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Democrats keep attacking Republicans, claiming the RNC is paying Trump's legal bills.

If you've heard any of the talking points coming out of the Biden camp in the last few weeks, you've probably heard the one about Trump's legal bills. But it turns out that even as the Biden campaign and the DNC were making that case, the DNC was also paying Biden's legal bills.

Here's Biden's campaign finance chairman Rufus Gifford appearing on MSNBC Sunday. "Every single dime that you give the Biden-Harris election campaign, we spend talking to voters," he said. He added, "We are not spending money on legal bills." This ciip of Gifford saying all of that was posted on YouTube by the DNC along with links so people could make donations.
...
But even as they were making this case, the DNC was in fact spending nearly $2 million on Biden's lawyers.

[The NYT:]
Even as some of President Biden's top campaign officials were attacking Donald J. Trump's campaign for soliciting donations to pay his legal fees, the Biden-aligned Democratic National Committee was helping pay for lawyers in the special counsel investigation into Mr. Biden's handling of classified documents.
The D.N.C. has directed at least $1.7 million to lawyers since July to cover the president's representation in the documents inquiry, a figure that pales in comparison to Mr. Trump's use of supporters' donations to pay his hefty legal fees. The former president has spent more than $100 million on legal bills since leaving office, relying almost entirely on donations.
Federal Election Commission records show that since the investigation began last year, the D.N.C. has paid $1.05 million to Bob Bauer, the president's lawyer. The party committee has also paid $905,000 to Hemenway & Barnes, a Boston firm that employs Jennifer Miller, a lawyer whom the special counsel's report identified as a "personal counsel for Mr. Biden."

An investigator for Fani Willis' office hit on witnesses he was supposed to be interviewing on state's business.

Below, A. Bennett is the witness in a prosecution, and Hamilton is Fani Willis' horny investigator.

Bennett revealed to attorney Keith Adams that Hamilton discussed going on a date with her. "Hit me up if you're bored later," read one text. "We're not gonna talk shop."
"And this is February 7 of 2024, this year, when the investigator for the DA's office is supposed to be talking to you about a case, but in fact, is calling you talking about going on a date. Is that true?" Adams asked Bennett, who affirmed that timeline.
Believe it or not, it gets worse. In multiple other texts, Hamilton called Bennett "Mama."
Here's one example that Newsweek gives: "G[ood] m[orning] Mama. Hope you slept well. Again don't come at 1:30. I have a feeling the defense will keep this same witness from yesterday all day again today. I'll give you an update at 3pm. You will most likely go up tomorrow morning. I'll talk 2 u soon."
Bennett told the court that she felt intimidated because Hamilton was hitting on her. At one point she brought her son along with her to a meeting with Hamilton, presumably so that the investigator would stick to business. She also said that other staffers in the DA's office made her feel uncomfortable, including Chief Deputy District Attorney Adriane Love, whom defense attorneys are trying to get kicked off the case.

It's just one big sweaty stinky sex-party in Fani Willis' office.

An Iranian woman demands of the corrupt western media -- how the hell have you managed to cast the Islamic Republic of Iran as the victim in its terror campaign against the world, and its own citizens?!

"Hi, Iranian woman here," Le Bon says at the start of the clip. "It's become very apparent that you haven't been listening to anything that we've had to say for the past two years, but I was wondering if you could just lend me a few minutes of your time in this ungodly hour to hear us now." ...
"When we were screaming that they were killing Iranian women for not wearing a hijab, where were you?" Le Bon demanded. "When they were lynching Iranian men from cranes for protesting, where were you? When we were explaining that it's a terrorist occupying force, where were you?"
"But all of a sudden everyone's graduated from Instagram school of law to say that it's a violation of international law and Iran has the right to defend itself," she seethed.

Video at the link.

James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
BREAKING, INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist
@federalreserve
talking about Jerome Powell's legacy as "somebody who held the line against like, Trump." The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not just be establishing interest rates, but to be setting policies for desired social outcomes.
"Under Powell, the Fed has changed to think about equity issues, like racial issues, think about wealth inequality as part of the mandate, as part of the things we are following. Think about climate change." Aurel Hizmo, Principal Economist at the Federal Reserve, who prior to working at the Fed was an Assistant Professor
@NYUStern and received his PhD in Economics from @DukeU, helps write speeches for Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell for the Federal Open Market Committee.
Hizmo says "Trump is just a crazy person" and conservatives are "dumb" as he describes to OMG's American Swiper Citizen Journalist a politicized Federal Reserve Board where Powell has promoted ESG issues like climate change and "wants to be remembered in history" "as a savior." But shhh...don't tell anyone because Hizmo says: "I'm just really worried that I'm saying stuff that's classified...It's all classified."

BREAKING, INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist @federalreserve talking about Jerome Powell’s legacy as “somebody who held the line against like, Trump.” The influential agency responsible for maintaining a stable monetary system appears to not… pic.twitter.com/5CqZX2LhwT
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 10, 2024

I can't tell who the biological male is in this race. He blends in so well with the girls who are 20-30 yards behind him.

A male just won the Girls 200m Varsity in Sherwood, Oregon. He set a new record for the girls race.

These high school girls just had their dream stolen from them because the school is catering the delusions of a boy who pretends to be a girl.

He is a cheater.

Video :… pic.twitter.com/DzQZ7fN5kv
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 14, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:40 PM

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1 LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 15, 2024 06:44 PM (PFYt9)

2 huh?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 15, 2024 06:44 PM (PFYt9)

3 I'll go fetch em

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 06:44 PM (fwDg9)

4 trifecta!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 15, 2024 06:44 PM (PFYt9)

5 thanks Skip, I was too busy playing the fool ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 15, 2024 06:45 PM (PFYt9)

6 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at April 15, 2024 06:45 PM (mnAI8)

7 Willowed:

185 Global Fascism knows no boundaries… all of what is going on is Highly coordinated.
Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2024 06:45 PM (PCK5/)

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2024 06:46 PM (PCK5/)

8 Girls should just boycott, they can't win so why bother?

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 06:47 PM (fwDg9)

9 8 Girls should just boycott, they can't win so why bother?
Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 06:47 PM (fwDg9)

Because the teachers/Admins would persecute them?

Posted by: tubal at April 15, 2024 06:48 PM (PCK5/)

10 hiya

Posted by: JT at April 15, 2024 06:48 PM (T4tVD)

11 Did James O'Keefe have to go undercover as a gay man again for that video?

It's how deep undercover is this wild man willing to go?

Posted by: Robert at April 15, 2024 06:48 PM (mnAI8)

12 Girls should just boycott, they can't win so why bother?
Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 06:47 PM (fwDg9)

Second is the new first.

Posted by: Robert at April 15, 2024 06:49 PM (mnAI8)

13 Girls like it gooder and harderer.

Posted by: Jamaica at April 15, 2024 06:49 PM (IG7T0)

14 Good thing I was close to my fainting couch.

And just wait....there is a prosecutor out there that will charge Trump with campaign finance violations for paying his legal bills with campaign money. You know it is coming.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 15, 2024 06:50 PM (QNSds)

15 O'Keefe goes undercover gay man a lot

Posted by: Jamaica at April 15, 2024 06:50 PM (IG7T0)

16 NTTAWWT

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 15, 2024 06:51 PM (PFYt9)

17 It's just one big sweaty stinky sex-party in Fani Willis' office.

Welp, there goes dinner.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 15, 2024 06:51 PM (V8he0)

18 President Trump should bring a guest every time he has to go to court.

P.Diddy comes to mind, then maybe Kid Rock and even fit Mike Tyson into the rotation.

Can't hurt.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 15, 2024 06:52 PM (R/m4+)

19 he's doing the good work that no one else seems to bother with; he gets a lot of slack from me because of it.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 15, 2024 06:52 PM (PFYt9)

20 Was that individual that posted on X about the girls losing their track meet events arrested yet?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 15, 2024 06:52 PM (nvtOt)

21 It's just one big sweaty stinky sex-party in Fani Willis' office.

Welp, there goes dinner.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 15, 2024 06:51 PM

Just think how someone that unprofessional and horny got a job under her.

I know what I said.

Posted by: Flyguy at April 15, 2024 06:52 PM (OYxA4)

22 "It's just one big sweaty stinky sex-party in Fani Willis' office."

Her management style is Lead By Example.

Posted by: Gref at April 15, 2024 06:53 PM (5fDan)

23 I can't tell who the biological male is in this race. He blends in so well with the girls who are 20-30 yards behind him. - Ace

At least he had the decency to shave his legs and wear a sports bra.

Posted by: lost in space at April 15, 2024 06:53 PM (I8+MN)

24 The D.N.C. has directed at least $1.7 million to lawyers [...]

Federal Election Commission records show that since the investigation began last year, the D.N.C. has paid $1.05 million to Bob Bauer, the president's lawyer. The party committee has also paid $905,000 to Hemenway & Barnes

Math. How do it work?

OK, it's technically true since they said "at least" 1.7M. But they could have also said "at least two-fiddy."

Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 06:54 PM (DgGvY)

25 Toe fungus???

John Wayne Bobbitt, who attainted notoriety in 1993 after his then-wife severed his penis while he slept, has now lost 10 more appendages – his toes.

Bobbitt has been diagnosed with toxic peripheral polyneuropathy after being exposed to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina in the late 1980s.

The condition causes nerve damage to extremities, which has led to the amputation of his toes over a period of several years. The last few digits were removed in 2023.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 06:54 PM (vtyCZ)

26 Didja see? Bobbitt is back!

New York Post
@nypost
John Wayne Bobbitt loses all his toes due to Camp Lejeune contaminated water 30 years after wife Lorena infamously cut off his penis

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Jesus, John, keep it together!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 06:54 PM (FVME7)

27 He is a cheater.

Even if you cut off his pecker and give him hormones to grow great big tits, the testosterone his body used up to this point gave his body size and muscle mass he couldn't get otherwise (save 'roids).
But it's a good start.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 06:54 PM (ynpvh)

28 Pubic defenders office.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 15, 2024 06:55 PM (D5TFg)

29 He should have been forced to wear high heels to even the chances

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 06:55 PM (fwDg9)

30 Imagine the smell.

Posted by: torabora at April 15, 2024 06:55 PM (ff9Ix)

31 Maybe the girls in the 200m foot race should get the National Organization for Women to back them up!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2024 06:55 PM (guGkK)

32 26 Didja see? Bobbitt is back!

New York Post
@nypost
John Wayne Bobbitt loses all his toes due to Camp Lejeune contaminated water 30 years after wife Lorena infamously cut off his penis

-
Jesus, John, keep it together!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 06:54 PM (FVME7)

I'm imagining a bunch of toe fungus going after his toes OJ-style...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 06:55 PM (ynpvh)

33 Joe Biden @JoeBiden 6 Jan 2020
Let's be clear: Donald Trump does not have the authority to take us into war with Iran without Congressional approval. A president should never take this nation to war without the informed consent of the American people.

Joe Biden @JoeBiden 13 Jan 2020
Donald Trump has no strategy when it comes to Iran. No endgame. The only way out of his self-made crisis is through diplomacy — clear-eyed, hard-nosed diplomacy grounded in strategy, that's not about one-off decisions or one-upmanship. cnn.com/2020/01/13/opinions/…

Joe Biden: What Trump gets dangerously wrong about foreign policy | CNN
Joe Biden writes that President Trump’s erratic actions have taken the US to the brink of another possible war in the Middle East. The only way out of this crisis is through clear eyed, hard nosed...

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 06:56 PM (vtyCZ)

34 They should have had the camera on the lead girl and ignored the boy like everybody else did after his run. That was a close race for what should have been first.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2024 06:56 PM (vFG9F)

35 How many rate cuts?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 06:56 PM (63Dwl)

36 John, keep it together!

*sigh*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 15, 2024 06:56 PM (V8he0)

37 You won't believe how this ends.

Posted by: 2024 at April 15, 2024 06:56 PM (ULXiI)

38 Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt Apr 14
Jordanian Report picked up in Israel — King Abdullah’s daughter Salma involved in downing five Iranian UAVs

John R Lott Jr. @JohnRLottJr 22h
Media Bias: Why does the media always mention Iran's attack was due to Israel attacking the Iranian consulate in Syria but never Israel's attack was due to Iranian surrogates coordinated attacks against Israel? Israel killed the Iranian general bc he was helping plan more attacks.

Sohail Ahmed @SohailSNAhmed Apr 14
Oh wow. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia came out and said it. [andy: Iran engineered Oct.7th to disrupt Israel-Arab peace deal]

https://tinyurl.com/3xjb67sr
screencap of news report

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 06:58 PM (vtyCZ)

39 Speaker Mike Johnson to force separate votes on Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan foreign aid bills with another tying TikTok divesture and humanitarian assistance

https://mol.im/a/13311979

Posted by: Ciampino - This should be the case for all items at April 15, 2024 06:58 PM (qfLjt)

40 He should have been forced to wear high heels to even the chances Posted by: Skip

There is precedent for such a thing.

https://youtu.be/O8dfZJnSfWY

Posted by: lost in space at April 15, 2024 06:58 PM (I8+MN)

41 This is about me, isn't it.

Posted by: Meeagain Rapinroe at April 15, 2024 06:58 PM (ff9Ix)

42 Even if you cut off his pecker and give him hormones to grow great big tits, the testosterone his body used up to this point gave his body size and muscle mass he couldn't get otherwise (save 'roids).
But it's a good start.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 06:54 PM (ynpvh)

You WILL be arrested for hate speech, crimes against the State, crimes against the People, and crimes against the State and the People.

Posted by: The Left at April 15, 2024 06:58 PM (gVXz8)

43 John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre 22h
Situation Room:
All the name cards are facing Biden so he can remember the names of his own staff

https://tinyurl.com/yx9rfyxb
photo comparison of Biden yesterday and a n emergency PDT cabinet meeting.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 06:59 PM (vtyCZ)

44 41 This is about me, isn't it.
Posted by: Meeagain Rapinroe at April 15, 2024 06:58 PM (ff9Ix)

You don’t have issues.

You have SUBSCRIPTIONS.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 15, 2024 06:59 PM (gVXz8)

45 Speaker Mike Johnson to force separate votes on Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan foreign aid bills with another tying TikTok divesture and humanitarian assistance

https://mol.im/a/13311979
Posted by: Ciampino

You accidently omitted the bill to close the border and complete the border wall, right?

Posted by: lost in space at April 15, 2024 06:59 PM (I8+MN)

46 Methinks the Iranians have shit in their mess kit this time around.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 15, 2024 07:00 PM (D5TFg)

47 We've reached out to Fani for a sponsorship opportunity for her and her prosecutors.

Posted by: Trojan at April 15, 2024 07:00 PM (ff9Ix)

48 15 O'Keefe goes undercover gay man a lot
Posted by: Jamaica at April 15, 2024 06:50 PM (IG7T0)

Instant camouflage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:00 PM (di6C2)

49 Like the Predator.

...

Hmmm, did not mean that double entendre when I started.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:00 PM (di6C2)

50 NEXTA @nexta_tv Apr 14
⚡️This is what a downed Iranian ballistic missile looks like in the Dead Sea area

https://tinyurl.com/yc2f5a2c
Photo

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:01 PM (vtyCZ)

51 James O'Keefe has made a career out of the fact that gays in government all tend to have loose lips.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2024 07:01 PM (guGkK)

52 Leading Report @LeadingReport
Champion UConn basketball player said Joe Biden forgot he took a picture with the team “about three minutes” after it happened.

According to the NCAA champ, Joe Biden had no idea what was going on.

“Took a picture with Joe Biden — a team picture. Joe Biden talked to us for about three minutes, and then right after that, he asked us for a picture again…” UConn’s Donavan Clingan said.

“What did he say in those 3 minutes?” a friend asked Donavan Clingan.

“I really couldn’t understand what he was saying.”

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:01 PM (vtyCZ)

53 Trump and Israel both share the Regime's admonition that fighting back is punishable aggression.

Posted by: torabora at April 15, 2024 07:02 PM (ff9Ix)

54 James O'Keefe has made a career out of the fact that gays in government all tend to have loose lips.
Posted by: Cicero

And assholes.

Posted by: lost in space at April 15, 2024 07:02 PM (I8+MN)

55 If only I'd thought of it in the 70s, I coulda been an All American.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2024 07:02 PM (1bNHn)

56
@43, oh, that is really choice! super-sweet! thx andycanuck! LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at April 15, 2024 07:03 PM (PFYt9)

57 Science! FTW!!!

These two stories were published on the same day a few weeks ago 🥴

https://shorturl.at/doCK3

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 07:03 PM (FVME7)

58 Oli London @OliLondonTV
Terrorist stabs priest in a Sydney Church.

Bishop Mar Mari was stabbed during a sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney.

As the assailant is wrestled to the floor he can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa
"If he had not criticized my prophet Mohammed and my religion, I would not have come to attack him”, says the Islamic attacker. Islam is a huge problem.
https://tinyurl.com/yc5ynrab

Wanna hint about the bishop stabber in Sydney?
https://tinyurl.com/yh6bzdh3
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:03 PM (vtyCZ)

59 PeterSweden @PeterSweden7
A mob of people are rioting outside the church where a bishop was just stabbed in Australia.

The mob is demanding that police release the suspect to them.

https://tinyurl.com/ys9zdzn6
21 seconds; "Bring him out!"

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Chaos outside the church in Wakeley, Sydney where a bishop was stabbed multiple times

BREAKING: Thousands of angry protesters have surrounded the Wakeley church and chanting 'bring him out' after mass stabbing attack in Sydney

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING: Australian police say officers injured, vehicles damaged in unrest after church stabbing

BREAKING: Police say 15-year-old arrested over Australian church stabbing

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:04 PM (vtyCZ)

60 He added, "We are not spending money on legal bills."
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I guaran-damn-tee you that the DNC is spending donor money on legal bills. The idea that the Party has no lawyers on staff, is never engaged in litigation, never has to pay fees for contracts, never needs legal advice, etc. is laughable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:04 PM (HnUIn)

61 It's just one big sweaty stinky sex-party in Fani Willis' office.
++++
I'll take, "things I never ever wanted to think about" for $500, Alex.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:05 PM (HnUIn)

62 sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades
=====

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:05 PM (vtyCZ)

63 It must have made that guy's parents really proud to see their son kick the living shit out of a bunch of high school girls in a foot race.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2024 07:05 PM (guGkK)

64 Interesting rumours flying this evening about something big about to happen in the Israel /Iran conflict - or is it an attack on Rafah? Well, rumors, so who knows. But a lot of high level meetings in various capitols are suddenly being called. I suspect Biden and BLinken thought they could put a lid on all of this with their maneuvering, but the pot is about to boil over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 07:05 PM (i9ffA)

65 "When we were screaming that they were killing Iranian women for not wearing a hijab, where were you?" Le Bon demanded. "When they were lynching Iranian men from cranes for protesting, where were you? When we were explaining that it's a terrorist occupying force, where were you?"
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Supporting the people who did those things, doing their duty as Party propaganda organs.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:06 PM (HnUIn)

66 RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa
"If he had not criticized my prophet Mohammed and my religion, I would not have come to attack him”, says the Islamic attacker. Islam is a huge problem.
https://tinyurl.com/yc5ynrab
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:03 PM (vtyCZ)

There was some boob on the interboobs awhile ago who explained that all the muzzies need is a "Reformation" and then they will enter the modern world.

Evil don't reformation.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 15, 2024 07:06 PM (R/m4+)

67 63 It must have made that guy's parents really proud to see their son kick the living shit out of a bunch of high school girls in a foot race.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2024 07:05 PM (guGkK)

You are a first rate, second rate woman.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:06 PM (di6C2)

68 "Under Powell, the Fed has changed to think about equity issues, like racial issues, think about wealth inequality as part of the mandate, as part of the things we are following. Think about climate change."
++++
I am sure they think about "wealth inequality" rather a lot. After all, maximizing it seems to drive a lot of policy decisions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:06 PM (HnUIn)

69 James O'Keefe has made a career out of the fact that gays in government all tend to have loose lips.

Gays in general. Politicians in general. I can’t imagine the sexual arrogance and lack of consequently thinking among the intersection of the two.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 15, 2024 07:07 PM (p6KGW)

70 The facts of the Mckesson case are, unfortunately, quite tragic. Mckesson helped organize the Baton Rouge protest following the fatal police shooting of Alton Sterling. During that protest, an unknown individual threw a rock or similar object at a police officer, the plaintiff in the Mckesson case who is identified only as “Officer John Doe.” Sadly, the officer was struck in the face and, according to one court, suffered “injuries to his teeth, jaw, brain, and head.”

Everyone agrees that this rock was not thrown by Mckesson, however. And the Supreme Court held in NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware (1982) that protest leaders cannot be held liable for the violent actions of a protest participant, absent unusual circumstances that are not present in the Mckesson case — such as if Mckesson had “authorized, directed, or ratified” the decision to throw the rock.

Indeed, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor points out in a brief opinion accompanying the Court’s decision not to hear Mckesson, the Court recently reaffirmed the strong First Amendment protections enjoyed by people like Mckesson in Counterman v. Colorado (2023). That decision held that the First Amendment “precludes punishment” for inciting

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2024 07:07 PM (yikga)

71 I'm sure it nothing...

@EpochTimes 1m
Macron Says Olympic Opening Ceremony on Seine Could Be Moved to Stadium for Security Reasons

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 15, 2024 07:07 PM (IG4Id)

72 69 James O'Keefe has made a career out of the fact that gays in government all tend to have loose lips.

Gays in general. Politicians in general. I can’t imagine the sexual arrogance and lack of consequently thinking among the intersection of the two.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 15, 2024 07:07 PM (p6KGW)

It's only sexual stuff, it has no bearing on anything else.
-A lot of asshats in the 90s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:08 PM (di6C2)

73 Consequential thinking.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at April 15, 2024 07:08 PM (p6KGW)

74 60 He added, "We are not spending money on legal bills."
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I guaran-damn-tee you that the DNC is spending donor money on legal bills. The idea that the Party has no lawyers on staff, is never engaged in litigation, never has to pay fees for contracts, never needs legal advice, etc. is laughable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:04 PM (HnUIn)

Maybe they're spending it on ILLEGAL bills...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

75 A male just won the Girls 200m Varsity in Sherwood, Oregon. He set a new record for the girls race.

These high school girls just had their dream stolen from them because the school is catering the delusions of a boy who pretends to be a girl.

He is a cheater.
++++
No, he isn't. He's an exploiter. He exploited the system to run up the score and take the victory. He didn't cheat, he just maximized his potential to win while minimizing the effort it takes to do so. Is he a sleazebag for doing so? Yes, definitely.

But he isn't a cheater. Those girls were cheated, but not by him. They were cheated by the athletic organizations that permitted him.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:08 PM (HnUIn)

76 Poor John Bobbitt. After the attack on him by his wife, he just fell to pieces.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 07:08 PM (i9ffA)

77 Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld
This video is making its rounds in the Muslim world. Can’t make this stuff up! 😂 🙏 💪

https://tinyurl.com/sej4ab78
13 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:08 PM (vtyCZ)

78 4 trifecta!

fecta or fecta not. there is no tri.

Posted by: anachronda at April 15, 2024 07:09 PM (v3pYe)

79 15-Year-Old Ohio Girl Catches a Record-Breaking 101-Pound Catfish

https://shorturl.at/wEHIJ

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Please, God. Don't let her be a tranny.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 07:09 PM (FVME7)

80 The reason our lives so messed up and difficult now is because competent people who stick to only the mission of the Organizations have been perverted and rejected.

It’s all about DIE, climate change and social
Justice.

We are so screwed.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 15, 2024 07:09 PM (J03/0)

81 These high school girls just had their dream stolen from them because the school is catering the delusions of a boy who pretends to be a girl.

From Sherwood, Oregon. Scroll out the google maps a bit, and you'll see Portland.

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind affluent white liberal ladies.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:10 PM (B5cJd)

82 In which Vox inadvertently exonerate Trump for insurrection trying to defend BLM.

BTW.
That last bit from the wide Latina is not good news for the insurrection folks in the left.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2024 07:10 PM (yikga)

83 Seems to me not all of James targets are Ghey, people love to brag about their exploits if they find a ear.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 07:11 PM (fwDg9)

84 Maybe they're spending it on ILLEGAL bills...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 15, 2024 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

Of COURSE they are spending it on ILLEGAL things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:13 PM (di6C2)

85 Hidden Camera captures Principal Economist
@federalreserve
talking about Jerome Powell's legacy as "somebody who held the line against like, Trump."

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He may be a principal economist but he is totally without principles.

Why do they always look so gormless?

Posted by: Decaf at April 15, 2024 07:13 PM (unUNN)

86 The reason our lives so messed up and difficult now is because competent people who stick to only the mission of the Organizations have been perverted and rejected. It’s all about DIE, climate change and social.

No. Frankly, simply, no.

We are here because this is where, logically, everything HAD to go from the time the Civil Rights Acts were passed in the 60s. When government decided we couldn't freely associate - or not. And decided that putting equal tests for merit wasn't fair - because all groups didn't equally pass the tests.

DIE is just more rabid Affirmative Action. What ? Did folks here of a certain age think it would simply stop, rather than expand the dogma ?

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:14 PM (B5cJd)

87 Seems to me not all of James targets are Ghey, people love to brag about their exploits if they find a ear.
Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 07:11 PM (fwDg9)
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My gaydar sucks but seems that government employment is a homosexual paradise.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2024 07:14 PM (RIvkX)

88 Czech Chick, never submit, never weaken. We are only screwed if we allow it. Only 1/3 of the nation won the revolution.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 15, 2024 07:14 PM (D5TFg)

89 At outer ring of the polls where all the proponents stand with signs and cards of encouragement I became the center of attention between two opposing opinions; it wasn't hazardous it was indiscreet. About the time I said 'Enough' two PoPo's rolled in.
Someone called. Some places people don't even dream of coming to the poll with night sticks and there ain't no panthers in town - any color.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 07:15 PM (HLBYA)

90 Skeptics in Awe over Donald Trump’s Granddaughter Kai’s Incredible Golfing Skills

https://shorturl.at/bgnCQ

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 07:15 PM (FVME7)

91 25.49 is a shitty, shitty time for the 200 for a boy. It probably wouldn't qualify a boy for even a regional meet in Texas, regardless of the classification (school size). There's probably 500 boys in the state of Texas who could bust 25 in any given year.

Posted by: Pendejo at April 15, 2024 07:15 PM (r6jKZ)

92 They will never be women because they hate real women. Dead end road for them.

Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 07:15 PM (NxC5+)

93 82 In which Vox inadvertently exonerate Trump for insurrection trying to defend BLM.

BTW.
That last bit from the wide Latina is not good news for the insurrection folks in the left.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2024 07:10 PM (yikga)
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I seem to have missed the context.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2024 07:15 PM (1bNHn)

94 Democrats keep attacking Republicans, claiming the RNC is paying Trump's legal bills.

Prepare for a non-shock.

If you've heard any of the talking points coming out of the Biden camp in the last few weeks, you've probably heard the one about Trump's legal bills. But it turns out that even as the Biden campaign and the DNC were making that case, the DNC was also paying Biden's legal bills.

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

Say it isn't so!

Posted by: Decaf at April 15, 2024 07:15 PM (unUNN)

95 A male just won the Girls 200m Varsity in Sherwood, Oregon. He set a new record for the girls race.

"Okay, you lesbians, who wants to suck the d--k of the fastest girl in Oregon?"

Posted by: overheard in the locker room, later at April 15, 2024 07:16 PM (DgGvY)

96 Good news from here but the next election might not be held until Oct. 2025.

Polling Canada @CanadianPolling Apr 13
Updated @338Canada Federal Model:

CPC: 208 (+89) conservatives
LPC: 69 (-91) libs
BQ: 38 (+6) separatist bloc quebecois
NDP: 21 (-4) far left new democrats
GPC: 2 (-) the enviro-stalinist groin party

- April 7, 2024 - (Seat Changes With 2021 Federal Election)
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First number is the projected number of seats per party based on this polling [and presumably 'if the election were held today']; and the change in the number of seats the party currently holds in the House of Commons e.g. the Tories would hold 208 seats a gain of +89 seats from their current number of seats in the HoC.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:16 PM (vtyCZ)

97 Interesting word time.

I got around to looking up Magdalen to see how the church in Oxford was pronounced (I was not sure a couple threads back.) It seems only the college, bridge and street are "maudlin," and the church and road are Magdalene

This is all named after Mary Magdalene, but in the 15th century it was pronounced "maudlin" and the term, maudlin comes from the style at the time in art of painting her as sad and maudlin.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 15, 2024 07:16 PM (D/euE)

98 Trump should hire Shane Gillis to come to his rallies and say all the things he can't say, as him.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 15, 2024 07:16 PM (wbEoc)

99 Everything about Marxists is projecting their actions on opponents

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 07:17 PM (fwDg9)

100 Joe Biden: What Trump gets dangerously wrong about foreign policy | CNN
Joe Biden writes that President Trump’s erratic actions have taken the US to the brink of another possible war in the Middle East. The only way out of this crisis is through clear eyed, hard nosed...
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 06:56 PM (vtyCZ)
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This guy is literally the opposite of clear-eyed and hard-nosed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 15, 2024 07:17 PM (RIvkX)

101 Shane Gillis' Trump...

https://youtube.com/shorts/31vJgSBV55w?si=7BT_CkMfSjSdEtzx

Posted by: Hawkpilot at April 15, 2024 07:17 PM (wbEoc)

102 I saw Big Sweaty Stinky Sex-Party open for Root Boy Slim and The Sex Change Band back in '82.

Posted by: Barky McDogeaterface at April 15, 2024 07:18 PM (vFG9F)

103 Big Sweaty Stinky Sex Party (BSsSP)

What do you say to people who claim you're too WaCk to go to the MOON? Say no to that FUD! BSsSP is up in yo bizzzzzness!

BSsSP is the only multi-partner on-chain ASSet platform that's BiG enough for your Stinky Stanky Stonk blockchain PARTEH-HEH-HEHs!

Disclaimer:
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Posted by: banana Dream at April 15, 2024 07:18 PM (Y6IkP)

104 With RNC under Laura Trump's leadership should be putting together numerous ads with all the Dem transgressions and disseminate widely. Once they start being effective they will attract donations again.

Posted by: Decaf at April 15, 2024 07:18 PM (unUNN)

105 As someone who came of age during the Cold War, my notion of the apocalypse involved a lot of bad decisions and mushroom clouds.

I never imagined that the real thing would be a merging of the South Park episode "Last of the Me-Hee-Cans" and the movie "Escape From L.A." With a sprinkling of "Idiocracy" and "The X Files."

Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 07:18 PM (WqOsh)

106 >>>
No. Frankly, simply, no.

We are here because this is where, logically, everything HAD to go from the time the Civil Rights Acts were passed in the 60s.
=============

Don't forget in the same decade: What is and what isn't pornography and what is sexually permissible and what isn't.
If those laws hadn't been OK'd there are a multitude of young
women that would not have been raked in to a life of degradation.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 07:19 PM (HLBYA)

107 San Franpsycho I might guess that but don't know

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 07:19 PM (fwDg9)

108 Interesting. I thought Mary was from Magda and thus Magdalene. Kinda like Nazarene

Posted by: Ben Had at April 15, 2024 07:20 PM (D5TFg)

109 Interesting word time.

I got around to looking up Magdalen to see how the church in Oxford was pronounced (I was not sure a couple threads back.) It seems only the college, bridge and street are "maudlin," and the church and road are Magdalene

This is all named after Mary Magdalene, but in the 15th century it was pronounced "maudlin" and the term, maudlin comes from the style at the time in art of painting her as sad and maudlin.
Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen

"Buckingham Palace" is pronounced "B'hampla".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 07:20 PM (FVME7)

110 OK, based on watching the high school track race won by the tranny, I have a modest proposal:

We pass out butterfly nets to the actual girls in the race and play Yakety Sax when the starting gun fires.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at April 15, 2024 07:21 PM (z+89e)

111 Breanna Morello @BreannaMorello
The “Rust” armorer, Hannah Gutierrez, was just sentenced to 18 months in prison.

The judge is ripping her for not showing remorse.

BBC -- no the other one --
||Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the movie set weapons handler who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before it fired and killed a cinematographer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

The armourer, 26, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March.

She was found not guilty of a second charge – tampering with evidence over the 2021 shooting of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.

The sentence Ms Gutierrez-Reed received is the maximum possible.||

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:21 PM (vtyCZ)

112 88 Czech Chick, never submit, never weaken. We are only screwed if we allow it. Only 1/3 of the nation won the revolution.
Posted by: Ben Had at April 15, 2024 07:14 PM (D5TFg)

I love your positivity!

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 15, 2024 07:22 PM (JStFv)

113 I'm not laughing, you're laughing.

@EpochTimes 1m
Squatters Take Over Gordon Ramsay’s London Pub

Currently listed for sale at 13 million pounds ($16.2 million), the historic York & Albany hotel and gastropub has been occupied by a group of squatters.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 15, 2024 07:22 PM (IG4Id)

114 Aiden Gallagher is a piss poor sprinter

25.49 for a 200m ...

pfft

Posted by: browndog leaves him in the blocks at April 15, 2024 07:22 PM (TTAGa)

115 Wife and I went as The Bobbits for Halloween the year that happened.

Posted by: Reforger at April 15, 2024 07:22 PM (B705c)

116 We are here because this is where, logically, everything HAD to go from the time the Civil Rights Acts were passed in the 60s. When government decided we couldn't freely associate - or not. And decided that putting equal tests for merit wasn't fair - because all groups didn't equally pass the tests.
Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:14 PM (B5cJd)

Concur. The 14th Amendment sufficed.

Just another way to increase the federal power over The States and intrude on a person's personal and private property and business.

Aunt Jemima just wanted to sell pancakes.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 15, 2024 07:23 PM (R/m4+)

117 I never imagined that the real thing would be a merging of the South Park episode "Last of the Me-Hee-Cans" and the movie "Escape From L.A." With a sprinkling of "Idiocracy" and "The X Files."

I do think that's something, and I think you've hit on it quite squarely. There is, still, the assumption of many of the Cold War Generations that "we're really all on the same side". It's the Silent Majority argument - that sustains the Older Right.

The Cold War was something else for the United States. I came in on the tail end - and anecdotally, most elders around me were absolutely wedded to it. Most younger than me can't conceive of it.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:23 PM (B5cJd)

118 115 Wife and I went as The Bobbits for Halloween the year that happened.
Posted by: Reforger at April 15, 2024 07:22 PM (B705c)
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That must have hurt.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2024 07:24 PM (1bNHn)

119 *waves to CaliGirl *

Posted by: Ben Had at April 15, 2024 07:24 PM (D5TFg)

120 But he isn't a cheater. Those girls were cheated, but not by him. They were cheated by the athletic organizations that permitted him.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:08 PM (HnUIn)

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Precisely so, yet these organizations are careening into obliterating girls' and women's sports. Besides soon it won't matter anyway as the world will be run by muslims and women's sport will be forbidden, women will be back in the kitchen and continually pregnant to boot.

Posted by: Decaf at April 15, 2024 07:25 PM (unUNN)

121 Don't worry, everybody!

Seattle Police Department
@SeattlePD
SPD is Closely Monitoring Conflict Between Israel and Iran

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They'll have this situation cleared up in nothing flat!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 07:25 PM (FVME7)

122 108 Interesting. I thought Mary was from Magda and thus Magdalene. Kinda like Nazarene
Posted by: Ben Had

I dont know, but maybe I was not clear above.

I am only talking about the college and the word "maudlin" both of which are named after Saint Mary Magdalene

I do not know how her name was derived.

So the word maudlin comes from her name, through the style of art used to depict her.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 15, 2024 07:25 PM (D/euE)

123 Don't forget in the same decade: What is and what isn't pornography and what is sexually permissible and what isn't.
If those laws hadn't been OK'd there are a multitude of young
women that would not have been raked in to a life of degradation.

And I'd like those who lived in the 60s to never forget that, quite literally, every generation they love to bitch about wasn't even born in the 60s. That decade when the seeds of all this were sown.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:25 PM (B5cJd)

124
There was some boob on the interboobs awhile ago who explained that all the muzzies need is a "Reformation" and then they will enter the modern world.

Evil don't reformation.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy

Post 96 Tears on the mosque door.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 07:25 PM (63Dwl)

125 105 As someone who came of age during the Cold War, my notion of the apocalypse involved a lot of bad decisions and mushroom clouds.

I never imagined that the real thing would be a merging of the South Park episode "Last of the Me-Hee-Cans" and the movie "Escape From L.A." With a sprinkling of "Idiocracy" and "The X Files."
Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 07:18 PM (WqOsh)

Lol, terribly sad and true.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 15, 2024 07:26 PM (JStFv)

126 The Cold War was something else for the United States. I came in on the tail end - and anecdotally, most elders around me were absolutely wedded to it. Most younger than me can't conceive of it.
Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:23 PM (B5cJd)

And as someone who remembers the Cold War of the late 60's and 70's, the Russians today are barely 1% as threatening as the Soviets of that era were. That's why so many are suddenly so brave in calling for war and whatnot with them. Russia is a hollow shell of what it once was.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 07:26 PM (i9ffA)

127 117 I never imagined that the real thing would be a merging of the South Park episode "Last of the Me-Hee-Cans" and the movie "Escape From L.A." With a sprinkling of "Idiocracy" and "The X Files."

I do think that's something, and I think you've hit on it quite squarely. There is, still, the assumption of many of the Cold War Generations that "we're really all on the same side". It's the Silent Majority argument - that sustains the Older Right.

The Cold War was something else for the United States. I came in on the tail end - and anecdotally, most elders around me were absolutely wedded to it. Most younger than me can't conceive of it.
Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:23 PM (B5cJd)
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That's not what the "Silent Majority" meant. It meant that a majority, who weren't protesting and shit, were really more conservative than the press told us. Worked in 1972. But it was clear enough that the McGovernites were like today's left.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 15, 2024 07:27 PM (1bNHn)

128 Interesting word time.

I got around to looking up Magdalen to see how the church in Oxford was pronounced (I was not sure a couple threads back.) It seems only the college, bridge and street are "maudlin," and the church and road are Magdalene

This is all named after Mary Magdalene, but in the 15th century it was pronounced "maudlin" and the term, maudlin comes from the style at the time in art of painting her as sad and maudlin.
Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM

You just accidentally explained the name of the rock band "Maudlin of the Well" to me. Thanks!

https://youtu.be/6pa6VhaD0P8

Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 07:27 PM (DgGvY)

129 >>> I love your positivity!

Posted by: CaliGirl
----------------------

You either submit to the car or you don't. It's binary.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 07:28 PM (HLBYA)

130 119 *waves to CaliGirl *
Posted by: Ben Had at April 15, 2024 07:24 PM (D5TFg)

Right back at you!

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 15, 2024 07:29 PM (JStFv)

131 The Armorer definitely left weapons get out of hand, but she didn't pull the trigger.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 07:29 PM (fwDg9)

132 And as someone who remembers the Cold War of the late 60's and 70's, the Russians today are barely 1% as threatening as the Soviets of that era were. That's why so many are suddenly so brave in calling for war and whatnot with them. Russia is a hollow shell of what it once was.

Like I said, tail end. My Boot Camp was still with the "Big Seven" ID poster of USSR equipment ... T-72, Frogger, and such.

When they fell, and I watched that wall getting hit with hammers, I noticed the stiff chin by many older folks around me. They hated to see it go.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:29 PM (B5cJd)

133 90 Skeptics in Awe over Donald Trump’s Granddaughter Kai’s Incredible Golfing Skills

https://shorturl.at/bgnCQ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 07:15 PM (FVME7)

She's cute. Nice legs.

Posted by: Robert at April 15, 2024 07:29 PM (fTdlq)

134 Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel who has been stabbed and slashed multiple times by a suspected Islamist also had a few choice words to say about Islam and what Muhammed revealed in his Quran about Jesus.

https://tinyurl.com/2tnw5nnd
3:21 minutes; a short sermon

Syrian Girl @Partisangirl · 12h
🚨#BREAKING: Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel stabbed multiple times in Sydney’s west during mass!!! Here he was speaking about his trip to the Gaza strip!

This wonderful man has miraculously survived !!!

7:21 minutes, also at the link above, discussing his trip and a good joke too.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (vtyCZ)

135 "Russia is a hollow shell of what it once was."

Curious how you rate the USA. I submit we are way worse than Russia ever was based on the fact we are supposed to be the good guys but aren't.

Posted by: DOYLE at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (Z8Yh2)

136 Hey...for the record...every single one of your comments relative to that idiot running against those girls in the 200m would get you arrested in Scotland.

Posted by: Orson at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (dIske)

137 The sentence Ms Gutierrez-Reed received is the maximum possible.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:21 PM (vtyCZ)

Note To Self: Show remorse.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (guGkK)

138 Wife and I went as The Bobbits for Halloween the year that happened.
Posted by: Reforger

And you carried a boom box with the King Missile song on repeat?

Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 07:31 PM (DgGvY)

139 So the word maudlin comes from her name, through the style of art used to depict her.
Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 15, 2024 07:25 PM (D/euE)

I think the word Maudlin mainly comes from the way the British take a perverse delight in deliberately mispronouncing everything. Or at best, giving it a pronunciation that has absolutely nothing to do with how it is spelled. Why is Thames pronounced Tems, for example?

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 07:31 PM (i9ffA)

140 Curious how you rate the USA. I submit we are way worse than Russia ever was based on the fact we are supposed to be the good guys but aren't.

Posted by: DOYLE at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (Z8Yh2)

We paid for a Chinese lab to develop a virus that turned out to be a pissed off coronavirus. That's got to be worth something.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:31 PM (B5cJd)

141 (To the tune of The Lion Sleeps Tonight)

In the bedroom the master bedroom John Bobbitt sleeps tonight
In the kitchen the spotless kitchen Lorena has a knife
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away!
Weeheeheehee dee heeheeheehee weeoh aweem away!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 07:32 PM (FVME7)

142 BREAKING: Police say 15-year-old arrested over Australian church stabbing
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:04 PM (vtyCZ)

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He has been picked and groomed for this attack because now he cannot be charged as an adult, almost a get out of jail card.

Posted by: Decaf at April 15, 2024 07:32 PM (unUNN)

143 OT
Your daily owl

https://IMGur.com/a/l64tQaV

https://IMGur.com/a/oo3LNSD

https://IMGur.com/a/YnnRcqf

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 15, 2024 07:33 PM (JStFv)

144 And as someone who remembers the Cold War of the late 60's and 70's, the Russians today are barely 1% as threatening as the Soviets of that era were. That's why so many are suddenly so brave in calling for war and whatnot with them. Russia is a hollow shell of what it once was.
Posted by: Tom Servo

It was a lurking threat every single day - even on 9/11, when I knew intellectually that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda were the culprits, my first instinctive reaction was still "Oh, God, they finally did it - the balloon's gone up!"

The USSR had collapsed and the world was still sorting things out, but my gut defaulted to the 1947-1991 mindset, even knowing that it wasn't that.

Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 07:33 PM (WqOsh)

145 Nice owl shots, thanks CaliGirl

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 07:34 PM (ZAe34)

146 137 The sentence Ms Gutierrez-Reed received is the maximum possible.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:21 PM (vtyCZ)

Note To Self: Show remorse.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (guGkK)

Wait, involuntary manslaughter is only 18 months?

Life is cheap. I guess it always was, but fuck.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:34 PM (di6C2)

147 The Armorer definitely left weapons get out of hand, but she didn't pull the trigger.
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Nor cock the hammer. [Coroner says it wasn't an accidental discharge due to any fault etc. with the revolver.]

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:34 PM (vtyCZ)

148 Hey...for the record...every single one of your comments relative to that idiot running against those girls in the 200m would get you arrested in Scotland.
Posted by: Orson

Then the Scottish authorities can lick my sporran.

Literally, if they don't meet my standards. I do own an actual sporran.

Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 07:35 PM (DgGvY)

149 138 Wife and I went as The Bobbits for Halloween the year that happened.
Posted by: Reforger

And you carried a boom box with the King Missile song on repeat?
Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 07:31 PM (DgGvY)

My choice would be Spinal Tap's Big Bottom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:35 PM (di6C2)

150 The USSR had collapsed and the world was still sorting things out, but my gut defaulted to the 1947-1991 mindset, even knowing that it wasn't that.

Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 07:33 PM (WqOsh)

That is incredibly honest. My dad, now 70, is still babbling about how Putin is going to roll across Europe. If I've learned anything, and I'm cocky enough to say I have while still being open to new data, I've learned that the Cold War Generations are frozen in thought. They will not change.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:35 PM (B5cJd)

151 Wife and I went as The Bobbits for Halloween the year that happened.
Posted by: Reforger

And you carried a boom box with the King Missile song on repeat?
Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 07:31 PM (DgGvY)

My choice would be Spinal Tap's Big Bottom.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Mac the knife?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 07:36 PM (ZAe34)

152 I think the word Maudlin mainly comes from the way the British take a perverse delight in deliberately mispronouncing everything. Or at best, giving it a pronunciation that has absolutely nothing to do with how it is spelled. Why is Thames pronounced Tems, for example?
Posted by: Tom Servo

This is something they should be proud of.
The pronunciation issue comes about because most people could not read, and back when travel was still very limited (before broadcast radio, TV, trains, cars, etc.) they created a culture and language that we still use today.

It is easy for young cultures to be consistent, since it is all new. They held to their traditional accents for a very long time. Now, sadly, I think it is all lost and they will be screaming from towers like a-rab idiots in our lifetime.

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 15, 2024 07:36 PM (D/euE)

153 Curious how you rate the USA. I submit we are way worse than Russia ever was based on the fact we are supposed to be the good guys but aren't.
Posted by: DOYLE at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (Z8Yh2)

What makes our situation scary is that our culture and morals are gone, but we've held onto our physical power, for the most part. We remind me of what Tolkien wrote about the Numenoreansjust before their downfall - prooud, at the height of the power, and utterly corrupt and depraved.
People today that back in the Cold War, Russia still had armies an d allied military forces occupying half of Europe, an dthere were Russian Nuclear subs operatng off both coasts and in the Gulf, They were a true world power to be feared.
Now they can't even beat Hunter Biden's grifting partners.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 07:36 PM (i9ffA)

154 150 The USSR had collapsed and the world was still sorting things out, but my gut defaulted to the 1947-1991 mindset, even knowing that it wasn't that.

Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 07:33 PM (WqOsh)

That is incredibly honest. My dad, now 70, is still babbling about how Putin is going to roll across Europe. If I've learned anything, and I'm cocky enough to say I have while still being open to new data, I've learned that the Cold War Generations are frozen in thought. They will not change.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren
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You boys are re-writing this as you go along.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 07:37 PM (HLBYA)

155 So, is Fulton County just turning into Zimbabwe or what, exactly? What's next? Food shortages? Murder squads?

Posted by: Paco at April 15, 2024 07:37 PM (njExo)

156 Lorena didn't hammer the cock. She used a knife.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 15, 2024 07:37 PM (FVME7)

157 The sentence Ms Gutierrez-Reed received is the maximum possible.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:21 PM (vtyCZ)

Note To Self: Show remorse.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (guGkK)

She was apparently busted in a jailhouse phone recording calling the jurors retards.

As the kids say "not a good look."

Posted by: Robert at April 15, 2024 07:37 PM (fTdlq)

158 Mac the knife?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 07:36 PM (ZAe34)

Bryan Addams, Cuts like a Knife?

https://tinyurl.com/5bp76b5v

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:38 PM (di6C2)

159 151 Wife and I went as The Bobbits for Halloween the year that happened.
Posted by: Reforger

And you carried a boom box with the King Missile song on repeat?
Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 07:31 PM (DgGvY)

My choice would be Spinal Tap's Big Bottom.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Mac the knife?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 07:36 PM (ZAe34)

Gillette, short d*ck man.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 15, 2024 07:38 PM (JStFv)

160 I truly had hope in late '91 when I was in Germany.
Grandpa on my moms side was part of the occupying force after WW2. Dad fought in a proxy war, Vietnam and there I was deactivating a nuke unit near the Fulda Gap.
Three generations and it was now over.
I saw it as a victory.

Posted by: Reforger at April 15, 2024 07:38 PM (B705c)

161 WTH is wrong with all these liberals who can't shut their yaps? They can't all be gay. Or can they...?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 07:39 PM (CsUN+)

162 Wife and I went as The Bobbits for Halloween the year that happened.
Posted by: Reforger

And you carried a boom box with the King Missile song on repeat?
Posted by: mikeski at April 15, 2024 07:31 PM (DgGvY)

My choice would be Spinal Tap's Big Bottom.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Mac the knife?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 07:36 PM (ZAe34)

The First Cut Is The Deepest

Posted by: Rod Stewart at April 15, 2024 07:39 PM (4I/2K)

163 People today that back in the Cold War, Russia still had armies an d allied military forces occupying half of Europe, an dthere were Russian Nuclear subs operatng off both coasts and in the Gulf, They were a true world power to be feared.

I keep saying that, in the macro, the world doesn't want ANY superpower. And can't sustain one anymore. And we can't sustain it either.

The smart thing would have been, back in the mid 90s, to just quietly tip our national hats and exit stage left. We didn't.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:39 PM (B5cJd)

164 160 I truly had hope in late '91 when I was in Germany.
Grandpa on my moms side was part of the occupying force after WW2. Dad fought in a proxy war, Vietnam and there I was deactivating a nuke unit near the Fulda Gap.
Three generations and it was now over.
I saw it as a victory.
Posted by: Reforger at April 15, 2024 07:38 PM (B705c)

But we did not defeat the commies, just took them in, watered them, and they grew to consume us.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:40 PM (di6C2)

165 If I've learned anything, and I'm cocky enough to say I have while still being open to new data, I've learned that the Cold War Generations are frozen in thought. They will not change.

Yes, you sound completely open minded.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 07:40 PM (CsUN+)

166 >>British take a perverse delight in deliberately mispronouncing everything.

Posted by: Tom Servo

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I take a perverse delight in calling "progressives" pinkos. Or in acting confused when people say that democrat states are "blue." (They are RED. That has always been the color of democrats and commies and they can now swap it on wikipedia and think that now the reality has changed.
Lots of stuff like that. Constantinople. Peking. Ayer's Rock. Mt. McKinley. ....

Posted by: The astonishing Gentlemen TIJM at April 15, 2024 07:40 PM (D/euE)

167 Word Power.

The sporran , a traditional part of male Scottish Highland dress, is a pouch that functions as a pocket for the kilt. Made of leather or fur, the ornamentation of the sporran is chosen to complement the formality of dress worn with it.

Common usage: Then the Scottish authorities can lick my sporran.

Posted by: lost in space at April 15, 2024 07:40 PM (I8+MN)

168 EpochTimes 1m
Macron Says Olympic Opening Ceremony on Seine Could Be Moved to Stadium for Security Reasons
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 15, 2024 07:07 PM (IG4Id)

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Macron is simply admitting that they don't control all their territory. The French have already ceded wide expanses of France to invaders, they just don't appear on maps yet.

Posted by: Decaf at April 15, 2024 07:41 PM (unUNN)

169 164 160 I truly had hope in late '91 when I was in Germany.
Grandpa on my moms side was part of the occupying force after WW2. Dad fought in a proxy war, Vietnam and there I was deactivating a nuke unit near the Fulda Gap.
Three generations and it was now over.
I saw it as a victory.
Posted by: Reforger at April 15, 2024 07:38 PM (B705c)

^^^

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 07:41 PM (HLBYA)

170 25.49 is a shitty, shitty time for the 200 for a boy. It probably wouldn't qualify a boy for even a regional meet in Texas, regardless of the classification (school size). There's probably 500 boys in the state of Texas who could bust 25 in any given year.
Posted by: Pendejo

When I was in high school, I ran sub 19 200's. This guy is a jibroni.

(I also ran a 9.7 hundred yard dash).

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at April 15, 2024 07:41 PM (Cp1vk)

171 Greg Price @greg_price11 5h
In 2022, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg reduced 52% of all felony charges to a misdemeanor.

In 2023, he then elevated a misdemeanor to a felony that both the DOJ and his predecessor refused to go after so he could indict the Republican nominee for president.

Today, Donald Trump will be in court for it because America is currently making Putin's Russia look like a free country.

J.D. Vance @JDVance1 3h
What Alvin Bragg is doing to President Trump is a disgrace to the rule of law and the opposite of Justice.

It's also election interference.

Donald Trump Jr. @DonaldJTrumpJr 5h
Because this isn't about getting justice or defending the rule of law, it's simply about targeting Joe Biden's political opponent!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 07:42 PM (vtyCZ)

172 Spontaneous Hamas therapy sessions in multiple places today. It is almost as if they were coordinated.

Posted by: lost in space at April 15, 2024 07:43 PM (I8+MN)

173 To be fair the trans guy wasn’t competing against any sistahs. The race may have been closer.

Seriously what a freaking travesty. The parents today allow this crap . My father and I’m sure other 29 year olds parents wouldn’t have taken this for one second.

Posted by: polynikes at April 15, 2024 07:43 PM (MNhXM)

174 I truly had hope in late '91 when I was in Germany.

I used at the time the term "Peace Dividend". As if we could roll back a bit defense spending, intelligence spending, and all the other economic effort to oppose the Evil Empire.

I was "smartened up" at the time that, no - Freedom wasn't Free. Also that doing good had no end. I think that was my first intro, truly, into the national ethos that it would be Superpower or Bust in post-Cold War America.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:43 PM (B5cJd)

175 Seems that there are two mindsets. Individualist and Collectivist. Coddled people are collectivist. There's a good quote about that.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 15, 2024 07:44 PM (D5TFg)

176 Mac the knife?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 07:36 PM (ZAe34)

In response to everyone I will detail the costumes. Wife with hella bedhead in pajamas with a black eye and a bloody kitchen knife .
Me with.. ummm. I'm.. it was sort of a cast..
Nevermind.

Posted by: Reforger at April 15, 2024 07:46 PM (B705c)

177 The Armorer definitely left weapons get out of hand, but she didn't pull the trigger.
Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 07:29 PM (fwDg9)

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Hey, that's Hollywood where the little people or extras are expendable. There's lots more where they came from.

Posted by: Decaf at April 15, 2024 07:46 PM (unUNN)

178
Seattle Police Department
@SeattlePD
SPD is Closely Monitoring Conflict Between Israel and Iran

Yeah, you and Berkeley, Seattle! You are our "go to" teams for keeping a finger on the pulse of breaking and consequential events around the world!

Because you have everything buttoned up so tight in your own bailiwicks!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2024 07:46 PM (xG4kz)

179 150 The USSR had collapsed and the world was still sorting things out, but my gut defaulted to the 1947-1991 mindset, even knowing that it wasn't that.

Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 07:33 PM (WqOsh)

That is incredibly honest. My dad, now 70, is still babbling about how Putin is going to roll across Europe. If I've learned anything, and I'm cocky enough to say I have while still being open to new data, I've learned that the Cold War Generations are frozen in thought. They will not change.
Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:35 PM (B5cJd)
I was born in 49, 22 years Navy, still work fulltime. The Soviet Union was defeated, not Russia. We won't be fighting Russia. We will be fighting our own government. Is that 1776 enough?

Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 07:47 PM (NxC5+)

180 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 07:47 PM (fwDg9)

181 "Also that doing good had no end."

Cue grannies knowing smokers laugh.

Posted by: DOYLE at April 15, 2024 07:47 PM (Z8Yh2)

182 Yes, you sound completely open minded.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 07:40 PM (CsUN+)

But I will, when the Cold War Generations collectively - in numbers enough to see - change their minds.

Just like I know - and I know - that fair color-blind tests are the best way to evaluate talent, even when different groups pass those tests at different rates. I'll change on that, too, when I see that equal impact actually works. It doesn't.

Just like the Cold War Generations don't change. The Cold War was that intense. The Cold War made those generations. Even the acting out against the Cold War from the 60s Radicals. Those people, I am convinced, behave as if everything they do has the worst case effect of eating a nuke.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:48 PM (B5cJd)

183 I truly had hope in late '91 when I was in Germany.
Grandpa on my moms side was part of the occupying force after WW2. Dad fought in a proxy war, Vietnam and there I was deactivating a nuke unit near the Fulda Gap.
Three generations and it was now over.
I saw it as a victory.
Posted by: Reforger

It was a victory - Containment giving way to Roll-Back, the Annus Mirabilis of 1989, the last gasps of the USSR in 1991.

Now I understand why the Brits say the only thing sadder than defeat is victory.

Posted by: John Drake at April 15, 2024 07:48 PM (WqOsh)

184 Seattle Police Department
@SeattlePD
SPD is Closely Monitoring Conflict Between Israel and Iran

Yeah, you and Berkeley, Seattle! You are our "go to" teams for keeping a finger on the pulse of breaking and consequential events around the world!

Because you have everything buttoned up so tight in your own bailiwicks!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2024 07:46 PM (xG4kz)

What? Why? That makes no sense.Might as well say a Scout Troop is 'monitoring closely the Tet Offensive.'

Are they going to spring into action for one side or another? Jump on a plane?

I hate the modern world because people seem to think that just saying something on twitter actually... means anything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:48 PM (di6C2)

185 "Zombie Drug" Xylazine Now Being Sold in Seattle as Standalone Drug

https://tinyurl.com/4kzk4hzx

These husks should be bussed to a national forest and set loose, naked of course. The critters will clean up the mess.

Posted by: lost in space at April 15, 2024 07:50 PM (I8+MN)

186 184 Seattle Police Department
@SeattlePD
SPD is Closely Monitoring Conflict Between Israel and Iran

Yeah, you and Berkeley, Seattle! You are our "go to" teams for keeping a finger on the pulse of breaking and consequential events around the world!

Because you have everything buttoned up so tight in your own bailiwicks!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 15, 2024 07:46 PM (xG4kz)

What? Why? That makes no sense.Might as well say a Scout Troop is 'monitoring closely the Tet Offensive.'

Are they going to spring into action for one side or another? Jump on a plane?

I hate the modern world because people seem to think that just saying something on twitter actually... means anything.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:48

Lol

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 15, 2024 07:50 PM (JStFv)

187 I grew up in the Cold War era, and it took me several years to recuperate. Common wisdom said "when the Soviets drop the bomb", not " if the Soviets drop the bomb." Every time I heard a siren, I automatically stopped whatever I was doing and tried to find cover.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 15, 2024 07:51 PM (ET1Q8)

188 Gen X watched it all collapse in hs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 15, 2024 07:52 PM (R4t5M)

189 187 I grew up in the Cold War era, and it took me several years to recuperate. Common wisdom said "when the Soviets drop the bomb", not " if the Soviets drop the bomb." Every time I heard a siren, I automatically stopped whatever I was doing and tried to find cover.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 15, 2024 07:51 PM (ET1Q

I find the psychology of the Cold War fascinating. As a kid, I thought 'Yeah, give people a plan. Give them an outlet and things they can do and focus on to try to help the existential dread of circumstances they cannot control.'

Now, I still find it fascinating, but there is also 'They constantly reinforced the existential dread.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:54 PM (di6C2)

190 I find the psychology of the Cold War fascinating. As a kid, I thought 'Yeah, give people a plan. Give them an outlet and things they can do and focus on to try to help the existential dread of circumstances they cannot control.' ...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 15, 2024 07:54 PM (di6C2)
++++
It's vital to morale, actually. "Duck and cover" drills were one form, and not even totally useless. You "do your bit" - even if "your bit" is just surviving.

They did this during the War, too. The drives for collected kitchen grease and bits of string and whatnot were largely inefficient and useless, but they made people feel connected and a part of the overall effort even if they were just cleaning up after breakfast.

But none of that can be sustained. It wears off. It becomes a pain in the ass, and people start to question whether it's actually valuable. There's a reason why major wars that last more than five years see collapsing support. It's fatiguing, even if the homefront is well-managed.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:58 PM (HnUIn)

191 Sigh. The degenerates upstairs didn't nood.

So NOOD CAFE.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 07:59 PM (HnUIn)

192 Gen X watched it all collapse in hs.

As well as the "take care of the company and the company will take care you" trope. Gen X watched a lot ... a lot ... of the bullshit preached by their elders proven to be bullshit.

Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 08:11 PM (B5cJd)

193 Homosexuality was the tip of the transexual spear. White straight women were their auxiliary forces.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at April 15, 2024 09:21 PM (FRT/w)

194 Curious how you rate the USA. I submit we are way worse than Russia ever was based on the fact we are supposed to be the good guys but aren't.
Posted by: DOYLE at April 15, 2024 07:30 PM (Z8Yh2)

I’m old enough to remember when conservatives didn’t blast and badmouth their country as Leftists do.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 15, 2024 09:23 PM (8sMut)

195 The smart thing would have been, back in the mid 90s, to just quietly tip our national hats and exit stage left. We didn't.
Posted by: My Fields Are Barren at April 15, 2024 07:39 PM (B5cJd)

I’ll never understand the urge to isolationism.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 15, 2024 09:27 PM (8sMut)

196 That Sherwood Oregon 200meter "GirlsRace"?
Where the dude beat the girls by 2 full seconds? with a 25.40 run?
Girls real record still stands, was set in 2018 by a girl named Nora Hagen with a time of 25.23
Boys record was set by Caleb Hagen(notice the names) in 2019.
21.66
Cheaterboi's 25.40 wouldn't even make the top 20 in Boys times.

Posted by: birdog at April 15, 2024 11:33 PM (+Fkyb)

197 And that 'woman's record-breaking run would have placed in the 50's in the men's race.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 16, 2024 12:52 PM (setIA)

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