The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 3/21/24

Good morning, kids. I wanted to hit on this last week but so many other stories were breaking that yet again, it's something that got lost in the sauce. Yet it still deserves to get attention. Fitting that it involves a moral and ethical midget, George Stephanopoulos, who sank to a depth that makes the Marianas Trench jealous. Disgusting, yet for this creep it's just another day at the office. Literally.

Stephanopoulos likely baited [Rep Nancy Mace] onto his show by offering an opportunity to tell her side of the story. But since we live in a time of psychological warfare, she should have known that this only happens when they’re confident they can orchestrate an ambush to discredit their political opponents.
That was the plan. Yet this time, the ambush didn’t go as planned. The plan’s failure offered Americans that peek behind the curtain.
Stephanopoulos brought up Nancy’s past as a rape victim: As a rape victim, how can you defend convicted rapist Donald Trump?
Here’s where things got interesting. In the scripted exchange, the ABC producers/Democommunist operatives likely envisioned, Mace would have been caught off-guard. “Fair point! Rape is bad. Donald Trump was ‘convicted’ of rape. And yet, I still support Donald Trump! Those seem contradictory! Cognitive dissonance! I’m lost!” She’d then mumble some forgettable word salad talking points and slink away, discredited and humiliated. The psychological battle won, as usual. That was the plan.
But instead, Mace fired back: George is “trying to shame me as a rape victim, and I find it quite disgusting.”
. . . Usually, the Democrat-communists hold a monopoly on the victim card. But Mace’s curveball turned tables, and the scripters of reality suddenly found reality going off-script. . . So, [Ted] Bundy-Stephanopoulos came again: How can you (Mace) support a rapist? Again, Mace responded: “You’re trying to shame me.”
The same exchange happened again and again. Despite a few diversions (civil trials versus criminal trials, rape versus sexual assault, E. Jean Carroll’s lack of credibility, etc.), and despite Bundyphanopoulos clearly giving off waves of abusive boyfriend vibes, the argument kept returning back like a heat-seeking missile to its target: You’re a hypocrite! vs. You’re shaming a victim! Bundyphanopoulos came back at her fifteen times.The “interview” consisted largely of a single “question” that was asked fifteen times.
Remember: George Stephanopoulos pretends to be a journalist. He wants us to believe that his job is to inform the public on important topics.But his actual job is to destroy political enemies by trapping them in contradictions in order to publicly humiliate and discredit them. Whatever his target actually thinks or says, the drama is already pre-scripted: Mace is a hypocrite for supporting Donald Trump. Now, I’m going to perform that drama in front of everyone. It’s more of a play than an interview.
Eventually, realizing this line of attack was failing—a rarity—an exasperated Bundyphanopoulos gave up trying to direct his live-action struggle session and resorted to Plan B: just say it. So, he just declares: “You’re comfortable with Donald Trump being found liable for rape.”* (Therefore, you have no credibility and should be ignored.)
Mace: “You’re putting words in my mouth.” Bullseye. Mace clearly has experience with abusive men.
Those with ears to hear are aware: this is psychological warfare.

Indeed it is. While I'd rate Mace's performance as a solid B to maybe a B+, she could have and should have countered Georgette's smear of "As a rape victim, how can you defend convicted rapist Donald Trump?" with the truth nuke of "How could you not only defend serial rapist Bill Clinton but do so by attacking and destroying the lives of his victims?!"

Yeah, I know Clinton was never convicted let alone even charged with rape or sexual assault, certainly because when most of them happened during his time as emperor of Arkansas, he had that state's criminal justice system in his back pocket. Nevertheless, the multitude of victims and veracity of their charges compared to the complete horseshit about Trump and E. Jean Carroll makes it fair game, to say the least (FYI: Trump was neither tried nor convicted of rape. It was a bullshit defamation lawsuit with a predetermined kangaroo court conviction and insane fine).

In any case, the fact that Mace even agreed to do an "interview" with this greasy bastard of a homunculus in the first place, let alone not to be prepared with a retort such as mine earns demerits. I mean, for fuck's sake, does Nancy Mace let alone any and every Republican and conservative out there not know that Georgina was one of Bill Clinton's key advisors in his War Room? That he was part of the so-called "Bimbo Eruptions Unit" tasked with destroying any and all women who came forward with accusations of rape against slick Willy?

And after a career as the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of Democrat hatchet-men, how does anyone take this little prick seriously as a journalist, the anchorman of one of the big three TV networks?! Do they not remember 12 years ago when he moderated the GOP debate and the first "question" he asked Pee-Air Defecto Romney was "How can you defend your party's desire to outlaw contraceptives?" And the GOP still has yet to learn its lesson by agreeing to let scum like this to moderate debates, let alone appear on their public executions/struggle sessions tarted up as "interviews."

UPDATE: Flashback to 1975. Attorney Hilary Clinton laughs about defending her client, an admitted child rapist, and getting him a slap-on-the-wrist sentence.

Speaking of the Bimbo Eruptions Unit, the Tweedle Dumber to Snuffleupagus' Tweedle Dum, James Carville let this slip out while being "interviewed" by Gloria Vanderbilt's offspring:

Using the euphemism for spilling blood during murder, Carville said, “Not so much him I mean to be candid Anderson, President Biden is not the best attack politician. I’ve ever seen in my life and hopefully leave it at that. But they are a lot of people to do what I call a quote, the wetwork, unquote.
Cooper said, “It sounds like a mob hit.”
Carville said, “Kind of, but it’s a paid TV and stuff like that. But yes it’s CIA term to take a guy out. But he doesn’t need to do to what work people like me and other groups in the party need to do that he he’s not very good at it. I don’t think people want to hear from that. And then he can he can cruise along at a better altitude, but this has got to be done and they’ve got a precious advantage right now and they have it.”

Skeletor there was starting to babble like Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants when his meds wear off but remember, he's talking to Vanderbilt Poofter, an ally on a house organ of the junta. And he's using actual terminology that the intel community uses to mean assassination and caps it off with "this has got to be done and they’ve got a precious advantage right now and they have it.”

Meaning Trump has to be assassinated and the CIA has the opportunity right now to do it. One of two things are going on here. Either this is illustrative of the fact that the Dems are out of their minds that Trump is going to actually win in November or they are so cocky and loose-lipped in front of friends that they can openly boast and/or suggest what will be or should be done.

I'm sure the usual sub-literate trolls out there will insist I'm taking this completely out of context — Just like when Trump said "bloodbath!" By the way, swamp-thing Carville's rant comes right on the heels of blaming the Jews should Biden lose, because they refuse to back the calls for a cease fire that would allow Hamas to finish Israel off for good.

In that vein, this is an indicator of a rift that is running very deeply within the Democrat ranks. On the one hand, you have the self-gassing apostate Chuck Schemer's and Adam Schiff-for-Brains' gladly sticking their necks out – pun intended – to desperately try to appease the Islamic Republic of Michigan, while quite a few of their colleagues recognize that much of the country still actually supports Israel and are distancing themselves from those two momzers. Even RFK Jr. just released a full-throated unequivocal support of what Israel has done and still must do to survive. Remember: he's still in the race as a third party candidate and that can only hurt Biden, perhaps fatally so. NB, I mean "fatally" in the rhetorical sense.

Meanwhile, despite the utter flop in trying to foist EVs on America, Biden's puppet masters in Kalorama have a hard on to quite literally kill off the gasoline powered automobile.

[So-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden has finalized the most extreme push in history to destroy the gas-powered car industry and force consumers to drive what will be, in effect, government mandated electric vehicles.
The New York Times claimed last month that the administration was going to back off its push to force consumers to only purchase EVs as demand for EVs has nosedived in recent years.
However, the [junta] ultimately caved to far-Left environmentalist groups and activists who demanded the most aggressive effort ever to eliminate combustion engine vehicles. The Washington Post, which called the effort “controversial,” noted that the rule will force automakers “to ramp up sales of electric vehicles while slashing carbon emissions from gasoline-powered models.”
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed that its national pollution standard, which could end up getting killed in the courts, would prevent more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions, which it claimed would provide $100 billion in annual benefits to the U.S. . .
. . . Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded: “Biden’s latest ban on gas-powered vehicles and replacement with electric vehicles is another direct assault on consumer choice and the American way of life. It ignores the needs of American families in order to appease the radical environmental lobby at the expense of millions of jobs supported by the automotive industry. It’s time to put an end to this regulatory overreach.”
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) called the agenda “restrictive and unnecessary,” and said that Americans should be able to “choose the best car for their needs.”

That's just it; they're itching to completely take away our right to choose. Not just cars but anything and everything. Perhaps more than any other invention, the automobile and the mobility it allowed individuals to have translated into freedom to go anywhere, at any time, for any reason whatsoever. And as this government becomes more oppressive and tyrannical, that freedom of movement poses almost as much of a threat to their obtaining absolute power as does the Second Amendment. As do free and fair elections. As does a citizenry that understands and cherishes its history, heritage, culture and the incredible sacrifices in blood and treasure it took to achieve and maintain it.

That's why they could care fuck-all if Laken Riley or even a million Laken Rileys are raped and murdered by illegal alien foreigners because foreigners who come here illegally have no love of this country. And as such, they become useful pawns and serfs to those who let them in here in the first place.

Destroy the automobile, oil, coal and gas to turn us into a third world shit-hole? Ditto, the lives of innocent people in a wave of criminality and perhaps terrorist attacks? The cold hard truth is that the Democrat-Left doesn't care what kind of country they can have absolute control over. So long as they can have absolute control.

QED to all of it. And please read that Daniel Greenfield essay in the lead.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Daniel Greenfield: "Those who live unreal lives are the most susceptible to unreal politics." (Wow. - jjs)
The Unreal Politics of Unreal Men
“We don’t own our followers—X does. . . We should take inspiration from the idea of the citizen assemblies.”
How Big Tech Undermines Democracy
"[Bro-Fo] Ilhan Omar is proof."
The Melting Pot Myth Is Destroying America
"A former Border Patrol agent explains why it more migrants than the statistics say, and why the Democrats want to keep them coming in."
How Many Millions of Illegal Aliens in the Country Does the Democrat Party Need to Destroy America?
"We are swiftly approaching the consequences of our suicidal blindness."
The Civilizational Masochism of the West

ISRAEL AT WAR

IDF: Several ‘senior Hamas terrorists’ killed while ‘conducting and promoting terrorist activity’ from Shifa.
IDF Eliminates 90 Terrorists, Apprehends Hundreds in Raid on Gaza Shifa Hospital Complex
"Hamas is a Sunni terrorist organization that enjoys funding from key China ally Iran and has openly called for the destruction of Israel and the elimination of Jewish people from the territory . . . China has similarly supported the geopolitical goals of other jihadist terrorist groups despite its claim to oppose radical Islamic terrorism, most notably the Afghan Taliban." (Charlie Gib-chan: "Uyghurs? Never heard of them!" - jjs)
China Tells Hamas Chief it is "Keen on Relations" in First Meeting Since October 7
David Harsanyi: ". . . And Democrats made it so."
Yes, Israel is Now a Partisan Issue
"As the Israel- ' Palestine ' crisis twists and turns, Washington risks being borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Biden Continues to Imperil U.S. Troops in the Middle East
“But Israel is a moral nation. So it didn’t do that. Instead, it built an iron dome to protect itself so it would not have to go into Gaza.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Israel a "Moral Nation"; Any Other Would "Level" Terrorist Enemy
"Virginia's Tim Kaine becomes latest to dissent from Schumer's views, telling the Free Beacon that 'decisions regarding Israel's leadership should be made by the Israeli people.'"
SHOT: Just a Third of Senate Dems Say They Back Schumer's Call for New Israeli Elections
"The letter was signed by Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D., Wisc.) and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio), two senators facing competitive reelections. Their involvement signals that the Israel-Gaza war will be a campaign issue in battleground Senate races."
CHASER: Embattled Dem Senators Call on Biden to Recognize ""Palestinian"" State
"The dangerous capitulation of the free state of Israel to terror organizations."
Suicide by Irresponsibly-Imposed Two-State Delusion
"Turkey's Islamic supremacist, Jew-hating tyrant."
Erdogan, Tell Us What You Really Think of Jews
"Well-meaning but clueless Westerners – from Washington to Hollywood to the UN – urging Israeli 'restraint' or open-ended 'ceasefire,' should understand why nearly all Israelis will go elsewhere for advice." (Well-meaning is highly debatable - jjs)
Following Biden’s Lead?
"A terrifying glimpse into the reality of life in Gaza."
Prager U Video: Arab "Palestinian" Warns the World about Hamas

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"The company caused many problems for Unilever over its hatred of Israel, embracing of antisemites, participation in the BDS movement, and anti-America tweets."
Unilever Dropping Anti-Israel Company Ben & Jerry’s as It Exits the Ice Cream Business
"The man was held back by his colleague while screaming at the Israeli man."
WATCH: Worker at Harvard Flips Out After He Was Caught Ripping Down Israeli Hostage Posters
I guess the risk of Joo-cooties and a beheading kind of makes one think twice, nein? - jjs
Berkeley Chancellor Declined Invitation To Introduce Israeli Lawyer Whose Speech Last Month Was Derailed by Violent Protesters
Robert Spencer: "How very fitting."
"Daddy Satan" Endorses the "Palestinian" Cause
. . . the fact that the Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers are hopping on to the most blatant falsehoods, skipping from "Donald Trump is calling for a bloodbath in November!!!" to "Jared Kushner wants to turn Gaza into luxury apartments!!!" without skipping a beat means they are catching on to the fact that their constant shrieking is starting to no longer work. So, they just increase the frequency.
New Trump Hoax Just Dropped: Jared Kushner Wants to Build Luxury Apartments in Gaza
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
Sebastian Gorka: "It is impossible to dispute that President Trump has proven himself as the most philosemitic president since the re-establishment of Israel in 1948. . . Anti-Semitism is a problem in America, but not because of President Trump. It’s a problem because of the Democrat Party’s normalization of anti-Israel policies and anti-Jewish calumnies."
Trump and America’s Jews
David Harsanyi: "It’s about his support of terror-friendly, cop-killing Jew-haters."
Opposition to Adeel Mangi Isn’t About "Islamophobia"
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Daniel Greenfield: "Open borders is just the first step. This is the next step."
The Islamist Transformation of Ohio in One Video
"Starting with the lies told within Islam, everything about the Koran is antithetical to the Bible’s ethical monotheism."
Exploding The Myth That Islam is an Abrahamic Religion
Network Rail initially defended the hadiths, insisting “King’s Cross station is made up of a diverse and multi-cultural workforce and at times of religious significance, messages such as these are displayed to celebrate the station’s diversity and inclusivity.”However, despite Britain being a Christian country, at least constitutionally, no messages appear to have been displayed for Lent, which is currently ongoing.
Ramadan ‘Hadiths of the Day’ Removed After Backlash
"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
"The panel will hear arguments from Texas this morning as to why the law should go into effect as litigation continues." (The word "Supreme." What does it mean exactly? Abbott must declare he will not abide by a patently illegitimate ruling- jjs)
Fifth Circuit Blocks Texas Immigration Law After SCOTUS Vacated Stay
"Trump is exactly correct in that the plan would have codified the entry of thousands of migrants a day into the country. . . Part of why Biden has leaned into this message, though, is that as he is reeling from his immigration policy mistakes as president, he has sought to shift blame and responsibility for the crisis — which has seen millions upon millions of migrant entries that otherwise would not have happened — to Congress and Trump and away from himself ahead of the upcoming November election."
Trump Demolishes Biden for Lying About Senate Immigration Plan: "It Would Have Exacerbated the Problem"
Victor Davis Hanson: "In the last four years, the Biden [junta] has violated every historical canon critical to ensuring legal immigration enriches the United States."
Biden’s Border Blowup
“I have no problem with saying that I did vote for Biden because I was not voting — here it is,” she said. “Hold on, hold on, this migrant influx that we’re dealing with right now is your fault,” he said.
Black Biden Voter Rails Against Migrant Crisis Before Show Host Calls Her Out For Voting Blue
"Illegal immigrants 'effectively left in legal limbo without any way to pursue asylum,' says non-partisan data analytics group."
200,000 Deportation Cases Dismissed Because Biden Junta Failed To File Paperwork
"So we have a transexual prostitute with several bullet holes, a very suspect suspect who keeps getting released, and a Venezuelan sex and drugs cartel operating here with seeming impunity. I guess what bugs me most about all of this is that, even after today's news, we still don't know what terrible act is required for an illegal alien to get locked up — but that soon we might just find out."
Illegal Alien Released on Gun Charges, Shoots Trans Illegal Alien, Authorities Helpless
"Less than one week after Tyson Foods decided to sack 1,200 Americans from a plant in Perry, Iowa, and look to hire 42,000 illegal immigrants, the backlash has begun. . . Tyson Foods was hit with federal charges in 2003 involving the company allegedly sneaking illegal immigrants into the U.S. and giving them phony documents that allowed them to work at their food processing plants. One manager killed himself. Tyson argued that any infractions of the law were committed by 'rogue managers.' The jury agreed and the company was acquitted."
Let's Play Chicken: The Battle Against Woke Tyson Foods Is On
"Denver’s economic challenges continue to mount as the Democrat-controlled ‘sanctuary city’ struggles with increasing numbers of illegal immigrants. Within a little over a year, the city council has seen costs for feeding its illegal population surge. In December 2023, the city allocated $100,000 for a contract to provide food for its illegal aliens. By January of 2024, the food costs had increased to $475,000. Last month, the city had to pay an additional $450,000 in food costs, with another $500,000 expected to come due in June."
Illegals Are Breaking the Bank in Denver
"Updated terms of New York’s decades-old right to shelter, while not perfect, may lessen the city’s migrant woes."
A Small Step Forward
"On top of all of that, they had the audacity to say that stopping the flow of migrants into the U.S. by 'criminalizing them' will not only encourage the separation of families, but that it equals 'discrimination and racial profiling that violate the human rights of the migrant community.'"
Mexico Cites 'Discrimination' & Racism in Rejecting Any Deportees from Texas Back to Their Country
"It’s another day that ends in “-y,” which means House Speaker Mike Johnson is preparing to surrender on yet another federal spending fight that allows President Biden’s border invasion to continue unabated."
It’s Past Time Mike Johnson Grows a Spine and Stops Biden’s Border Invasion
BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS & DEMENTIA WATCH
“They continue to lie directly to the American people without hesitation and remorse,” Bobulinski told the committee, with the two Democrats in attendance. “Rep. Dan Goldman and Jamie Raskin, both lawyers, and Mr. Goldman, a former prosecutor with the SDNY from New York will continue to lie today in this hearing and then go straight to the media to tell more lies.”
Former Biden Associate Rips Democrat Reps. Jamie Raskin, Daniel Goldman as Liars in Hearing
“Did you witness the president commit a crime? Is it your testimony today?” she asked. “Yes,” the witness answered. “And what crime have you witnessed?” the congresswoman asked. “How much time do I have to go through it?” he asked.
"RICO is Not a Crime!": Titty-Caca AOC Sent Into Tailspin After Asking Bobulinski To List Biden’s Crimes
"The announcement came at the tail-end of a public hearing that featured the testimony of some former Biden family associates that the [so-called quote-unquote "president's"] son, Hunter Biden, declined to attend following a closed-door interview last month."
Biden Impeachment: So-Called Quote-Unquote "president" Vegetable McFingerbanger To Get Invite For Testimony, GOP Chairman Says
SHAMPEACHMENT 1.0, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley believes the financial predicament is a form of “mob justice” that could ultimately find its way to the Supreme Court.
Letitia James Asks Court to Deny Donald Trump’s $454 Million Bond Appeal
"The most stable country on Earth anywhere to put capital to work over a long period of time, particularly in real estate, is the United States of America. This is an assault on what we believe to be core.”
Kevin O’Leary Blasts New York Forcing Trump to Pay $454 Million Bond: An Attack on "The American Brand"
"It will now be up to the Georgia Court of Appeals to decide whether to take up the appeal. If they decline, McAffee's previous ruling stands. If they take it, it will, at the very least, delay proceedings further, but could potentially result in Willis being removed from the case. It's not over yet."
Fani Willis Could Still Be Disqualified From Trump Case
"38% called the charges 'unfair' and agreed they were meant to undermine the 2024 presidential election."
Voters Split On Whether Charges Against Trump are "Warranted, Based on Facts": I&I/TIPP Poll
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
[Vanderbilt Poofter] Cooper said, “It sounds like a mob hit.” (Because he means exactly that. But Trump said "bloodbath!" - jjs)
Carville: Biden Should Let Surrogates Do the "Wetwork" Against Trump
"I will find you and shoot you." (But Trump said "bloodbath!" - jjs)
TikTok Fanatic Threatens U.S. Senator Over Bill to Force Sale of App
"Washington, D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s office told Fox News that it decided to drop the charges because they don’t typically prosecute similar forms of protest."
Charges Dropped Against Gold Star Father Who Interrupted Biden’s SOTU
Report by CriticalRace.org on how non-academic DEI “certificate” programs have proliferated: “”When people think about it, they should think about critical race theory as the theory and diversity, equity and inclusion as to how that theory gets implemented …, the action items by which critical race theory is pushed into education and also corporations and government.”
DEI Certificate Programs Proliferate: “Training a Cadre of Political Commissars”
You mean just like Hilary Clinton, the CIA and DOJ actually attempted to do in 2016?! - jjs
Scumbag-Deluxe Dan Goldman: GOP House "Conspiring with Russia to Interfere in Our Elections" on Behalf of Trump
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Margot Cleveland: "Murthy v. Missouri perfectly illustrates the dangers of censorship, but Justice Jackson still thinks the government’s ‘perspective’ of ‘threatening circumstances’ should matter."
Justice Brown-25 Jackson’s Comment About Free Speech ‘Hamstringing’ The Government Wasn’t Her Worst
". . . if not, then we face the prospect of Americans’ rights – and the Constitution itself – being subject to the coercive whims of Leftist mobs."
Does the Supreme Court Believe in the First Amendment
"Free speech is the last exit ramp before political violence."
Censorship Is a Dead-End Road
"Will the new TikTok bill prove that conservatives can wield government power effectively, or will it blow up in their faces?"
What Is the GOP Position on TikTok Now?
“I think we’re reaching this point where some sudden thing is going to happen,” Paul told Carlson. “I believe in that theory of the black swan. It’s going to pop up and it’s not going to be controllable.”
‘Very, Very Dangerous’: Ron Paul Tells Tucker Americans Should Prepare For ‘Black Swan’ Event
“Could somebody who isn’t blocked by this account tell them this is untrue in all respects, as I suspect they already know. Lying about my kids is a new low, even by this website’s subterranean standards,” Rowling captioned the screenshot.
J.K. Rowling Goes To War Over Article Spreading Lies About Her Daughter
"Americans can learn a great deal from watching Stephanopoulos’s attack on Nancy Mace, whether it’s seeing the technique in full color or watching a great defense."
George Stephanopoulos: A Cast Study in America’s Psychological Warfare ("Case" study? - jjs)
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Americans are paying roughly 45 percent more at the pump now than before President Joe Biden took office."
Record-High Gas Prices Don’t Bother Biden Because They Restrict Your Use of Energy
"From President Trump down to local races, the stage is set for big patriotic populist wins on the primary issue of the economy."
Trump Leads Battlegrounds on Economic Arguments
"A big question going into the Fed meeting was how many cuts central bankers would indicate they are expecting this year. At the December meeting, the last time they released projections, officials forecast three-quarters of a point of rate cuts this year. The new projections leave that forecast unchanged despite stronger-than-expected growth, a solid labor market, and hotter-than-expected inflation."
Fed Leaves Rates Unchanged But Still Sees Three Cuts This Year
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
“Biden’s extreme climate agenda will crush America’s auto industry and its hard workers while making us MORE dependent on China,” said Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick. “And the irony of it all? Biden will increase global emissions by restricting LNG exports and sourcing lithium needed for batteries from China’s mines!”
Biden Finalizes Plan To Kill Off Gas Cars In U.S.
“This radical policy is anti-jobs, anti-consumer, and anti-American. It will destroy the livelihoods of countless U.S. autoworkers while sending the U.S. auto industry to China.”
Trump Campaign Vows To Reverse Biden’s New "Extreme Electric Vehicle Mandate"
"The finalized regulation effectively mandates manufacturers to see to it that EVs make up between 31% and 44% of their sales by 2030, a reduction from the initial proposal’s 60% threshold, but maintains the same end goal of reducing emissions from new cars by at least 50% by 2032 relative to 2026 levels."
Biden Junta Trots Out Al Gore’s Son To Hype Up EPA’s ‘EV Mandate’ Rule
"The EPA rule undermines consumer choice and transportation affordability for most Americans. Americans must retain the right to choose vehicles that are tailored to their needs and budgets — not to diktats from Washington bureaucrats."
Biden’s War on Gas Cars Will Cost Americans a Fortune (It will cost us our freedom - jjs)
"Like Mowgli in the Disney classic Jungle Book, you can sample ants in your food if you want. But don’t be surprised if, in the long run, like Mowgli, you find that the 'bare necessities' the globalists want to allow you aren’t satisfying, and you prefer a steak and the prosperous American dream."
Ant[i]-Meat: CA Researchers Push Ants as ‘Delicious’ Food
"The $8.3 billion divestment from BlackRock is the largest among the growing number of states withdrawing funds from the firm due to its politically-discriminatory, ESG-driven investment policies."
ESG Bully BlackRock Hypocritically Attacks Texas Over $8.5 Billion Divestment
"Of course, human suffering is of no concern for the global left. Leftists governments executed well over 100 million of their own people last century. It's unlikely that changing the nameplate to 'climate change' has altered their focus. . . they've embraced it so wholeheartedly as to 'feel better about' the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings so long as they're killed “greenly." How can you even argue with that? The answer, unfortunately, is: you can't."
John Kerry’s War
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
"A recent Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans believe crime is worsening. Additionally, 63 percent of Americans said the crime problem in America has become “extremely or very serious.” Washington, D.C. — the nation’s capital — saw severe spikes in murder and theft in 2023."
"It’s Just Disorder!" — "Expert" Says Crime is Down and Blames Public "Perception"
SECOND AMENDMENT
Maldonado, nominated by [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, signed a brief defending a ban on “assault weapons” that was challenged in Illinois state courts in the 2010s, according to vettingproject.org. Kennedy cited from her writings when asking her if she could define what an “assault weapon” was.
‘Not A Gun Expert’: Biden Judicial Nominee Self-Destructs When John Kennedy Asks Her To Define ‘Assault Weapon’
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Additionally, the legislation prohibits students, employees and contractors from being required to attend any “training, orientation, or course work that advocates or requires assent to a divisive concept.” The bill lists eight “divisive concepts” including the idea that “any race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity or national origin is inherently superior or inferior,” or that moral character, inherent racism, or “fault, blame, or bias should be assigned” based on “race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.”
AL Gov Kay Ivey Signs Bill Barring Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Public Schools, Universities
"It operates in a different labor environment."
Why Labor Unions Won’t Save Higher Education
"Lawyers have become mere technicians—no wonder our legal system has gone haywire."
The Miseducation of the Modern Lawyer
"LaVar Charleston—who once assaulted a police officer—passed off old studies as new research at least five times." (I'm shocked - jjs)
Complaint Alleges University of Wisconsin DEI Czar, Husband of Harvard's DEI Chief, Has Decades-Long History of Research Misconduct
ABORTION
“You have uncovered what the real truth is," MTG said to Daleiden who’s uncovered many of the horrors of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry, “The real truth is it’s all for profit off of harvesting the organs and body parts of these unwanted babies, these unwanted human beings, and that’s the real truth.”
MTG EXPOSES Baby Organ Harvesting In Abortion Industry: Selling Livers & Profiting Off Lies
"Democrat politicians do want unrestricted abortion care — they just don’t necessarily want to ‘promote and talk about’ it."
Activists are Forcing Democrats to Admit How Radical the Party Has Become on Abortion
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
SB 101 stipulates that a “ranked-choice voting or instant runoff voting method … shall not be used in determining the election or nomination of any candidate to any local, state, or federal elective office in this state.” The measure would, however, allow the system to be used “for absentee voting by military and overseas voters pursuant to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.”
Louisiana Republicans Pass Bill Ensuring Ranked-Choice Voting Can’t Disenfranchise Voters
"Americans’ votes are diluted by the effects of billionaires funneling millions into local races to fundamentally alter how elections are conducted."
Katie Porker is Right, ‘Big Money’ Does ‘Manipulate’ Elections — But Democrats Aren’t the Victims
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
"Democrats and their pye-dogs in the lefty news media stretched the phrase "sexual assault" into "rape." This was enough to instigate a takeover of Capitol Hill by anti-Kavanaugh Marxist groups, back when doing so was considered free speech and not an insurrection. Despite the fact that Blasey-Ford never accused Kavanaugh of trying to rape her, every lefty wackjob in the nation decided he was a rapist. Apocryphal sexual accusations can be a cash cow for leftists. Ask E. Jean Caroll."
Christine Blasey Ford Never Actually Said Kavanaugh Tried to Rape Her
POLITICS
Trump told Breitbart News in a more than 90-minute long exclusive interview last week here at his luxurious seaside resort and club Mar-a-Lago that polls are showing “numbers we’ve never seen” before with women, black, and Hispanic voters.
Donald Trump: ‘Safety and Security’ Driving Women, Minority Voters to Me and GOP, Away from ‘Lunatic’ Biden and Democrats
"Additionally, the banking group does not believe Democrats will replace Biden as their nominee despite mounting health concerns. . . Meanwhile, Dr. Gad Saad, a marketing professor at Concordia University in Montreal, raised concerns about Democrats’ attempts to abuse the election system. He cites sham impeachments, the suppression of relevant evidence, attempts to alter the structure of the Supreme Court, fraudulent voter practices, and unlawful attempts to remove Trump from the ballot box as mechanisms being used to undermine the electoral process."
Top Bank Says Dem Lawfare Can’t Derail Trump Train
According to a report published Wednesday by Politico, Manchin has announced a plan to stage his own personal “filibuster,” refusing to vote in favor of any of [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s judicial nominees if they don’t also have Republican support. And it doesn’t have to be a lot of support, Manchin said, adding that he would be willing to consider a “yea” vote if just one Republican were convinced to vote with Democrats.
"My Own Little Filibuster": Joe Manchin Vows to Block Any Judicial Nominee Without GOP Support
"The lack of a statewide Democrat primary meant registered Democrats had less reason to turn out on Tuesday than Republicans, who decisively voted for former President Donald Trump in Tuesday’s Republican primary."
Democrats Canceled Their Florida Primary To Help Biden. It Backfired And Helped Republicans Flip Local Seats
". . . voters are starting to tune out Team Biden hyperventilations and are believing their own lyin' eyes instead. 'Biden's failure as president, indicated by his 55.5% disapproval rating and the country's 65% wrong-track number, are factors,' notes the analysis. 'Voters tell reporters they are nostalgic for Trump's years (low inflation, no new wars, a controlled border, a strong economy, and low unemployment)' . . Team Biden still has a couple of other handy tools in the toolbox. There's the abortion wrench and the ballot shenanigans WD-40, for instance. But will these be enough to handle the Nov. 5 job without a fully functioning Fear-of-Trump multi-tool in the mix? "
Uh Oh! Team Biden Broke One of Their Top Campaign Tools
Robert Zimmerman: "These changes at the RNC also seem to illustrate what is happening nationwide on the right. Very steadily the establishment Republicans who for years have claimed to represent conservative values during their election campaigns but then acted more like Democrats when in office have been slowly replaced by actual conservatives, willing to fight. This change is being led by Trump, not so much by who he has endorsed (as he often picks poorly) but by providing a model for others."
Is the Republican Party Finally Doing the Election Due Diligence It Should Have Been Doing Since 2020?
Like saying chronic colitis is better than terminal cancer. True, but still. Meh, I guess it's something - jjs
Larry Hogan Leads Maryland Democrat Rivals By Double Digits In Senate Race Poll
Larry Elder: "Look for it anywhere and everywhere."
A Trump Derangement Syndrome Carol
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
"This means that it will suffer the fate of all the French who have ever come to the Russian world with a sword,” emphasized Naryshkin, likely in reference to Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 invasion of Russia. Naryshkin could also have been referring to Infanterieregiment 638 and SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade France — French troops who fought for Nazi Germany and took part in the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The Russian government has long stressed that ‘de-Nazification‘ is a central goal of its military action in Ukraine.
France Sends 2,000 Troops to Ukraine, Russia Warns They Will Be PRIORITY Target
"If you want peace, prepare for war once more." (France will fall from within to Islam, probably not long after Russia defeats Ukraine, if not perhaps before - jjs)
France and Ukraine: 2024 Reflects 1938
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
". . . adding that it is also “on the way to becoming a colony of Islam.”
Populist Leader Marion Maréchal: Europe Is "Digital Colony of U.S., Economic Colony of China, Demographic Colony of Africa"
"The country’s history is bookended by superstition and sealed at both ends in violence."
Haiti Will End in Blood. It Is Better Left Alone.
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
"Maintenance issues reportedly holding up the Boxer’s deployment go far deeper than the Navy initially let on, including inability to repair mounting engineering problems and a maintenance crew and senior leader who at worst actively attempted to cover up failures, preventing the ship’s deployment, the investigations show." (Boxer. Dog, rebellion or ma'am? - jjs)
Engineering Failures, Toxic Leadership Prevented US Ship From Deploying, Investigations Show
“Our military institutions should always have one goal – developing principled leaders and lethal warriors. The principles that have led generations of soldiers should not be erased to appeal to the cultural moment.”
Sen Blackburn Drills West Point For Ditching ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ In Mission Statement
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Despite high rents and the shift to remote work, jobs, amenities, and density continue to attract young people to cities."
Unaffordable—and Desirable
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"Based on this information, we should now expect the fourth flight to occur sometime in the June-July timeframe, with July more likely."
SpaceX’s next Superheavy/Starship launch, according to SpaceX
It’ll appear as a bright ‘new’ star for a few days with the naked eye, and a little over a week with binoculars, before it settles down again for another few decades."
A relatively dim star is expected to become one of the brightest in the sky later this year
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“White, heterosexual, cisgender men’s power—their dominance—is rooted in the enforcement of heterosexual, monogamous relationships.”
Advocacy for Marriage as the Ideal Is Racist, Says Professor
"Take the Woke away, and we're one of the happiest countries on Earth. Easier said than done, of course, but if people can't enjoy their 20s and 30s, then how are they ever going to cope with getting older?"
Americans Are Crankier Than Ever and These Numbers Prove It
"How do you measure the unmeasurable?"
Gallup’s Stats on American Happiness Are Baloney
Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman responded publicly that "no, the countryside is not racist."
British Museum Puts Warning Labels on Landscape Paintings After Complaint that Countrysides are Racist and Invoke "Dark Nationalistic" Feelings
"The trio argued that the proposed honorees did not align with the principles espoused by the late Justice."
RBG Awards Canceled After Late Justice’s Family Objects to Murdoch and Musk Presence
"Anti-Trump jokes = Hollywood approval."
The Smug, Safe "Comedy" of Jimmy Kimmel
HITHER & YON
Christian Toto: "Amusing sequel spits out Easter eggs between modest comic morsels."
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Slimes Us with Nostalgia
Walsh never married and said in a 2015 interview “If you marry another actor, there’s always competition. And if you marry a ‘civilian,’ they don’t understand what you’re doing and why you have to travel to, say, Nova Scotia, for several months. Besides, I never met a woman who was stupid enough to think I was a great catch!” (Always a solid performer. RIP - jjs)
M. Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner and The Jerk Star, Dead at 88

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1 Nooding duties have been performed

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 21, 2024 07:41 AM (qPw5n)

2 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:41 AM (ENQN6)

3 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at March 21, 2024 07:41 AM (KCCqb)

4 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 07:42 AM (z99Zw)

5 Bundyphanopoulos came back at her fifteen times.The “interview” consisted largely of a single “question” that was asked fifteen times.

He invented Bimbo Eruptions.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:43 AM (ENQN6)

6 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 21, 2024 07:44 AM (a1415)

7 Morning horde and happy birfday JJ

one more day to friday

let's see what fresh hell awaits today

covfefe & content time...

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 21, 2024 07:46 AM (nXhwP)

8 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 07:46 AM (Q4IgG)

9 We are sending troops to Taiwan.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 21, 2024 07:47 AM (nio1T)

10 Ahem. "Advisors."

Posted by: The Pentagon f at March 21, 2024 07:48 AM (dg+HA)

11 “We are people of brotherhood, people of blood, people who know themselves to be Somalis, to be Muslims,” Omar thundered, according to the English-translation subtitles. “We are a gifted set of individuals with a patriotic spirit that acknowledges our homeland and strives to protect it.”

GDP Per Cap

Somalia 2022 $592.10

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 07:49 AM (ENQN6)

12 I fixed this headline:

"200,000 Deportation Cases Dismissed Because Biden Junta Intentionally Failed To File Paperwork"

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 07:50 AM (vFG9F)

13 Good morning morons.

Posted by: vic at March 21, 2024 07:50 AM (A5THL)

14 Mornin' Hordians!

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 21, 2024 07:50 AM (k6uu5)

15 Bill Clinton: ‘put some ice on it Nancy’.

Posted by: Redenzo at March 21, 2024 07:50 AM (V/pbu)

16 There is going to be a time of great suffering.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 21, 2024 07:51 AM (jtTfW)

17 Somalia is the Haiti of Africa.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 21, 2024 07:51 AM (MHhQj)

18 Dems like Steffy because he is so tiny his little holes are still tight.

Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

19 That's just it; they're itching to completely take away our right to choose. Not just cars but anything and everything. Perhaps more than any other invention, the automobile and the mobility it allowed individuals to have translated into freedom to go anywhere, at any time, for any reason whatsoever.
__________

A mobile society is difficult to subjugate.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 07:52 AM (Q4IgG)

20 My birdbath is frozen.

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 07:53 AM (T4tVD)

21
The cold hard truth is that the Democrat-Left doesn't care what kind of country they can have absolute control over. So long as they can have absolute control.

Exactly. Like the (most likely embellished by a journalist) line about 'We had to destroy the village to save the village." from the Vietnam era.

Even if they govern over nothing but the smoking ruins they will gladly sacrifice tens of millions of lives for that seat on the throne.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 21, 2024 07:53 AM (RKVpM)

22 "A mobile society is difficult to subjugate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer "

F'n A!

Posted by: A Viking at March 21, 2024 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

23
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 21, 2024 07:54 AM (bEb2S)

24 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday Eve.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 07:54 AM (9yWhg)

25 "Given Somalia’s population of 15.6 million people, its estimated $123.8 million in 2022 exports translates to roughly $8 for every resident in the Horn of Africa country. That dollar metric is lower than the average $11 per capita one year earlier in 2021."

So, yeah. An economic powerhouse.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 07:54 AM (dg+HA)

26 >>>junta. And he's using actual terminology that the intel community uses to mean assassination and caps it off with...
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Donald Trump used to call his best people "killers".

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 07:55 AM (4dx1h)

27
M. Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner and The Jerk Star, Dead at 88

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 21, 2024 07:55 AM (bEb2S)

28 In that vein, this is an indicator of a rift that is running very deeply within the Democrat ranks.

The only thing that's been holding the Dem coalition together for some time now is the collective desire to stick it to heterosexual white Christians. It was always going to fly apart. The only question was if it would happen before the complete their destruction of the country or after.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 07:55 AM (z99Zw)

29 18 Dems like Steffy because he is so tiny his little holes are still tight.
Posted by: fd at March 21, 2024 07:52 AM (vFG9F)

Him spit roasted by Roman Polanski and Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-uh.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 07:55 AM (x0n13)

30 Good morning, JJ & horde (it's 4:50 am here) and I need to try to get back to sleep for a couple of hours before heading off to work (going on a 4th year of insomnia going back to the "mostly peaceful" summer of Love, Burning, Looting, Murdering, and Covid-1984 Tyranny ... but mostly Burning, Looting, Murdering, and Covid-1984 Tyranny).

Anywho, JUST finally got around to finallyreading one of the numerous essays in my open tabs -- JJ's great Taki Magazine memorial & third-year anniversary tribute to (entitled "Hushed Limbaugh"), and passing of, El Rushbo over @ takimag.com (for those who missed it: takimag.com/article/33323/

Exquisitely done, sir! Wish I could write as well as that, which is one of the reasons I love and continue to hang-out at this place: tremendous writers in Ace, the COBs, and the commenters (even if SOME OF YOU (and YOU know who YOU are) continue to misuse & abuse apostrophes from time-to-time).

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 21, 2024 07:57 AM (Pobzf)

31 M. Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner and The Jerk Star, Dead at 88

another grim milestone for the biden administration
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 21, 2024 07:55 AM (bEb2S)

LOL !!

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 07:57 AM (T4tVD)

32 28 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 07:55 AM (z99Zw)

Interesting that of all things the eruption of anti-Semitism and the support for Israel should drive them apart. And a very large segment of Christians support the Jewish state.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 07:57 AM (x0n13)

33 *Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-uh.*

I miss Rush.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 07:58 AM (dg+HA)

34 OK, someone's going to have to explain to me what the CIA actually does.

I was always under the impression that they couldn't operate in-country, because that was the FBI's job.

If that's not the case, what is their (stated) purpose?

(Please, no snark, because I legitimately don't know.)

Posted by: XTC at March 21, 2024 07:58 AM (6Uni8)

35 30 Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 21, 2024 07:57 AM (Pobzf)

Thank you, sir. Cheers.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 07:58 AM (x0n13)

36 Se started out the interview with a lie. trump was accused of a rape but the denied it and the accuser withdrew it and admitted she had lied.

Posted by: vic at March 21, 2024 07:59 AM (A5THL)

37 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 07:59 AM (eTC67)

38 >>Meaning Trump has to be assassinated and the CIA has the opportunity right now to do it. One of two things are going on here. Either this is illustrative of the fact that the Dems are out of their minds that Trump is going to actually win in November or they are so cocky and loose-lipped in front of friends that they can openly boast and/or suggest what will be or should be done.

I'm guessing Carville is the kind of guy who embraces the power of 'and' in situations like this.
Yes, Trump makes them that crazy, and yes, he really does see himself as a candidate-slayer (hello, the Clintons and their "scorched earth" attacks on political foes, Dem and GOP).
And do we really need to recall how many people inconvenient to the Clintons die accidentally. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 07:59 AM (6IDWi)

39 Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 21, 2024 07:57 AM (Pobzf)

PS: The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 07:59 AM (x0n13)

40 Damn, my inconsistent use of open & closed parentheses -- such as in comments like those @ #30 -- need to be run through a syntax-checking compiler first.

Will we ever get a get a non-beta Minx 1.0? /rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 21, 2024 08:00 AM (Pobzf)

41 16 There is going to be a time of great suffering.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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I'm buying tuna fish and a gross box of mayonnaise packets.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 08:00 AM (4dx1h)

42 * (even if SOME OF YOU (and YOU know who YOU are) continue to misuse & abuse apostrophes from time-to-time).*

The Oxford comma has entered the chat.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 08:01 AM (dg+HA)

43 36 Se started out the interview with a lie. trump was accused of a rape but the denied it and the accuser withdrew it and admitted she had lied.
Posted by: vic at March 21, 2024 07:59 AM (A5THL)

And Trump is suing his ass off for it. Doubt with the corrupt courts it goes far, or anywhere.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 08:01 AM (x0n13)

44
the commenters (even if SOME OF YOU (and YOU know who YOU are) continue to misuse & abuse apostrophe's from time-to-time).

FTFY

Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 21, 2024 08:01 AM (RKVpM)

45 *Robert B. Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-uh.*

I miss Rush.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 07:58 AM (dg+HA)

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

Just searched for and found my initial comment after we learned of his passing on February 17, 2021 @ 12:20 pm EDT:

"Crying like a baby here.

Rush single-handedly kept conservativism alive after Reagan -- before handing it off to Trump, whom he helped elect and get reelected in the greatest landslide (and subsequent fraud) of all time.

RIP, El Rushbo."

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 21, 2024 08:02 AM (Pobzf)

46

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at March 21, 2024 08:02 AM (X4yCj)

47 ‘its, i’ts, it’s, its’…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 08:03 AM (PCK5/)

48 Bundyphanopoulos came back at her fifteen times.

Whoa! There was a guy in HS who, legend had it, did that nine times while out parking with his gf. The gf was the source of that story.

Posted by: HS Confidential at March 21, 2024 08:03 AM (4I/2K)

49 Skeletor said, “Not so much him I mean to be candid Anderson, President Biden is not the best attack politician. I’ve ever seen in my life and hopefully leave it at that. But they are a lot of people to do what I call a quote, the wetwork, unquote.”

Cooper said, “It sounds like a mob hit.”

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:03 AM (ENQN6)

50 Abbott must declare he will not abide by a patently illegitimate ruling

He should declare that, should any illegal in Texas commit a violent crime while the stay is in place, that the judges who enacted the stay would be arrested and tried as accomplices.

Fuck them. They are not philosopher-priests channeling the wisdom of God to the masses. Time to stop treating them like they are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:04 AM (z99Zw)

51 I think Trump brought the suit in FL which, I think, means that it will be tried in FL.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 08:05 AM (4dx1h)

52 Carville recently:

"And so, that’s all a danger. That’s real danger. That’s not made up, Beltway, Democratic… [inaudible] is a friend of mine, said, “I think Democrats need to quit bedwetting.” I said, “My wife has me on rubber sheets right now.” I don’t know if I’m a bed wetter or not, but I sleep with a life preserver."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 21, 2024 08:05 AM (dg+HA)

53 >"A mobile society is difficult to subjugate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer "

F'n A!
Posted by: A Viking
____________

It's apparent that limiting the public's ability to move about freely is one of the most pressing goals of this administration's puppet masters. They made inroads with the jacking up of fuel prices, pushing EV's and touting "sustainable energy."

None of that worked with the public at large.

But they're not stopping. Restricting the public's ability to move about is critical to the left. Every bit as critical as stifling free speech and repealing 2A.

They need to be able to totally control society in order to do whatever it is they intend on doing. They want zero opposition.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)

54 THE TIK TOK bill will be used against sites just like this one!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:06 AM (ENQN6)

55 >> In any case, the fact that Mace even agreed to do an "interview" with this greasy bastard of a homunculus in the first place, let alone not to be prepared with a retort such as mine earns demerits.

Mace was too busy fending off the advances of her horny boyfriend to have time to prepare! Or she was getting ready to go to a prayer breakfast…. Or both.

Don’t roast me please but why is it that so many female pols claim they were raped in the past? Just off the top of my head, Nancy Mace and Joni Ernst….. I don’t think charges were ever filed in either case; no one got arrested. Is rape really that common? I’ll admit I’m a bit dubious….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 21, 2024 08:07 AM (gZ3KO)

56 53 >"A mobile society is difficult to subjugate.
Posted by: Martini Farmer "
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I'm getting a battery car so that I won't be held hostage by gas moguls.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 08:08 AM (4dx1h)

57 >> “We are a gifted set of individuals with a patriotic spirit that acknowledges our homeland and strives to protect it.”

Hoo-boy, all that pride about what, exactly?
Read "Infidel" by Ayan Hirsi Ali. Somalia has no great history, industry, culture, art, music. . . what have the Somalis done other than take care of themselves/their families? There may be Somalis to move to the West and individually succeed (such as Hirsi Ali), but Somalia itself, the Somali people - please tell me where there is greatness, success, contribution to humanity.
Sorry to be harsh, but this cultural relativism has gone waaaay too far, and all the hatred of American/European culture has been mainstreamed and normalized for years. So, gloves off, Omar. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:08 AM (6IDWi)

58 Good morning, dear Horde.

Thank you, JJ, for the excellent essay and compilation of the news. I read it every day, and it is my only news source, even if I don't always comment.

Posted by: Ladyl at March 21, 2024 08:09 AM (+4oV5)

59
THE TIK TOK bill will be used against sites just like this one!

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:06 AM

this is correct

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 21, 2024 08:09 AM (bEb2S)

60 *Is rape really that common? I’ll admit I’m a bit dubious….*

Funny you should ask...

Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford at March 21, 2024 08:10 AM (dg+HA)

61 I think Stephanopoulos knows the frequency.

Posted by: Kenneth at March 21, 2024 08:11 AM (1CS3p)

62 “We are a gifted set of individuals with a patriotic spirit that acknowledges our homeland and strives to protect it.”

--

We just don't want to live there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 21, 2024 08:11 AM (mupln)

63 Fuck them. They are not philosopher-priests channeling the wisdom of God to the masses. Time to stop treating them like they are.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:04 AM (z99Zw)
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Unfortunately, even if they were arrested and charged with crimes, whatever judge they go before will be one of their close friends and will just give them a slap on the wrist, if that.

The arresting officer(s) will then be charged with crimes and thrown in jail for life.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 08:12 AM (7fElN)

64 BTW…. NY state is going all out to legally steal Trump’s properties. The AG’s office claims he hasn’t tried hard enough to get a bond for the full $454M. It’s crazy….. after witnessing covid and the 2020 election I think this takes the prize for craziest and most obscene

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 21, 2024 08:13 AM (gZ3KO)

65 And it doesn’t have to be a lot of support, Manchin said, adding that he would be willing to consider a “yea” vote if just one Republican were convinced to vote with Democrats.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mitt Romney!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:13 AM (z99Zw)

66 Now, when talking politics in the wide world, I keep it simple…. economy and immigration. Hard to get around those two issues.

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 08:13 AM (PCK5/)

67 >> OK, someone's going to have to explain to me what the CIA actually does.

>>I was always under the impression that they couldn't operate in-country, because that was the FBI's job.

That was there stated mission when the CIA was formed post WWII. They were supposed to be a foreign intel service but they almost immediately became involved with regime changes around the world starting in Iran. And look how swell that has worked out.

Many of us Kooky Conspiracy Theorists, a term not unironically coined by the CIA, believe they really went off the reservation with the assassination of JFK and morphed into a permanent shadow government.

But that would be crazy.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 21, 2024 08:14 AM (LkLld)

68 61 I think Stephanopoulos knows the frequency.
Posted by: Kenneth at March 21, 2024 08:11 AM

Stop the hammering.

Posted by: Lawrence O'Donnell at March 21, 2024 08:14 AM (dg+HA)

69 Breaking911 @Breaking911 9h
WOW: Illegal alien tells CNN he believes Trump is racist but would vote for him if he could

"If I could vote right now, I would vote for Donald Trump. He’s a nationalist and wants this country to be well. My children were born here and I want my children to be well."

"Under Joe Biden, the country is an economic disaster."

"[Trump] is a nationalist, that's why I want him to win. Nationalists love their country."

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 08:14 AM (2yu8s)

70 Hiya LadyL !

Good tp see ya !

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 08:14 AM (T4tVD)

71 Barron Trump turns 18 today. The Democrat-Media Complex scum are all set-up to call him anything and create memes they believe will amuse, disgust, and anger their troll armies on the web and TV.

"Ex-NBC exec Mike Sington DELETES tweet calling Barron Trump 'fair game' on his 18th birthday amid wave of criticism"

https://tinyurl.com/27u36mrt

Posted by: Gref at March 21, 2024 08:15 AM (5fDan)

72 [One additional cromulent (to me anyway) memory I'd posted on the news of El Rushbo's passing now some three years ago:]

"When I first moved to Northern California for work in '89 (age 27) I'd already been a talk radio fan for four years (KDWN AM 720 in Las Vegas with libertarian hosts like Art Bell) -- and saw this billboard advertising Rush's show near Sacramento one day, so tuned in.

Since then, I've gone through various relationships, jobs, and homes/locales (even homeless and living in a van at times) -- became estranged from my entire nuclear family from childhood -- and the one comfort and constant in my life was Rush. Hoped this day would never come ..."

[Okay, off to a power nap now ... swearsies!]

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 21, 2024 08:15 AM (NNq22)

73 Stephanopoulos likely baited [Rep Nancy Mace] onto his show by offering an opportunity to tell her side of the story. But since we live in a time of psychological warfare, she should have known that this only happens when they’re confident they can orchestrate an ambush to discredit their political opponents.
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At this point, they can't be "falling for it."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:16 AM (HnUIn)

74 They need to be able to totally control society in order to do whatever it is they intend on doing. They want zero opposition.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 08:06 AM (Q4IgG)
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Part of the problem they have to deal with is industry. It's the economy of scale that makes modern society work at all. If fuel manufacturing is curtailed too far, there is NO economic motivation to deal in it at all.

Then ALL trucking comes to a screeching halt, as does all construction. And aviation. And shipping.

And then there's all the byproducts of the fuel that we use on a daily basis, like plastics.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 08:16 AM (7fElN)

75 Stephanopolous is a little old weed of a man. He probably weighs 110 lbs. She should have replied with "well, why did you give an interview to a rapist," pulled out the strap-on, and then manhandled that malignant dwarf over his chair and taken him to pound town, right there on camera.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2024 08:16 AM (0FoWg)

76 their

sheesh

Posted by: JackStraw at March 21, 2024 08:16 AM (LkLld)

77 Those with ears to hear are aware: this is psychological warfare.
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Well, that's what propaganda is.
And since we don't have a press but rather have a propaganda complex, that's what the press is, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:17 AM (HnUIn)

78 As ABC's News Director, Stephanopoulos is to the Left (and particularly the Clintonite Left) as Jupiter is to Earth. A gravity deflector of comets and asteroids.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 21, 2024 08:17 AM (4I/2K)

79 Larry Hogan Leads Maryland Democrat Rivals By Double Digits In Senate Race Poll

I believe Hogan has TDS, correct? Add this to the other Senator(s) who've said that they won't vote for, and don't support, Trump and watch as the Senate, once again, obstructs the will of the people when they stray from the globalist plantation.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:17 AM (z99Zw)

80 Hiya, JT! Good to see you, too!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 21, 2024 08:17 AM (+4oV5)

81 It's National French Bread Day. 🥖

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

82 BTW…. NY state is going all out to legally steal Trump’s properties. The AG’s office claims he hasn’t tried hard enough to get a bond for the full $454M. It’s crazy….. after witnessing covid and the 2020 election I think this takes the prize for craziest and most obscene
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 21, 2024 08:13 AM (gZ3KO)
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Trump should immediately shutter all of his properties in NYC and begin their demolition down to the foundation. Don't give them any satisfaction.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 08:18 AM (7fElN)

83 As noted, the Left is fracturing. Joe can't steer. Factions are stepping on the gas to pursue their own ends, or are stealing all they can while they can.

Media are all in for the Bidens. But they won't be able to control the Narrative as they have before. (e.g. today they'll parrot AOC's "what crime?" and look ridiculous). If they blackout Trump, he'll make that the Narrative.

Turnout. Turnout. Turnout.
Many minorities and women who won't pull a lever for Trump will stay home, which in effect is half a vote for Trump. Some states like CA are lost because of Structural Cheating, but in most of the country the Left can't replace all those missing voters without a blatant and obvious steal.

Developing ....

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:18 AM (Gse2f)

84 There's an excellent HueTueb at last night's ONT.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 08:18 AM (4dx1h)

85 We're jealous.

Posted by: Pravda and TASS at March 21, 2024 08:19 AM (dg+HA)

86 pulled out the strap-on, and then manhandled that malignant dwarf over his chair and taken him to pound town, right there on camera.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2024 08:16 AM (0FoWg)

kinda giving me a chubby

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:19 AM (ENQN6)

87 And after a career as the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed of Democrat hatchet-men, how does anyone take this little prick seriously as a journalist, the anchorman of one of the big three TV networks?!
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Because he's an elite, effective, well-vetted press man.

Here's the translation matrix, in case anyone needs it:
Press: propaganda complex
Newspaper/outlet/network: propaganda organ
Journalist/reporter: propagandist

Now ask this same question again. How can anyone take this guy (or folks like Carville and everyone else) seriously? Because he does his job reasonably well and has been doing so for decades.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn)

88 Many of us Kooky Conspiracy Theorists, a term not unironically coined by the CIA, believe they really went off the reservation with the assassination of JFK and morphed into a permanent shadow government.

But that would be crazy.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 21, 2024 08:14 AM (LkLld)

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

* The X-Files and the CSM (Cigarette-Smoking Man) have entered the chat *

/Yeah, OK ... my name is Shain, and I'm an insomniac Hordeaholic *

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 21, 2024 08:20 AM (NNq22)

89 It's National French Bread Day. 🥖
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

With garlic butter, what's not to like!

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 21, 2024 08:20 AM (4I/2K)

90 Stephanopolous is a little old weed of a man. He probably weighs 110 lbs. She should have replied with "well, why did you give an interview to a rapist," pulled out the strap-on, and then manhandled that malignant dwarf over his chair and taken him to pound town, right there on camera.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2024 08:16 AM (0FoWg)
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It would give ABC a ratings boost...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 08:20 AM (7fElN)

91 Wear the damn mask!!

Posted by: Larry Hogan, 2021 at March 21, 2024 08:21 AM (dg+HA)

92 -
Trump should immediately shutter all of his properties in NYC and begin their demolition down to the foundation. Don't give them any satisfaction.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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That's rather defeatist.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 08:21 AM (4dx1h)

93 Carville said, “Kind of, but it’s a paid TV and stuff like that. But yes it’s CIA term to take a guy out. But he doesn’t need to do to what work people like me and other groups in the party need to do that he he’s not very good at it. I don’t think people want to hear from that. And then he can he can cruise along at a better altitude, but this has got to be done and they’ve got a precious advantage right now and they have it.”
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"The president we're stuck with is weak, so it's up to we Party Men on TV and in the shadows to break out the lead pipes to make sure we put his weak ass over the line."

Nice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:21 AM (HnUIn)

94 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 11h
JUST IN - Whistleblower John Barnett claimed Boeing management spied on him before his alleged suicide — NY Post

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 08:22 AM (2yu8s)

95 Lockdown Larry. Another asshole that should go away.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at March 21, 2024 08:22 AM (R4t5M)

96 ...if people can't enjoy their 20s and 30s, then how are they ever going to cope with getting older?

Drugs, alcohol, perverse sexual practices.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:22 AM (z99Zw)

97 I think Mace did OK but didn’t actually get to the foundational issue: Democrat lawfare.

The best response IMO is “I am not obligated to accept blatant politicization and abuse of the legal system.”

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 21, 2024 08:22 AM (k8kCE)

98 Now ask this same question again. How can anyone take this guy (or folks like Carville and everyone else) seriously? Because he does his job reasonably well and has been doing so for decades.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:20 AM (HnUIn)

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"I'll have you know, sir, that we take sycophantic MDM-MSM "media" whores extremely seriously in THIS ESTABLISHMENT IYKWIMAITYD!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 21, 2024 08:23 AM (NNq22)

99 "But since we live in a time of psychological warfare, she [Nancy Mace] should have known [of Stephanopoulis's plan to trap her]."

They, we, all should know by now. It's becoming a tragic failing that we don't. This refers to Solway's essay from yesterday of the conservatives' endless, "debilitating naivete." She should only have agreed to the interview because she had a proactive plan to trap and humiliate HIM.

When I start seeing conservatives in the public realm exploiting every second of interaction with the Left to our advantage, putting THEM on the defensive, I'll know we've turned the corner in this culture war.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 21, 2024 08:23 AM (fAln6)

100 It's National French Bread Day. 🥖
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

With garlic butter, what's not to like!
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 21, 2024 08:20 AM (4I/2K)

And a tongue ?

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 08:23 AM (T4tVD)

101 Part of the problem they have to deal with is industry. It's the economy of scale that makes modern society work at all. If fuel manufacturing is curtailed too far, there is NO economic motivation to deal in it at all.

Then ALL trucking comes to a screeching halt, as does all construction. And aviation. And shipping.

And then there's all the byproducts of the fuel that we use on a daily basis, like plastics.

Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That's what I've been trying to say. There is so many things that petroleum touches, that curtailing drilling because vehicles went to battery, crashes all other industries.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 08:23 AM (IB/6k)

102 "RICO is Not a Crime!": Titty-Caca AOC Sent Into Tailspin After Asking Bobulinski To List Biden’s Crimes

Has she told Fani? And the judge?

Posted by: Gref at March 21, 2024 08:24 AM (5fDan)

103 >>In fact, asserts Letiecq, advocacy for marriage amounts to “structural oppression” because marriage advantages “White heteropatriarchal nuclear families” and the men who lead those families and put their wives into “subjugation.”
“[M]arriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy,” writes Letiecq. She explains that “marriage fundamentalism” is the idea that the two-parent married family is superior.

OK, are fatherless black families (and other races, but countering her "white" reference here) raising successful, stable kids? And what about polygamous families, such as in Afghanistan, with child brides and cousin marriages? Any other family structures that hold a candle to the nuclear family?

I think this is more "I hate you white guys because Judeo-Christian Western civilization figured out the best family structure for a successful, stable community/culture."

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:24 AM (6IDWi)

104 *Then ALL trucking comes to a screeching halt, as does all construction. And aviation. And shipping.

And then there's all the byproducts of the fuel that we use on a daily basis, like plastics.*

That's ok. We've got TikTok.

Posted by: Clueless 20 somethings at March 21, 2024 08:24 AM (dg+HA)

105 That's just it; they're itching to completely take away our right to choose. Not just cars but anything and everything. Perhaps more than any other invention, the automobile and the mobility it allowed individuals to have translated into freedom to go anywhere, at any time, for any reason whatsoever. And as this government becomes more oppressive and tyrannical, that freedom of movement poses almost as much of a threat to their obtaining absolute power as does the Second Amendment.
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And what's kind of darkly funny as an undercurrent is that there are going to be some winners from this rule if it goes into effect and remains standing. The winners will be Japan and to a lesser degree, Korea and Germany. They will lose much of the American market such as it still exists, but they will accelerate in the rest of the world.

Yet you can be sure that the UAW will still spend millions of dollars and directs millions of votes to the Party, and will do so right up to the moment that their union vanishes because the industry has been destroyed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:25 AM (HnUIn)

106 And a tongue ?
Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 08:23 AM (T4tVD)

There's no tongue in garlic butter French bread.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 21, 2024 08:25 AM (4I/2K)

107 Trump's NYC buildings aren't going anywhere so it'd be easy for Leticia to cut a deal to freeze these buidlings during appeal if it was truly about securing a future judgment.

Instead, the process is the punishment.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:25 AM (Gse2f)

108 Breaking911 @Breaking911 9h
BREAKING: Nearly 3 dozen Chinese warplanes swarm Taiwan, government says

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 2h
ALERT: Taiwan's defence ministry says 32 Chinese military aircraft detected around the island in a 24-hour window -- the second-highest number this year

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 08:25 AM (2yu8s)

109 Interesting that of all things the eruption of anti-Semitism and the support for Israel should drive them apart. And a very large segment of Christians support the Jewish state.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 07:57 AM (x0n13)

It's certainly not what I expected. I figured the "Jewish question" wouldn't come up until President Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed started loading people on cattle cars.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:26 AM (z99Zw)

110 And then there's all the byproducts of the fuel that we use on a daily basis, like plastics.

Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

That's what I've been trying to say. There is so many things that petroleum touches, that curtailing drilling because vehicles went to battery, crashes all other industries.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 08:23 AM (IB/6k)
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I forgot to mention fertilizers, which also make growing food at industrials scale possible.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 08:26 AM (7fElN)

111 Meanwhile, despite the utter flop in trying to foist EVs on America, Biden's puppet masters in Kalorama have a hard on to quite literally kill off the gasoline powered automobile.

--

I just heard on the radio that Trump's "bloodbath" was purposeful. One month ago:

"Guangzhou-based electric vehicle (EV) maker Xpeng is to hire 4,000 staff and invest 3.5 billion yuan ($486m, £390m) into artificial intelligence research as it seeks to distinguish itself in the ultra-competitive “bloodbath” of China’s EV market, founder He Xiaopeng said in a message to staff on Sunday.

“It will be the first year that the EV competition enters into a new phase of bloodbath,” He wrote."

https://tinyurl.com/24596p9e

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 08:26 AM (+RC1q)

112 >>It's National French Bread Day.

Ooh, will have to make some Fronch toast to eat with Fronch fries and Peruuuu water!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:26 AM (6IDWi)

113 OK, are fatherless black families (and other races, but countering her "white" reference here) raising successful, stable kids? And what about polygamous families, such as in Afghanistan, with child brides and cousin marriages? Any other family structures that hold a candle to the nuclear family?

I think this is more "I hate you white guys because Judeo-Christian Western civilization figured out the best family structure for a successful, stable community/culture."
Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:24 AM (6IDWi)

If you have stable nuclear families, you have a stable society. You also have a civil society. If you have a stable society anchored by nuclear families that populate civil society, government isn’t needed. Therefore government gets smaller (or should) and weaker as the individual becomes bigger.

Hell no government and Marxists cannot tolerate either.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at March 21, 2024 08:27 AM (LqqGi)

114 OK, someone's going to have to explain to me what the CIA actually does.

I was always under the impression that they couldn't operate in-country, because that was the FBI's job.

I have read, I don't know how truthfully, that this was changed during Obama's second term when he also allowed propaganda to start being "legally" used against US citizens.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:27 AM (z99Zw)

115 Has she told Fani? And the judge?
Posted by: Gref at March 21, 2024 08:24 AM (5fDan)

Fani and the Judge could be a magic negro version of Chico and the Man.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:27 AM (ENQN6)

116 >>> They, we, all should know by now. It's becoming a tragic failing that we don't.
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They role play at being vile and duplicitous for fun.
We're not like that.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 08:27 AM (4dx1h)

117 "M. Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner and The Jerk Star, Dead at 88"

Doctor Jelly-finger from Fletch.
"Mooooooon River!"

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 08:28 AM (JunzL)

118 That's what I've been trying to say. There is so many things that petroleum touches, that curtailing drilling because vehicles went to battery, crashes all other industries.

Enough with your common sense, rick. We got no time for that. Even their precious EVs require lubricants, not to mention all the stuff that makes their precious EVs.

Get rid of oil ? We go back to a 1800s lifestyle. They won't like that very much. Not even the richest of them.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 08:28 AM (O17x6)

119 “[M]arriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy,” writes Letiecq. She explains that “marriage fundamentalism” is the idea that the two-parent married family is superior.
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It is.

It's not something that can be argued. Men and women in a two-parent married household is superior. Wildly superior. To any and everything, gay fake parents or straight single parents.

This whole attempt to reinvent the wheel on every single thing is infuriating.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 08:28 AM (+RC1q)

120 Mace missed an obvious opportunity.

Steffy, speaking of rape didn't you used to work for Bill Clinton?

Do you still stand by him? Even though he had to pay a woman for sexually harassing her? Even though he appears on the Epstein flight logs? Even though he won't say under oath that he did not rape Juanita Broaddrick?

And do you think Joe Biden should be prosecuted for the sexual assault his own staffer claims? And what Ashley Biden said he did to her in her own diary?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:28 AM (ibTVg)

121 “It will be the first year that the EV competition enters into a new phase of bloodbath,” He wrote."

https://tinyurl.com/24596p9e
Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 08:26 AM (+RC1q)

Everyone knows he was quoting the chinaman.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:29 AM (ENQN6)

122 OK, someone's going to have to explain to me what the CIA actually does.

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Topple governments. It's why they're not supposed to operate on American soil.

(looks at January 6th)

Gosh, would you look at that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 08:29 AM (+RC1q)

123 With garlic butter, what's not to like!
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 21, 2024 08:20 AM (4I/2K)

And a tongue ?
Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 08:23 AM (T4tVD)
*******
And a plate of spaghetti 🍝 on the side.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:29 AM (NpAcC)

124 Show me the section in the constitution that give a president the right to tell us what products we are allowed to buy, whether that be automobiles or stoves.

Ill wait.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:30 AM (xUTQW)

125 "There is so many things that petroleum touches, that curtailing drilling because vehicles went to battery, crashes all other industries."

One of the best non-fictions books I've read is The Prize which is a history of the oil industry by Daniel Yergin, an oil industry consultant. It doubles as an insightful history of the 20th Century.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:30 AM (Gse2f)

126 There's no tongue in garlic butter French bread.
Posted by: Count de Monet

oh.

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 08:30 AM (T4tVD)

127 We have plenty of data that a two parent - one father, one mother arrangement is superior to one parent - the data is as strong as the data as we have for anything.

So unless this woman is arguing that maybe Muslim/Mormon style polygamy could be as good or better she's full of shit.

Not that I'm saying that is better, just I don't think there is formal data on it.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:31 AM (ibTVg)

128 Black gold. Texas tea.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 21, 2024 08:31 AM (4I/2K)

129 124 Show me the section in the constitution that give a president the right to tell us what products we are allowed to buy, whether that be automobiles or stoves.

Ill wait.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:30 AM (xUTQW)

Show me the politician that has said anything about this abuse of power.

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 08:31 AM (PCK5/)

130 How anyone could take Stephanopolous seriously as a “newsman” is laughable…. I’m old enough to remember when he was a political operative/hatchet man for Bubba Clinton. Kinda like Chris Matthews working for Tip O’Neill and then becoming a “newsman”

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 21, 2024 08:31 AM (gZ3KO)

131 "Hamas is a Sunni terrorist organization that enjoys funding from key China ally Iran and has openly called for the destruction of Israel and the elimination of Jewish people from the territory . . . China has similarly supported the geopolitical goals of other jihadist terrorist groups despite its claim to oppose radical Islamic terrorism, most notably the Afghan Taliban."
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I'll just put this here. UK Daily Mail:

"US taxpayer money is flowing to the Taliban: Damning government report reveals American cash is getting into terrorists hands through $2.9 billion UN plan and bundles of notes delivered to Kabul airport"

https://tinyurl.com/23qkavyd

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 08:32 AM (+RC1q)

132 I'll take that French bread with some cheese, garlic and pepper, thank you.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 08:32 AM (4dx1h)

133 National French Bread Day?

No, we had absolutely nothing to do with pushing this.
Remember our bread sticks are Italian.

Posted by: Olive Garden at March 21, 2024 08:32 AM (dg+HA)

134 I think this is more "I hate you white guys because Judeo-Christian Western civilization figured out the best family structure for a successful, stable community/culture."
Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:24 AM (6IDWi)
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Not just that. Most of the Oriental countries figured this out, too. So did some of the pre-Christian Europeans, including Rome.

A highly-regulated sex market with externally (that is, socially) enforced monogamy leads to better average outcomes for everyone involved, which is why every single highly-successful civilization discovered and implemented it.

Much of this kind of crap is coming in after the fact. Outside of the elites, marriage and nuclear families - and family formation - have already been destroyed. There is an ongoing retroactive justification of it as creating the best of all possible worlds so that the urn containing the ashes of civilization won't read, "cause of death: feminism and the sexual revolution."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:32 AM (HnUIn)

135 “White, heterosexual, cisgender men’s power—their dominance—is rooted in the enforcement of heterosexual, monogamous relationships.”

KKK members hang their heads in shame that Democrat Elites kill and destroy 1000X more blacks than they ever imagined.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:32 AM (ENQN6)

136 National French Toast Day?

I’m gonna have to make a run to the store for some maple syrup.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 08:34 AM (9yWhg)

137 RBG Awards Canceled After Late Justice’s Family Objects to Murdoch and Musk Presence

BEEEEEPPPPPPPP

Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at March 21, 2024 08:34 AM (ENQN6)

138 124 Show me the section in the constitution that give a president the right to tell us what products we are allowed to buy, whether that be automobiles or stoves.

Ill wait.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:30 AM (xUTQW)

"Ahem!"

- - John Roberts bright red pen!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 08:34 AM (x0n13)

139 The best predictor of basic American success (graduate HS, have a job) is whether your parents were married when you were born. Beats out all others, including race.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:34 AM (Gse2f)

140 135 “White, heterosexual, cisgender men’s power—their dominance—is rooted in the enforcement of heterosexual, monogamous relationships.”

KKK members hang their heads in shame that Democrat Elites kill and destroy 1000X more blacks than they ever imagined.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:32 AM (ENQN6)

I would translate this as “ normal people’s power is a threat to our agenda”.”..

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 08:35 AM (PCK5/)

141 French Bread surrenders to every topping.

Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at March 21, 2024 08:35 AM (ENQN6)

142 AOC Press Release (parody) @AOCpressTwo 21h
No, Hunter doesn't have to show up to a Congressional hearing.

He's the President's son and has immunity.

Maybe some of you hillbilly MAGAt supporters should put down the Pabst Blue Ribbon and read the Constitution.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 08:35 AM (2yu8s)

143 off sox

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:35 AM (ENQN6)

144 One of the best non-fictions books I've read is The Prize which is a history of the oil industry by Daniel Yergin, an oil industry consultant. It doubles as an insightful history of the 20th Century.

Fun Facts - gasoline was one of the last products to be derived from oil. Before that ? A useless byproduct. First successful well ? 1859, in Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 08:35 AM (O17x6)

145 *KKK members hang their heads in shame that Democrat Elites kill and destroy 1000X more blacks than they ever imagined.*

Hold my coat hanger.

Posted by: Margaret Sanger at March 21, 2024 08:35 AM (dg+HA)

146 139 The best predictor of basic American success (graduate HS, have a job) is whether your parents were married when you were born. Beats out all others, including race.
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:34 AM (Gse2f)

90% chance of being in top quintile.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:36 AM (ENQN6)

147 >>So unless this woman is arguing that maybe Muslim/Mormon style polygamy could be as good or better she's full of shit.

Appears to be a Wrecker. An activist Wrecker.
In order to explain away failure in other communities she has to denigrate/destroy what works.

Bethany Letiecq is an associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development, specializing in the utilization of community-based participatory action research approaches, anti-racist research methods, and mixed method designs (e.g., qualitative and quantiative methods) in partnership with minoritized and marginalized families. In her work, she documents the structural forces (law, policies, practices) that cause stressors, erode family health, and hinder family functioning. She also examines the ways families adapt and adjust to and resist structural forces, including structural racism and inequality, to achieve their goals. Guided by community partners, she works to translate research to action for systems change.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:37 AM (6IDWi)

148 Hold my coat hanger.
Posted by: Margaret Sanger at March 21, 2024 08:35 AM (dg+HA)

There are some people you dont want more of.

Posted by: RBG Star Wars Wheelchair at March 21, 2024 08:37 AM (ENQN6)

149 "M. Emmet Walsh, Blade Runner and The Jerk Star, Dead at 88"
Doctor Jelly-finger from Fletch.
"Mooooooon River!"
Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 08:28 AM (JunzL)

He was good as the crooked cop trying to shake down the mom of Walter, the dead cop for his tapes.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 21, 2024 08:37 AM (MHhQj)

150 National French Bread day?

Anyone want to sample my tasty Baguette?

Posted by: Uncle Pervy at March 21, 2024 08:38 AM (V5BDR)

151 Get rid of oil ? We go back to a 1800s lifestyle. They won't like that very much. Not even the richest of them.
Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 08:28 AM (O17x6)
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We also go back to 1800s public health. Not an appealing prospect.

Plastic films alone have brought tremendous benefits to public health. They keep food clean and trash contained. Sewage, water treatment and garbage disposal - the dirty, smelly, unpleasant work of sanitation - is probably deserving of more credit for general health and life expectancy improvements than medicine over the past hundred years.

That's the real basis of public health: keep the food clean, keep the water clean, keep the shit out of the water and out of living areas, take the trash away and keep it away.

It all requires tons of energy and lots of those magnificent "single-use plastics."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:38 AM (HnUIn)

152 " gasoline was one of the last products"

No one did more to save the whales than J.D. Rockefeller pushing cheap kerosene to replace whale oil for lamps.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:38 AM (Gse2f)

153 Make whale oil great again.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 08:38 AM (9yWhg)

154 Greenies love saving whales. John Rockefeller saved more whales than Greenpeace.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2024 08:39 AM (0EOe9)

155 Fun Facts - gasoline was one of the last products to be derived from oil. Before that ? A useless byproduct. First successful well ? 1859, in Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Factoid

I enjoy informing people that the person by far the most responsible for saving the whales from extinction is John D Rockefeller.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:39 AM (xUTQW)

156 Minor disagreement.

Mace we t on Georgie and gave as good as she got. You're not going to reach swing voters nor demonstrate what sleezeballs the Ds are by going on Hannity.

Swinging back with Billy wod have lifted her to an "A." But I'll take the B+ Notice how this died basically the same day, with no MSM blaring it following the interview.

That's how we know the hit failed.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 21, 2024 08:39 AM (JkCto)

157 I've started reading Asimov's Foundation and I just reached the part where the technological priesthood created by Foundation has flipped the switch and turned off civilization for a belligerent planet....

Coming soon to a society near you!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 08:39 AM (7fElN)

158 Get rid of oil ? We go back to a 1800s lifestyle. They won't like that very much. Not even the richest of them.
Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 08:28 AM (

This is not really accurate. They won't like it much when *everything* is gone, because then the masses will relieve them of their power.

But in the meantime? They don't care if the poverty touches them, as long as they own everything. Soviet politicians were happy to exploit little forbidden luxuries like Western appliances and so forth in private, but they were scarce even for them. They had to wear suits made of carpet remnants and bakelite eyeglasses, and drive cars that ran on bunker fuel and had desk fans for A/C, right into the '90s. They shopped at ridiculous Party stores with random loot piled up in heaps to pick through.

The power demon that possesses our ruling classes likes material wealth, but it's a secondary consideration. It doesn't matter to the demon whether he stands astride a mountain of gold or a pile of shit, as long as he's on top.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 21, 2024 08:39 AM (0FoWg)

159 Hope your morning is better
I am cold so miserable

Posted by: Skip at March 21, 2024 08:40 AM (+4ZNE)

160 A highly-regulated sex market with externally (that is, socially) enforced monogamy leads to better average outcomes for everyone involved, which is why every single highly-successful civilization discovered and implemented it.

One caveat, enforced monogamy leads to a more stable society. With most men guaranteed to get a wife if they follow the rules of that society it gives a strong incentive for the majority of men to constructively work within society's rules.

But...Muslim style polygamy has a different societal advantage. With the majority of women reserved for the top 25-50% or so of men, it incentivizes the other men in that society to go get wives through war.

This is part of the reason the Caliphate expanded so quickly and why Islam always seems to have a group of young men ready to fight. But obviously this creates massive instability when you have no external conflict to send those men off to go fight...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:40 AM (ibTVg)

161 79 Larry Hogan Leads Maryland Democrat Rivals By Double Digits In Senate Race Poll

I believe Hogan has TDS, correct? Add this to the other Senator(s) who've said that they won't vote for, and don't support, Trump and watch as the Senate, once again, obstructs the will of the people when they stray from the globalist plantation.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:17 AM (z99Zw)

He's as good an R as you can get from MD - probably Uniparty, but gonna be stuck voting R in the Senate at least 50% of the time, which is more than the insane D candidate will...

Get Moreno in from OH, and you start having a majority where Romney-lite won't matter...

PS - The Senate plays no role in electing a Pres no matter what happens - they vote in only the VP...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2024 08:40 AM (exHjb)

162 @152 -154 Four aces!!!

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:41 AM (Gse2f)

163 Good morning Horde, thx as always JJ. The French send 2000 troops to Ukraine while they're gearing up to host the Olympics and while the no go zones are expanding with pro Hamas violence. Macron sure does care about his people

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2024 08:41 AM (mewk3)

164 Get rid of oil ? We go back to a 1800s lifestyle. They won't like that very much. Not even the richest of them.
Posted by: Factoid

Get rid of oil and at least half of the world's population will die. They cannot be sustained without it.

I suspect that is part of the plan..

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:41 AM (xUTQW)

165 Walsh never married and said in a 2015 interview “If you marry another actor, there’s always competition. And if you marry a ‘civilian,’ they don’t understand what you’re doing and why you have to travel to, say, Nova Scotia, for several months. Besides, I never met a woman who was stupid enough to think I was a great catch!”

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:41 AM (ENQN6)

166 I looked up Mace's birthday, Dec of 1977, so basically 1978...probably wasn't paying much attention to what was going on with Bubba as a teenager, then college student.
we forget sometimes...that we are old

you have to have some Republicans show up on shows like that, otherwise the Independents, and dumb old school Dems that don't totally realize the party is full Commie, don't get to hear any other opinions...

Posted by: ziggggeeee at March 21, 2024 08:42 AM (AsMdZ)

167 109 It's certainly not what I expected. I figured the "Jewish question" wouldn't come up until President Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed started loading people on cattle cars.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:26 AM (z99Zw)

All the college kids and LGBTOMGWTFBBQ and BLM thugs think the only reason we haven't already HAD President Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed is because Jewish people won't allow it to.

Those grievance groups WANT President Mohammed Mohammed Mohammed (because they're idiots).

Posted by: XTC at March 21, 2024 08:42 AM (6Uni8)

168 non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder 22h
Damn nobody is safe in Chicago

https://tinyurl.com/368hk3ah
47 seconds; Uber used as a getaway vehicle??; Language NSFW, oddly enough.

Midtown Mike @MidtownMike22 18h Replying to @PicturesFoIder
Driver giving off those Danny Glover Lethal Weapon vibes. 😂 "I'm too old for this shit"

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 08:42 AM (2yu8s)

169 “White, heterosexual, cisgender men’s power—their dominance—is rooted in the enforcement of heterosexual, monogamous relationships.”

Ironically the biggest complaint among 30ish year old American women is that there are "no good men to marry"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:42 AM (ibTVg)

170 If Xi is smart, and I think he is, China will attack Taiwan this year. China's two rivals, the US and Russia, are both weakened at the same time. China's main rival, the US, is in almost complete disarray politically, and lacks coherent leadership.

Posted by: Don Black at March 21, 2024 08:42 AM (oCjPU)

171 158 Yep, YD. Recall the words of Satan in Paradise Lost:

“Tis better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 08:42 AM (9yWhg)

172 Nuclear power was the thing that the Green Left demonized in the past. It of course was a great alternative to fossil fuels in a number of applications. And, another of course, it never really was about the climate, was it???

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 08:42 AM (PCK5/)

173 130 How anyone could take Stephanopolous seriously as a “newsman” is laughable…. I’m old enough to remember when he was a political operative/hatchet man for Bubba Clinton.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 21, 2024 08:31 AM (gZ3KO)

But an entire generation, maybe two, have no idea of this. I wouldn't begin an interview with this homunculus without demanding he make full disclosure of his background to the audience. It would blow his mind.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 21, 2024 08:43 AM (fAln6)

174 That's the real basis of public health: keep the food clean, keep the water clean, keep the shit out of the water and out of living areas, take the trash away and keep it away.

It all requires tons of energy and lots of those magnificent "single-use plastics."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:38 AM (HnUIn)

Burning that plastic could recover 50 to 60% of the energy use to make it.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:43 AM (ENQN6)

175 It's also.
World Down Syndrome Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

176 People who are obsessed with banning plastic straws and bags do not really care about the petro-chemical industry or what that industry makes.

That disconnect is perfect for the left.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 08:45 AM (Q4IgG)

177 from wiki, so you know it's true...had anyone heard about this happening at Mace's home? Meanwhile, Maxine Waters has a house close to the street, with no fence around it, (saw that in an ad her Republican opponent did in front of her home) and doesn't have to worry about a thing happening to her or her house.

Mace resides on Daniel Island in Charleston, South Carolina.[96] On June 1, 2021, the Charleston Police Department opened an investigation after Mace's home was vandalized with profanity, three anarchy symbols, and graffiti in support of the PRO Act.[97]

Posted by: ziggggeeee at March 21, 2024 08:45 AM (AsMdZ)

178 Rockefeller monopoly also got lights (kerosene) to people in the country that lived in the dark.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:45 AM (ENQN6)

179 AOC Press Release (parody) @AOCpressTwo 23h
I'm introducing a bill today called "the bloodbath bill."

Anyone using the word bloodbath or even typing the word bloodbath will get life in prison.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (2yu8s)

180 >>Mace missed an obvious opportunity.
Steffy, speaking of rape didn't you used to work for Bill Clinton?

I think it's better she kept it personal - she stayed within the paradigm of victimhood, which is a classic Leftist approach.

"You're shaming me as a rape victim" is very much a Leftist response, which means it would better resonate with Stephy's Leftist audience, and clearly irked Stephy because he could not move her beyond it. They are used to being victims, using victims - not having to react to Republicans being the victim. It put him in the spotlight as an ugly aggressor, where mentioning Clinton would have validated the conversation -of 'who's guy is the bigger rapist'?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (6IDWi)

181 What network does Georgy work for again?

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ABC News is undermining women who accused exec of assault, angry staffers say
"Women are questioning why they are still at ABC because they are all so disgusted," one woman at the network said.
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Someone should ask fuckface why he's okay being employed by rape and sexual abuse apologists.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (mf7Zu)

182 You know what would be a fun exercise? Hire Imams from the middle east to come to American college campuses to give their opinions on homosexuality, trannies, and feminism.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (ibTVg)

183 Hamas is a group of stupid Arabs being funded by the Persians

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (cA2wI)

184 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (PQ4m2)

185 Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that President Joe Biden will win the presidential election “reasonably handily.”

Dean said, “The problem for him is going to be in the numbers that you showed earlier in the show, is the 20% of the people who actually take the time to vote in a Republican primary after Trump has already clinched the nomination that can’t bring themselves to vote for Trump.”

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (cA2wI)

186 154 Greenies love saving whales. John Rockefeller saved more whales than Greenpeace.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2024 08:39 AM (0EOe9)

If Greenies love saving whales, they would stop with this offshore windfarm b.s.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 21, 2024 08:47 AM (N39Ws)

187 BTW…. NY state is going all out to legally steal Trump’s properties. The AG’s office claims he hasn’t tried hard enough to get a bond for the full $454M. It’s crazy….. after witnessing covid and the 2020 election I think this takes the prize for craziest and most obscene
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 21, 2024 08:13 AM (gZ3KO)
*****
Trump needs a lot of prayers right now.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

188 Show me the section in the constitution that give a president the right to tell us what products we are allowed to buy, whether that be automobiles or stoves.

I can't read their minds. But I can read their actions - any of us can - and go where that logically takes us. They've shown me, since Obama, that they want to go back, badly, to the FDR America. Everyone head down, mobilized and unquestioning, against a common enemy. With all the command economy, rationing, and mandates that provided.

Why wouldn't they ? It worked. It shaped the political opinions of multiple generations. It took a nation from a republic to a centralized leviathan.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 08:47 AM (O17x6)

189 At what point do we assume that all research published by activist grievance-studies professors is bogus?

Posted by: mr tmz at March 21, 2024 08:48 AM (rJ48h)

190 The old axiom 'divide and conquer' with a little propaganda sauce to spice up the mix.

Posted by: Robert17 at March 21, 2024 08:48 AM (gqhqp)

191 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed that its national pollution standard...... would prevent more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions, which it claimed would provide $100 billion in annual benefits to the U.S. . .

I want to know the brand of physics the EPA subscribes to that is understood completely the opposite way by India and China - countries that have and are continuing to amp up the hydrocarbon based thermo-generation by multiples of terra-watts-hours.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 08:48 AM (TfEvu)

192 Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (6IDWi)

Exactly. Also Bill Clinton doesn't have the emotional pull. He's been so well covered for it won't hit anywhere and will just sound like tit for tat at best. She handled it great. You have to deal with leftists like a leftist which is what Trump does.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 08:49 AM (mf7Zu)

193 189 At what point do we assume that all research published by activist grievance-studies professors is bogus?
Posted by: mr tmz at March 21, 2024 08:48 AM (rJ48h)

Around the mid-sixties…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 08:49 AM (PCK5/)

194 Mace missed an obvious opportunity.

Steffy, speaking of rape didn't you used to work for Bill Clinton?

Do you still stand by him? Even though he had to pay a woman for sexually harassing her? Even though he appears on the Epstein flight logs? Even though he won't say under oath that he did not rape Juanita Broaddrick?

And do you think Joe Biden should be prosecuted for the sexual assault his own staffer claims? And what Ashley Biden said he did to her in her own diary?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:28 AM (ibTVg)

That's great, BUT, can you spew that out at the drop of a hat during a heated interview? I doubt it. Most of us could not.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 21, 2024 08:49 AM (iODuv)

195 People who are obsessed with banning plastic straws and bags do not really care about the petro-chemical industry or what that industry makes.

This whole thing is stupid especially when you look at the history:

First: Paper bags are bad they kill trees you have to switch to plastic!

Then: Hmm, we are supposedly recycling glass and paper we need to do it with plastic bags!

And: Wow recycling plastic sucks. It stinks and pollutes. We need to ship these bags to China to recycle

Of course: Look at all these plastic bags in the waters around China damn you Americans for littering!

Finally: We have to ban bags to saves the oceans!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:49 AM (ibTVg)

196 PDT comes up with the money and pays the bond with the old penny trick. Dump trucks pulling up to the court house.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2024 08:50 AM (0EOe9)

197 PS - The Senate plays no role in electing a Pres no matter what happens - they vote in only the VP...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2024 08:40 AM (exHjb)

Senate approval is required for all cabinet Secretaries.

You know how people like to spout off on how bad Trump's appointments were in his first term without acknowledging that he had to get them through the Senate?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:51 AM (z99Zw)

198 This is part of the reason the Caliphate expanded so quickly and why Islam always seems to have a group of young men ready to fight. But obviously this creates massive instability when you have no external conflict to send those men off to go fight...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:40 AM (ibTVg)
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It isn't actually as big a spread as you describe, but it's meaningful. And yes - when they can't go on the war path externally, Islamic countries disintegrate as they slaughter each other. It's why Islam as survived but never achieved much as compared to their fellow societies in Europe and Asia.

But with the European and Asian societies having effectively committed suicide, Islam will probably win. It won't *stay* victorious, but I think it will score the victory in this round of "Clash of Civilizations."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (HnUIn)

199 @189 Lizzy plus most of the people under 30 have no concept or care about Bill Clinton's sexual behavior. It's old news and most of them probably think Clinton is dead. Mace kept it personal.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (mewk3)

200 "Larry Hogan Leads Maryland Democrat Rivals By Double Digits In Senate Race Poll"

Wow, this surprises me. David Trone (far left Congressman from MD and co-owner of Total Wine) has been blanketing YouTube with unskippable ads. His ads are also popping up on streaming services like Hulu. I would have thought he'd be way ahead.

If you can avoid Total Wine, you should!

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (JunzL)

201 This is not really accurate. They won't like it much when *everything* is gone, because then the masses will relieve them of their power.
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But in the meantime? They don't care if the poverty touches them, as long as they own everything.

You've hit on their mentality, for sure. But I contend their wants won't line up with their gets. Sure, we're watching the last ten years of a generation that is desperate to make their imprint on the world before they die - while also keeping the butchers bill held off until they take their last breath.

But for all the little tyrants they've indoctrinated to carry on ? I'm confident they'll reap what they've sown well within their lifetimes. And they will be touched. Again, even the richest of 1800s plantation owners lived a lifestyle most today couldn't stand.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (O17x6)

202 I gotta say, as the former Top Snipe on another LHD, reading the linked report on the Main Reduction Gear casualty, and the deficiencies revealed make my asshole pucker.

And sadly, every issue found and documented were issues that many of us in the Engineering community saw coming even before 2005.

And the concerns that we raised were considered by Big Navy to be a failure on our part to fully embrace the new policies and priorities that Big Navy were formulating. To include ~~minimal~~ Optimal Manning.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (a1415)

203 People who are obsessed with banning plastic straws and bags do not really care about the petro-chemical industry or what that industry makes.

That disconnect is perfect for the left.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

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I would love to know how billions of tons of U.S. trash the Chinese recycling ships dumped in the ocean en route back to China over the last 30 years because an empty ship is ready to take on more materials.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (+RC1q)

204 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed that its national pollution standard...... would prevent more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions, which it claimed would provide $100 billion in annual benefits to the U.S. . .

Fascinating. They give us a number that is impossible to document, much less prove, and ignore a cost of implementation that is at least five times higher than the benefit.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (xUTQW)

205 My working theory is that Trump has war-gamed the possibilities of Leticia's lawsuit. If she seizes the buildings he'll ultimately get them back under the 8th Amendment as an excissive fine. Gives SCOTUS something easy to work with, even Pussy Roberts can agree.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (Gse2f)

206 175 It's also.
World Down Syndrome Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

Sweet!

Posted by: 24 And Me at March 21, 2024 08:53 AM (V5BDR)

207 183 Hamas is a group of stupid Arabs being funded by the Persians
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And from Civilization I, I think we all know how angry Persian diplomats can become especially when you build a nuclear power plant protected by a phalanx on their territory.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 08:54 AM (2yu8s)

208 205 Leticia will have her posse in Trump Tower the first day, stripping out copper pipe and wiring.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2024 08:54 AM (0EOe9)

209 182 You know what would be a fun exercise? Hire Imams from the middle east to come to American ~~college campuses~~ Churches to give their opinions on homosexuality, trannies, and feminism.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (ibTVg)

fixed it

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:55 AM (ENQN6)

210 189 At what point do we assume that all research published by activist grievance-studies professors is bogus?
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50 years ago.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 08:55 AM (2yu8s)

211 "Using the euphemism for spilling blood during murder, Carville said, “Not so much him I mean to be candid Anderson, President Biden is not the best attack politician. I’ve ever seen in my life and hopefully leave it at that. But they are a lot of people to do what I call a quote, the wetwork, unquote."

Hmmm. People show you who they are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 08:56 AM (di6C2)

212 Wow, this surprises me. David Trone (far left Congressman from MD and co-owner of Total Wine) has been blanketing YouTube with unskippable ads.
Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (JunzL)

I have two words for you. Brave browser.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:56 AM (z99Zw)

213 197 PS - The Senate plays no role in electing a Pres no matter what happens - they vote in only the VP...
Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2024 08:40 AM (exHjb)

Senate approval is required for all cabinet Secretaries.

You know how people like to spout off on how bad Trump's appointments were in his first term without acknowledging that he had to get them through the Senate?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:51 AM (z99Zw)

You have already moved to step 2...I'm just trying to get Step 1 done = Biden out and Trump in. Nothing else matters if we don't get step 1 done.

Although, yes, this should encourage everyone to vote R for all federal offices no matter what...

Posted by: Nova Local at March 21, 2024 08:56 AM (exHjb)

214 I would love to know how billions of tons of U.S. trash the Chinese recycling ships dumped in the ocean en route back to China over the last 30 years because an empty ship is ready to take on more materials.

If American Greens were serious ? And of course, everyone here knows they are not, they'd be the biggest pushers of some fusion style technology. Something that could not only vaporize that trash - but yield some amount of electricity out of it with no emissions.

But as I said - they are not serious. Delusional, but not serious.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 08:56 AM (O17x6)

215 205 Leticia will have her posse in Trump Tower the first day, stripping out copper pipe and wiring.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2024 08:54 AM (0EOe9)

She was a woman on a mission, and she's on the verge of achieving it. If only we had such focused determination.

Posted by: Ordinary American at March 21, 2024 08:56 AM (fAln6)

216 It's also.
World Down Syndrome Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

I'm old enough to remember Al Gore talking about "the extra chromosome" wing of the Republican party. If not for El Rushbo, hardly anyone would have ever heard that.

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 08:57 AM (JunzL)

217 I could see James spray painting blm graffiti on the walls of Trump's buildings.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:57 AM (xUTQW)

218 I want to know the brand of physics the EPA subscribes to that is understood completely the opposite way by India and China - countries that have and are continuing to amp up the hydrocarbon based thermo-generation by multiples of terra-watts-hours.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

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It's this science:

"GOP 'influence-peddling' probe into $10M in foreign cash reveals Hunter set up 15 companies AFTER his dad became VP and lay out how money came from China"

It's part of the reason China is setting up EV factories in Mexico and why we sent troops to occupy/secure Afghanistan before abruptly abandoning it:

"KABUL: The Taliban said on Monday they were not in a hurry to give China access to Afghanistan’s lithium reserves, despite an offer to pay for access to the rich deposits of the metal."

The country has been sold out (and cheaply) and everything that has been done has been part of the plan to move forward with the bribes, money laundering, etc.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 08:57 AM (+RC1q)

219 David Trone and the Second Amendment are incompatible.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 21, 2024 08:57 AM (a1415)

220 If American Greens were serious ? And of course, everyone here knows they are not, they'd be the biggest pushers of some fusion style technology. Something that could not only vaporize that trash - but yield some amount of electricity out of it with no emissions.

But as I said - they are not serious. Delusional, but not serious.
Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 08:56 AM (O17x6)
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Or just closed-cycle burning of trash. It isn't particularly efficient, but emissions control is fairly straightforward and where you have a lot of trash (urban areas), they can be economically viable.

Incineration ain't new, and it does work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:58 AM (HnUIn)

221 Show me the section in the constitution that give a president the right to tell us what products we are allowed to buy, whether that be automobiles or stoves.

Ill wait.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

Show me the politician that has said anything about this abuse of power.
Posted by: tubal

Thank you for shopping Ace Mart.

New York becomes the first state to ban gas stoves in new residential building construction

https://tinyurl.com/2hxmvmj4

Biden finalizes crackdown on gas cars, forcing more than half of new car sales to be electric by 2030

https://tinyurl.com/3drx8fym

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 08:58 AM (IB/6k)

222 205 Leticia will have her posse in Trump Tower the first day, stripping out copper pipe and wiring.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2024 08:54 AM (0EOe9)
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My guess is she will take over the penthouse as the new seat of her personal fiefdom.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 08:58 AM (7fElN)

223 Now ask this same question again. How can anyone take this guy (or folks like Carville and everyone else) seriously? Because he does his job reasonably well and has been doing so for decades.

Carville appealed to people of a different generation. This generation is far more lizard brained.

Here is an example of modern voter logic:

"My [live-in] boyfriend got a raise to $18/hr, so we are going to buy an ATV... I'm going to vote for Trump because he'll make gasoline prices lower so we can buy more for the ATV."

Pages of analysis can be written just unpackaging that part of the conversation. The Propaganda Media has been exceptionally well at erasing the real threats from the RADAR where many feel comfortable enough to piss away money and not save, but they are aware of real-time costs that effect the next five minutes of their lives.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 08:58 AM (TfEvu)

224 I'm glad that both of my cars are in good repair. I intend to keep them that way.

We're all going to become skilled a Cuban car maintenance.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:59 AM (HnUIn)

225 Wow, this surprises me. David Trone (far left Congressman from MD and co-owner of Total Wine) has been blanketing YouTube with unskippable ads.
Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (JunzL)

I have two words for you. Brave browser.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:56 AM (z99Zw)

If only that applied to my Smart TV

Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 08:59 AM (JunzL)

226 That's just it; they're itching to completely take away our right to choose.

Democrats only support free choice for gender, marriage and sexual preferences. Everything else must be left in the hands of our loving and wise government overlords. Because otherwise we run the risk of making the wrong choice.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 21, 2024 08:59 AM (lXCUP)

227 >>My working theory is that Trump has war-gamed the possibilities of Leticia's lawsuit. If she seizes the buildings he'll ultimately get them back under the 8th Amendment as an excissive fine.

----

mine is that the Roberts court rules against Trump in a kind of twisted eminent domain thing

or, more likely, the Court doesn't take the case

Posted by: Don Black at March 21, 2024 08:59 AM (oCjPU)

228 New York’s $4.4B shoplifting shadow economy revealed — fueled by eBay and Facebook Marketplace
"And retailers and law enforcement told The Post that the need to sell the stolen goods has created a sprawling underground economy."

https://tinyurl.com/yfcnnm3y

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:59 AM (NpAcC)

229 PDT comes up with the money and pays the bond with the old penny trick. Dump trucks pulling up to the court house.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 21, 2024 08:50 AM (0EOe9)

Like Kramer paying for George Costanza’s calzones for Steinbrenner lunch… though that didn’t really work out 😂 but it did work out paying Todd Gack with pennies for those fake Cuban cigars….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 21, 2024 08:59 AM (gZ3KO)

230 204 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed that its national pollution standard...... would prevent more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions, which it claimed would provide $100 billion in annual benefits to the U.S. . .

Fascinating. They give us a number that is impossible to document, much less prove, and ignore a cost of implementation that is at least five times higher than the benefit.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (xUTQW)

How does a radiation wave or particle know to hit a CO2 molecule when it has a 2000 times great chance of hitting a N2 molecule?

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:00 AM (ENQN6)

231 Posted by: Ignoramus at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (Gse2f)

True but meanwhile they accomplish what they've been doing all along, waste his time and energy which he would otherwise devote to aiding the country and taking them down.

I said from jump that all RUSSIA was was an intentional waste of time and Narrative feeder.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 09:00 AM (mf7Zu)

232 Or just closed-cycle burning of trash. It isn't particularly efficient, but emissions control is fairly straightforward and where you have a lot of trash (urban areas), they can be economically viable.

Incineration ain't new, and it does work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:58 AM (HnUIn)

All this common sense. If only we could bottle it, and ship it. They act like combustion is bad by definition. Incomplete combustion is dirty. Complete combustion, well, is not.

And scrubbing a fixed exhaust stack isn't rocket science either.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:00 AM (O17x6)

233 If American Greens were serious ? And of course, everyone here knows they are not, they'd be the biggest pushers of some fusion style technology. Something that could not only vaporize that trash - but yield some amount of electricity out of it with no emissions.

But as I said - they are not serious. Delusional, but not serious.
Posted by: Factoid

I recall years ago, probably in the 80s, reading a book where the major green organizations proudly claimed to want everyone living in huts, eating only what they grew themselves, and having no electricity. I need to go look for it, because I'm sure it has been hidden now.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 09:01 AM (xUTQW)

234 ... "And retailers and law enforcement told The Post that the need to sell the stolen goods has created a sprawling underground economy." ...
Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 08:59 AM (NpAcC)
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Pump the brakes, NYP.

You mean to tell me that stolen goods need to be fenced, and that this activity occurs in and helps to expand black markets?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:01 AM (HnUIn)

235 212 Wow, this surprises me. David Trone (far left Congressman from MD and co-owner of Total Wine) has been blanketing YouTube with unskippable ads.
Posted by: Doof at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (JunzL)

I have two words for you. Brave browser.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 21, 2024 08:56 AM (z99Zw)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 09:01 AM (di6C2)

236 And scrubbing a fixed exhaust stack isn't rocket science either.
Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:00 AM (O17x6)
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Make Chimney Sweeping Great Again!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:01 AM (7fElN)

237 "Fascinating. They give us a number that is impossible to document, much less prove, and ignore a cost of implementation that is at least five times higher than the benefit.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (xUTQW)
"

Another look at 'Jobs created or saved'?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 21, 2024 09:01 AM (a1415)

238 Another look at 'Jobs created or saved'?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 21, 2024 09:01 AM (a1415)
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Green shoots!

Best economy ever!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:02 AM (HnUIn)

239 182 You know what would be a fun exercise? Hire Imams from the middle east to come to American college campuses Churches to give their opinions on homosexuality, trannies, and feminism.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 21, 2024 08:46 AM (ibTVg)
fixed it
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 08:55 AM (ENQN6)

We welcome the Imams with open arms and legs. Hate has no home here and we embrace all colors, creeds, sexual preferences, sodomy and the occasional pederast. Please join us for our weekly Mass and celebration of pronouns as Jesus "gets" all of us at the First Assembly Of The Rainbow People Church on the Frontage Road near the IHop. Look for our Rainbow Cross flags!

God Our Mother Protect Us!

Posted by: Reverend Martha Lesbean, LGQTBXYZ Advocate at March 21, 2024 09:02 AM (MHhQj)

240 If American Greens were serious ? And of course, everyone here knows they are not, they'd be the biggest pushers of some fusion style technology. Something that could not only vaporize that trash - but yield some amount of electricity out of it with no emissions.

Y'all really, really need to carve out an hour of your time and watch "Climate The Movie" produced and directed by Martin Durkin.

https://tinyurl.com/2akjnn27

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 09:02 AM (TfEvu)

241 If only we had such focused determination.

I am leaving it as I found it. Take over -- it's yours.
--Trump's Torch

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:02 AM (zdLoL)

242 230 204 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed that its national pollution standard...... would prevent more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions, which it claimed would provide $100 billion in annual benefits to the U.S. . .

Fascinating. They give us a number that is impossible to document, much less prove, and ignore a cost of implementation that is at least five times higher than the benefit.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 21, 2024 08:52 AM (xUTQW)

How does a radiation wave or particle know to hit a CO2 molecule when it has a 2000 times great chance of hitting a N2 molecule?
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:00 AM (ENQN6)

All of this hinges on the acceptance of the premise that “ carbon” is bad for the environment…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 09:03 AM (PCK5/)

243 And scrubbing a fixed exhaust stack isn't rocket science either.
Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:00 AM (O17x6)
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Make Chimney Sweeping Great Again!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:01 AM (7fElN)

Heh. One of my first gigs working in the 90s was the controls on precips for coal stacks. Technology that had been around twenty years when it was taught to me.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:03 AM (O17x6)

244 Well would you look at that.

Another continuing resolution was dropped overnight and has to be passed immediately without reading it to avoid a government shutdown before a two week vacation:

https://tinyurl.com/29mes2dg

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 09:04 AM (+RC1q)

245 Mythinformed @MythinformedMKE 22h
“Everybody thinks they are the expert”

Seth MacFarlane doesn’t like social media because it gives a voice to people that didn’t go to college for journalism.

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 4m
He still thinks the news is real.

How can this be fixed?
====
I'd suggest Required Reading .303. Scott.

BTW, 'Mythinformed' -- great sock.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:04 AM (2yu8s)

246 Hope your morning is better
I am cold so miserable
Posted by: Skip

Are you wearing clothes ?

Posted by: JT at March 21, 2024 09:04 AM (T4tVD)

247 Turnout isn't the problem it has historically been. I urge that we don't focus on that. With absentee voting turnout being low is better not worse as it allows replacement votes to be added with less scrutiny. This is what they've perfected in cities like Chicago over decades. Since employed statewide rendering IL a basket case. California, New York... 2020 went national, using cities to take it all...

Posted by: Inogame at March 21, 2024 09:05 AM (KCCqb)

248 > And scrubbing a fixed exhaust stack isn't rocket science either.
____________

*biden said something about "scrubbing hydrogen bubbles" in an exhaust stack, right?

IIRC someone said something to this effect.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 21, 2024 09:05 AM (Q4IgG)

249 Y'all really, really need to carve out an hour of your time and watch "Climate The Movie" produced and directed by Martin Durkin.

I saw it, as a college intern at a national lab. I was flat out told by one of the "researchers", back in the early 90s, that nobody pays for a paper stating that everything is going to be fine.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:05 AM (O17x6)

250 Well would you look at that.

Another continuing resolution was dropped overnight and has to be passed immediately without reading it to avoid a government shutdown before a two week vacation:

https://tinyurl.com/29mes2dg
Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 09:04 AM (+RC1q)
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I shant believe it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:05 AM (HnUIn)

251 Always remember:
The left hates you most; Trump is just the easy target of their hate for you.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2024 09:05 AM (yikga)

252 "And retailers and law enforcement told The Post that the need to sell the stolen goods has created a sprawling underground economy." ...

I'm trying to figure out how advocacy for a rampant theft, fencing and strong arm robberies as a "sprawling underground economy" is in any way compatible with the same enthusiasm by the same people for CBDC.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 09:06 AM (TfEvu)

253 Lame of Trones.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:06 AM (2yu8s)

254 I wouldn't mind living in a hut, provided it was Ginger and Mary Anne's.

Posted by: Wizard of Oz Special-Effects Crew at March 21, 2024 09:06 AM (9yWhg)

255 New York becomes the first state to ban gas stoves in new residential building construction

Biden finalizes crackdown on gas cars, forcing more than half of new car sales to be electric by 2030
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Conspiracy theories!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:07 AM (2yu8s)

256 >>People confuse disorder and crime, so the presence of a lot of disorder can signal to regular folks that they are in a dangerous place, when they aren’t necessarily in a dangerous place,” Roman told NBC in a recent interview, arguing that while American cities may be more chaotic, crime itself has gone down.

"Helloooo -- over here!! Just wait a while and see what comes after this 'disorder'."
-- Broken Window Theory

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:07 AM (6IDWi)

257 Scrubbing Bubbles!

Posted by: S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. at March 21, 2024 09:08 AM (4I/2K)

258 BTW, 'Mythinformed' -- great sock.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:04 AM (2yu8s)

What is this, a Robert Lynn Aspirin book?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 09:08 AM (di6C2)

259 Renegotiate all Trump tower leases to $1/yr for 99 years. Then hand the keys to James.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 21, 2024 09:09 AM (b/Uzl)

260
New York becomes the first state to ban gas stoves in new residential building construction

Biden finalizes crackdown on gas cars, forcing more than half of new car sales to be electric by 2030
======
~~Conspiracy theories!!!~~ Spoiler Alerts!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:07 AM

FIFY

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 21, 2024 09:09 AM (bEb2S)

261 The Trump persecution is edging ever closer to the Imran Khan style persecution of political enemies… which, of course, is their goal…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 09:10 AM (PCK5/)

262 And scrubbing a fixed exhaust stack isn't rocket science either.
Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:00 AM (O17x6)
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Make Chimney Sweeping Great Again!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Get those privileged 10-year-olds back to work!

Chim-chim-eny chim-chim-eny chim-chim-charoo!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:10 AM (2yu8s)

263 Illinois officials are moving to stop providing taxpayer-subsidized health care to thousands of non-citizens, including many illegal immigrants, in a bid to rein in soaring costs.

Posted by: SMOD at March 21, 2024 09:12 AM (RHGPo)

264 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness

HOLY SHlT. Google just quietly changed its search results for "bloodbath definition"

https://tinyurl.com/2yh3ahsy

Posted by: redridinghood at March 21, 2024 09:12 AM (NpAcC)

265 So, I think I found a way to talk to a fairly new friend (of about four months) about some political things. I think he really is an old style liberal. At any rate, he thinks the whole transgender thing is crazy and he's not keen on labeling everyone a racist who doesn't eschew the history of the U.S or Europe. He likes classic artwork. I sent him the article about the museum at Cambridge University putting trigger warnings on John Constable landscapes (Friend is an old time Anglophile) and I remarked this was weird and troubling without pushing that the left is nuts. So far, I think this is the best approach than arguing, since he thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to establish some sort of MAGA theocracy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 09:12 AM (DCNcI)

266 People confuse disorder and crime, so the presence of a lot of disorder can signal to regular folks that they are in a dangerous place, when they aren’t necessarily in a dangerous place,” Roman told NBC in a recent interview, arguing that while American cities may be more chaotic, crime itself has gone down. ...
Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:07 AM (6IDWi)
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Except for all the crime, anyway. You can't hide that.

You can suppress the figures - in fact, the figures self-suppress because people don't like futility and when there's no point in reporting a crime, they simply won't bother reporting - but the reality will still slap you around on a daily basis.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:12 AM (HnUIn)

267 Google removed the colloquial part of the definition and only left it defined as an actual massacre.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 21, 2024 09:13 AM (b/Uzl)

268 It's National French Bread Day. 🥖
Posted by: redridinghood

********

I'm going to loaf all day!

Posted by: Muldoon at March 21, 2024 09:13 AM (991eG)

269 ~~Conspiracy theories!!!~~ Spoiler Alerts!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s)

FIFY
Posted by: AltonJackson
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LOL

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:13 AM (2yu8s)

270 The giant spinning turbines at nuclear plants make some of the most stable electricity there is. They also have no issue with making higher voltage that transmit with less losses.

The No Nukes people are idiots.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:13 AM (ENQN6)

271 267 Google removed the colloquial part of the definition and only left it defined as an actual massacre.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 21, 2024 09:13 AM (b/Uz

Of course they did

Posted by: It's me donna at March 21, 2024 09:14 AM (Akjoo)

272 All of this hinges on the acceptance of the premise that “ carbon” is bad for the environment…

That is the principle behind the Climate Change™. Since Climate Change™ is an annual multi-trillion dollar industry, where many lives are fully captured in perpetuating this hoax, it will continue well beyond society's ability to underwrite it.

What we are seeing is what is considered a Mimetic Crisis, where the only way to differentiate yourself from your ideological clones is to amp up the crazy. Many "scientists" are hustling for the same research money in a Publish or Perish paradigm, and to score some loot you have to tie your training and passions to a government Climate Agenda. This is why we get studies on penguin egg sizes being effected by AGW.

The only reason for such studies is to 1) conclude that more research is needed and 2) provide the growing "Consensus" that now fuels and justifies tyrannical policies.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 09:14 AM (TfEvu)

273 The country was cursed and put on a downward spiral 52 years ago when Peter and Bobby took the native totem in the Hawaiian cave on the Bradys visit to the 50th state. That, and when they added Cousin Oliver in that fateful last season.

Posted by: Greg Almost Drowned Surfing! at March 21, 2024 09:14 AM (V5BDR)

274 I'm glad that both of my cars are in good repair. I intend to keep them that way.

We're all going to become skilled a Cuban car maintenance.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:59 AM (HnUIn)

Until the state/feds refuse to renew your registration for your "old polluting junker". (Disclaimer: I drive an '06 Mustang GT with 370,000 miles on the clock. Also have my original '70 Chevelle and a '57 Chevy)

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 21, 2024 09:15 AM (iODuv)

275 251 That's ludicrous! What evidence have you got for that?

Oh....yeah. Yeah, you're right.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at March 21, 2024 09:15 AM (QN7a1)

276 An endless present in which the party is always right.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 09:16 AM (mf7Zu)

277 >>“You have uncovered what the real truth is," MTG said to Daleiden who’s uncovered many of the horrors of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry,

OMG, what Daleidon mentioned in his testimony is the stuff of horror movies.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:16 AM (6IDWi)

278 The country was cursed and put on a downward spiral 52 years ago when Peter and Bobby took the native totem in the Hawaiian cave on the Bradys visit to the 50th state. That, and when they added Cousin Oliver in that fateful last season.
Posted by: Greg Almost Drowned Surfing! at March 21, 2024 09:14 AM (V5BDR)

When Bobby Brady found the idol in the rubble
Had no idea it would cause so much trouble
When Greg tried to throw it back in the ocean
There was a rumble, an awful commotion
Don't ask me how, but the Tiki found Bobby
He thought the idol was some Hawaiian hobby
Turned out the God was mean and vicious
Didn't respond to Bobby's 3 wishes...

Posted by: The Presidents Of The United States Of America at March 21, 2024 09:16 AM (MHhQj)

279 Google removed the colloquial part of the definition and only left it defined as an actual massacre.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 21, 2024 09:13 AM (b/Uzl)
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Even worse, when you consider the inclusion of the example used for the literal definition.

Old literal definition, with no example provided:
A ruthless slaughter of a great number of people; massacre.

New literal definition, with example provided:
An event or situation in which many people are killed in a violent manner
"he allowed the protest to go ahead despite warnings that it would spark a bloodbath"

That ain't an accident.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:16 AM (HnUIn)

280 Ooh, will have to make some Fronch toast to eat with Fronch fries and Peruuuu water!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 08:26 AM

Gah! You beat me to it. Stupid work getting in the way of my commenting.

*kicks rock*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 09:16 AM (Wnv9h)

281 I find it amazing that the left has so many worker bees who know the mission, that someone immediately thought to go to dictionary.com and edit the definition of bloodbath.

This is why we will not vote our way out of this shit. People won't learn until they experience the hardship and burning times. And unfortunately, those of us who know better will have to suffer along side them.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 21, 2024 09:17 AM (b/Uzl)

282 >>I'm going to loaf all day!

No butter way to celebrate!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:17 AM (6IDWi)

283 The giant spinning turbines at nuclear plants make some of the most stable electricity there is. They also have no issue with making higher voltage that transmit with less losses.

Dittos with hydro and coal. The enormous flywheels provide frequency stability under dynamic load changes. CCGT turbines are relatively much lighter and provide little stability but more than the approved "renewables".

Solar and Wind actually wreck stability.

If you want to keep your motors, transformers and other electronics from burning up, you are stuck with hydro and large nameplate rated thermals.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 09:17 AM (TfEvu)

284 The country was cursed and put on a downward spiral 52 years ago when Peter and Bobby took the native totem in the Hawaiian cave on the Bradys visit to the 50th state. That, and when they added Cousin Oliver in that fateful last season.
Posted by: Greg Almost Drowned Surfing! at March 21, 2024 09:14 AM

But mostly when they added Cousin Oliver.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 09:18 AM (Wnv9h)

285 All Day Jay @JayBryja 18h
This image was created by a Japanese neurologist.

It stays still when you are calm. It begins to move when you experience a slight amount of pressure. It moves like a carousel when under a great deal of stress.

How are you doing?

https://tinyurl.com/5n86ym9r
IMAGE

Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 14m
I see no motion. Is this real?
====
You said keep your eyes out of focus, which is misleading. You want DEEP focus, ~~Elaine~~ Scott

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:18 AM (2yu8s)

286 When Bobby Brady found the idol in the rubble
Had no idea it would cause so much trouble
When Greg tried to throw it back in the ocean
There was a rumble, an awful commotion
Don't ask me how, but the Tiki found Bobby
He thought the idol was some Hawaiian hobby
Turned out the God was mean and vicious
Didn't respond to Bobby's 3 wishes...

Posted by: The Presidents Of The United States Of America

*snapping fingers to the beatnik groove*

Crazy man. Crazy.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 09:19 AM (IB/6k)

287 >>Gah! You beat me to it. Stupid work getting in the way of my commenting.

Heh, was wondering if anyone got that, or if my Gen X humor is a bit stale. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:19 AM (6IDWi)

288 That is the principle behind the Climate Change™. Since Climate Change™ is an annual multi-trillion dollar industry, where many lives are fully captured in perpetuating this hoax, it will continue well beyond society's ability to underwrite it.

It's a math crisis, since people of all ages seem to lack the ability to understand that a change in anything from 200 PPM to 400 PPM is indeed a 100% relative change ... but only an incremental change from 0.02% to 0.04%. A doubling, but still insignificant.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:19 AM (O17x6)

289 1 : a great slaughter 2 a : a notably fierce, violent, or destructive contest or struggle the campaign has become a bloodbath b : a major economic disaster

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:20 AM (ENQN6)

290 ...so that the urn containing the ashes of civilization won't read, "cause of death: feminism and the sexual revolution."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 08:32 AM (HnUIn)

I hate to be a "Biological Fundamentalist", but this ties in directly to the Unreal World essay JJ pointed out above.

The reason that you're born female is to bear children. That's baseline zero.

Even a society that we would deem awful and a failure like say islamic societies can be tremendously successful in a Darwinian/biological manner, as we see now by spreading across the globe.

Once you've convinced your women that babies are a terrible burden and the end of your life as a free woman, well, you've lost the race. Western and western influenced women now use their most fertile years on some job without even trying to have children.

This is the same idea as having trans-surgery when young, there is no biological way back. Even freezing your eggs is often no way back, as women are now finding out. Limiting fertility by self-choice is a brilliant way to eliminate a society.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 21, 2024 09:20 AM (nFnyb)

291 255 Biden finalizes crackdown on gas cars, forcing more than half of new car sales to be electric by 2030
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Conspiracy theories!!!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:07 AM (2yu8s)

If Biden can shovel though by executive order this year trump can kill it next year.

Posted by: vic at March 21, 2024 09:20 AM (A5THL)

292 I have seen with my own eyes a bloodbath at the birdbath…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 09:21 AM (PCK5/)

293 Until the state/feds refuse to renew your registration for your "old polluting junker".

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy

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This.

You already can't pass inspection and get a tag renewed on a car with bald tires, and that's in places that don't even have tailpipe checks. It will be trivially easy to make emissions tests that no ICE vehicle can pass.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 09:21 AM (+RC1q)

294 I find it amazing that the left has so many worker bees who know the mission, that someone immediately thought to go to dictionary.com and edit the definition of bloodbath.

Fortunately, the Left will remove "bloodbath" from our vocabulary. We will need to invent new hyperbolic metaphors.

In the meantime, I love the TDS hysteria because a speech that the Enemedia would have us ignore and few would know about is now trending on X.

Trump Hatred where the Fifth Columnists in the Fourth Estate vowed to censor Trump and mute his voice, have simultaneously discredited themselves and made his voice louder.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 09:21 AM (TfEvu)

295 Nuke the unborn baby whales for Jesus.

Posted by: Classic bumper sticker at March 21, 2024 09:21 AM (dg+HA)

296 Heh, was wondering if anyone got that, or if my Gen X humor is a bit stale. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:19 AM

Better Off Dead is never stale, no matter how much I hate John Cusack.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 21, 2024 09:21 AM (Wnv9h)

297 >> I find it amazing that the left has so many worker bees who know the mission, that someone immediately thought to go to dictionary.com and edit the definition of bloodbath.

We should call it the "Wikipedia Effect."

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:22 AM (6IDWi)

298 PA is insane with its vehicle inspections. Even in counties that don't have emissions.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 21, 2024 09:22 AM (b/Uzl)

299 @273 the country began it's descent in 1977 when Fonzie, and by extension the USA, jumped the shark . Brief respites with Reagan and Trump.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 21, 2024 09:22 AM (skYk4)

300
When Jan Brady "developed," I wanted to shag her senseless.

See her in "Dawn" about the teenage hooker. Wow!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 09:23 AM (x0n13)

301 You already can't pass inspection and get a tag renewed on a car with bald tires, and that's in places that don't even have tailpipe checks. It will be trivially easy to make emissions tests that no ICE vehicle can pass.

Ironically, in Texas, a car 25 years or older is exempt from the emissions test.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 09:23 AM (TfEvu)

302 The country was cursed and put on a downward spiral years ago when Ernie became one of the My Three Sons.

Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2024 09:23 AM (SYTee)

303 Speaking of, I mentioned in Pixy's thread that I walked around a car lot yesterday. Big deal place, multimillion dollar type of generational family business with multiple makes, and had quite a few used cars.

I noticed that 30-40% of the used cars they were selling had tires that wouldn't pass inspection.

That's the sign of a solid economy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 09:23 AM (+RC1q)

304 I find it amazing that the left has so many worker bees who know the mission, that someone immediately thought to go to dictionary.com and edit the definition of bloodbath.

"Will no one rid me of this meddlesome definition?"
-- King Joey Plantagenet Biden

Posted by: Wizard of Oz Special-Effects Crew at March 21, 2024 09:24 AM (9yWhg)

305 I find it amazing that the left has so many worker bees who know the mission, that someone immediately thought to go to dictionary.com and edit the definition of bloodbath. ...
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 21, 2024 09:17 AM (b/Uzl)
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They didn't. They didn't need to.

"Dictionary.com" hasn't changed its definition. Still reads exactly the same as the pre-change Google definition (which was sourced with attribution from "dictionary.com").

Google chose to stop using "dictionary.com" for the definition of this word, and deferred to its own dictionary instead, which in turn is derived from (but not a carbon copy of) the Oxford dictionary.

They don't need to go change all the definitions, they just need the gatekeepers - Google, for example - to change its own definition when it conveniently surfaces it at the top of the search results. Who's going to scroll down to click on Webster or one of the other sites when the definition is right there?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

306 You already can't pass inspection and get a tag renewed on a car with bald tires, and that's in places that don't even have tailpipe checks. It will be trivially easy to make emissions tests that no ICE vehicle can pass.

Ironically, in Texas, a car 25 years or older is exempt from the emissions test.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

254 counties in Texas. Outside of about a dozen, there is no emissions test.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2024 09:25 AM (IB/6k)

307 Don't blame me.

Posted by: Uncle Charlie at March 21, 2024 09:25 AM (dg+HA)

308 You already can't pass inspection and get a tag renewed on a car with bald tires, and that's in places that don't even have tailpipe checks. It will be trivially easy to make emissions tests that no ICE vehicle can pass.
Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 09:21 AM (+RC1q)

Texas was to have Super Inspections for 3 or 4 biggest counties. The shops were built and opened, no one showed. State had to buy back the shops.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:25 AM (ENQN6)

309 When Jan Brady "developed," I wanted to shag her senseless.

See her in "Dawn" about the teenage hooker. Wow!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

Eve Plumb. A friend of mine had a crush on her in elementary school.

Posted by: Wizard of Oz Special-Effects Crew at March 21, 2024 09:25 AM (9yWhg)

310 I find it amazing that the left has so many worker bees who know the mission, that someone immediately thought to go to dictionary.com and edit the definition of bloodbath.

Its the superiority of decentralized control - capitalism applied to propaganda. Goebbels always wanted to control the message. Today we've got a million different propagandists, all competing to out-propagandize each other.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:26 AM (O17x6)

311 305

Google chose to stop using "dictionary.com" for the definition of this word, and deferred to its own dictionary instead, which in turn is derived from (but not a carbon copy of) the Oxford dictionary.

They don't need to go change all the definitions, they just need the gatekeepers - Google, for example - to change its own definition when it conveniently surfaces it at the top of the search results. Who's going to scroll down to click on Webster or one of the other sites when the definition is right there?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

1984, applied, IOW…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 09:26 AM (PCK5/)

312 Good grief. Off, sock that I had forgotten about!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:26 AM (9yWhg)

313 >>Better Off Dead is never stale, no matter how much I hate John Cusack.

Yeah, wish John Cusack never grew up.

I want my 2 dollars!!!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:27 AM (6IDWi)

314 Better Off Dead is never stale, no matter how much I hate John Cusack.
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Never understood why John Cusack was a big deal actor for a few years. He has a face that you want to smash.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 21, 2024 09:27 AM (ahKaX)

315 They swapped fucking Darrens and USA went to shit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:27 AM (ENQN6)

316 Nobody has called Carville "Old Snakehead" yet?

Who are you people?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Mary Matalin, what is wrong with you? at March 21, 2024 09:27 AM (PiwSw)

317 You already can't pass inspection and get a tag renewed on a car with bald tires, and that's in places that don't even have tailpipe checks. It will be trivially easy to make emissions tests that no ICE vehicle can pass.
Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 09:21 AM (+RC1q)

What's funny is, here in NJ, they don't pay attention to tires or brakes anymore. You pull into the state inspection station, hand over your documents and exit the vehicle. They attach their computer to your vehicle's OBD2 port and if there are no faulty emission codes, you're good for another two years. That is all NJ is concerned with. Emissions. That's it.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 21, 2024 09:27 AM (iODuv)

318 >>> So far, I think this is the best approach than arguing, since he thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to establish some sort of MAGA theocracy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 09:12 AM (DCNcI)
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Sounds like a plan.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 21, 2024 09:27 AM (MnnLX)

319 313 >>Better Off Dead is never stale, no matter how much I hate John Cusack.

Yeah, wish John Cusack never grew up.

I want my 2 dollars!!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 21, 2024 09:27 AM (6IDWi)

Throwing away a perfectly good white boy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:28 AM (ENQN6)

320 One Crazy Summer > Better Off Dead

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, Mary Matalin, what is wrong with you? at March 21, 2024 09:28 AM (PiwSw)

321 The country was cursed and put on a downward spiral years ago when they added the little dog to the watertank in the intro to Petticoat Junction.

Posted by: davidt at March 21, 2024 09:29 AM (SYTee)

322 Sixteen Candles…

Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 09:29 AM (PCK5/)

323 @295 In Tibet!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:29 AM (zdLoL)

324 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:16 AM (HnUIn)

What's interesting is that they didn't say he CAUSED or was responsible for the "protest".

They give a lot away. Mostly what spineless cowards they really are.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 09:29 AM (mf7Zu)

325 1984, applied, IOW…
Posted by: tubal at March 21, 2024 09:26 AM (PCK5/)
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Remember, these evil pricks use dystopian fiction as "instruction manuals" instead of as dire warnings against the future...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 21, 2024 09:29 AM (7fElN)

326 On the other hand, replacing William Frawley with William Demarest was a net positive. Bought the country a few more years.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:29 AM (9yWhg)

327 FWIW, I can't say with certainty that MTG wouldn't be at least more open to theocracy than I'd like. I'll burn that bridge when we get there. For now ? She's not even close to being the problem.

Posted by: Factoid at March 21, 2024 09:30 AM (O17x6)

328 Dong!! Where is my automobile?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 21, 2024 09:30 AM (N39Ws)

329 It's a math crisis, since people of all ages seem to lack the ability to understand that a change in anything from 200 PPM to 400 PPM is indeed a 100% relative change

The benefits of having a couple back-to-back innumerate generations of government school graduates.

I'm not an evolutionist, but the retired or well tenured professors and scientists make repeated scientific claims (with receipts) that in geological age (e.g. billions or millions of years) the current CO2 levels are at historic lows - by a lot. Traditionally, they claim, the CO2 levels were an order of magnitude greater than they are today. 180PPM is considered extinction levels of CO2 where photosynthesis is so inefficient that plants wither and the entire food chain dies from starvation.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at March 21, 2024 09:30 AM (TfEvu)

330 Biden is missing the fact that those EVs simply do not work.

Posted by: vic at March 21, 2024 09:30 AM (A5THL)

331 319 Throwing away a perfectly good white boy.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:28 AM (ENQN6)

Keith David in "Men at Work."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (x0n13)

332 The "bloodbath" change is there in all the search majors.

Google, Bing and Yahoo! all provide Oxford's definition, which now includes no figurative definition and the example provided is about a "protest turned bloodbath." Brave provides an abbreviated American Heritage definition, which includes only the literal.

Yandex, oddly, provides definitions from Urban Dictionary, which is better than Oxford's definition, though includes "Death by bleeding within a bathtub." DuckDuckGo uses American Heritage, which has a similar definition as "dictionary.com" and includes figurative definitions.

So they got Oxford, by the looks of it. No surprise and it's not the first time, but it's tragic. Oxford is the repository of the English language.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (HnUIn)

333 How Democrats have regularly used the word "bloodbath" about elections. Video clip:

https://tinyurl.com/2r8su8fr

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (DCNcI)

334
Christian Nationalist Landscape Art

Posted by: rhennigantx at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

335 315 They swapped fucking Darrens and USA went to shit.
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For a faaaaagggg!!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (2yu8s)

336 As has been said many times no matter how much you hate the media, it’s not enough.

Posted by: Montec at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (bWsRe)

337 330 Biden is missing the fact that those EVs simply do not work.
Posted by: vic at March 21, 2024 09:30 AM (A5THL)

I don't think he cares, vic. Certainly the people behind the movement don't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 21, 2024 09:32 AM (di6C2)

338 Noodus gratia artis.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 21, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

339 254 counties in Texas. Outside of about a dozen, there is no emissions test.
Posted by: rickb223

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Sure, but cars wear out. Weirdos like us will keep something rolling for as long as we can, but the vast majority of people can't be bothered to check their air pressure, much less pull the oil dipstick when they fill up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie- Your view has the 1st hamstringing the government in the most important times at March 21, 2024 09:32 AM (+RC1q)

340 Seth McFarlane is an absolute disaster of a human being who completely missed his calling in life, but he gave us the best response to Jim Carville ever: "Ah! Who opened the Ark of the Covenant?!?" I use that every time he pops up.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (skAOD)

341 How Democrats have regularly used the word "bloodbath" about elections. Video clip:

https://tinyurl.com/2r8su8fr
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 21, 2024 09:31 AM (DCNcI)
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Hell, the press used the world frequently last month when talking about press industry layoffs. It was a bloodbath!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (HnUIn)

342 That definition is not the Oxford definition from their website. It's not. Oxfords definition is behind a wall and the one that's not is definitely not that one about the protest.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (mf7Zu)

343 When Jan Brady "developed," I wanted to shag her senseless.

And that Myrna Loy -- amirite?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (zdLoL)

344 That definition is not the Oxford definition from their website. It's not. Oxfords definition is behind a wall and the one that's not is definitely not that one about the protest.
Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 09:33 AM (mf7Zu)
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But the automatic version that feeds API requests from third parties like search engines saw the change.

Gotta feed the gatekeepers the "right" stuff. Anyone who looks further than the automatic reply surfaced at the top can easily see what happened, but most people will never go that far.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 21, 2024 09:34 AM (HnUIn)

345 The Left never had a problem with protest. This wouldn't have been the definition anywhere before a few days ago.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (mf7Zu)

346 The four oldest Brady kids guested on an episode of Celebrity Bowling, hosted by Jed Allan. All four were terrible bowlers, but both Maureen and Eve forgot to wear their brassieres. It's on Youtube.

Posted by: Right Up My Alley at March 21, 2024 09:36 AM (V5BDR)

347 No one allows a protest to go ahead. Protests are done without permission. This was clearly made up the other day.

Posted by: ... at March 21, 2024 09:38 AM (mf7Zu)

348 Dean said, “The problem for him is going to be in the numbers that you showed earlier in the show, is the 20% of the people who actually take the time to vote in a Republican primary after Trump has already clinched the nomination that can’t bring themselves to vote for Trump.”
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I hope they really believe that.
Because it wasn't Republicans voting for Nikkiii ... people who never vote R in the general.

But please, please count on them as subtracted from Trump.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 21, 2024 09:41 AM (yikga)

349 Manchin has announced a plan to stage his own personal “filibuster,” refusing to vote in favor of any of [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden’s judicial nominees if they don’t also have Republican support. And it doesn’t have to be a lot of support, Manchin said, adding that he would be willing to consider a “yea” vote if just one Republican were convinced to vote with Democrats.
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Suddenly Murkowski is Joe Manchins best friend.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 21, 2024 09:57 AM (WO46G)

350 Why was Obama in England?

Posted by: Ron at March 21, 2024 10:01 AM (AtKtr)

351 How dare he try to drag her into the mire; thought Mace handled it perfectly and, not only that, she was ready for it. He's a such a lowlife, first thought he'd try to rile her with the broken engagement, thanks to the msm, too, in an effort to further embarrass her & her children, and then swing into party politics. But, no, he went as low as he could possibly go.

Stephanopoulos was, along with David Wilhelm and James Carville, a leading member of Clinton's 1992 U.S. presidential campaign. His role on the campaign is portrayed in the documentary film The War Room (1993). (Wikipedia). And in it, Stephanopoulos bullies a reporter to kill Clinton affair story (clip on YouTube), while James Carville also engaged in press shaming, once noting, "I'm a lot more expensive than Gennifer Flowers."

Then read more of Carville's career with his consulting partner Paul Begala. (Wikipedia is fine). My favorite, of course, is the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election, 1986, for Bob Casey, Sr.

Even now we suffer with & for his son, Bob Casey, Jr., mere placeholder for the progressives, FJB's pocketbook.

Stand with IDF

Posted by: L - Ever defining their rope-a-dope tactics & evil at March 21, 2024 10:30 AM (GshMh)

352 And another thing, both Stephanopoulos and Carville are married to women and EACH of those guys are the fathers of two daughters. (No male offspring.)

Stephanopoulos' wife is Ali Wentworth, actress, comedian, etc.

Carville's is the also famous Mary Matalin, "American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H. W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003."

"She appear(ed) in the award-winning documentary film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story and also played herself, opposite her husband, James Carville, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series K Street." Again, Wikipedia and more.

Shocking how much both wives will tolerate public embarrassment by their pathetic husbands working their 'jobs.' That's the progressives, both male & female, and socialism, isn't it? Beat the snot out of all women who are not progressive, but have their own perfect little families with Americana... freezers of ice cream, debutante balls and farm/plantation weddings.

All, imo.

Posted by: L - Ever defining their rope-a-dope tactics & evil at March 21, 2024 11:03 AM (GshMh)

353 Stephanopoulos better put some ice on that.

Posted by: Marcopohlo at March 21, 2024 11:49 AM (5wCyS)

354 Speaking of the Emperor of Arkansas back in the day...

Drug smuggler pilot Roger Reeves discusses that over time all of the planes smuggling cocainum from Columbia were outlawed from landing in CONUS except for one state...

Arkansas

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

Posted by: Danimal28 at March 21, 2024 12:07 PM (klw0w)

355 David Brinkley seemed to keep "This Week" somewhat balanced. He at least allowed George Will to make points that the left disagreed with. It has sucked since Brinkley retired.

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at March 21, 2024 05:31 PM (XU3QZ)

356 You should learn how to use "let alone."
Wrong: "Clinton was never convicted let alone even charged with rape or sexual assault"
Correct: "Clinton was never charged with rape or sexual assault, let alone convicted."
Wrong: "I mean...does Nancy Mace let alone any and every Republican and conservative out there not know that..."
Correct: "I mean does any Republican or conservative, let alone Nancy Mace, not know that..."

Posted by: Al in St. Louis at March 21, 2024 05:39 PM (XU3QZ)

357 Oh FFS. You knew exactly what was meant, as did we.

Fun and/or constructive responses are always welcomed by the Horde.

Should IS wishy washy. Should = NOT required.

Peace when possible.

Posted by: L - Always refining their rope-a-dope techniques and evil at March 21, 2024 07:11 PM (GshMh)

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