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THE MORNING RANT – Can Blue State Refugees Save Red States from the Woke Assault; plus, Transgenderism’s Lucrative Cash Flow Model

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For this morning’s Rant, I’d like to discuss a couple recent essays from writers I am finding to be indispensable reading, along with a few of my comments on their essays.

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Ace linked to a piece at HotAir few days ago (“Demand For Trans Treatments Overwhelming Minnesota Clinics”) about the booming business for child gender transition in Minnesota since it declared itself a “trans refuge” state.

I won’t bother discussing what these diabolical “treatments” entail. We all know by now. But with more and more states banning them, business is booming in Minnesota, where there is a growing number of doctors who are new to this lucrative surgical fad. In many cases, they are doing very poor work, causing serious medical problems above and beyond the normal problems from these procedures.

Interestingly, Jeffrey Carter of “Points and Figures” just wrote an outstanding essay (“Why the Emphasis on Transgender?”) pointing out why transgenderism has supplanted abortion as the core issue of Democrats and their media army of agenda-pushers.

Both of these stories tie together. As always, follow the money.

Mr. Carter is a business and finance guy with an analytical mind, and he points out, “There are ways to look at this without making value judgments about abortion and transgenderism.” While it can be hard to put aside our emotions about these subjects, this does help clarify why the transgender social contagion is so financially beneficial to those who are promoting it.

An abortion is a one-time revenue event, whereas a sex-change generates a lifetime subscription service of medical treatments that cannot be suspended or canceled. Further, the potential market of those who might be a revenue-producing abortion customer at any given time is a very small percentage of the population.

Once a customer is acquired, there is only one transaction. One and done. An abortion is performed and the customer walks away.

This produces on average $700 of revenue to the abortion provider.

This is not the case with transgenderism cash flows. It is not a one-and-done business model. There is an entire stream of payments that come with a one-time customer acquisition.

The upfront, one-time revenue for the surgery and counseling all by itself is much greater than that of an abortion’s one-time revenue, but the lifetime medical costs for a sex-change are especially lucrative.

The real money is in the drug cocktail Transgenders take for the rest of their lives. They will spend $40 to $400 per month on hormone drugs. The average cost is $2,880 per year. If a person transgenders at age 18, the age of consent, and lives to the full life expectancy of 77, that’s 59 years of consistent payments or 708 months.

Carter calculates the lifetime discounted cash flow from the drug regimen alone to be over $70,000 per transgender patient. That is a pretty compelling reason for those who get a cut of that recurring cash flow to want to expand the number of patients needing a lifetime of treatment.

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Mark Pulliam’s writing always strikes a chord with me, because he is also a conservative refugee from Austin who fled to the deep-red sanctuary of East Tennessee. And like me, he is troubled by how RINO-infested the GOP political establishment is here, and he’s also concerned that the local citizenry is unaware of the threat to its traditional conservative culture.

Pulliam wrote a recent review at The American Conservative (“American Refugees: Will the influx of blue state refugees into the heartland ruin the country or save it?”) of Roger Simon’s book “American Refugees: The Untold Story of the Mass Exodus from Blue States to Red States.” I found myself nodding in agreement throughout the entire piece.

Based on his interactions with blue state refugees, Simon finds that, in many cases, the transplants are more conservative and certainly more engaged than the natives, who tolerate establishment-oriented politicians in their states. Simon pulls no punches in his evisceration of the “Republican-in-name-only” political culture in many red states—Tennessee included. Complacent natives, not yet having experienced the disorienting regime change of wokeness, are surprisingly content with the RINO status quo.

Pulliam finds himself in agreement with Simon on the core issue of whether blue state refugees are making their destination states redder or bluer. My observation is the same as theirs - the refugees are making their new states redder.

My Tennessee neighborhood is filling up with refugees from Illinois and other blue states. Some casual conversations have made it clear that they lean conservative, but even more noticeable are the flags and patriotica they display proudly. As Jesse Kelly famously observed while walking neighborhoods during a political campaign, if a house has a flag flying outside, the owner is almost certainly a Republican.

Newly arrived transplants, acutely aware of the peril posed by leftist policies, often find themselves acting like Paul Revere, warning the cliquish locals of the dangers of passivity and complacency.

There is no better anti-communist than those who have lived under communism. Much like the Eastern Europeans in Hungary, Poland, and Czechia who are appalled at Western Europe’s ongoing suicide in pursuit of 21-century communism, those of us who lost our beloved home towns or home states to the radical left are passionate about preserving traditional America where it still flourishes.

While my escape to Tennessee may have been from the red state of Texas, Austin itself had long since become an exclave of California by the time my wife and I left.

For example, so many Californians relocated to Austin, Texas, in order to work in Big Tech that they turned the Capital City into a demographic replica of Silicon Valley. Austin has effectively become a province of California and votes accordingly. However, this has not been the case in Florida under Gov. Ron DeSantis. Tennessee has little in common with Austin.

Those who are relocated from blue states to red states for high tech jobs are often colonizers. Those who flee of their own volition are refugees who will make the red state they relocate to even redder.

I strongly agree with Pulliam’s final line, which stresses a point I have been pounding on recently – we can achieve real victories in the culture wars at the state and local levels, which is where our most important votes are cast.

Red states should embrace freedom-loving blue state refugees, whether they are “real rednecks” or not. In these tumultuous times, patriots must unite. If America is to be saved, the battle will be fought at the local level, and it is here that the blue state refugees and red state natives must learn to work together as allies.

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Cynical Publius responded to Pulliam’s piece with an example involving himself as a refugee to a still-red state, and how his efforts to warn the local GOP establishment of the woke assault that is coming was like trying to warn a dinosaur of the incoming meteor.


Cynical Publius Pulliam.JPG


I can confirm. In 2016 I successfully escaped from California to a deep red Mountain West state. In 2020, after the election, I made an appointment with my GOP state senator to discuss my concerns about voting integrity. She was a late-30s attorney who had lived in the state her whole life and had both her BA and JD from the state university. We ended up talking for over an hour on a wide range of political and social topics beyond just voting. I felt like I was trying to warn a brontosaurus about the incoming meteor. She was still convinced we lived in a Scoop Jackson era of political comity, and was convinced I was greatly exaggerating the threat of woke ideology. In fact, I think she saw ME as a bigger threat because I was trying to change "the generosity of spirit" that defined our very neighborly and kind state. She simply refused to believe that in California and elsewhere there were literally tens of millions of Democrats who actively and aggressively sought to have our state's way of life wholly exterminated. It was a shocking and demoralizing experience.

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1 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at February 26, 2024 11:00 AM (TLw9c)

2 I nooded.

Posted by: Robert at February 26, 2024 11:01 AM (TLw9c)

3 Good morning, people and assorted others.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 26, 2024 11:01 AM (FKIod)

4 Old and Busted: Waving a wire coat hanger
New Hotness: Waving a pair of tubing cutters

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2024 11:02 AM (VoAdT)

5 ALWAYS follow the money.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:03 AM (bWsRe)

6 Once a customer is acquired, there is only one transaction. One and done. An abortion is performed and the customer walks away.



And is back next week. Witness Whoopi Goldberg.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2024 11:04 AM (5apCz)

7

I was reliably informed Buck would be nude...

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at February 26, 2024 11:04 AM (HRQvT)

8 An abortion is a one-time revenue event, whereas a sex-change generates a lifetime subscription service of medical treatments that cannot be suspended or canceled.

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* Big Pharma has entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 11:05 AM (Izl1a)

9 Face it... politically speaking conservatives are the minority.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2024 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

10 An abortion is a one-time revenue event, whereas a sex-change generates a lifetime subscription service of medical treatments that cannot be suspended or canceled.

Further, a woman who has an abortion can - theoretically - go on to produce children. A person who has trans surgery cannot.

I know I harp on this a lot but the goal is to remove ~90% of the human population. They're not going to do that all at once and they're not going to use only one mechanism. They'll use war, famine, pestilence (real or man-made), crime, insanity... Death by a thousand cuts. Satan laughing spreads his wings.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:05 AM (zhLdt)

11 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 26, 2024 11:07 AM (T4tVD)

12
Ah,, it's a beautiful day here on the peanut ranch. I've got a couple dozen stumps to remove, should be finished around noon. In the meantime,,

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9tpP_1goJU

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 26, 2024 11:07 AM (X4yCj)

13 7

I was reliably informed Buck would be nude...
Posted by: Don Lemonparty at February 26, 2024 11:04 AM (HRQvT)

It moved!

Posted by: Peter BootyJuice at February 26, 2024 11:07 AM (N39Ws)

14 The NYTimes had an article this weekend about blue state refugees to red states making those red states redder, with South Carolina as the example. Hilariously, as they wandered the Upstate (Greenville and vicinity), seemingly all the newly relocated people they talked to were Nikki Haley supporters.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 26, 2024 11:08 AM (ogTiX)

15 Mr. Carter is a business and finance guy with an analytical mind, and he points out, “There are ways to look at this without making value judgments about abortion and transgenderism.” While it can be hard to put aside our emotions about these subjects, this does help clarify why the transgender social contagion is so financially beneficial to those who are promoting it.
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Right off the bat there's an implicit assumption in the middle of that. It is that "value judgments" are inherently emotional. That is contrary to the entire trend of thinking - Western as well as elsewhere - outside a few outliers who are, unfortunately, popular today.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 26, 2024 11:08 AM (1bNHn)

16 In fact, I think she saw ME as a bigger threat because I was trying to change "the generosity of spirit" that defined our very neighborly and kind state. She simply refused to believe that in California and elsewhere there were literally tens of millions of Democrats who actively and aggressively sought to have our state's way of life wholly exterminated. It was a shocking and demoralizing experience.


Take away? SHE. She is the problem.
Very few women think the worst of people.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 26, 2024 11:08 AM (5apCz)

17 Much like the revenue stream from cancer patients and the reason no cure has been found. But trans is better because they actually get paid to produce the disease as well.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 26, 2024 11:09 AM (17s+e)

18 The analogy to this is that there was a big population flow from California to Utah during the '90s, as the California economy stagnated, and the Utah economy boomed.

A number of thumb-sucking journalism pieces were written about how the California migrants were going to make Utah more liberal.

It turned out that the migrants were mostly Mormon - why not move back to Zion, given the economic incentives to do so.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2024 11:09 AM (YAtuc)

19 I'm becoming convinced that the rush to embrace trannyism and the mainstreaming of pedophilia we begun to take everyone's eye off of the death and injuries done by the so called vaccine. People should be chandeliers by now.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at February 26, 2024 11:09 AM (BKOUD)

20 In my red area there’s a weird thing happening much like what that tweet said. The California refugees are generally speaking very conservative. And for the first time in a long time, maybe ever for some younger ones, they are not a small minority afraid to speak. And they are letting the MAGA freak flag fly.

But this is not going down well for the old school locals. They still believe in the “neighborly” way and think the new residents are too extreme and shit. These people are generally older and still buy the local (leftist) newspaper and think Democrats are good people who just have some bad ideas. They have no idea what’s happening on the left.

And the result is a lot of RINOs are now running and getting elected at the local level.

So weirdly, the influx of conservatives is making the average elected politician more liberal.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:09 AM (bWsRe)

21 You know who is behind the transgender craze..... Big Tilapia.

Tilapia farms are springing up all over....

Posted by: Stuart McKenzie at February 26, 2024 11:10 AM (/IBzm)

22 To be fair, Austin has ALWAYS been left-leaning. My friends and I were calling it Moscow-on-the-Colorado…30 years ago, in 1994. BUT yes, the influx of Statist/Socialists from CA have made it much worse.

I have no love and lest trust of RINOs. My State Senator RINO retired in 2022 and made way for someone who is much better IMHO. My State Rep’s mission is to make sure schools get endless money with zero accountability. He is an absolute RINO who touts his “conservative credentials” every election. Fortunately he has competition this primary and I will definitely be voting for his opponent.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2024 11:10 AM (m6dV4)

23 Those who are relocated from blue states to red states for high tech jobs are often colonizers. Those who flee of their own volition are refugees who will make the red state they relocate to even redder.
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Excellent distinction.

As a side note, famous Austin resident Elon Musk may have been a refugee when he arrived, but he is bringing along plenty of colonizers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2024 11:10 AM (ZPg1E)

24 Related: yesterday's service at our non-woke church had a surprise - a transkid acolyte. Looked like a boy, listed as Mary in the program (no idea whose family she is part of). Another family who had been overseas has returned to our church within the past year with their formerly female child now presented as male. Also noticed that families whose kids who were friends with this transkid before the overseas move have not been in church lately, are no longer acolytes. So. We'll see how fast other changes transpire to accommodate our apparently growing transkid church community.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2024 11:11 AM (6IDWi)

25 Carter calculates the lifetime discounted cash flow from the drug regimen alone to be over $70,000 per transgender patient. That is a pretty compelling reason for those who get a cut of that recurring cash flow to want to expand the number of patients needing a lifetime of treatment

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Obama was proven right about doctors. They’ll cut off your dick for a buck.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 11:11 AM (++4z6)

26 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2024 11:12 AM (cZMEZ)

27 California was once a red state....sh*t happens.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2024 11:12 AM (AwYPR)

28 An abortion is a one-time revenue event, whereas a sex-change generates a lifetime subscription service of medical treatments that cannot be suspended or canceled.

The solution to that is to let "transgenders" sue for being mutilated.

Transgender operations and drug regimens largely disappeared from Florida, after the laws were changed making it easier to sue.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2024 11:12 AM (YAtuc)

29 Tilapia farms are springing up all over....
Posted by: Stuart McKenzie


Don't start carping about it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 26, 2024 11:12 AM (9yWhg)

30
All these trannies are gonna off themselves or have some disease that kills them by 40 years of age. No way they hit anything remotely close to normal life expectancy.

At least they'll have no children left behind to become wards of the state.

So this is a case of 'No Child Left Behind' being a good thing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 26, 2024 11:12 AM (nIvob)

31 Don’t buy into the lie that the people h to red from blue states are conservatives. My money says maybe 25% are real. The rest say they are by skew left and just think they can do leftism right if the right people are in charge.

It. Is. A. Lie

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 26, 2024 11:13 AM (17s+e)

32 Take away? SHE. She is the problem.
Very few women think the worst of people
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You talkin bout me cracka!?!?!.!?

Posted by: Fani Willis at February 26, 2024 11:13 AM (/IBzm)

33 My uninformed guess would be that life expectancy for individuals having trans surgery won't live to the average life expectancy. But I guess that pushes up the end of life care, so cha ching!

Posted by: Oglebay at February 26, 2024 11:13 AM (ogTiX)

34 There is no secret gay agenda!!! Also:
Gay X-Men fans are freaking out over hunky Hercules and twinky Iceman on a new comic cover. Is Iceman really the pass around party bottom of the Marvel Universe? cover art: http://tinyurl.com/28xdt474

...a lot of fans online have been distracted by a certain hunky muscle bear and twink that grace one of the issue’s variant covers...a smugly smiling Hercules with his arm around a pleasantly pleased Iceman. And just like that… the internet has a new favorite Marvel couple.

@gianbear97 Herc casually recruiting bobby for either a one night threesome or a full poly relationship with noh-varr, just love the idea of herc and his twinks.

...the love quickly turned into an argument over who would be the top and who would be the bottom.

@AtlantisFell Yall assuming Herc is a top, and that's how I know I'm built different

@missy_steak First of all herc is obviously a locked bottom, and bobby isnt interesting enough to be a pass around bttm. He gives me service top.

Posted by: Intercepted Out.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2024 11:14 AM (JCZqz)

35 Ace linked to a piece at HotAir few days ago (“Demand For Trans Treatments Overwhelming Minnesota Clinics”

This sounds like a business opportunity. I have several chainsaws and a garage. Honestly, am I in any way less qualified?

Posted by: t-bird at February 26, 2024 11:14 AM (173mD)

36 ... but even more noticeable are the flags and patriotica they display proudly.

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"Patriotica" is a perfectly cromulent portmanteau.

Patriotic + Americana?

/or Patriotic + Erotica?

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 11:15 AM (XJu9U)

37

*sniff...sniff*

Anybody got some Massengill?

Posted by: Tranny Tilapiatwat at February 26, 2024 11:15 AM (HRQvT)

38 Is California still in the kidnapping business?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2024 11:16 AM (xcrUy)

39 *finishes swimming portion of triathlon*

*grabs bike*

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 26, 2024 11:17 AM (R4t5M)

40 >>The analogy to this is that there was a big population flow from California to Utah during the '90s, as the California economy stagnated, and the Utah economy boomed.


I seem to recall Tucker covering how big tech expanded into Utah, such as Google setting up big server facilities. With that came big donations to Utah politicians, such as Mike Lee, who became a lot less conservative on issues that affect big tech. Got their foot in the door politically and can push their agenda through existing state leadership.

You really have to look at how they took over Colorado as their blueprint. They intentionally created the blueprint, as documented here: http://tinyurl.com/3m5asfyt

The sad thing is that it doesn't take a lot of CA colonizers, it just takes a few ridiculously wealthy ones like Jared Polis and Tim Gill to flip your state. No amount of conservative CA refugees will stop it.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2024 11:17 AM (6IDWi)

41 I don’t think the transgender cult is first and foremost about money/business. Oh there are docs without a conscience that’ll pocket the dough…. But the primary pushers of this ideology are demonic possessed individuals who want to wreak as much destruction and havoc as possible…. They hate humanity. The $$ angle is too simplistic

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2024 11:17 AM (Dd+/6)

42 Posted by: Intercepted Out.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2024 11:14 AM (JCZqz)

I first thought that was the DU I'd come to expect.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2024 11:18 AM (AwYPR)

43 Nobody, not even the wokist, most committed leftist, truly considers someone who had the surgery as the other gender.

Even woke, leftists straight men will refuse to date a transgender that had the surgery.

Thus proving that nobody actually believes they become women.

So, what's the point?

Posted by: Meanwhile . . . . at February 26, 2024 11:18 AM (ky+MF)

44 Posted by: Intercepted Out.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2024 11:14 AM (JCZqz)

This is how you know their opinions on capital gains taxes and the intricacies of healthcare policy are to be thoroughly considered.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2024 11:18 AM (VoAdT)

45 Rep. Ruwa Romman
@Ruwa4Georgia
Some of y’all really lack reading comprehension skills. If we got rid of every immigrant and banned all immigration women would still get murdered while running because this is a *societal* issue and women are targeted because we’re women.

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If they hadn't been killed by illegal aliens they'd have been killed by someone else. That's science.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 26, 2024 11:19 AM (FVME7)

46 Utah tech is bigly big. Lots of companies HQed there. Silicon Slopes is the nickname.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:20 AM (bWsRe)

47 Some of the locusts fleeing blue shitholes are only doing so because of crime. They're fine with the criminal element, hell some of them are criminals themselves, but when THEY become victims they'll leave.

And bring all the baggage of their "culture" with them to wherever they setup shop.

It's plainly obvious to anyone who sees it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 26, 2024 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)

48 Free Palestine!

Also, I AM IN AGONY FROM THIS FIRE.

Posted by: Aaron Bushnell at February 26, 2024 11:20 AM (aD39U)

49 Good rant Buck
It still amazes me who Leftists have push Transgender mental illness and getting away with it.

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2024 11:20 AM (cZMEZ)

50 Some of y’all really lack reading comprehension skills. If we got rid of every immigrant and banned all immigration women would still get murdered while running because this is a *societal* issue and women are targeted because we’re women.

Diseased brain.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 26, 2024 11:20 AM (R4t5M)

51 .. If a person transgenders at age 18, the age of consent, and lives to the full life expectancy of 77, that’s 59 years of consistent payments or 708 months.
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Yeah, but that's a *really* bad bet, for a number of reasons:
1. Life expectancy at birth is falling
2. These kinds of medical interventions are extremely unlikely to result in achieving the median life expectancy anyway. The median for the "trans" subgroup is probably markedly lower than the total population, which will be lower then the "non-trans" meta-group.
3. If you take into account unnatural causes - primarily suicide, but also drug overdose or lovers' quarrels (the latter two are much higher among deviant groups, and the first is very high among the "trans" group in particular), the median life expectancy is going to crater radically.

This is not a 60-year revenue engine, it's probably closer to 20 on average if I had to guess. By then, the people involved will either be dead or will have reversed course as they stagger through a more average lifespan as cripples.

Still fantastic sums of money, but nothing like as fantastic as projected when reality intervenes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:20 AM (HnUIn)

52 So, what's the point?
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To reduce the surplus population. Whilst extracting cash, prizes, and degrading humanity to the point where people believe in nothing beyond their next high.

Posted by: Soros at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (/IBzm)

53 Silicon Slopes


Sounds like a nickname for enhanced breasts.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (9yWhg)

54 Which state capitols aren't left leaning? None I have visited.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (MeG8a)

55 Not to mention the use of surgery to treat a mental illness. It’s like bariatric surgery to treat anorexia, or frontal lobotomy to treat anxiety.

Posted by: Eromero at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (ynOt3)

56 Free Palestine!

Also, I AM IN AGONY FROM THIS FIRE.
Posted by: Aaron Bushnell

It's bad optics.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (R4t5M)

57
If they hadn't been killed by illegal aliens they'd have been killed by someone else. That's science.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 26, 2024 11:19 AM


I know. Some people start their day with a bowl of Wheaties, I start mine plotting where to murder female joggers. Don't you wish everyone did?

/s

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (nIvob)

58 My daughter is in Boise for grad school. She says blue state refugees are hated regardless of politics. They're raising home prices and pricing natives out of the market.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 26, 2024 11:22 AM (ia4iB)

59 45 Rep. Ruwa Romman
@Ruwa4Georgia
Some of y’all really lack reading comprehension skills. If we got rid of every immigrant and banned all immigration women would still get murdered while running because this is a *societal* issue and women are targeted because we’re women.
—-

The stupid and logical fallacies burn deep with this stupid cow.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 26, 2024 11:22 AM (17s+e)

60 Even woke, leftists straight men will refuse to date a transgender that had the surgery.



Comedian Jim Norton not only dated one but married one that did NOT have the surgery, lots of freaks out there.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:22 AM (bWsRe)

61 I think/pray that the refugees will protect us from wokeness and sound necessary alarms. That has been my experience as an Orthodox Christian; the most zealous and protective members we have are those who fled mainline protestant denominations and wokeified RC parishes.

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 26, 2024 11:22 AM (6Iip2)

62 So, what's the point?
Posted by: Meanwhile . . . . at February 26, 2024 11:18 AM (ky+MF)


Spitting in God's face. They masturbate to the idea.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:22 AM (zhLdt)

63 34 Posted by: Intercepted Out.com Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 26, 2024 11:14 AM (JCZqz)

Even younger straight people identify as queer thanks to 1) it becoming a political statement, 2) the concept of "Safe Horny" (basically the idea that sex is only good when it's kinky and disposable and filthy and cheap; in other words : when it's gay)

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 11:23 AM (sm6Pk)

64 I'm starting to think the idea of us taking over a country is pretty sound.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2024 11:23 AM (4olE8)

65 43...Even woke, leftists straight men will refuse to date a transgender that had the surgery.
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Im sure, even as you were writing this, there is some woke politician considering a law where it would be a hate crime
not to date a trans, because they are trans. It's only a matter of time .

Posted by: ET at February 26, 2024 11:23 AM (qvOIL)

66 Carter calculates the lifetime discounted cash flow from the drug regimen alone to be over $70,000 per transgender patient.


Sumpin'...Sumpin'...someone once said...there's one born every minute.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 11:23 AM (W/lyH)

67 Speaking of valuable writing and writers, in book form, can anyone be more impressive than Peter Schweizer?

https://shorturl.at/ejsz1

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2024 11:24 AM (tDIr0)

68

Good news Citizens! Those of you yellow level and below will no longer have to eat bugs! Please report to the nearest citizen meat processing facility immediately. Failure to reply will result in your incineration. Have a nice day!

Posted by: Friend Computer at February 26, 2024 11:24 AM (HRQvT)

69 >> I don’t think the transgender cult is first and foremost about money/business. Oh there are docs without a conscience that’ll pocket the dough…. But the primary pushers of this ideology are demonic possessed individuals who want to wreak as much destruction and havoc as possible…. They hate humanity. The $$ angle is too simplistic


Truly believe this is another "embrace the power of 'and'" situation.

The people at the root of the trans movement are radicals who want to bust up western civilization, but they've created a fabulous financial incentive along with an emotional one to get others to do their work. Who doesn't want to help kids in need? It's like how they use "Love" to sell the gay agenda. These are two parts of the same movement to destroy normal, heterosexual norms.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2024 11:24 AM (6IDWi)

70 Im sure, even as you were writing this, there is some woke politician considering a law where it would be a hate crime
not to date a trans, because they are trans. It's only a matter of time .
Posted by: ET at February 26, 2024 11:23 AM (qvOIL)

I *really* don't want to be the lawyer who has to explicitly spell out why that violates the 3rd Amendment...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2024 11:24 AM (VoAdT)

71 Very good article on "following the money" on tranny atrocities. I've been saying this from the beginning. I do think, however, that the article substantially underestimates the cost -- and therefore the profit motive -- of Big Tranny and it's butchery.

The surgery costs seem probably half as much as they probably are, although it's possible the article only included the "surgeon's" fees and not all the other fees (hospital or "bed" fees, anesthesia, testing, etc).

The pharma costs also seem too low.

But regardless, I agree there are billions to be made in this industry. Now that Covid has exposed the total corruption and degradation of the medical and pharma industry -- if not it's total devotion to profit at any and all costs -- it's all too clear why so many people are pushing this butchery on young, confused people.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2024 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

72 Pulliam finds himself in agreement with Simon on the core issue of whether blue state refugees are making their destination states redder or bluer. My observation is the same as theirs - the refugees are making their new states redder.
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The refugees are. If you're conservative - even squishy conservative - there is nothing like watching the real-time destruction of a once-sane place to move you firmly into the position.

But those are the refugees. The other side of the coin are the colonists. The colonists moved for other reasons - cost of living or traffic, for example, or because their jobs relocated them - and don't see any causes or comparisons between the collapse of where they *were* and sanity of where they *are.*

I don't think the question is "do refugees move the needle toward progressivism or conservatism" but is rather, "what is the mix of refugees and colonists in the population inflow?"

I don't know how to answer that question, and it keeps me up at night because I am refugee who fled a shit hole. Are these other people coming in like me, or are they like the ones who turned my old home into a shit hole?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:24 AM (HnUIn)

73 The immolated nutjob has died.

I did find this comment Moron Cruelty worthy

The Real RMC
1 hour ago

I guess he met his match

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (aD39U)

74 16
‘Take away? SHE. She is the problem.
Very few women think the worst of people. ‘

This is true. Whereas, most men think from time to time, who might I have to fight to keep me and my family safe and sound.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (jbnUc)

75 Salt Lake City is a very Democrat place. It’s like Austin.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (bWsRe)

76 I have also found that, at least in my neck of the North Carolina woods (Brunswick County, extreme southeast, on the ocean), people relocating from New York, New Jersey, etc. - over the last several years, at least - are pretty conservative. Most are retirees or people who have bought vacation homes which they expect to make permanent abodes when they do retire, and are not shy about condemning the leftist hell holes from which they fled.

Posted by: Paco at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (njExo)

77 My argument about transplants is that a deep dive was done on the 2018 Texas senate race. Voters who had moved to Texas in the previous decade provided Ted Cruz with his margin of victory. Without them he probably would not have won.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (2DkvE)

78 This is not a 60-year revenue engine, it's probably closer to 20 on average if I had to guess. By then, the people involved will either be dead or will have reversed course as they stagger through a more average lifespan as cripples.

Still fantastic sums of money, but nothing like as fantastic as projected when reality intervenes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

When you start adding in the years of mental health therapy, job instability leading to increased reliance on government support, and liberal-voting victim mentality, it makes even more sense.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (JCZqz)

79 "Also, I AM IN AGONY FROM THIS FIRE.
Posted by: Aaron Bushnell"

At what point did you regret your decision? Just curious.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (vFG9F)

80 51 This is not a 60-year revenue engine, it's probably closer to 20 on average if I had to guess. By then, the people involved will either be dead or will have reversed course as they stagger through a more average lifespan as cripples.

Still fantastic sums of money, but nothing like as fantastic as projected when reality intervenes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:20 AM (HnUIn)

If those who started young make it to an age where they're not sexually desirable anymore (say, after age 45 or so), they start to back off.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (sm6Pk)

81 41 LinusVanPelt I think we are in agreement, to me it's the Cultural Marxists to find another split off of civilization to destroy family's

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (cZMEZ)

82 California gives illegals drivers licenses so that when they kill people driving drunk they won't be ticketed for driving without a license.

And everyone who gets a driver's license gets a voter registration form and the ballot is automatically mailed to the illegal alien's home. Free postage too.

They still don't have vote by picture yet. Many illegals are illiterate. But I'm hopeful.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (9+W95)

83 we can achieve real victories in the culture wars at the state and local levels, which is where our most important votes are cast.
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The federal level is a write-off. It is unfixable and so is irrelevant. Vote or don't.

Locally, though, it might not be a write-off. It depends on where you live.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (HnUIn)

84 Yeah, the Horde has been on fire with this one.

Posted by: It had to be said at February 26, 2024 11:26 AM (vFG9F)

85 My daughter is in Boise for grad school. She says blue state refugees are hated regardless of politics. They're raising home prices and pricing natives out of the market.
—-

I was in Seattle in the early 80s in a California plated pickup and got yelled at and flipped off all the time. More look at Washington state, as blue as blue can be. I so for Idaho.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at February 26, 2024 11:26 AM (17s+e)

86 Comedian Jim Norton not only dated one but married one that did NOT have the surgery, lots of freaks out there.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:22 AM (bWsRe)


So, he's a homosexual who married another man who likes to bounce around and tell people he's a chick because they then fall all over themselves to show that they'll pretend along. It's like playing retarded Simon Says.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (zhLdt)

87 Tammy Duckworth
@SenDuckworth
After years of complaining, Republicans walked away from a bipartisan border deal they specifically asked for.
Turns out, they didn't want to fix our border—because if we did, then what would they tweet about?

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Oh, I imagine we could nitpick something.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (FVME7)

88 >>@Ruwa4Georgia
Some of y’all really lack reading comprehension skills. If we got rid of every immigrant and banned all immigration women would still get murdered while running because this is a *societal* issue and women are targeted because we’re women.


If we can't stop ALL rape it's not worth doing anything, right, sunshine?
I mean, these people's agenda are so dang obvious.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (6IDWi)

89 felt like I was trying to warn a brontosaurus about the incoming meteor. She was still convinced we lived in a Scoop Jackson era of political comity, and was convinced I was greatly exaggerating the threat of woke ideology. In fact, I think she saw ME as a bigger threat because I was trying to change "the generosity of spirit" that defined our very neighborly and kind state. She simply refused to believe that in California and elsewhere there were literally tens of millions of Democrats who actively and aggressively sought to have our state's way of life wholly exterminated. It was a shocking and demoralizing experience.
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Of course. Her way of life and her position and all the trimmings of that position *depend* on her pretending the world is still as it once appeared to be, and that malevolent actors are rare rather then the rank and file.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (HnUIn)

90 Millenials and GenZ are bat shit fucking crazy leftists. Doesn’t matter if it’s Wyoming or Berkeley. Sure maybe on a 1-10 scale the ones in Wyoming are a 6 vs a 10 in Berkeley. But every successive generation is more left than the previous one. And this applies everywhere.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (bWsRe)

91 Is California still in the kidnapping business?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2024 11:16 AM (xcrUy)

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

[To repeat my comment from an earlier thread:]

Where are all the Amber Alerts for all the children being sex-trafficked across the border and throughout the former nation?

You can include Califzuela and the other blue shitholes encouraging child abduction and sex mutilation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (wNbrz)

92 These are two parts of the same movement to destroy normal, heterosexual norms.
===
Well there are too many of you. We are also having some pretty good results with the vaccines. Get a war started in Europe, the Middle East or Taiwan and now your talkin...

Posted by: Soros at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (/IBzm)

93 "Some people start their day with a bowl of Wheaties, I start mine plotting where to murder female joggers. Don't you wish everyone did?

/s
Posted by: Divide by Zero "

Who are we to judge your culture?

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2024 11:28 AM (vFG9F)

94 People are gonna speed so why have speed limits?
- Democrat Logic in Georgia

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:28 AM (bWsRe)

95 Those in the medical community who might be making coin from Trannies ate not the ones pushing elementary school students to turn into Frankinstines

Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2024 11:28 AM (cZMEZ)

96 those who started young make it to an age where they're not sexually desirable anymore (say, after age 45 or so), they start to back off.
Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM
****
So what you're saying is that I don't have a chance.

You're a buzz killer.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:28 AM (9+W95)

97 The latest attack on The Libs of Tik Tok is that her HAAAATE caused the death of a "non-binary" child.

Except we have cop body cam video of the girl in the emergency room, where her mother calls her by her real name, and we find out the girl started the fight and she seems OK during the interview.

The big question is, "What did she die from, if not the assault?" Was it that thing we're not allowed to talk about which has been causing young people to die suddenly within the last three years?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 26, 2024 11:28 AM (3g3bH)

98 The Nashville Public Library does not have Roger Simon's new book, in spite of its sales and good reviews, and the fact that Simon now lives in Nashville. Says a lot about the Blue Island in Red Sea that Nashville has become. I advise newcomers to stay out of Davidson County. Williamson County is still a good place, if one can afford it, but developers are throwing up dense tacky housing.

Posted by: Martin Tell at February 26, 2024 11:28 AM (6Iip2)

99 53 Silicon Slopes


++++

She's making big bucks on OnlyFans.

Posted by: Or so I've heard at February 26, 2024 11:28 AM (NBVIP)

100 Which state capitols aren't left leaning? None I have visited.

State government bureaucrats will invariably vote for larger state government.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (YAtuc)

101 " If we got rid of every immigrant and banned all immigration women would still get murdered while running because this is a *societal* issue and women are targeted because we’re women."

What ever happened to "If it saves one life..."?

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (vFG9F)

102 The Buffalo Sabres had a Choose Love theme for their game last night. That seems relevant to mention.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (xcrUy)

103 Crowder did a segment last week, on "Gen Z" data coming out, showing they are much more "conservative" than prior generations.

The caveat is, they're not what would traditionally be called politically conservative, just the numbers for their age now are skewing much more in that direction than prior generations at the same points in their lives.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (dGCAG)

104 Free Palestine!
Also, I AM IN AGONY FROM THIS FIRE
Posted by: Aaron Bushnell

It's bad optics.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (R4t5M)


Set his sights too low perhaps.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (W/lyH)

105 "Also, I AM IN AGONY FROM THIS FIRE.
Posted by: Aaron Bushnell"

At what point did you regret your decision? Just curious.
Posted by: fd at February 26, 2024 11:25 AM (vFG9F)

His boosters should follow suit...courage of your convictions etc...etc.

Posted by: BignJames at February 26, 2024 11:30 AM (AwYPR)

106 Well there are too many of you. We are also having some pretty good results with the vaccines. Get a war started in Europe, the Middle East or Taiwan and now your talkin...
Posted by: Soros at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (/IBzm)
++++
Your culture war has already done the job, it will just take 40-60 more years to shake out. Fertility in the developed world has collapsed, so don't worry - you'll get your population reduction in a big and unstoppable way. You'll also get an end of contemporary civilization, so I hope your bunker is *really* well stocked.

Of all the plutocrats, oligarchs, intellectuals, etc., *only* Elon Musk understands that population reduction is fatal. All the others are all-in on it, and think they can use their vast wisdom and intelligence to manage it into utopia rather than digging in the dirt for a chance at survival.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:30 AM (HnUIn)

107 "She says blue state refugees are hated regardless of politics."

A big reason I'm staying put. The other is we are all past our "best by" date. LOL

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 26, 2024 11:30 AM (MeG8a)

108 Free Palestine!
Also, I AM IN AGONY FROM THIS FIRE
Posted by: Aaron Bushnell

It's bad optics.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (R4t5M)


Set his sights too low perhaps.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (W/lyH)



He lights the way forward.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 11:30 AM (aD39U)

109 California is offering free sex changes to illegal aliens because illegal aliens get free healthcare.

It's quite the racket out here behind enemy lines.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:31 AM (9+W95)

110 Do I have this right?

1. Wear dress
2. Cut off dick
3. ???
4. Profit!

Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2024 11:31 AM (IFNME)

111 @Ruwa4Georgia
Some of y’all really lack reading comprehension skills. If we got rid of every immigrant and banned all immigration women would still get murdered while running because this is a *societal* issue and women are targeted because we’re women.
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If we can't stop ALL rape it's not worth doing anything, right, sunshine?
I mean, these people's agenda are so dang obvious.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (6IDWi)

The solution seems rather obvious to me. Either women should stop running, or learn to run faster.

One or the other.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2024 11:31 AM (dGCAG)

112 ...voter registration form and the ballot is automatically mailed to the illegal alien's home. Free postage too.

They still don't have vote by picture yet. Many illegals are illiterate. But I'm hopeful.
Posted by: torabora

Why would that matter? Not like they're the ones completing the ballot? Oh, right, right...

Posted by: Liberal Vote Harvester at February 26, 2024 11:32 AM (JCZqz)

113 These are two parts of the same movement to destroy normal, heterosexual norms.

Nothing damages Democrats' future political prospects more than a woman getting married.

Single, bitter, miserable women are the crucial base of the Democratic Party.

Married women vote Republican, by a small margin.

Go back to 1950s marriage rates, and the Democrats would lose all national elections in a landslide.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2024 11:32 AM (YAtuc)

114 If we can't stop ALL rape it's not worth doing anything, right, sunshine?
I mean, these people's agenda are so dang obvious.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (6IDWi)

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

The perfect psychotic is the enemy of the good.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 11:32 AM (wNbrz)

115 110 Do I have this right?

1. Wear dress
2. Cut off dick
3. ???
4. Profit!
Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2024 11:31 AM (IFNME)

You're probably too old to make any money off of it.

Chasers _hate_ old troons.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 11:32 AM (sm6Pk)

116 Free Palestine!
Also, I AM IN AGONY FROM THIS FIRE
Posted by: Aaron Bushnell

It's bad optics.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 26, 2024 11:21 AM (R4t5M)


Set his sights too low perhaps.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (W/lyH)


He lights the way forward.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

I'm glad you guys scoped out my pun.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 26, 2024 11:33 AM (R4t5M)

117 Is California still in the kidnapping business?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2024 11:16 AM (xcrUy)


They are holding the ones they have hostage.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 11:33 AM (W/lyH)

118 ... The caveat is, they're not what would traditionally be called politically conservative, just the numbers for their age now are skewing much more in that direction than prior generations at the same points in their lives.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (dGCAG)
++++
The Millennials are are fairly monolithic in that they are uniformly progs. Non-prog Millennials are very decidedly in the minority.

Gen-Z is more bifurcated, but this should *not* be confused for "conservatism" in the way that it is generally understood. The non-prog Zoomers are exactly that. They're anticommunists/antiprogressives, but they are definitely not "conservative" in a way that is recognizable to most people familiar with that dynamic. They are just as radical as their prog brethren, just in a different direction because they recognize that their prog brethren are the inheritors of the current system, because the the current system is entirely progressive.

If the anti-prog Zoomers were to win the day, don't expect some constitutional conservative resurgence. Expect a monarchy or similar.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)

119 The big question is, "What did she die from, if not the assault?" Was it that thing we're not allowed to talk about which has been causing young people to die suddenly within the last three years?
Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 26, 2024 11:28 AM (3g3bH)


Putin killed her?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:34 AM (zhLdt)

120 Shouldn't the flaming Air Force guy rather have just thrown himself out of an airplane? He would have made a splash.
Plus the self immolation seems to be cultural appropriation.
On the positive side he got himself up to temperature for his new home.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2024 11:34 AM (xcrUy)

121 In California, men as well as women can get free abortions.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:34 AM (9+W95)

122 86 Comedian Jim Norton not only dated one but married one that did NOT have the surgery, lots of freaks out there.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:22 AM (bWsRe)

So, he's a homosexual who married another man who likes to bounce around and tell people he's a chick because they then fall all over themselves to show that they'll pretend along. It's like playing retarded Simon Says.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:27 AM (zhLdt)
_____

Norton is a sick, sick fuck who is seriously mentally ill. You think his current routine is crass, disgusting, and vulgar? You should have heard his earlier shit. Vomitous. He was kicking around comedy clubs in NYC a while back. I was sorta dating this girl who was into comedy clubs. So I went with her a few times. I had no idea who he was, but his routine was truly vile.

And in those clubs, it wasn't uncommon for the comedians to hang out with the audience at the bar after the show. I tried to avoid him, but sure enough he found us at the bar. He was obviously high as fuck on serious drugs, and mentally ill.

Imagine my surprise when I saw years later that he'd become a big name in comedy.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2024 11:35 AM (iFTx/)

123 The solution seems rather obvious to me. Either women should stop running, or learn to run faster.

One or the other.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2024 11:31 AM (dGCAG)

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

Or run with self-defense accoutrements (ideally more than one).

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 11:35 AM (wNbrz)

124 Burning Man touted himself having 'very good communication skills' and 'thriving in team environments'.

So where the hell was the rest of his team? And his communication skills sound like zombie Sam Kenison on fire. Sounds like BS.

Posted by: fd at February 26, 2024 11:35 AM (vFG9F)

125 Silicon Slopes
Sounds like a nickname for enhanced breasts.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus


One of autocucumber's favorites. Silicon Slopes is the tech place, Silicone Slopes is the enhanced rack.

It works even better for the original: Silicon vs Silicone Valley.

Posted by: mikeski at February 26, 2024 11:35 AM (DgGvY)

126 21 You know who is behind the transgender craze..... Big Tilapia.

Tilapia farms are springing up all over....

Posted by: Stuart McKenzie at February 26, 2024 11:10 AM (/IBzm)
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They can't be the sole reason for this Shirley?

Posted by: Ciampino - Begin the fish puns at February 26, 2024 11:35 AM (qfLjt)

127 My daughter is in Boise for grad school. She says blue state refugees are hated regardless of politics. They're raising home prices and pricing natives out of the market.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 26, 2024 11:22 AM (ia4iB)
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There is that, too. There are *always* consequences to large-scale migrations, and this breeds resentment.

This is one of the reasons I don't talk about where I used to live when in public. I am an outsider and always will be (my accent doesn't match), but I don't discuss my life prior to the current post-relocation epoch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:35 AM (HnUIn)

128 Insurance companies everywhere are writing self immolation exclusions feverishly.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:36 AM (9+W95)

129 >>My daughter is in Boise for grad school. She says blue state refugees are hated regardless of politics. They're raising home prices and pricing natives out of the market.

These are West Coast refugees looking for "LA with a mountain view."

We have our business headquarters in Bozeman, MT but it ain't Yellowstone anymore - the locals call in "Bozdio Drive" or "Bozangeles"

Idaho and Wyoming have become the poor man's Bozangles at the moment.

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2024 11:36 AM (K+UlC)

130 If the New Federalism means all the trannies will be in Minnesota, then as a non-Minnesotan, I'm a big supporter.

Posted by: Wally at February 26, 2024 11:37 AM (hqVaF)

131 The UK is increasing the age-rating for the Disney classic "Mary Poppins" and you'll never guess why
. . . .
In it, a derogatory term originally used by white Europeans about nomadic peoples in southern Africa is used to refer to soot-faced chimney-sweeps.
That now 'exceeds our guidelines f'or U films, the BBFC said ...
In the film, Admiral Boom, a neighbour and Naval veteran who thinks he is still in charge of a ship, uses the word twice.
. . . .
'Mary Poppins (1964) includes two uses of the discriminatory term "hottentots."'

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Hot to trot > hottentot

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 26, 2024 11:37 AM (FVME7)

132 Of all the plutocrats, oligarchs, intellectuals, etc., *only* Elon Musk understands that population reduction is fatal. All the others are all-in on it, and think they can use their vast wisdom and intelligence to manage it into utopia rather than digging in the dirt for a chance at survival.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:30 AM (HnUIn)


I suspect that a lot of them are counting on using their vast wisdom and intelligence to die of old age before the collapse happens. They think their kids will make it due to their money which will have only limited value but they don't really care that much.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:37 AM (zhLdt)

133 I suspect that a lot of them are counting on using their vast wisdom and intelligence to die of old age before the collapse happens. They think their kids will make it due to their money which will have only limited value but they don't really care that much.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:37 AM (zhLdt)
++++
Probably some of that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:38 AM (HnUIn)

134 It's kinda' like a subscription service which everything is becoming.

Posted by: InZona at February 26, 2024 11:38 AM (W14WA)

135 Our family was raised in accord with those values now disrespected and ignored.

This matters not at all, we emulate those values and do our best to live accordingly. Don't like this? Then get out of my life.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 26, 2024 11:38 AM (KATBx)

136 118 If the anti-prog Zoomers were to win the day, don't expect some constitutional conservative resurgence. Expect a monarchy or similar.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:34 AM (HnUIn)

They're mostly NRx, Neo-Reactionary.

And yeah, quite a few are Monarchists like the South African Youtuber "Aristocratic Utensil".

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 11:38 AM (sm6Pk)

137 103 Crowder did a segment last week, on "Gen Z" data coming out, showing they are much more "conservative" than prior generations.

The caveat is, they're not what would traditionally be called politically conservative, just the numbers for their age now are skewing much more in that direction than prior generations at the same points in their lives.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (dGCAG)

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

As a father of a 24 year old, I can tell you they think the system is rigged. They got some of this from the wife and I, but a lot is from the general zeitgeist among the younger crowd.

It doesn't make them conservative but it does make them extremely weary of shit spewed from politicians and rich people.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 11:39 AM (++4z6)

138 Payette Idaho 20 years ago was 'adfordable'. Now broke down old houses are over $200k and new ones are $450k. That's 80 miles from Boise
But it's right across the Snek River from Ontario, Oregon where 99% of the billboards are for legal weed shops.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:39 AM (9+W95)

139 Bozeman used to be a small sleepy college town. Now it’s a city with illegals, drugs, traffic, etc. and a house costs $500k for a shack.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:39 AM (bWsRe)

140 What makes the Hottentots so hot?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 26, 2024 11:40 AM (9yWhg)

141 Also on the LOTT thing is that the causality they are claiming is that 2-3 years ago she reposted some stuff a vice principal from the school had posted which was groom-y.

And this confused chick that goes to that school died a few weeks ago. So, you know, BLOOD ON HER HANDS!

Posted by: blaster at February 26, 2024 11:40 AM (IFNME)

142 Buck,

I suspect that the driving motivation for most Adolescent Gender physicians is not primarily financial. Rather there is a deeper and darker motive of self-justification going on. Take Dr. Richard Levine as an example. He lived most of his adult life as a man, married with two children. In his fifties, while working as an Adolescent Medicine physician he decided to outwardly project himself as a woman, calling himself Rachel and growing his hair long while donning a matronly dress and a string of faux pearls.

How does he justify this delusion? By promoting and even grooming transgender delusions in his patients. He isn't getting rich from the ongoing follow-up of those patients. He is validating his own grotesque existence. He is manufacturing a self-identity as a hero, and it has served him well.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2024 11:40 AM (991eG)

143 103 Crowder did a segment last week, on "Gen Z" data coming out, showing they are much more "conservative" than prior generations.



There’s a lot of hopium out there with this. 1/4 of GenZ “identifies” as gay/tranny. But yeah conservative.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:40 AM (bWsRe)

144 His motto ought to be "No child's behind left!"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2024 11:41 AM (991eG)

145 144 His motto ought to be "No child's behind left!"
Posted by: Muldoon at February 26, 2024 11:41 AM (991eG)

"The Audacity of Grope"

Posted by: (an old favorite of mine) at February 26, 2024 11:41 AM (VoAdT)

146 103 Crowder did a segment last week, on "Gen Z" data coming out, showing they are much more "conservative" than prior generations.

The caveat is, they're not what would traditionally be called politically conservative, just the numbers for their age now are skewing much more in that direction than prior generations at the same points in their lives.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2024 11:29 AM (dGCAG)
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How I with that were true. It is true? I'm very skeptical.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2024 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

147 There’s a lot of hopium out there with this. 1/4 of GenZ “identifies” as gay/tranny. But yeah conservative.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:40 AM (bWsRe)
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They aren't same people, usually.

Assuming it's correct, the 25% Alphabet People are a subset of the, say, 70% Prog People. The two can be simultaneously true because it's a taxonomy, not a bunch of mutually-exclusive groups.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)

148 The sort of industries that just allow people to pick up and work anywhere tend to be in technology. The unfortunate fact is tech job skew over overwhelmingly liberal.

I think some states have definitely benefited, Florida being the best example. But overall, I think small rural red states are getting inundated with liberal transplants

Posted by: Benchmark at February 26, 2024 11:44 AM (WR+gX)

149 Gen Z refers to Millennials as Boomers. Gen "Alpha" doesn't even know what a Generation is.

None of them have any idea what the fuck is even going on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2024 11:44 AM (VoAdT)

150 129 Idaho and Wyoming have become the poor man's Bozangles at the moment.

mr. bojangles > bozangles

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2024 11:44 AM (sGtp+)

151
He lived most of his adult life as a man, married with two children. In his fifties, while working as an Adolescent Medicine physician he decided to outwardly project himself as a woman, calling himself Rachel and growing his hair long while donning a matronly dress and a string of faux pearls.

I preferred the 'good old days' when a mans 'mid-life crisis' was resolved with hair plugs and a Corvette.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 26, 2024 11:45 AM (nIvob)

152 You know who is behind the transgender craze..... Big Tilapia.

Tilapia farms are springing up all over....

Posted by: Stuart McKenzie at February 26, 2024 11:10 AM (/IBzm)

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Big Tilapia is a conspiracy and PsyOp for, and being conducted by, Big Penguin.

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 11:45 AM (h9jJZ)

153 Bozeman used to be a small sleepy college town. Now it’s a city with illegals, drugs, traffic, etc. and a house costs $500k for a shack.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:39 AM (bWsRe)

If you travel 20 miles to the south, there is a secret enclave of very wealthy tech and NGO/WEF gurus occupying a mountainous retreat called by various names - but the area was originally known as The Yellowstone Development Corp, no shit...Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other European wealthy individuals and politico's own mountain top lairs in this highly secured development.

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2024 11:45 AM (K+UlC)

154 Assuming it's correct, the 25% Alphabet People are a subset of the, say, 70% Prog People. The two can be simultaneously true because it's a taxonomy, not a bunch of mutually-exclusive groups.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:44 AM (HnUIn)


That looks suspiciously math-ish. Consider this a warning.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:45 AM (zhLdt)

155 Christian Toto let me ramble for half an hour again. Podcast should be up Wednesday.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 11:46 AM (GBKbO)

156 131 Hot to trot > hottentot

tater tot > hottentot

Posted by: anachronda at February 26, 2024 11:47 AM (sGtp+)

157 Nothing damages Democrats' future political prospects more than a woman getting married.

Single, bitter, miserable women are the crucial base of the Democratic Party.

Married women vote Republican, by a small margin.

Go back to 1950s marriage rates, and the Democrats would lose all national elections in a landslide.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2024 11:32 AM (YAtuc)

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I think it's something like 55% of married women vote Republican

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 11:47 AM (++4z6)

158 (“American Refugees: Will the influx of blue state refugees into the heartland ruin the country or save it?”

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????

How is this even a question? Every single place this has been tried has been shown to be an absolute failure.

It's like the German Socialists that are so popular to discuss these days. They're to the right of the communists, but when it comes time to vote they're still going to vote for the socialists. And then call you a Nazi.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 11:47 AM (r14Rh)

159 Annossaurus Wrecks @ 131-
I was always partial to ‘wogs’, just a whimsical sound to it. Where’s all these wogs coming from?

Posted by: Eromero at February 26, 2024 11:48 AM (ynOt3)

160 Austin Kincaid = Dana Loesch = Tulsi Gabbard = Nikki Haley = Gina Carano

Discuss.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 26, 2024 11:48 AM (ufFY8)

161 Hot to trot > hottentot
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Hottentot Venus...an OG Ackbar girl! Tough to find a SFW photo, but here's a contemporary cartoon of her: http://tinyurl.com/ykdffa79

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 26, 2024 11:48 AM (JCZqz)

162 If you travel 20 miles to the south, there is a secret enclave of very wealthy tech and NGO/WEF gurus occupying a mountainous retreat called by various names - but the area was originally known as The Yellowstone Development Corp, no shit...Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other European wealthy individuals and politico's own mountain top lairs in this highly secured development.
Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2024 11:45 AM (K+UlC)


Once upon a time I lived in a little town named Deer Lodge. I wonder if any of those wealthy individuals have ever spent a winter near Bozeman.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:48 AM (zhLdt)

163 I had no idea what hottentot even meant.

Thank you, British classification system. Thanks to you, I now know another bad word.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

164 RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Announces Her Resignation

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2024 11:48 AM (eYF7X)

165 Related: yesterday's service at our non-woke church had a surprise - a transkid acolyte. Looked like a boy, listed as Mary in the program (no idea whose family she is part of). Another family who had been overseas has returned to our church within the past year with their formerly female child now presented as male. Also noticed that families whose kids who were friends with this transkid before the overseas move have not been in church lately, are no longer acolytes. So. We'll see how fast other changes transpire to accommodate our apparently growing transkid church community.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2024 11:11 AM (6IDWi)

"Trans" kids are Satanic. They have literally said that God made a mistake, and took steps to alter God's work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (tkR6S)

166 Just going to college in Austin was all the "Austin" I could take. I was ready to get out of there. It's 1000x worse now.

Posted by: brak at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (AR07F)

167 Aaron's life ended
With an ear-splitting cry
If you sniff the wind
You can still smell him fry

Posted by: Oglebay at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (ogTiX)

168 157 Nothing damages Democrats' future political prospects more than a woman getting married.

Single, bitter, miserable women are the crucial base of the Democratic Party.

Married women vote Republican, by a small margin.

Go back to 1950s marriage rates, and the Democrats would lose all national elections in a landslide.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2024 11:32 AM (YAtuc)

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I think it's something like 55% of married women vote Republican
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 11:47 AM (++4z6)
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Might even be higher than 55% for GOP. But single women? They vote 115% for Dems. Sometimes 120% in places like Fulton County.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (iFTx/)

169 122
‘ Imagine my surprise when I saw years later that he'd become a big name in comedy.’
Did you get his autograph?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (jbnUc)

170 RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Announces Her Resignation

Oh no!!!!

Posted by: Nobody ever at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (CsUN+)

171 Concur with Muldoon.
The few I know are complete narcissists.
It's all about them.
Extremely annoying and worth avoiding.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (W/lyH)

172 165 "Trans" kids are Satanic. They have literally said that God made a mistake, and took steps to alter God's work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (tkR6S)


Possessed might be more accurate. I don't think these children grasp what they are saying about themselves.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2024 11:50 AM (4olE8)

173 170 RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Announces Her Resignation

Oh no!!!!
Posted by: Nobody ever at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (CsUN+)

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Well, except the Romney family. They're now going the way of the Bushes, and they never even held the presidency!

Such injustice! The GOP voters should pay dearly for this insult!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

174 Gen Z refers to Millennials as Boomers. Gen "Alpha" doesn't even know what a Generation is.

None of them have any idea what the fuck is even going on.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2024 11:44 AM (VoAdT)
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The "generation" concept is now out of gas. It was always an aberration and it's over. An "age cohort" exists and always has, but the idea of semi-monolithic "generations" was a temporary consequence of the War and has reached its end. The Millennials are barely a "generation" in the Postwar sense, and the Zoomers probably aren't one.

The only reason this happened in the first place the massive die-off and general pause on reproduction throughout the developed world because of the War, and is a function of its aftermath. It's historically extremely weird to have a period of essentially no births followed by a massive explosion in births for a fairly discrete period. It caused a demographic "reset" and created a "generation." That generation then had kids of their own, but variance started to happen as it always must. The natural state is a hodgepodge (within reason), not bright lines.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)

175 ALX 🇺🇸
@alx
BIDEN: “I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right”:
“We.. The better angel.. he said.. we must address.. council ah address the better angels of our nature… We’re not enemies but we’re friends its the middle is eh ah in the part of the Civil War”

http://tinyurl.com/mryxwswx

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Four score . . . ehh . . . for score see Corn Pop down at the pool.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 26, 2024 11:51 AM (FVME7)

176 @Ruwa4Georgia
Some of y’all really lack reading comprehension skills. If we got rid of every immigrant and banned all immigration women would still get murdered while running

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Immigrants: committing the necessary violence that Americans refuse to do.

Just imagine what immigrants with free firearms could do for gun control.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at February 26, 2024 11:51 AM (hCzfy)

177 Austin Kincaid = Dana Loesch

Dana Loesch is much more like India Summer.

Posted by: spindrift at February 26, 2024 11:51 AM (MqhXY)

178 RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Announces Her Resignation

Oh no!!!!
Posted by: Nobody ever at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (CsUN+)

=======

Well, except the Romney family. They're now going the way of the Bushes, and they never even held the presidency!


I'd imagine the DNC is pretty upset as well.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)

179 We'll see how fast other changes transpire to accommodate our apparently growing transkid church community.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 26, 2024 11:11 AM (6IDWi)

"Trans" kids are Satanic. They have literally said that God made a mistake, and took steps to alter God's work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (tkR6S)

I know it’s none of my business but maybe time to scout for a new church? Particularly if the pastor is all on board with the trans stuff

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2024 11:51 AM (Dd+/6)

180 Has the Supreme Court ruled that fire is speech?

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:52 AM (9+W95)

181 From the article:

"Can a fedora-wearing, (converted) conservative Jewish writer from New York by way of Hollywood find contentment in Tennessee? It would be an ironic reversal of The Beverly Hillbillies. Simon assures the reader that the answer is yes, so long as he can play tennis several times a week, enjoy fine dining, and find congenial companions with whom to socialize—all of which are available in Nashville."

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Is there anyone who really wonders how that guy will vote when it comes time to help the locals?

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 11:52 AM (r14Rh)

182
I lmao at people who think it's cheap to live in Wyoming.

The 2,200 small town we live in is expensive. We currently rent a 3/2 double wide trailer that is currently valued at $300,000 on basically a zero lot. There is an independent grocery that is very expensive. We drive 40 miles to a regular grocery that doesn't gouge you.

Don't get me wrong, we love where we live, but it is not cheap like back in the day.

Posted by: four seasons at February 26, 2024 11:52 AM (PisyI)

183 Go back to 1950s marriage rates, and the Democrats would lose all national elections in a landslide.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 26, 2024 11:32 AM (YAtuc)
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That would require going back to 1950s (or, rather, pre-1960s) mores and marriage/family law, which will never happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:52 AM (HnUIn)

184 172 165 "Trans" kids are Satanic. They have literally said that God made a mistake, and took steps to alter God's work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2024 11:49 AM (tkR6S)

Possessed might be more accurate. I don't think these children grasp what they are saying about themselves.
Posted by: NR Pax at February 26, 2024 11:50 AM (4olE

I sometimes think it's an amplification of the fact that we're *all* born in the "wrong" body, to some degree... you're supposed to feel not quite at home as a mammal in meat-space. We're not bodies that have a soul, we're souls that have a body. Etc. etc. etc.

Add to that general human condition the disorienting weirdness of puberty, and then marinate it in all in an entire childhood of authority figures telling you you probably actually ARE born in the wrong body.... it's pretty easy to imagine even relatively sane kids going haywire.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2024 11:53 AM (VoAdT)

185 I am world famous-known by my nickname-Hottentot Venus. Why take that from me?

Posted by: Sarah Baartman at February 26, 2024 11:54 AM (V5BDR)

186 Church is the best place for that kid and her (I think I read that right) family.

Hopefully they don't see themselves as missionairies.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 11:54 AM (r14Rh)

187 Bozeman used to be a small sleepy college town. Now it’s a city with illegals, drugs, traffic, etc. and a house costs $500k for a shack.

Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 11:39 AM (bWsRe)

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I'd heard that a lot of Californians have been moving there and turning it into a shithole. Have a cousin from Butte going to school there -- he's the Bobcat's starting QB the past 3 years -- I'll have to ask him & his parents about this.

Bumper sticker seen a couple years ago:

"WWRD?

What Would Rip Do?"


/"Yellowstone" TV series character reference

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 11:54 AM (3i5bL)

188 Mark Pulliam’s writing always strikes a chord with me, because he is also a conservative refugee from Austin who fled to the deep-red sanctuary of East Tennessee. And like me, he is troubled by how RINO-infested the GOP political establishment is here, and he’s also concerned that the local citizenry is unaware of the threat to its traditional conservative culture.

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My opinion is the social conservatives of the "three legged stool" were taken for a ride for 40 years. Without a doubt the other two legs (financial, foreign policy) didn't give a shit about social conservatism. Social conservatives should've jumped ship in 1990 or earlier after Reagan failed to close down the Department of Education and SCOTUS had their shit ruling on abortion.

At that point it was obvious the Repubs had no intention of enacting policies the social conservatives wanted, except for the occasional bone they were thrown.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (++4z6)

189 This busty bikini blonde loses a fair amount of sleep over the fact that there's no way to differentiate between or control the influx of "reddening" refugees as compared to "bluing" colonists:
http://tiny.cc/sm14xz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)

190 181 From the article:

"Can a fedora-wearing, (converted) conservative Jewish writer from New York by way of Hollywood find contentment in Tennessee? It would be an ironic reversal of The Beverly Hillbillies. Simon assures the reader that the answer is yes, so long as he can play tennis several times a week, enjoy fine dining, and find congenial companions with whom to socialize—all of which are available in Nashville."

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Is there anyone who really wonders how that guy will vote when it comes time to help the locals?
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 11:52 AM (r14Rh)
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In Nashville???? That's not TN. Nashville's already been seized by liberals and beaten into submission. It's now a blue city, and I think strongly so.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (iFTx/)

191 Much as I hate it, as I do love living in WA, the Great Sorting does seem to be the way to go. That or massive bloodshed. I have my preferences there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (xcxpd)

192 Of all the plutocrats, oligarchs, intellectuals, etc., *only* Elon Musk understands that population reduction is fatal. All the others are all-in on it, and think they can use their vast wisdom and intelligence to manage it into utopia rather than digging in the dirt for a chance at survival.
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Robots and A.I.

We've come a long way since Roboz on Riptide.

Posted by: Soros at February 26, 2024 11:56 AM (/IBzm)

193 Once upon a time I lived in a little town named Deer Lodge. I wonder if any of those wealthy individuals have ever spent a winter near Bozeman.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:48 AM (zhLdt)

Try getting into the Big Sky ski lodges during winter season - forget it. Hollywood and West coast tech tycoons fly into Bozdeo Drive, MT on a Thursday night, stay at Big Sky, fly out Sunday night.

Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2024 11:56 AM (K+UlC)

194 This busty bikini blonde loses a fair amount of sleep over the fact that there's no way to differentiate between or control the influx of "reddening" refugees as compared to "bluing" colonists:

Red spots on her belly. It's probably leprosy. Stay away!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2024 11:57 AM (CsUN+)

195 Joe Mannix @ -183 go back to the 1950s?
Maybe after the ‘correction’ that’s coming, the 2050s will be just the ticket.

Posted by: Eromero at February 26, 2024 11:57 AM (ynOt3)

196 Has the Supreme Court ruled that fire is speech?
Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:52 AM (9+W95)


Their fire is speech; our speech is fire.

Posted by: Doof at February 26, 2024 11:57 AM (JunzL)

197 In Nashville???? That's not TN. Nashville's already been seized by liberals and beaten into submission. It's now a blue city, and I think strongly so.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (iFTx/)
++++
Tennessee has two giant blue cities: Memphis and Nashville. The other major cities are more left than their surroundings, of course, but are not as hard core as the megaplexes.

But Nashville is by far the more dangerous of the two. Memphis is a blue shithole of the old-school variety run by race-pimping gangsters. Nashville is the new kind, run by the prog elite. Far, far worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:57 AM (HnUIn)

198 German Nazis had rolling street fights with communists. Both sides picked fights. It's where our home grown antifa has its roots.

Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:57 AM (9+W95)

199 RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel Announces Her Resignation

Oh no!!!!
Posted by: Nobody ever


I see this as an opportunity for her. She can make the cable circuit for years then go kneel next to to Michael Steele in the back room and suck dick for extra dough.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2024 11:57 AM (eYF7X)

200 It caused a demographic "reset" and created a "generation." That generation then had kids of their own, but variance started to happen as it always must. The natural state is a hodgepodge (within reason), not bright lines.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:51 AM (HnUIn)

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Agree.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 11:58 AM (++4z6)

201 189 This busty bikini blonde loses a fair amount of sleep over the fact that there's no way to differentiate between or control the influx of "reddening" refugees as compared to "bluing" colonists:
http://tiny.cc/sm14xz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)

Teenaged dream tonight

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 11:58 AM (xcxpd)

202 Is there anyone who really wonders how that guy will vote when it comes time to help the locals?

________

In Nashville???? That's not TN. Nashville's already been seized by liberals and beaten into submission. It's now a blue city, and I think strongly so.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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That's my point. I don't mean the locals in Nashville, the majority of which I assume are yankees. I mean the hicks that can't afford to play tennis in Nashville. The Red Boiling Springs and the Carthages and the Waynesboros.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 11:58 AM (r14Rh)

203 This busty bikini blonde loses a fair amount of sleep over the fact that there's no way to differentiate between or control the influx of "reddening" refugees as compared to "bluing" colonists:
http://tiny.cc/sm14xz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)


Give her my number. Since she's going to be awake anyway, we might as well make good use of the time.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 11:58 AM (W/lyH)

204 197 How about Knoxville?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 26, 2024 11:59 AM (9yWhg)

205 Try getting into the Big Sky ski lodges during winter season - forget it. Hollywood and West coast tech tycoons fly into Bozdeo Drive, MT on a Thursday night, stay at Big Sky, fly out Sunday night.
Posted by: Boswell at February 26, 2024 11:56 AM (K+UlC)


Compounds, however, suggest a place to hole up while everything falls apart around you, not fly out for the weekend and stay at a nice resort.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:59 AM (zhLdt)

206 Agree.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 11:58 AM (++4z6)
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Birth/death records were pretty bad by modern standards, but I suspect that there were also probably a couple of monolithic "generations" after gigantic plague outbreaks, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:59 AM (HnUIn)

207 Most blue state democrat yankees like living in their yankee paradise of rape, high taxes, state and local governments up their asses 24/7, election fraud, welfare fraud, fraud in general, overcrowding, high crime, criminal politicians, 2nd amendment deniers and rape.

Most have family and friends there and they make good money and own the ratholes that they live in so hopefully they stay put.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 26, 2024 11:59 AM (2ijlT)

208 German Nazis had rolling street fights with communists. Both sides picked fights. It's where our home grown antifa has its roots.
Posted by: torabora
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It why every schoolkid and college graduate knows the German Socialists were "right wing".

They were slightly to the right of the communists.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 12:00 PM (r14Rh)

209 >>Try getting into the Big Sky ski lodges during winter season - forget it. Hollywood and West coast tech tycoons fly into Bozdeo Drive, MT on a Thursday night, stay at Big Sky, fly out Sunday night.
Posted by: Boswell

Same at Sun Valley.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2024 12:00 PM (eYF7X)

210 Birth/death records were pretty bad by modern standards, but I suspect that there were also probably a couple of monolithic "generations" after gigantic plague outbreaks, too.

IIRC, it took a couple of hundred years for much of Europe to recover its population levels after the 1300s.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 26, 2024 12:00 PM (CsUN+)

211 Ass kissing contest!

Trump VP Contenders Ramp Up Praise of Him

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 26, 2024 12:01 PM (FVME7)

212 184 Add to that general human condition the disorienting weirdness of puberty, and then marinate it in all in an entire childhood of authority figures telling you you probably actually ARE born in the wrong body.... it's pretty easy to imagine even relatively sane kids going haywire.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 26, 2024 11:53 AM (VoAdT)

And on top of that, the pornified Streaming/Content economy, ESPECIALLY Streaming, where if you want to make any real money anymore, you'd better not be a dude.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 12:01 PM (sm6Pk)

213 Worth noting is...Florida in Particular is flipping BACK to Red.
Non-native, part-time, retired, and/or wealthy Blue staters had managed to take over the politics there, NY, NJ, Pa etc. Many also voted from BOTH. Several elected Fla politicos were either former Blue state elected officials, or the spawn of them. The campaigns and activists in Fla were uniformly headquartered in Blue states and DC, well trained and practiced in harvesting the votes from the Condo-canyons full of yankee seniors. Bush v Gore discovered hundreds of thousand registered to vote in two states, and around 60,000 that had voted in both. Rather than publicly prosecute a bunch of oldsters, Repubs let the Dems off the hook in exchange for more rigorous Voter ID, voter roll cleanups, tightened "Residency Period requirements for tax benifits" and some additional fundraising/campaign funds reporting...Florida flipped red, and has been getting redder ever since.
Dems still use the Absentee Ballot/vote by mail/ballot harvesting/GOTV practices they first spawned and used in Florida in greater and greater operations in many other states though...often against nearly non-existent push back from the red state politicos

Posted by: birdog at February 26, 2024 12:01 PM (SFGDK)

214 "Based on his interactions with blue state refugees, Simon finds that, in many cases, the transplants are more conservative and certainly more engaged than the natives..."

I can confirm this at least anecdotally. Becoming involved in my adopted red state county's fight against rapacious over-development, I noticed all the activism was coming from the older and conservative emigres. Very few natives showed up for the meetings. A few did early on, seemed completely unaware of the problem, and did not come back.

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 26, 2024 12:02 PM (UseAb)

215 It why every schoolkid and college graduate knows the German Socialists were "right wing".

They were slightly to the right of the communists.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 12:00 PM (r14Rh)
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Not even that. The fascists were the result of a schism among the communists in the wake of the Great War. The fascists were the pragmatists who realized that "G-d and Country" were much, much more powerful considerations than "class." That's all. That's the distinction.

Like in any schism, both sides hated each other. The pre-fascist socialists - the Marxists, essentially - defined the terms because the fascists were defeated by the third group (the non-socialists, that is, the United States) and the first group (the Marxists, through Soviet blood and American treasure).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 12:02 PM (HnUIn)

216 Take away? SHE. She is the problem.
Very few women think the worst of people

FTFY

Posted by: The ones who do get attacked by the sisterhood at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM (i/8eo)

217 At that point it was obvious the Repubs had no intention of enacting policies the social conservatives wanted, except for the occasional bone they were thrown.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (++4z6)

And then along came Donald Trump the rich NYC playboy donor to Hillary and … irony of irony, he was the best prez social conservatives ever had. Amazing irony

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM (Dd+/6)

218 Worse then blue state to red state flight is the outside state money going to local campaigns. I'm convinced that if no one was allowed to donate money to politicians they can't vote for that a 10% to 20% shift towards Republicans will result as the "purple" districts cease being purple.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM (++4z6)

219 This busty bikini blonde loses a fair amount of sleep over the fact that there's no way to differentiate between or control the influx of "reddening" refugees as compared to "bluing" colonists:
http://tiny.cc/sm14xz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)

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36-24-36

Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM (3i5bL)

220 This busty bikini blonde loses a fair amount of sleep over the fact that there's no way to differentiate between or control the influx of "reddening" refugees as compared to "bluing" colonists:
http://tiny.cc/sm14xz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM

Those ties look loose. Let me help you honey..... Loosen them more.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM (4p0Xq)

221 189 This busty bikini blonde loses a fair amount of sleep over the fact that there's no way to differentiate between or control the influx of "reddening" refugees as compared to "bluing" colonists:
http://tiny.cc/sm14xz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 11:55 AM (HnUIn)
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When her family bought their lake house, property values around them boomed.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM (UyIta)

222 204 197 How about Knoxville?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 26, 2024 11:59 AM (9yWhg)
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Still more conservative, but faltering. Will soon succumb like the rest. It's really just a numbers game. The left has more. Plus, because they are fanatical true believers, they control outsized influence. Just like it only takes 10-15% of Muslims in a population to create fatal havoc. Same phenomenon.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2024 12:04 PM (iFTx/)

223 36-24-36
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM

What a winning hand...

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2024 12:04 PM (4p0Xq)

224 Add to that general human condition the disorienting weirdness of puberty, and then marinate it in all in an entire childhood of authority figures telling you you probably actually ARE born in the wrong body.... it's pretty easy to imagine even relatively sane kids going haywire.

--

And what makes the rainbow flag bunch so dangerous.

Introducing the notion of same-sex sexytimes to children who don't have any interest in the opposite sex yet and who really like their same-sex friends and want to be around them all the time and impress them? Of course it's grooming.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 12:04 PM (r14Rh)

225 Or run with self-defense accoutrements (ideally more than one).
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 11:35 AM (wNbrz)

I would imagine a concealed peashooter, even a relatively lower caliber one, is going to ruin the "view" on the running pants.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 26, 2024 12:04 PM (dGCAG)

226 Is there anyone who really wonders how that guy will vote when it comes time to help the locals?

they could have just stopped at "fedora-wearing"

Posted by: brak at February 26, 2024 12:04 PM (AR07F)

227 Has the Supreme Court ruled that fire is speech?
Posted by: torabora at February 26, 2024 11:52 AM (9+W95)

Their fire is speech; our speech is fire.
Posted by: Doof at February 26, 2024 11:57 AM


Can you yell "street theater" at a crowded fire?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 26, 2024 12:04 PM (5sOEG)

228 Man, that NYTimes CIA/Ukraine article is wild:

@ClimateAudit
NYT article later segues to a terror attack on Crimea by Ukrainians in false flag Russian uniforms led by Budanov, presently a Zelensky favorite, that ended in bad defeat. Obama White House was furious and fired Kondratiuk from his Ukrainian position.

( they literally covered up a Uky false-flag attack on Crimea to maintain the anti-Trump operations )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2024 12:04 PM (IG4Id)

229 When her family bought their lake house, property values around them boomed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM

Reminds me, I need to spend more time at the cabin.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 26, 2024 12:05 PM (4p0Xq)

230 Worse then blue state to red state flight is the outside state money going to local campaigns. I'm convinced that if no one was allowed to donate money to politicians they can't vote for that a 10% to 20% shift towards Republicans will result as the "purple" districts cease being purple.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

At the very least you should have to own property in a state to donate, If I own property in FL even tho it's not my residence I have a vested interest in how the state is run. But that being said if the only option is no out of state money period I can get behind that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 26, 2024 12:05 PM (CIS44)

231 And then along came Donald Trump the rich NYC playboy donor to Hillary and … irony of irony, he was the best prez social conservatives ever had. Amazing irony
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM (Dd+/6)

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And then the other two legs of the three legged "conservative" stool couldn't have that and so they undermined their own party's leader.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 12:05 PM (++4z6)

232 36-24-36
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM


Only if she's 5'3".

Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at February 26, 2024 12:06 PM (5sOEG)

233
36-24-36

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That's a great Violent Femmes song. SFW so far as I remember even though it's suggestive. Great bassline as always.

youtube.com/watch?v=TnBRFhKlrbk

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 12:06 PM (r14Rh)

234 I'm a California refuge to Northern Arizona in 2020. While the area I'm in is pretty "Red" and our Rep (Eli Crane) is great, sometimes I feel like Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers screaming at the signs of Leftist encroachment.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at February 26, 2024 12:06 PM (xaNfJ)

235 I sometimes think it's an amplification of the fact that we're *all* born in the "wrong" body, to some degree... you're supposed to feel not quite at home as a mammal in meat-space. We're not bodies that have a soul, we're souls that have a body. Etc. etc. etc.

Existence sucks.

Posted by: And should be corrected at February 26, 2024 12:07 PM (i/8eo)

236 70K to ruin someone's life. I hope I never get to a point where I'd feel that ok.

Of course the evil retarded commie followers never allow themselves to realize they trading evil for money to mutilate someone just as much as if they were an assassin for hire.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2024 12:07 PM (3cGpq)

237 224 Introducing the notion of same-sex sexytimes to children who don't have any interest in the opposite sex yet and who really like their same-sex friends and want to be around them all the time and impress them? Of course it's grooming.
Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 12:04 PM (r14Rh)

And this is the essence of "Safe Horny". When sex is gay, it's "fun and doesn't hurt anybody". When it's straight, it's Rape.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 12:07 PM (sm6Pk)

238 Is there anyone who really wonders how that guy will vote when it comes time to help the locals?

they could have just stopped at "fedora-wearing"
Posted by: brak

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hahaha. He still writes part time for Hotair.com

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 12:08 PM (r14Rh)

239 70K to ruin someone's life. I hope I never get to a point where I'd feel that ok.

Of course the evil retarded commie followers never allow themselves to realize they trading evil for money to mutilate someone just as much as if they were an assassin for hire.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2024 12:07 PM (3cGpq)
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Staggering numbers of people would do it for much, much less.

Even more would do it for free, so long as they're convinced it's righteous (that is, not a ruination but an improvement).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 12:08 PM (HnUIn)

240 36-24-36
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 12:03 PM

Only if she's 5'3".
Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at February 26, 2024 12:06 PM (5sOEG)


Nah - only if she's 7'8"

Posted by: Weird Al at February 26, 2024 12:08 PM (JunzL)

241 Sigh. I think I had a decent point if only I had written it coherently. Oh well, back to the day job.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2024 12:08 PM (3cGpq)

242 239 Even more would do it for free, so long as they're convinced it's righteous (that is, not a ruination but an improvement).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 12:08 PM (HnUIn)

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Beware the busybodies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

243 The campaigns and activists in Fla were uniformly headquartered in Blue states and DC, well trained and practiced in harvesting the votes from the Condo-canyons full of yankee seniors.

It's worth noting that FL was never actually blue, that's just where the election fortifications were beta tested. Miami/Dade immediately went GOP when DeSantis made them actually count valid votes only.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2024 12:09 PM (2ocoG)

244 234 I'm a California refuge to Northern Arizona in 2020. While the area I'm in is pretty "Red" and our Rep (Eli Crane) is great, sometimes I feel like Donald Sutherland in Invasion of the Body Snatchers screaming at the signs of Leftist encroachment.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at February 26, 2024 12:06 PM (xaNfJ)

Except that he'd already been converted. He was screeching at the female main character to rat her out as the last remaining human in the city.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 12:09 PM (sm6Pk)

245 And this is the essence of "Safe Horny". When sex is gay, it's "fun and doesn't hurt anybody". When it's straight, it's Rape.
Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 12:07 PM

You know the rule.

Posted by: Whoooopie at February 26, 2024 12:09 PM (4p0Xq)

246 243 It's worth noting that FL was never actually blue, that's just where the election fortifications were beta tested. Miami/Dade immediately went GOP when DeSantis made them actually count valid votes only.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2024 12:09 PM (2ocoG)

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And it's an urban center.

Makes you wonder about Philly's lopsided results.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

247 It's worth noting that FL was never actually blue, that's just where the election fortifications were beta tested. Miami/Dade immediately went GOP when DeSantis made them actually count valid votes only.
Posted by: Ian S. a

Well that would seem to indicate there was some sort of fraud going on there, and I have been repeatedly assured that is just a vast QANON Right Wing Christian Nationalist Conspiracy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 26, 2024 12:10 PM (CIS44)

248 239 70K to ruin someone's life. I hope I never get to a point where I'd feel that ok.

Of course the evil retarded commie followers never allow themselves to realize they trading evil for money to mutilate someone just as much as if they were an assassin for hire.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2024 12:07 PM (3cGpq)
++++
Staggering numbers of people would do it for much, much less.

Even more would do it for free, so long as they're convinced it's righteous (that is, not a ruination but an improvement).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 12:08 PM (HnUIn)
_____________

Very many people would actually pay to do it

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 26, 2024 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

249 Very many people would actually pay to do it
Posted by: Elric Blade

*Hostel has entered the chat*

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 26, 2024 12:11 PM (CIS44)

250 I doubled McConnell's estates in Macau.

Romney turned ... for much less.

Posted by: Xi Jinping at February 26, 2024 12:11 PM (aD39U)

251 Very many people would actually pay to do it


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I think a lot about abortion doctors and their motivations. I suspect med school helped them fulfil more than a few dreams.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 12:11 PM (r14Rh)

252 The Ewok walks among us.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 26, 2024 12:12 PM (9yWhg)

253 Google's AI would not misgender Caitlyn Jenner to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, because "it's hurtful."

http://tinyurl.com/4dvcct7p

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 26, 2024 12:12 PM (woPEM)

254 253 Google's AI would not misgender Caitlyn Jenner to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, because "it's hurtful."

http://tinyurl.com/4dvcct7p

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 26, 2024 12:12 PM (woPEM)

You'd think it would be glad to, since Brucelyn doesn't vote Democrat.

Posted by: XTC at February 26, 2024 12:12 PM (sm6Pk)

255 nood - New American "image of God" guy it persecuted by Old America.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 12:13 PM (++4z6)

256 When sex is gay, it's "fun and doesn't hurt anybody".

-

I recently heard someone making an interesting point about why that word was chosen. The psy-op aspect of it. Gay isn't. They're miserable, I suspect always abused, and prone to disease.

But yay, happy.

Posted by: Nikki Haley's hairy nipples at February 26, 2024 12:13 PM (r14Rh)

257 Trump, Argentina’s President Milei Hold Their First Ever In-Person Meeting

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I hope Trump is taking notes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 26, 2024 12:16 PM (FVME7)

258 210
‘ Europe to recover its population levels after the 1300s.’
I read that England reached their pre-plague population in1800.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 26, 2024 12:17 PM (jbnUc)

259 Vote down any project that brings in tech jobs. That's all you need to do. This area is ag and oil jobs.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 26, 2024 12:18 PM (USTAS)

260 as far as "Generational" stuff goes...this year is the PEAK of the Boomers, largest number of people turning 65 ever, and that number begins to decline next year, and since they, and their children declined to have more children, not even a replacement number of children...demographic as well as economic seismic change will follow. All of the "seniors" that have been paying into SS/Medicare will now be receiving it...and the numbers now paying in are plummeting. When the sole child of 2, 4, or more Parents/step parents, single mothers realizes his/her paycheck is going to have to cover the support of many more people than just him/herself? We are going to see something...likely not pleasant. What happens when instead of 8 people paying into SS/Medicare for each one receiving it, drops to One person paying in for each receiving? Let alone that "Young" demographic also having to cover the "welfare" their parents/grandparents had previously been funding? Paying the "Debt service/Interest payments" of at least a $TRILLION dollars per year?
Actuarial reality is going to become Actual Reality

Posted by: birdog at February 26, 2024 12:24 PM (SFGDK)

261 I wonder if states can make a law the requires the candidates to disclose the $'s and % of total funding comes from out of state sources in big bold letters and repeated by the candidate right before they say, I'm so-and-so and I approve this message.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 26, 2024 12:27 PM (fs1hN)

262 I agree with the premise that transgenderism offers a more potentially lucrative opportunity and as such is being aggressively promoted and agitated for by the 'stakeholders", including physicians and pharma, but there is another category of stakeholder, the illegal/illicit drug industry. It is correct that the pharmaceutical drug regimen that must be consumed by a transgender patient is sizable, but many (all?) of these same patients also consume mind-altering substances, illegal or otherwise, in order to maintain their illusion (or delusion). This means that over the table and under the table industries are allies in pushing (pun intended) transgender as far as it will go. The revenues from surgery, recovery, conversion, maintenance, therapy, etc are substantial for all involved.

Posted by: TheLibertyDude at February 26, 2024 12:30 PM (hYb50)

263 RE Trump
I heard him say something the other day I had never heard before.
"Prior to running for President I never went to DC, I had only been there 17 times in my life, and had never spent the night there"

Methinks that info should be more prominent, if not in his speeches, at least in commentary about him.

Posted by: birdog at February 26, 2024 12:36 PM (SFGDK)

264 The leaders of the right need to understand they are facing a far left that is bent on replacing functional society with a hierarchy of broken unfunctional people. Over the long term the continued victory of the left will spell doom for our species.

Posted by: Drew in MO at February 26, 2024 12:40 PM (fkYQi)

265 " I successfully escaped from California to a deep red Mountain West state. In 2020, after the election, I made an appointment with my GOP state senator to discuss my concerns about voting integrity. She was a late-30s attorney who had lived in the state her whole life and had both her BA and JD from the state university. "

I think I know who you're talking about. RINO Barbie thought she'd be governor.

Posted by: I M Simpleton at February 26, 2024 12:55 PM (cwq7b)

266
I know I harp on this a lot but the goal is to remove ~90% of the human population. They're not going to do that all at once and they're not going to use only one mechanism. They'll use war, famine, pestilence (real or man-made), crime, insanity...
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 26, 2024 11:05 AM (zhLdt)


But, interstingly enough, never suicide.

Posted by: BuddyPC at February 26, 2024 12:56 PM (ugWdx)

267 I live in a Texas county that voted for Trump over Biden 77% to 22% but our local politicians are a bunch of chamber of commerce RINOs who get up to all kinds of mischief. We are gradually working on rooting them out.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 26, 2024 01:03 PM (GD2xa)

268 i couldn`t disagree more with buck...this is fools gold more likely created by chamber of commerce types looking for a quick buck and not playing the long game.......

these lefties are moving for economic reasons...they aren`t changing their historical political beliefs any more than i would if i had reason to move from a red stat to a blue state....

they are locusts...they take their rich blue state pensions and go to places where there is economic advantage....i see this all the time...i talk to guy who relaocated from chicago to taxas and they are as virulently liberal as they ever were...

they`re like locusts....they`ll take what they can and move on after they destroy their new home...they think emotionally...not critically...

ask yourself...are more red states turning purple or are more deep blue states tyrning purple?...just look at the south..

.this is insanity and will end badly...mark it

Posted by: uncouth jay marks at February 26, 2024 01:19 PM (8iAeH)

269 If you move to a red state, you cannot be complacent. You will not be left alone. The Dems have targeted states like TN to flip the legislatures. A friend in San Antonio says the Dems are within shouting distance to turn that county blue. They are like missionaries--they will never stop. They recruit and train candidates and fund them. What is the GOP doing?

http://tinyurl.com/34beaara

Posted by: PJ at February 26, 2024 01:23 PM (G1dq6)

270 and this will get worse unless our public education system is overhauled...these people are indoctrinated from day one in public education...this is their core belief system(because they`re exposed to it almost exclusively from day one)....

this isn`t some passing fancy...this is who they are...all these ceos the g.o.pe catered to while the democrats were winning the culture wars are fading into the sunset and being replaced by a younger,much more liberal woke version(just look at what`s happening in every major institution...they have almost total control)....

they don`t have to become conservatives to relocate and reap the benefit ....they aren`t wired that way....they don`t think like that..does anybody really believe all these liberal white women will turn their back on their abortion "theology"?

just not happening

Posted by: uncouth jay marks at February 26, 2024 01:32 PM (8iAeH)

271 Something to keep in mind, throughout our history we as a nation have met and prevailed over issues even more serious than what we face today, with an unbroken success record.

In fact, it's been our heritage to continue the struggle of our predecessors to ensure our Republic endures. With God's help and the unflagging effort of our citizenry we'll prevail here also.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 26, 2024 01:40 PM (KATBx)

272 “Once a customer is acquired, there is only one transaction. One and done. An abortion is performed and the customer walks away.“

Well, HALF of the customers walk away. The other half go out with the biohazard trash.

Posted by: SMOD 2024 at February 26, 2024 07:51 PM (Y2NGV)

273 Hey, I think your website might be having browser compatibility issues.
When I look at your website in Firefox, it looks fine but
when opening in Internet Explorer, it has some overlapping.
I just wanted to give you a quick heads up! Other then that, amazing blog!

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