
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024

***
That unit's name was Jackson Roykirk.

Posted by: Nomad at February 23, 2024 11:53 AM (J2vNu)

223 "There is no preamble to The Constitution."

- - - - - Rachel Madcow

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:54 AM (IXZGh)

224 But if Bill Clinton were never President, no one would know who Hillary was.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 23, 2024 11:46 AM (jbnUc)

Not to hear her tell it.

Joke during Bill's administration

Bill: Aren't you glad you married me instead of the mechanic down the street you had you eye on? This way you became First Lady!

Hill: No. If I'd married him *he* would be president instead of you.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 11:54 AM (nC+QA)

225 Reading up-thread, hope news for Muldoon but won't count on it being a mixup.
Florida is nice in January

Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2024 11:54 AM (C8TDz)

226 200 This busty blonde in a plunging top uses the concept of subsidiarity as the "north star" of her political philosophy:
http://tiny.cc/m0hzwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Distracting tan-lines on her otherwise luscious tits. 0/10, would not bang.

Posted by: No straight man ever at February 23, 2024 11:54 AM (JCZqz)

227 Wieldees…. Great word formulation, Joe Mannix! Is it actually a word (says guy too lazy to look it up)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

If you have a wielder, you have someone who wields. You have to have someone who is weilded against.

Hence, wieldee.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2024 11:54 AM (5apCz)

228 Imagine if your desk computer could float around at will and might decide to laser-beam you at any moment.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (J2vNu)
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Coming soon in Windows 12!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2024 11:54 AM (7fElN)

229
Don't feel bad for Hillary. She chose to marry that rapist sick f*ck.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 11:52 AM (KbCG3)

There's a greater than zero chance he raped her once or twice before that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (IXZGh)

230 OT: Lenten lunch win. Made a French Toast casserole with my kid's homemade PB (she makes it salty with almost no sugar from Aldi's jarred peanuts - but it can't hang around forever), hugely discounted coconut egg nog, eggs, a small amount of sugar (b/c egg nog is presweetened), and spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger) on crusts of white bread. I made the PB sandwiches, diced them, and through them in the "custard" overnight and baked this morning and served.

It was delicious. The PB saltiness was perfect. Some had a drizzle of maple syrup, some went plain...and a 9x13 is all gone.

And it's nice to have a double protein lunch before soup dinner b/c I struggle with protein on Lent days if I'm not going for fish (and even sometimes then)...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (exHjb)

231 214 Meh. The english language has been so destroyed, every word is a word and no one cares. Like, no one. Ya know.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:52 AM (IXZGh)

F*** them limeys.

Posted by: XTC at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (sm6Pk)

232 *Random thought*

When finishing a prayer, would it be acceptable to replace "amen" with the phrase "Yeah, buddy," or possibly even "Git 'er dun"?

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (xWow5)

233 through = threw damn brain typo...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (exHjb)

234 Finally. Remember that the original definition of a free people was one that lived under their own laws. It had little to do with what laws Rand or Rothbard would approve.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (1bNHn)

235 When finishing a prayer, would it be acceptable to replace "amen" with the phrase "Yeah, buddy," or possibly even "Git 'er dun"?
Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (xWow5)
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You should use "awomen," you sexist!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 23, 2024 11:56 AM (HnUIn)

236 "States' rights" has additional baggage in consideration of the Declaration of Independence and the distinction between rights and powers.
"Rights" are inherent and transcendent aspects of the People.
"Powers" are delegated to government by the People for the sole purpose of securing "Rights".
If "Rights" are granted to government in any manner, they will invariably be used against the People.
Start with something "minor" like eminent domain. If it is accepted that government has a Right to claim land rather than merely a Power to do so, then the Right of the People to their property becomes meaningless.
Extend that to a Right of the government to protect from violence, harsh language, religion, and so forth, and the Bill of Rights evaporates.

Federalism is fine. But it does not require states to have Rights, merely their proper delegated and recognized Powers.
More importantly, federalism is a state level thing. Decentralization affects things with a state. There is no aspect of federalism or the Constitution that protects the counties and towns of a state from the state governments. Decentralization is needed in addition to federalism, rather than instead of it.

Posted by: Sam at February 23, 2024 11:56 AM (7jMef)

237 All of you Star Trek aliens are pussies, including you Q
Signed , The Douwd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2024 11:56 AM (byGob)

238 through = threw damn brain typo...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (exHjb)
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Those are called "brainos."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:56 AM (HnUIn)

239 Probably shouldn't turn the woman who spent a significant portion of her career attacking Bill Clinton's victims into a victim herself.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 11:56 AM (u3NjE)

240 So that's what follows the now worn out White Supremacists.

"Christian Nationalists"

The new Jews

Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 11:50 AM (lZkXJ)

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Neo-Judeo-Christo-Fascists FTW!

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 11:56 AM (1uZpV)

241 I expect the various terms for snizz to be widely utilized in an afternoon post. They have cell phone records for wade that establish they lied about when the nasty started. He was getting midnight boots calls, driving to the condo staying til 300am then going back home. You can't make this shit up.

Posted by: Hose beast at February 23, 2024 11:57 AM (HpZ2N)

242 Probably shouldn't turn the woman who spent a significant portion of her career attacking Bill Clinton's victims into a victim herself.
Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 11:56 AM (u3NjE)

Hell, she's eaten more pussy than I have.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 23, 2024 11:57 AM (IXZGh)

243 Back when Hillary ran, there were a group of women at work who had 'I'm with H' bumper stickers on their cars. They just happened to be all lesbians. They knew one of their own.
Posted by: Cheri at February 23, 2024 11:53 AM (FGQ5G)

Hillary could reboot her career by becoming a rapper, with a message that would find favor with the BLM crowd, for compensating black people who have suffered due to slavery. Her rapper name?
Wait for it.

Reparation H.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 11:57 AM (tkR6S)

244 Cities in even the deepest red states are infested with Lefties. If you don't have a plan to take those back, you'll lose the states too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 23, 2024 11:57 AM (USTAS)

245 I wish people would drop "authoritarian" when what they really mean is "totalitarian." The former is Franco, the latter, Lenin. Easy choice, that.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 11:57 AM (1bNHn)

246 "Neo-Judeo-Christo-Fascists"

Not sure what Judeo has to do with Christians being turned into scapegoats.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 11:58 AM (u3NjE)

247 When finishing a prayer, would it be acceptable to replace "amen" with the phrase "Yeah, buddy," or possibly even "Git 'er dun"?
Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (xWow5)
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Given that a translation of "amen" is "let it be so," "git 'er done" is pretty close.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:58 AM (0gvpA)

248 I wish people would drop "authoritarian" when what they really mean is "totalitarian." The former is Franco, the latter, Lenin. Easy choice, that.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 11:57 AM (1bNHn)
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You can have authoritarianism without totalitarianism, but the inverse is not true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:58 AM (HnUIn)

249 222 Who is this Creator guy? Is that the one who does all the "roads and bridges"?
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024
***
That unit's name was Jackson Roykirk.
Posted by: Nomad

I love that guy. He made the song for that Geico caveman commercial!
http://tinyurl.com/36493h5m

Posted by: Obscure Musical Moron at February 23, 2024 11:58 AM (JCZqz)

250 224
‘* he* would be president instead of you.’

I despise BJC but he is a talented politician. Unfortunately for us. And his wife isn’t, this time fortunately for us.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 23, 2024 11:59 AM (jbnUc)

251 You can have authoritarianism without totalitarianism, but the inverse is not true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:58 AM (HnUIn)

Totality requires authority, but authority does not require totality.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 11:59 AM (VoAdT)

252 Those are called "brainos."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:56 AM (HnUIn)

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F. Joe Mugabe Made "Speakos" Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 11:59 AM (1uZpV)

253 245 I wish people would drop "authoritarian" when what they really mean is "totalitarian." The former is Franco, the latter, Lenin. Easy choice, that.
Posted by: Eeyore

Don't forget about me!!!

Posted by: Josip Broz Tito, benevolent dictator at February 23, 2024 12:00 PM (JCZqz)

254 Just because

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2faKlrvc9E

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 23, 2024 12:00 PM (X4yCj)

255 Dammit, I hate that stereotype!

Posted by: A mindless braindead sheep at February 23, 2024 11:47 AM (0gvpA)

Would you prefer "stupid and stubborn"? Because those are the two words I always use to describe sheep.

Posted by: pookysgirl's grandpa was a shepherd at February 23, 2024 12:00 PM (dtlDP)

256 175. Checks will never bounce. They will just hike taxes on Wall Street and all the other wealthy whites, who are stupid enough to stay in the Blue States.

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:00 PM (gwrBY)

257 When finishing a prayer, would it be acceptable to replace "amen" with the phrase "Yeah, buddy," or possibly even "Git 'er dun"?
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'Make it so.'

Posted by: mustbequantum at February 23, 2024 12:00 PM (MIKMs)

258 You can have authoritarianism without totalitarianism, but the inverse is not true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:58 AM (HnUIn)

Totality requires authority, but authority does not require totality.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 11:59 AM (VoAdT)
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"You got your authoritarianism in my totalitarianism!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 12:00 PM (0gvpA)

259 @248 splitter

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2024 12:01 PM (byGob)

260 "Christian Nationalist" is the new Hate Term for anyone who goes to Church and who thinks the United States is a better place than Mexico.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 12:02 PM (snjgf)

261 I despise BJC but he is a talented politician. Unfortunately for us. And his wife isn’t, this time fortunately for us.
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The bollard that briefly kept her ample behind from falling over before she was dumped onto the floor of the van is more popular than Hillary.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 12:02 PM (fs1hN)

262 @248 splitter
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2024 12:01 PM (byGob)

I never spit.......

OH....splitter...... *sigh*

Never mind.

Posted by: Kumswala Harris at February 23, 2024 12:02 PM (IXZGh)

263 There's a greater than zero chance he raped her once or twice before that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (IXZGh)

Doubt it. I'd guess that she made it *very* clear that, if he hurt her she still had contacts in Chicago and could get along nearly as well as a widow.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 12:02 PM (nC+QA)

264 Question, for me, has always been, will Red States defend themselves in case of a meltdown and the Feds?

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:02 PM (gwrBY)

265 Mornin' Rant is something to chew on. Maybe I'll do the ungulate thing and chew on it a few times after I've first chewed on it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (ynpvh)

266 264 Question, for me, has always been, will Red States defend themselves in case of a meltdown and the Feds?
Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:02 PM (gwrBY)

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"We will do anything to keep that highway fund full."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (GBKbO)

267 *Random thought*

When finishing a prayer, would it be acceptable to replace "amen" with the phrase "Yeah, buddy," or possibly even "Git 'er dun"?
Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (xWow5)

I’ll copy Seinfeld and suggest we end with “You’re so good looking!”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (Dd+/6)

268 You can have authoritarianism without totalitarianism, but the inverse is not true.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 11:58 AM (HnUIn)

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Imma gonna need some clarity on these concepts from Kamala.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (1uZpV)

269 Would you prefer "stupid and stubborn"? Because those are the two words I always use to describe sheep.
Posted by: pookysgirl's grandpa was a shepherd at February 23, 2024 12:00 PM (dtlDP)

My grandpa called them stinkin' woollies.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (xPJvm)

270 You can have authoritarianism without totalitarianism, but the inverse is not true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

--

All I know that the German National Socialists were right wingers like Trump supporters!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the opposite of mansplaining is misunderstanding at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (Wg1x4)

271 "will Red States defend themselves in case of a meltdown and the Feds?"

Any attempts at revolt will be stymied by Republican state parties.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (u3NjE)

272 About to be willowed, but just saw that for the presidential primary here in WA you have to write on the outside of the ballot which party you voted for, or your ballot will get thrown out. So that's nice.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (DRSnL)

273 About to be willowed, but just saw that for the presidential primary here in WA you have to write on the outside of the ballot which party you voted for, or your ballot will get thrown out. So that's nice.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (DRSnL)
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How about the "Nunya Bizness" party?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 12:04 PM (0gvpA)

274 "in WA you have to write on the outside of the ballot which party you voted for"

No way that's getting abused.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:04 PM (u3NjE)

275 264 Question, for me, has always been, will Red States defend themselves in case of a meltdown and the Feds?

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:02 PM (gwrBY)

I don't see the Feds too worried about violating Posse Commitatus. I mean, if the Constitution is nothing but and impediment to them to be stepped on, piddling laws mean nothing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:04 PM (ynpvh)

276 I'm still waiting for the Chinese to hack the plumbing like Rubio prophesized.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 23, 2024 12:04 PM (EEgXH)

277 Not one FBI agent resigned in protest of the way the corrupt FBI leadership, and the DOJ terrorized innocent right wing people. Not frickin' one

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:05 PM (gwrBY)

278 nic update

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

279 107 Centralized power in the hands of the elite who are so perfectly educated and with so much knowledge that they can accurately predict the effects of policy to the smallest of levels.

Which will then magically go away and lead to classless utopia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finishing up the Best Pictures at February 23, 2024 11:30 AM (GBKbO)
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Plato's Republic is a glaring example of why we don't let philosophers design our systems of government.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 11:31 AM (0gvpA)
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You didn't pay attention when you read it. He explictly tells how it will decline into tyranny. And also spends a long time over how to keep what TJM describes from happening.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 12:05 PM (1bNHn)

280 267 *Random thought*

When finishing a prayer, would it be acceptable to replace "amen" with the phrase "Yeah, buddy," or possibly even "Git 'er dun"?
Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (xWow5)

I’ll copy Seinfeld and suggest we end with “You’re so good looking!”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (Dd+/6)

We are supposed to show reverence and thanks to God, so if it's considered respectful, then yes; if not, then no.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

281 276. Solar flares on the ATT outage? Yeah right. More like Bejing

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (gwrBY)

282 nic update
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:05 PM (GBKbO)

But did you J. Arthur Rank them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (tkR6S)

283 269 Would you prefer "stupid and stubborn"? Because those are the two words I always use to describe sheep.
Posted by: pookysgirl's grandpa was a shepherd at February 23, 2024 12:00 PM (dtlDP)

My grandpa called them stinkin' woollies.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (xPJvm)

TASTY, stupid, stubborn beasties.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (ynpvh)

284 Solar flares on the ATT outage? Yeah right. More like Bejing
Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (gwrBY)
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I'm inclined to believe AT&T's explanation: they catastrophically fucked up a major network change.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (HnUIn)

285 260 "Christian Nationalist" is the new Hate Term for anyone who goes to Church and who thinks the United States is a better place than Mexico.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You forgot to preface it with "white".

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (JCZqz)

286 Solar flares on the ATT outage? Yeah right. More like Bejing
Posted by: Jonah

Human error makes much more sense.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (D4kcr)

287 I despise BJC but he is a talented politician. Unfortunately for us. And his wife isn’t, this time fortunately for us.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 23, 2024 11:59 AM (jbnUc)

I think you're right. Good thing she didn't listen to him in '16. What she *does* have is the ruthlessness of a Roman imperial matron or a Borgia. Good thing people don't respect that any more

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (nC+QA)

288 No way that's getting abused.
Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:04 PM (u3NjE)

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Yeah, I guess they don't want to have to actually open the ballot to see who you voted for before throwing it out. Too much work.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (DRSnL)

289 282 But did you J. Arthur Rank them?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (tkR6S)

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With great industry, chum.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

290 Cities in even the deepest red states are infested with Lefties. If you don't have a plan to take those back, you'll lose the states too.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 23, 2024 11:57 AM (USTAS)
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It's a core part of the Leftist strategy to take over red states (see CO for a prime example).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (7fElN)

291 "Christian Nationalist" is the new Hate Term for anyone who goes to Church and who thinks the United States is a better place than Mexico.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 12:02 PM (snjgf)

DBZ Abridged Frieza: "If this goes any further south, we'll hit Space Mexico!"

Posted by: pookysgirl does not want to visit Space Australia or Space Mexico at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (dtlDP)

292 up a major network change.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

It was minor until they screwed it up...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (D4kcr)

293 I'm still waiting for the Chinese to hack the plumbing like Rubio prophesized
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Every spring, the toilets explode...

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (HpZ2N)

294 270 You can have authoritarianism without totalitarianism, but the inverse is not true.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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All I know that the German National Socialists were right wingers like Trump supporters!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the opposite of mansplaining is
misunderstanding at February 23, 2024 12:03 PM (Wg1x4)

And the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. I saw it on TeeVee.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:07 PM (ynpvh)

295 in WA you have to write on the outside of the ballot which party you voted for, or your ballot will get thrown out.

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Come November it will be SO your ballot can get thrown out.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the opposite of mansplaining is misunderstanding at February 23, 2024 12:08 PM (Wg1x4)

296 I used to be a Libertarian, now I am a Superfederalist/Localist/Communitarian.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 12:08 PM (aD39U)

297 Hold it in Epstein's cell in Riker's Island.

Erect a podium in the street in front of Biden's house, hold it there.

Hold it at some critical point of the Keystone Pipeline or some Federal land where the oil drilling leases are being held up.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 23, 2024 12:08 PM (z/ifB)

298 > MSNBC guest says Christian nationalists believe rights come from God, not government
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I'd like someone to take away this idiot's right to breathe.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 23, 2024 12:08 PM (Q4IgG)

299 Nick Searcy, who is a well known Hollywood character actor, and proud conservative, was the Gallagher radio show.

He says it is all about how they put us in cages during Covid, and there was no rebellion by the masses. Globalists and elites know most Americans are sheep

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:08 PM (gwrBY)

300 Let's take the Roman approach.

Any man says he wants to be ~~King~~ President can be killed on the spot without fear of reprisal.

And all future generations shall spit in disgust at any mention of the name Bidenus Superbus for the rest of time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 12:08 PM (VoAdT)

301 I am less concerned with power of government and more concerned with it's reach.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 12:09 PM (aD39U)

302 *Random thought*

When finishing a prayer, would it be acceptable to replace "amen" with the phrase "Yeah, buddy," or possibly even "Git 'er dun"?

Posted by: Robert at February 23, 2024 11:55 AM (xWow5)

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I like to go with "... and please embrace the power of AND."

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 12:09 PM (1uZpV)

303 I used to be a libertarian. Then I realized they just wanted to smoke pot and end religion in a socialist state that paid their bills.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:09 PM (u3NjE)

304 277 Not one FBI agent resigned in protest of the way the corrupt FBI leadership, and the DOJ terrorized innocent right wing people. Not frickin' one

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:05 PM (gwrBY)

But some were fired and harassed when they became whistleblowers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:09 PM (ynpvh)

305 I'm still waiting for the Chinese to hack the plumbing like Rubio prophesized.

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I don't think this is too far fetched. I bet lift stations and pumps are all connected to something that could be screwed up, to say nothing of the water and wastewater plants themselves.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the opposite of mansplaining is misunderstanding at February 23, 2024 12:09 PM (Wg1x4)

306 I don't think conservatives are really interested in state's rights anymore. Liberals never were. We just want to force the other side to acquiesce.

Look at something like abortion. Are you okay with a state having unlimited abortion rights? Are you okay with the federal government not becoming involved at any level?

Posted by: Blago at February 23, 2024 12:09 PM (wMRY8)

307 "Are you okay with the federal government not becoming involved at any level?"

Yes. Move.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:10 PM (u3NjE)

308 281 276. Solar flares on the ATT outage? Yeah right. More like Bejing

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (gwrBY)

Two gay guys boinking each other in the server room, not being careful what they bumped into.
Oh, that was in Congress. Nevermind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:10 PM (ynpvh)

309 284. Wow Joe. First time I have been to the Right of you. LOL

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:10 PM (gwrBY)

310 I'm still waiting for the Chinese to hack the plumbing like Rubio prophesized.

I am eating some leftover Mongolian Rice spiced with chili oil. My plumbing is being hacked.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 12:10 PM (aD39U)

311 The quick version of this is Chesterton.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 12:10 PM (1bNHn)

312 308. ROFL!

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:11 PM (gwrBY)

313 Look at something like abortion. Are you okay with a state having unlimited abortion rights? Are you okay with the federal government not becoming involved at any level?
Posted by: Blag

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Yes. 100% yes. So long as guns, etc. are handled the same way.

They can manage the post offices and interstates, though.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the opposite of mansplaining is misunderstanding at February 23, 2024 12:11 PM (Wg1x4)

314 We are supposed to show reverence and thanks to God, so if it's considered respectful, then yes; if not, then no.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:05 PM (ynpvh)

You are absolutely right. I was trying to be clever/funny but it was probably a fail

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 23, 2024 12:11 PM (Dd+/6)

315 285 260 "Christian Nationalist" is the new Hate Term for anyone who goes to Church and who thinks the United States is a better place than Mexico.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You forgot to preface it with "white".

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 23, 2024 12:06 PM (JCZqz)

At the rate things are going, Mexico MIGHT be better than the US one day...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:11 PM (ynpvh)

316 Did someone say the new phonebooks are here?

Now that IS some good news!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2024 12:11 PM (991eG)

317 O/T
I just realized what irritates me about Nikki Haley, she has crazy eyes. They are disturbing.

Posted by: Chillin the most at February 23, 2024 12:11 PM (0uQp2)

318 316 Did someone say the new phonebooks are here?

Now that IS some good news!
Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2024 12:11 PM (991eG)

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Just the blue pages, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

319 Now TGAT is some good news!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2024 12:12 PM (991eG)

320 I bet lift stations and pumps are all connected to something that could be screwed up, to say nothing of the water and wastewater plants themselves.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

SoCal is so screwed.
The pumps that raise the water from the Southern end of the central valley have to lift 1/4 mile of standing water. They can only start those pumps at night and it pulls down the entire western grid when they do start them.
Stop those pumps and SoCal dies of thirst.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 23, 2024 12:12 PM (D4kcr)

321 "But some were fired and harassed when they became whistleblowers."

No way. That's illegal. Couldn't happen.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:12 PM (u3NjE)

322 Are you okay with a state having unlimited abortion rights? Are you okay with the federal government not becoming involved at any level?
Posted by: Blago at February 23, 2024 12:09 PM (wMRY

I am, for want of persuading people of the evil. Alabama bans all elective abortions. New York permits infanticide. I care only slightly more about New York than I do about France. Let the blood be upon them and their children.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 12:13 PM (aD39U)

323 Two things the Deep State, Pentagon, Globalists, and World Socialists look at.

1. Us cowering to Covid
2. The Scottish Independence vote, where Gubmint cheese checks from London saved the day

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:13 PM (gwrBY)

324 "Let the blood be upon them and their children."

That is the solution. We need to stop demanding government fix everything. Limit their power.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:13 PM (u3NjE)

325 I don't think conservatives are really interested in state's rights anymore. Liberals never were. We just want to force the other side to acquiesce.

I recommend a new strategy. Let the ~~wookie~~ liberal win.

Posted by: C3-GOP at February 23, 2024 12:14 PM (JCZqz)

326 322. To me Normandy France is more important than shithole NY

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:14 PM (gwrBY)

327 Limit their power.
Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:13 PM (u3NjE)

Limit their reach. One size does not fit all.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 12:14 PM (aD39U)

328 2. The Scottish Independence vote, where Gubmint cheese checks from London saved the day
Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:13 PM (gwrBY)

I still say the Scots found a safer way to raid the Brits by *all* going on the dole. They didn't count on how it would make them pets and not men though.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 12:15 PM (nC+QA)

329 "Limit their reach. One size does not fit all."

I'm for dispersing authority, but when people go demanding government fix everything, they are making government bigger and bigger.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (u3NjE)

330 328 2. The Scottish Independence vote, where Gubmint cheese checks from London saved the day
Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:13 PM (gwrBY)

I still say the Scots found a safer way to raid the Brits by *all* going on the dole. They didn't count on how it would make them pets and not men though.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 12:15 PM (nC+QA)

William Wallace Wept.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (ynpvh)

331 327 Limit their power.
Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:13 PM (u3NjE)

Limit their reach. One size does not fit all.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Embrace my power!

Posted by: AND at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (JCZqz)

332 I used to be a libertarian. Then I realized they just wanted to smoke pot and end religion in a socialist state that paid their bills.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:09 PM (u3NjE)

The really funny part is that California isn't making money off of taxing pot. Illegal grow operations have skyrocketed and they're too terrified to take on the Chinese/cartels running them. Do libertarians realize that they've created a narco state in Central California?

Posted by: pookysgirl, staying away from Hotel California at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (dtlDP)

333 You heard it here, first...

Flaming Skull incoming!

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (9IkLq)

334 One of my wife's friends has 6 kids, and is a great mother. But Sadly she is a pro abortion nut job, who goes to every rally.

6 kids? all born in wedlock, and she supports late term abortion. Bewilders me

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (gwrBY)

335 333 You heard it here, first...

Flaming Skull incoming!

Posted by: Shepherd Lover at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (9IkLq)

Trebuchet or Catapult?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:17 PM (ynpvh)

336 SoCal is so screwed.
The pumps that raise the water from the Southern end of the central valley have to lift 1/4 mile of standing water. They can only start those pumps at night and it pulls down the entire western grid when they do start them.
Stop those pumps and SoCal dies of thirst.

That and the environmental lobby has systematically gotten every damn and reservoir in Cali destroyed.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 12:17 PM (2ocoG)

337 Speaking of liberterians, has soros found another troll to run as one in the Montana senate race again?

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:17 PM (gwrBY)

338 Nick Searcy recently moved out of CA too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (USTAS)

339 I don't see GnuBreed in the Absent Friends list yet...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

340
Yes. 100% yes. So long as guns, etc. are handled the same way.

They can manage the post offices and interstates, though.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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Well that's where things get messy because the Bill of Rights is supposed to override state laws. So in the case of guns, no I'm not for a state say banning handguns, even though I think we should defer to states.

But for the record, I'm 100% okay with abortion being decided by states and then MOVING ON from this issue. My guess is 45+ states will have pretty liberal abortion laws post Roe vs Wade. Likely worse than they were during Roe vs Wade. In a weird irony, I think overturning that probably hurt the pro-life movement.

Posted by: Blago at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (wMRY8)

341 OT but just to flog his blog: TJM has put up a list of all the Best Picture winners, ranked according to him.

Go to his webzone and make fun of him and his taste.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

342 >Did someone say the new phonebooks are here?
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I'm somebody now.

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (geLO8)

343 338 Nick Searcy recently moved out of CA too.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (USTAS)

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On the one hand, Nick Searcy is in Moneyball.

On the other hand, Nick Searcy is in The Shape of Water.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

344 "That and the environmental lobby has systematically gotten every damn and reservoir in Cali destroyed."

The disease and the cure all in one. Leftism is efficient.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (u3NjE)

345 339 I don't see GnuBreed in the Absent Friends list yet...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

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CBD is trying to verify.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

346 Nick Searcy, who is a well known Hollywood character actor, and proud conservative, was the Gallagher radio show.

He says it is all about how they put us in cages during Covid, and there was no rebellion by the masses. Globalists and elites know most Americans are sheep

Perhaps. But I believe you will see much more push back in the future.

OT: new Dem playbook - MSM playing Trump errors, mispronounced names. "He's in mental decline." It will no longer be: "Trump is lying." It will be: "Trump is losing it."

They need to narrow the mental competency gap.

Which blows up during a debate though ( of which there won't be any).

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (FxH7T)

347 97 68 In theory, it's easier to make change at the local level but in practice....you might get screwed harder and more personally. I suppose the solution to that is to move but that's a tough pill to swallow for many.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

Only the strong survive.
Posted by: XTC at February 23, 2024 11:29 AM (sm6Pk)

And only the good die young....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (xcxpd)

348 341 OT but just to flog his blog: TJM has put up a list of all the Best Picture winners, ranked according to him.

Go to his webzone and make fun of him and his taste.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

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Your boos feed me!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

349 Do libertarians realize that they've created a narco state in Central California?

Plus, as Insty likes to point out, pot today is orders of magnitude stronger than the 60s/70s stuff most pot legalization rhetoric was based on, and we have no idea what the long-term effects will be.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (2ocoG)

350 334 One of my wife's friends has 6 kids, and is a great mother. But Sadly she is a pro abortion nut job, who goes to every rally.

6 kids? all born in wedlock, and she supports late term abortion. Bewilders me

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (gwrBY)

"See? You're lucky I didn't ABORT you! Not get ready for school!"--wife of Jonah's friend

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (ynpvh)

351 Maybe we should have stopped at Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (cf. Property)

Once we started down the path of numbering and listing them, it was destined for a bad result.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (991eG)

352 I'm for dispersing authority, but when people go demanding government fix everything, they are making government bigger and bigger.
Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (u3NjE)

Well, you can make some progress by simply using existing government power to reverse previous bad policies, but then you need to reduce or eliminate some agencies, so that an incoming Administration cannot simply reinstate the old bad policies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (tkR6S)

353 The 2044th Amendment- you have the right to harass, physically persecute and bankrupt anybody who doesn't correctly guess what you are LARPing as today on the first guess.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (991eG)

354 6 kids? all born in wedlock, and she supports late term abortion. Bewilders me

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (gwrBY)

She secretly hates the husband that impregnated her? IDK either.

Posted by: pookysgirl, getting to the end of the first trimester at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (dtlDP)

355 Tulsi Gabbard? Ffs.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (eYF7X)

356 330. I am scottish jim. Visited the Highlands 10 years ago, and was appalled by the Scots diet. Fried Frickin everything, even candy bars. Many are obese with no teeth. Gambling everywhere. Natural beauty yes, but i was dissapointed

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (gwrBY)

357 >>>I'm still waiting for the Chinese to hack the plumbing like Rubio prophesized.

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I don't think this is too far fetched. I bet lift stations and pumps are all connected to something that could be screwed up, to say nothing of the water and wastewater plants themselves.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the opposite of mansplaining is misunderstanding

>The assumption here is that the Chinese don't shit into a hole next to the rice cooker where they prep the rat meat and we don't have contingency manual overrides that bypass an system automated by fucking idiots . A 15 minute glitch in water pressure will not be Armageddon.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (EEgXH)

358 "we have no idea what the long-term effects will be."

Eliminate the welfare state and I don't care. Smoke up, hippies.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (u3NjE)

359 347 97 68 In theory, it's easier to make change at the local level but in practice....you might get screwed harder and more personally. I suppose the solution to that is to move but that's a tough pill to swallow for many.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

Only the strong survive.
Posted by: XTC at February 23, 2024 11:29 AM (sm6Pk)

And only the good die young....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (xcxpd)

Which make the strong...evil?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

360
6 kids? all born in wedlock, and she supports late term abortion. Bewilders me
Posted by: Jonah at
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Pretty standard female competition All the resources are for her children. All other women's children are a drain on the resources available for her children and should be eliminated.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (HpZ2N)

361 OT-Here's a really stupid tech question-which I probably should ask on the tech thread. I understand why I gets ads for certain books-because I've ordered religious books. However, I also gets ads directing me to links which say "Ways to know you partner is cheating on you." My partner is never not here except when he's working or out with me somewhere. If he's cheating, it must be the more boring affair in history. Another one "Ways to tell you should not pursue a relationship." I wasn't planning to, aside from the fact that the men they all show seem to be in their thirties. Way too young for me. They could be my son. Does every person of this age get these links? It's funny in a way but com'on.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (Ki//m)

362 If it was solar flare(s), there would have been evidence of effects in multiple arenas & applications -- for example, ham radio operators.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (1uZpV)

363 348 341 OT but just to flog his blog: TJM has put up a list of all the Best Picture winners, ranked according to him.

Go to his webzone and make fun of him and his taste.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 12:18 PM (xcxpd)

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Your boos feed me!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

Is Promet**** there?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:21 PM (ynpvh)

364 In theory, it's easier to make change at the local level but in practice....you might get screwed harder and more personally. I suppose the solution to that is to move but that's a tough pill to swallow for many.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 11:21 AM (xcxpd)

Only the strong survive.
Posted by: XTC at February 23, 2024 11:29 AM (sm6Pk)

And only the good die young....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (xcxpd)

Which make the strong...evil?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (ynpvh)

Often? Not always but...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 23, 2024 12:21 PM (xcxpd)

365 >Roe vs Wade. In a weird irony, I think overturning that probably hurt the pro-life movement.

Posted by: Blago

debatable, but it was a worthwhile decision because it smacks down the Court legislating from the bench

separation of powers is important
absent that, you get 'mission creep', government-style

Posted by: Don Black at February 23, 2024 12:21 PM (geLO8)

366 It was cyber war. They're burying the story.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:21 PM (u3NjE)

367 “More Winning in the Culture Wars

I've had 8 UTIs this year!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 23, 2024 12:21 PM (MI2XO)

368 I'm for dispersing authority, but when people go demanding government fix everything, they are making government bigger and bigger.
Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (u3NjE)

In a Representative democracy, the polity has the right to be "wrong", as long as they keep it to themselves.

For instance, when I was young into middle age, we still had blue laws against stores in general being open on Sunday because that is what the voters wanted. (it is changed now because THAT is what the voters want). In the previous case, I tried to persuade the voters to allow stores to be open, I didn't try to impose this value onto a majority that thought otherwise. I could deal by driving to the next county over. The reach of my county's voters didn't go that far.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 12:22 PM (aD39U)

369 333 You heard it here, first...

Flaming Skull incoming!

Posted by: Shepherd Lover

You are fake news!

Posted by: Tonald Drump at February 23, 2024 12:22 PM (JCZqz)

370 Aw crap, I just realized I replied to blago.

Sorry, carry on.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the opposite of mansplaining is misunderstanding at February 23, 2024 12:22 PM (Wg1x4)

371 I used to be a libertarian. Then I realized they just wanted to smoke pot

Furthermore, as a lifelong Republican, I cannot abide Trump!
This comedy space is getting full of Dorcus Blimline libertarians.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 23, 2024 12:22 PM (zdLoL)

372 NOOD, no flaming skull

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 23, 2024 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

373 Good rant; interesting perspectives.

Note, they're rocking & Rolling already so workable policies & positions are needed quickly, along with excellent surrogates:

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Posted by: L - We're done for now. We just don't have the guts to turn off the lights on the show at February 23, 2024 12:22 PM (GshMh)

374 Look at something like abortion. Are you okay with a state having unlimited abortion rights?

Blago

If that's what they voted for, yes. The state will lose population one way or the other.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 23, 2024 12:22 PM (FxH7T)

375 346. good points

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:23 PM (gwrBY)

376 354 6 kids? all born in wedlock, and she supports late term abortion. Bewilders me

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:16 PM (gwrBY)

She secretly hates the husband that impregnated her? IDK either.
Posted by: pookysgirl, getting to the end of the first trimester at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (dtlDP)

Is she a white woman? I would guess that she's a racist. If you talked to her for five seconds on this subject she would no doubt offer up that poor women of color are disproportionately bla bla bla. But what she means is, they're too poor and stupid to raise kids.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 12:23 PM (KbCG3)

377 It should be a flaming snizz...

Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 23, 2024 12:23 PM (HpZ2N)

378 CBD is trying to verify.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

GnuBreed's own daughter posted a death notice here this week, under his nic. And GnuBreed himself told us a few weeks ago that he was entering hospice care, and that the end was near for him.

We also need to get Captain Hate added to the Absent Friends list.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 12:24 PM (tkR6S)

379 Eliminate the welfare state and I don't care. Smoke up, hippies.
Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 12:20 PM (u3NjE)

Pretty much where I am on that. Along with, injuring or killing someone while chemically altered having a massive penalty.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 23, 2024 12:24 PM (nC+QA)

380 Wish we could transport the liberty bell to US area that apreciates it. Get it out of Filthydelphia

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:24 PM (gwrBY)

381 A Modest Proposal:

Legalize Fentanyl!

Outlaw Narcan...

Posted by: Muldoon at February 23, 2024 12:24 PM (991eG)

382 376. Yes, White and a Catholic in Name only

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:25 PM (gwrBY)

383 365. The marxists went too far enacting Infanticide. it woke up many pro lifers, and I assume Kav and amy Barret

Posted by: Jonah at February 23, 2024 12:26 PM (gwrBY)

384 Not sure what Judeo has to do with Christians being turned into scapegoats.

Posted by: Ribbed at February 23, 2024 11:58 AM (u3NjE)

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For context, see the comment I was riffing on.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 23, 2024 12:27 PM (1uZpV)

385 The problem with liberterians is that they allowed the dopers to take over the Party. the idea originally was the
same idea the founders had. the minimum gov possible to maintain he state and national security. A party that cares nothing about the gov but drug use is worthless.

Posted by: vic at February 23, 2024 12:28 PM (A5THL)

386 Hold the inauguration at the DC jail where the Jan 6 political prisoners are being held.

Posted by: Cosda at February 23, 2024 12:29 PM (dEz5m)

387 Nood

Posted by: Cosda at February 23, 2024 12:30 PM (dEz5m)

388 Of course we have a nood, I entered a post

Posted by: vic at February 23, 2024 12:32 PM (A5THL)

389 When folks stop conflating GOP membership with being Republican, much less Conservative, only then will I start making an effort to stop conflating Libertarian with Libertine.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at February 23, 2024 12:33 PM (TOe+Q)

390
I wish people would drop "authoritarian" when what they really mean is "totalitarian." The former is Franco, the latter, Lenin. Easy choice, that.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 11:57 AM (1bNHn)

I've always looked at it as authoritarians just demand that you obey. You can think what you want, and if you don't like the ruling regime, you're free to leave. Just don't DO anything against the law.

Totalitarians on the other hand, they insist that you believe. They don't just want to control your actions, they also want to control your thoughts. And don't even think about leaving or they'll put a bullet in your back.

You can tell the totalitarian states by looking at which direction the machine guns are pointed.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 23, 2024 12:37 PM (n+4am)

391 317 O/T
I just realized what irritates me about Nikki Haley, she has crazy eyes. They are disturbing.
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There is also an insect quality to her.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 12:40 PM (pZ64F)

392
It should be a flaming snizz...
Posted by: Dean Wormer at February 23, 2024 12:23 PM (HpZ2N)

Hey, I'm right here....

Posted by: Lindsay "Firecrotch" Lohan at February 23, 2024 12:40 PM (n+4am)

393 You can tell the totalitarian states by looking at which direction the machine guns are pointed.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 23, 2024 12:37 PM (n+4am)

Nice.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 12:41 PM (aD39U)

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