Immediate Gratification

Ever seen parent/child interactions like this?

They call this "Gentle Parenting."
I call it "Battered Mommy Syndrome."
This kid hits, kicks, and slaps his mother, who responds with pleading and tears.
This child doesn't need the "unconditional positive regard" of therapy.
He needs parents - for his sake and ours.

The video and comments in the thread are interesting. Mommy does not seem to understand that her toddler is not capable of abstract thought yet, for one thing.

Battered Mommy Syndrome. This is one of the issues covered in Shrier's book, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

It gets more concerning when schools direct kids to focus on their feelings all day.

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How often does something like this happen with weird porn addiction?

Misanthropic Humanitarian found this unusual quote back in November of 2018, from a piece in the NYT:

Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to. That shouldn’t disqualify me from getting it. Andrea Long Chu

Since writing this, Andrea Long Chu has stated that children who change sexes have the right to change their sex back again if they want to. Or words to that effect.

Here's some of what Ace found about this same tremendous role model for the Youths of America in May of last year (don't comment on old threads, but you might want to re-read them):

A male academic who identifies as a transgender woman has been awarded a Pulitzer prize for literary criticism, prompting outcry on social media as users draw attention to his history of disturbing comments about how pornography influenced his transition.
Andrea Long Chu, born Andrew, is a 2014 graduate from Duke University and a current doctoral student in comparative literature at New York University. In 2021, he was appointed to the role of book critic by New York Magazine, where his writing has now been granted a 2023 Pulitzer.
In a press release announcing his appointment to the position at the time, New York culture editor Gazelle Emami said, "Andrea has long been one of our favorite writers and thinkers, and we're so excited to publish her incisive criticism in the pages of New York and on Vulture more regularly."
The announcement was not received well on some parts of social media, where women's rights advocates condemned the decision and pointed to Chu's lengthy history of equating womanhood with pornography addiction.
In 2019, Chu's first book, Females, was published by Verso Press. The thesis of the 94-page screed was that anyone can become female, and that being penetrated during sex defines womanhood.
"Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is," Chu writes in the short book, describing himself as once being "a sad, pretentious boy, furious about r@pe, hopelessly addicted to pornography."
Chu claims that it was his obsession with pornography that led him to begin identifying as transgender.
"Almost every night, for at least a year before I transitioned, I would wait till my girlfriend had fallen asleep and slip out of bed for the bathroom with my phone. I was going on Tumblr to look at something called sissy porn. I'd discovered it by accident one night, scrolling lazily down a pornographic rabbit hole," he writes. . .

That's right: "Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is," Chu writes. And in 2021, a time when people in her social circle already thought that using a wrong pronoun was "trans genocide", New York culture editor Gazelle Emami said, "Andrea has long been one of our favorite writers and thinkers".

New York Magazine's culture editor! What culture is she editing? The idea that anyone can become female by being raped makes Andrea "one of our favorite writers and thinkers".

ATTENTION! You will be thrilled to learn that Andrea Long Chu is back in the news.

Activists lobbying to 'morally' allow trans kids to change their bodies are only doing more harm

Opinion by Kirsten Fleming

In this week's New York Magazine cover story - - splashed with the headline "Freedom of Sex" - - Pulitzer Prize-winning trans writer Andrea Long Chu argues the "Moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies."
With the freedom to change things, I'd like to amend that sentence to reflect reality.
The essay is "A disgusting, gruesome, immoral case for child mutilation."
The piece advocates for impressionable and confused minors to be treated as free-thinking adults, capable of making body- and life-altering decisions.
"We will never be able to defend the rights of transgender kids until we understand them purely on their terms: as full members of society who would like to change their sex. It does not matter where this comes from," writes Chu.
Never mind that it's simply impossible to truly change your sex.
But pushing experimental medical intervention, with irrevocable changes, to a population that isn't allowed to legally get a tattoo or vote? Evil.

"If children are too young to consent to puberty blockers, then they are definitely too young to consent to puberty, which is a drastic upheaval in its own right," she writes.
In the piece, Chu shows contempt for powerful journalistic voices including Abigail Shrier, Bari Weiss - - whose The Free Press gave a platform to Washington University Transgender Center whistleblower Jamie Reed - - and Jesse Singal, who started covering detransitioners back in 2018.
Not spared is the New York Times, which has finally started covering this topic with a critical eye.

Children are too young to consent to puberty! Put them all on puberty blockers to prevent the drastic upheaval of puberty! One of the favorite writers and thinkers at New York Magazine gets another cover story!

He attacked the NYT? (Sorry if I chose a gender other than the one Andrea currently prefers there. I saw a photo at the link). Misgendering is bad.

But only a day after the predatory polemic was published, there was a seismic shift in the direction of sanity.
England's National Health Service announced it would no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children under the age of 18, calling it a "landmark decision."
Other countries, such as Norway and Sweden, have also pumped the brakes on medical intervention for minors grappling with gender dysphoria.
But the US is still a nation divided on common sense. . .

Matt Taibbi goes deeper into the New York Magazine piece: The Dumbest Cover Story Ever

New York Magazine has a new cover story, by the trans writer Andrea Long Chu: "The moral case for letting trans kids change their bodies." A jeremiad in support of the idea that children must have absolute political agency, it makes the Unabomber manifesto read like a Shakespeare sonnet. The money passage:
We must be prepared to defend the idea that, in principle, everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history.

A lot of the piece is standard-issue woe-is-me fuck-everything cartoon nihilism you'd hear from any laptop-class liberal arts product, arguing for a generalized smashing of the patriarchy, among other things by attacking the biological conspiracy to produce those units of material labor value known as babies. Complete abolition of norms would be an "impossible task," Chu notes sadly, but that doesn't preclude their "collective reimagining" by an alliance of intersectional victims working toward a Marxian paradise free of "oppressive systems," which of course include the nuclear family. This brings us to Chu's big clickworthy idea: child liberation.
Pop quiz: which of the following passages are from Chu's New York piece, and which are from a 2008 NAMBLA-published essay, "A Call for Social Justice"?

NAMBLA.

You may wish to read the rest of Taibbi's piece.

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Violent and creepy porn

On Thursday, WeirdDave picked up a horrible story, from which he did not find a pull-quote suitable for the refined main page at AoSHQ: Teen suffers life-changing injury trying to imitate porn

In addition to the central story, featuring group teen sex, several types of injuries are described, particularly to women pressured into imitating practices seen in porn. Porn addiction is mentioned.

From last September:

The third place winner in the Free Press High School Essay Contest:

3. I Had a Helicopter Mom. I Found Pornhub Anyway.

Porn is not content. It's a substance. And it must be controlled like one, argues 16-year-old Isabel Hogben.

I was ten years old when I watched porn for the first time. I found myself on Pornhub, which I stumbled across by accident and returned to out of curiosity. The website has no age verification, no ID requirement, not even a prompt asking me if I was over 18. The site is easy to find, impossible to avoid, and has become a frequent rite of passage for kids my age.
Where was my mother? In the next room, making sure I was eating nine differently colored fruits and vegetables on the daily. She was attentive, nearly a helicopter parent, but I found online porn anyway. So did my friends.
Today I'm 16, and my peers are suffering from an addiction to what many call "the new drug." Porn is the disastrous replacement for intimacy among my sexless, anxiety-ridden generation. . .

If a child ordered three shots of vodka at a bar, the bartender would object. If a child asked for cigarettes at a gas station, the attendant would laugh. But with a quick Google search, a child has access to millions of hours of a dangerous substance.

With that same Google search, children consume dangerous lies about sexual pleasure. A recent BBC study of 2,000 UK men ages 18-39 found that 71 percent have gagged, slapped, choked, or spat on their partner during sex. A third said they don't think to ask for permission before committing these acts.

An Indiana University study shows that the earlier a girl is exposed to porn, the more she will accept behaviors like choking, facial ejaculation, and "aggressive fellatio" from a sexual partner.

Meanwhile, models and female entrepreneurs--women who little girls look up to--are flocking to OnlyFans to sell naked photos of themselves.

In short, most of my friends think this stuff is normal.

Beyond the suggestions of this young essayist, perhaps the actions of the self-mutilating Andrea Long Chu, who became a porn addict as an adult, should lead to some cultural assessments of what porn is doing to our society.

I think there must be a connection between some of this weird and scary porn (often suggestive of pedophilia) and the transgender/bisexuality craze. Not to mention the looming transhumanist ideology we see coming down the pike.

J.J. Sefton picked this up yesterday: Nearly 30% Of Gen Z Women Identify As LGBT: Gallup Poll

Are some of these young women afraid of developing relationships with young men, given what they see in some of the porn making the rounds these days? Many of them seem to be "identifying" as bisexual, which may seem safer than heterosexuality. Of course, many kids are not actually having sex, no matter how they "identify". So, we have a lot of kids avoiding sex, and some participating in scary, violent sex. Great!

I don't think that AI is going to help.

There are no �nonbinary children.� We are creating a generation of lost, confused kids who are promised happiness through ideological pseudo-identities, only to be disappointed and used as political symbols. The gender movement creates delusion, despair, and death. https://t.co/4BIRiPmxtF
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) March 15, 2024

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Quotes

NGOs that decide which countries are "democracies" are funded by the US government and staffed by their ex-diplomats and intelligence officials.
They define "democracy" as taking left wing views on everything from LGBT to labor unions.
Richard Hanania

There's an article linked about an NGO which evaluates "democracies".

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Weekend

The Babylon Bee is here to tell you the REAL story of St. Patrick:

Most people know the story about how Saint Patrick drove all of the snakes out of Ireland after treating them to a night of heavy drinking. But here at the Bee, our historical scholars dug deep to uncover some fascinating lesser-known facts about his life:

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Music

I got my mind set on you

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs

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Last week's thread, March 9, Notes on Newsom and the Pax Americana

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:10 AM

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1 Faust!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 16, 2024 11:14 AM (2yu8s)

2 It gets more concerning when schools direct kids to focus on their feelings all day.

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Hey! That's not fair. We focus on their sexuality too, hater!!

Posted by: School Teachers at March 16, 2024 11:14 AM (m0WlR)

3 And goodbye because I'm wasted from awakening at around 4:30 AM because I haven't used my CPAP in about 17 years and I need a snooze!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 16, 2024 11:15 AM (2yu8s)

4 What Shrier and Jordan Peterson fail to understand... and I'm sure it IS a failure, is that "normal" people don't need therapy, and most of the people they're railing against... ARE NOT NORMAL!!

It's so patently obvious, they're taking on a boogeyman that may sell books, but isn't really going to help the people they focus their attention on.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:17 AM (QpPZM)

5 "Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is,"

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I think that's a Shakespeare quote from As You Like It.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:21 AM (FVME7)

6 Ah so! Faux Man Chu!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 16, 2024 11:21 AM (991eG)

7 Kids do seem these days to rule the roost

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2024 11:22 AM (fwDg9)

8 My very favorite aberrations are people who believe Native Americans had two spirit people. They've never met any and never read a history book about them and think all tribes were the same, but they know that they accepted gays and every other thing they can think up because they were so cool in the movies, I guess.

Posted by: huerfano at March 16, 2024 11:22 AM (qeiBW)

9 Most of my "life lessons" were learned from Calvin and Hobbs.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 11:23 AM (Q4IgG)

10 I think I've seen this movie.

Another Day, Another Boeing Blowout

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:24 AM (FVME7)

11 Children below the age of 18 should not be allowed to get a sex change operation whether voluntary or forced.

DRs should not be allowed to do a sec change operation below the age of 18 and also should require proof of age

Posted by: vic at March 16, 2024 11:25 AM (A5THL)

12 4 What Shrier and Jordan Peterson fail to understand... and I'm sure it IS a failure, is that "normal" people don't need therapy, and most of the people they're railing against... ARE NOT NORMAL!!

The problem is that schools are forcing therapy on kids all day, whether they need it or not, and parents who don't have a clue how to parent are being taught this new stuff like "gentle parenting" which treats children like odd little adults. Some of them need to know that there is an alternative. And people who see them in the grocery store need to understand what is happening.

Posted by: KT at March 16, 2024 11:25 AM (rrtZS)

13 Many of them seem to be "identifying" as bisexual, which may seem safer than heterosexuality.

Or trendier. They've done surveys of women at college, and a large majority of women claiming to be "bisexual" have only had sex with men in the last year.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:25 AM (YAtuc)

14 Andrew Chu seems so proud of his fake vagina.

Would that be considered an esteemed clam?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 16, 2024 11:25 AM (991eG)

15 Don Lemon demanded the sun, the moon and the stars from the SpaceX boss – before being unceremoniously dumped this week, The Post has learned.

The ex-CNN anchor sent over an astronomical wish list to Elon Musk during contract talks to host a show on the billionaire’s social media platform X – including a free Tesla Cybertruck, a $5 million upfront payment on top of an $8 million salary, an equity stake in the multibillion-dollar company, and the right to approve any changes in X policy as it relates to news content, according to a document reviewed by The Post.

Lemon — who was expected to air an interview with Musk for next week’s debut episode on X — had also demanded a private jet flight to Las Vegas, a suite for him and his fiance, and that the company pay for their day drinking and massages, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Musk agreed to do the interview with Lemon despite the fact that he was aware of some of Lemon’s outlandish demands, sources told The Post.

Posted by: Victoria Nuland at March 16, 2024 11:26 AM (RovqD)

16 Would that be considered an esteemed clam?

Posted by: Muldoon at March 16, 2024 11:25 AM (991eG)

Is it chewy?

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 11:28 AM (AwYPR)

17 The problem is that schools are forcing therapy on kids all day, whether they need it or not,

This should not be permitted.

Posted by: vic at March 16, 2024 11:28 AM (A5THL)

18 Of Course: Democrat Claims That Grid Reliability Issues Actually Caused by White Supremacists and Climate Change

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Damn climate changing white supremacists!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:28 AM (FVME7)

19 Ah so! Faux Man Chu!
Posted by: Muldoon at March 16, 2024 11:21 AM

No. 1 ~~Daughter~~ Son velly confused.

Posted by: Charlie Chan at March 16, 2024 11:28 AM (Wnv9h)

20 Most of my "life lessons" were learned from Calvin and Hobbs.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 11:23 AM

Calvin and Hobbes was genius.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2024 11:30 AM (Wnv9h)

21 They call this "Gentle Parenting." I call it "Battered Mommy Syndrome."

Oh fuck me to tears.

Every father - me included - dreams of the day where you can have a beer with your son, or even son in law if the little bastard is decent. You know how you get there ?

You don't get there by kissing their asses. You get there by some mutual respect. Just got off the phone with my old man, they're long calls now. Hated him well into my twenties. But there was always respect, and a little bit of fear. He seems pleased with how I turned out.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:31 AM (CF17/)

22 Thanks for the GH KT, I didn't remember that video.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 16, 2024 11:31 AM (89dLg)

23 Leftists are horrible people. The fact that they think they are doing good makes them doubly so.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at March 16, 2024 11:31 AM (17s+e)

24 Of Course: Democrat Claims That Grid Reliability Issues Actually Caused by White Supremacists and Climate Change

Cori Bush, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:31 AM (YAtuc)

25 Native Americans had two spirit people.

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Is that true, Brown Buffalo Swings Both Ways?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:32 AM (FVME7)

26 Damn climate changing white supremacists!

There are two problems with this statement.

(1) There is no such thing as human caused climate change.

(2) The only thing that causes grid instability is not enough power for the current load.

Posted by: vic at March 16, 2024 11:33 AM (A5THL)

27 Leftists are horrible people. The fact that they think they are doing good makes them doubly so.

There is no tyrant worse than the one with good intentions. C.S. Lewis has a great quote about it.

Be suspicious of anyone that's firm in their own good intentions, and firm on their imposition of their good on you. That applies to plenty of folks on both sides of the aisle.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:33 AM (CF17/)

28 The problem is that schools are forcing therapy on kids all day, whether they need it or not, and parents who don't have a clue how to parent are being taught this new stuff like "gentle parenting" which treats children like odd little adults. Some of them need to know that there is an alternative. And people who see them in the grocery store need to understand what is happening.
Posted by: KT at March 16, 2024 11:25 AM (rrtZS)

I'm aware of that. Schools are corrupted beyond repair, and the stuff they're doing is barbaric.

But Shrier overstepped her area of expertise, and Peterson is all pissy because he's being attacked by his licensing entity.

There are people who need therapy, including the mother and child in that example. Shrier should focus on the real problem, which is that the term "therapy" is being misused, not that therapy isn't useful.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (pUt/h)

29 Greetings! My earliest and maybe most important life lesson was at an early age. Kids have this illusion that life is naturally fair. IT'S NOT FAIR! they cry, waah. I was guilty of that. Father told me in no uncertain terms maybe by the time I was 5 years old that life is not fair, far from it. The earlier I learn that, the better. Sometimes this lesson was punctuated by a swat on the backside.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $26 burrito at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (MeG8a)

30 Something we can't blame on Biden.

Marvel Reportedly Cans “Ant-Man 4”, “Captain Marvel 3”, and “Eternals 2”, Disney CEO Bob Iger Said to Have Personally Shut Down “Eternals” Sequel for Fear It Would Have Been a Guaranteed Bomb

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

31 Instead of coddling the clinically insane like Andrea Long Chu we really should be sedating them and putting them in asylums for the remainder of their natural life.

For their protection. And the kids.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (Q4IgG)

32 Well, another Boeing plane yesterday had to make an emergency landing in southern Oregon, because an external panel was missing.

It's just amazing what happens when airlines and aircraft manufacturers start intensely focusing on racial and sexual quotas, and not on competence.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (YAtuc)

33 Damn right wing homophobic, transphobic bastards!

Dylan Mulvaney Attacks Bud Light After It Shoots Down Commercial With the Transgender Influencer

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:37 AM (FVME7)

34 Instead of coddling the clinically insane like Andrea Long Chu we really should be sedating them and putting them in asylums for the remainder of their natural life. For their protection. And the kids.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (Q4IgG)

Often, when I confidently state a counter-point, it comes across as an argument. Such is the way of this form of communication.

So my counter-point is pretty simple ... back when we had more institutions, the system was abused. Getting a problem in the family "committed" was a real thing - often when it was simply an inconvenient problem.

Doesn't mean we shouldn't have them. But like a lot of things, we probably didn't need as many as we had.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:38 AM (CF17/)

35 That's a great George Harrison song. Thanks.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at March 16, 2024 11:39 AM (SfhV1)

36 If a teacher thinks a child needs therapy she/he should either send as note to parent or make a call.

Posted by: vic at March 16, 2024 11:39 AM (A5THL)

37 Tell 'em Joe sent ya and get a free glass of wine on the house.

Posted by: Lenny's Clam Bar at March 16, 2024 11:39 AM (V5BDR)

38 CA daughter and SIL are somewhat "gentle parents".
It does their son (5) good to be exposed to a few days of
Cool Uncle T who does not give a tiny rat's ass what you
want and will decide what you do, a few times a year.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at March 16, 2024 11:39 AM (jN2/U)

39 FJB

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at March 16, 2024 11:39 AM (Z3n5G)

40 There's such a thing as too much diversity, equity, and inclusion!

Christian Group Blocked From Distributing Bibles In Georgia Hospital In Name Of DEI

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:40 AM (FVME7)

41 > Well, another Boeing plane yesterday had to make an emergency landing in southern Oregon, because an external panel was missing.

It's just amazing what happens when airlines and aircraft manufacturers start intensely focusing on racial and sexual quotas, and not on competence.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
________________

I made note of this a couple days or a week ago. One commenter really took offense to the idea that this was a DEI, racial/sexual quota issue and not a "stupid whipepo" problem. I mean, yea, there are really dumb white males who work on aircraft too, but there didn't seem to be the volume of cockups until the airlines and manufacturers went woke.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 11:40 AM (Q4IgG)

42 If that woman can't handle her 1yo...I got some bad news...just wait 'til he's 2.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 11:40 AM (AwYPR)

43 Keep clam and carry-on- Sam Brinton

Posted by: Rex B at March 16, 2024 11:41 AM (jn9fL)

44 Well, another Boeing plane yesterday had to make an emergency landing in southern Oregon, because an external panel was missing.

There are a couple of accounts on X devoted to documenting every failure of Russian infrastructure, and explaining that these infrastructure failures mean that Russian society is about to collapse, and that Putin is about to be overthrown.

If a water main breaks in Chelyabinsk, they will happily tell you about it.

If the Russian airlines were having the mechanical problems that American airlines are currently having, these accounts would be having orgasms.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:42 AM (YAtuc)

45 If that woman can't handle her 1yo...I got some bad news...just wait 'til he's 2.

She probably talks to the microwave the same way. Get this ... neither the microwave or that one year old understands a damn word coming out of her mouth.

Kids at that age are like dumb dogs. Keep 'em alive until they get old enough to reason. That's the job.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:43 AM (CF17/)

46 Marvel Reportedly Cans “Ant-Man 4”, “Captain Marvel 3”, and “Eternals 2”, Disney CEO Bob Iger Said to Have Personally Shut Down “Eternals” Sequel for Fear It Would Have Been a Guaranteed Bomb
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (FVME7)

I've got a solution for them: Stop making movies.

Everyone who works for them should just go away, and stop being involved in the entertainment industrial complex in any way.

If they do that, they might be able to start making money again.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:43 AM (pUt/h)

47 Tennessee State Senator Calls for Riots After Pro-Police Bill Passes

https://tinyurl.com/4hbwxh54
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Mostly peaceful riots.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:45 AM (FVME7)

48 Well, another Boeing plane yesterday had to make an emergency landing in southern Oregon, because an external panel was missing.

It wasn't an emergency landing. It was discovered during ground inspection after a routine flight.

Posted by: spindrift at March 16, 2024 11:45 AM (RUR9i)

49 I was on the back deck a few days ago and witnessed a great illustration of what it means to be a parent. Neighbor was making his four year old sone clean up a mess he’d made on the patio. Little guy was none too pleased with the experience. Neighbor said it perfectly: I love you enough that I’m OK with you hating me right now.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 16, 2024 11:45 AM (u73oe)

50 Well, another Boeing plane yesterday had to make an emergency landing in southern Oregon, because an external panel was missing.

It's just amazing what happens when airlines and aircraft manufacturers start intensely focusing on racial and sexual quotas, and not on competence.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (YAtuc)

I used to think I'd be safe if I just don't fly.

Now we gotta worry about the damn things falling on our heads.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:45 AM (pUt/h)

51 If that woman can't handle her 1yo...I got some bad news...just wait 'til he's 2.
Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 11:40 AM (AwYPR)

LOL, spot on. My 2 year old Grandson is a tornado. I love him, but man, can he mess up a house in 5 minutes.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 16, 2024 11:46 AM (PQ4m2)

52 "Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is,"

The heteropatriarchy is not withholding its essence!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at March 16, 2024 11:47 AM (a3Q+t)

53 but there didn't seem to be the volume of cockups until the airlines and manufacturers went woke.

It is my theory that the smooth functioning of much of society is dependent on "fifty-year old white guys" - who are not necessarily fifty, not necessarily white, and not necessarily guys, but do hold their critical jobs simply because they are really, really, good at their jobs.

Deprioritize hiring and keeping the fifty-year old white guys, and a lot of things you used to take for granted start falling apart.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:47 AM (YAtuc)

54 Beautiful day out thar !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2024 11:48 AM (T4tVD)

55 Well, another Boeing plane yesterday had to make an emergency landing in southern Oregon, because an external panel was missing.
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It wasn't an emergency landing. It was discovered during ground inspection after a routine flight.
Posted by: spindrift at March 16, 2024 11:45 AM (RUR9i)

If your car's brakes don't work, but you manage to drift to a stop without anyone getting hurt, I'd still call that an emergency.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:49 AM (pUt/h)

56 I'll believe it when I see it.

Judge Orders FBI to Provide Nashville Trans School Shooter’s Manifesto to News Outlet

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:49 AM (FVME7)

57 It wasn't an emergency landing. It was discovered during ground inspection after a routine flight.

I stand corrected - initial reports were that it was an emergency landing.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:50 AM (YAtuc)

58 Another Day, Another Boeing Blowout
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

They should change their name to BOING !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2024 11:51 AM (T4tVD)

59 Great quote by Sowell.
I wonder if the lefties realize most of the sheepdogs are probably on the right?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2024 11:51 AM (W/lyH)

60 It is my theory that the smooth functioning of much of society is dependent on "fifty-year old white guys" - who are not necessarily fifty, not necessarily white, and not necessarily guys, but do hold their critical jobs simply because they are really, really, good at their jobs.

Deprioritize hiring and keeping the fifty-year old white guys, and a lot of things you used to take for granted start falling apart.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:47 AM (YAtuc)

Seems to me, once upon a time the fifty year old men ran things, and if the inmates got uppity, they'd send in the troops to break heads until the inmates started behaving.

Things all changed when "students" on college campuses all over the country started taking over administration buildings or otherwise protested, without getting their heads smashed in.

The truth was revealed: The fifty year old men weren't really in charge, and didn't know what the F they were doing.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:51 AM (pUt/h)

61 If your car's brakes don't work, but you manage to drift to a stop without anyone getting hurt, I'd still call that an emergency.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:49 AM (pUt/h)

Did you miss the part where it was a routine flight?

Posted by: spindrift at March 16, 2024 11:51 AM (RUR9i)

62 > Deprioritize hiring and keeping the fifty-year old white guys, and a lot of things you used to take for granted start falling apart.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
____________

This.

If this trend continues eventually most modern convivences and engineering products like elevators, aircraft, bridges, machinery, etc. is going to fall into disrepair because there's nobody competent to fix them.

Then... at some point, society begins to collapse.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)

63 They're becoming more like us.

Putin Begins Planning for Next 6-year Term While Russians Vote In “Neither Free Nor Fair Election”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:52 AM (FVME7)

64 Judge Orders FBI to Provide Nashville Trans School Shooter’s Manifesto to News Outlet

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:49 AM (FVME7)

At first I didn't really care....now, I'm kinda' curious.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 11:52 AM (AwYPR)

65 Judge Orders FBI to Provide Nashville Trans School Shooter’s Manifesto to News Outlet
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:49 AM (FVME7)

Crowder called and says hi.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:53 AM (pUt/h)

66 Tennessee State Senator Calls for Riots After Pro-Police Bill Passes

OK - lets take this apart. The senator refers to the death of Tyree Nichols. He was black, of course. So were the five Memphis cops who chased him, cuffed and stuffed him. He died in intensive care.

The story was on this board. There was no general consensus - because it really hit the feelz of the Back the Blue crowd. Do we Back the Blue when it looks like a gang hit - and that's what it looked like to me.

Lots of crazy in this story. The black chic in the State Senate invoking Jim Crow over five black cops beating a black detainee within an inch of his life - which he eventually crossed over in the hospital.

The bill that was passed eliminates an oversight board. That board, amongst other things, eliminated the "Be Sweet" chair used in Knox County. Where they'd put inmates in a straight jacket, in a chair, with a hood and football helmet, in complete sensory deprivation.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:53 AM (CF17/)

67 Not to suck up, but your weekend political threads are consistently firest rate, K.T. Thank you for all the work you put into them.

Posted by: 496 at March 16, 2024 11:54 AM (Kezrh)

68 convenience not convivence

I blame the cucumber

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 11:54 AM (Q4IgG)

69 Did you miss the part where it was a routine flight?
Posted by: spindrift at March 16, 2024 11:51 AM (RUR9i)

No.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:54 AM (pUt/h)

70 Oh my. I have a dear, sweet relative who looks like she is following the "gentle parenting" philosophy. Her kid is a monster and she has resorted to medicating him to "help" him function. He could be totally normal, but he has an IEP at school because if his school day poses undesirable challenges, he can't cope.

It is so sad, and I'm afraid it won't be too much longer before he is beating her.

Posted by: Emmie at March 16, 2024 11:55 AM (Sf2cq)

71 They're becoming more like us.

Putin Begins Planning for Next 6-year Term While Russians Vote In “Neither Free Nor Fair Election”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 11:52 AM (FVME7)

When Pooty wins in a landslide, the left will be able to congratulate themselves by saying it wasn't a fair election. It's easier to do that, than to acknowledge how wildly popular he is.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:56 AM (pUt/h)

72 When Pooty wins in a landslide, the left will be able to congratulate themselves by saying it wasn't a fair election. It's easier to do that, than to acknowledge how wildly popular he is.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:56 AM (pUt/h)

I've worked with a few Russians. Of course, if they're working overseas ... they're making goof money. But they all generally like Putin. And I generally liked them. Good peeps.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:58 AM (CF17/)

73 Oh my. I have a dear, sweet relative who looks like she is following the "gentle parenting" philosophy. Her kid is a monster and she has resorted to medicating him to "help" him function. He could be totally normal, but he has an IEP at school because if his school day poses undesirable challenges, he can't cope.

It is so sad, and I'm afraid it won't be too much longer before he is beating her.
Posted by: Emmie at March 16, 2024 11:55 AM (Sf2cq)

Lots of kids are "medicated" until they age out, around 13, and the ghouls stop giving them drugs.

You know what those kids end up doing? Going out on the street and getting their drugs the old fashioned way.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:58 AM (pUt/h)

74 They're becoming more like us.

Putin Begins Planning for Next 6-year Term While Russians Vote In “Neither Free Nor Fair Election”

Putin made sure that his leading political opponent died in prison.

Biden and the Deep State are trying to make sure that their leading political opponent dies in prison.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:59 AM (YAtuc)

75 Thanks for the Thread, K.T. !

Posted by: JT at March 16, 2024 12:00 PM (T4tVD)

76 Her kid is a monster and she has resorted to medicating him to "help" him function. He could be totally normal, but he has an IEP at school because if his school day poses undesirable challenges, he can't cope.

Fabulous - we're doping up another kid that should be IQ tested. This will turn out well.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:00 PM (CF17/)

77 It's easier to do that, than to acknowledge how wildly popular he is.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:56 AM (pUt/h)

My wife (she's Russian) says he's as popular w/the folks back home...as Breznev was.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

78 Go long on popcorn futures.

Hoo Boy: Kathleen Parker WaPo Op-Ed Calls on Kamala Harris to Step Aside and Things Could Get INTERESTING

https://tinyurl.com/338ds5je

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 12:00 PM (FVME7)

79 My wife (she's Russian) says he's as popular w/the folks back home...as Breznev was.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

Does that mean "not very" ?

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:02 PM (CF17/)

80 Putin made sure that his leading political opponent died in prison.

Biden and the Deep State are trying to make sure that their leading political opponent dies in prison.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 11:59 AM (YAtuc)

Except Navalny wasn't a "leading" political opponent, and there is absolutely no evidence at this point that his death was anything other than natural causes.

What Navalny was sent to prison for are crimes in Russia. Whether anyone here thinks they should be or not, his crimes were far more serious offenses in Russia than anything any of the J6 prisoners did. And of course far worse than anything Gonzalo Lira did.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:02 PM (pUt/h)

81 Does that mean "not very" ?

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:02 PM (CF17/)

At least among her clan.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 12:02 PM (AwYPR)

82 I wonder about my younger sister and her kids. She's got two girls, both in their mid-late 20's living at home. They may just be lazy and not motivated to find a career or it may be something else.

I'm pretty sure there's an emotional facet to it. She's divorced, it was ugly, and the father has little/nothing to do with the girls. So maybe they feel a need to stick with her?

My son, who lives with his mother is also in his early 20's and shows zero interest in dating, moving out or anything else I was interested in at his age.

Fustrating.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 12:04 PM (Q4IgG)

83 Madness is taking over the formally boring and sane country of Canada:

The Globe and Mail: "Canada's Online Harms Act is revealing itself to be staggeringly reckless"

https://is.gd/FsuJiU

I'd rank "reckless" as an understatement. Criminal insanity is what I'm calling it (as a start.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 16, 2024 12:04 PM (qPw5n)

84 In my relative's case, it appears that her son is dealing with a huge insecurity and fear because from his birth, mommy put him in charge. I think a baby relies on parents to keep him fed, sheltered, and safe and cannot handle the responsibility of developing his own self-control. He didn't get any self-control training from mom.

Posted by: Emmie at March 16, 2024 12:04 PM (Sf2cq)

85 When Pooty wins in a landslide, the left will be able to congratulate themselves by saying it wasn't a fair election. It's easier to do that, than to acknowledge how wildly popular he is.

Oh, he's not 80%+ popular, like the vote total will show, but he's still popular.

Putin's popular because he has portrayed the alternative to him to be a return to the Yeltsin era - when Russian living standards and life expectancies collapsed, and when non-coincidentally the West had an enormous amount of influence over the Russian government.

For some reason, Russians think that the West does not have their best interests at heart.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:04 PM (YAtuc)

86 My wife (she's Russian) says he's as popular w/the folks back home...as Breznev was.
Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 12:00 PM (AwYPR)

Putin is much closer to being a Czar than he is a Soviet.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:04 PM (pUt/h)

87 There are people who need therapy, including the mother and child in that example. Shrier should focus on the real problem, which is that the term "therapy" is being misused, not that therapy isn't useful.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 11:35 AM (pUt/h)

The interview I heard with her she explained that there are people who need therapy and can improve with it. However, there are extensive studies that show no improvement or worsening by putting children into therapy, that's not her opinion these were results.
That's the basis of her book.

Posted by: Inogame at March 16, 2024 12:06 PM (KCCqb)

88 My son, who lives with his mother is also in his early 20's and shows zero interest in dating, moving out or anything else I was interested in at his age.

This new bunch is different ... but I kind of get it. Look, you and I were motivated at that era by pussy. Why do you get a job ? To get out of the house, to have a place to bring home pussy. Why do you want a better paying job ? To get a better car and nicer clothes and better place with which to attract and bring home better pussy.

My boy is nineteen. He's much more careful about pussy - scared of it, honestly. Do you blame him ? In our day, a chic couldn't make a big deal, two years later, about her regrets in giving up said pussy.

I don't blame him.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:06 PM (CF17/)

89 Nex Benedict was a deranged freak. Now it's a dead deranged freak. Some slight progress has been made.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:06 PM (tkR6S)

90 "For some reason, Russians think that the West does not have their best interests at heart."

Because our government needs a boogy man and Putin has been given that role.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $26 burrito at March 16, 2024 12:07 PM (MeG8a)

91 Oh, he's not 80%+ popular, like the vote total will show, but he's still popular.

Putin's popular because he has portrayed the alternative to him to be a return to the Yeltsin era - when Russian living standards and life expectancies collapsed, and when non-coincidentally the West had an enormous amount of influence over the Russian government.

For some reason, Russians think that the West does not have their best interests at heart.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:04 PM (YAtuc)

Yeah, it's probably necessary at some point to acknowledge Pooty isn't a democrat (small d), and he does bad things.

I simply refuse to start with the assumption he's all bad, and I absolutely refuse to believe he's any worse than the people running THIS country.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:07 PM (pUt/h)

92 My long opinion has been Putin acts like a Czar, and at least have a well read Russian history to make that.

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2024 12:08 PM (fwDg9)

93 sad story about a child on the prayer thread:

2/3 – Reforger asked for prayers for his Coworker, “D”, a widowed mom of 4 who is having a rough time with daughter #1. The daughter is skipping school, was caught 3 times and now police and social workers are involved. “D” is beside herself. She is having to miss work (and pay) to do probation stuff and keep appointments with “therapists”.
2/10 Update – Reforger reports that Coworker “D” and her daughter are doing better. He also relayed a funny story that ended up with him being able to bless “D” with another $200!
3/2 Update – Coworker D’s daughter had to be incarcerated. She went nuts, trashed her room, broke things, and even kicked a cop. She could use a lot of prayers.

Posted by: m at March 16, 2024 12:09 PM (o3SCB)

94 My very favorite aberrations are people who believe Native Americans had two spirit people. They've never met any and never read a history book about them and think all tribes were the same, but they know that they accepted gays and every other thing they can think up because they were so cool in the movies, I guess.
Posted by: huerfano at March 16, 2024 11:22 AM (qeiBW)

More likely, "two-spirits" were regarded as Windigos, and banished from the tribe to live or die in the wilderness.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:09 PM (tkR6S)

95 Mrs. Wrecks is half Native American and half Irish. She doesn't know whether to scalp me or just get drunk and beat me up.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 12:09 PM (FVME7)

96 Because our government needs a boogy man and Putin has been given that role.

The Cold War was a Hell of a thing for the Federal Government. And certain folks of certain generations that grew up in it.

It really is odd. I'm glad to be done with it. Others are not. Even those who never made a dime from it.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:10 PM (CF17/)

97 Except Navalny wasn't a "leading" political opponent, and there is absolutely no evidence at this point that his death was anything other than natural causes.

Oh, I'm sure that the Deep State intends Trump to die in prison of natural causes, too, like Navalny.

Navalny did have a fair amount of support in Russia, and the anti-Putin opposition had coalesced abound him.

Navalny's exposure of the rampant corruption in Russia made him popular. He was also a Russian chauvinist, who announced until a year ago that Crimea was part of Russia, so we was hardly the Western lapdog that the neocons want.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:10 PM (YAtuc)

98 The interview I heard with her she explained that there are people who need therapy and can improve with it. However, there are extensive studies that show no improvement or worsening by putting children into therapy, that's not her opinion these were results.
That's the basis of her book.
Posted by: Inogame at March 16, 2024 12:06 PM (KCCqb)

I know, but those are mutually contradictory statements.

Yes, there is plenty of "bad therapy" out there. I'd say it's not really therapy, but whatever. The "putting children into therapy" thing is about the fact that it's being done badly, not that it's being done at all, and she's going to cause a lot of people whose kids really DO need therapy from giving them what they need.

In other words, these are two different problems with two different solutions, and she's making a mistake by conflating the two.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:10 PM (pUt/h)

99 100

Posted by: m at March 16, 2024 12:11 PM (o3SCB)

100 100!

Posted by: m at March 16, 2024 12:11 PM (o3SCB)

101 Children below the age of 18 should not be allowed to get a sex change operation whether voluntary or forced.

DRs should not be allowed to do a sec change operation below the age of 18 and also should require proof of age
Posted by: vic at March 16, 2024 11:25 AM (A5THL)

And it should be regarded as "vanity surgery" like a face lift, and not insurable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:13 PM (tkR6S)

102 Oh, I'm sure that the Deep State intends Trump to die in prison of natural causes, too, like Navalny.

Navalny did have a fair amount of support in Russia, and the anti-Putin opposition had coalesced abound him.

Navalny's exposure of the rampant corruption in Russia made him popular. He was also a Russian chauvinist, who announced until a year ago that Crimea was part of Russia, so we was hardly the Western lapdog that the neocons want.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:10 PM (YAtuc)

Right, but the Russians didn't have to trump (heh) up charges to put Navalny in prison. His own actions led to that. Like it or not, whether one thinks what he did SHOULD have been illegal or not, they were clearly crimes in Russia, and the government sentenced him to prison for it.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:13 PM (pUt/h)

103 They are not contradictory if you listen to her, I'm not going to type it all out on my phone.
Therapy is a business and they are overselling it.

Telling someone that has done a ton of work looking onto it that they are in over their head is funny particularly when you haven't looked into what they are actually saying.
I suppose there's a message in there.

Posted by: Inogame at March 16, 2024 12:14 PM (KCCqb)

104 Navalny's exposure of the rampant corruption in Russia made him popular. He was also a Russian chauvinist, who announced until a year ago that Crimea was part of Russia, so he was hardly the Western lapdog that the neocons want.

Oh, and explaining that we should ship more weapons to Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers in memory of Navalny is not doing the Russian opposition any favors.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:14 PM (YAtuc)

105 Yes, there is plenty of "bad therapy" out there. I'd say it's not really therapy, but whatever. The "putting children into therapy" thing is about the fact that it's being done badly, not that it's being done at all, and she's going to cause a lot of people whose kids really DO need therapy from giving them what they need.

You know what they call a bad therapist as opposed to a good therapist ? A therapist.

That, I'm positive, is the problem. Just like a doctor. Or a mechanic. Most people just want to see the title and assume the outcome is going to be good.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:15 PM (CF17/)

106 No more animal abuse!

According to PETA, when you smile big for a photo and say "cheese," what you are REALLY saying is "Babies slaughtered for veal" or "Calf-cow separation."

https://tinyurl.com/mwn6jrn6

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I guess it's true. Words really do hurt.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 12:15 PM (FVME7)

107 I remember when Barack Mugabe Obongo and his minions were all up in arms about how expensive and "scarce" medical procedures and supplies were and errbody needed to get ready for rationing and "death" panels.

Seems we need those death panels for all the ChopChop Chus, democrats, sodomites and weirdos out there.

Their rules.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 16, 2024 12:16 PM (R/m4+)

108 "Battered Mommy Syndrome."

Leave it to Karen to turn her bad parenting into a case of victimhood.

Here's a suggestion: Correct your children. Don't let them hit you. Use controlled and consistent corporal punishment. The preachers were right. Too bad you were smarter and more sophisticated than those neanderthals.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:16 PM (u3NjE)

109 I’m surprised St Patrick’sday is still allowed to be a thing. What with the white supremacy and all.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:16 PM (bWsRe)

110 Colorado is becoming worse than CA. They are probably going to build separate prisons for trans, give the current trans prisoners a payout and put taxpayers on the hook for transition treatments. It’s before a judge now.

Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:17 PM (MNhXM)

111 110 Colorado is becoming worse than CA. They are probably going to build separate prisons for trans, give the current trans prisoners a payout and put taxpayers on the hook for transition treatments. It’s before a judge now.
Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:17 PM (MNhXM)

Good Lord... How many Trans are there ? Sounds like mass hysteria to me

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2024 12:18 PM (Akjoo)

112 Doesn't mean we shouldn't have them. But like a lot of things, we probably didn't need as many as we had.
Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:38 AM (CF17/)

True enough. Bullets and backhoes are a lot cheaper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:18 PM (tkR6S)

113 Kids can be on mom’s insurance until 26 but can also get their ducks cut off at 14.

Amerika, what a country.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:18 PM (bWsRe)

114 Praying harder

Posted by: Lars at March 16, 2024 12:20 PM (ssJEc)

115 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 16, 2024 12:20 PM (FLxSv)

116 I made note of this a couple days or a week ago. One commenter really took offense to the idea that this was a DEI, racial/sexual quota issue and not a "stupid whipepo" problem. I mean, yea, there are really dumb white males who work on aircraft too, but there didn't seem to be the volume of cockups until the airlines and manufacturers went woke.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 11:40 AM (Q4IgG)

Corporations can fire "stupid whipepo" at will, with no repercussions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:20 PM (tkR6S)

117 Beyond the suggestions of this young essayist, perhaps the actions of the self-mutilating Andrea Long Chu, who became a porn addict as an adult, should lead to some cultural assessments of what porn is doing to our society.
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I don't think it's particularly good for us adults, either.

Posted by: Methos at March 16, 2024 12:20 PM (Dnobf)

118 Colorado is becoming worse than CA. They are probably going to build separate prisons for trans, give the current trans prisoners a payout and put taxpayers on the hook for transition treatments. It’s before a judge now.
Posted by: polynikes

Relax. We all know that the Colorado Supreme Court would never do anything crazy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 12:21 PM (FVME7)

119 Pornhub has banned its website from Texas because of our verification law.

Good riddance.

Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (MNhXM)

120 They are not contradictory if you listen to her, I'm not going to type it all out on my phone.
Therapy is a business and they are overselling it.

Telling someone that has done a ton of work looking onto it that they are in over their head is funny particularly when you haven't looked into what they are actually saying.
I suppose there's a message in there.
Posted by: Inogame at March 16, 2024 12:14 PM (KCCqb)

Apparently you're not hearing what I'm saying.

I didn't say she's wrong, just that the way she's saying it is going to hurt people. Some of the very people she seems to be trying to help.

Same thing with Peterson. This is personal for him, and it's clouding his judgement. My criticisms of BOTH of them have to do with the way they're going about what they're doing, and neither of them should be so sacred as to not be subject to criticism.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (BGS5P)

121 Afternoon everyone. Great post K.T. Should be interesting to see if the Feds appeal the Judges direction to release the tranifesto. They'll probably do something like redact it requiring more litigation

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (5q0pY)

122 I’m surprised St Patrick’s day is still allowed to be a thing. What with the white supremacy and all.

The Taoiseach of Ireland just explained that St Patrick was a "migrant", just like all the wonderful "migrants" currently overwhelming Ireland.

The Taoiseach is also a gay half-dot Indian.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (YAtuc)

123 Laws in states like Kalifornia make it difficult to parent. Use an unapproved form of punishment (like spanking) can get the police and CPS involved, and there's big money is taking your kids away.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (ynpvh)

124 I’m surprised St Patrick’sday is still allowed to be a thing. What with the white supremacy and all.
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Always amusing to remind people that St Patrick spent years as a slave.

Posted by: mustbequantum at March 16, 2024 12:23 PM (MIKMs)

125 119 Pornhub has banned its website from Texas because of our verification law.

Good riddance.
Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (MNhXM)

We’ve got Texas to ourselves!!
-YouPorn

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:23 PM (bWsRe)

126 True enough. Bullets and backhoes are a lot cheaper.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:18 PM (tkR6S)

You ain't wrong. You build a prison, or an institution, for somebody that might get better. It happens. You don't build either for somebody that's just a damn danger to the rest of us. And I'm not talking a nuisance. I'm talking real, direct danger.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:24 PM (CF17/)

127 I would not want to be a contemporary teen all tattooed, transgendered, pierced and surgically altered .
We had fun growing up in the 60's and at least the only thing that I have lost is my hair.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:24 PM (djLbh)

128 BREAKING: FBI Uncovers Nationwide Grandparent Plot To Spoil Your Children

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From the Bee.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 12:25 PM (FVME7)

129 122 I’m surprised St Patrick’s day is still allowed to be a thing. What with the white supremacy and all.

The Taoiseach of Ireland just explained that St Patrick was a "migrant", just like all the wonderful "migrants" currently overwhelming Ireland.

The Taoiseach is also a gay half-dot Indian.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (YAtuc)

St. Patrick was enslaved as a teen by Irish raiders. And he wasn't even black. I think reparations are owed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:25 PM (ynpvh)

130 "We had fun growing up in the 60's"

Somewhere in the 90's, fun was banned. I'm not sure exactly when it happened.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:25 PM (u3NjE)

131 Always amusing to remind people that St Patrick spent years as a slave.
Posted by: mustbequantum

And invented rap music.

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

132 George was the most tallented.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2024 12:26 PM (o2ZRX)

133 We had fun growing up in the 60's and at least the only thing that I have lost is my hair.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:24 PM (djLbh)

Well, I didn't lose them, but I did throw out my old pair of 32 inch waist jeans.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2024 12:26 PM (W/lyH)

134 127 I would not want to be a contemporary teen all tattooed, transgendered, pierced and surgically altered .
We had fun growing up in the 60's and at least the only thing that I have lost is my hair.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:24 PM (djLbh)

The old saying about hair: "Lose it where you want it, gain it where you don't"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

135 I have 2 20 year old Grandsons who live at home and don't date... It just seems to be the thing.. Part of it I think is their Junior Senior years they had no school because of covid shutdowns and no interaction much ... They do both have jobs

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2024 12:27 PM (Akjoo)

136 Oh, and explaining that we should ship more weapons to Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers in memory of Navalny is not doing the Russian opposition any favors.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:14 PM (YAtuc)

Everyone has their axes to grind. Some axes are more equal than others, however.

Word is, the U.S. is not that far from just giving up there, and I guess the narrative the Democrat Party is looking to cultivate is that it was those darned Republicans (and Trump!) who failed in Ukraine.

We'll see, I guess. Personally, I don't think stopping the killing of Ukrainians is a failure.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:27 PM (b1cZA)

137 The story was on this board. There was no general consensus - because it really hit the feelz of the Back the Blue crowd. Do we Back the Blue when it looks like a gang hit - and that's what it looked like to me.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:53 AM (CF17/)

I read the link, and there was no mention of the cops beating the kid. My take-away? Another victim of the clot shot. Healthy young athletic male dies of heart attack after strenuous exertion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:28 PM (tkR6S)

138 A Karen raising another Karen. Seems logical.

Reminded me of the hilarious recurring skit on Mad TV with Stuart.

Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:28 PM (MNhXM)

139 And opposed nipple hair.

https://tinyurl.com/mw98sewh

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:28 PM (u3NjE)

140 I grew up in the 80s/90s. I didn’t know anyone who had a peanut allergy or was depressed or suffered from “anxiety”.

Today walk into any 8th grade class in America and every single kid will be diagnosed with some mental issue and can’t eat 1/2 the foods on the planet due to an allergy.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:28 PM (bWsRe)

141 I've been trying to warn people for some time now that Colorado is the hardest left state Democrat fiefdom. The Marxist takeover was relatively recent, so it doesn't seem that way to outsiders yet. But if you've been inside it, you know. These are radical, frothing, Marxist jihadis.

If you're considering moving there, stop it. If you live there, GET OUT NOW.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2024 12:28 PM (0FoWg)

142 135 I have 2 20 year old Grandsons who live at home and don't date... It just seems to be the thing.. Part of it I think is their Junior Senior years they had no school because of covid shutdowns and no interaction much ... They do both have jobs

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2024 12:27 PM (Akjoo)

At least they aren't pursuing a non-gender-binary biological female with tats, piercings, and danger hair that constantly changes color. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

143 Should be interesting to see if the Feds appeal the Judges direction to release the tranifesto. They'll probably do something like redact it requiring more litigation
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (5q0pY)

Or just not release it, because they're the Eff Bee Eye. They have the guns. Come make us, we dare you.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:30 PM (b1cZA)

144 "Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is,"
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Makes sense to me.

Posted by: Some Electrician at March 16, 2024 12:30 PM (Dnobf)

145 As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:30 PM (u3NjE)

146
hmm could happen
I was ten years old when I watched porn for the first time. I found myself on Pornhub, which I stumbled across by accident and returned to out of curiosity -some kid

I was today years old when I watched porn for the first time. I found myself on Pornhub, which I stumbled across by accident and returned to out of curiosity -70 year old white man

Ohhh you stumbled across it ? Alrighty then..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:30 PM (djLbh)

147
Somewhere in the 90's, fun was banned. I'm not sure exactly when it happened.
Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:25 PM (u3NjE)

Nah it was more like late 2000s early 2010s, during the Obama era. 90s and 00s were fun. At least for me.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:30 PM (bWsRe)

148 The story was on this board. There was no general consensus - because it really hit the feelz of the Back the Blue crowd. Do we Back the Blue when it looks like a gang hit - and that's what it looked like to me.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 11:53 AM (CF17/)

Your part of always back the criminal crowd. We all pick a side.

Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:31 PM (MNhXM)

149 At least they aren't pursuing a non-gender-binary biological female with tats, piercings, and danger hair that constantly changes color. Don't ask me how I know.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:29 PM (ynpvh)

LOL... Not yet... They are both avid gun enthusiasts and have been trained well to respect firearms

Posted by: It's me donna at March 16, 2024 12:31 PM (Akjoo)

150 136 Oh, and explaining that we should ship more weapons to Ukraine to kill Russian soldiers in memory of Navalny is not doing the Russian opposition any favors.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:14 PM (YAtuc)

Everyone has their axes to grind. Some axes are more equal than others, however.

Word is, the U.S. is not that far from just giving up there, and I guess the narrative the Democrat Party is looking to cultivate is that it was those darned Republicans (and Trump!) who failed in Ukraine.

We'll see, I guess. Personally, I don't think stopping the killing of Ukrainians is a failure.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:27 PM (b1cZA)

When it goes wrong, it's Trumps fault (even if by reversing Trump's policies, things went wrong). If it goes right (even if it was Trump's policies), it's a credit to Biden's genius. Botched Afghan withdrawal? Trump's fault (not Biden's FUBAR!)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

151 119 Pornhub has banned its website from Texas because of our verification law.

Good riddance.
Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (MNhXM)
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I'm flying to Houston tomorrow for work... guess I'll have to bring my own.

Posted by: 496 at March 16, 2024 12:31 PM (Kezrh)

152 Pornhub has banned its website from Texas because of our verification law.

Good riddance.
Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:22 PM (MNhXM)

We’ve got Texas to ourselves!!
-YouPorn
Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:23 PM (bWsRe)

Pronhub allows kiddie pron to advertise on their site. They know it's happening, and have expressed the opinion that it's not their concern, because it's profitable.

I suppose of Youpron wants to distinguish itself from that, then the marketplace should reward them for it.

Or something like that.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:32 PM (b1cZA)

153 This is the saddest time of year for us. Please have some empathy.

Posted by: Reptile Liberation Front at March 16, 2024 12:32 PM (V5BDR)

154 My first porn encounter was when I was 10 or 11 and this girl I knew who was a year older than me showed me the magazines at the store. We picked one up leafed through it and holy shit!!!

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:33 PM (bWsRe)

155 "If children are too young to consent to puberty blockers, then they are definitely too young to consent to puberty, which is a drastic upheaval in its own right," she writes.

Children are tooo young to consent to REALITY, we must BLOCK them from Reality, reality is verrrrry dangerous, people in touch with Reality do NOT consent to unrealistic, unrelated, oldsters that try to convince them to mutilate their bodies.

PS: NYT said "Chu has been one of our favorite writers for a looong time"..when hiring him in early 2021, though he only published his first, very short book, 94pages, in late 2019..and that through a tiny obscure publisher.
Perhaps NYT can explain why 2 years came to be defined as a "A long Time"? And just how long ago?

Posted by: birdog at March 16, 2024 12:33 PM (+Fkyb)

156 140 I grew up in the 80s/90s. I didn’t know anyone who had a peanut allergy or was depressed or suffered from “anxiety”.

Today walk into any 8th grade class in America and every single kid will be diagnosed with some mental issue and can’t eat 1/2 the foods on the planet due to an allergy.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:28 PM (bWsRe)

My kids had no food allergies. Older one kicked out at 18 (returned with a better attitude at 19) now is allergic to eggs and milk. Although, he got the Vax at about that time...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:33 PM (ynpvh)

157 When it goes wrong, it's Trumps fault (even if by reversing Trump's policies, things went wrong). If it goes right (even if it was Trump's policies), it's a credit to Biden's genius. Botched Afghan withdrawal? Trump's fault (not Biden's FUBAR!)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

That's all they got, politically. It might work, with some issues, with some people.

The problem is: Inflation. They can try to hang that one on him, but it won't work.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:34 PM (b1cZA)

158 It is my theory that the smooth functioning of much of society is dependent on "fifty-year old white guys" - who are not necessarily fifty, not necessarily white, and not necessarily guys, but do hold their critical jobs simply because they are really, really, good at their jobs.

Deprioritize hiring and keeping the fifty-year old white guys, and a lot of things you used to take for granted start falling apart.
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True and when that happens the usual non contributors will blame it all on 50 year old white guys. E will not be celebrated for our accomplishments but berated for not stopping DIE folks crashing the system.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at March 16, 2024 12:34 PM (17s+e)

159 The Taoiseach of Ireland just explained that St Patrick was a "migrant", just like all the wonderful "migrants" currently overwhelming Ireland.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

No, he was a slave of pirates. You'd think they'd know the difference.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 16, 2024 12:34 PM (IG4Id)

160 Biden just gave half a billion to the middle east to develop oil drilling.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:35 PM (u3NjE)

161 Has nobody made a joke yet about the tranny named Long no longer having a dick?

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:35 PM (bWsRe)

162 144 "Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is,"
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Makes sense to me.

Posted by: Some Electrician at March 16, 2024 12:30 PM (Dnobf)

Unless it's up the backhole, like Gov't does to taxpayers. Then again, does that make us Uncle Sam's bitch?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:35 PM (ynpvh)

163 The old saying about hair: "Lose it where you want it, gain it where you don't"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:27 PM (ynpvh)

No problemo since I bought a nifty Mico rotary clipper gizmo.
I'm all clipped and dipped.
One thing I vowed in high school was never to have wild hairy eyebrows or a wild hair on my face or nose like some of my teachers Ewwwww

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:35 PM (djLbh)

164 This is the saddest time of year for us. Please have some empathy.
Posted by: Reptile Liberation Front at March 16, 2024 12:32 PM (V5BDR)

Why, are you in the southern hemisphere?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:35 PM (b1cZA)

165 146
hmm could happen
I was ten years old when I watched porn for the first time. I found myself on Pornhub, which I stumbled across by accident and returned to out of curiosity -some kid

I was today years old when I watched porn for the first time. I found myself on Pornhub, which I stumbled across by accident and returned to out of curiosity -70 year old white man

Ohhh you stumbled across it ? Alrighty then..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:30 PM (djLbh)

He was just looking for a recipe for a cream pie...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:36 PM (ynpvh)

166 "Inflation. They can try to hang that one on him, but it won't work."

Kind of hard to blame him for something they denied was even happening for the first two years. Dumb, shortsighted people.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:36 PM (u3NjE)

167 "There's nothing to figure out. The (expert) is psychotic." President Merkin Mufflley, paraphrased, Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Learned To Love The Bomb

Posted by: 80's music fan at March 16, 2024 12:37 PM (as3uC)

168 Internet porn is actually worse than the ubiquitous whorehouses of the 19th and early 20th century in our country (because it’s free) . That is except for the spread of STDs.

Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:38 PM (MNhXM)

169 No problemo since I bought a nifty Mico rotary clipper gizmo.
I'm all clipped and dipped.
One thing I vowed in high school was never to have wild hairy eyebrows or a wild hair on my face or nose like some of my teachers Ewwwww
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:35 PM (djLbh)

There's a company that advertises on the podcasts, and they claim to be good at male grooming.

They aren't.

Sorry, your products are shitty, and I'm dumb enough to have bought them, and now I should spend some real money on better products, but dammit, I have these. Which don't work well. So.....

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:38 PM (b1cZA)

170 > 've been trying to warn people for some time now that Colorado is the hardest left state Democrat fiefdom.
____________

I believe it. But what I don't fully grasp is this; how is it possible that there are so many more leftists than there are conservatives?

I seem to recall being told that we are by no means a minority... but stories like this make me wonder.

If we are really a minority it changes some of the equations IMO.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 12:38 PM (Q4IgG)

171 Introducing Biden address...

LET"S GET READY TO MUMBLE!

I just thought it was funny.

Posted by: BignJames at March 16, 2024 12:38 PM (AwYPR)

172 Andrea Long Chu has stated that children who change sexes have the right to change their sex back again if they want to.

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Oh, do they? Do they also have a right to dry water? Some things aren't possible. The procedure is irreversible. If you're in for a penny, you're in for a pound.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2024 12:39 PM (0FoWg)

173 153 This is the saddest time of year for us. Please have some empathy.

Posted by: Reptile Liberation Front at March 16, 2024 12:32 PM (V5BDR)

Winter is a time for "a reptile disfunction".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:39 PM (ynpvh)

174 I’m supposed to find out what my annual raise is next week. DU has assured us that everyone is getting 5% raises. So I can count on 5% automatically. Right?

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:39 PM (bWsRe)

175 "I don't fully grasp is this; how is it possible that there are so many more leftists than there are conservatives?"

Conceding to the drugs and sexual licentiousness and abortion will lead to the rest. Ohio and Indiana are next.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:39 PM (u3NjE)

176 Kind of hard to blame him for something they denied was even happening for the first two years. Dumb, shortsighted people.
Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:36 PM (u3NjE)

Yup. So far it seems they're still going with "the economy is great, so stop saying it ain't! It's all about the air in the bags, man! Come on!"

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:39 PM (b1cZA)

177 I’ll see your Colorado and raise you a Washington state.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:39 PM (bWsRe)

178 155 "If children are too young to consent to puberty blockers, then they are definitely too young to consent to puberty, which is a drastic upheaval in its own right," she writes.

Children are tooo young to consent to REALITY, we must BLOCK them from Reality, reality is verrrrry dangerous, people in touch with Reality do NOT consent to unrealistic, unrelated, oldsters that try to convince them to mutilate their bodies.

PS: NYT said "Chu has been one of our favorite writers for a looong time"..when hiring him in early 2021, though he only published his first, very short book, 94pages, in late 2019..and that through a tiny obscure publisher.
Perhaps NYT can explain why 2 years came to be defined as a "A long Time"? And just how long ago?

Posted by: birdog at March 16, 2024 12:33 PM (+Fkyb)

Old argument. Kids don't consent to being born either; should they be "aborted" after birth because of that?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:40 PM (ynpvh)

179 We are being routed by incompetent idiots.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:40 PM (u3NjE)

180 157 When it goes wrong, it's Trumps fault (even if by reversing Trump's policies, things went wrong). If it goes right (even if it was Trump's policies), it's a credit to Biden's genius. Botched Afghan withdrawal? Trump's fault (not Biden's FUBAR!)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:31 PM (ynpvh)

That's all they got, politically. It might work, with some issues, with some people.

The problem is: Inflation. They can try to hang that one on him, but it won't work.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:34 PM (b1cZA)

They still want to blame that on Trump.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

181 Children are too young to consent to gravity.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at March 16, 2024 12:41 PM (tA1/w)

182 Internet porn is actually worse than the ubiquitous whorehouses of the 19th and early 20th century in our country (because it’s free) . That is except for the spread of STDs.
Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:38 PM (MNhXM)

You know what they say, if the thing you're getting is "free," then it's not the product. You are.

Except this place, of course.

What... do some of you pay for your membership here??

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:41 PM (b1cZA)

183 Yup. So far it seems they're still going with "the economy is great, so stop saying it ain't! It's all about the air in the bags, man! Come on!"
Posted by: BurtTC

It was the best of times: it was the worst of times but mostly the worst of times.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 12:42 PM (FVME7)

184 If we are really a minority it changes some of the equations IMO.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 12:38 PM (Q4IgG)

Maybe you are. Maybe not. But CO was one of the first (if not the first) to introduce mail in ballots, well before COVID made it cool. And directly after Democrats swung that purple state blue, and they wanted it to be for good.

Who is or isn't the majority doesn't matter for shit. They have a lead pipe cinch on power, and they mean to use every last drop of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2024 12:42 PM (0FoWg)

185 AOSHQ is a holdover from when the internet used to be about topical debate. I know of only a couple other places where that is the case.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:42 PM (u3NjE)

186 164 This is the saddest time of year for us. Please have some empathy.
Posted by: Reptile Liberation Front at March 16, 2024 12:32 PM (V5BDR)

Why, are you in the southern hemisphere?

No, it's all the adulation that Patrick fellow gets in March. He's the Pol Pot of the reptile world.

Posted by: Reptile Liberation Front at March 16, 2024 12:43 PM (V5BDR)

187 They still want to blame that on Trump.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:41 PM (ynpvh)

That's another treasured old saying: Shit in one hand, put want in the other.

See which hand fills up first.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:43 PM (b1cZA)

188 186 164 This is the saddest time of year for us. Please have some empathy.
Posted by: Reptile Liberation Front at March 16, 2024 12:32 PM (V5BDR)

Why, are you in the southern hemisphere?

No, it's all the adulation that Patrick fellow gets in March. He's the Pol Pot of the reptile world.

Posted by: Reptile Liberation Front at March 16, 2024 12:43 PM (V5BDR)

Not true. Only to sneks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:44 PM (ynpvh)

189 Scott Pressler is in. Guy is a weirdo. He makes me nervous.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:44 PM (u3NjE)

190 I was ten years old when I watched porn for the first time. I found myself on Pornhub, which I stumbled across by accident and returned to out of curiosity -some kid

I was 10 years old and was invited to a birthday party in at a local girls house. We played spin the bottle and post office. After that my sports effort slumped.
Um I plead insanity yer honor. I was crazy about her..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:44 PM (djLbh)

191 No, it's all the adulation that Patrick fellow gets in March. He's the Pol Pot of the reptile world.
Posted by: Reptile Liberation Front at March 16, 2024 12:43 PM (V5BDR)

Heh, oh that.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:44 PM (b1cZA)

192 Scott Pressler is in. Guy is a weirdo. He makes me nervous.
Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:44 PM (u3NjE)

Needs a haircut, that's for sure.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:46 PM (b1cZA)

193 That too.

Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:46 PM (u3NjE)

194 CO was one of the first (if not the first) to introduce mail in ballots,

—

Washington did it long before Colorado. And since WA started it, somewhere in the 2000s, there has not been a single Republican elected to a statewide position. Funny how that works huh?

And before you say well yeah it’s Washington what do you expect, WA used to have Republican governors, AGs, SOS, etc. it was never a deep red state or anything but Republicans did get elected. And then mail in happened and that stopped cold.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:46 PM (bWsRe)

195 189 Scott Pressler is in. Guy is a weirdo. He makes me nervous.
Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:44 PM (u3NjE)

Yeah at least he should pick up a guitar or just carry drum sticks in his back pocket for appearances,,

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:48 PM (djLbh)

196 And before you say well yeah it’s Washington what do you expect, WA used to have Republican governors, AGs, SOS, etc. it was never a deep red state or anything but Republicans did get elected. And then mail in happened and that stopped cold.
Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:46 PM (bWsRe)

Yeah, Washyourballs was the test ground for a lot of this stuff, which has been repeated elsewhere. So far, nowhere more successfully than Colorado, but obviously AZ and Penn and Georgia and others are following suit.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:49 PM (b1cZA)

197 But CO was one of the first (if not the first) to introduce mail in ballots

Oregon. Oregon introduced vote-by-mail (with the acquiescence of Republicans) in 1998.

At the time, Oregon had a Republican Senator, and had had a Republican governor ten years earlier.

The incumbent Republican Senator was voted out of office in 2008, and otherwise the Democrats have won every statewide election in the last twenty-five years, save one Republican Secretary of State, who quickly died in office.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:50 PM (YAtuc)

198 @189 Pressler might be a weirdo but he fights more than 95% of the GOPe

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 16, 2024 12:50 PM (5q0pY)

199 194 CO was one of the first (if not the first) to introduce mail in ballots,

—

Washington did it long before Colorado. And since WA started it, somewhere in the 2000s, there has not been a single Republican elected to a statewide position. Funny how that works huh?

And before you say well yeah it’s Washington what do you expect, WA used to have Republican governors, AGs, SOS, etc. it was never a deep red state or anything but Republicans did get elected. And then mail in happened and that stopped cold.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 12:46 PM (bWsRe)

Kali basically mails a ballot to everyone that is registered at the DMV. My son NEVER registered to vote, but got ballots for all elections since he turned 18. Fraud issues? Oh, the dems that control the state haven't found any...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:50 PM (ynpvh)

200 LET"S GET READY TO MUMBLE!

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Didja see the Big Guy's latest cheat sheet?

https://tinyurl.com/25mf7cvd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 12:50 PM (FVME7)

201 Oh boy Eyes on this one.
The Italians are marching in NYC because the greenies are shutting down wood burning pizza joints!!

Dizgracia Bastadas!!!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:51 PM (djLbh)

202 Your part of always back the criminal crowd. We all pick a side.

Posted by: polynikes at March 16, 2024 12:31 PM (MNhXM)

And you're always part of "Back the Blue". Well, here's the blue in action, in Memphis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeI8vdF_-tQ

No bitly because it's not that long a link. If we're going to be up to our necks in criminals ? I'll side with those without uniforms. I'm funny like that.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:51 PM (DQaYG)

203 201 Oh boy Eyes on this one.
The Italians are marching in NYC because the greenies are shutting down wood burning pizza joints!!

Dizgracia Bastadas!!!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:51 PM (djLbh)

But It's for Mutha Earf!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:52 PM (ynpvh)

204 So we are pretty well all agreed here that mail-in voting is evil, and a vehicle for fraud. How do we end it? If DJT wins the Presidency, could he EO the USPS to not handle ballots?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:52 PM (tkR6S)

205
The site is easy to find, impossible to avoid, and has become a frequent rite of passage for kids my age.

Impossible to avoid?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2024 12:53 PM (63Dwl)

206 Washington did it long before Colorado. And since WA started it, somewhere in the 2000s, there has not been a single Republican elected to a statewide position. Funny how that works huh?

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Yup. It was an instant killing blow to the CO GOP as well.

Every state GOP in the country saw that happen. And yet... They consented without a peep when everyone went hog wild on mail in during COVID. Funny how THAT worked, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 16, 2024 12:53 PM (+ln7k)

207 204 So we are pretty well all agreed here that mail-in voting is evil, and a vehicle for fraud. How do we end it? If DJT wins the Presidency, could he EO the USPS to not handle ballots?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:52 PM (tkR6S)

One exception: Absentee ballots signed by the voter with a verified disability or absence during vote day, with signature verification.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:54 PM (ynpvh)

208 I like Scott Pressler. I also Brandon Straka-who developed "Walk Away" (from the Dem Party) and who I think was imprisoned for some time after Jan 6.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2024 12:54 PM (Ki//m)

209 205
The site is easy to find, impossible to avoid, and has become a frequent rite of passage for kids my age.

Impossible to avoid?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2024 12:53 PM (63Dwl)

I think it was Oscar Wild who said, "we crawl away from temptation, hoping it catches up with us"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

210 Impossible to avoid?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2024 12:53 PM (63Dwl)

Must be the default home page for all the IOS browsers, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (tkR6S)

211 And since WA started it, somewhere in the 2000s, there has not been a single Republican elected to a statewide position.

One thing that happens again and again in vote-by-mail states is that a Republican or moderate Democrat may appear to be ahead on Election Night, and then is buried by a wave of Left-Wing votes that shows up at the last minute.

It's particularly bad when you don't have to get the ballot to the election authorities on Election Day, but the ballot merely has to be postmarked by Election Day.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (YAtuc)

212 So we are pretty well all agreed here that mail-in voting is evil, and a vehicle for fraud. How do we end it? If DJT wins the Presidency, could he EO the USPS to not handle ballots?

IMHO, it will require an amendment that there is no MIB for Federal elections.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (CsUN+)

213 Lunch break. Then I have to get back on the 'ol tractor. No, that is not a euphemism.

Posted by: fd at March 16, 2024 12:56 PM (vFG9F)

214 212 So we are pretty well all agreed here that mail-in voting is evil, and a vehicle for fraud. How do we end it? If DJT wins the Presidency, could he EO the USPS to not handle ballots?

IMHO, it will require an amendment that there is no MIB for Federal elections.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (CsUN+)

MIB. First thought? Men in Black, not Mail-in Ballots...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:57 PM (ynpvh)

215 IMHO, it will require an amendment that there is no MIB for Federal elections.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (CsUN+)

I can't see it. Each State gets to pick ... that's the idea of a republic.

New York cheats ? Yeah. But empowering the Federal to enforce fairness means they are empowered to enforce cheating. The Anti-Federalists tried to tell you.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:57 PM (DQaYG)

216 >>> They call this "Gentle Parenting."
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This is second on my list behind pedophilia.
They both, child and mom, need an introduction to corporal punishment.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 12:57 PM (o1ceo)

217 They both, child and mom, need an introduction to corporal punishment.

She's a 1. I'll take this one for the team.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 12:58 PM (DQaYG)

218 Didja see the Big Guy's latest cheat sheet?

https://tinyurl.com/25mf7cvd
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 16, 2024 12:50 PM (FVME7)

The thing is, shitheels like the Irish PM, and other pols, both foreign and domestic, play along with the charade.

We're truly in Emperor's New Clothes territory here. Nobody wants to say anything, and that little lightweight Mike Johnson does it too.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:59 PM (YXtta)

219 Primary election in California was March 5th and ballots are still being counted. First world cheating by the donks.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at March 16, 2024 12:59 PM (17s+e)

220 They both, child and mom, need an introduction to corporal punishment.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 12:57 PM (o1ceo)

You take the kid, I'll do the mom.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:59 PM (YXtta)

221 185 AOSHQ is a holdover from when the internet used to be about topical debate. I know of only a couple other places where that is the case.
Posted by: Ribbed at March 16, 2024 12:42 PM (u3NjE)

Member dat?
Those were the days when you posted you always linked to your source. We could post raw links and long ramblings. Of course with todays sleek upgrades here at AoSPHQ that is not possible. It is good to have the memories. Sometimes I reminisce to myself of the good old days when Foley switched both teams and parties in west coast FL and the left took him down because he waqs gay. Another good time charlie moment was when Geo Allen was canceled for the Macaca statement not to forget wide stance Larry Craig.. yeah buddy good times indeed..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 12:59 PM (djLbh)

222 So we are pretty well all agreed here that mail-in voting is evil, and a vehicle for fraud. How do we end it? If DJT wins the Presidency, could he EO the USPS to not handle ballots?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 12:52 PM (tkR6S)

https://www.battlegroundoregon.org/

Marc Thielman is bringing a lawsuit over elements of Oregon's vote by mail in Thielman v Fagan

Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2024 01:00 PM (D7oie)

223 PLEASE don't hit mommy and make mommy mad. You won't like mommy when mommy is mad.

Posted by: Bad mommy at March 16, 2024 01:00 PM (vFG9F)

224 You take the kid, I'll do the mom.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:59 PM (YXtta)

Sorry. I already called dibs.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 01:00 PM (DQaYG)

225 >>>> "Getting f*cked makes you female because f*cked is what a female is,"
------------------

Sounds misogynistic to me.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 01:00 PM (o1ceo)

226 I think it was Oscar Wild who said, "we crawl away from temptation, hoping it catches up with us"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

Oh Oscar, such a funny sodomite.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 01:01 PM (YXtta)

227 One exception: Absentee ballots signed by the voter with a verified disability or absence during vote day, with signature verification.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:54 PM (ynpvh)

Well, that goes without saying. Deployed military need to have the opportunity to vote, and an assurance that their votes will be counted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 01:01 PM (tkR6S)

228 220 They both, child and mom, need an introduction to corporal punishment.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 12:57 PM (o1ceo)

You take the kid, I'll do the mom.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 12:59 PM (YXtta)

Your comment reminded me of a meme I saw today.
I couple in bed.
She says "I want to have your child"
He says, "Are you sure?"
She says, "YES!"
He says, "I'll bring you one of my four from home"
...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:01 PM (ynpvh)

229 Barack Mugabe Obongo and his marxist cohorts are what killed fun and comedy as marxists have no sense of humor and everything has a political bent to it to them.

Before he got elected, this marxist trait was only found in small circles like feminists, pederasts and librarians with sand in their vjayjay..

When he got elected, it went mainstream and was indoctrinated among the utes through democrat groomers and commissars.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 16, 2024 01:02 PM (R/m4+)

230 Well, that goes without saying. Deployed military need to have the opportunity to vote, and an assurance that their votes will be counted.

No. If I'm ever Emperor for a Day ? No federal employee votes in any federal election. None.

Besides ... and I know this is still a thing here ... but you won't like how that vote turns out anyway. The Green isn't anymore on our side as the Blue.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 01:02 PM (DQaYG)

231 Well, that goes without saying. Deployed military need to have the opportunity to vote, and an assurance that their votes will be counted.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 01:01 PM (tkR6S)

Unless the bags sit in the basement of the Oregon Secretary of State's office and then later deemed "too late to be counted"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2024 01:03 PM (D7oie)

232
The Italians are marching in NYC because the greenies are shutting down wood burning pizza joints!!

One of the greatest pizza pies I ever enjoyed was in South Carolina of all places. I think it was the wood fired oven temperature of probably about 1,000 degrees that made it so good.

But in these times people have to be willing to make sacrifices for the greater good, Comrades. The next five year plan will address the necessity of water.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2024 01:03 PM (RKVpM)

233 226 I think it was Oscar Wild who said, "we crawl away from temptation, hoping it catches up with us"...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (ynpvh)

Oh Oscar, such a funny sodomite.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 01:01 PM (YXtta)

Why is it called sodomy?
Because guys like Petey and Oscar always say "I want that guy inside of me (in sodomy)!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

234 Your comment reminded me of a meme I saw today.
I couple in bed.
She says "I want to have your child"
He says, "Are you sure?"
She says, "YES!"
He says, "I'll bring you one of my four from home"
...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:01 PM (ynpvh)

All this stuff makes me think of the ex. I miss her kids. Unlike their mom, they were salvageable, and I truly believe I was having a positive influence on them.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 01:04 PM (YXtta)

235 IMHO, it will require an amendment that there is no MIB for Federal elections.
-
Yep, it's useless to try to be cute with EOs, since those can be thrown out by he next guy, if not courts sooner, because reasons.

An amendment setting a unique day for the election, with only ballots cast in person on that day, no exceptions, because people will try to game them, is the way to go.

Don't do that, your electors don't count and your reps/senators don't get seated.

Posted by: Methos at March 16, 2024 01:05 PM (Dnobf)

236
It's particularly bad when you don't have to get the ballot to the election authorities on Election Day, but the ballot merely has to be postmarked by Election Day.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (YAtuc)

Gee I wonder if any of those ballots are sent a day or two later but post marked for Election Day. No that can’t be, those postmark machines are sacred and would never be abused by the usps which is run by Democrats.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 01:06 PM (bWsRe)

237 Unless the bags sit in the basement of the Oregon Secretary of State's office and then later deemed "too late to be counted"
Posted by: Kindltot at March 16, 2024 01:03 PM (D7oie)

That is exactly the sort of thing to which I was alluding.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 16, 2024 01:06 PM (tkR6S)

238 236
It's particularly bad when you don't have to get the ballot to the election authorities on Election Day, but the ballot merely has to be postmarked by Election Day.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 16, 2024 12:55 PM (YAtuc)

Gee I wonder if any of those ballots are sent a day or two later but post marked for Election Day. No that can’t be, those postmark machines are sacred and would never be abused by the usps which is run by Democrats.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 01:06 PM (bWsRe)

And have their own union run by democrats that donate to democrats.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
https://youtu.be/aKnX5wci404&t=36s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:08 PM (ynpvh)

239 My back is sore. I'm losing my house in 5 days. I don't have a place to go and my identity has been stolen.
Exciting times. Exciting times suck.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 16, 2024 01:09 PM (6z9Vj)

240 No oil drilling hete but foreigners get money to drill
Must be another plot to kill western civilization

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2024 01:09 PM (fwDg9)

241 Why is it called sodomy?
Because guys like Petey and Oscar always say "I want that guy inside of me (in sodomy)!"
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:04 PM (ynpvh)

Just think, if the Dead Sea people had called their little town Boston, Oscar and Buttgig and their ilk would be bossers. And people would say "you're not the bossomy!"

Well, many of them these days are bossers, so.....

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 01:09 PM (uZ2BU)

242 239 My back is sore. I'm losing my house in 5 days. I don't have a place to go and my identity has been stolen.
Exciting times. Exciting times suck.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 16, 2024 01:09 PM (6z9Vj)

Damn, dude. Sorry to hear that. Nothing you can do?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:10 PM (ynpvh)

243 I gotta run. Have a nice day.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

244 England's National Health Service announced it would no longer prescribe puberty blockers to children under the age of 18, calling it a "landmark decision."

Other countries, such as Norway and Sweden, have also pumped the brakes on medical intervention for minors grappling with gender dysphoria.

I doubt this is on any kind of principle or sanity prevailing though. Remember, in the US hospitals love this because it creates a high-dollar customer for life. Socialized healthcare systems would want to stop it for exactly that same reason.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2024 01:12 PM (FD5dr)

245 You know one way to true the vote is put a time limit on the count. Seriously why do we let these people steal our country?
I did polling place duty in south FL on the 04 general.
It's not rocket science but you can not be Mr.Nice guy,
I observed a Hatian interpteter pushing the buttons on the tabulator for her 'clients'. The black special deputy who was a Palm Beach County Sherriff aked me how things were going toward the end of the day. I told him, he watched and caught the interpreter in the act and flagged every one of her assisted votes. I have a few letters from W. one inviting me to his inagural. Yep little ole me! NO MORE MR. NICE GUY. FUG DEEZ PEOPLE!!!!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 01:13 PM (djLbh)

246 243 I gotta run. Have a nice day.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:12 PM (ynpvh)

Later Yimmy!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 01:14 PM (djLbh)

247 Don't do that, your electors don't count and your reps/senators don't get seated.
Posted by: Methos at March 16, 2024 01:05 PM (Dnobf)

Not a bad plan. Given the tech, I don't see any reason why vote counting can't be simplified too.

Here, you vote, your vote is counted, by the time everyone finishes voting, we know who won and who lost.

If need be, have "independent" certifying agencies in place. At least three of them. Every single one of the cert agencies MUST get the exact same count, down to the last ballot. If they don't, the entire thing is thrown out, and you either start over, or none of your results will be added to the tally.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 16, 2024 01:14 PM (uZ2BU)

248 You know one way to true the vote is put a time limit on the count

—

You have until midnight. Then either release the count or your precinct doesn’t get included in the totals.

Posted by: Montec at March 16, 2024 01:14 PM (bWsRe)

249 The Gaysian tranny claimed to have a girlfriend? Was she fictional, or was she the ugliest, most desperate chick on the planet?

Posted by: Wally at March 16, 2024 01:16 PM (f45Vt)

250 My former neighborhood was gradually turning into Little Tiajuana. When I went to the grocery store, I noticed how quiet and well behaved the kids were, even two years old. Fifteen or so years later, those well behaved kids had morphed into typical American kids: sassing mom, grabbing stuff off the shelves, and throwing temper tantrums in the checkout line to get mom to buy them candy.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at March 16, 2024 01:17 PM (ET1Q8)

251 Damn, dude. Sorry to hear that. Nothing you can do?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 16, 2024 01:10 PM (ynpvh)

Listening to my dog snore, which is soothing, and praying.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 16, 2024 01:18 PM (6z9Vj)

252 The Gaysian tranny claimed to have a girlfriend? Was she fictional, or was she the ugliest, most desperate chick on the planet?

It's a status boost, and many women will do anything for that.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 16, 2024 01:18 PM (FD5dr)

253 The Gaysian tranny claimed to have a girlfriend? Was she fictional, or was she the ugliest, most desperate chick on the planet?
Posted by: Wally at March 16, 2024 01:16 PM (f45Vt)

—————-

She’s from Canada so you wouldn’t know her.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 16, 2024 01:18 PM (u73oe)

254 Ain’t high tech grand? Fifty years ago people voted on Election Day on either paper ballots or mechanical, not electronic, voting machines. The votes were counted and we all knew who won before going to bed. Now?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at March 16, 2024 01:22 PM (u73oe)

255 No. If I'm ever Emperor for a Day ? No federal employee votes in any federal election. None.
-----

Ah. And what if those 'employees' are conscripts?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 16, 2024 01:22 PM (XeU6L)

256 I got my mind set on you

I prefer Weird Al's version:

https://youtu.be/do5vXn_Rap4

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 16, 2024 01:23 PM (DTX3h)

257 It's trannies all the way down.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 16, 2024 01:25 PM (iWR3a)

258 Northernlurker your in my prayers for a better situation.
Don't give up hope.

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2024 01:26 PM (fwDg9)

259 >>> Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel
------------------

I shop at the Discount Market and am definitely a minority there. It's mostly Hispanic and roughly 25% Black. And the kids are as you say, well behaved. I go up the road to Walmart at 5PM and the mixture is reversed and well, I don't go to Walmart at 5PM.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 01:26 PM (o1ceo)

260
One thing I vowed in high school was never to have wild hairy eyebrows or a wild hair on my face or nose like some of my teachers Ewwwww

Oh yeah, I understand, but it wasn't the teachers. It was during the 'turn your head and cough' part of the annual physical for sports. Being that close to a Doctor with hair growing two inches out of his ears had me swearing into a limited form of metrosexuality decades before it became a thing. I swore I'd never let something so gross happen to me.

At that young an age it was impossible to imagine it would ever happen.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2024 01:28 PM (RKVpM)

261 The immigrant pizza wars have begun they have.
Did you know NY has rednecks?
We call then Goomba's. Italiano !!!

https://tinyurl.com/mvmuftcu

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 01:28 PM (djLbh)

262 Very convenient, St. Pat's day falling on a Sunday. You get the Sunday loophole if you gave up the sauce for Lent, and Pennsylvania gubbmint says bars can open early (real early, 0600)

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 16, 2024 01:29 PM (0EOe9)

263 It's totally acceptable if a tranny wants to suck my cock and gently fondle my nutsack? She's a woman, amirite?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 16, 2024 01:29 PM (iWR3a)

264 The video and comments in the thread are interesting. Mommy does not seem to understand that her toddler is not capable of abstract thought yet, for one thing.

And if the government in a blue state finds out you spanked a child for behavior like this...good bye parenthood...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2024 01:31 PM (ibTVg)

265 Ugh
Sitting in a HOA meeting.
There's always one person who won't shut up.
Sigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2024 01:32 PM (ecyCx)

266 >>>> If need be, have "independent" certifying agencies in place. At least three of them. Every single one of the cert agencies MUST get the exact same count, down to the last ballot. If they don't, the entire thing is thrown out, and you either start over, or none of your results will be added to the tally.

Posted by: BurtTC
=============

It doesn't matter what agencies or protocols are created there must be civil respect for the law and judicial enforcement of the law. Without those things in place lawlessness will prevail. That's where we are today. We will either overcome the evil mind virus that is infecting our Republic or we will succumb to it.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 01:32 PM (o1ceo)

267 Chu chose pooh-ly.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2024 01:34 PM (o2ZRX)

268 {{{{Northernlurker}}}}

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 16, 2024 01:34 PM (TirNb)

269 Mail in ballots...

I suppose if FedGov is supposed to leave the elections up to the states then why would a quasi-Fed agency (USPS) be involved in handling the ballots?

Seems like a marginal kind of thing, but perhaps worth looking at?

Not that is solves the underlying problem with this type of election fraud but...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 16, 2024 01:34 PM (Q4IgG)

270 >>>At that young an age it was impossible to imagine it would ever happen.

Posted by: Divide by Zero a
-----------------------------

If not for electric nose clippers I'd have shredded nostrils.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 01:35 PM (o1ceo)

271 And how about shaving your ears?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 01:36 PM (o1ceo)

272 Oh yeah, I understand, but it wasn't the teachers. It was during the 'turn your head and cough' part of the annual physical for sports. Being that close to a Doctor with hair growing two inches out of his ears had me swearing into a limited form of metrosexuality decades before it became a thing. I swore I'd never let something so gross happen to me.

At that young an age it was impossible to imagine it would ever happen.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 16, 2024 01:28 PM (RKVpM)

Yeah our Science teacher had major black hairy eyebrows. Another teacher we had for business Mr. Krimpitz had the wild hair on his nose just sitting out there.. It was said he was gay and I did see him cruising one night!!? But my buddy was pledging for a fraternity and suggested I sit in the back of the class making like a catcher pounding my fist into my hand. heh When I gor my final grade ole gay blade posted me a big red F. I gravitated to auto shop for a couple of years with my Italian buddies...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 01:36 PM (djLbh)

273 The tranny thing is demonic. Encourage people into a kink that requires them to remove/mutilate the sex organs with which they could actually enjoy the kink...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 16, 2024 01:36 PM (ibTVg)

274 nood gardening

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 16, 2024 01:36 PM (DTX3h)

275 >>>Sitting in a HOA meeting.
There's always one person who won't shut up.
Sigh.

Posted by: Diogenes

>Pay your dues and keep quiet, pilgrim. There has to be one hot piece of ass you can focus your attention upon.

Of course standards shift significantly, - an HOA 6 is a local pub 4 in most communities, but we persevere.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 16, 2024 01:39 PM (iWR3a)

276 265 Ugh
Sitting in a HOA meeting.
There's always one person who won't shut up.
Sigh.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2024 01:32 PM (ecyCx)
I moved from an over 55 community 5 years ago to Tuckerton NJ. I call it 'The land time forgot'.
Im out here in the famous Jersey Pine Barrens little traffic, no HOA dogs barking all over the place, Harley riding bikers , race cars reving. heh just like I was raised. Funny I don't really hear the noise unless I make a point of if,,

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 16, 2024 01:41 PM (djLbh)

277 They define "democracy" as taking left wing views on everything from LGBT to labor unions.

Democracy and Republicanism are processes that synchronize the views of the State with those of the polity.

That is why I do whatever the hell I want.

Posted by: Bizarro President Joe Biden at March 16, 2024 01:51 PM (aD39U)

278 what was banned in the 90s was hope--real hope, not "and change".
That's when they made it law to teach all subjects in k-12 from an "environmental" perspective, which was not only the beginning of institutional depression as taught by the state (the world will end before you grow up! no one should use electricity, drive a car, eat, or even breathe! you are ending the world just by existing!), but began the systemic (see what i did there?) degradation of education on a grand scale.
Why we now have intersectional "engineering studies" instead of...engineering.
My kids' grade school math texts in the 90s had world problems beginning "The GREEN family recycles 10 lbs. of newspaper and glass each week. The BROWN family does not..."
At the same time, they were trying to medicate them all into sitting still for that crap.
(In the ER my daughter works in, they cannot use a B-52 shot to quiet down a deranged combative patient unless certain legal criteria are met. It is considered "chemical restraint". Why were teachers allowed/encouraged to chemically restrain kids?)

Posted by: barbarausa at March 16, 2024 02:06 PM (enw9G)

279 >Pay your dues and keep quiet, pilgrim. There has to be one hot piece of ass you can focus your attention upon.

Of course standards shift significantly, - an HOA 6 is a local pub 4 in most communities, but we persevere.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 16, 2024 01:39 PM

There are three hot...errr...budget issues.
And ironically, $20 a month raise.
Same as in town.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 16, 2024 02:10 PM (ecyCx)

280 Whatever happened to the old Democratic Party? Remember the one that held the country hostage unless they were in power? No Republican President could do anything to promote American security but they would oppose it - their way of training us that if you want peace, elect Democrats! Otherwise you'll be scared shitless all the time, and we'll make sure of it!

Why do I suspect we're about to see them again?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 16, 2024 02:21 PM (fvaUq)

281 Booted up a new 1TB Samsung SSD, there was an .exe waiting for me. I clicked it and among other things was a legal terms and conditions check box. I closed the file, created a folder for it to be visited if I ever decide to give up my proprietary rights.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 03:04 PM (26hD5)

282 We haz a PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2024 03:42 PM (fwDg9)

283 It's dead, Skip, it's been dead for a while.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 04:00 PM (26hD5)

284 Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2024 01:32 PM (o1ceo)

And when the law is lawless ? Fuck, it's a rhetorical question. You don't have a clue. Read another Peggy Noonan paragraph, and share it with IronGrampa.

Posted by: Factoids at March 16, 2024 06:44 PM (DQaYG)

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