Netanyahu to Chuck Schumer: Drop Dead

As you probably know, Israel is on the verge of wiping Hamas off the face of the map, if I can use Hamas' words to describe their own peril.

As Israel is about to enter Hamas' last redoubt, Rafah, and exterminate these terror-roaches once and for all, the Marxist transnationalists are in a frenzy to pressure Israel to spare Hamas and keep the terrorist government in place.

Chuck Schumer joined this frenzy last week, demanding that Israel -- an independent country, in case you didn't know -- hold snap elections so that Netanyahu can be voted out of office and Hamas saved for future use by the Marxist transnationalist Regime.

Professor William Jacobsen rails against Schumer's vile terrorist protection policy. And Schumer is adopting a pro-terrorist policy to appease the pro-terrorists "newcomer" voters of the Democrat Party.

It's disgusting what he did. It's pandering. It's pandering to the anti-Israel Democratic base, the pro-Hamas vote in Michigan. It is the worst thing he could possibly have done because he's trying to divide the Jewish community. He knows there's in the American Jewish community, which is overwhelmingly liberal, he knows there's some dislike for Netanyahu. And what he's trying to do, he's trying to separate Israel and Netanyahu, which has been Biden administration policy. I wrote about this about two weeks ago, that's where they're going to distinguish. 'Well, we hate Netanyahu, but we love Israel.' Well, they're in the middle of a war, okay?
And why do they hate Netanyahu so much right now? It's because he's refusing to capitulate to the American President and the American Secretary of State who want Hamas to survive. They do. You can't read their actions any other way.
Hamas now exists only in Rafa, four battalions by all counts, which is thousands of Hamas fighters. That's where the leadership is. That's where the hostages are. And all of American policy for the last two to three weeks, maybe month, has been to try to bully Israel into not finishing off Hamas. And now Chuck Schumer steps in and picks up that cudgel and he hits Netanyahu over the head. And why is he hitting net over the head? Is because he's been too uncompromising.
I think there's going to be a huge, there is a huge backlash to this. I think what Schumer did is disgraceful. He's trying to walk it back.

Did Schumer try to walk it back? Sort of, yes, he did attempt to soften his demand for regime change in an allied nation.

Now he's saying he's not necessarily saying that there should be a regime change... just that Israel hold a snap election so that there can be a regime change, or at least a "discussion" about a regime change:

Chuck Schumer
@SenSchumer
The U.S. cannot dictate the outcome of an election.
That is for the Israeli public to decide.
As a democracy, Israel has the right to choose its own leaders.
But the important thing is that Israelis are given a choice.
There needs to be a fresh debate about the future.

Back to William Jacobsen:

Too late, Chuck, you will not walk it back. Your legacy will be that you betrayed not just the Jewish people, but you betrayed Western civilization and your own country with these comments at a critical moment in history. Because let's face it, the people Israel is fighting in Gaza and elsewhere are enemies of the United States. They are enemies of Western civilization.
What they did on October 7th, they would do to us in a heartbeat if they could. And Chuck Schumer is fighting to prevent them from being destroyed. It's disgraceful. He will never live this down.

Audio of Jacobsen's statement at the link. He delivered this rant on the Tony Katz radio show.

Netanyahu has likewise counter-attacked the pro-Hamas senator, noting that Israel is on the verge of achieving its war aims -- and thus bringing about the peace that Schumer claims to want -- but Schumer wants Hamas' war on Jewish civilians to go on for another 1000 years.

As we have reported, Democrats have been throwing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under the bus. They seem to be so desperate to appeal to the folks on the left in their party that they've lost the plot when it comes to Israel. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called for regime change against Netanyahu. Joe Biden called it a "good" speech, that Netanyahu was hurting more than helping, and there were reports that his White House was trying to force Netanyahu out. Then, on Sunday, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) also talked smack against him, claiming that he'd interfered in our elections in a bizarre attack when, indeed, it was the Obama administration that had interfered in Israeli elections against Netanyahu.
But Netanyahu had a few things to say about the situation and the Democrats in response during an interview with Pete Hegseth on "Fox and Friends."
He explained that Israel wasn't going to back off on going into Rafah and that the only thing that has made Hamas release hostages is continued military pressure. He said that they had destroyed 19 of Hamas' 24 battalions and that asking them not to go into Rafah right now (something Biden said he was against and was a "red line" for him) was like telling the allies during World War II not to go into Berlin. "That's ridiculous," Netanyahu said, saying it would allow Hamas to repeat their attacks on his country.
He said they had already effectively had a "two-state solution" with Gaza, and Hamas used that to launch the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, that to give them such a state after that attack would be the "greatest reward for terrorism in history." He also noted that they voted 99 to 9 against the imposition of a two-state solution on Israel, noting that the vast majority of the Israeli public was against it and in support of going into Rafah.

Netanyahu sort of had a little smile on his face when Hegseth brought up the question of what Schumer and Biden had said. Then, he completely took down Schumer.

I think Schumer's statements are wholly inappropriate. I think we're not a banana republic. The people of Israel will choose when they'll have elections, who they elect, and it's not something that will be foisted upon us. It's wrong to try to replace the elected leaders of a sister democracy and a staunch American ally at any time, but especially during the time of war.
Just imagine that, after 9/11, and when you're in the midst of fighting Al Qaeda, and winning. People would say, some Israeli would say, "Oh, the right thing to do is not to have new elections in America or have President Bush resign." It's inappropriate. Shouldn't have been said. It's wrong."

In fairness to Schumer and his fellow Democrats -- they did call for Bush to be impeached for being too anti-Al-Qadea.

Video of Netanyahu's appearance on Fox & Friends at the link.

In further news, the Regime propaganda world media attempted to wishcast a ceasefire into existence by claiming Hamas had agreed to a "framework" for a ceasefire. Hamas then contradicted the propaganda media and said no, we haven't agreed to any ceasefire or any framework to a ceasefire.

This represents yet another expression of progressives' "translation" of terrorist statements, to ventriloquize progressive dream statements into the mouths of terrorists. Osama bin Ladin says he will kill the Jew and the infidel wherever he finds them; the leftwing propaganda Regime media reports "Osama bin Ladin says he will never stop fighting for a Single Payer health insurance system."

And in another disgusting example of the Marxist transnationalists saving Hamas -- Qatar offered to expel the Hamas terror leaders that they are sheltering/protecting from Israeli terror-hunters as well as any other nations who might want to bring them up on charges.

Incredibly, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said "no" -- you keep on providing safe haven to the Terror Lords. We want them to be safe!

From the Times of Israel:

WASHINGTON -- Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani proposed expeling Hamas's leaders from Doha during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken days after the terror group's October 7 onslaught, two officials familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.
Thani... then asked whether it was time for the US to ask Qatar to expel the Hamas's leaders, the two officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
...
When Blinken began his own remarks, he didn't respond directly to the emir's proposal but did go on to say that he thought it would be better for Qatar to use its contacts with Hamas -- through the office it allowed the terror group to establish in Doha in 2012 at Washington's behest -- to mediate between the Gaza war parties to secure a hostage deal, the officials recalled.

No don't kick out Hamas terrorist leaders, we're desperate to continue "negotiating" with them through back-channels. It's proven so effective in the past we must not do anything to disrupt this productive working relationship with Hamas terrorists.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:24 PM

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Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 02:25 PM (DRSnL)

2 MFM chyron here doesn't mention why there's tension between Biden and Netanyahu for some strange reason.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (2yu8s)

3 >Netanyahu to Chuck Schumer: Drop Dead

I concur

Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (oCjPU)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

5 Shumer needs a 2nd circumcision.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

6 Chuck Schumer joined this frenzy last week, demanding that Israel -- an independent country, in case you didn't know -- hold snap elections so that Netanyahu can be voted out of office and Hamas saved for future use by the Marxist transnationalist Regime.
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All part of the general, well-worn strategy.

I am not hopeful in fact, but it would be great if what we're seeing is a desaturation of the color revolution.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (HnUIn)

7 TL;DR.

What movie is this about?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

8 As you probably know, Israel is on the verge of wiping Hamas off the face of the map, if I can use Hamas' words to describe their own peril.

Faster. Harder. Moar.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (SbJgO)

9 Our government is a useless pile of evil dicks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (di6C2)

10 Well here's wishing them success. But aren't a bunch of Hamas bigwigs hiding out in Qatar? My understanding of the Middle Eastern terrorist types is they'll always be able to recruit more unless you kill off the leadership class.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (eYoxG)

11 2 MFM chyron here doesn't mention why there's tension between Biden and Netanyahu for some strange reason.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (2yu8s)

"He's a dog-faced pony-soldier jew-boy"

Posted by: Joey Bidet at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (ynpvh)

12 Schumer is a bigger boob than either of those on that P-cup chick in Canada.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (9yWhg)

13 What movie is this about?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

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I don't know, but it looks like Amy Schumer is in it. So, hard pass.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (DRSnL)

14 7 TL;DR.

What movie is this about?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

Commies, Sponge. Fucking evil shitlord commies.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (di6C2)

15
BIBI-

FINISH IT

Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (oCjPU)

16 Netanyahu to Chuck Schumer: Drop Dead

Hear, hear!

Posted by: L - And they can all x my royal Irish arse at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (GshMh)

17 LET BIBI BE BIBI

Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 02:28 PM (oCjPU)

18 #355
I would have taken as well Go Fk Yourself but Drop Dead isn't bad

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 02:29 PM (fwDg9)

19 @SenSchumer
The U.S. cannot dictate the outcome of an election.

That is for the Israeli public to decide.

As a democracy, Israel has the right to choose its own leaders.

But the important thing is that Israelis are given a choice.

There needs to be a fresh debate about the future.
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Then it's for Israel to decide whether to do it, Chuck.

A country is sovereign, or it isn't. If you get to dictate terms to them, they're not sovereign but are instead either a vassal or a vanquished foe.

America has had many, many vassals. Israel is - or at least to be - one of them. Our vassals are falling away like leaves in autumn. So it goes for an empire in decline. Schumer - and various others at all levels in the Party and industry - need to come to terms with the fact that America's ability to dictate terms is coming to an end.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:29 PM (HnUIn)

20 All in favor of Bibi's proposal, say AYE.

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 18, 2024 02:29 PM (lZVy/)

21 I don't know about anyone else, but I'm not going to get my panties in a bunch of Suck Scummer calling for an election in Israel.

Obviously the U.S. of A. is in the business of changing regimes all over the globe, and as such things go, Scummer is in no position to actually DO anything about it.

He's just mouthing off. Which is all he's good at.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:29 PM (dGCAG)

22 It's very useful to have the defense industry selling arms to Israel and to Hamas, even if those sales to Islamists are sub rosa.

Posted by: huerfano at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (qeiBW)

23 You just can't trust Joos. Its a house of mirrors.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (hWxEy)

24 Jordan said her nood sister was in here?

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (bving)

25 "In fairness to Schumer and his fellow Democrats -- they did call for Bush to be impeached for being too anti-Al-Qadea."
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Don't be fair to these terrorist-loving scum. They have NO shame and they will gladly throw all of us into a Hamas woodchipper if it means they stay in power.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (4S2yc)

26 12 Schumer is a bigger boob than either of those on that P-cup chick in Canada.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (9yWhg)

I thought a P cup was what I left my urine sample in at the doc's office...

Posted by: Joey Bidet at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (ynpvh)

27 I love Bibi. That's it; that's the post.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (AcWfM)

28 I'll never understand why the Dems' first instinct is always to give terrorists the benefit of the doubt

it boggles the mind

Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (oCjPU)

29 What they did on October 7th, they would do to us in a heartbeat if they could. And Chuck Schumer is fighting to prevent them from being destroyed. It's disgraceful. He will never live this down.
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Probably true, to a point but not a very large point.

Schumer will not "live this down" among some. For most, they already didn't like Schumer. For the rest - the minority of the total - he will have lost their support. For the majority overall, though, most never heard it and most of the rest will forget it by Friday. It will be fine.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (HnUIn)

30

Oh, my, you sweaty smelly Hamas men, please don't rape me!

Posted by: Don Lemonparty at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (AEVXd)

31 24 Jordan said her nood sister was in here?
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (bving)

I heard she has asymmetric boobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (di6C2)

32 1 st
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 02:25 PM (DRSnL)

See, women with debilitating physical maladies can thrive and win at life.

Posted by: victory is sweet at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (6PgKW)

33 LET BIBI BE BIBI
Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 02:28 PM (oCjPU)

Careful with that, you could put somebody's eye out!

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (dGCAG)

34 28 I'll never understand why the Dems' first instinct is always to give terrorists the benefit of the doubt

it boggles the mind
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They are great weapons salesmen.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (hWxEy)

35 Schumer and the dems want Netanyahu to force all Israel to be self-gassing jews.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (ynpvh)

36 Fun fact:

Chuck Schumer's wife is so ashamed of her husband, she didn't even hyphenate her last name when they married. Her name is Iris Weinshall.

Iris is COO and Treasurer of the non-profit NY Public Library, earning a cool half million a year.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (Odg76)

37 "As Israel is about to enter Hamas' last redoubt, Rafah, and exterminate these terror-roaches once and for all"

Well, the ones in Gaza anyway.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at March 18, 2024 02:32 PM (MvF+J)

38 I heard she has asymmetric boobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (di6C2)

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That's the non-crazy sister.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 02:32 PM (DRSnL)

39 28 I'll never understand why the Dems' first instinct is always to give terrorists the benefit of the doubt

they can relate to them; they are simpatico

Posted by: BlackOrchid at March 18, 2024 02:32 PM (AcWfM)

40 He said they had already effectively had a "two-state solution" with Gaza, and Hamas used that to launch the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, that to give them such a state after that attack would be the "greatest reward for terrorism in history." ...
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Rewarding terrorism is a major line of business in America.

And Netanyahu's point is correct - Gaza *is* (or perhaps was) the "second state." It was not the first "second state," but it was the most recent. It ended the way it always does.

But none of that matters. There is no history.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:32 PM (HnUIn)

41 31 24 Jordan said her nood sister was in here?
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (bving)

I heard she has asymmetric boobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (di6C2)

Where is Bear with asymmetrical Balls? He'd be perfect to comment on this asymmetry thing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:32 PM (ynpvh)

42 The Dems must really be panicking at internal polling showing rabid support for feral Palestinians raping and murdering Jewish girls. Schumer may be many things -- shitstain, cocksucker, leftist twat, etc -- but he historically has been a reliable supporter of Israel. For him to be shitting on Israel now in favor of goat-fucking 8th Century savages must mean he is very worried about November.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

43
Commies, Sponge. Fucking evil shitlord commies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:27 PM (di6C2)

So, Democrats being democrat?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

44 "...to mediate between the Gaza war parties to secure a hostage deal, the officials recalled."

Here's the deal: release the hostages now and we will kill you later.

Posted by: Java Joe at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (WaLgG)

45 Osama bin Ladin says he will kill the Jew and the infidel wherever he finds them; the leftwing propaganda Regime media reports "Osama bin Ladin says he will never stop fighting for a Single Payer health insurance system."

Of course, the jihadists also say very different things in English and in Arabic.

The "river to the sea chant" in English goes:

"From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free."

The "river to the sea chant" in Arabic goes:

"From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be Arab."

(That rhymes in Arabic.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (YAtuc)

46 This represents yet another expression of progressives' "translation" of terrorist statements, to ventriloquize progressive dream statements into the mouths of terrorists. Osama bin Ladin says he will kill the Jew and the infidel wherever he finds them; the leftwing propaganda Regime media reports "Osama bin Ladin says he will never stop fighting for a Single Payer health insurance system."
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These "translators" are everywhere and they're well practiced.

How often do these "translators" have to scramble to "walk back" or "explain" or "provide context" for some bone-headed thing Biden did or said? How about the VP? How about agency officials and elected politicians? It's all the damn time.

They can say that the grass is purple for anyone. Today, some of them were reassigned to Hamas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (HnUIn)

47 44 "...to mediate between the Gaza war parties to secure a hostage deal, the officials recalled."

Here's the deal: release the hostages now and we will kill you later.
Posted by: Java Joe at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (WaLgG)

They're dead, Jim.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (di6C2)

48 but he historically has been a reliable supporter of Israel. For him to be shitting on Israel now in favor of goat-fucking 8th Century savages must mean he is very worried about November.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

He's been a backbencher on this for a long time......I wouldn't have ever called him 'reliable.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

49 Schumer will not "live this down" among some. For most, they already didn't like Schumer. For the rest - the minority of the total - he will have lost their support. For the majority overall, though, most never heard it and most of the rest will forget it by Friday. It will be fine.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (HnUIn)

It'll be interesting to see how all of this plays out. There are some intensely divided groups within the Democrat Party, but it sure does seem the vast majority of ballots cast for them reflect no real connection to events, good or bad (from their perspective).

This issue SHOULD divide the party, to the point of being irreparable... if such things mattered, but it appears they don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (dGCAG)

50
They're dead, Jim.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (di6C2)

And if they're not, you won't recognize them.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

51 I honestly wish they had prosecuted Bush.

Posted by: ... at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (lI1k+)

52 45 Osama bin Ladin says he will kill the Jew and the infidel wherever he finds them; the leftwing propaganda Regime media reports "Osama bin Ladin says he will never stop fighting for a Single Payer health insurance system."

Of course, the jihadists also say very different things in English and in Arabic.

The "river to the sea chant" in English goes:

"From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be free."

The "river to the sea chant" in Arabic goes:

"From the river to the sea,
Palestine will be Arab."

(That rhymes in Arabic.)

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (YAtuc)

If the Arabs were to win, it'd be:
"From the River to the Sea,
The sheep and goats must flee!"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (ynpvh)

53 When Blinken began his own remarks, he didn't respond directly to the emir's proposal but did go on to say that he thought it would be better for Qatar to use its contacts with Hamas -- through the office it allowed the terror group to establish in Doha in 2012 at Washington's behest -- to mediate between the Gaza war parties to secure a hostage deal, the officials recalled.
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Welp, I learned something today, then.

I figured Qatar gave Hamas its home-away-from-home of its own accord. I didn't know we asked them to do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:35 PM (HnUIn)

54 Schumer, this weeks winner of Profiles in Vileness award. Always stiff competition.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 18, 2024 02:35 PM (Nz25F)

55 For him to be shitting on Israel now in favor of goat-fucking 8th Century savages must mean he is very worried about November.

Also remember that every major Democratic event, including the DNC, will be disrupted by Hamasoids until Hamas is given a cease-fire.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 02:35 PM (YAtuc)

56 Schumer's only concern is what happens on 11/5/2024.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 18, 2024 02:35 PM (7fVdQ)

57 Where is Bear with asymmetrical Balls? He'd be perfect to comment on this asymmetry thing.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:32 PM (ynpvh)

I'm thinking it's more humorous when it happens in prize-winning Canadian bear-fucking fiction than in real life.

Posted by: Bear with Asymmetrical Balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 18, 2024 02:35 PM (6PgKW)

58 I'll never understand why the Dems' first instinct is always to give terrorists the benefit of the doubt

it boggles the mind
Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (oCjPU)

fellow travelers, except they expect the terrorists to die for their gain, simple as..

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 02:35 PM (bving)

59 oh, i like this "redoubt" ! Very Duke of Wellington !

Posted by: runner at March 18, 2024 02:35 PM (V13WU)

60 The only problem with Schumer dropping dead would be the NY Dems would run AOC, Goldman, or Bowman or even James for Senate. A murderers row of murderously stupid

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 18, 2024 02:35 PM (5q0pY)

61 Chuckles Schumer is a hamashole. Always has been, always will be. He needs a bloodbath.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (PWI4f)

62 It'll be interesting to see how all of this plays out. There are some intensely divided groups within the Democrat Party, but it sure does seem the vast majority of ballots cast for them reflect no real connection to events, good or bad (from their perspective).

This issue SHOULD divide the party, to the point of being irreparable... if such things mattered, but it appears they don't.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (dGCAG)
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It should, and to some small degree it has. But I don't think the degree is very big.

But it's also academic, I think. The primary mechanism to find the answers to such questions is no longer particularly functional.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (HnUIn)

63

If you could see your way to release the hostages now, I will gladly kill you back next Tuesday...

Posted by: Wimpy IDF, Esq at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (AEVXd)

64 And Schumer is adopting a pro-terrorist policy to appease the pro-terrorists "newcomer" voters of the Democrat Party.

Hey Chuck, you miserable sack of crap,
You keep your new voters in your state. If they come to mine, they won't like it, Olympia be damned.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (W/lyH)

65 These "translators" are everywhere and they're well practiced.

There was a mob in Gaza a few years ago shouting "Kill the Jews!".

BBC translated that as "Kill the Zionists!"

When called on it, the BBC said that that was what the mob intended to say.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (YAtuc)

66 Iris is COO and Treasurer of the non-profit NY Public Library, earning a cool half million a year.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 02:31 PM (Odg76)

How does one earn money, working for a libarry? They don't even charge for books! Sure, it costs... what, a nickel? If you turn the book in late?

Where does half a mil come from?

Oh wait.....

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (dGCAG)

67 Schumer has always been a slug. Too bad there is no practical way of dislodging this rancid f**k from The Senate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 18, 2024 02:37 PM (JIdXK)

68 Biden called Schumer's speech a "good speech."
Signaling to the Hamas loving voters on TikTok he's on their side.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 02:37 PM (NpAcC)

69 Shumer needs a 2nd circumcision.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

Yeah.
Right behind the ears.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2024 02:37 PM (W/lyH)

70 Today's news from Israel:
Hamas thought that the IDF was done in North Gaza so moved right back into Shifa hospital. You know, the one whee they absolutely were not hiding behind civilians even though the power to run their tunnels and servers was run from Shifa hospital.
The Mossad: Satirical, Yet Awesome
@TheMossadIL
Oh the stuff we found at al-Shifa hospital!

Ham🫏 offices.
Lots of cash.
Thanks you gifts from PIJ+Hamas
Grenades
Bullets
Explosives
20 eliminated terrorists
Dozens of terrorists arrested

You know. Standard hospital stuff

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 02:38 PM (t/2Uw)

71 Don't stop at the 38th like others, Bibi. Keep going and squash them like the gnats they are.

Posted by: sidney at March 18, 2024 02:38 PM (Uy/WF)

72 They're dead, Jim.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:34 PM (di6C2)

i kind of hope they are dead, for their sake. at this point i can't imagine any of them are in good shape if they are somehow alive, and as the Israelis close in, any that would be alive would be subjected to even worse...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 02:38 PM (bving)

73 Miss Lindsey is in Keeeev today, assuring the Z-Man of perpetual American support.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 02:38 PM (YAtuc)

74 Remember when people said Schumer deserved props and defending for sticking up for Israel?

Pepperidge Farm Remembers.

Schumer has never NOT been a shit-snake.

Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 02:38 PM (UnA8+)

75 And now Chuck Schumer steps in and picks up that cudgel and he hits Netanyahu over the head. And why is he hitting net over the head?
____________

Because when Israel captures Hamas, Israel will uncover Hamas' connections with Iran and the Obama Democrats.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 18, 2024 02:38 PM (lf83v)

76 Biden called Schumer's speech a "good speech."
Signaling to the Hamas loving voters on TikTok he's on their side.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 02:37 PM (NpAcC)

So, you're saying it's a code word or dog whistle?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

77 Speaking of Hamas, There is a video of the IDF blowing up like 2.5km of Hamas tunnels.

It was pretty awesome.

https://tinyurl.com/3mr66h2m

Posted by: WisRich at March 18, 2024 02:39 PM (G0vdT)

78 73 Miss Lindsey is in Keeeev today, assuring the Z-Man of perpetual American support.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 02:38 PM (YAtuc)

So is Auntie Lindsey getting the shaft or giving the shaft over this graft?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:39 PM (ynpvh)

79 Schumer has never NOT been a shit-snake.
----------------
Well, its NYC, what did you expect?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 18, 2024 02:39 PM (hWxEy)

80 It should, and to some small degree it has. But I don't think the degree is very big.

But it's also academic, I think. The primary mechanism to find the answers to such questions is no longer particularly functional.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (HnUIn)

Dave Smith says he believes RFK could have actually won the '24 election... if he had come out against American funding of the Israeli war.

He thinks it was enough of a carve-out, policy-wise that it might have caused virtually everyone who leans left, and is anti-establishment, to coalesce behind him.

I don't know if that's true. It probably isn't, but it is interesting to notice RFK sure does seem to have made himself irrelevant.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (dGCAG)

81 America has had many, many vassals. Israel is - or at least to be - one of them. Our vassals are falling away like leaves in autumn. So it goes for an empire in decline. Schumer - and various others at all levels in the Party and industry - need to come to terms with the fact that America's ability to dictate terms is coming to an end.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

=======
State and intel community hit hardest by that realization.

Closet historical situation I think might be Great Britain at the end of WWII. The elites and the British people had to accept a vast step down in its ability to influence world affairs directly.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (TPpzE)

82 76 Biden called Schumer's speech a "good speech."
Signaling to the Hamas loving voters on TikTok he's on their side.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 02:37 PM (NpAcC)

So, you're saying it's a code word or dog whistle?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)

The Austrian painter gave good speeches too...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (ynpvh)

83 At least P-cup chic was kinda cute; Schumer looks like shit.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (XMwZJ)

84 Jumanji "What's a Woman" Jackson is shocked anyone would take the position that the 1st Amendment should restrict government's ability to censor speech.

http://tiny.cc/nxujxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (Odg76)

85 Good for Bibi

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 18, 2024 02:41 PM (EGSGm)

86 The Dems must really be panicking at internal polling showing rabid support for feral Palestinians ... must mean he is very worried about November.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (iFTx/)
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I think they're narrowly worried about November. The Jewish vote basically doesn't matter. The Jewish electoral reservoirs are also so firmly part of the Party machinery and the support (real or engineered) for the Party is so tremendous that the loss of 100% of the Jewish vote will shift the margins but not the outcomes. The money is more important than the vote.

I think this is broadly about the "youth vote" because they are hardcore pro-Pali, but I think that narrowly, this is about Michigan. MI has had some electoral reforms and Muslims are a major bloc there. They do *not* want to have risks involving Michigan.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:41 PM (HnUIn)

87 So is Auntie Lindsey getting the shaft or giving the shaft over this graft?

I'm sure the Ukrainian government provides Miss Lindsey with all the comforts of home, and then some.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 02:41 PM (YAtuc)

88 I want to see a cage match between Bibi and Chuckie.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 18, 2024 02:41 PM (lf83v)

89 The peace process is like processed cheese.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2024 02:41 PM (63Dwl)

90 Because when Israel captures Hamas, Israel will uncover Hamas' connections with Iran and the Obama Democrats.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
====
Interesting assertion but certainly true that Iran used US money and released assets to go on a terrorism buying spree throughout the Middle East during the Obama era.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:42 PM (TPpzE)

91 28 I'll never understand why the Dems' first instinct is always to give terrorists the benefit of the doubt

it boggles the mind
Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 02:30 PM (oCjPU)

Step 1. Suck up to Killers.
Step 2. Point Killers at who you hate.
Step 3. Watch them kill who you hate.
Step 4. What? They'll come after me too when they're done with who I hate? Naaaaaah, that'll never happen.

Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 02:42 PM (UnA8+)

92 84 Jumanji "What's a Woman" Jackson is shocked anyone would take the position that the 1st Amendment should restrict government's ability to censor speech.

http://tiny.cc/nxujxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (Odg76)

"Congress shall make no law..."

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:42 PM (ynpvh)

93 Video of Israeli troops killing Hamas terrorists inside Shifa Hospital.

http://tiny.cc/rxujxz

The dead terrorists are blurred out.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 02:42 PM (Odg76)

94 a basic belief of the experts is that only they can solve the big problems, and in the middle east just destroying hamas will solve nothing because a new hamas will appear. the real solution to the middle east is to achieve a lasting and just peace between the israelis and palis, then we will be able to convince the ayatollahs of the error of their ways. amen

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 18, 2024 02:42 PM (B1FKF)

95
So is Auntie Lindsey getting the shaft or giving the shaft over this graft?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:39 PM (ynpvh)

He's definitely a catcher.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

96 Maybe Mossad can have a quick chit-chat with ole Chuckie...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 18, 2024 02:43 PM (XMwZJ)

97 So, you're saying it's a code word or dog whistle?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:39 PM (Zz0t1)
******
👌🏼

Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 02:43 PM (NpAcC)

98 Schumer is just defending his allies.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 02:44 PM (lTGtQ)

99 re 92: but congress didn't make any law, the bureaucrats are just doing it. to save democracy or something like that

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 18, 2024 02:44 PM (B1FKF)

100 He's just mouthing off. Which is all he's good at.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:29 PM (dGCAG)
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Totally agree - see Dearborn, we tried.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 02:44 PM (GZYu7)

101 Chuck Schumer joined this frenzy last week, demanding that Israel -- an independent country, in case you didn't know -- hold snap elections so that Netanyahu can be voted out of office and Hamas saved for future use by the Marxist transnationalist Regim

Israel should just ignore Chuckie the commie. We all do.

Posted by: vic at March 18, 2024 02:44 PM (A5THL)

102 I encourage every person in the US who supports Hamas, to go to Rafah and show your support. That goes doubly if you live in Michigan.

Posted by: Truthbomb at March 18, 2024 02:44 PM (CJqj6)

103 Closet historical situation I think might be Great Britain at the end of WWII. The elites and the British people had to accept a vast step down in its ability to influence world affairs directly.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (TPpzE)
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Except that was the cleanest fall of an empire in human history. Still disruptive for the British elite, to be sure, but you couldn't ask for a tidier wind-down of an empire. It is extremely rare - so rare that it's only happened once that I know of - that another empire was waiting in the wings to manage the transition, and do so with a record-setting (low record) body count.

The US did that *twice* in fact - once for Britain, directly taking over as the new imperial master for the West, and once for the USSR when it did not take over but did act as a backstop and benefactor to help manage the fall from the outside.

There's nobody in the wings this time. As our empire falls, it's going to be a lot messier.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:44 PM (HnUIn)

104 I wonder how Shaun King feels now that his brothers in arms in Gaza are about to be extinct.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

105 But it's also academic, I think. The primary mechanism to find the answers to such questions is no longer particularly functional.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

The coalition of MOAR always meets its Waterloo when the limits are reached. At some stage, election cheating removes any feedback mechanism for rectifying mistakes.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:45 PM (TPpzE)

106 Jumanji "What's a Woman" Jackson is shocked anyone would take the position that the 1st Amendment should restrict government's ability to censor speech.

http://tiny.cc/nxujxz
Posted by: bonhomme
ed
Justice Jackson Says 1st Amendment Is "Hamstringing The Government" In Efforts To Censor Speech

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How can we let the government be hamstrung by something written, like, a hundred years ago?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 02:45 PM (FVME7)

107 By the way, Chuckie, Hamas is still holding civilian hostages.

No concern about them, though.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at March 18, 2024 02:45 PM (lf83v)

108 You KBJ? Who decides what is harmful? The Gov't, while stomping on speech that exposes their mendacity and malfeasance?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:45 PM (ynpvh)

109 I'll never understand why the Dems' first instinct is always to give terrorists the benefit of the doubt
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Only terrorists that they agree with.

Posted by: ... at March 18, 2024 02:46 PM (lI1k+)

110 ed
Justice Jackson Says 1st Amendment Is "Hamstringing The Government" In Efforts To Censor Speech

-

How Owebamaesque of her........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)

111 Yo, not You.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:46 PM (ynpvh)

112 The coalition of MOAR always meets its Waterloo when the limits are reached. At some stage, election cheating removes any feedback mechanism for rectifying mistakes.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:45 PM (TPpzE)
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Yup. And when there is no feedback mechanism - and we're there or very close to there, with elections corrupted (and borderline meaningless if they're not) and the press controlled and censorship everywhere - then the discovery of where the margins are tends to be ... noisy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:46 PM (HnUIn)

113 The most ironic part of all this is that Israel is exactly the kind of society the left is longing for.
Completely integrated, kibbutzim mini socialist communities, lgbtq accepted without prejudice. Yet they want the Palestinian savages who want to genocide Jews, throw lgbtq off of tall buildings, forcing women to be chattel to male overlords who think rape is a right of passage. This makes no sense.
Let's trade one of the most enlightened societies producing miracles in technology and medicine for Dependistan producing nothing.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 02:46 PM (t/2Uw)

114 Former Israeli Ambassador to U.S. made several great points on NPR this morning:

1. Bibi is not the Commander in Chief like the U.S. President is. If he did allow aid, he would be overruled, because...
2. Most Israelis do not want Israel to allow aid to Gaza - they want Hamas wiped out, because...
3. Hamas does not want aid for Gaza - they want more Gazan deaths, so the world pressures Israel to agree to a ceasefire that lets Hamas survive.

Took him a while to say it slowly using little words so the NPR pinheads could understand. They wrapped up pretty quick when it finally got through!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (fvaUq)

115 Miss Lindsey is in Keeeev today, assuring the Z-Man of perpetual American support.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 02:38 PM (YAtuc)

So is Auntie Lindsey getting the shaft or giving the shaft over this graft?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:39 PM (ynpvh)

These are interesting times. I expect, now that the Pootin re-coronation is complete, they're going to end this. I don't know exactly what that looks like, but I could see them going in and taking out the Z-man.

If so, Lindsay should separate his... lips, from Z's asshole, or he might get caught in the crossfire.

If I am going to predict, it's that Z will be captured alive, and the Russians will basically tell the world "it's time you all signed these papers right here." And they will. Because nobody... and I mean nobody, is going to commit to continuing this thing. Europe and Nato will be shown to be the hollow shell they are, and the U.S. is going to have to go big somewhere else. Or be revealed to be a paper tiger too.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (dGCAG)

116 The US did that *twice* in fact - once for Britain, directly taking over as the new imperial master for the West, and once for the USSR when it did not take over but did act as a backstop and benefactor to help manage the fall from the outside.

There's nobody in the wings this time. As our empire falls, it's going to be a lot messier.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
======
Tis true but power is a drug that is not satiated by gaining more of it. The IC, Defense, and State departments are going to probably learn the hard way by getting their ass kicked about the limitations of a declining empire.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (TPpzE)

117 Jumanji "What's a Woman" Jackson is shocked anyone would take the position that the 1st Amendment should restrict government's ability to censor speech.

http://tiny.cc/nxujxz
Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (Odg76)

More and more proof that progressives are new-age Marxists.

Posted by: runner at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (V13WU)

118 103 There's nobody in the wings this time. As our empire falls, it's going to be a lot messier.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:44 PM (HnUIn)

Ultimately, it will be Islam that inherits the empire.

Islam is the last culture left that wants to conquer, that wants to have a fuckton of kids, that wants to bathe in the blood of its enemies.

Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (UnA8+)

119 There's nobody in the wings this time.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Nope, no one waiting in the wings at all. Nosiree, Bob. Those wings are totally empty.

Posted by: Xi Jinping at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (9yWhg)

120 I agree with Schumer.........

Give Hamas NYC because it is a third world shithole anyway ....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 18, 2024 02:48 PM (Qfk4E)

121 The dead terrorists are blurred out.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 02:42 PM (Odg76)

They should just CGI orc faces* onto the dead, and about to be dead terrorists, but otherwise show all the blood and gore.

* to deny the terrorists the intel of who is alive and who is dead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 18, 2024 02:48 PM (tkR6S)

122 If brains were leather, Chuck U Schumer couldn't saddle a flea.

Fuck him and his momma...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 02:48 PM (MHhQj)

123 It should, and to some small degree it has. But I don't think the degree is very big.

But it's also academic, I think. The primary mechanism to find the answers to such questions is no longer particularly functional.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (HnUIn)
==
The Jews in America are between a third and half in NY. So there is no electoral danger there. Another large block is in Northern Chicago burbs. So no worries there. Its electoral math. Losing the Jews won't hurt them. Losing the Arabs might.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (GZYu7)

124 KBJ "Threatening circumstances from the Gov'ts view, and the the Gov't can't act?"

Well, Gov't IS threatened by speech that calls it out. That's not a proper justification. And the Gov't is the one wielding power here, power they were not GRANTED. It would be like the Gov't targeting Conservative Catholics for their beliefs. Oh wait...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (ynpvh)

125 There's nobody in the wings this time. As our empire falls, it's going to be a lot messier.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:44 PM (HnUIn)

China

Posted by: Meanwhile . . . . at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (ky+MF)

126 121 Good point.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (MvF+J)

127 Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 18, 2024 02:42 PM (B1FKF)

And once you realize that all an "expert" is today is a guy with a fancy dressed up political opinion it all starts to make more sense.

Posted by: ... at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (lI1k+)

128
I don't know if that's true. It probably isn't, but it is interesting to notice RFK sure does seem to have made himself irrelevant.
Posted by: BurtTC

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is now planning to select 38-year-old Nicole Shanahan, the wealthy ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate. This according to a Saturday Mediaite report that cited "a source close to the campaign."

https://tinyurl.com/yu5wekrn

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (63Dwl)

129 115 If I am going to predict, it's that Z will be captured alive, and the Russians will basically tell the world "it's time you all signed these papers right here." And they will. Because nobody... and I mean nobody, is going to commit to continuing this thing. Europe and Nato will be shown to be the hollow shell they are, and the U.S. is going to have to go big somewhere else. Or be revealed to be a paper tiger too.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (dGCAG)

At this point, I'm going to be disappointed if there's no Show Execution of Grifty Z.

Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (UnA8+)

130 Ultimately, it will be Islam that inherits the empire.

Islam is the last culture left that wants to conquer, that wants to have a fuckton of kids, that wants to bathe in the blood of its enemies.
Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (UnA8+)
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Islam will emerge victorious, all other things being equal.

But it will not be a relatively smooth, managed transition or decline. It will be an implosion with warlords re-establishing local order. Like in the wake of Rome.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (HnUIn)

131
Bloodbath>Blood libel> Blow Me> Biden

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (djLbh)

132 80 It should, and to some small degree it has. But I don't think the degree is very big.

But it's also academic, I think. The primary mechanism to find the answers to such questions is no longer particularly functional.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:36 PM (HnUIn)

Dave Smith says he believes RFK could have actually won the '24 election... if he had come out against American funding of the Israeli war.

He thinks it was enough of a carve-out, policy-wise that it might have caused virtually everyone who leans left, and is anti-establishment, to coalesce behind him.

I don't know if that's true. It probably isn't, but it is interesting to notice RFK sure does seem to have made himself irrelevant.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (dGCAG)

Smith is really against Israel in this... I don't think that issue would garner the majority support he thinks it would. I also don't think RFK's other positions would be bolstered by it.
But hey, I think Trump won 2020.. so WTF do I know?

Posted by: Inogame at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (53oGX)

133 Saw a cocksucker today in a Tesla, pass a work truck on the freeway doing 85mph. Guy pulls back into the truck's lane and brake checks him at about two car lengths at 85.

Total dick move. I thought I saw a Schumer sticker in his window.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (sXPA7)

134 117 Jumanji "What's a Woman" Jackson is shocked anyone would take the position that the 1st Amendment should restrict government's ability to censor speech.

No surprise there... I expect the wise latina is in agreement with her... Two rocket scientists

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (Akjoo)

135 Nope, no one waiting in the wings at all. Nosiree, Bob. Those wings are totally empty.
Posted by: Xi Jinping

They have their own issues and Xi is making them worse by recentralizing control into a new imperial government at the same time that their economy is faltering.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (TPpzE)

136 What does Netanyahu hate people of color ???

Posted by: CNN and MSDNC Hosts at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (Qfk4E)

137 86 The Dems must really be panicking at internal polling showing rabid support for feral Palestinians ... must mean he is very worried about November.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (iFTx/)
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I think they're narrowly worried about November. The Jewish vote basically doesn't matter. The Jewish electoral reservoirs are also so firmly part of the Party machinery and the support (real or engineered) for the Party is so tremendous that the loss of 100% of the Jewish vote will shift the margins but not the outcomes. The money is more important than the vote.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:41 PM (HnUIn)
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I agree the Jewish vote doesn't matter as a practical matter because the vast majority of Jews will -- inexplicably -- vote Democrap no matter what. Or at least now they will. I wonder what the voting patterns of young Jews will be as they come of age during this shitstorm of rabid Jew-hate in the Dem party.

But in theory, Jews could fairly easily change the outcome of the November elections if there was somehow a mass exodus from the Dems. There are 500k Jews in PA alone. 100k in AZ. 150k in GA. 100k in VA. Etc.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

138 Boohoo.

Israel Defense Forces @IDF 2h
🔴 Eliminated: Faiq Mabhouh, head of the Operations Directorate of Hamas' Internal Security.

Mabhouh was hiding in a compound at the Shifa hospital, from which he operated and advanced terrorist activity.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (2yu8s)

139 Nope, no one waiting in the wings at all. Nosiree, Bob. Those wings are totally empty.
Posted by: Xi Jinping at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (9yWhg)
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It sure as shit ain't you.

Your country is fiscally over-extended even more than ours, your force-projection capability is weak, you're in the midst of a catastrophic economic realignment, your demography is a disaster and your country can't - and never has been able to - feed itself without outside trade.

You're a big man, Xi, and you're an emperor - but you're not a global emperor and you can't be. You can't afford it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:51 PM (HnUIn)

140 Miss Lindsey is in Keeeev today, assuring the Z-Man of perpetual American support.

Posted by: The ARC of History!

I recall Lindsey going to Ukraine in 2019, and promising them we would help start a war against Russia.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 02:51 PM (lTGtQ)

141 84 Jumanji "What's a Woman" Jackson is shocked anyone would take the position that the 1st Amendment should restrict government's ability to censor speech.

http://tiny.cc/nxujxz

Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (Odg76)

Jackson wants the government to be of the government, by the government, and for the government. The citizen rabble and our crazy ideas and opinions just get in the way.

Posted by: LASue at March 18, 2024 02:51 PM (GOOc7)

142 The Jews in America are between a third and half in NY. So there is no electoral danger there. Another large block is in Northern Chicago burbs. So no worries there. Its electoral math. Losing the Jews won't hurt them. Losing the Arabs might.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (GZYu7)

But Jews tend to have an outsized influence on media/culture (no, I don't believe they control the media), so it could hurt in that way.

Posted by: Meanwhile . . . . at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (ky+MF)

143 Israel Defense Forces @IDF 2h
🔴 Eliminated: Faiq Mabhouh, head of the Operations Directorate of Hamas' Internal Security.

Mabhouh was hiding in a compound at the Shifa hospital, from which he operated and advanced terrorist activity.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (2yu8s)

Will Biden fly flags at half staff?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (di6C2)

144 The friend of my enemy is my enemy.

Posted by: Eromero at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (Wed3T)

145 Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (TPpzE)

My view is when America loses, they win. We'll see.

Posted by: ... at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (lI1k+)

146 Off, Xi Sock.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (9yWhg)

147 How stupid is Schumer, Hamas would saw his head off with a dull rusty knife if they got the chance.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (LjgPm)

148 ...to ventriloquize progressive dream statements into the mouths of terrorists.

Nice phrasing, that.

Posted by: Paco at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (njExo)

149 But in theory, Jews could fairly easily change the outcome of the November elections if there was somehow a mass exodus from the Dems. There are 500k Jews in PA alone. 100k in AZ. 150k in GA. 100k in VA. Etc.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (iFTx/)
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Most of those Jewish populations are embedded in broader urban areas. I doubt that shifting out will change the outcomes. It could have consequences on local representation (state senators and reps, mayors, etc.), but I don't think it will be able to swing the top of the ticket.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)

150 134 117 Jumanji "What's a Woman" Jackson is shocked anyone would take the position that the 1st Amendment should restrict government's ability to censor speech.

No surprise there... I expect the wise latina is in agreement with her... Two rocket scientists

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (Akjoo)

But enough about their dildos...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

151 Ultimately, it will be Islam that inherits the empire.

Islam is the last culture left that wants to conquer, that wants to have a fuckton of kids, that wants to bathe in the blood of its enemies.
Posted by: XTC

They too have their own internal problems that go largely unreported. Essentially other than the periphery, most Islamic states fail to govern themselves successfully and often times end up slaughtering each other over relatively minor theological disputes.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:53 PM (TPpzE)

152 There is no other religion on earth where murder is not only condoned but rewarded.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 02:54 PM (t/2Uw)

153 The most ironic part of all this is that Israel is exactly the kind of society the left is longing for.
Completely integrated, kibbutzim mini socialist communities, lgbtq accepted without prejudice.
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That's what the Left *says* they want. What they really want is Cambodia circa 1976.

Posted by: ... at March 18, 2024 02:54 PM (lI1k+)

154
We are now in the 'Out of control spiraling groundward' stage of this 'experiment'. My question WHEN do we pull up!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 18, 2024 02:54 PM (djLbh)

155 It sure as shit ain't you.

Your country is fiscally over-extended even more than ours, your force-projection capability is weak, you're in the midst of a catastrophic economic realignment, your demography is a disaster and your country can't - and never has been able to - feed itself without outside trade.

You're a big man, Xi, and you're an emperor - but you're not a global emperor and you can't be. You can't afford it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Yeah, but don't think he won't try. And, with us out the way, he may succeed to a far greater degree than we thinik he will.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 02:54 PM (9yWhg)

156 Drop dead Chuckles seems appropriate.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 02:54 PM (6z9Vj)

157 My view is when America loses, they win. We'll see.
Posted by: ... at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (lI1k+)

That is definitely THEIR view.

I guess we will see if my theory that communism HAS to have a functional, capitalist system operating somewhere in order to function as anything but feuding warlords will come to pass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 02:54 PM (di6C2)

158 151 They too have their own internal problems that go largely unreported. Essentially other than the periphery, most Islamic states fail to govern themselves successfully and often times end up slaughtering each other over relatively minor theological disputes.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:53 PM (TPpzE)

Only when there are no Filthy Kuffar for the to slaughter first.

Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 02:54 PM (UnA8+)

159 146 Off, Xi Sock.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (9yWhg)

I was worried about your pronouns for a moment...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:55 PM (ynpvh)

160 The US did that *twice* in fact - once for Britain, directly taking over as the new imperial master for the West, and once for the USSR when it did not take over but did act as a backstop and benefactor to help manage the fall from the outside.

There's nobody in the wings this time. As our empire falls, it's going to be a lot messier.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Tis true but power is a drug that is not satiated by gaining more of it. The IC, Defense, and State departments are going to probably learn the hard way by getting their ass kicked about the limitations of a declining empire.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (TPpzE)
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When Rome collapsed - that might be the parallel. But then, there is no one currently even remotely powerful enough to do that here anytime soon.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 02:55 PM (GZYu7)

161 149 But in theory, Jews could fairly easily change the outcome of the November elections if there was somehow a mass exodus from the Dems. There are 500k Jews in PA alone. 100k in AZ. 150k in GA. 100k in VA. Etc.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (iFTx/)
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Most of those Jewish populations are embedded in broader urban areas. I doubt that shifting out will change the outcomes. It could have consequences on local representation (state senators and reps, mayors, etc.), but I don't think it will be able to swing the top of the ticket.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Depends on whether donations shift. The Islamists don't really donate in the league that wealthy connected Jewish business leaders do.

Harvahd, Columbia, and the other Ivies are finding that out to their dismay.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:55 PM (TPpzE)

162 Miss Lindsey is in Keeeev today, assuring the Z-Man of perpetual American support.

Posted by: The ARC of History!

I recall Lindsey going to Ukraine in 2019, and promising them we would help start a war against Russia.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

I just did my taxes.
Seems I owe Ukraine $11,488.52 USD.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 02:55 PM (SbJgO)

163 Schumer is the classic example of Churchill's "feeding the crocodile hoping that he'll be eaten last ". If it is in fact that as opposed to his leftism, that means he's throwing his fellow Jews under the bus for his own safety. Lazar Kagonovich much?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (5q0pY)

164 Evidently Rashida Tlaib and her UNCOMMITTED voter push has put the fear in Schumer.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (NpAcC)

165 How stupid is Schumer, Hamas would saw his head off with a dull rusty knife if they got the chance.
Posted by: Beartooth at March 18, 2024 02:52 PM (LjgPm)

Aw, come on! Just when I was sure I hated them.

Posted by: LASue at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (GOOc7)

166 Basel Bassel Ebbadi, 22, an illegal immigrant from Lebanon was caught at the U.S. southern border near El Paso, Texas last week. While in custody, he was asked what he was doing in the US, to which he replied, “I’m going to try to make a bomb,” according to a Border Patrol document exclusively obtained by The Post. CNN also found out he was wearing a Trump 2024 T-Shirt and MAGA hat.

Posted by: CNN and MSDNC Hosts at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (Qfk4E)

167 If brains were leather, Chuck U Schumer couldn't saddle a flea.

Fuck him and his momma...
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 02:48 PM (MHhQj)

Schumer understands how government works, which doesn't necessarily mean he's smart.

Remember, he's the one who went on teevee with a smug look on his face, and said Trump should be careful about going after the intelligence agencies, because they have lots of ways to make you pay.

Wittingly or unwittingly, he revealed a truth that presidents don't make decisions... and neither do Senators, of course.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (dGCAG)

168
Three hours into AOS and I may be wrong, but nobody's made a single movie reference.

It's like I don't know this place anymore.

Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (j4U/Z)

169 The people of New York are utterly benighted to be sending Schumer - this vain, oily, devious clown - to the Senate election after election.

Just stating the obvious, of course, but Orwell said we need to do that.

Posted by: Paco at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (njExo)

170 When Rome collapsed - that might be the parallel. But then, there is no one currently even remotely powerful enough to do that here anytime soon.
Posted by: Black JEM

My guess is that we will more resemble Byzantium than Rome. Waxing and waning and relying on buying off enemies as much as possible but it will be tricky in an era where deranged regimes like Iran have access to nukes.

Britain avoided the mass devastation in European wars simply by having the Channel. We have the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (TPpzE)

171
I guess we will see if my theory that communism HAS to have a functional, capitalist system operating somewhere in order to function as anything but feuding warlords will come to pass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

The theory is sound, because socialist systems are always net loss systems. Their last stages are selling natural resources unprocessed, and slave labor.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (lTGtQ)

172 Three hours into AOS and I may be wrong, but nobody's made a single movie reference.

It's like I don't know this place anymore.
Posted by: Auspex

TJM has been kinda MIA today, methinks.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (9yWhg)

173 Yeah, but don't think he won't try. And, with us out the way, he may succeed to a far greater degree than we thinik he will.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 02:54 PM (9yWhg)
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I think he can take some or all of East Asia away from us, but Red China will not become a global-scale empire. And if he is able to take away large chunks of East Asia (like Taiwan, Singapore, Possibly parts of SE Asia, possibly Korea, unlikely Japan but it's on the table), he will find it to be a false prize as his empire fractures like Chinese empires always do because they are energy and food poor with a brutally unreliable climate.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (HnUIn)

174 and still, Jews will continue to vote for democrats.

Posted by: Maj. Healey - Tyson Is Dead To Me at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (eYF7X)

175 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 10h
An Islamist in Great Britain says that Hamas is losing the war because many Muslims in the West are attending anti-Israel protests together with the “Gays for Gaza” and Queers for Palestine” movements.
“Why do you think Allah will grant us victory”?
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Phags for Palestine hardest hit!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 02:58 PM (2yu8s)

176 168
Three hours into AOS and I may be wrong, but nobody's made a single movie reference.

It's like I don't know this place anymore.
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (j4U/Z)

Um...

7 TL;DR.
What movie is this about?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:58 PM (ynpvh)

177 171 The theory is sound, because socialist systems are always net loss systems. Their last stages are selling natural resources unprocessed, and slave labor.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (lTGtQ)

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"Cuba is poor because America won't trade with it enough!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

178 172 TJM has been kinda MIA today, methinks.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (9yWhg)

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I almost never start it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

179 Attaboy Bibi, smackdown that smarmy bastid.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 18, 2024 02:59 PM (5LztK)

180 175 Visegrád 24 @visegrad24 10h
An Islamist in Great Britain says that Hamas is losing the war because many Muslims in the West are attending anti-Israel protests together with the “Gays for Gaza” and Queers for Palestine” movements.
“Why do you think Allah will grant us victory”?
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Phags for Palestine hardest hit!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 02:58 PM (2yu8s)

Phags or Pfags?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

181 Depends on whether donations shift. The Islamists don't really donate in the league that wealthy connected Jewish business leaders do.

Harvahd, Columbia, and the other Ivies are finding that out to their dismay.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:55 PM (TPpzE)
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Yes, that is the *actual* risk and why I think the Party is trying to square the circle right now. Jewish money is far more important than Jewish votes. The stuff like building the pier to Gaza is there to shore up the Jew-hating vote, and slow-walking it is to try to maintain the flow of Jewish money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:59 PM (HnUIn)

182 Schumer's mask has been ripped off and he has shown us who he is.

This is similar to Catholic, pro-abortion Biden and Pelosi.
These people are frauds.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 02:59 PM (NpAcC)

183 How did my country, become a global axis of evil?
Retorical question, i know it was Democrats and RINOs.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (MsrgL)

184
Essentially other than the periphery, most Islamic states fail to govern themselves successfully and often times end up slaughtering each other over relatively minor theological disputes.
Posted by: whig

So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel.

Posted by: Larry of the desert at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (63Dwl)

185 like Chinese empires always do because they are energy and food poor with a brutally unreliable climate.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Isn't this just another motivation for them to control other areas that are not energy- and food-poor?

Brandenbug/Prussia was pretty resource-poor as well, when it started out.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (9yWhg)

186 Falling asleep

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (fwDg9)

187 Three hours into AOS and I may be wrong, but nobody's made a single movie reference.

It's like I don't know this place anymore.
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (j4U/Z)

I made a Starship Troopers reference earlier. Soundtrack stuck in my head.

https://tinyurl.com/54uesd95

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (di6C2)

188
I kinda like Alex Jones in a perverse way, like how so many people slow down to observe a bloody car crash that it ties up traffic. But he came out in the past week and said, 'Israel is going too far.' I won't ever try to deny him his first amendment right to be wrong.

But he needs some educating. A lot.

But it's still a shame the government went after/is still going after him to the extent they are.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (RKVpM)

189 Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 02:40 PM (dGCAG)

Smith is really against Israel in this... I don't think that issue would garner the majority support he thinks it would. I also don't think RFK's other positions would be bolstered by it.
But hey, I think Trump won 2020.. so WTF do I know?
Posted by: Inogame at March 18, 2024 02:49 PM (53oGX)

I generally agree with Dave on a lot of things, but he's so tunnel-visioned on this topic, he can't/won't be objective.

He spouts the Hamas casualty talking points, and doesn't even seem to notice he's not being objective on it.

I'll admit I don't know how popular the anti-Israel sentiment is among left leaners, but it's obviously not small.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (dGCAG)

190 182 Schumer's mask has been ripped off and he has shown us who he is.

This is similar to Catholic, pro-abortion Biden and Pelosi.
These people are frauds.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 02:59 PM (NpAcC)

Socialism to save Capitalism
Anti-Jewish Terrorism to save Jews.
Raping for Virginity.
Gays for Palestine.

Things that don't make sense.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:01 PM (ynpvh)

191 Knuckles for Chuckles

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 03:01 PM (6z9Vj)

192 Schumer's mask has been ripped off and he has shown us who he is.

This is similar to Catholic, pro-abortion Biden and Pelosi.
These people are frauds.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 02:59 PM (NpAcC)

They're worse. They're demonic.

Posted by: Archer at March 18, 2024 03:01 PM (rskKm)

193 This is the worst one yet. Bribem has DOCTOR Jill stop him and point towards the exit, only for him to go the other direction, into the crowd, with staff scrambling.

@RNCResearch 2h
A confused Biden wanders off the stage after instructions from Jill, Ed.D.
twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1769766745873453391

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2024 03:01 PM (IG4Id)

194 On another note

Trump cannot raise the 450 million dollar bond that Letitia James and corrupt Englron have demanded in order to appeal the unjust judgement that they imposed exactly because they knew Trump couldn't raise such a bond because they embargoed banks from issuing it to him.
Is this Judge(remember this was not a jury trial. A civil action), a single person with an obvious bias, allowed to bankrupta candidate for the highest office of the land?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (t/2Uw)

195 161 Depends on whether donations shift. The Islamists don't really donate in the league that wealthy connected Jewish business leaders do.

Harvahd, Columbia, and the other Ivies are finding that out to their dismay.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:55 PM (TPpzE)

Strangely, where a lot of the Muslim Money (specifically Saudi) is going currently is buying stake in a ton of video game companies.

Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (UnA8+)

196 There are good people on both sides of 10/7 protest against the genocidal Israelis.

Posted by: Chuchy Schumer at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (17s+e)

197 Knuckles for Chuckles
Posted by: Northernlurker

No tampons?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (9yWhg)

198 170 When Rome collapsed - that might be the parallel. But then, there is no one currently even remotely powerful enough to do that here anytime soon.
Posted by: Black JEM

When you see vomitorium's the end drawth nigh.

-Gumbydamous

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (djLbh)

199 Test

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (ejdGR)

200 Schumer is one of those guys who would piss me off even if I didn't know who he is. I want to slap those stupid reader glasses right off his stupid smug face.

He probably yells at waitresses.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I May No Longer Be able To Even at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (xPJvm)

201 188
I kinda like Alex Jones in a perverse way, like how so many people slow down to observe a bloody car crash that it ties up traffic. But he came out in the past week and said, 'Israel is going too far.' I won't ever try to deny him his first amendment right to be wrong.

But he needs some educating. A lot.

But it's still a shame the government went after/is still going after him to the extent they are.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (RKVpM)

Unless he said "Israel has gone too far...in appeasing the West"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (ynpvh)

202 I guess we will see if my theory that communism HAS to have a functional, capitalist system operating somewhere in order to function as anything but feuding warlords will come to pass. - Aetius 451AD

A shrewd insight. At least one communist system - that of the Khmer Rouge - manifestly did not appear to have any vestige of capitalism, and the result was exactly as you indicate.

Posted by: Paco at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (njExo)

203 I kinda like Alex Jones in a perverse way, like how so many people slow down to observe a bloody car crash that it ties up traffic. But he came out in the past week and said, 'Israel is going too far.' I won't ever try to deny him his first amendment right to be wrong.

But he needs some educating. A lot.

But it's still a shame the government went after/is still going after him to the extent they are.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (RKVpM)

I'd be curious what the context was for that. He has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth, when he's not subtle enough, or doesn't recognize his words can/will be twisted to reflect something he didn't mean.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (dGCAG)

204 Isn't this just another motivation for them to control other areas that are not energy- and food-poor?

Brandenbug/Prussia was pretty resource-poor as well, when it started out.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (9yWhg)
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Yes, of course - but you have to hold the home country together to achieve it. The "home country" in this case is enormous and very, very weak. It's why Chinese empires tend to be empires of Chinese, rather than the Chinese taking over and persistently administering non-Chinese areas.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (HnUIn)

205 I really dislike Schoomer. Have since the 90's. Total parasite.

Posted by: DOYLE at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (Z8Yh2)

206 "Cuba is poor because America won't trade with it enough!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What do they have to trade that we don't already have?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (SbJgO)

207 Good vs Evil

Evil teaming with psychopaths who the evil actually hate.

Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (MNhXM)

208 194 On another note

Trump cannot raise the 450 million dollar bond that Letitia James and corrupt Englron have demanded in order to appeal the unjust judgement that they imposed exactly because they knew Trump couldn't raise such a bond because they embargoed banks from issuing it to him.
Is this Judge(remember this was not a jury trial. A civil action), a single person with an obvious bias, allowed to bankrupta candidate for the highest office of the land?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (t/2Uw)

I thought that the embargoing of using NY financial institutions was removed by a judge on appeal...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (ynpvh)

209 And back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

210 197 Knuckles for Chuckles
Posted by: Northernlurker

No tampons?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (9yWhg)

King Charles might have that market sewn up.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (ynpvh)

211 Who is the most vile Democrat?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (6z9Vj)

212 Something about that particular music gets the blood pumping.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (di6C2)

213 "Never again."

That says it all about Schumer. He is willing to allow another Shoah to occur so he can stay in power. He has betrayed that vow that arose from the Holocaust.

Judenrat, kapo, and Quisling are too mild to be proper adjectives to describe the evil of Chuck Schumer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (4b+x/)

214 Cuba is poor because America won't trade with it enough!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What do they have to trade that we don't already have?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (SbJgO)

57 Chevys

Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (MNhXM)

215 But it's still a shame the government went after/is still going after him to the extent they are.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (RKVpM)

He's going after Eyepatch McCain, so I'll let him roll for a while.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

216 Trump cannot raise the 450 million dollar bond that Letitia James and corrupt Englron have demanded in order to appeal the unjust judgement that they imposed exactly because they knew Trump couldn't raise such a bond because they embargoed banks from issuing it to him.
Is this Judge(remember this was not a jury trial. A civil action), a single person with an obvious bias, allowed to bankrupta candidate for the highest office of the land?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (t/2Uw)
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Saw that.

Now we know there was another reason why Judge put ludicrous low valuations on his properties.

Posted by: WisRich at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (G0vdT)

217 What do they have to trade that we don't already have?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (SbJgO)

1950s cars?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (di6C2)

218 195 161 Depends on whether donations shift. The Islamists don't really donate in the league that wealthy connected Jewish business leaders do.

Harvahd, Columbia, and the other Ivies are finding that out to their dismay.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:55 PM (TPpzE)

Strangely, where a lot of the Muslim Money (specifically Saudi) is going currently is buying stake in a ton of video game companies.
Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (UnA8+)

Mohammed Bin Salman plays video games.

He seems to be a smart guy with grand ambitions for his countries, but a lot of his decisions have to do with his likes and dislikes as a person.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (eYoxG)

219 No tampons?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (9yWhg)

King Charles might have that market sewn up.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

White, uptight & outta sight!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (SbJgO)

220 Wouldn't it be funny if Elon Musk ponied up the $$$ for PDT?

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (yqwEa)

221 Trump cannot raise the 450 million dollar bond that Letitia James and corrupt Englron have demanded in order to appeal the unjust judgement that they imposed exactly because they knew Trump couldn't raise such a bond because they embargoed banks from issuing it to him.
Is this Judge(remember this was not a jury trial. A civil action), a single person with an obvious bias, allowed to bankrupta candidate for the highest office of the land?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (t/2Uw)

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Daily Mail has this as their top story. Trump's lawyer looks like a pedophile in the picture. Or a serial killer.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (DRSnL)

222 How did my country, become a global axis of evil?
Retorical question, i know it was Democrats and RINOs.

Posted by: BifBewalski
===

While Americans are not terrorists or terrorist supporting, the federal government and the democrat party (BIRM) sure are. Because of that we are the world's biggest terror state.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (17s+e)

223 206 "Cuba is poor because America won't trade with it enough!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What do they have to trade that we don't already have?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (SbJgO)

Lots and lots of running 1950's cars?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (ynpvh)

224 149 But in theory, Jews could fairly easily change the outcome of the November elections if there was somehow a mass exodus from the Dems. There are 500k Jews in PA alone. 100k in AZ. 150k in GA. 100k in VA. Etc.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 02:50 PM (iFTx/)
++++
Most of those Jewish populations are embedded in broader urban areas. I doubt that shifting out will change the outcomes. It could have consequences on local representation (state senators and reps, mayors, etc.), but I don't think it will be able to swing the top of the ticket.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:53 PM (HnUIn)
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The 500k Jews in PA couldn't hand the state to Trump on a silver platter if they suddenly abandoned the Dums and voted for Trump? The Dems can cheat like motherfuckers, but I doubt any cheat could overcome a substantial number of those 500k Jews switching parties.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (iFTx/)

225 211 Who is the most vile Democrat?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (6z9Vj)

Probably still John Pedodesta.

Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (UnA8+)

226 Chuck Schumer joined this frenzy last week, demanding that Israel -- an independent country, in case you didn't know -- hold snap elections so that Netanyahu can be voted out of office and Hamas saved for future use by the Marxist transnationalist Regime.

Netanyahu could point out that no less an international giant of diplomacy and governance than V. Zelenskyyy said "no elections during a war".

Why does Schumer hate THE Ukraine.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (zhLdt)

227 The theory is sound, because socialist systems are always net loss systems. Their last stages are selling natural resources unprocessed, and slave labor.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (lTGtQ)

North Korea Is Best Korea!

Posted by: Kim Jong Dong, Shrimp Dick at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (MHhQj)

228 OT: I missed the inflation thread, where this would be better put, but oh well.

As mentioned, I wasn't excited about ham today, but I'm eating it. But, I'm now a little excited b/c of some pantry scouring today. Today was the day I went looking for the foods my kids ate a ton of...and then just stopped. So I could use them up before they went bad.

And I stumbled on my daughter's baked beans obsession in the can that ended when she saw the sugar added. And I haven't made canned baked beans in years. But I thought - why not hack 5-6 oz off the back of the ham before I cook it, dice it and caramelize it, and then cook diced sweet onion, bell pepper, wild garlic, parsley, and another whole tub of cherub tomatoes (aka, mostly leftover veg from Friday I didn't use) with lots of pepper and a little salt...and then add the family size baked beans. Way more nutrients and protein for no more sugar. It's just finished and now gonna simmer to get even better, but dang, THIS was a good idea.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (exHjb)

229
The extent to which the blood sucking leeches at the State Department go to safeguard their rice bowls is absolutely disgusting.

"No, don't wipe out one of our 'negotiating partners'! We have so much to offer for the 'process' to achieve a two state solution and no one else would have any use for us if that mirage were to dissipate!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (xG4kz)

230 211 Who is the most vile Democrat?

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (6z9Vj)

They'll all end up in the lowest rung of Dante's Inferno.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (ynpvh)

231 Is this Judge(remember this was not a jury trial. A civil action), a single person with an obvious bias, allowed to bankrupta candidate for the highest office of the land?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 03:02 PM (t/2Uw)

Of course. It's Trump. Whatever it takes, by any means necessary.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (Nz25F)

232 "Cuba is a paradise with everything it needs. Also, it's dirt poor because of the trade embargo."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

233 >>>On another note

Trump cannot raise the 450 million dollar bond
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he will be arrested and jailed

Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (oCjPU)

234 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Joe, I hope you're right about China. I think you are historically, but things can always change.

I've partly been playing Devil's advocate with my remarks, but I also think it would be a huge mistake to take their collapse as a foregone conclusion. We should never underestimate the Chinese. Or anybody else, for that matter.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (9yWhg)

235 One thing that simply does not get enough mention is Barack Obama's creation of ISIS.

Remember he was arming "the resistance" in Syria after the moderate elements were eliminated. The Islamist groups he was funding were actively working together under one guy and then declared themselves as ISIS...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (ibTVg)

236
Probably still John Pedodesta.
Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (UnA8+)

I think that communist f*ck Brennan is a top contender.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

237 As the great Douglas Murray says:

"Israel seems to be the only country in the world who are never allowed to win a war."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (tqdLY)

238 227 The theory is sound, because socialist systems are always net loss systems. Their last stages are selling natural resources unprocessed, and slave labor.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 02:57 PM (lTGtQ)

North Korea Is Best Korea!

Posted by: Kim Jong Dong, Shrimp Dick at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (MHhQj)

It's even a Democratic Republic...for the People! It's right in the name!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (ynpvh)

239 The 500k Jews in PA couldn't hand the state to Trump on a silver platter if they suddenly abandoned the Dums and voted for Trump? The Dems can cheat like motherfuckers, but I doubt any cheat could overcome a substantial number of those 500k Jews switching parties.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (iFTx/)
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The bottomless reservoirs of "voters" in Philadelphia and Allegheny County might be able to offset it.

And they won't switch. Some will, but not enough to matter. They might stay home, but they won't switch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (HnUIn)

240
Nova Local

What time is dinner?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (xG4kz)

241 That Tesla gets hit, no matter how little it's going to.be toast

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (fwDg9)

242 >>>On another note

Trump cannot raise the 450 million dollar bond
---

he will be arrested and jailed
Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (oCjPU)

A violation of the Constitution, but sure. He'll go to prison.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

243 239 The bottomless reservoirs of "voters" in Philadelphia and Allegheny County might be able to offset it.

And they won't switch. Some will, but not enough to matter. They might stay home, but they won't switch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (HnUIn)

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Philadelphia has 12 million voters, and if you say otherwise you are an insurrectionist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

244 America will not survive the democrat party. That's how high the stakes are. Trump must win.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 18, 2024 03:08 PM (Nz25F)

245 Lots and lots of running 1950's cars?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (ynpvh)

Opportunity knocks! Mecum auctions!

Posted by: Archer at March 18, 2024 03:08 PM (rskKm)

246 "Cuba is a paradise with everything it needs. Also, it's dirt poor because of the trade embargo."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (GBKbO)

"And has the best health care on the planet!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

247 A shrewd insight. At least one communist system - that of the Khmer Rouge - manifestly did not appear to have any vestige of capitalism, and the result was exactly as you indicate.
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Go long on skulls.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 03:08 PM (2yu8s)

248 243 239 The bottomless reservoirs of "voters" in Philadelphia and Allegheny County might be able to offset it.

And they won't switch. Some will, but not enough to matter. They might stay home, but they won't switch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (HnUIn)

==========

Philadelphia has 12 million voters, and if you say otherwise you are an insurrectionist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

The left are better than Jesus at raising the dead, but only during elections.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (ynpvh)

249
How do you like me now?

-Ted Kaczynski

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (djLbh)

250 244 America will not survive the democrat party. That's how high the stakes are. Trump must win.
Posted by: Ordinary American at March 18, 2024 03:08 PM (Nz25F)

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So, it's the most important election?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

251 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is now planning to select 38-year-old Nicole Shanahan, the wealthy ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, as his running mate. This according to a Saturday Mediaite report that cited "a source close to the campaign."

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There are rumors in the media today that Trump will pick RFK, Jr. as his Kamala. Ehh, couldn't be worse than 2 Pence.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (FVME7)

252 Cuba is poor because America won't trade with it enough!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What do they have to trade that we don't already have?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (SbJgO)

Lots and lots of running 1950's cars?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (ynpvh)

Prolly a much greater concentration of high quality Cuban hookers too.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (dGCAG)

253 206 "Cuba is poor because America won't trade with it enough!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
What do they have to trade that we don't already have?
Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (SbJgO)
Lots and lots of running 1950's cars?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (ynpvh)

I think I read somewhere not too long ago that almost every Cuban adult, male or female, has had gonorrhea, syphilis or both at one time or another, being a prison island and all.

So they got that going for them.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (MHhQj)

254 No fkin way will Shapiro ( another Marxist) let Pa vote Trump

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (fwDg9)

255 I've partly been playing Devil's advocate with my remarks, but I also think it would be a huge mistake to take their collapse as a foregone conclusion. We should never underestimate the Chinese. Or anybody else, for that matter.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (9yWhg)
++++
I don't. And as their empire falls, the desire to look externally to shore it up will likely demand to be satisfied. I do think it will grow, and I think it will take away some of the East Asian countries that are in the American empire. I think Taiwan may fall, along with Singapore and Korea. But China won't be able to keep it. That won't matter for us, at that point.

My assertion - and I firmly believe it - that China cannot be a global empire doesn't mean that they can't snip large, important chunks off of ours as we fall back to the homeland.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (HnUIn)

256 Falling asleep
Posted by: Skip

Are you driving ?

Better start YODELING !

Posted by: JT at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (T4tVD)

257 "Cuba is a paradise with everything it needs. Also, it's dirt poor because of the trade embargo."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March

Yeah, who needs oil, electricity, or water filtration?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (lTGtQ)

258 Trump already had to put up a 100 million dollar bond in the ridiculous E. Jean Carrol fiasco. Remember that was an 89 million dollar judgment because he called her a liar which she obviously was. Just to appeal it.
He offered another 100 million for this case but they turned it down. Remember this judgment also involves his sons.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (t/2Uw)

259 Maybe Schumer will be visited by the Palis he so desperately wants to protect and advocate for. They can bond and become friends on a personal level.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (DIB8X)

260 242 >>>On another note

Trump cannot raise the 450 million dollar bond
---

he will be arrested and jailed
Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 03:06 PM (oCjPU)

A violation of the Constitution, but sure. He'll go to prison.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)
_______

Why hasn't he gone to federal court? What the corrupt AG and prosecution did to him has to be come kind of unconstitutional taking or due process violation.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

261 One thing that simply does not get enough mention is Barack Obama's creation of ISIS.

Remember he was arming "the resistance" in Syria after the moderate elements were eliminated. The Islamist groups he was funding were actively working together under one guy and then declared themselves as ISIS...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (ibTVg)

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Making JV Teams Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (tqdLY)

262 Who is the most vile Democrat?
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 03:04 PM (6z9Vj)

Probably still John Pedodesta.

Posted by: XTC

The stupid motherfuckers that vote for the likes of Podenda, and Shooooooomer.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (MsrgL)

263 249
How do you like me now?

-Ted Kaczynski

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (djLbh)

Wormy or ashes, doesn't matter.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (ynpvh)

264 The 500k Jews in PA couldn't hand the state to Trump on a silver platter if they suddenly abandoned the Dums and voted for Trump? The Dems can cheat like motherfuckers, but I doubt any cheat could overcome a substantial number of those 500k Jews switching parties.

Posted by: Elric Blade
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Not by the end of the fifth week of counting the ballots.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (17s+e)

265 248 243 239 The bottomless reservoirs of "voters" in Philadelphia and Allegheny County might be able to offset it.

And they won't switch. Some will, but not enough to matter. They might stay home, but they won't switch.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (HnUIn)

==========

Philadelphia has 12 million voters, and if you say otherwise you are an insurrectionist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

The left are better than Jesus at raising the dead, but only during elections.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (ynpvh)

THIS NEEDS TO BE SCOTT PRESSLERS GROUND ZERO !

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (djLbh)

266 240
Nova Local

What time is dinner?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 18, 2024 03:07 PM (xG4kz)

About 5pm

.

I should have done this with ham a long time ago. I just don't use cans much...at all...especially prepared ones. Sauces - yes. Veg, especially prepared veg - almost never.

Posted by: Nova Local at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (exHjb)

267 The extent to which the blood sucking leeches at the State Department go to safeguard their rice bowls is absolutely disgusting.

I think it's more that established western governmental opinions, be they diplomatic, military, economic, etc. are basically religious dogma.

No one gets hired, no one gets promoted, lest they toe the line.

It doesn't matter how often their ideas are proven wrong, they cling to their faith in an earthly deity for whom they are one of the priestly class.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (zhLdt)

268 252 Cuba is poor because America won't trade with it enough!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

What do they have to trade that we don't already have?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 18, 2024 03:03 PM (SbJgO)

Lots and lots of running 1950's cars?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:05 PM (ynpvh)

Prolly a much greater concentration of high quality Cuban hookers too.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (dGCAG)

Cuban cigars

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (ynpvh)

269 So, it's the most important election?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

Yeh, I think so.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (Nz25F)

270 264 Not by the end of the fifth week of counting the ballots.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (17s+e)

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There should be a law!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

271 Burt TC cigars rolled on the thighs of Cuban Women

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (fwDg9)

272 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?

Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (MNhXM)

273 There are rumors in the media today that Trump will pick RFK, Jr. as his Kamala. Ehh, couldn't be worse than 2 Pence.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (FVME7)

I hear tell, once Biden drops out, Kummala is nominated, and selects Trump as her running mate.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (dGCAG)

274 "And has the best health care on the planet!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

What are you talking about? Here in the US, our healthcare is so good even the dead can vote!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (FVME7)

275 Miss Lindsey is in Keeeev today, assuring the Z-Man of perpetual American support.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

He craves the taste of Znis!

Posted by: Joe Mama at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (lZVy/)

276 272 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (MNhXM

I believe it's the entire amount plus interest

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (Akjoo)

277 "Legacy Democrats," really any member of Congress who's over 65 (and there are quite a few) don't say or do anything unless they're assured of two things;

- They won't have to explain themselves
- They won't have to apologize

Making some extra cash is probably up there too.

But honestly, Schumer didn't vomit up that garbage all on his own. That position was fished out by a focus group, on taxpayer's dime, and fed to the mindless turd of misery to spout.

Which he obediently did. Whether he believes it or not isn't really important. That he satisfied his paymaster(s) is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 18, 2024 03:12 PM (Q4IgG)

278 256 Falling asleep
Posted by: Skip

Are you driving ?

Better start YODELING !

Posted by: JT at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (T4tVD)

Driving late one night in the local mountains, getting sleepy on the foggy drive when all of a sudden a sign lit up that said: "FOCUS!"...
Was the local indian casino; they were having a raffle for a Ford Focus...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:12 PM (ynpvh)

279
Why hasn't he gone to federal court? What the corrupt AG and prosecution did to him has to be come kind of unconstitutional taking or due process violation.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

280 Falling asleep
Posted by: Skip

Are you driving ?

Better start YODELING !
Posted by: JT at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (T4tVD)

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It also helps to stick your head out of the window while doing so -- only, watch out for bugs!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:12 PM (tqdLY)

281 258 Trump already had to put up a 100 million dollar bond in the ridiculous E. Jean Carrol fiasco. Remember that was an 89 million dollar judgment because he called her a liar which she obviously was. Just to appeal it.
He offered another 100 million for this case but they turned it down. Remember this judgment also involves his sons.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (t/2Uw)

I thought it was for saying he didn't rape her...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:12 PM (ynpvh)

282 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?

Posted by: polynikes

NY said 100%

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (lTGtQ)

283 I believe it's the entire amount plus interest
---------
And Letitia was bragging/laughing about how much interest he was paying every day.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (2yu8s)

284 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?

Posted by: polynikes

NY said 100%
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (lTGtQ)

PLUS interest

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (pVWRI)

285 Probably still John Pedodesta.

-
Snakehead Carville.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (FVME7)

286 283 I believe it's the entire amount plus interest
---------
And Letitia was bragging/laughing about how much interest he was paying every day.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (2yu8s)

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Gotta pay for those $10,000 debit cards for illegals somehow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (GBKbO)

287 271 Burt TC cigars rolled on the thighs of Cuban Women

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (fwDg9)

And not the ones loaded with STDs, either.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (ynpvh)

288 Schumer's wife, what a looker hubba hubba.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (7NKxb)

289 282 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?

Posted by: polynikes

NY said 100%
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (lTGtQ)

NY better be careful. If Trump wins, they may never get an earmark sent their way for anything...or approved for a waiver for anything.

It's a high stakes gamble they are playing...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (exHjb)

290 I believe it's the entire amount plus interest
Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (Akjoo)
++++
How common is that? When it doesn't involve Trump, I mean? Demanding 100% plus interest for the bond seems odd.

Or is it commonplace, but most people who aren't named Trump can buy a bond, but there are no bidders when the person's name is Trump?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (HnUIn)

291 The blowback against Schumer on X has been epic. There's a nice picture of Schumer with KAPO on his forehead going around. What's been particularly enjoyable was watching the Israeli posters who have been saying "but Biden is our friend! Biden is loyal to us!" having to figure out to try to spin this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (i9ffA)

292 Schumer's wife, what a looker hubba hubba.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (7NKxb)

Marriage of convenience.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)

293 Isn't this just another motivation for them to control other areas that are not energy- and food-poor?

Brandenbug/Prussia was pretty resource-poor as well, when it started out.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:00 PM (9yWhg)

There is control and control. These places are too far from China to walk there, unlike Prussia/Germany. China has a huge population to feed and house and provide goods for now that it is getting richer.

For the medium term China benefits more from a world where trade and selling their products lets them buy the energy and resources they need. Our blunder in Ukraine is leading to the creation of inland transport networks that can't be casually blocked by Western navies and the BRICS diplomatic coalition isn't keen on enforcing the West whims to collapse all trade with China or Russia.

And Prussia and Germany never solved the resource problem via war and it brought them to ruin.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (eoQWY)

294 291 The blowback against Schumer on X has been epic. There's a nice picture of Schumer with KAPO on his forehead going around. What's been particularly enjoyable was watching the Israeli posters who have been saying "but Biden is our friend! Biden is loyal to us!" having to figure out to try to spin this.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (i9ffA)

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Cognitive dissonance is a terrible thing to miss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

295 279
Why hasn't he gone to federal court? What the corrupt AG and prosecution did to him has to be come kind of unconstitutional taking or due process violation.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)
______

Yes. There are also unconstitutional takings, substantive and procedural due process, and as-applied challenges to vague statutes. Plus, he could ask for a stay of the bullshit fine.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

296 Philly supposedly has a little less 1.6M *people* including kids and non-citizens, and the claim in 2020 was that it still registered 750K votes.

Though honestly comparing 2016 and 2020 I would suspect more of the fraud was in Montgomery and Delaware counties which showed absurd increases for Biden.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (ibTVg)

297 President Zelinsky can you please show me how you play piano with your penis.... and can I film it.

Posted by: Miss Linsey Graham at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (17s+e)

298 280 Falling asleep
Posted by: Skip

Are you driving ?

Better start YODELING !
Posted by: JT at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (T4tVD)

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It also helps to stick your head out of the window while doing so -- only, watch out for bugs!

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:12 PM (tqdLY)

He shoulda taken a right turn at Albuqueque...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (ynpvh)

299 272 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (MNhXM

I read Trumps lawyer tried 30 bond agencies, they all turned her down..?

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (djLbh)

300 NY better be careful. If Trump wins, they may never get an earmark sent their way for anything...or approved for a waiver for anything.

It's a high stakes gamble they are playing...

Posted by: Nova Local

Both parties are fully vested in preventing Trump from winning, and there are already plans underway to prevent certification if he does somehow win.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (lTGtQ)

301
I have been reassured a number of times that REAL communism has never been tried and when it does happen it will be a total success.

The 50's cars of Cuba are complete junk, bondo'd and filled with Trabant brand guts.

Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (j4U/Z)

302 282 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?

Posted by: polynikes

NY said 100%

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (lTGtQ)

Including interest.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (ynpvh)

303 @194

>>Trump cannot raise the 450 million dollar bond that Letitia James and corrupt Englron have demanded

This was always an Op to expropriate Trumps property under the color of law.

Monsters.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (JIdXK)

304 I don't. And as their empire falls, the desire to look externally to shore it up will likely demand to be satisfied. I do think it will grow, and I think it will take away some of the East Asian countries that are in the American empire. I think Taiwan may fall, along with Singapore and Korea. But China won't be able to keep it. That won't matter for us, at that point.

My assertion - and I firmly believe it - that China cannot be a global empire doesn't mean that they can't snip large, important chunks off of ours as we fall back to the homeland.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Yes. And I think for awhile that they will be the largest regional hegemon on earth. Part of what I meant with my "waiting in the wings" comment. They will pick up a huge chunk of our former stomping ground, at least for awhile, but not all of it by any means.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (9yWhg)

305 272 in this case the whole amount. Which is so anti standard for posting a bond that it's clearly just about punishing him here.

Posted by: Bete at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (LX4y3)

306 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (MNhXM

I believe it's the entire amount plus interest
Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2024 03:11 PM (Akjoo)

Never heard that before in obtaining a bond. Defeats the purpose.

Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (MNhXM)

307
Yes. There are also unconstitutional takings, substantive and procedural due process, and as-applied challenges to vague statutes. Plus, he could ask for a stay of the bullshit fine.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

NY is basically violating every rule, guideline or law with regards to this and Trump...because he said pussy. Now that he's said BLOODBATH, there's just no chance for survival.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

308 >>> 112 The coalition of MOAR always meets its Waterloo when the limits are reached. At some stage, election cheating removes any feedback mechanism for rectifying mistakes.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 02:45 PM (TPpzE)
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Yup. And when there is no feedback mechanism - and we're there or very close to there, with elections corrupted (and borderline meaningless if they're not) and the press controlled and censorship everywhere - then the discovery of where the margins are tends to be ... noisy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:46 PM (HnUIn)

Sarah Hoyt likes to say the commies think that ripping out the smoke detector means the house can't possibly catch on fire.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (llON8)

309

Protests Erupt In Cuba Amid Food Shortages, Blackouts

https://tinyurl.com/y85m4zw8

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (63Dwl)

310 301 But that's insurrection from what I've been told.

Posted by: Bete at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (LX4y3)

311 Three hours into AOS and I may be wrong, but nobody's made a single movie reference.

It's like I don't know this place anymore.
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 02:56 PM (j4U/Z)
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You must have skipped all the boob references...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (4S2yc)

312 What amount of money does Trump need to put up a bond? 10% or 20%?

Posted by: polynikes

NY said 100%
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:13 PM (lTGtQ)

That's how mafia works.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (dGCAG)

313 300 NY better be careful. If Trump wins, they may never get an earmark sent their way for anything...or approved for a waiver for anything.

It's a high stakes gamble they are playing...

Posted by: Nova Local

Both parties are fully vested in preventing Trump from winning, and there are already plans underway to prevent certification if he does somehow win.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (lTGtQ)

See, I think you're wrong now. I think we have slowly taken over the RNC and now the House with Johnson. If Paul ends up as the Senate leader, it's a brand new ballgame from top to bottom...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (exHjb)

314 President Zelinsky can you please show me how you play piano with your penis.... and can I film it.
Posted by: Miss Linsey Graham at March 18, 2024 03:15 PM (17s+e)

There is a fella in Australia or New Zealand that paints with his penis. Should be on the art thread.

On the Youtube somewheres...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (MHhQj)

315 My assertion - and I firmly believe it - that China cannot be a global empire doesn't mean that they can't snip large, important chunks off of ours as we fall back to the homeland.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (HnUIn)
==
I don''t think they can project enough power to really do it - maybe Korea through the North - and maybe Taiwan, maybe. Beyond that, it would be tough to get there, and if Japan was motivated China's navy wouldn't survive.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (GZYu7)

316 Never heard that before in obtaining a bond. Defeats the purpose.
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (MNhXM)
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James: You're catching on.

Posted by: WisRich at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (G0vdT)

317 305 272 in this case the whole amount. Which is so anti standard for posting a bond that it's clearly just about punishing him here.

Posted by: Bete at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (LX4y3)

NY state law to prevent nuisance appeals...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (ynpvh)

318 I think it's more that established western governmental opinions, be they diplomatic, military, economic, etc. are basically religious dogma.

No one gets hired, no one gets promoted, lest they toe the line.

It doesn't matter how often their ideas are proven wrong, they cling to their faith in an earthly deity for whom they are one of the priestly class.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 03:10 PM (zhLdt)

There isn't just one priestly class here, there are several. Its more Game of Thrones than a monolith. They do all agree that the actual people of the US are the real enemy.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (eoQWY)

319
Protests Erupt In Cuba Amid Food Shortages, Blackouts

https://tinyurl.com/y85m4zw8
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (63Dwl)

That won't sit well with the regime.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

320 What Schumer knows of war in his time:

NY Magazine, 2004

Senator Charles Schumer
Draft Status: His 1971 lottery number (182) was never called.
Wartime Activities: Schumer, head of the Harvard Young Democrats, negotiated with the administration after radicals took over a building.

Posted by: L - And they can all x my royal Irish arse at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (GshMh)

321
Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani proposed expeling Hamas's leaders from Doha during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken days after the terror group's October 7 onslaught, two officials familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Wednesday.

If Qatar really wanted Hamas out of their country, they'd throw their asses out. But they'd rather have the US "demand" that Hamas leave, so that they can tell the rest of the mohammadans that they didn't have a choice.

Qatar is little different than the palestinian mohammedan savages. Except they shower more often, they don't conduct warfare from their own homes to avoid getting their garden compounds blown up, and they have more Ferrari dealerships.

Posted by: Zombie Boutros Boutros Ghali at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (n+4am)

322 I think the reason Schumer was called on to do this is quite obvious; first, they wanted Benny Gantz to do it when they called him to DC for "consultations", and obviously Gantz turned them down, because he returned to Israel without making any public statements. So Biden called on his pathologically loyal little JewBoy Schumer, who will sell out anything if the Party orders him to do so. In this case, he sold out a lifetime's reputation as a defender of Israel to try to save Joe's rotting old hide. Pathetic that he would sell out at all, but that he would do it for essentialy nothing!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (i9ffA)

323 To his credit, Bibi's rival Benny Gantz's response to Chuck U. Schumer was this tweet:

"Israel is a strong democracy, and only its citizens will determine its leadership and future. Any external intervention in the matter is incorrect and unacceptable."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (tqdLY)

324 315 My assertion - and I firmly believe it - that China cannot be a global empire doesn't mean that they can't snip large, important chunks off of ours as we fall back to the homeland.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (HnUIn)
==
I don''t think they can project enough power to really do it - maybe Korea through the North - and maybe Taiwan, maybe. Beyond that, it would be tough to get there, and if Japan was motivated China's navy wouldn't survive.
Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (GZYu7)

Japan cannot sustain a long war with China without substantial and continual US support. It's an island with few resources.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (eYoxG)

325 Schumer's wife, what a looker hubba hubba.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (7NKxb)

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LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (DRSnL)

326 307 That is the point here. But hey, murders can can out without cash bail so it averages out for NYC or something.

Posted by: Bete at March 18, 2024 03:19 PM (LX4y3)

327 292 Schumer's wife, what a looker hubba hubba.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (7NKxb)

Marriage of convenience.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
________

95% chance that Schumer is some hooker's Client No. 9

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:19 PM (iFTx/)

328 Only worked 2.6 mi from home today, not usual 20

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 03:19 PM (fwDg9)

329 My assertion - and I firmly believe it - that China cannot be a global empire doesn't mean that they can't snip large, important chunks off of ours as we fall back to the homeland.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (HnUIn)
==
I don''t think they can project enough power to really do it - maybe Korea through the North - and maybe Taiwan, maybe. Beyond that, it would be tough to get there, and if Japan was motivated China's navy wouldn't survive.

Posted by: Black JEM

China can only project power where their troops can march. And, that doesn't include Vietnam, who kicked their ass a few years back.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 03:19 PM (lTGtQ)

330 325 Schumer's wife, what a looker hubba hubba.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (7NKxb)

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LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (DRSnL)

She kinda looks like Kevin Bacon in drag...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:19 PM (ynpvh)

331 Netanyahu to Chuck Schumer: Drop Dead

Have respect therefore to the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee.
-- 2 Chronicles 6:19

Posted by: Half Dozen at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (eHovo)

332 It's truly amazing watching Democrats suck up to the antisemites in their party. They truly have no scruples.

Posted by: 29Victor at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (M+gBW)

333 323 To his credit, Bibi's rival Benny Gantz's response to Chuck U. Schumer was this tweet:

"Israel is a strong democracy, and only its citizens will determine its leadership and future. Any external intervention in the matter is incorrect and unacceptable."
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (tqdLY)

========

It's my understanding that the opposition parties in Israel have put aside all of their differences with Bibi's until the war with Hamas is won. Not over, but won.

It's almost like attacking a bunch of Israeli leftists at a peace party was a giant mistake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (GBKbO)

334 An asteroid is coming right us.
This an emergency that's even worse than climate changing.
Delayed elections.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (J8LnB)

335 @299

>>I read Trumps lawyer tried 30 bond agencies, they all turned her down..?

I mean, you're talking about 1/2 a billion dollars, there can't be too many institutions playing in the bonding game at that level.

These animals knew what they were doing, they knew Trumps financials, as was said, this Op was always a way to simply take all of Trumps property and assets.

F**king an 83M dollar judgement for saying you didn't rape someone.

It's all absurd.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (JIdXK)

336 Doesn't matter that the appeals court removed the prohibition on doing business with any bank that does business in NY. If you're a bank, the risk of doing business with Trump and becoming a target is obvious, so nobody is going to finance the bond even with brick and mortar real estate as collateral. They have to use the judge's stupid $18M value of Mar-a-Lago I imagine or expose themselves to the same charge Trump just got slapped with.

Posted by: the dandy at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (w83EC)

337
Ack. Off me, UN sock.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (n+4am)

338 330 325 Schumer's wife, what a looker hubba hubba.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 03:14 PM (7NKxb)

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LOL

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (DRSnL)

She kinda looks like Kevin Bacon in drag...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:19 PM (ynpvh)

https://tinyurl.com/2v5vmphk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:21 PM (ynpvh)

339 Speaking of cruel and unusual punishment . . .

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
@NoLieWithBTC
The Kennedy family just released a St. Patrick’s Day photo with President Biden in a major rebuke to RFK Jr’s extremist conspiracy presidential campaign.

-
I didn't even know he had an extremist conspiracy presidential campaign.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:21 PM (FVME7)

340 She kinda looks like Kevin Bacon in drag...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:19 PM (ynpvh)

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Ooof. Disagree. https://is.gd/2mJs1n

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:21 PM (DRSnL)

341
https://tinyurl.com/2v5vmphk
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:21 PM (ynpvh)

If Eugene Levy and Billie Jean King had a baby.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

342 334 An asteroid is coming right us.
This an emergency that's even worse than climate changing.
Delayed elections.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (J8LnB)

Ass-teroid? Like Tank Abrams? That WOULD be a climate-changing disaster!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:22 PM (ynpvh)

343 In New York City........ Excuse I mean Port-au-Prince this morning, gunmen looted homes in the communities of high end society before sunrise, forcing residents to flee as some called radio stations pleading for police, according to the Associated Press.

Posted by: Ferd Befal at March 18, 2024 03:22 PM (Qfk4E)

344 Pathetic that he would sell out at all, but that he would do it for essentialy nothing!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (i9ffA)

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"Why Chucky, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for Fails?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (tqdLY)

345 17 Mar 2024 - Aljazeera News, Niger suspends military cooperation with US: Spokesman
The suspension follows an earlier move that has seen thousands of French soldiers exit the West African nation.

In part, Niger has suspended its military agreement with the United States “with immediate effect”, according to the ruling military spokesman Colonel Amadou Abdramane, in a blow to US security interests in the region.

The pact allowed US military personnel and civilian defence staff to operate from Niger, which plays a central role in the US military’s operations in Africa’s Sahel region and is home to a major airbase.

The decision, announced on Saturday, came after senior US officials – led by Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee and US Africa Command head General Michael Langley – visited the West African country earlier this week to discuss democratic transition.

Posted by: L - And they can all x my royal Irish arse at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (GshMh)

346 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

BREAKING: The LAPD forms a special task force to combat organized foreign gangs burglarizing homes

The organized gangs are coming from Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Chile, etc

OVER NINE HUNDRED HOMES in LA were burglarized since January 2024

Similar patterns are emerging in Arizona

https://tinyurl.com/ynp2pcjc

Posted by: redridinghood at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (NpAcC)

347 77> that is one cool video. lol

Posted by: sidney at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (Uy/WF)

348 I don''t think they can project enough power to really do it - maybe Korea through the North - and maybe Taiwan, maybe. Beyond that, it would be tough to get there, and if Japan was motivated China's navy wouldn't survive.
Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (GZYu7)
++++
Japan is the strategic wild card in the region. It is resource-poor and in the midst of a demographic disaster, but it's very advanced, heavily industrialized, has a meaningful defense industry and is capable of independent action with quite good long-range defensive capabilities.

In a "long war" with China where it plays defense, it will be sporty. Invading China is something it can't do. But a "short war" where it destroys enough of China's projection capability to defend the homeland may be possible.

I hope we never find out the answer to that question, but I don't think we're that lucky.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (HnUIn)

349 If Eugene Levy and Billie Jean King had a baby.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:22 PM (Zz0t1)

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Damn, spot on.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (DRSnL)

350 Oh.sure! Go ahead and ridicule Schumer because he's broad minded enough to have a transsexual wife!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (FVME7)

351 345
...
Posted by: L - And they can all x my royal Irish arse at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (GshMh)

When you've lost Niger...
Anyway...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:24 PM (ynpvh)

352 Yes. And I think for awhile that they will be the largest regional hegemon on earth. Part of what I meant with my "waiting in the wings" comment. They will pick up a huge chunk of our former stomping ground, at least for awhile, but not all of it by any means.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (9yWhg)

There are too many other large population states in the neighborhood for them to expand too far - India, Indonesia. So while the West has crippled itself industrially these states are ramping up the same curve China recently has and could avoid being swamped by bodies. The Long View would say that a breakdown of trade worldwide is bad for everyone that wants to grow and develop, and should be avoided.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2024 03:24 PM (eoQWY)

353 Oh.sure! Go ahead and ridicule Schumer because he's broad minded enough to have a transsexual wife!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (FVME7)

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He could've at least found a decent looking one. WTF is going on with her teeth?

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:24 PM (DRSnL)

354
Can we say Niger or is that racist?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2024 03:24 PM (x0n13)

355 https://tinyurl.com/2v5vmphk
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:21 PM (ynpvh)

She looks like the principal of a private school for lesbians. Bet she's wearing sensible shoes.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 03:25 PM (6z9Vj)

356 It's a start, now to do something about it

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at March 18, 2024 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

357
He could've at least found a decent looking one. WTF is going on with her teeth?
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:24 PM (DRSnL)

Too much ATM.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

358 Can we say Niger or is that racist?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2024 03:24 PM (x0n13)

African-African.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

359 And what really will Schumer suffer? Will he lose enough Jewish votes not to be reelected? Doubt it. Will he even lose enough donations to make him notice? Sure some people will think less of him, but in his state he probably won't get much vote or money punishment for him to care.

I can be proven wrong and would like to be, but history kind of shows that a Republican who supports Israel is labeled a Nazi while Dems can say all sorts of questionable things about any minority but still rack up lots of votes cause they are not "the Nazi" in the race.

Posted by: Bete at March 18, 2024 03:25 PM (LX4y3)

360 To save our precious democracy due to our ongoing war with democratic Ukraine against Russia, I am suspending all elections for a period of five years.

Posted by: Joedolph Biden at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (17s+e)

361 ...to ventriloquize progressive dream statements into the mouths of terrorists.

Now that is quite the turn of a phrase, Ace.

Very, very nice.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (wtvvX)

362 VOTED FOR THIS SHIT........ YOU LIVE WITH IT !!!!

BREAKING: The LAPD forms a special task force to combat organized foreign gangs burglarizing homes.
The organized gangs are coming from Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Chile, etc

OVER NINE HUNDRED HOMES in LA were burglarized since January 2024. Similar patterns are emerging in Arizona

Posted by: Ferd Befal at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (Qfk4E)

363 324 315 My assertion - and I firmly believe it - that China cannot be a global empire doesn't mean that they can't snip large, important chunks off of ours as we fall back to the homeland.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (HnUIn)
==
I don''t think they can project enough power to really do it - maybe Korea through the North - and maybe Taiwan, maybe. Beyond that, it would be tough to get there, and if Japan was motivated China's navy wouldn't survive.
Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:17 PM (GZYu7)

Japan cannot sustain a long war with China without substantial and continual US support. It's an island with few resources.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
=========
Nuclear weapons use is a strong possibility over there and aside from Vietnam/Korea areas, China cannot reach Japan except by sea.

Warfare is changing despite the throwback war in Ukraine and it is unclear exactly what weapons might be decisive in such a conflict.

For example, even conventional armaments can easily destroy many of China's dams which would devastate Chinese agriculture and its industry.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (TPpzE)

364 357
He could've at least found a decent looking one. WTF is going on with her teeth?
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:24 PM (DRSnL)

Too much ATM.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

Automated Teller Machine?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (ynpvh)

365 342 334 An asteroid is coming right us.
This an emergency that's even worse than climate changing.
Delayed elections.

It has a 1 in 1750% chance of hitting us but we won't know till 2182 when it occurs... I think we are safe

Posted by: It's me donna at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (Akjoo)

366 Ass-teroid? Like Tank Abrams? That WOULD be a climate-changing disaster!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:22 PM (ynpvh)

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

Imagine being bombarded by Tank's Ass-Hemorrroids?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (osuIs)

367 When you've lost Niger...
Anyway...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:24 PM (ynpvh)

France was paying pennies for Uranium instead of 200 dollars and was planning a gas pipeline through there from Nigeria for cheap energy.

This isn't going to happen, or will be market prices.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (eoQWY)

368 The organized gangs are coming from Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Chile, etc

OVER NINE HUNDRED HOMES in LA were burglarized since January 2024

—

Bullshit. Crime is a figment of the right wing’s
Imagination.
- MSNBC

Posted by: Montec at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (4+s9S)

369 Why hasn't he gone to federal court? What the corrupt AG and prosecution did to him has to be come kind of unconstitutional taking or due process violation Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

You and Sponge are right. I think they're trying to exhaust their state remedies before seeking federal intervention. He's still got some moves in the state court system first.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (r5tfK)

370 These animals knew what they were doing, they knew Trumps financials, as was said, this Op was always a way to simply take all of Trumps property and assets.

It's all absurd.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 18, 2024 03:20 PM (JIdXK)
-

James agrees:

James has opposed putting the judgment on hold and said there was no guarantee Trump could pay later if his appeal fails. “Defendants have never demonstrated that Mr. Trump’s liquid assets—which may fluctuate over time—will be enough to satisfy the full amount of this judgment following appeal,” James’s office wrote.

Posted by: WisRich at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (G0vdT)

371 Short of Civil War, Red State AGs need to start charging NY Democrat politicians and billionaire supporters with criminal and civil claims. Florida would be best bet since there is usually a connection.

Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (MNhXM)

372 Too much ATM.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:25 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

Leave it to you to come up with that. LOL.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (DRSnL)

373 339 Speaking of cruel and unusual punishment . . .

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
@NoLieWithBTC
The Kennedy family just released a St. Patrick’s Day photo with President Biden in a major rebuke to RFK Jr’s extremist conspiracy presidential campaign.

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I didn't even know he had an extremist conspiracy presidential campaign.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:21 PM (FVME7)

Biden and the Dems are so insane these days that even RFK Jr. looks and sounds relatively sane by comparison.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (x0n13)

374 Shumer needs a 2nd circumcision.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

There's no end to this prick.

Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (aD39U)

375 363
...

For example, even conventional armaments can easily destroy many of China's dams which would devastate Chinese agriculture and its industry.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (TPpzE)

What MacArthur wanted to do to the Yalu river dam.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (ynpvh)

376 >>> 319
Protests Erupt In Cuba Amid Food Shortages, Blackouts

https://tinyurl.com/y85m4zw8
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (63Dwl)

That won't sit well with the regime.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)

True, but sometimes you get a Romanian Christmas.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (llON8)

377 Marxists from the word coming in, nothing is privately owned, everything is for the taking.

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (fwDg9)

378
Automated Teller Machine?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (ynpvh)

https://youtu.be/H8zCwVOT1U4

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

379 Japan cannot sustain a long war with China without substantial and continual US support. It's an island with few resources.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (eYoxG)
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It doesn't take much resources when you have the only super carrier in the area not owned by the US; and more real electronics knowledge than the Chinese. It would be a calculus of when do I choose to get involved. You have to sail to get to Japan - and China would have to sail to get to lots more places.

If Japan chose - China doesn't stack up very well on the water.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:28 PM (GZYu7)

380 374 Shumer needs a 2nd circumcision.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

There's no end to this prick.
Posted by: AoSHQ Stylebook at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (aD39U)

"Tanned, rested and rusty hacksaw readied!"

- - Khaled Sheikh Mohammed

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2024 03:29 PM (x0n13)

381
OVER NINE HUNDRED HOMES in LA were burglarized since January 2024

I believe Mister Wesson and Mister Smith have a way to end this.

Pussies. Blow 'em away. Build a bon fire. A bon fire means that all the bones (bon) are burned to a crisp. No DNA, no evidence.

Make red oak (the hottest btu wood) great again.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 03:29 PM (RKVpM)

382 Can we get a snap election here that may result in regime change?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2024 03:29 PM (slRS9)

383 359 And what really will Schumer suffer? Will he lose enough Jewish votes not to be reelected? Doubt it. Will he even lose enough donations to make him notice? Sure some people will think less of him, but in his state he probably won't get much vote or money punishment for him to care.
Posted by: Bete
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Schumer might just be running afoul of Israeli government itself which most likely knows whatever hidden sins that Schumer wishes to hide.

Ditto of his wealthy finance industry wiz kids and his buddy McConnell and the Uniparty GOP are not giving Schumer cover like they normally do on Israel.

Eventually, all political careers end as failures unless there are term limits to save their reps.

Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 03:29 PM (TPpzE)

384 Speaking of cruel and unusual punishment . . .

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
@NoLieWithBTC
The Kennedy family just released a St. Patrick’s Day photo with President Biden in a major rebuke to RFK Jr’s extremist conspiracy presidential campaign.

-
I didn't even know he had an extremist conspiracy presidential campaign.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:21 PM (FVME7)

I didn't know there were Kennedys left besides RFK Jr. I think their rebuking powers are marginal.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2024 03:30 PM (eoQWY)

385 =====

Leave it to you to come up with that. LOL.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (DRSnL)

C'mon. You knew it was coming......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

386 the pro-Hamas vote in Michigan.
_________________

And therein lies the problem: letting the ragheads in in the first place.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2024 03:30 PM (slRS9)

387 371 Short of Civil War, Red State AGs need to start charging NY Democrat politicians and billionaire supporters with criminal and civil claims. Florida would be best bet since there is usually a connection.
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 03:27 PM (MNhXM)

Any of the 57 states probably could charge anyone for a crime. Did you send an email about a crime? That email went through an ISP which has an office in Missouri. Missouri can arrest the email sender for conspiracy or whatever.

If the GOP is serious they need to start doing things like this.

Posted by: Montec at March 18, 2024 03:30 PM (4+s9S)

388 I didn't even know he had an extremist conspiracy presidential campaign.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 03:21 PM (FVME7)

Nobody knows. That's how good the conspiracy is.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 03:30 PM (dGCAG)

389 Yes, that is the *actual* risk and why I think the Party is trying to square the circle right now. Jewish money is far more important than Jewish votes. The stuff like building the pier to Gaza is there to shore up the Jew-hating vote, and slow-walking it is to try to maintain the flow of Jewish money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 02:59 PM (HnUIn)

Let us hope that the leftists walking the razor's edge just happen to slip and land on it, genitals-first.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2024 03:31 PM (wtvvX)

390 >>The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution protects against imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments, unless your last name is Trump.

Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 03:31 PM (oCjPU)

391 379 Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:28 PM (GZYu7)

I think despite China's much vaunted military capabilities, they have a lot of internal problems even in the PLA that would not bode well for them if they get into a tussle.

That said, the mongoloid commies are so insane they'd toss nukes in a heartbeat if they felt the need.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 18, 2024 03:31 PM (x0n13)

392 360 How Ukranian of him.

Posted by: Bete at March 18, 2024 03:31 PM (LX4y3)

393 And Netanyahu's point is correct - Gaza *is* (or perhaps was) the "second state." It was not the first "second state," but it was the most recent. It ended the way it always does.

Yup. They had a free trial of a second state and the Pallies unsurprisingly failed to act like a functioning state.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 03:31 PM (2ocoG)

394 I want to hear Joe Biden explain why the Nigers kicked the US out of Niger.

Would be a laugh riot.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 03:31 PM (MHhQj)

395 And why do they hate Netanyahu so much right now? It's because he's refusing to capitulate to the American President and the American Secretary of State who want Hamas to survive.
_______________

Who is himself Jewish, IIRC.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2024 03:31 PM (slRS9)

396 nood neurotic leftists

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 03:31 PM (2yu8s)

397 Credible story that RFKJr will pick Google founder's ex-wife as running mate

Posted by: Don Black at March 18, 2024 03:32 PM (oCjPU)

398 Remember the fight they had with Mexico?
The cartel had better equipment, better trained.
The soldiers looked better. They looked really really alert.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 18, 2024 03:32 PM (J8LnB)

399 348 In a "long war" with China where it plays defense, it will be sporty. Invading China is something it can't do. But a "short war" where it destroys enough of China's projection capability to defend the homeland may be possible.

I hope we never find out the answer to that question, but I don't think we're that lucky.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (HnUIn)

Couldn't China just use the "Human Surrender Wave" tactic until they outnumber the Japanese?

Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 03:32 PM (UnA8+)

400 378
Automated Teller Machine?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:26 PM (ynpvh)

https://youtu.be/H8zCwVOT1U4

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

OOOkay...
Not the kinda ATM I was thinking about.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:32 PM (ynpvh)

401 Schumer's head looks funny. It's kind of pointed.

Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 03:33 PM (6z9Vj)

402 NOOD Woke People

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 18, 2024 03:33 PM (ynpvh)

403 I didn't know there were Kennedys left besides RFK Jr. I think their rebuking powers are marginal.
Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2024 03:30 PM (eoQWY)

Part of his narrative is how divided his family is, over him challenging Biden, but even before that, when he started coming out with claims that Sirhan Sirhan should be paroled.

These days, he's fully on board (what took you so long, Froggy) with saying out loud the government killed his dad and his uncle. Lots of Kennedy Klan members strongly object to that.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 18, 2024 03:33 PM (dGCAG)

404 Seeing at American Thinker a article that is saying 2024 might set new record for illegals at well over 3 million

Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 03:33 PM (fwDg9)

405 In a "long war" with China where it plays defense, it will be sporty. Invading China is something it can't do. But a "short war" where it destroys enough of China's projection capability to defend the homeland may be possible.

I hope we never find out the answer to that question, but I don't think we're that lucky.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 03:23 PM (HnUIn)
==
I hope so too. I'm a little more optimistic, but just a little.

But as you also know - Japan, with help from India could cut off China's entire sea supply routes. And China could not get out in force to stop them, without exposing their navy even more - hell if we decided to send just one carrier group to help, with appropriate sub force, China would starve pretty quickly. China is in a tough spot.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:34 PM (GZYu7)

406 I want to hear Joe Biden explain why the Nigers kicked the US out of Niger.

Would be a laugh riot.

The Biden cheat sheet from when he just met with the gay Indian that runs Ireland included a picture of the Irish flag, a description of what Ireland is, a picture of the gay Indian, and sound-out versions of everyone's name.

I can only imagine what any such sheet would look like for anything involving Niger.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 03:34 PM (2ocoG)

407 It doesn't take much resources when you have the only super carrier in the area not owned by the US; and more real electronics knowledge than the Chinese. It would be a calculus of when do I choose to get involved. You have to sail to get to Japan - and China would have to sail to get to lots more places.

If Japan chose - China doesn't stack up very well on the water.
Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:28 PM (GZYu7)

They don't have to, since they have all that coastline with land bases and anti-air missile systems similar to what Russia is testing and improving versus Ukraine. Ukraine's patchy older systems kept RU air back out of range lobbing glide bombs for a few years....but they are pretty much out of defense these days.

Japan's or the US carriers really can't do much against the land, look at what the Houthis are doing. Now, if China expands to other bases these could be taken in a war easily enough, like the UK used to do in Wars with France for centuries.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2024 03:34 PM (eoQWY)

408 319
Protests Erupt In Cuba Amid Food Shortages, Blackouts

https://tinyurl.com/y85m4zw8
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2024 03:16 PM (63Dwl)

That won't sit well with the regime.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)
===

Yep, the Biden administration is going to be pissed.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 03:35 PM (17s+e)

409 The mobile wharf facility that the US military is installing to provide humanitarian relief will be used to exfil leadership vermin, you can bet on it

Posted by: Helo Bubba at March 18, 2024 03:35 PM (SSuAl)

410 Don't make the mistake of thinking of China as a unitary entity. China is still run by the same 20-30 families that that it always has been. They are located both in China and in the region outside China, and they have "kept it in the family" for hundreds of years and intend to do so for hundreds of years more. Mao and the Long March Comrades were outsiders who won temporarily, but the 1949 revolution was undone in time, which led to the Cultural Revolution that also faded. The Chinese families are in business for themselves, and despite what may or may not be going on around them, business is good.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at March 18, 2024 03:37 PM (r5tfK)

411 Can we get a snap election here that may result in regime change?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 18, 2024 03:29 PM (slRS9)

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* Ross Perot's "Electronic Town Hall" has entered the chat *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 03:38 PM (tqdLY)

412 350 Oh.sure! Go ahead and ridicule Schumer because he's broad minded enough to have a transsexual wife!

don't think we didn't see what you did there

Posted by: anachronda at March 18, 2024 03:42 PM (v3pYe)

413 Ultimately, it will be Islam that inherits the empire.

Islam is the last culture left that wants to conquer, that wants to have a fuckton of kids, that wants to bathe in the blood of its enemies.
Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 02:47 PM (UnA8+)

Islam has always been like that and HAD an empire... and lost it.

It possibly might win for a time, but it's ultimately not going to be the winner.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 18, 2024 03:42 PM (N1tpc)

414 Why are you crying?

My terrorist died. - State Department drone

Posted by: Just the Punchline at March 18, 2024 03:42 PM (aD39U)

415 Japan's or the US carriers really can't do much against the land, look at what the Houthis are doing. Now, if China expands to other bases these could be taken in a war easily enough, like the UK used to do in Wars with France for centuries.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 18, 2024 03:34 PM (eoQWY)
==
You don't have to invade China to beat China. The minute their boats go out - they don't come home. And on top of that, you can cut their supply lines without ever touching a Chinese military unit. China might as well be an island. Poor resources - pretty much landlocked. They just never developed a true naval force.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 18, 2024 03:43 PM (GZYu7)

416
I've seen some wild predictions about how many Chinese drown if the Seven Gorges dam breaks, or how many people just starve to death when other infrastructure fails. They can't "win" a war by any rational standard.

The CCP just doesn't care.

Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 03:44 PM (j4U/Z)

417 Best "progressives' "translation" of terrorist..."

After a bad terrorist attack, Obama tweeted "This is not the true Islam."

Noted Islamic scholar al Baghdadi tweeted back "Yes, it is."

Posted by: PJ at March 18, 2024 03:47 PM (G1dq6)

418 "Chuck Schumer joined this frenzy last week, demanding that Israel -- an independent country, in case you didn't know"

If they're so independent, why is America sending them billions every year?

I'm pleased that Israel won't live to see its 100th borthday.

Posted by: Boycott Divest Sanction at March 18, 2024 03:56 PM (0QLd2)

419
Commies, Sponge. Fucking evil shitlord commies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Perhaps there is time to squeeze in the excerpt from Mickey Spillaine's 'One Dark Night' before nood:

“I killed more people tonight than I have fingers on my hands. I shot them in cold blood and enjoyed every minute of it. I pumped slugs into the nastiest bunch of bastards you ever saw and here I am calmer than I’ve ever been and happy too. They were Commies, Lee. They were red sons-of-bitches who should have died long ago.”

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 18, 2024 04:00 PM (XeU6L)

420 Or not....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 18, 2024 04:01 PM (XeU6L)

421 Congress knows all about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Vietnam.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 18, 2024 04:12 PM (qPw5n)

422 I'm pleased that Israel won't live to see its 100th borthday.
Posted by: Boycott Divest Sanction at March 18, 2024 03:56 PM (0QLd2)

Prepare for disappointment, Joe.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 18, 2024 04:22 PM (aD39U)

423 But the important thing is that Israelis are given a choice.

So, maybe we should have a snap election in your state, huh, Schumer? So the people are given a choice whether to keep you or not? Why wait until November of whatever year your term ends? Let's do it NOW, big guy!

Posted by: GWB at March 18, 2024 05:19 PM (69JzL)

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